Posted on 06/01/2005 10:34:19 AM PDT by van_erwin
MSNBC.comWould you have allowed Bill Gates to be born?
Advances in prenatal genetic testing pose tough questions
Who needs Bill Gates? No, I don’t mean who needs a gazillionaire corporate titan, a man whose company, Microsoft, took in billions of dollars last year by controlling nearly all the software used to run nearly every computer on the planet.
No, I mean, literally, who needs him? If you could go back in time and stop the birth of the world’s most famous nerd, would you?
You probably answered my question with a "no." Whatever Gates’ sins may be, he is the father of a computer revolution that has brought much good to many people throughout the world. Add to that achievement his current generous philanthropic activities supporting some very worthy causes, such as vaccine research and a center for autism research in Seattle, and the case for having Bill with us becomes pretty persuasive.
(MSNBC is a Microsoft-NBC joint venture.)
But what if I told you it’s possible that Gates has a medical condition that accounts, in part, for both his tremendous achievements and for his "nerdiness?" Gates is widely reported to display many personality traits characteristic of a condition known as Asperger’s syndrome. Asperger’s is a mild version of autism, a more serious condition that renders many children unable to talk, be touched, communicate or socialize...
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Great story. That one's a keeper.
maybe not windows suck
Windows got the autism gene.
They should rename "Longhorn" to "Rain Man."
If I could go back in time? No, I wouldn't.
Then I'd wait until his company went public (in 1986) and load up the truck with MSFT stock at the $20/shr IPO.
DOS Capital :)
I would allow him to be born. I return I would expect him to sign a legal agreement to hand over 25% of his lifetime earnings. (I would take 50% but i'm not greedy)
" Then I'd wait until his company went public (in 1986) and load up the truck with MSFT stock at the $20/shr IPO."
Many's the night as I lay in bed dreaming of what I would do if I had it to do all over again I came up with the same scenario.
LOL! Wouldn't we all? And bet the house on Secretariat to win the Triple Crown.
Autistic Pride Day? Strange.
Caplan aspires to be both the keeper of the womb and the grand reaper; he is a very dangerous man.
Revise the question: Would you want Paul Allen to be born? The answer: No!
If people could scupt their children they would all look like Beverly Hills 90210.
But seriously, Bill Gates did not create the PC revolution. He was simply able to use the immense prestige of the IBM name to impose his standard on the marketplace. People forget that in 1980 80% of the computer industry was IBM mainframes. The rest was DEC minicomputers. If IBM said DOS, not CP/M, is the standard for PC's, then only a foolish IT manager would purchase a non-DOS machine. IBM had that kind of marketplace dominance.
Looking over that picture, they should all be thankful they got rich. That is a group that wasn't getting laid without $$$$ if I ever saw one.
....pro human bing.
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