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The Microsoft Millionaires Come of Age
iseff writes "The NYTimes is running a story about the ways in which Microsoft millionaires are putting their money to use. According to the story, there is somewhere around 10,000 Microsoft made millionaires spending money on various pet projects. For example, former programmer Chris Peters bought the PBA (Professional Bowlers Association), while Stephanie DeVaan founded a political action committee and Rich Tong founded Ignition Partners, a VC firm."
Can't we talk about Google instead?
http://www.google.com/search?q=bill+gates+53+milli on+house
The most admirable way Microsoft is giving back: allowing us all to us the digits 1 and 0 royalty-free: http://www.huumor.com/joke_1118
Chris Peters bought the PBA (Professional Bowlers Association), while Stephanie DeVaan founded a political action committee and Rich Tong founded Ignition Partners, a VC firm
Those were the ones that I felt spent their money foolishly. Personally, I planned to make my money really make a difference, so I invested it in RAMBUS's RDRam, SCO's OpenLinux, and those great people at Maui eXtreem that brought us CherryOS, to just name a few. I also have some money in some really rather secret business, but I can tell you this much... apparently a prince somehow somewhere is being locked captive in a sewer ditch, twelve KM outside of Falusia, Iraq, but he managed to get to a terminal somehow, find me, and ask for some assistance. I stand to make millions by helping this individual simply move his money to a safe place. Now that is smart business.
Soon I will be on TV telling Donald Trump, "YOURE FIRED..... NIGGA!"
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
There is around?
It's time for some of the "special ones" responsible for posting the material to step aside. This is getting more than silly.
It's time to clean house and boot the idiots.
It's not fair to those who submit the stories, only to have some moron with special privileges " edit " (mangle) them to make them grammatically incorrect - mostly, because they don't know what they are doing. I have an authoring background worthy of doing this and I'm certain there are others as well.
It's time to put them out to pasture, but not to stud. We don't need those genes to continue.
For example, former programmer Chris Peters bought the PBA (Professional Bowlers Association)... If you can't beat them... just redefine the value of "splits".
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
FTA:
As Mr. Sage put it, "It's like a little bit of Bill Gates came with us when we left."
*holds vomit in*
A current prices a million would buy you, well, about three lattes.
...buying themselves a new soul?
Read it. Its not news. It is a liberal "Ra! Ra!", lets all feel good about being liberal story...but news it is not.
Phredd - "I have found people tend to take you far less seriously once you start waving your genitals at them..."
It's grossly unfair for the top n% of taxpayers to pay >n% of total taxes, and even these flat tax proposals going around don't adequately address this grotesque injustice. I suggest that instead of our current "progressive" system or any of these half-assed flat tax rate schemes, we just charge everyone a flat amount.
Obviously we can't charge children until we get rid of these antiquated child labor laws and make them productive members of society. But given a budget of about $2.5 trillion, that should work out to a ballpark figure of about $10,000 per worker.
Sure, it's a bitter pill for some people to swallow--it's roughly 100% of the gross salary of someone working full time for minimum wage. But hey, if that's not an incentive to work harder and find a better-paying job, then what is?