You are right. They get tax breaks for the big donations, but someone who gives money or other gifts that can barely scrape by is giving a lot more. When was the last time a billionaire given away every cent they owned?
Its east to give away $100,000 when its just pocket change. I have given away my last $5 to a friend who needed money to eat when I had no job, and not enough food to feed myself the next day.
If you play with figures long enough, you can make Bill Gates look stingy no matter how much money he gives away. But he is still giving away billions of dollars, and he only has $50 billion to play with.
How noble of you. I'm sure nobody else ever does that.
How much money does he have to give away before it meets your personal definition of meaningful?
On whether you are hated as much as Bill Gates or not, apparently.
It depends on many things.
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I'll add that frequency of opperation will depend on supply voltage. So the difference between running on battery 2.5V and running on AC 5.0 to 3.3V (depending on chipset) will cause the clock to gain or loose time.
Parasitic capacitance also affects opperational frequency. These are tightly controled in a watch, but are of little concern in a PC.
Solution: Get a program called Dimension 4. It runs on startup, syncs your PC clock to an internet time server, then exits. It can work in other modes too.
I don't claim to be "noble", and I know that others have done it, but not enough have done it. I just did what I thought was right, at that time. I've been homeless twice in my life and I know what its like to go days at a time without food.
Note that XP already has provisions for automatic synchronization over the Net.
your begging the old fashioned way and you have internet access? Get with it man, I'm a Technobum. I don't need to deal with the elements. I sit in blogs and virtual street corners, I make twice that.
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whishing it was you don't you? Don't lie. You wish he was your best friend, nieghbor, your clone.....
I've been "homeless" too, and if you go "days without food" you're not begging properly.
Did you know that it's possible to make $10.00-$20.00/hour begging in the streets? It's true, it takes a little bit of experience to get past that false pride, but hey, it's cash! And expecially[SIC] if you're demonstrably a crip, you could probably make better money than I am, who is only an ordinary ugly hairy guy.
And sometimes people give me stuff like a whole baked chicken in a deli box, or 5/8 of a pizza, and more than once, someone has donated some pot. Guess I'm glad I'm not some kind of arrogant republican who's all stuck on keeping up appearances. One time, some guy asked, "What's the money for?" I said, "Drugs and alcohol." He gave me a $20.00 bill.
Life is an adventure. I'm a mad metascientist, and my life is my laboratory. Why the f*ck would I want to try to do the same thing billions and billions of people have done before me, and wind up dead anyway?
Guess I lucked out on the medical side - I'm a Veteran, so I can just trundle on down to Long Beach if I need medical attention. Which I don't need very often, probably because I love myself the way I am. :-)
Good Luck! Rich
None of your business what he gives nor does it matter what you think he 'should'.
And CPM was 'stolen' from Digital Equipment Corp RT-11 right down to pip but if you think MS-DOS looks like CPM then you never used CPM.
On the other hand one wonders how he ran the 'stolen' 8 bit 8080 CMP code on 16 bit processors.
He got rich because instead of bitching about it he went ahead and did it.
Yep.
He should give a goddam sight more than he does. S.O.B. got rich by stealing CP/M and rewriting it slightly and calling it MS-DOS. Daddy was a big time lawyer and mommy was a big s*it in government so, true to the American way, Billy got his own way and became very very rich. If some other poor S.O.B. off the street tried it, they would probably throw him so deep in the slammer they'd have to pump sunshine to him.
I guess *you'll* call that *free* enterprise.
No, no no it's not true. :-)
Well, opinions *are* allowed and no, he got rich because mom and pop made sure things were fast-tracked and I'm not bitching I've got plenty to keep me warm and happy. How about you.
I'll call it envy, thinly disguised.
I never begged. I found odd jobs and paid for my own food. I may have slept in my truck and taken showers at a relatives house, but I was never a bum. They were paid for their kindness by doing repair work on their homes, cars or whatever needed worked on.
Around here that will get you arrested. The homeless live in the Ocala national forest and are treated like trash. A lot of them a re veterans we are trying to help find jobs and get back on their feet but most want nothing to do with anyone outside of their camouflaged camps.
Yes, I have to use a cane, but the only thing I want from that is for people to leave me enough room to walk with it and not for them to blow their horn and scream obscenities when I walk across a marked crossing from the parking lot into a store.
yeah, life is an adventure. With my health i would have never made it into the space program, but I built a lot of communications gear for NASA, including equipment that is in orbit.
I'm a veteran, too. US Army, 26T20 MOS. In fact, I'm on a 100% VA disability now but back in the mid '70s the VA refused to help me, but the "Soldiers and Sailor's Relief Fund" gave me a whole $25 to help pay my bills and told that was all I would ever get from them.
I am on medication for high blood pressure, Diabetes, and severe swelling in my legs. The medication for the Diabetes was doubled six months ago, and a new drug was added last week. The consulting surgeon from Shands Hospital in Gainsville (A large teaching and research hospital across the street from the VA hospital) told me last month that they have decided not to operate on my carpal tunnel because they don't think it will help me. They also recommended against severing the nerves along the outside of my left arm because I would loose almost all feeling in my left arm. The nerve damage causes a constant tingle like a mild electric shock from my little finger up past my elbow. Then there is something wrong with my left leg. It will buckle without warning, so I use a cane most of the time. When I don't, I have to lock my knee and walk that way to keep from falling.
Opinions are like rear ends: everybody's got one. But I didn't say you couldn't have an 'opinion'. I said it was none of your business.
Sure. Go ahead and tell me how "mom and pop" coerced mega-giant IBM into contracting Microsoft for Basic and DOS.
It's precisely what you're doing.
None of your business.
Because you demonstrate the trait even in the denial of it.
don't feel left out, maybe some bum will give you a card. Rich G are you listening? Your 'opinion spouts as envy. Why do you think its bowing , worshiping when someone takes the opposite side and defends someone who isn't around to defend himself? Your opinion is based on 'innuendo and is not thought out very well. And bashing someone without the facts straight is ....well its nonsense.
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