Actually, their average house is over $300,000 and their cars are running fine. It's just they don't LEASE new cars every two years, or buy houses well out of their price range, to make people think they have a lot money.
That's a stock laundering scheme? 3% of it in stocks, and that's a stock scheme? Give me a break. What the forbes article implies is that they have a very low amount of stock. the Gates Foundation held only $728 million of stocks, a mere 3% of its $21.6 billion in net assets (emphasis mine)
The forbes article implies absolutely no wrong-doing. So now I've learned that they have "an investment valued at $226 million (in) Cox Communications" and that the author of the forbes article believes their total stock investment to be lower than expected.
And now we read the excellent business journal DSLReports who we've all come to rely on for hard hitting business news and insight. Like their latest article:
Old Trojan, New Twist Usenet groups flooded with claims of 'Bin Laden' suicide photos
Look for more analysis of evil charities next week!
Here's one for you to chew on: 12.7.1999 The Vaccine Fund $750,000,000 over 5 years to support the immunization of children in 74 countries through the purchase of new vaccines
Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about, which is fine. You could have read a couple of pages from Amazon. The book was the result of (I believe) a 20 year study on millionaires. The whole point is that even they were totally off on what a millionaire in this country truly is.
Bill Gates has given $27 billion to charity you idiot. Soon that will be over $30 billion. And, by the time he dies, he plans on having "only" $3 billion left (with the rest going to charity). There's a lot of reasons to criticize him, but this is absolutely not one of them.
Look, you twitwad, I'd rather tax those who have some capital that can make some gains, or who has a ton of estate to be taxed -- than have them tax me who doesn't have either
Yeah! Let's take from those who have worked hard their whole lives and give it to those that haven't! Why again does the government have a right to tax the same money twice? And of course you'd rather have someone else taxed instead of you. I'd rather pay no taxes, but have all the people in the state of Georgia, who I will never meet, taxed at twice the normal rate!
Let the tax rate on capital gains and dividents soar! I don't pay it. And most people making less than 50K a year don't pay it.
Let's stifle the economy! Most of those "upper class" people actually reinvest the money they earn into the companies they own and run. The stereotype of the lazy millionaire is just as false as any other stereotype. Read The Millionaire Next Door and discover who America's real millionaires are (hint: they're not the people with the $600,000 homes, they don't like caviar, and they'd prefer a bud over champagne). Go to Amazon, you can read a couple of the pages in that book. Now tell me we should be taxing these people more? Give me a break.
Nicholas Carr is just one of those guys who like to pretend they're informed and ahead of the curve when in reality they're just pulling stuff out of their ass. They throw enough shit against the wall and after awhile some of it sticks and then they say "See! I told you so!".
Same thing was Kerry. He voted for Napster before voting against it. He owns an MP3 player, but doesn't have any MP3s. Or maybe he owns some MP3s but he stuffed them down his pants?
To me, and everyone else I've talked to about it, it was clear that the room was noisy and that he was having to shout because of it. I guess you must have heard a different version of the audio that I and everyone else I know heard.
It should be noted that all of the modern cards play the game very well, and benchmark scores should not be the be-all-end-all decision maker. Scores will probably improve somewhat with future driver releases, and other factors like dual slots or dual power connectors can weigh against some of the high end cards.
How much is enough then? We've already doubled it since 1990. Do we need to double it again? How much do you think we need? $1 trillion a year? $2 trillion? Hell, why not $10 trillion? We're getting close to $10,000 per student per year and that is absolutely ridiculous.
So, doubling the money we spend on education over the past 15 years isn't enough? How much do we need?
Education is arguably one of the most, if not the most, important programs in this or any country.
I know you'll disagree, but national defense is number one. It is the most important function of the federal government. Without it you don't have a country.
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thanks! I rule and stuff. Here comes the spam though...
This is K-12 funding. And I was mistaken, we pay the second most. Switzerland is ahead of us.
$10 billion of underfunding makes a difference.
The NEA claims $4.5 billion, and we all know their bias. Federal funding is up over 30% since Bush took office. (and yes, strangely, with that funding comes (get this!) responsibility! It's not just free money anymore!)
Cutting AmeriCorps makes a difference. again, funding of k-12 is what we were talking about
Is there an official length of time for an eon? I know it just means "An indefinitely long period of time" but when it comes to life developing the amount of time available is quite important.
... Eon is a very long period of time. Geologists refer to a Phanerozoic Eon which is about 550 million years long The Archaeon Eon lasted over 2.1 billion years.
or is it:
An eon is the period of time it takes for a universe to come into being and then disintegrate again.
