Posted on 11/10/2010 12:15:35 PM PST by Sub-Driver
I got mine, where’s yours?? If Bill Gates practiced what he preached he would give his ENTIRE fortune to the poor.
I guess in a perfect world, the government would have funded research into personal computer operating systems, and developed their own public version that everybody would be forced to use.
Of course, then, Bill Gates wouldn’t have billions of dollars to use on his charitable foundation taking care of the poor.
It sure looks to me that raw capitalism has done much better taking care of the poor — which is why the “poor” in this country all have cable and big screen TVs and cell phones and live better than 95% of the developing world.
Research? Bill spent billions each year as CEO of Microsoft on research. Is he saying that wasn’t enough??
1) ????
2)Round up some money
3) use the money to track and imprison every corrupt senator and representative (i.e. around 90% of the critters extant).
I wish there were a way to never use a Microsoft product again. But that would mean going to Apple, which is just as thick and sick with commie libs as MS!
You know where you can go Gates.
Yeah! Capitalism has its problems alright BILL, like usury.
Here’s a good example: A software company that releases a POS, unstable operating system with thousands of security holes and problems, and discontinues support for the OS versions which actually worked and were stable.
Here’s some more examples: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows Vista - all pieces of shinola on which Bill Gtaes made billions while users were left waiting for a new version so they could blow more money.
No kidding...you didn't hear $hit from this ass-hat while he was sitting in a room somewhere designing his crappy sofware, did you?
Worked out pretty well for Bill, though, didn’t it.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/12/quotes-of-the-day-223/
“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis…” – David Rockefeller, Club of Rome executive member
“We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.” – Al Gore, Earth in the Balance
http://green-agenda.com/index.html
“The common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through
changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
- Club of Rome,
premier environmental think-tank,
consultants to the United Nations
http://recyclewashington.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/unraveling-the-club-of-rome-part-1/
Some current members of the Club of Rome or its two siblings:
Al Gore – former VP of the USA, leading climate change campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Academy Award winner, Emmy winner. Gore lead the US delegations to the Rio Earth Summit and Kyoto Climate Change conference. He chaired a meeting of the full Club of Rome held in Washington DC in 1997.
Javier Solana – Secretary General of the Council of the European Union, High Representative for EU Foreign Policy.
Maurice Strong – former Head of the UN Environment Programme, Chief Policy Advisor to Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the Rio Earth Summit, co-author (with Gorbachev) of the Earth Charter, co-author of the Kyoto Protocol, founder of the Earth Council, devout Baha’i.
Mikhail Gorbachev – CoR executive member, former President of the Soviet Union, founder of Green Cross International and the Gorbachev Foundation, Nobel Peace Prize winner, co-founder (with Hidalgo) of the Club of Madrid, co-author (with Strong) of the Earth Charter.
Diego Hidalgo – CoR executive member, co-founder (with Gorbachev) of the Club of Madrid, founder and President of the European Council on Foreign Relations in association with George Soros.
Ervin Laszlo – founding member of the CoR, founder and President of the Club of Budapest, founder and Chairman of the World Wisdom Council.
Anne Ehrlich – Population Biologist. Married to Paul Ehrlich with whom she has authored many books on human overpopulation. Also aformer director of Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club, and a member of the UN’s Global Roll of Honor.
Hassan bin Talal – President of the CoR, President of the Arab Thought Forum, founder of the World Future Council, recently named as the United Nations ‘Champion of the Earth‘.
Sir Crispin Tickell – former British Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Permanent Representative on the Security Council, Chairman of the ‘Gaia Society’, Chairman of the Board of the Climate Institute, leading British climate change campaigner.
Kofi Annan – former Secretary General of the United Nations. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Javier Perez de Cuellar – former Secretary General of the United Nations.
Gro Harlem Bruntland – United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change, former President of Norway
Robert Muller – former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, founder and Chancellor of the UN University of Peace.
The Dalai Lama – The ‘Spiritual Leader’ of Tibet. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Father Berry Thomas – Catholic Priest who is one of the leading proponents of deep ecology, ecospirituality and global consciousness.
David Rockefeller – CoR executive member, former Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, founder of the Trilateral Commission, executive member of the World Economic Forum, donated land on which the United Nations stands.
Stephen Schneider – Stanford Professor of Biology and Global Change. Professor Schneider was among the earliest and most vocal proponents of man-made global warming and a lead author of many IPCC reports.
Bill Clinton – former President of the United States, founder of the Clinton Global Iniative.
Jimmy Carter – former President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Bill Gates – founder of Microsoft, philanthropist
Garret Hardin – Professor of Human Ecology. Originator of the ‘Global Commons‘ concept. Has authored many controversial papers on human overpopulation and eugenics.
