10-28-2004, 04:59 PM
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Served with Pride
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Look who's having a birthday!
Love him or hate him, today is his birthday. Wonder where we'd be today without his foresight.
http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.asp
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10-28-2004, 05:55 PM
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probly running DOS ver.45 heheh
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10-28-2004, 06:26 PM
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that guy is so dang rich. why cant he share the wealth and gimme some 
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10-28-2004, 06:35 PM
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Shiro Usagi
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I wonder why they have those high resolution pictures of him on that page? Who would want to look at him that closely? He's not what I would call an attractive person.
Cricket
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10-28-2004, 06:53 PM
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49 years old...
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10-28-2004, 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Cricket
I wonder why they have those high resolution pictures of him on that page? Who would want to look at him that closely? He's not what I would call an attractive person.
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I was wondering the exact same thing. I think he'd look better if he wore contacts instead of glasses, but he probably can't afford any......... |
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10-28-2004, 07:19 PM
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i heard that even though hes filthy stinkin' rich....hes a pretty frugal guy. that may explain why he still wears glasses.
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10-28-2004, 07:43 PM
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Shiro Usagi
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Originally Posted by Tin Canary
i heard that even though hes filthy stinkin' rich....hes a pretty frugal guy.
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Frugal? Have you seen his house? Or should I say mansion? It's huge...40,000 square feet under roof and cost over 50 million! And I hear he owns a lot of exotic european supercars too.
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10-28-2004, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by jsawicki
that guy is so dang rich. why cant he share the wealth and gimme some |
Actually, Bill Gates gives away tons of money every year. But he has one main condition, it must be for something that is improving the world. He also contributes a lot of money to scholarship funds to help kids go to college. |
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10-28-2004, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Cricket
Frugal? Have you seen his house? Or should I say mansion? It's huge...40,000 square feet under roof and cost over 50 million! And I hear he owns a lot of exotic european supercars too.
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And he spends mega bucks to landscaping companies every year to keep his yard in tp condition. A guy I know really well, his friend, is a landscaping contractor working for him. |
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10-28-2004, 11:21 PM
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Well, remember that weather you hate him or love him, he did start from scratch - he didn't inherit all this wealth from no skill at all. To simply tell you the truth, I dislike "corporate monopoly" in general, but that's inevitable when it comes to a big company - people start to hate them for being too original. Though I made fun of Gates for a while, I actually revere him as a man who worked hard to get what he earned.
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10-28-2004, 11:44 PM
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If i had that much money i would share the majority of all my money to help charity's and animal shelters. Yeah buying a nice house, cool cars and some fun toys can make ya happy, but all that extra money could do so much good for people. I think i would open up a large factory of some sort, go around San Fran or some city finding homeless people, show em etc, buy them a little house or something and let them work for me to get their lives back together.
Heh i would also wana walk down the street and randomly give away cars to random people, that would be really fun. Or drop 100's on the ground everywhere.
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10-29-2004, 12:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Tin Canary
i heard that even though hes filthy stinkin' rich....hes a pretty frugal guy. that may explain why he still wears glasses.
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The entire reason he's that rich is because he's frugal! It's not too often that rich people are frivilous spenders. My grandfather has a decent penny saved up, but I can't get him to spend a dime on fixing his house! |
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10-29-2004, 12:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Cricket
Frugal? Have you seen his house? Or should I say mansion? It's huge...40,000 square feet under roof and cost over 50 million! And I hear he owns a lot of exotic european supercars too.
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Not sure if he still has it, but the original plans for his "house" included a salmon or trout hatchery (can't remember which).
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10-29-2004, 10:20 AM
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He's rich because he's worked his head off and succeeded.
kram
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10-29-2004, 10:31 AM
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Shiro Usagi
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Originally Posted by kram8806
Well, remember that weather you hate him or love him, he did start from scratch - he didn't inherit all this wealth from no skill at all.
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That's not quite true. Gates and partners bought DOS from another programmer and the idea for Windows came from a Xerox copy machine OS (the Xerox Star) and the Apple Lisa OS. He didn't really "start from scratch."
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Last edited by Cricket; 10-29-2004 at 10:35 AM..
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10-29-2004, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by kram8806
He's rich because he's worked his head off and succeeded.
kram
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I think he failed because his head is still on, but maybe that picture was taken before he did that. When exactly did he do that? |
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