Bill Gates, Superphilanthropist

[Illuminati]

Originally posted by J&#39;Pol+22 November 2003 - 22:04--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (J&#39;Pol @ 22 November 2003 - 22:04)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by j2k4@22 November 2003 - 21:42

Originally posted by J&#39;Pol@22 November 2003 - 14:06
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@22 November 2003 - 18:47
The man&#39;s a legend, why can&#39;t people leave him alone?

How would you be if you had his money?&nbsp; What&#39;s the betting you&#39;d be running around in a Ferrari, Armani suits, gold dripping off you, and giving your cash away the last thing on your mind.

He employs 200 people just to give his money away.&nbsp; They get millions of requests a year.&nbsp; What the fuck does this guy have to do?&nbsp; Who&#39;s paying for millions of African kids to be immunised?&nbsp; Has your fucking country done it? No&#33;

People should grow up, if it wasn&#39;t for this man, half of you probably wouldn&#39;t have a computer now, you wouldn&#39;t be able to afford one.

I agree.

Break out the bottle.

My God (please excuse my gratuitous reference), I never thought I&#39;d see the day when I would agree with Billy_Dean-

To enjoy J&#39;Pol&#39;s blessing as well just makes it all the sweeter.

When I posted my agreement, the board crashed, seriously.

I don&#39;t know if it was just me but the board slowed and then crashed altogether.

It was a few minutes before I could log in again. [/b][/quote]
See? Even the board fainted at the news&#33;

[j2k4]

Originally posted by J&#39;Pol+22 November 2003 - 17:04--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (J&#39;Pol &#064; 22 November 2003 - 17:04)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by j2k4@22 November 2003 - 21:42

Originally posted by J&#39;Pol@22 November 2003 - 14:06
<!--QuoteBegin-Billy_Dean

@22 November 2003 - 18:47
The man&#39;s a legend, why can&#39;t people leave him alone?

How would you be if you had his money? What&#39;s the betting you&#39;d be running around in a Ferrari, Armani suits, gold dripping off you, and giving your cash away the last thing on your mind.

He employs 200 people just to give his money away. They get millions of requests a year. What the fuck does this guy have to do? Who&#39;s paying for millions of African kids to be immunised? Has your fucking country done it? No&#33;

People should grow up, if it wasn&#39;t for this man, half of you probably wouldn&#39;t have a computer now, you wouldn&#39;t be able to afford one.

I agree.

Break out the bottle.

My God (please excuse my gratuitous reference), I never thought I&#39;d see the day when I would agree with Billy_Dean-

To enjoy J&#39;Pol&#39;s blessing as well just makes it all the sweeter.

When I posted my agreement, the board crashed, seriously.

I don&#39;t know if it was just me but the board slowed and then crashed altogether.

It was a few minutes before I could log in again.[/b][/quote]
It was due to my impending invocation of the Lord&#39;s name, no doubt.

So much for the agreement.....

[J'Pol]

j2k4

Spamming using the Lord&#39;s name.

That&#39;s a bit .... I&#39;m not sure what it is, but it is definitely a bit something.

Watch out for

[j2k4]

Originally posted by J&#39;Pol@22 November 2003 - 17:14
j2k4

Spamming using the Lord&#39;s name.

That&#39;s a bit .... I&#39;m not sure what it is, but it is definitely a bit something.

Watch out for

Hooooookay.........

[Alex H]

Good for him&#33; What can you do with &#036;42 billion that you can&#39;t do with &#036;1 billion?

So he&#39;s giving some away now to help people who live in the same world he does, and he&#39;s stashing some away in investments so that his trust fund can keep helping people for maybe hundreds of years.

A true capitalist makes their money and then gives a lot away, realising that they are wealthy and powerful and have a responsibility to the rest of society. Think of all the other great American capitalists. They gave away shitloads too.

[MagicNakor]

You can&#39;t give me &#036;1 billion.

I don&#39;t particularly understand why a lot of people dislike Bill Gates. Leave the monopolizing and anti-trust and all that other crap out of it. The Business Personality and the Real Personality have to be different if you want to be successful. I&#39;ve heard of him donating money to charities and setting up various computer-related programs for the less fortunate for years. It&#39;s not out of character (of what I know) for the man to be giving away vast sums of money.

[HeavyMetalParkingLot]

Originally posted by 3rd gen noob@22 November 2003 - 18:22
i think you&#39;ve missed my point, Billy

i&#39;m disgusted because he&#39;s &#39;only&#39; giving away half of it

he should be giving away more, rather than sitting on £20000000000 and letting it collect interest, when it could be put to better uses

actually, he has promised to give away 95% of his money, not half