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Posted on 04/15/2006 7:08:03 AM PDT by Salo
SEATTLE (Reuters) - The first lavish dinner of China President Hu Jintao's historic visit to the United States next week will be in a big, secure house in Washington where the host is one of the world's most powerful men.
The White House? No.
It won't be in Washington D.C., but Seattle, Washington, and the April 18 dinner will be held at the $100 million lakeside mansion of Microsoft Corp. founder and the world's richest man, Bill Gates.
The approximately 100-person guest list is a who's who of the U.S. Pacific Northwest power elite, including Starbucks Corp. Chairman Howard Schultz and Washington state Gov. Christine Gregoire, said event organizers.
The guests will undergo strict security checks before entering Gates' lodge-style, 66,000 square-foot (6,130 sq meter) home overlooking Lake Washington with a reported seven bedrooms, six kitchens, 24 bathrooms, a domed library, a reception hall and an artificial estuary stocked with salmon and trout.
Gates and Gregoire are expected to introduce and welcome Hu, who will then offer a toast in front of the gathering.
The guests will be served a three-course dinner, starting with a smoked guinea fowl salad, a choice of either beef filet with Walla Walla onions or Alaskan halibut and spot prawns before a dessert of rhubarb brown butter almond cake, the event organizers said.
Like any good dinner guest, President Hu will not come empty handed. The Chinese government issued a decree two weeks ago that all PCs will need to have a licensed operating system software installed before leaving the factory gates in an effort to crack down on piracy.
As a result, three Chinese PC manufacturers announced plans to buy a total of over $400 million worth of Microsoft Windows operating system software over the next three years and Lenovo Group Ltd., China's largest PC maker, is expected to announce a similar deal on Monday, organizers said.
Sorry I don't have anything as profound as an enforcement-equals-civil-war fantasy to offer as an excuse for Bush's surrender of our homeland.
"Da House"
It does look sorta Chinese.
if you ping them, they will come.
"Comments represent a new low, imho."
Yeah. Bound to happen, though. How could we have otherwise given the human ingredients?
I see quite a few socialists Democrats have been invited.
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Not really. He's in bed with the chinese big time.
Personally, I hate Microsoft products because they don't come anywhere near close to suiting the way I work. One desktop is simply not enough.
Also, does anyone out there have a copy of Excel that can correctly create a chart similar to this using this data? (which I've exported as a CSV) I tried with Excel 97, but could never get it to correctly interpret the years as dates becaused they spanned the years from 1791 to the present. Maybe it works now, but at the time, it wouldn't because of the kludge MS had used to correct for Y2K issues.
>(c) you profit from the status quo through cheap labor.
Almost all of us are in that category (at least in the short run).
Hmmmm.... What are you trying to say by having a blue background with an upside-down cross of little white boxes with "Sorry, No Hot Linking Alowed!" in each????
Hey - you are right...I just tried to do what you asked with Excel from Office Mac 2004. All looked fine when I opened the csv file in Excel, but when trying to make the graph, it used funny notation for the left part of graph (something like numbers too big in a calculator), and instead of dates, it had 3 digit numbers.... I can't figure out what that was...
Bush's surreder of our homeland? Yeah, you're really wanting to discuss the issues in rational terms. Bwahahahaha
You've made a good effort at reframing the issues by titling my offerings as irrelevant then posting what you want for the issue (as in strawmen perhaps). Sadly, that isn't getting the debate anywhere and as you know it's a big liberal technique ... I'm wondering why I would want to exchange with such.
pr was merely trying to divert the discussion ... he wasn't even the one called a dolt and I'm a writer with absolutely no direct connection to the illegals. But pr isn't interested in such facts because the game is to reframe the issue along lines pr has points for.
Don't let your imagination run wild, it means the images ran out of bandwidth at the server!
Will sauteed dog delicacy be served?
She will ? Do you know something I don't ? Are we gonna have her shanghaied ?
Hopefully, Maria Cantwell will be on her way out at the end of the year.
Call the state supreme court and ask them if there is a petition to recall Gregoire and why they are refusing to hold a public hearing. they know I have proof of her racketeering and racketeering by at least one member of the state supreme court, CJ Alexander. If there was a hearing the judicial corruption in this state would be exposed for all to see, and they know it.
Phone number is 360-357-2007.
Tell your friends and all you know to call the court and demand a hearing.
Also, if I do not have justice in this matter, I will be arresting alexander on May 9, 2006, at 1:30 pm. I will either get justice from that court, or get in front of a jury. one way or the other, the corruption is going to stop.
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