Yeah, that's the problem with a lot of "Dance Music" radio stations, they seem focussed on the dance music you'd hear at your local "16+! No cover, no alcohol, come try and hook up with underage girls, nightclub! "
Wait wait wait a minute, Doom II's sys reqs were: # 486 processor operating at a minimum of 66MHz or any Pentium®/Athlon® processors
Hmmm... my friend had a 486 33mhz setup that played Doom 2 just fine. Over the modem between the two of us it played great. It was just when he jumped on DWANGO that it really slowed everyone down.
Oh how I miss DWANGO. It's strange how few rejects you get in game when they actually have to pay for each minute they play.
People who have those crappy GeForce4 value cards that are actually worse than a GF3 bitching and moaning (while those of us with the GF3 Ti500 laugh at their stupidity)
According to benchmarks that I ran, a Geforce4mx 440 is about equivalent to a Geforce 2 Ultra. They're worthless video cards. Better than stock intel integrated cards, but still just plain worthless for most games.
Essential Mix does have great stuff. Man how I wish there was a radio station that would even slightly cover electronic music where I live... alas there is not.
Job: Linux Favoured genre: Electro Top three bands:
1. The Orb
2. Underworld
3. Kraftwerk
And not to nitpick, but 'Electro' (in the article) is not short for Electronic.
No, it definitely does not. And the confusion becomes greater when in fact The Orb and Underworld are electronica. I wouldn't call them "bands" either. Oh it's all so confusing!:)
Oh... and by the way. "Little Fluffy Clouds" owns us all.
So what's on our lab iPod playlist?
Twine Twine, IDM/ambient. Mr Vegas Pull Up, Dancehall. various Welcome to the D: Electro, Electro. various Lo Fibre Companion, grindy bass ambient from Birmingham, UK.
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Actually, their average house is over $300,000 and their cars are running fine. It's just they don't LEASE new cars every two years, or buy houses well out of their price range, to make people think they have a lot money.
I did, and I replied to it. Stock laundering scheme my ass. This is a stock laundering scheme?
7.15.2004
Research Consortium Receives $44.7 Million Gates Foundation Grant to Evaluate New Strategies to Fight HIV-Related Tuberculosis
Amazing!
That's a stock laundering scheme? 3% of it in stocks, and that's a stock scheme? Give me a break. What the forbes article implies is that they have a very low amount of stock.
the Gates Foundation held only $728 million of stocks, a mere 3% of its $21.6 billion in net assets (emphasis mine)
The forbes article implies absolutely no wrong-doing. So now I've learned that they have "an investment valued at $226 million (in) Cox Communications" and that the author of the forbes article believes their total stock investment to be lower than expected.
And now we read the excellent business journal DSLReports who we've all come to rely on for hard hitting business news and insight. Like their latest article:
Old Trojan, New Twist
Usenet groups flooded with claims of 'Bin Laden' suicide photos
Look for more analysis of evil charities next week!
How about you learn something?
2004 Grants
2003 Grants
2002 Grants
2001 Grants
2000 Grants
1994-1999 Grants
Here's one for you to chew on:
12.7.1999 The Vaccine Fund
$750,000,000 over 5 years to support the immunization of children in 74 countries through the purchase of new vaccines
Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about, which is fine. You could have read a couple of pages from Amazon. The book was the result of (I believe) a 20 year study on millionaires. The whole point is that even they were totally off on what a millionaire in this country truly is.
Bill Gates has given $27 billion to charity you idiot. Soon that will be over $30 billion. And, by the time he dies, he plans on having "only" $3 billion left (with the rest going to charity). There's a lot of reasons to criticize him, but this is absolutely not one of them.
Look, you twitwad, I'd rather tax those who have some capital that can make some gains, or who has a ton of estate to be taxed -- than have them tax me who doesn't have either
Yeah! Let's take from those who have worked hard their whole lives and give it to those that haven't! Why again does the government have a right to tax the same money twice? And of course you'd rather have someone else taxed instead of you. I'd rather pay no taxes, but have all the people in the state of Georgia, who I will never meet, taxed at twice the normal rate!
Let the tax rate on capital gains and dividents soar! I don't pay it. And most people making less than 50K a year don't pay it.
Let's stifle the economy! Most of those "upper class" people actually reinvest the money they earn into the companies they own and run. The stereotype of the lazy millionaire is just as false as any other stereotype. Read The Millionaire Next Door and discover who America's real millionaires are (hint: they're not the people with the $600,000 homes, they don't like caviar, and they'd prefer a bud over champagne). Go to Amazon, you can read a couple of the pages in that book. Now tell me we should be taxing these people more? Give me a break.
Nicholas Carr is just one of those guys who like to pretend they're informed and ahead of the curve when in reality they're just pulling stuff out of their ass. They throw enough shit against the wall and after awhile some of it sticks and then they say "See! I told you so!".
