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Bill Gates Is More Admired Than the Pope
walterbyrd writes "Americans admire Bill Gates more than the Pope, the Dalai Lama and even Glenn Beck. The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist was named the fifth most admired man of 2010, according to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll."
I'm assuming most people voted for him because of his philanthropy.
Philanthropy and the fact that Gates didn't run an organization which hid and shuffled its pedophiles around the world.
Trolling is a art,
What a horrible poll.
The sample size quoted was 1019. At 95% confidence level, the simple statistical error is about 3%. That puts basically everyone from 2-9 at the same amount of admiration...
That is why they added a plugin architecture and an app store:
As long as a given saint or ritual has been approved by the Vatican for compatibility with the main codebase, any catholic individual or institution is free to snap it in to his/her/its devotional architecture, with each addition delivering its own fresh and exciting mixture of content, sightseeing destinations, and spiritual services.
(and, in practice, their is fairly broad acceptance of those catholics who, looking for a leaner, less resource-hungry, faith, use 'cLite' or similar tools to strip theoretically-required-but-architecturally-optional modules out of the base install.)
It's not as bad as people make it out to be, watch the video before making a judgement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppDWD3VwxVg Video Bill Gates/mosquitoes @ TED (unedited point segment) ~ 2-4-09
The mosquitoes were a lab strain that hasn't been exposed to malaria in decades. Bill Gates even said during his talk that the mosquitoes weren't carrying it.
Look at copies sold and then think about that.
I think you count on most of those being unfinished doorstops and many of them being unstarted doorstops.
Rand is rabidly anti-religion but you never hear the citizens of Beckistan mention that.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Again, half the crowd on /. likes to intentionally misunderstand in order to karma whore.
To those that really misunderstand: It is a worst case comparison. If you can see why someone as offensive as a drug lord can be adored, then it explains why someone less offensive (yet offensive) like Bill Gates can be adored. You still look at the damage he has done over the years to smaller businesses, which is not trivial.
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