Bill Gates Has a Message For Conspiracy Theorists (cnn.com) 221
In an interview with CNN, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates responded to his prominence in anti-vaccine conspiracy theories that have spread online:
CNN: There are 16,000 Facebook posts espousing conspiracy theories about you and the virus... They're liked or commented on 900,000 times. On YouTube the top 10 videos that spread lies about you had almost 5 million views. It's also pointed out that according to Zignal Labs, which is a media analysis company that tracks this, misinformation about you is the most widespread of all coronavirus falsehoods...
What do you say to people who believe this stuff? Because I'm sure you're inundated...
Bill Gates: The combination of having social media spreading things that are very titillating, to having this pandemic where people are uncertain and they'd prefer to have a simple explanation — it's meant that these things are really, you know, millions of messages a day. And people like myself and Dr. Fauci have become the target.
Often the clever thing they do — you know, our foundation has given more money to buy vaccines to save lives than any group. So you just turn that around — you say, "Okay, we're making money, and we're trying to kill people with vaccines, or by inventing something." And at least it's true — we are associated with vaccines — but you actually have, you know, sort of flipped the connection that we have there.
You know, I hope it doesn't create vaccine hesitancy. I hope this whole story of innovation that's going on, that we do get the benefit of that. It's really the only good news I'm bringing you today, is that diagnostic therapeutic and vaccine innovation, these amazing private-sector companies, without the coordination you would've liked — they are doing it... .
Gates told CBS News he expects some at-home, instant coronavirus tests to be approved in the next two to four months. "These are well-meaning people," Gates told CNN of the diagnostics innovators. "This is a time when people are doing great work.
"So I hope the conspiracy stuff dies down."
What do you say to people who believe this stuff? Because I'm sure you're inundated...
Bill Gates: The combination of having social media spreading things that are very titillating, to having this pandemic where people are uncertain and they'd prefer to have a simple explanation — it's meant that these things are really, you know, millions of messages a day. And people like myself and Dr. Fauci have become the target.
Often the clever thing they do — you know, our foundation has given more money to buy vaccines to save lives than any group. So you just turn that around — you say, "Okay, we're making money, and we're trying to kill people with vaccines, or by inventing something." And at least it's true — we are associated with vaccines — but you actually have, you know, sort of flipped the connection that we have there.
You know, I hope it doesn't create vaccine hesitancy. I hope this whole story of innovation that's going on, that we do get the benefit of that. It's really the only good news I'm bringing you today, is that diagnostic therapeutic and vaccine innovation, these amazing private-sector companies, without the coordination you would've liked — they are doing it... .
Gates told CBS News he expects some at-home, instant coronavirus tests to be approved in the next two to four months. "These are well-meaning people," Gates told CNN of the diagnostics innovators. "This is a time when people are doing great work.
"So I hope the conspiracy stuff dies down."
Huh? (Score:5, Insightful)
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So his proverbial ship is being sank by a Zuckerberg?
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Apparently being rich doesn't make you able to speak coherently and not say "you know" three times in every sentence.
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In a nutshell social media has given clever bad guys unprecedented access to masses of gullible people.
The best conspiracy theory (Score:2)
is that the Lizard People are trying to kill us all with vaccines. (and probably 5G)
Re:The best conspiracy theory (Score:4, Funny)
Oh that's so ridiculous. We try to enslave you, not ... uh ...
I gotta go.
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There are lizard-people, and they're trying to kill people. However, to balance it all out, there are also people-lizards. They're little tiny people that mostly look like lizards. The people-lizards are trying to humanize little lizards. Our races keep flip-flopping like this throughout history. This is why there were, at one time, huge lizards (the dinosaurs), and huge people (the anunnaki), but now we're all the size that we are. One day we'll even be tinier, and wonder at the huge structures that
Antivaxxing is a cover for child rapists (Score:2, Insightful)
Who would want to kill a kid more than a child pornographer or child rapist? Eventually the kid is going to spill the beans and you are then sent to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison where one mistake in the paperwork puts you on death row through vigilante justice. The antivaxx movement is a cover and all antivaxxers are trying to keep their kids away from doctors because they know the doc will notice the signs of rape and sexual abuse instantly. These are also the same people who oppose sex education, th
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Fighting fire with fire now?
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Of course.
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Fighting fire with fire now?
