tgdaily.com— This story almost made me cry. You can hate him for Windows, but i Have to agree that there is no better way to spend your wealth. This is just fascinating.
Jan 26, 2009View in Crawl 4
I am pretty shocked reading these comments. Bill Gate's charity help has been going on from the very start. No other person in the world has contribute more money than he has. Were you all really unaware of this?
Because of the OS I know is possible, and that will never be, because of the ms stranglehold. And don't give me any linux crap, linux blows even worse than windows.
Um yes?How many successful companies are founded upon the principle, "What is the best way to make money?" How many successful companies use the mission statement, "To profit?" Successful companies, like Microsoft, are founded upon a commitment and dedication to the product and its customers. Hard work, talent, and determination are determinants of success, and profit will follow from these things. A desire to make money does nothing. Any company that fails to recognize that will soon succumb to the pressures of capitalism and will fail.Until you run a successful business, you can keep your opinion to yourself.
I dugg you because I had that exact same reasoning in mind when I wondered why people say "bury me" and then provide a point. It's that whole victim/martyr complex. Call me naive, but the same Windows users that claim mac users are elitists or 'fanboys', are no different in their victimization of themselves. Meh.
People lauding the Gates Foundation really need to go through their website and see what they are really doing, not what their PR arm and the media hype says they are doing.His focus is on malaria and AIDS - in other countries. They don't care about even investigating any of the new potentially revolutionary cancer cures - he has friends that make drugs that don't work and can't afford to step on their toes; no chance of them investing in things like the incredible problem of cancer in animals - especially animals intended for human consumption, not to mention cancer in pets; no interest whatsoever in revolutionary medicine such as the investigation into stem cells; nothing but malaria and AIDS...primarily in Africa.Hey, anybody in Chicago caught malaria recently? How about New York? San Francisco maybe?Citing one or two schools in the States that the foundation has given some money to, and then using the ones whose students show some improvement as PR tools, doesn't cut it. The foundation has billions - enough to make sure that every single school in America that doesn't have them - of which there are many in every city and rural community in the nation - is fully fitted out with a computer for every student in the classroom and in the home, has a library filled with books from around the world to insure that American children can actually get knowledge of the world rather than being stuck with the "Parent and Teacher Association Approved" feel-good-about-America history books.Take some of those billions and get rid of all the lead-lined water pipes in schools in America; go to every city and town in the country and give some money to all of the homeless shelters, food programs, orphanages.Gates talks big, but his actions just don't match the PR and media hype.
Back when the Green Revolution was brand new, it was discussed in, of all places, the letters pages of science fiction magazines. The readers of Astounding Science Fiction accurately predicted the results: Famine and epidemic. What they did not see, is that this was done quite deliberately to assure that the mineral wealth of Africa would not be guarded by local governments capable of taxing and regulating the extraction industries on behalf of their people.The more things change, the more they stay the same. A map of the most valuable natural resources in Africa is also a map of the largest "locally created" large scale atrocities of recent years.
joejejuneJan 26, 2009
Is it safe to love Gates??
heavystoneJan 28, 2009
I am pretty shocked reading these comments. Bill Gate's charity help has been going on from the very start. No other person in the world has contribute more money than he has. Were you all really unaware of this?
stankinthebankJan 28, 2009
Because of the OS I know is possible, and that will never be, because of the ms stranglehold. And don't give me any linux crap, linux blows even worse than windows.
azureskies88Jan 28, 2009
Um yes?How many successful companies are founded upon the principle, "What is the best way to make money?" How many successful companies use the mission statement, "To profit?" Successful companies, like Microsoft, are founded upon a commitment and dedication to the product and its customers. Hard work, talent, and determination are determinants of success, and profit will follow from these things. A desire to make money does nothing. Any company that fails to recognize that will soon succumb to the pressures of capitalism and will fail.Until you run a successful business, you can keep your opinion to yourself.
egroh08Jan 28, 2009
I dugg you because I had that exact same reasoning in mind when I wondered why people say "bury me" and then provide a point. It's that whole victim/martyr complex. Call me naive, but the same Windows users that claim mac users are elitists or 'fanboys', are no different in their victimization of themselves. Meh.
canchinJan 30, 2009
People lauding the Gates Foundation really need to go through their website and see what they are really doing, not what their PR arm and the media hype says they are doing.His focus is on malaria and AIDS - in other countries. They don't care about even investigating any of the new potentially revolutionary cancer cures - he has friends that make drugs that don't work and can't afford to step on their toes; no chance of them investing in things like the incredible problem of cancer in animals - especially animals intended for human consumption, not to mention cancer in pets; no interest whatsoever in revolutionary medicine such as the investigation into stem cells; nothing but malaria and AIDS...primarily in Africa.Hey, anybody in Chicago caught malaria recently? How about New York? San Francisco maybe?Citing one or two schools in the States that the foundation has given some money to, and then using the ones whose students show some improvement as PR tools, doesn't cut it. The foundation has billions - enough to make sure that every single school in America that doesn't have them - of which there are many in every city and rural community in the nation - is fully fitted out with a computer for every student in the classroom and in the home, has a library filled with books from around the world to insure that American children can actually get knowledge of the world rather than being stuck with the "Parent and Teacher Association Approved" feel-good-about-America history books.Take some of those billions and get rid of all the lead-lined water pipes in schools in America; go to every city and town in the country and give some money to all of the homeless shelters, food programs, orphanages.Gates talks big, but his actions just don't match the PR and media hype.
pilobilusFeb 9, 2009
Back when the Green Revolution was brand new, it was discussed in, of all places, the letters pages of science fiction magazines. The readers of Astounding Science Fiction accurately predicted the results: Famine and epidemic. What they did not see, is that this was done quite deliberately to assure that the mineral wealth of Africa would not be guarded by local governments capable of taxing and regulating the extraction industries on behalf of their people.The more things change, the more they stay the same. A map of the most valuable natural resources in Africa is also a map of the largest "locally created" large scale atrocities of recent years.