Bill Gates @ MindSay 
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They need a ring of hell specifically for Jef Raskin and Steve Jobs. And their crappy ass non-rolly-button-mouses, and confusing ass push-the-control-button-to-simulate-the-right-click-button crap!
THIS PROF IS IN LEAGUE WITH HIM!! Somewhere there was a convention where they got up at a damn podeum and said "Teachers Guild! Brainstorm with me! Tell us how to best frustrate your students!"
and...they...did...
RAWR! god damn I hate macs...arghangstypissedoffednessargh!
P.s. Bill Gates still isn't much better even if he's Microsoft not Mac...give me a break. Its the 4th day I've had to get up before 1pm.
Wikipedia defines Robber Baron as a term revived in the 19th century in the United States as a pejorative reference to businessmen and bankers who dominated their respective industries and amassed huge personal fortunes as a direct result of pursuing various allegedly anti-competitive or unfair business practices. The term may now be used in relation to any businessman or banker who is perceived to have used questionable business practices in order to become powerful or wealthy. Among the most famous American Robber Barons are John Jacob Astor (real estate, fur – New York City), Andrew Carnegie (railroads, steel – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Jay Cooke (finance – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Daniel Drew (finance – New York state), James Buchanan Duke (tobacco – near Durham, North Carolina), James Fisk (finance – New York state), Henry Flagler (railroads, oil, the Standard Oil company – New York City and Palm Beach, Florida), Henry Ford (automobile – Dearborn, Michigan and metropolitan Detroit, Michigan), Henry Clay Frick (steel – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and New York City), John Warne Gates (steel, oil – Chicago and Texas), Jay Gould (finance, railroads – New York (both state and city), Edward Henry Harriman (railroads – New York state), Collis P. Huntington (railroads – California, Virginia, and New York), Mark Hopkins (railroads - California),Charles Crocker (railroads - California), James J. Hill (railroads – St. Paul, Minnesota), J. P. Morgan (banking – New York City. Presently JPMorgan Chase & Co. ), John D. Rockefeller (oil, the Standard Oil company – Cleveland, Ohio and New York City), Leland Stanford (railroads – Sacramento, California and San Francisco, California), and Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads, shipping – New York City)
William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington to William H. Gates, Jr., a prominent lawyer, and Mary Maxwell Gates who served on the board of directors for First Interstate Bank and the United Way and whose father, J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank president. His wealthy family obviously inculcated robber baron values into Bill, for by hook and crook, he has become the quintessential robber baron of all time.
When he was in the eighth grade in the Lakeside School, Seattle's most exclusive preparatory school, he and other students were banned for the summer after they were caught using an ASR-33 teletype terminal attached to a General Electric computer exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.
After reading an issue of Popular Electronics that described the Altair 8800, Gates contacted the creators of the new microcomputer to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform when, in fact, they had not written a single line of code for it. But, over a few weeks, they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer and a BASIC interpreter, which became popular with computer hobbyists. When Gates discovered that a pre-market copy had leaked into the community and was being widely copied and distributed he wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter saying that MITS could not continue to produce, distribute, and maintain high-quality software without payment. This letter was unpopular with many computer hobbyists, but Gates persisted in his belief that software developers should be able to demand payment, even though he was one of the students banned for stealing free computer time from General Electric and after telling a bald-faced lie to the people at Altair.
In 1980, IBM approached Microsoft to make the BASIC interpreter for its upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC. When IBM's representatives mentioned that they needed an operating system, Gates referred them to Digital Research (DRI). When IBM did not reach a licensing agreement with DRI, Gates, who knew of 86-DOS (QDOS), an operating system similar to CP/M that Seattle Computer Products had made for hardware similar to the PC, bought the rights to it for $50,000, keeping the IBM deal a secret (nice guy, huh?).
Many of Microsoft's business practices have led to antitrust litigation. In the 1998 United States v. Microsoft case, Gates gave deposition testimony that was evasive. Early rounds of his deposition show him saying 'I don't recall' so many times that even the presiding judge chuckled. Worse, many of the technology chief's denials and pleas of ignorance were directly refuted by prosecutors with snippets of e-mail Gates both sent and received.
