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HOWTO: Spend A Billion Dollars
shine-shine writes: "Forbes is running an article helping you figure out how to spend that spare billion you got laying around (don't you just hate when that happens?). Apparently, a geek would buy 500 black-market clones of himself, while the narcissist would most likely build "a monument similar in size and scale to Mount Rushmore, featuring his own face.""
Where are the people like me who would buy cherished works of art, and toss them in fire, just for kicks?
Goodbye Mona Lisa! Won't have to hear about you again!
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
Bill Gates doesn't give a $*!# about anyone but himself -- he's the sort who believes that anyone who doesn't have enough money to survive should die of natural selection. Donating a billion dollars is "the cost of doing business" when you have as much money as he has. It's PR.
Putting Windows-equipped computers in libraries is an intangibly-profitable business move. By increasing the number of environments in which people use Windows, he conditions people to use Windows. It's also an endorsement. They'll assume that if Windows is good enough for the library, it's good enough for them. So when they're buying a computer of their own or talking to someone who is about to buy a computer (for more people get their news/information via word of mouth than via news outlets), Windows will be the obvious choice. Or when their schools or businesses try to switch to Linux or Macintosh, the ignorant morons will complain: "We want Windows."Go back to Redmond, astroturfer.
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