Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case

Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by thathndude on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:16PM (#25194107)

Thank you for posting. This is exactly what I thought about. Anyone other than Steve probably would have said something like “that’s something we can look into and explore.” Leave it to Steve to be like “nah. We pay our taxes. That’s good.”

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by jxramos on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:41PM (#25194300)

    Steve: I'm a simpleton I've always had this view that we pay taxes and the city should do
    those things. That's why we pay taxes. Now if we can get out of paying taxes I'll be glad to put up Wi-Fi.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by baby on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:32PM (#25194996)

Here's how you write a quote:

> Steve: I'm a simpleton I've always had this view that we pay taxes and the city should do those things. That's why we pay taxes. Now if we can get out of paying taxes I'll be glad to put up Wi-Fi. reply

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by scottlamb on Monday November 23, 2020 @09:23PM (#25194594)

It was probably more "even a broken clock is right twice a day" than a principled stand. He was notoriously cheap. He avoided paying child support for a long time, short-changed Wozniak, etc. [1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-jerk-2011-10

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by hobs on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @11:06AM (#25199658)

After working there for a bit the most amazing story I heard is that he would lease a new car every six months so that he wouldnt need to get a plate put on it so he could park in the handicap spot without getting ticketed.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by jcranmer on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @11:51AM (#25200208)

Three questions:

1) How does not having a plate let you park in the handicapped space? The regulation is probably written such that you are required to have the handicapped plate or placard, and displaying no plate would be probable cause here.

2) Why not just have Apple reserve a parking space for the CEO or Steve Jobs outright? There's no regulations against reserving parking spaces in such a manner that I'm aware of.

3) Why is there so much worship in the tech industry of complete assholes like this?

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by bonestamp2 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:31PM (#25200705)

1) I don't think it lets him park there, but it's hard to write a ticket without a plate number.

2) Agreed. This story makes no sense, although there is a picture of his car in a handicapped spot, so maybe he just did it once?

3) Lots of brilliant and successful people are assholes. Most people admire the first two qualities and not the third.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by QuercusMax on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:57PM (#25200988)

I thought the handicapped spot story and the every-six-months-new-car-for-no-plates story were separate. Steve didn't want a license plate on his car because he thought it messed up the aesthetics. He was also a jerk and parked in the handicapped spot because he could.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by jsjohnst on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @09:39PM (#25205431)

They’ve always been separate stories to me too and I’ve heard the same “aesthetics” point a bunch too (which doesn’t make it “true”, but sounds plausible anyway).

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by sterlind on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:49PM (#25200897)

Unfortunately, people sometimes idolize the assholery because they associate it with being brilliant and successful. You can be kind and visionary!

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by ashtonkem on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:59PM (#25201006)

I was always under the impression this was less about being cheap, but more about being really idiosyncratic about the way license plates look on cars.

Leasing a new car every 6 months is not cheap. It literally costs 6x as much as leasing the exact same car every 3 years (the industry norm).

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by beamatronic on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @12:36PM (#25211829)

I'm sure they made him a deal. Besides, the dealer could sell the car to somebody else later on at a markup because of its provenance.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by prepend on Monday November 23, 2020 @09:29PM (#25194629)

I’m sure you’re joking, but I think Jobs was referring to property taxes. I’m not sure how much other tax they could contribute to a local town (sales tax is probably much less than the property tax).

Looks like the property at 1 Infinite Loop was assessed at $330M last year, https://www.sccassessor.org/index.php/online-services/proper...

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by selectodude on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:18PM (#25200534)

And the property at 1 Apple Park was assessed at $823 million. 1 Apple Park alone is $11m/yr in property tax.

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