Bill Gates is giving his $3.3 billion to charity, although his yearly dividends will go up quite a bit (up to $578 million)
Same thing was Kerry. He voted for Napster before voting against it. He owns an MP3 player, but doesn't have any MP3s. Or maybe he owns some MP3s but he stuffed them down his pants?
the stuff that grows on your dead body emits co2 as well!
Use your body as fertilizer for trees! Then you'll win!
Excuse me, how is Dean in touch with the lower class?
IT WAS A JOKE, IDIOT.
To me, and everyone else I've talked to about it, it was clear that the room was noisy and that he was having to shout because of it. I guess you must have heard a different version of the audio that I and everyone else I know heard.
don't you remember how the brave Howard Dean lead the lower classes to overthrow the upper class? Just like in the American Revolution!
that yell didn't help matters...
Carmack:
It should be noted that all of the modern cards play the game very well, and benchmark scores should not be the be-all-end-all decision maker. Scores will probably improve somewhat with future driver releases, and other factors like dual slots or dual power connectors can weigh against some of the high end cards.
We don't spend nearly enough on education.
How much is enough then? We've already doubled it since 1990. Do we need to double it again? How much do you think we need? $1 trillion a year? $2 trillion? Hell, why not $10 trillion? We're getting close to $10,000 per student per year and that is absolutely ridiculous.
So, doubling the money we spend on education over the past 15 years isn't enough? How much do we need?
Education is arguably one of the most, if not the most, important programs in this or any country.
I know you'll disagree, but national defense is number one. It is the most important function of the federal government. Without it you don't have a country.
i got it
thanks! I rule and stuff. Here comes the spam though...
I think that's an outrageous claim.
That Bush isn't the problem with our school system? Or that we spend tons of money on our schools?
Since ~1990 school funding is up over 100% nationwide. Has that made the schools better? We spend over $500 billion annually on our K-12 school system.
Cuts in Pell grants make a difference
This is K-12 funding. And I was mistaken, we pay the second most. Switzerland is ahead of us.
$10 billion of underfunding makes a difference.
The NEA claims $4.5 billion, and we all know their bias. Federal funding is up over 30% since Bush took office. (and yes, strangely, with that funding comes (get this!) responsibility! It's not just free money anymore!)
Cutting AmeriCorps makes a difference.
again, funding of k-12 is what we were talking about
Is there an official length of time for an eon? I know it just means "An indefinitely long period of time" but when it comes to life developing the amount of time available is quite important.
... Eon is a very long period of time. Geologists refer to a Phanerozoic Eon which is about 550 million years long
The Archaeon Eon lasted over 2.1 billion years.
or is it:
An eon is the period of time it takes for a universe to come into being and then disintegrate again.
The education system as a whole needs a huge cleansing. We spend more per student than any other country in the world.
Bush, et al, have really nothing to do with the problems in our education system, even though groups like the NEA would like you to believe otherwise.
Yeah, that's the problem with a lot of "Dance Music" radio stations, they seem focussed on the dance music you'd hear at your local "16+! No cover, no alcohol, come try and hook up with underage girls, nightclub! "
Looking at that playlist makes me cringe.
Wait wait wait a minute, Doom II's sys reqs were: /Athlon® processors
# 486 processor operating at a minimum of 66MHz or any Pentium®
Hmmm... my friend had a 486 33mhz setup that played Doom 2 just fine. Over the modem between the two of us it played great. It was just when he jumped on DWANGO that it really slowed everyone down.
Oh how I miss DWANGO. It's strange how few rejects you get in game when they actually have to pay for each minute they play.
People who have those crappy GeForce4 value cards that are actually worse than a GF3 bitching and moaning (while those of us with the GF3 Ti500 laugh at their stupidity)
According to benchmarks that I ran, a Geforce4mx 440 is about equivalent to a Geforce 2 Ultra. They're worthless video cards. Better than stock intel integrated cards, but still just plain worthless for most games.
Essential Mix does have great stuff. Man how I wish there was a radio station that would even slightly cover electronic music where I live... alas there is not.
"I'm here to tear down everything around you."
Job: Linux
:)
Favoured genre: Electro
Top three bands:
1. The Orb
2. Underworld
3. Kraftwerk
And not to nitpick, but 'Electro' (in the article) is not short for Electronic.
No, it definitely does not. And the confusion becomes greater when in fact The Orb and Underworld are electronica. I wouldn't call them "bands" either. Oh it's all so confusing!
Oh... and by the way. "Little Fluffy Clouds" owns us all.
So what's on our lab iPod playlist?
Twine Twine, IDM/ambient.
Mr Vegas Pull Up, Dancehall.
various Welcome to the D: Electro, Electro.
various Lo Fibre Companion, grindy bass ambient from Birmingham, UK.
Might have to check those out.