Must... avoid... BLUE SCREEN JOKES
― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
there we go. 1978.
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― aDOring NUTbians (donut), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― aDOring NUTbians (donut), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:50 (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