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There's clearly no malice intended, and I'd say "mocked" is far too strong a term. He's making fun of the situation, not Gray himself. If you find this joke t
by philk 17y ago
There's clearly no malice intended, and I'd say "mocked" is far too strong a term. He's making fun of the situation, not Gray himself.
If you find this joke to be insensitive I'm having a hard time imagining what sort of humor you approve of, given practically every joke out there makes fun of someone/something.
- tptacek 17y agoThere's nothing wrong with making fun of people. I do it incessantly. But I avoid doing it to people when they're down. And, if I ever achieve the sort of success Wozniak has, I hope I'll avoid doing it to people just starting to make their way in my field.
- jarek 17y agoAn iPhone baseband engineer is not "just starting to make [his] way."
- tptacek 17y agoHe graduated in 2006. He's a kid. I'm sure he's better at his job now than I ever could be, but that's beside the point.
- gruseom 17y agoTotally agree that publishing the guy's name in the first place was the dickest move in a long time and that it's douchey to keep publishing it. But Wozniak by all accounts doesn't have a malicious bone in his body, so people (including me) take for granted that his intent is not to kick a guy when he's down. I'd be willing to bet this wasn't his idea, that someone handed him the shirt and he went along with the gag as much to be agreeable as because he thought it was funny. So as far as gradations of jerkdom are concerned second prize ought to go not to Woz but to whomever produced the shirt, whose purpose requires no speculation: http://www.zazzle.com/the_unofficial_gray_powell_iphone_t_shirt-235393945476533239 http://www.zazzle.com/the_unofficial_gray_powell_iphone_t_sh... (Edit: Deleted the sentence "It does seem like poor judgment, though, also not out of character for Woz." That was sloppily and hastily written, didn't convey what I meant, and isn't even something I believe.)
- CamperBob 17y agoYou really have no idea who, never mind what, you're talking about, do you?
- tptacek 17y agoI don't know the baseband guy at all, even a little bit, if that's what you're getting at.
- techiferous 17y ago"practically every joke out there makes fun of someone/something." Those are the types of jokes Americans like. I prefer surreal/absurdist humor. http://www.laughlab.co.uk/ http://www.laughlab.co.uk/