When reason doesn't work, burn it down, baby.
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Fighting fire with fire now?
When reason doesn't work, burn it down, baby.
You remind me of the Christians who burned the Library of Alexandria. [osu.edu]
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wha?
So you take your kid to the doctor for a vaccine shot (usually on the arm, or occasionally on a sugar cube) and the doctor wants to inspect your child's genitals...
are you sure its the parents who are the paedophiles here?
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There are signs of someone being abused far beyond trauma to orifices. Body language, words used, helicopter parents not letting them be alone, being afraid to answer even simple questions, and so on. Also my post is a load of bollocks, it's designed purely to incite hate mobs against antivaxxers.
Failure of the educational system. (Score:4, Insightful)
the pareto principle considered harmful? (Score:2, Insightful)
i went through private school, high honors / advanced classes, and the smaller the class sizes, the more resources were spent on us.
then i get to college, there is an $50,000+ machine they used to train freshmen on some science procedure where probably they could have gotten away with a $5k machine. meanwhile i know for a fact at public university they do not have $50,000 machines for freshmen to learn some procedure. they probably just read about it in a book.
now clearly my classmates were not that far be
Choice (Score:2)
To counter your other argument about compliance, this is only Part 1. Part 2 will add this same chip to other things like antibiotic snot shots for common colds, your daily insulin injections, I've even heard inside Epip
This is ridiculous (Score:5, Insightful)
This is what I have heard from Republicans - and only them, He is developing a vaccine and he believes in population reduction - well adding two and two together, it is obvious he going to make a vaccine that will kill BILLIONS!
I do not get people.
It is like George Soros. I hear all this shit about him and there is no evidence for it. He gives money to humanitarian causes because he personally dealt with the worst of humanity - Nazi Germany.
Back to Gates. I guess it is easier to believe in some far-out conspiracy about vaccines and COVID than to accept the fact that Trump has been fucking up from day one and actually believes that it will just go away.
It is too bad that we are going to have far too many deaths because there is a large portion of our society that has opinions not based on reality but based on ideology.
Re:This is ridiculous (Score:5, Interesting)
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
--Carl Sagan.
Can't he just rap it? (Score:2)
It tends to stick longer that way.
Can we stop calling him a philanthropist? (Score:2, Insightful)
We shouldn't go begging billionaires to solve the problems in the world. We should actually solve them as a society. Gates handing out a bit of his money makes people think everything's under control. It provides an excuse to leave the lower class to their fate because "p
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It's laughable he even says the phrase "Dr. Fauci and I"...one is a medical professional, Gates has expertise in no field at all. Again, why give any import to his words.
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I'll give you a hint on his wealth. It comes from Microsoft stock. You fit the pieces together as to why he is becoming richer.
That isn't really relevant thought (Score:2)
He's also done little or nothing to lobby governments to be better to their citizens. He could, for example, be lobbying for Universal Healthcare in America, human rights in Saudi Arabia, ending the occupation of Iraq/Afghanistan (it's been 20 years, time to stop calling them wars), Russia's anti-democracy, etc, etc, etc.
Again, problems as big as what nations face are
You're wrong. Again. (Score:4, Informative)
as he made a big show some years ago about giving away his money. At his level of wealth stocks _are_ money. He didn't give them away.
He has given his stock away. The vast majority of it. As of 2017, Gates had given over $26 billion of Microsoft stock [theverge.com] to his foundation. In 1996, Gates owned ~24% of Microsoft stock. Today, he owns less than 1.4%. [cnbc.com]
I know it's fashionable around here to demonize Bill Gates, but pretty much nothing you're saying about him is true.
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Yeah, its strange how these foundations are still fully controlled by the people that gave them money.
And you may say "of course"
to which I say, doesn't this mean he's really just shuffled his money from one account to another via a fancy way that means he doesn't pay tax on it? Hence all the other "charitable foundations" that also seem to be controlled by the megarich.
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What, exactly, do you think happens to the billions of dollars Gates "shuffles" to accounts at his foundation? Do you think it pays for his mansions, yachts, and private jets? His car collection perhaps? LOL, maybe you think Gates is drawing a per diem and getting his "business meals" paid for? Do you really honestly believe that Bill Gates is using his foundation as a front to somehow benefit himself financially? NO. What happens to that "shuffled" money is it gets awarded by the billions to all sort [gatesfoundation.org]
That's fine, still the richest man on earth (Score:2)
He's like a guy who sets fire to your house that you thank for paying the fire department to put out the blaze. I'd prefer to not have my house set on fire in the first place, TYVM.
