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Gates Issues Call For "Creative Capitalism"
theodp writes "Bill Gates makes his case for Creative Capitalism in TIME, citing projects like a Text-Free UI for illiterate computing, the use of Multimouse technology to allow fifty kids to share one computer display, cell phone billing by the second, and Bono's RED campaign as examples of the type of corporate creativity that can make the world a better place for the billion or so people scraping by on less than a dollar a day. Michael Kinsley, a former Microsoft employee whose wife still advises the Gates Foundation, says it's hard to object to Gates' goals, but notes that creative capitalism does have its share of skeptics, and points out that there was not a whole lot of energy devoted to lifting up the world's poor during Bill's three decades at Microsoft."
...Creative Socialism.
More like Creative Communism.
Yes.
Game, set match. I win, you lose.
I just DESTROYED YOU BITCH!!!!!
[Monopolies] make no sense in the realm of Intellectual Property.
Hey, dumbass - "Intellectual Property" *is* a government granted monopoly. It creates artificial scarcity where there is none.
You call this communication? I guess you must either be a politician or one of these ivory tower university types. Just spin everything so that it has no real meaning, and call it communication.
Real communication actually does imply agreement, but as you spin it, agreement does not necessarily imply real communication. Can you see the difference here? It's not the same thing. Or is the artistic component of the language you use interfering with this communication also?
2+2=4, this is a precise communication about which there is agreement by most people. Why because it means pretty much the same thing to most of them. But there can be people who can read the same sentence and have no agreement about what it means. That is why mathematics and not language is the main communication method of scientists and engineers.
Your logic is a bit hard to follow here, you seem to place a lot of importance on language, and then question the value of life? Drugs or what? Simple logic, a 5 year old could understand, "no life no language", artistic or otherwise. So by you circular logic language is also not that important. Adolf your hero, used very articulate and artistic language, to communicate hatred and violence, it appealed to emotions, but not to logic and reason. Is this the erroneous use of language that you are always correcting?