Posted on 05/10/2021 4:45:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It turns out that there’s a mighty big coincidence about the timing of Melinda Gates’s decision to initiate a divorce.
I ignored the story that Bill and Melinda Gates are getting a divorce. Their personal life holds no interest for me, although I care that Bill Gates is having an outsize say in both the climate change debate and in the response to COVID. His skills as a computer programmer and his genius as a shark, scooping up other people’s creations, do not make him qualified to weigh in on the climate or COVID. But as I said, his personal life was a “meh” – that is, right until the Wall Street Journal hinted that Bill Gates’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein led directly to his divorce.
It’s been public information for a long time that Bill Gates met Epstein several times beginning in 2011. Even the New York Times, back in October 2019, reported on those meetings:
Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who committed suicide in prison, managed to lure an astonishing array of rich, powerful and famous men into his orbit.
[snip]
Few, though, compared in prestige and power to the world’s second-richest person, a brilliant and intensely private luminary: Bill Gates. And unlike many others, Mr. Gates started the relationship after Mr. Epstein was convicted of sex crimes.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And Billy’s favorite dish, cream-of-sum-yung-gai.
I hope there are no unintended consequences.
Mother Nature does not like to be f-ed with.
Some idiot released non-native snails in California decades ago thinking people would like to eat them as they do in France.
I battle these destructive pests every single day in my garden.
FReegards.
Thank you.
Gates was known as an acquisition guy. M$ did very little innovation. Gates and his lawyers had one or more teams of people who were always looking at the latest software offerings, and when they found something of note, would alert Gates. He, in turn, would send his cutthroats to make an offer: sell at pennies on the dollar or we’ll bury you with a knock-off that we can sell to undercut you and destroy you. Take it or leave it.
Frequently, the acquisition would include employment for the acquired asset’s top management and/or technical talent.
Gates is a ferocious businessman, and seems to have neither conscience nor scruples. Fitting that he acquired Fauci along the way, isn’t it?
Interesting... Bill Gates is nothing but a college drop out, stole the DOS idea and forced every computer builder to use it, except Apple... Best OS was for my C64...
Byte was a great magazine... I subscribed to Ahoy! the magazine for Commodore users...
Andrea Widburg thinks Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide?
“Fitting that he acquired Fauci along the way, isn’t it?”
Yes.
Bump
Gates never programmed anything. DOS was given to him by IBM.
Xerox invented “Windows” as a way to electronically control the copiers easier. The beginning of turning copiers into printers. They never fully developed it and gave it to Gates and Jobs for some reason.
I read once IBM had it and just gave it away.
“I don’t doubt you but give a couple of examples. I’ve done a lot of assembly language which is probably what he used. “
The dissassembled version of his 4K BASIC is available on several sites and he HAD to do this in machine code with an assembler. One of the things that I thought was breakthrough was tokenizing the keywords in memory, which also buys error checking. Of course all great things are built from previous great things, and the trick of dumping the trig functions at startup in favor of more program memory was “stolen” from DEC’s PDP/8 FOCAL language, written in 1968 or 1969.
I’ve always thought it funny that he and Allen had to pay another programmer to do the floating point. I’ve actually written a floating point package myself but it almost killed me and I had to learn a lot more about binary mathematics than I wanted to :(
“I remember Byte”
I’ve got issue #1, framed, thinking it would be worth something someday. It’s somewhat valuable but I won’t be retiring on it.
My guess is that has been a very sexually naive fellow without much experience. He married Melinda probably because she was the first woman he had ever been with.
Along comes Jeffrey with his magic airplane and girls that would do things to Gates he never dreamed of. I have no doubt he left his brains somewhere else when introduced to the decadent pleasures Jeffrey offered. When he went home it just wasn’t the same with Melinda.
Not sure I even have any of the Byte Magazines now.
I do have a huge collection of 4 Ham Radio magazines.
Some were given to me by an older friend who was licensed in the 1920’s. They were mainly QST magazine they were in very good shape until I stored them. Not so sure now, they have been boxed for 30 years.
Ghislaine Maxwell didn’t hang herself.
Ghislaine Maxwell didn’t hang herself.>>>
Yes.
But then neither did Epstein.
“tokenizing the keywords in memory, which also buys error checking.”
Not sure what that is. Is it the beginning of the linker concept that allows the output files of separate compilations to be combined into a single executable?
Today you can buy a microprocessor chip that has 64 bit floating point hardware, for less than $30.
The days of writing your own floating point, trig, compiler, linker, sorting, database, communications, etc., are long gone. Now the programmer uses or glues together or debugs enormous chunks of pre-written software. Not much fun for me.
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