Other current influential members:
(these can be found on the membership lists of the COR (here, here, and here), Club of Budapest, Club of Madrid and/or CoR National Association membership pages)
Ted Turner – media mogul, philanthropist, founder of CNN
George Soros – multibillionare, major donor to the UN
Tony Blair – former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Deepak Chopra – New Age Guru
Desmond Tutu – South African Bishop and activist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Timothy Wirth – President of the United Nations Foundation
Henry Kissinger – former US Secretary of State
George Matthews – Chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation
Harlan Cleveland – former Assistant US Secretary of State and NATO Ambassador
Barbara Marx Hubbard – President of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution
Betty Williams – Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Marianne Williamson – New Age ‘Spiritual Activist’
Robert Thurman – assistant to the Dalai Lama
Jane Goodall – Primatologist and Evolutionary Biologist
Juan Carlos I – King of Spain
Prince Philippe of Belgium
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
Dona Sophia – Queen of Spain
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero – current Prime Minister of Spain
Karan Singh – Former Prime Minister of India, Chairman of the Temple of Understanding
Daisaku Ikeda – founder of the Soka Gakkai cult
Martin Lees – CoR Secretary General, Rector of the UN University of Peace
Ernesto Zedillo – Director of The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Frithjof Finkbeiner – Coordinator of the Global Marshall Plan
Franz Josef Radermacher – Founder of the Global Marshall Plan
Eduard Shevardnadze – former Soviet foreign minister and President of Georgia
Richard von Weizsacker – former President of Germany
Carl Bildt – former President of Sweden
Kim Campbell – former Prime Minister of Canada and Senior Fellow of the Gorbachev Foundation
Vincente Fox – former President of Mexico
Helmut Kohl – former Chancellor of Germany
Romano Prodi – former Prime Minister of Italy and President of the European Commission
Vaclav Havel – former President of the Czech Republic
Hans Kung – Founder of the Global Ethic Foundation
Ruud Lubbers – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Mary Robinson – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Jerome Binde – Director of Foresight, UNESCO
Koïchiro Matsuura – Current Director General of UNESCO
Federico Mayor – Former Director General of UNESCO
Tapio Kanninen – Director of Policy and Planning, United Nations
Konrad Osterwalder – Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
Peter Johnston – Director General of European Commission
Jacques Delors – Former President of the European Commission
Domingo Jimenez-Beltran – Executive Director of the European Environment Agency
Thomas Homer-Dixon – Director of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto
Hazel Henderson – Futurist and ‘evoluntionary economist’
Emeka Anyaoku – former Commonwealth Secretary General, current President of the World Wildlife Fund
Wangari Maathai – Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, founder of the Green Belt Movement
and many more….
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2512355/posts?page=134#134
I got no stinkin govt patches!
Everybody else needs govt to patch it."
How can he be a Marxist if those are his business beliefs? He is acting as a total Capitalist! He is looking for the cheapest labor he cxan find. He is working for the most favorable business environment.
If He was a Marxist, he would surrender the company to some form of collective ownership of the proletariat (the masses). He would, at the very least, permit a union of Microsoft workers. Ownership by a collective of workers is the very *foundation of Marxist belief!*
If he still owns the company and controls all its wealth, then he is no Marxist. I say he’s a perfect Capitalist, a modern J.P. Morgan or Andrew Carnegie. Look at the way he used the power of monopoly to overwhelm and decimate any competition? Even though his OS is a piece of crap and buggier than a unwashed crotch in Brazil, it dominates over 90% of the world’s computers. 2A simple virus can spread incredibly fast and cost kazillion dollars *because* Windows has the monopoly it does. That’s a monopoly.
No he’s like the great king in the castle, dispensing his largesse to everyone that meets his standards. Just like Carnegie! People called Carnegie a “socialist,” too, for building all those libraries and letting *anybody* in the public in! Smelly old junkyard owners could borrow a book, just because they lived in the same town! The Irish and Italians and all those immigrants!
What makes him a “marxist? Because Gates does NOT fit the definition.
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He's left of center. He is no “pure capitalist”. He's here condemning capitalism has having some basic flaws.
He's part of the problem, not the solution.
He bought MS-DOS from someone else for $10,000.
EXACTLY. This prattle from one of the most cut-throat capitalists to ever emerge from our grand experiment in Laissez-faire markets. He’s got his...to the point that, if he lost 99% of his net worth overnight, he’d still have more money than he could ever spend.
So he’s go this, and we all now have to be as altruistic as he is. Screw you, Bill. I’ve likely bought my last PC.
Once you are on top you can encourage the government to erect barriers to entry to e;iminate or marginalize the competition.
Microsoft would be impossible to startup now. And that’s his real motive. He wants to kick back and enjoy the view without the aggravation of some little guy with a great idea.
It’s all code-speak for higher and higher taxes.
If clowns like gates would just dump their entire obscene personal fortunes on the poor, directly and not through cutout fronts like PUSH and other vulture groups, there would obviously be less poverty. Not through phony baloney “foundations” that dole out peanuts here and there through more groups that suck up most of the funds, but directly, on the street.
To Gates: Money. Mouth. Bring the two together.
Yes, I agree with Bill Gates. The best way for government to address current systemic problems with capitalism is to BUTT OUT OF IT.
And by the way, Gates, you jackball, that kind of thinking is what rammed a probe up your company’s backside for years during the Clinton years.
What the hell is wrong with the ultra-rich? They have so much money, they don’t care if they lose 95% of it—they’re still set for life.
Golden Eagle.....Dat’s da guy!! I couldn’t remember his handle for the life of me.
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