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after telling everybody he was giving it away.
Bill Gates is on record saying his children will inherit $10M each. Where do you think the remaining >$100B will go when he's gone? Buried next to him? That's gonna be a pretty big hole in the ground.
And he's still done Dickie McGeezaks about the systems that create the problems his philanthropy is supposed to address.
His money goes to health, hunger, poverty, and education, mostly in the developing world. What systems created those, and when?
He's like a guy who sets fire to your house that you thank for paying the fire department to put out the blaze. I'd prefer to not have my house set on fire in the first place, TYVM.
Herp derp, whatever man.
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He's back to being the richest man in the world (assuming the extra covid cash didn't put Bezos on top again) so it's not like he's kept his "I'm giving away my fortune" promise.
According to Business Insider, [businessinsider.com] as of 2018 Gates had given 45.6% of his wealth to charity. The Gates Foundation is the largest private charitable foundation in the world, with a focus on global health and poverty. The only person that has given a larger portion of their wealth to charity is Warren Buffet. [forbes.com]
If Gates doesn't qualify as a philanthropist, I don't know who does.
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He's as much a "philanthropist" as any other tycoon with ill-gotten gains. Has he done more good than harm in his life? His hands certainly weren't clean as a businessman, and the corporation he created hasn't exactly been a good corporate citizen. Does giving away billions (while keeping even more billions) make up for that? You be the judge.
It's not about how much good or harm he's done (Score:3, Interesting)
Think about all those Go Fund Mes to pay for cancer meds & insulin right now. That's what a world of "charity" gets you.
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Does giving away billions (while keeping even more billions) make up for that?
I don't know. I'm not judging Gates as a person. All I know is that Gates fits every definition of a philanthropist I've ever seen. As far as "keeping even more billions" goes, Gates has committed to giving away at least half of his wealth, and everything so far indicates he will honor that pledge. Saying the guy's not a philanthropist is absurd.
And who made that definition? (Score:2)
Again, we shouldn't have to beg billionaires for food, shelter and medicine. Not in the year of our Lord 2020.
Are you kidding? (Score:2)
And who made that definition?
The Greeks? The word "philanthropist" has had the same meaning in the English language for several hundred years. Does this really have to be explained to you?
and who made the systems that cause the problems his "philanthropy" is trying to solve?
What difference does that make as to whether Gates is a philanthropist or not? He's trying to solve problems of the less fortunate by donating his money...it's the very definition of philanthropy. In any event, it certainly wasn't Bill Gates that created the problems he's trying to solve.. His philanthropy is dedicated to improving health, fighti
I do (Score:2, Interesting)
Meanwhile he is able to make sweeping decisions regarding the future of the human race simply because he's sitting on fat piles of cash and we're all hoping to get a bit of it.
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Oh please. Your $80 donation didn't negatively impact your life at all. All you're saying is that you're a bigger philanthropist than Gates (LOL) because your 80 bucks was more of a sacrifice to you than the $50B was to him. Well guess what? That doesn't make Gates any less of a philanthropist. Can you point to a definition of "philanthropist" that says "a philanthropist's giving must impact his lifestyle"? No. You can't.
You don't get to redefine the meaning of "philanthropist" just because you don'
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Conspiracy tech is amazing (Score:5, Insightful)
I especially love the guys who think the vaccines are going to include little micro-trackers that broadcast your position to some secret cabal which keeps track of everyone's location at all times.
I do wish that level of tech existed (especially the micro-batteries), because it could be used for some real amazing devices and purposes. Above and beyond what the secret tracking cabal would use it for, I mean.
Re:Conspiracy tech is amazing (Score:4, Insightful)
And consider how many people are sharing those beliefs through smartphones with all location and GPS services active.
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The goddamn safety officer at my job is a right wing nutjob. He's scared the government will force him to install a tracking app on his phone. He also doesn't believe in masks and even attended a rally of bar/restaurant owners to open the county back up.
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That's completely unnecessary. They can just get your location data from your phone carrier or from Google/Apple. I would be shocked if the government didn't have all of this data, already.
