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Bill Gates to Receive Honorary UK Knighthood

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-it-takes-is-to-make-billions-of-dollars dept.

jolyon writes "Yahoo is reporting that Bill Gates will receive his honorary UK knighthood on Wednesday. He doesn't get to call himself 'Sir' though. He becomes a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire."

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  1. Re:Well.... by chris_mahan · · Score: 0, Troll

    If I stole 50 billion dollars from the American Public by lying and cheating and fudding and monopolizing and embrace-and-extending, and then gave 10 billion to starving children in Africa, keeping the rest mind you, would I too be awarded the KBE?

    Microsoft broke the law, Bill Gates profited, and now is being rewarded.

    We're seeing the last thrashing about of British royalty. What's next? The prince with a swastika? Oh, been there done that.

    The French and the American had it right all along: "No King over us!"

    If Gates had any balls he would refuse it on grounds that as an American Citizen, he does not indebt himself to foreign potentates.

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  2. So, what justifies what? by QMO · · Score: 0, Troll

    The question(s) your post suggests to me is:

    Are evil actions justified by doing good ones actions later?
    Is theft OK if I use the stolen money for "good"?
    If I start out good, then become evil, is my earlier good cancelled?

    I would suggest that the good that I do doesn't give me the right to do evil. Nor does evil that I do mean that good acts of mine have no virtue.

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  3. If this were only true... by feloneous+cat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Gates is only in the education field (if you can say he is into anything but cash) because of Apple. He only sees it as a way to hook kids on his products. Its called business.

    Bill and Melinda Gates (remember, it just ain't Bill) are doling out the cash for health and proverty. Oh, and BTW, they ARE taking it off of their taxes as well. Frankly, I think it's Melinda's who in charge of that area. Don't rightly recall ol' Bill doing squat prior to their marriage.

    There are true pioneers in the computing industry and then there are hacks like Gates. You can tell who is a pioneer - they usually are the folks that when they die people go "who are they?". Seldom do they self-aggrandize.

    Gates did little for this industry but teach it how to out-source. Thanks, Gates, you effing jerk.

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