Daily Topics - Thursday October 6th, 2011
By shawnt56
Hour One: Occupy Wall Street movement - Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR, 4th District)
Hour Two: Get the money OUT of politics - Dylan Ratigan / Occupy Wall Street march, eyewitness account - J.A. Myerson
Hour Three: Myth of upward mobility - Ryan Streeter, Conservative Home / Plus, the latest from Occupy DC - Ashley Sanders, Peaceful Uprising
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Thom, I heard your remarks regarding Steve Jobs going abroad to assemble Apple's products. While I didn't like Jobs position on unions, I think you were not being fair regarding his outsourcing. I believe that if you will take the time to look into it, you will find that it is currently impossible to build not only computers, but most electronic devices in this country. We simply don't have the resources anymore. For example, the last time I checked there was not a company in the U.S. that still builds displays; most are now made in Taiwan. Additionally, this fact should be addressed as a national security issue and yet is rarely even discussed.
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I appreciate you're comments about Steve Jobs this morning Thom. I was starting to think I was the only one who wasn't thinking of him as some sort hero. I didn't know that he was anti-teachers union, nor had I really ever considered that he was producing hardware oversees that he could have done here in America. What bothered me about Jobs, and continues to bother me about Apple, is its complete anti-choice and exclusive way it sells its products. If you want new hardware for an Apple whatever, you have to buy it from Apple, if you want software for an Apple product, you have to buy it from Apple. The business model had always struck me as anti-democratic (I'm not a big fan of Microsoft either, but that's a different story).
I know you don't know much about computers Thom, but if you get a chance I'd like to recommend that you get someone on who knows about the "Open Source Community" Unix/Linux software and the philosophy behind it. Basically the all the software is free, and anyone who can write a program is allowed to contribute, and those contributions can then be modified by other programmers. Not unlike wikipedia. I think you'd find the subject quite interesting, it doesn't have to apply only to software, and now with the passing of Steve Jobs, I think it would be a great time to talk about the subject.
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