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I do wish that level of tech existed
Talk to my dog. He has one.
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Not remotely the same thing. Those just-under-the-skin ID chips let someone with a scanner (e.g. a vet) identify the dog as being yours if they already have possession of that dog and can put the scanner against it. And, even then, those chips are way too big to float through the dog's bloodstream.
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How many door handles do you grab every day? How many credit card readers do you operate? RFID readers can be put in numerous objects that you'd be hard pressed to avoid.
My dog is smart. He just whines until I open the door, logging my ID as having done so instead of him. Come to think of it, my Jewish friend is always getting me to push elevator buttons for him. Hmmmm.
BINGO! (Score:2)
Straw man (Score:2, Interesting)
Gates is replying to the easy cases. That is playing it safe.
This is a critical article about Gates: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/0... [thegrayzone.com]
It's pretty good , it's critical but there is nothing in it about the funny theories people think up. It doesn't even claim Gates has 'evil plans'.
The stuff about the WHO also contrasts nicely with the commonplace "China controls the WHO" theories.
The Gates Foundation has far larger control over the WHO.
Uhh... (Score:3)
-Bill Gates, in response to crazy people.
This was a stupid response and will probably cause more intellectual dishonesty in the future. The fuck was he thinking when he said that, particularly in that way?
I can see this being quoted exactly as I have above and getting 10,000,000 likes on Facebook et al.
Millions of millions! (Score:3)
I like how they emphasize how many millions of likes and views these conspiracy videos get. You know what else gets millions of views? Videos of ducks eating bowls of peas.
One conspiracy video going viral is not a problem. Anyone can do that these days if the content is stupid enough. A conspiracy channel getting millions of views on every video they post might indicate a problem.
He hopes it doesn't create vaccine hesitancy. (Score:2)
Re:right Bill Gates is an authoritative source (Score:5, Informative)
Bill Gates is now in his philanthropist stage of his life, unlike many other obscenely wealthy people. Yes he got rich being the digital antichrist, but now he's trying to do the same as Carnegie and redeem his image through works of public good. In case you've been living under a rock he's been giving away his fortune to fight various diseases for years. He's not going to make a killing with vaccines.
I mean, if you prefer, he could have just continued to be a greedy asshole like the Koch brothers, or the Walton heirs. Or that everyday man-of-the-people Tucker Carlson, HEIR to the multibillion dollar Swanson fortune. Would that please you more?
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In case you've been living under a rock he's been giving away his fortune to fight various diseases for years.
He first took the money away from people to become the richest man and sat on it for a long time before he started giving it away. People could have used this money back then to save lives already.
Bill Gates is a man, who after many years of absolute greed and economic destruction, is finally beginning to see the light. We only call him a philanthropist out of fear he might change back into the person he was.
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Microsoft took almost all the money they actually mainly from corporations. He didn't raid your piggy bank. That's the actual reason they hate him. Licenses for Windows OEM were actually almost given away.
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Liar and shill, he destroyed peoples' livelihood with anti-competitive practices, lawsuits and propaganda, he's a thief and parasite.
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I do wonder what would of happened if Borland, WordPerfect, Aldus, and Netscape and others were still around.
MS was evil no doubt and their OS was worst of the breed without dispute, but Apple I cheered for 20 years ago (Damn time flies) on here as they were the good guys who would make PC cheap again and non proprietary standards for a decent OS. Boy, was I wrong.
IBM OS/2 was awesome ... however, if they won we could have lost the freedom of building your own PC as IBM would take over the world again after
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IBM was pretty good about supporting other hardware after the divorce, so version 2.x and up. It even came with a decent boot manager so you could install it beside other OSes unlike Win 95 which after I installed it, announced that my OS/2 partition and everything on it was now gone, even though 2 minutes with fdisk brought it back.
I still run it on fairly new hardware and am about to test UEFI booting support in it. That's pretty good, being able to run an OS designed around 1990, with the last major upda
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IBM stated in their memos the goal was to stop the PC clones. Look at the PS/2 connectors which are still around and the MCA proprietary cards for the PS/1 and PS/2 pcs?
When MacOSX was new Apple was friendly too. Back then you could take them apart (can you imagine reading what I typed 20 years ago) and used standard video cards and hard drives you could replace. Apple even made Darwin opensource. That ended as soon as college campuses became cool to trend with your macbook and things reserved fast.
