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Gates to join Simonyi in Space?
gadgetopia writes "On Russian state television, cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin tells journalists in a live video interview from the ISS that "Charles said that Bill Gates is also preparing to visit space"." Gotta wonder what that insurance premium is going to look like.
Even bad html in article summaries gets to the main page. I'm not sure how you managed to miss that Taco.
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and for some reason /. removes square brackets when they are on their own for no reason as well... tut.
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gadgetopia writes "On Russian state television, cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin tells journalists in a live video interview from the ISS that "Charles said that a href="http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11258
You expect me to copy and paste the link? You expect me to fix your broken post. Sorry I'm too lazy.
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Demented But Determined.
Can we tag this article "metoo"?
They aren't funny anymore. Really.
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Judas priest...this post and all the replies should be labeled troll and deleted. It's obvious it's simply there to elicit a response from all the fanboi Gates/Windows haters out there - just have to jump on the wagon to be with the cool crowd on here.
And folks, people with the kind of money Gates have do not normally carry life insurance - they are what's called self-insured - there's no earthly reason for him to pay any kind of premium when he could simply put away whatever amount he wanted to carry on his life into some other kind of investment vehicle (that also pays on his death) - he would be making money instead of paying it. (Don't even get me started on the whole 'but insurance is an investment vehicle' thing...)
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Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
I don't want to sound bitter or anything, but I am deeply annoyed by Bill Gates and other Microsoft Millionaires. I mean, he is rich and everything, but let's not forget how he came about all that moolah. His company's illegal monopolistic business strategy of killing any and all competition in the Operating System marketplace, thus forcing consumers and the U.S. government to use an overpriced, inferior product channeled literally billions of dollars into his pockets over the last 20 years. We (you, me, and millions of other PC users and taxpayers) are funding Simonyi's and Gates' luxurious and extravagant lifestyles. Let's not lose sight of that...
Some will argue that Gates' philanthropic efforts balance out his company's illegal tactics... My counter-argument is that no matter how you spend money you acquired illegally, it is still stolen money. And how come they keep donating PCs running Vista to those poor elementary schools in developing countries ? Methinks some corporate strategist wants to get vendor-lock-in (MS Office proprietary document format) at 8, 9, 10 years old. Just like the tobacco companies -- hook 'em while they're young.
God only knows how many people are now paying twice or three times for a single copy of Winblows, due to the new Winblows Genuine Advantage and Business Software Alliance scare tactics.
I propose a lifetime per-person Net Worth cap of 10 Billion Dollars in the United States. Furthermore, Gates should return the money he illegally got using price-gouging tactics by refunding all customers the difference between monopoly and non-monopoly price. Finally, the government should pass legislation mandating that tech companies can only make CASH donations, not donations of their own product, to avoid creating artificial demand for their products and services due to vendor-lock-in. They take all kind of business-tax-write-offs on that donated technology anyway. So let's see how truly altruistic they are.
Anyway my point is, I read these articles about "ooh Ballmer has a big a$$ yacht and wow Gates donated Billions and OMG Simonyi is blasting off to Jupiter" and I think, well guess what if you had a Bujillion Dollars you would be doing crazy sh1t too !
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That was milk-out-of-nose funny. Are there any nappy-headed hos in the ISS?
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Yes, the billionaire is clearly a moron.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Wow. Anger management issues?
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