Bill Gates leaving Microsoft

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this seems to be the most comprehensive history: http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2907

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

SO LATE IN HIS CAREER

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

This compared to supposed hippy Steve Jobs, who scrapped Apple's charitable donations within 0.00002s of returning to Apple.

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

that's 20 years into his career. I'm comfortable calling that "late" - particularly since his activities in the 90s seem fairly limited to higher education.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

BAJILLIONARES DON'T RETIRE THEY CONTINUE TO MAKE MONEY HE IS 25 YEARS INTO WHAT IS A POTENTIALLY 60 YEAR CAREER 25 YEARS IS NOT LATE

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

but whatever, I commend your eagerness to rush to the defense of one of the most powerful men on the planet - good for you! I'm sure Gates appreciates your moral fortitude. I'm sure he loses a lot of sleep about his name being "besmirched" by casual observations on the internet.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

LIKE, YOUR MOM RETIRES. MY DAD RETIRES. PPL LIEK BILLL GATES DON'T RETIRE

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

ALSO THANK YOU FOR YELLING

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I AM NOT DEFENDING BILL GATES I AM POINTING OUT THE STUPIDITY OF YOUR STATEMENT

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/01/29/wef3_narrowweb__200x252.jpg

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

right.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Wiki Bill Gate's Sr.

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

Hahaha Shakey!

"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

Geek
http://www.nscpcdn.com/cppops/05/20060505_00001/i/newnPromo_300x250.gif

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I never said he was a bad person, you guys are all jumpin on me cuz... well I dunno why. cuz yr bored I guess.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

COZ U R STUPID

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Bear in mind that a LOT of the 80s-era Silicon Valley/tech guys didn't donate much of anything until later in their careers. Gates gets singled out because he made the most and is easy to hate, but equal time shit should be given to Ellison, Ballmer, Michael Dell, Bezos

The exceptions that come to mind are Gordon Moore, Wozniak, and Paul Allen

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

JEFF BEZOS HAD MONEY IN THE 80'S????????

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

No US Festival, no credibility.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://dyn.ifilm.com/image/stills/films/resize/istd/2679657.jpg

http://obvi.us/images/bill1.jpg
Hey ladeez in the place, I'm callin' out to ya
There never was a city kid true-ah and blue-ah

http://obvi.us/images/bill2.jpg

http://obvi.us/images/bill3.jpg http://www.kutha.com/weirdscience/pictures/images/tossoff.jpg

http://www.jmusheneaux.com/WINDOWS/GATES/1993g03.jpg

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

hoy coyly he flips his floppies diks at us

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

its only funny if you interleave all the lyrics, like TOMBOT does.

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Shakey, do you know what a backhanded statement is?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

do you know what a patronizing question is?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Into the chasm gaping, "Wheeeee!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

> When you donate 30% of yr bank account, maybe you can have a point here??

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. there is such a thing as too much money.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://obvi.us/images/bill1.jpg

Must... avoid... BLUE SCREEN JOKES

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think you should look at the percentages but at the absolute total that remains

I like that approach. That means Gates will have to give away about 99.9% of his money before I'll be obligated to donate anything!

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

case study of the evolution of american graphic design

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/Old_Microsoft_Logo.gif
(1978)

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~vernal/understand/img/microsoft.jpg

http://ultralight.caltech.edu/web-site/common/logos/logo-microsoft.jpg

http://66.49.231.190/uploaded_images/microsoft_logo-700271.jpg

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

damn hotlink error

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About:_URI_scheme

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1633/oldmicrosoftlogo4om.gif

there we go. 1978.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I think this debate can be settled in a timely, courteous manner by having Jay Babcock interview Gates in Arthur.

― aDOring NUTbians (donut), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Has no one posted the Gates/Queen Latifah pics yet?

― aDOring NUTbians (donut), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://obvi.us/images/bill2.jpg
http://www.superchicos.net/images/catwomanjulie.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

It's the eyes.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Gates is a big proponent of the inheritance tax himself. Has public plans to donate his entire estate to charity on his death.

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

> uhh NO.

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

Shakey, I'll stop being patronizing when you stop being disingenuous.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

His ENTIRE estate??? wifey must be just thrilled at the prospect of being a pauper any day now.

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

but for realz, if i had that much scratch and was gunna give it all away, i'd dress like some sorta victorian willy wonka every single day of the rest of my life and happily triapse around the globe, spreading goodwill, funding, and protein samples everywhere i went. you gotta leave your mark somehow.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

uh, okay...? I've tried to be clear, I would hope you can take my posts at face value. If they're poorly worded or convey a hostility towards Gates that I do not actually posess, then I apologize.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, i think that the resentment of gates came more from M$ business practices, not from just his wealth

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

Microsoft's predatory business practices are a separate issue from Gates' use of his personal wealth tho.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Even as a MS hater, I really like a few MS products! Mostly SQL Server's admin tools and the snap in admin panel things

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

jeezus... dude seriously needs his trademark since his face went all middle-aged lumpy

(and turnabout is fair play)

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

New Star Trex series:

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

Even as a MS hater, I really like a few MS products! Mostly SQL Server's admin tools and the snap in admin panel things

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

Yea, IEMAC 5.1 was amazing

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Captain Gates gets gooped by mysterious alien life form:

http://www.c2000.com/gifs/billgates.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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