Sun and
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IBM stated in their memos the goal was to stop the PC clones. Look at the PS/2 connectors which are still around and the MCA proprietary cards for the PS/1 and PS/2 pcs?
Yes, back in the OS/2 1.x days. Also remember that MS also had their own OS/2 1.x that wasn't tied to PS/2 and still have equal rights to most of OS/2.
IBM also seemed much more worried about anti-trust then MS ever was.
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By God, you're naive ... The companies certainly took the cost for the Windows license out of the resale price for PCs!!
Many people needed Windows, but the only way they could get it, because they couldn't afford to pay for it, was to steal it. I have seen countless people in my career who stole it. I hated it, because it went completely against my believes as a software engineer, but for common folk had this become a completely normal thing to do. Even now do I sometimes get asked if I could give them my c
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Bill Gates encouraged the theft, if you want to call it that. As he stated, he'd rather you run a pirated copy of Windows then pay for the competition. Shit I remember installing Win95 along side OS/2. Didn't have a product activation code, it installed fine and then announced that my OS/2 partition was no more (fdisk brought it back if you knew how to make a partition startable). Eventually I tried installing Win95 on a clean HD, it wouldn't install due to lack of a product activation code.
Is it theft (cop
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Remember when charity from him was free copies of Windows for schools?
No, I don't. Perhaps very vaguely. I couldn't say. I was never too much into Windows and there was far too much nonsense to keep track of it. I came from the C64 to the Amiga, then went into academia and research where I learned all about UNIX and Sun Systems, and fell in love with Linux. Windows was just an OS I bought to own it, like having a tool in a box you don't actually ever use. So I always paid for it, but I had no sense of need or urgency for it.
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As for the anti-christ stuff, my opinion is that that was the thing because he had the white-collar corporate world by the balls since they all needed Windows. So he was the go-to "evil rich guy" as far as the corporate media was concerned. Even then he was way less evil than many industry leaders. They didn't talk about the leaders of companies selling asbestos or tobacco or overseeing third-world murders of trade-union leaders the way they do about how Gates was "Teh Evulz".
As a poor student in the 1990s
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As a simple user, I started to hate him when I realized that I had paid 3 times for Win 3.x, and then his company, under his direction, worked as hard as they could to break that officially supported version of Win 3.x (WinOS2).
Sure,like any good dealer, the first few hits were free if you were a poor student, now in all likely hood, you're probably still using Windows and paying for it.
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Wrong, he makes noise about being philanthropist while setting up business interests hoping to profit on the virus.
He is no medical authority, he is not qualified to have an opinion on the pandemic.
He built his fortune on theft, destruction, lies, lawsuits and propaganda.
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"He's not going to make a killing with vaccines"
are you sure? These vaccines seem to be sold in large quantities ot world governments already. If it was truly a charity he'd be giving them away, not selling hundreds of millions of shots of them
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First off, you're a moron. Now that's out of the way I will explain it. If you setup a foundation to do good you have to generate revenue or your foundation will eventually run out of money. Much of Gates wealth is in stocks. He can't cash out that much at once without tanking the price or causing alarms on wall street.
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He put a fake $50 billion into the charity. Yeah totally faking, amirite?
Charity/tax credit idiocy (Score:5, Insightful)
Why wouldn't this particular idiocy — and it is older than the antivax and chemtrail conspiracies — ever die?
How bad in accounting — or even in pure beautiful Math — do you have to be to fail to understand, that this is bullshit? At, for example, tax rate of 30%, in order to get a $3 tax credit, you have to donate $10 to charity...
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How bad in accounting — or even in pure beautiful Math — do you have to be to fail to understand, that this is bullshit? At, for example, tax rate of 30%, in order to get a $3 tax credit, you have to donate $10 to charity...
Once you are a dollar billionaire, you do not need money for consumption anymore. There is simply no realistic way you can spend that kind of money. Instead it becomes a way of getting the top score. When you do not need to actually use the money but instead only need to be in control of it, you can avoid most taxes. One of the ways is to put your money (not all of it of course, leave a billion or two) into tax-free charitable foundations. With a little creativity you can still be in charge of how that mone
There are other sources, but people don't check (Score:2)
From TFS:
I'm afraid Gates is showing his "I am a tech nerd and don't know people very well" side.
