Steve Jobs is dead! A sad day for hipster douchebags everywhere!

[BadBeast]

For a start, the old Bitch isn't quite dead yet.

STFU! I was having a good day and then you go and remind me of that 

PS: I sincerely hope that when I dance on the old bags grave that her spineless cunt of a husband and her two idiot kids get real fucking offended (perhaps suicidally so) Put it this way - anyone who'd take offence to me dancing (or pissing) on the wicked witches grave? I want to offend those bastards, in the worst possible way

Her spineless cunt of a husband died some time ago, probably from long term exposure to the toxicity of her rancid personality. She is now madder than Mugabe, and kept under sedation in an underground bunker and fed on live kittens. 

[kingyak]

Those last few posts pretty much tell me what I wanted to know.

[BadBeast]

Those last few posts pretty much tell me what I wanted to know.

Which was?

[kingyak]

Those last few posts pretty much tell me what I wanted to know.

Which was?

That what is and is not an appropriate reaction to a person's death is ultimately a matter of personal opinion.

[Faust]

Those last few posts pretty much tell me what I wanted to know.

Which was?

That what is and is not an appropriate reaction to a person's death is ultimately a matter of personal opinion.

However there is a good rule of thumb out there.

[BadBeast]

It can't be too soon to celebrate Thatcher's death yet, seeing as she's still alive. Although looking at her, I find it hard to know how they can tell. Should we bury her anyway?

[kingyak]

Those last few posts pretty much tell me what I wanted to know.

Which was?

That what is and is not an appropriate reaction to a person's death is ultimately a matter of personal opinion.

However there is a good rule of thumb out there.

So far the only rule of thumb I've seen that everyone can agree on is to avoid completely pointless attacks that serve no purpose ("I'm glad he's dead"). Everything else seem completely subjective based on individual perception as to the validity of the statement (Is the joke funny? Is the criticism legitimate?) and the overall goodness/badness of a person (ie, Jobs is generally a "good guy," Dubya's generally a "bad guy," ignoring the fact that there are Chinese factory workers and teabaggers who would feel differently).

[Doktor Howl]

It can't be too soon to celebrate Thatcher's death yet, seeing as she's still alive. Although looking at her, I find it hard to know how they can tell. Should we bury her anyway?

Better get the poisoned darts off of her first.

[Faust]

Those last few posts pretty much tell me what I wanted to know.

Which was?

That what is and is not an appropriate reaction to a person's death is ultimately a matter of personal opinion.

However there is a good rule of thumb out there.

So far the only rule of thumb I've seen that everyone can agree on is to avoid completely pointless attacks that serve no purpose ("I'm glad he's dead"). Everything else seem completely subjective based on individual perception as to the validity of the statement (Is the joke funny? Is the criticism legitimate?) and the overall goodness/badness of a person (ie, Jobs is generally a "good guy," Dubya's generally a "bad guy," ignoring the fact that there are Chinese factory workers and teabaggers who would feel differently).

See the main problem I see here is that you assume he could have had a lick of difference in the manufacturing conditions of those countries.
One doesn't get to the top of a Corporation by trying to shake things up, its a given that most if not all of them are morally bankrupt.

Distinguishing between things he was directly responsible for, or his awful company is responsible for is the important dividing factor.

Your example of Margaret Thatcher is flawed because she directly, hands or committed murder.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Those last few posts pretty much tell me what I wanted to know.

Which was?

That what is and is not an appropriate reaction to a person's death is ultimately a matter of personal opinion.

Yeah. I mean, following social mores tend to be a complicated matter of perception, empathy, and experience. If you're looking for hard-and-fast black-and-white rules, you aren't going to find any. If you seriously can't figure it out for yourself, your best bet is to find someone that most people generally regard highly, and follow their lead, because they clearly have better social acuity than you do.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Those last few posts pretty much tell me what I wanted to know.

Which was?

That what is and is not an appropriate reaction to a person's death is ultimately a matter of personal opinion.

However there is a good rule of thumb out there.

So far the only rule of thumb I've seen that everyone can agree on is to avoid completely pointless attacks that serve no purpose ("I'm glad he's dead"). Everything else seem completely subjective based on individual perception as to the validity of the statement (Is the joke funny? Is the criticism legitimate?) and the overall goodness/badness of a person (ie, Jobs is generally a "good guy," Dubya's generally a "bad guy," ignoring the fact that there are Chinese factory workers and teabaggers who would feel differently).

[BadBeast]

It can't be too soon to celebrate Thatcher's death yet, seeing as she's still alive. Although looking at her, I find it hard to know how they can tell. Should we bury her anyway?

Better get the poisoned darts off of her first.

I thought I already had. Did anyone else notice? Because if they did, I totally wasn't there.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

What the hell is up with these noobs lately?

[Doktor Howl]

I'm sort of coming around on the Jobs/Chinese work camp things.

The more I read, the more I want to sick up.

[kingyak]

Those last few posts pretty much tell me what I wanted to know.

Which was?

That what is and is not an appropriate reaction to a person's death is ultimately a matter of personal opinion.

However there is a good rule of thumb out there.

So far the only rule of thumb I've seen that everyone can agree on is to avoid completely pointless attacks that serve no purpose ("I'm glad he's dead"). Everything else seem completely subjective based on individual perception as to the validity of the statement (Is the joke funny? Is the criticism legitimate?) and the overall goodness/badness of a person (ie, Jobs is generally a "good guy," Dubya's generally a "bad guy," ignoring the fact that there are Chinese factory workers and teabaggers who would feel differently).

See the main problem I see here is that you assume he could have had a lick of difference in the manufacturing conditions of those countries.
One doesn't get to the top of a Corporation by trying to shake things up, its a given that most if not all of them are morally bankrupt.

Distinguishing between things he was directly responsible for, or his awful company is responsible for is the important dividing factor.

Your example of Margaret Thatcher is flawed because she directly, hands or committed murder.

Jobs couldn't have changed the manufacturing conditions, but he could have chosen to manufacture products somewhere without those conditions. Instead, he took the path of least resistance and maximum profit, and I think its valid to criticize those decisions. As for distinguishing between the man and the company, I don't think that's really valid in this case because since he came back, Apple has done its best to use his cult of personality as a marketing tool and based many of its business decision on his control issues. If Jobs is Apple for the good stuff, then Jobs is also Apple for the bad stuff.