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Bill Gates vacations better than most aboard 450-foot luxury yacht near Italy
NY Daily News ^ | 08/08/2014 | LEE MORAN

Posted on 08/09/2014 11:16:17 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

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To: Mastador1

Correct me if I’m wrong but Bill Gates got his start by absconding computer where with all from supposedly friends at an early computer company called something like Digital Research. Years ago I chose DR over Gate’s spinoff because I believed it a better operating program. Gates just kept putting out unfinished products. I believe that Gates’s father was a well connected lawyer who gave a lot of help to keep Bill in the game especially as to IBM. I have no respect for the man or his once employee wife as they are societal parasites. It is a rub that I have had to buy computers with Microsoft systems.


61 posted on 08/09/2014 3:15:41 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: Bratch

Now that is a neat boat. WOW !


62 posted on 08/09/2014 3:22:19 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: Drango

Thanks, I was wondering if I had somehow clicked on Pravda.com by mistake.


63 posted on 08/09/2014 3:23:20 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: noinfringers2

“got his start by absconding computer where with all from supposedly friends at an early computer company called something like Digital Research”

No, but that wasn’t exactly a question in English.


64 posted on 08/09/2014 3:28:18 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: PGR88
I wouldn’t pay a penny more than $2 million per week for that rust-bucket

Absolutely correct! If ya can't troll fer bass or walleye on that thing it ain't worth a dime.......

65 posted on 08/09/2014 3:29:34 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Is there such a thing as a vegan zombie?)
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To: hosepipe
Is it too late to say “God bless him”?...

Yea, the typical liberal envy and hatred has surfaced as expected.........

66 posted on 08/09/2014 3:32:21 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Is there such a thing as a vegan zombie?)
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To: longfellowsmuse

A few years ago, I read Mr. Gates made many people millionaires. He was a good employer..He also gives to a lot of charities.


67 posted on 08/09/2014 3:32:27 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: The Cajun
Do you like basketball? Larry Ellison's yacht has court.


68 posted on 08/09/2014 3:35:02 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

We just know that Barry will want to rent it next. You know, for meetings and official Gov biznizz.


69 posted on 08/09/2014 3:38:07 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: noinfringers2
Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT[31] and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973.[32] While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who would later succeed Gates as CEO of Microsoft. The Poker Room in Currier House at Harvard University, where Gates and Allen formed Microsoft In his sophomore year, Gates devised an algorithm for pancake sorting as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems[33] presented in a combinatorics class by Harry Lewis, one of his professors. Gates's solution held the record as the fastest version for over thirty years;[33][34] its successor is faster by only one percent.[33] His solution was later formalized in a published paper in collaboration with Harvard computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou.[35] Gates did not have a definite study plan while a student at Harvard[36] and spent a lot of time using the school's computers. Gates remained in contact with Paul Allen, and he joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974.[37] The following year saw the release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company.[38] Gates dropped out of Harvard at this time.[39] He had talked this decision over with his parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company.[36]

I remember him as starting a business selling basic, now his contracts and policies have been considered predatory at times, unlike perhaps Apple, yeah right! Love him or hate him, as you do, he built his company.

70 posted on 08/09/2014 4:09:54 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: The Cajun
Too big to fish bass from, not interested :)
Co-sign.
71 posted on 08/09/2014 4:41:08 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: samtheman
Actually, I believe it's 2/3 of a hundredth of his net worth ($75 B).

$5 million is about a third of his weekly earnings, assuming he earns only 1% per year after taxes.

72 posted on 08/09/2014 5:03:40 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Kid Shelleen

Google: bill gates calls for higher taxes
Keep in mind that Bill Gates has a charity - his own, that he uses to shield himself from those higher taxes.


73 posted on 08/09/2014 5:49:59 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: longfellowsmuse

Bill Gates along with Warren Buffett do the opposite in actually helping keep people alive. They support abortion with millions given to those that kill babies.


74 posted on 08/09/2014 5:55:31 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Bratch

Doesn’t look 450 feet to me. Maybe 300.


75 posted on 08/09/2014 7:36:14 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, was not there!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Kid Shelleen.


76 posted on 08/10/2014 1:45:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Heh ;)


77 posted on 08/10/2014 3:59:50 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator
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To: peyton randolph

Well if Felix Dennis is so smart, why is he dead? I bet you thought I would ask, why aint he rich? I have to agree with his statement.


78 posted on 08/10/2014 4:51:12 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: MaxMax

Well of course it would be official Gov biznizz. Like fund raising for democrats and spending some hot tub time with his buddies.


79 posted on 08/10/2014 4:53:10 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: GeronL

Did Bill Gates put himself adrift on his own personal island to protect himself from the ebola plague his Zero Population Growth buddies would love to see help reduce the world’s numbers down to a managable 500,000,000?


80 posted on 08/10/2014 8:02:48 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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