People love their pitchforks and torches. They'll never put them down while he's in the public eye, no matter what he does. All he can hope for is that enough of the droolers turn their eyes elsewhere that the crowd outside his pariticular castle dies down.
If you want to do philanthropy, the only way you can escape idiots trying to make you look bad is to do it anonymously
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Andrew Carnegie was a monopolist too, controlling steel prices in the US for many years before selling out to J.P. Morgan. He also did a lot of good, funding the creation of 3000 public libraries and Carnegie Mellon University. He was also a major donor to Tuskegee University and the Mt. Wilson Observatory.
Carnegie pursued the acquisition of wealth ruthlessly, only to give 90% of it away before his death. People are complicated. Unbridled greed and generosity can coexist in one person.
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Have you used Windows before XP? Like seriously.
To run a freaking game I had to edit 2 files called autoexec.bat and config.sys. Basically I had to trick the computer to fool it to think I had more than 1 meg of ram. Memmaker in Dos 6 would trick programs.
Why did I have to do this? Because the OS SUCKED GOATBALLS. Ridiculous I had to contend with extended vs expanded memory. FYI there is no such physical thing but a virtual thing to trick the OS as a driver would use all of expanded memory 640KB and your ga
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Not being allowed to do things to make your system run better or to support additional programs is better? If Microsoft had to approve 100% of the hardware and software that ran on every DOS or Windows machine it would have been perfectly stable.
And multitasking worked fine.
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Bullshit it supported multitasking. Modern multitasking didn't come into play until the 21st century for MS operating systems decades behind anything.
MacOS Classic had a real control panel you could tinker before Windows 95. FYI I never owned an Apple product besides an ipod mini back in the day and if you see my comments here within the last 8 years I am no longer a rapid anti MS fanboy by a longshot.
But operating systems is one thing Microsoft can never do right and the hatred you see from me and others i
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Not being allowed to do things to make your system run better or to support additional programs is better? If Microsoft had to approve 100% of the hardware and software that ran on every DOS or Windows machine it would have been perfectly stable.
And multitasking worked fine.
Yeah . it's better because you DON'T HAVE TO.
Do try to pay attention.
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I don't recall MacOS having a fraction of the software base that MS-DOS and Windows did.
Re:right Bill Gates is an authoritative source (Score:4, Interesting)
I don't recall MacOS having these issues.
Is that because you were a DOS / Windows user?
Having used both over the years the only thing true of the early computing world is that everything was a damn shitshow. But that was expected to as hardware and user demand far outpaced OS development at the time. DOS didn't have memory limitations because "the OS sucked goatballs". It had memory limitations because fundamentally the design criteria didn't consider that memory capacity or user demand for it would reach this level that quickly just like FAT12 never considered a HDD greater than 256MB to even be a possibility.
MacOS had better multitasking, but far from the best. Was Microsoft incompetent? Hard to conclude that considering they had a large hand in the development of OS/2 which ran rings around MacOS in multitasking and had the added benefit of not looking like it was designed by Fisher Price. The memory also wasn't an issue, but the no amount of editing batch files fixed the change to PowerPC that rendered all previous software inoperable. Yay foresight!
Oh and I not to fondly remember having to recompile my Linux kernel for a relatively minor hardware update because it would kernel panic on every boot.
Back then the goats were sluts, everyone was sucking their balls.
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Apple isn't (and wasn't) a superior alternative. I get that hipsters and teenie-boppers love it, but they love anything that makes them feel like a rebel while they chat about it on facebook.
Who said Apple?
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They are out to influence social media
If you thought for half a second you'd realize that you're doing the exact same thing, trying to influence the social media called SlashDot.
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CNNABCCBSNBCMSNBCNYTsWaPo all pushed thousands and thousands of articles, news segments, etc. of conspiracy theories that all were proven to be absolute Bullshit by the Mueller report.
Wrong
Read the report (carefully)
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You seem to assume that people can be convinced they're wrong, when they're in environment where everything tells them they're right. I'm interested in seeing why you still think this in fourth year of Trump's presidency. In the year when Biden started his presidential campaign with a claim that is quite possible the most debunked anti-Trump hoax of all times, the "Trump called nazis fine people hoax".
