― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link
(l.-r.: Dan, me.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link
(That's a CNN.com reference for those of you at home.)
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link
And this is despite the hardships of the depression.
― Paul Kelly (kelly), Friday, 16 June 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link
I fear for the inevitable "Gates of" puns.
― aDOring NUTbians (donut), Friday, 16 June 2006 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 16 June 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
I mean dude whatevs. When you donate 30% of yr bank account, maybe you can have a point here??
― Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Actually, Gate's family's story is a little more interesting than that. Gate's parents weren't born rich. That's why his dad is so supportive of the estate tax. He felt like he got a lot from society that helped him to achieve what he did and that allowed him to support his family and send his kid to Harvard. That seems pretty cool to me.
― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
AW FUCKIN X-POST
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/bill-gates.htmIn 1999, Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. Business @ the Speed of Thought has received wide critical acclaim, and was listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com. Gates' previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, held the No. 1 spot on the New York Times' bestseller list for seven weeks.
Gates has donated the proceeds of both books to non-profit organizations that support the use of technology in education and skills development.
Also, the current foundation was formed by merging two previously existing foundations together:
http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/bill-gates.htmBeing the richest man in the world has also enabled Gates to create one of the world's largest charitable foundations. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has an endowment of more than $28 billion, with donations totaling more than $1 billion every year. The foundation was formed in 2000 after merging the "Gates Learning Foundation" and "William H. Gates Foundation". Their aim is to "bring innovations in health and learning to the global community".
This was the result of 5 minutes of googling.
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
A new 21st century spiritual.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
looks like he started passing out the cash in various forms the early 90s.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Wasn't the company bleeding money at the time? (I could be wrong.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
http://news.com.com/i/ne/p/2005/426bonogates550x531.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41134000/jpg/_41134352_cover_ap203bo.jpg(a study in eyewear)
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/03/03/gates_narrowweb__200x211.jpg
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Wiki Mary Gates
There's more. I don't know whether these people were born rich or poor, but dude goes to law school on the G.I. Bill, marries a schoolteacher, and makes the money that makes Jr.'s life possible.
― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
"I don't feel very strongly about Bill Gates one way or the other, I just like making backhanded statements about him because anyone with that much money MUST be a bad person." <--- This is precisely how you're coming across right now.
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link
His ENTIRE estate??? wifey must be just thrilled at the prospect of being a pauper any day now.
i don't think you should look at the percentages but at the absolute total that remains. we'd all quite happily give away 99% of our money if we were still left with a billion dollars afterwards.
uhh NO.
I think bill looks hot in those desk photos. All eric formanish, no? I also want to see what that flowery shirt hes wearing in the mugshot looks like.
― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
common consensus is that a billion dollars will get you about 100 million a year (EACH YEAR) in interest if invested correctly (10%). is that not enough? i could happily live off the interest of the interest of the interest.
― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
wifey was a microsoft project lead, and thus has some dosh of her own.
i believe that bill has stated that each of his kids will get $1M of his cash, no more. Not a bad trust fund to start with.
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
on the other hand, it's just funny to see him hanging out with fuckin' purple-shaded bono.
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
(and turnabout is fair play)
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
http://enlaceaguascalientes.com/sitespecifics/imgs/articles/art_400.jpg
Commander Bono, beams down with Ensign O'neil:
http://www.mullings.com/bono-o
― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link
I liked Word 5.1 and Excel 2(?) for Mac. And IE 5.1 was amazing when it came out, but then stagnated badly. Everything else, grrr.
― stet (stet), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.c2000.com/gifs/billgates.jpg
― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Friday, 16 June 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 18 June 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 18 June 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link
> uhh NO
-- koogy wonderland (il...) (webmail), Friday 12:25 PM. (koogs) (later)
no, thats not enough. im a firm believer in the theory that you spend what you make ie you make 10,000 a year, you'll spend 10,000; you make 1 billion a year, you'll spend 1 billion.well, i would anyway.
― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 19 June 2006 02:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 June 2006 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link
but sooner or later you'll run out of countries to buy 8)
i have trouble spending what i'm paid (which is substantially less than $1bn). the yearly interest on $1m is about twice my current salary (but i'm sure i could stretch to it). bill's shares are currently worth about $50bn, 50,000 times as much.
― koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 19 June 2006 07:59 (seventeen years ago) link
You can't buy 1 billion dollars worth of drugs!...and not share. -- Ned Raggett (ne...) (webmail), Yesterday 10:09 PM. (Ned) (later)
dude! what are you saying??
― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 19 June 2006 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link
and this frog putting on airs, linked to in that bit:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/_g/pulp.jpg
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm not saying the next two years aren't critical for MS. They are. But the chances of the cards falling in the way the link above describes is about as accurate as me describing exactly how, where, and when the next major hurricane is going to affect the U.S...
..which is, um, it's going to strike just south of Brownsville TX as a Level 1, and create flooding issues in Monterrey, Mexico.
There. YOU HEARD IT FROM ME FIRST! I'M SAYING "I TOLD YOU SO" SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO...
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAkuJXGldrM
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 27 March 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link