Posted on 11/15/2010 3:55:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Gates is less intelligent than I thought. Some programming knowledge, one enormous contractual coup with IBM, and a lot of talent around him seems to sum it up...
Putz.
God is real, Bill.
C02 has always naturally occurred here. What did they do about it 2,000,000,000 or so years ago when there was MORE OF IT? Imagine the massive die-offs and other problems that must have occurred when the ‘toxin’ Oxygen became more prevalent, with plant and animal species that depended on a atmosphere saturated with C02.
I know none of this matters, or is directly related to what Bill said. It’s just that our planet has changed drastically ever since it initially cooled and turned into something resembling what we know. Acting as if we can CHANGE it in some material way is just folly. What sucks is how they are willing to regulate our lives and extract wealth from us based on that foolish premise.
I’d like to find another planet to live on, or take a long vacation to while my fellow humans on Earth are so dammed stupid, they would actually buy into something like this.....
Wait a minute. Isn't Billy Gates a Malthusian who believes we need to drastically cut the population of the earth?
Taking out the plants and lowering the O2 levels would be one way to do that.
The biggest factor was he was in the right place at the right time. All the technology and innovation he bought from others.
"Bill Gates' house is a large earth-sheltered mansion in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The 66,000 sq ft (6,100 m2) house is noted for its design and the technology it incorporates. It is nicknamed Xanadu 2.0.[1] In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US $1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.[2]"
What we need is insulation from liberals who want to destroy the economy (and enrich a few, selected liberals) on the basis of junk science. I say send all those who think that globull warming is caused by man to live in Antarctica and Greenland. They will become believers in God real soon and start praying for globull warming to hurry up and arrive.
“We also need to focus on developing innovative technologies”
We did, nuclear power has been around for decades. What we need to do is develop innovative ways to rid society of envirowackos.
Well, I don’t begrudge him his financial success, but he is a good example of the phenomenon that Tevya sings about in Fiddler On The Roof (If I Were a Rich Man: “When you’re rich they think you really know...”).
That Gates could write this piece in light of all we know about the global warming fraud is astonishing. Of course, he has demonstrated an inability to get beyong the bromides of his “experts” in his education philanthropy, too.
The Microsoft Motto: Adopt, Extend, Extinguish.
I used to think he was a balanced, sane person too.
Just goes to show how wrong we were.
I got mine, the little people can starve and freeze in their little huts, sincerely, Bill Gates.
Correct.
But fair is fair: Gates really was a very bright guy.
He was in some ways like Steve Jobs, but without any of Jobs' vision, charisma, or ability to attract brilliant people with the sheer force of great ideas.
Gates thought he could BUY brilliant people with lots of money, and for a while he could. But brilliant people don't stay "bought" in an atmosphere run by the likes of Ballmer. Sadly, Microsoft these days is a hollow shell of what it was. I hope they survive long enough that I get to see the successor to WindowsNT.
EMBRACE, Extend, Extinguish.
"Embrace" : "to draw to oneself with crushing force". :)
I think people are noticing that too many of the advocates for using less are those with huge houses and a penchant for traveling the world by jetliner.
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