I did try providing long and well thought arguments a couple of years ago. It can take upwards an hour to d
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I would have said the same with stories promising a Linux kernel update with the next version of Windows to run Linux on the desktop. Or even VS code and .NET core is free and opensource or MS is abandoning IE to use Chrome to promote open standards.
Times are changing and MS is acting not so evil because they are no longer the gatekeeper of technology they once were to set standards.
Looking back after seeing what Apple became once they got power again I am glad Apple didn't win now with the MAC vs DOS Pcs o
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Actually, I think that if OS/2 won, Microsoft would have the monopoly with OS/2 NT, or now OS/2 10
Remember that NT started out as OS/2 V3 NT (or was that OS/2 NT V3) and I have a byte news brief somewhere around here about MS getting the 32 bit Presentation Manager running on NT. They got most of the IP rights in the divorce as well as the rights to version 3+ naming, which is why internally OS/2 was always version 2.x, like here where I'm running version 2.45.
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Being on CNN "is" hiding in plain sight with their numbers.
Re:This is called a non-denial denial (Score:5, Informative)
You have to wonder if the research that found that the mandatory Gates Foundation DTP vaccine called a "Natural Experiment" that caused a 5 fold increase in child mortality over the disease it was meant to treat was considered a success by Bill Gates. Has he lost any sleep over the death his foundation inflected on those families? Probably not. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p [nih.gov]... [nih.gov]
Did you even read your study? It is discussing events that happened 40 years ago, before the Gates Foundation existed.
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No, his thinking is because Gates had nothing to do with vaccines period in the early 1980s, being tied up with writing basic and DOS and Word and not much more, your woo-woo their that they were "his early human experiments" and "mandatory Gates Foundation DTP vacc
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Gates worked with GAVI and WHO on this little "experiment".
No he didn't lol. Someone trolled you by citing that study, don't fall for it again.
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Your own link proves you wrong [nih.gov].
The paper mentions neither Gates nor GAVI nor the WHO. The paper was published in 2017. The vaccination campaign that it analyzes was performed in 1981-85. It's your burden to link Gates to the vaccinations, not mine to disprove it.
Citations missing
Re:This is called a non-denial denial (Score:5, Informative)
You did more than misspeak. According to section 2.4 of the paper that you cite the vaccinations took place between 1981 and 1985. Did Gates fund those vaccinations? Where is your evidence of that?
The paper that you cite was a retrospective computer analysis of those vaccinations, where section 2.5 says
Even accepting everything else that you wrote as true, he funded a computer analysis of the data that took place 30 years later, for publication in 2017.
Because he didn't experiment on Africans to test his vaccine "philanthropy," whether with a "great cost of lives" or not. Bill Gates funded a computer analysis of a prior vaccination campaign. You're equally responsible for linking to the analysis, which is to day, neither of you are responsible for the original vaccinations, you loon.
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You have to wonder if the research that found that the mandatory Gates Foundation DTP vaccine called a "Natural Experiment" that caused a 5 fold increase in child mortality over the disease it was meant to treat was considered a success by Bill Gates. Has he lost any sleep over the death his foundation inflected on those families? Probably not.
Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... [nih.gov]
The Gates Foundation (founded in 1994) mandated the use of the DTP vaccine in Guinea-Bissau in 1981?
Is it still a conspiracy when it's a peer reviewed study?
You tell me.
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You sure you mean CNN? Because I have a very different news broadcaster in front of me when I think along these lines.
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BTW CNN is still a lousy network news source and the numbers seem to be on my side on that.
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The USDoJ found that Microsoft, under Gates' control, abused a monopoly position in the market in just about every way possible, and set computing back possibly as much as a decade by its attacks on Linux, among other acts. Those are ill-gotten goods, and Gates did immense harm in the process. His foundation literally makes investments in industries (and specific businesses) whose outputs kill people, and Gates has profited more from his investments than he ever donated to the foundation. They have not erad
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I get the impression that the Anderson Cooper has a massive chip on his shoulder about people spreading rumors of him being associated with Epstein
Now that's some crazy shit...um...how to put this. Mr Cooper doesn't partake in what Epstein was selling. His tastes are for the other team. He's also a Vanderbilt so I feel like we may have reached peak crazy with Anderson Cooper rumours. I mean, its not even the most obvious way to link him to conspiracy theory bait.