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Ahhhh I C now where its coming from...... and here I thought it actually had something to do with money and Bill Gates........

Awwww, please don't practice your dime store psychology on me? I know Bill Gates is much much smarter than I am, no question about it. I didn't say he wasn't. I merely said he was a thief with accomplices before and after the fact. Why do you have to make it complicated? :-)

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OH ok judge jury and executioner mike a terrel......... live with them, THEN talk about what you have learned. How they got there, who put them there, and why can't the richest nation in the world take some interest in them.........until then STFU.............

Never said it was my business, just stated an opinion.

It's available everywhere. Find it yourself and post if you desire.

Did, didn't, did, didn't. There's a stupid argument that could go on all day.

True statement that.

Damn, snotty little soul aren't you?

Inferred.

Nope, just useless.

Non sequitur. I wasn't discussing the matter nor comparing the individual to anyone else. Just making a statement.

Jeeze, another would be amateur psychologist. Lawd hep us!!

Beggars and bums are not synonymous. There are situations and times in which some people may be temporarily reduced to begging without this necessarily reflecting upon their habitual industry. It is true that someone who chooses voluntarily to make a career of begging over the long term may be somewhat of a bum, particularly in developed countries where so many other options exist.

Yours must be a very cruel society.

Many people refuse to believe that anyone could become more successful than themselves through purely legitimate means because it implies that these such a person might be smarter than they are, and they cannot accept this possibility.

I find it mildly amusing when some people hang out in these NGs simply to show off their vocabularies and to instigate arguments??

I find that most folks like the BGs of the world, you know, the Rockefellers and such... Their money always seems to become more respectable, the older it gets.

As for me, just a point of view and that's about as simple as it gets. If you feel you have to jump to the defense of these poor helpless folks, then go for it. Shrug.

Defend as much as you wish, go to war for them, bow and pray to them, so what. It still boils down to opinion and all the arguing in the world isn't going to change that.

When it comes to folks like them, you would like to be able to kiss ass, I'd like to be able to kick ass. See, just a different point of view. Get over it.

So, further response on this one would seem unnecessary on my part.

Have a good day, maybe Bill will send you a Christmas card. Postage due. :-)

Ah well it's criticism based on many writings and rulings (I suppose) by "experts". He's ended up in court in the US (antitrust, guilty) and in Europe (antitrust, guilty) fined 32 million by South Korea's FTC (Fair Trade Commission, guilty)

Yeah, self made man, always by the book, never stiffed anyone.

Typical US mentality. Money first then trickle down to all the other mundane stuff kicking and screaming all the way. Gimme a break.

Willey was lucky (and smart). He grabbed CP/M before the market conditions were what they are today. had he pulled something like that in recent times, he'd have been in a courtroom so fast he woulda been sucked out of his socks.

:-) As you wish.

If the shoe fits?????

I don't recall mentioning you. Hmm.

Do you find "dime-store" psychology to be complicated?

Bill Gates is no more a thief than any other corporate CEO. He happens to be the founder of a very successful company, and the founders of successful companies are routinely demonized, typically without any rational basis for doing so.

That's the way it is chief. There are loads of people out there who can fix all the world's problems from their armchairs but when it comes down to the crunch, haven't got a practical thought to bless themselves with.

Tons of armchair environmentalists out there as well, most of whom have never planted a tree in their friggin' lives much less saved one. They got the answers though. just ask 'em.

The only people I have seen begging fit Rich's description of alcoholics wanting booze. I've seen them with "Will work for food signs" and they got pissed when someone stopped and gave them food instead of money.

Gee, its easy for you to judge others. Its a warm climate and these people hive migrated here from all over the country. Some have mental problems, others are thieves. They make no attempt to fit in with people outside their small groups, and most encounters are when they are stealing something. How do you expect people to think of them? They have been offered help, food and clothing along with a place to shower for free. Their reaction was to start more trouble. Some have been arrested a number of times.

Those of us who were there are not deceived by revisionist histories. In those days, it was big bad IBM versus tiny helpless Microsoft, not the other way around. Microsoft didn't (and couldn't) twist IBM's arm.

Are you asking or asserting?

Some people have naturally rich vocabularies. The fact that they use them doesn't mean that they are showing off, although it might seem that way to people with more limited vocabularies.

No, he would not. Nothing has really changed in that respect. He didn't really "pull" anything to begin with, and the consequences of what he did or did not do would not be different today.

Not easy enough that I can arrest them for begging without feeling a pang of conscience.