MS Promotion Site Flagged By MS Anti-Phishing

Stony Stevenson writes "Microsoft has launched a marketing campaign that lets any student at an Australian university buy the Ultimate edition of Office 2007, usual price $1,150, for only $75 — a discount of about 93%. But when students go to the promotion site, Microsoft Live OneCare pops up a warning that the site may be a phishing scam. The warning reads: 'Phishing filter has determined this might be a phishing website. We recommend that you do not give any of your information to such websites. Phishing websites impersonate trustworthy websites for the purpose of obtaining your personal or financial information.'"

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The fact is he's given more money to philanthropic endeavours than any other person. Ever.

Ever heard of inflation?

I saw this guy the other day give $20 to a homeless person. I went over to him and said "Hey you fuck, you earn over $50k a year and I just saw you give ONLY $20 to that hungry guy? You tight asshole!". Then I punched him in the face and took his wallet. Because we need less assholes like that.

Perhaps you should try to understand what was said. The issue is that while a person with $40+ billion gives away $1 billion, they're still left with $39+ billion. The person with $50k who gives away $20 is left with $50k minus $20. Now, would you rather have $39+ billion or $50k minus $20? Which person has less?

It's almost always good to give to charity, whatever the amount. But at least at this time, Bill hasn't given substantially of himself. Even if his plan to give away all his money before he dies holds true, he'll have lived 20+ years in a million dollar house. So, it's hard to act like whatever he does is something substantial. Hell, how much money goes into charities and research from the US government (ie, taxpayers)?

Going by your stats Bill Gates has given to charity around 50% of the money he's EARNED. What proportion of the money YOU have EARNED have you given to charity?

Some people believe that everything is relative. If that were the case, Bill would have to pay $800,000 for a candy bar that a person who made $50,000 would only have to pay $1. Perhaps talking about proportions isn't exactly an exactly fair metric given it doesn't apply everywhere.