So here you have him, Bill Gates, the guy who goes after people who pirate Microsoft software, a guy who as a ridiculously rich teenager stole computer time, who has lied to the makers of the Altair 8800, who was less than completely honest with Seattle Computer Products, and who told bald-faced lies in Federal Court.
What a nice guy! Don’t we want everyone to be just like him? A robber baron of the first order whose life demonstrates conclusively that in America, immorality, if not actual crime, pays; it pays very well. And that’s just one of the reasons people the world over hate us.
© 2007, John Kozy, Jr.
Bill Gates Meets His Programmer
Bill Gates suddenly dies and finds himself face to face with God. God stands over him and says, "Well Bill, I'm really confused on this one. It's a tough decision. I'm not sure whether to send you to Heaven or Hell. After all, you helped society enormously by putting a computer in almost every home in America, yet you also created that ghastly Windows '95 among other indiscretions. I believe I'll do something I've never done before; I'll let you decide where you want to go."
Bill pushed up his glasses, looked up at God and replied, "Could you briefly explain the difference between the two?" Looking slightly puzzled, God said, "Better yet, why don't I let you visit both places briefly, then you can make your decision. Which do you choose to see first, Heaven or Hell?"
Bill played with his pocket protector for a moment, then looked back at God and said, "I think I'll try Hell first." So, with a flash of lightning and a cloud of smoke, Bill Gates went to Hell.
When he materialized in Hell, Bill looked around. It was beautiful and clean, a bit warm, with sandy beaches and tall mountains, clear skies, pristine water, and beautiful women frolicking about. A smile came across Bill's face as he took in a deep breath of the clean air. "This is great," he thought, "if this is Hell, I can't wait to see heaven."
Within seconds of his thought, another flash of lightning and a cloud of smoke appeared, and Bill was off to Heaven. Heaven was a place high above the clouds, where angels were drifting about playing their harps and singing in a beautiful chorus. It was a very nice place, Bill thought, but not as enticing as Hell.Bill looked up, yelled for God, told him his decision and was sent to Hell for eternity.
Time passed, and God decided to check on the late billionaire to see how he was progressing in Hell. When he got there, he found Bill Gates shackled to a wall in a dark cave amid bone thin men and tongues of fire, being burned and tortured by demons.
"So, how is everything going?" God asked.
Bill responded with a cracking voice filled with anguish and disappointment, "This is awful! It's nothing like the Hell I visited the first time!! I can't believe this is happening! What happened to the other place...with the beaches and the mountains and the beautiful women?"
"That was the demo," replied God.
Days after Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced he would be leaving his full-time position at the software giant to focus on his charitable foundation, billionaire Warren Buffett announced he would donate the vast majority of his fortune (about $37 billion) to Gates' foundation.
Socialists everywhere cringed.
This is a perfect example of how capitalism helps the poor, contrary to what ignorant anti-Capitalists would have you believe. Here we have the two richest men in the world, both of whom amassed their respective fortunes through markets and sheer entrepreneurial drive, fighting against poverty- and doing it more effectively than world governments.
These two men have shown the world what Capitalism is really about. Ignorant liberals think that because one man gets rich, another must become poorer. In effecxt, they believe the world operates as a zero-sum game.
When someone like Gates or Buffett becomes rich, they believe, everyone else must get proportionally poorer. Not only is this false, but in reality, the opposite is true. When someone becomes wealthy, especially someone with the genius of Gates or Buffett, he/she is able to open new markets, create well-paying jobs, and make the world better for everyone.
Still, those obsessed with Socialist theory and full of hate for Capitalistic forces will try to poke holes in these facts. That's because Socialism works in theory (which anti-Capitalists confuse with viability), but not in practice- that is, in the real world, where centrally-planned economies result in starving citizens.
In the real world, free markets promote equality and allow those with the most wealth to use their entrepreneurial skills to help those who need it most.
That is what Capitalism is all about.
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