What was all that babble about above? I'm sure that the local governments and the schools had a LOT of say in those little experiments you are talking about. I'd bet the idea for the little mini-schools didn't come from anyone at BMGF. You guys are so worried about little things and the fact that someone with a lot of money is giving to people seems to bother you. Why are you so defensive when so many people are getting such a big benefit out of what BMGF has done?
(as an aside to the above aside...who cares if the Mac network is cheaper if someone else is paying the bill? Logically...that's a stupid comment from gryf)
I know how gung-ho you all are about Linux/Unix/Anything-not-Microsoft but come on, I don't see any Linux company building a high school and funding it. Imagine all of the education that they will be getting both in technology and outside of it (i.e. English, History, etc). Who cares if they all grow up to work with Windows machines instead of Linux. Regardless of Microsofts 'reasons' (and I'm sure it isn't just to battle bad press you numbnut) but the benefit to those kids far outweighs any reason that anyone, even LynchMan, could come up with. I say, Go Microsoft! Heck, I wish I'd been able to go to a school like that.
Oh please, everyone that thinks the government wants to spy on everyone all the time is pathetically paranoid. Just because something can be used for something, doesn't mean that it is automatically going to be used to spy on us. Stop looking over your shoulder and move on with your life.
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What was all that babble about above? I'm sure that the local governments and the schools had a LOT of say in those little experiments you are talking about. I'd bet the idea for the little mini-schools didn't come from anyone at BMGF. You guys are so worried about little things and the fact that someone with a lot of money is giving to people seems to bother you. Why are you so defensive when so many people are getting such a big benefit out of what BMGF has done? (as an aside to the above aside...who cares if the Mac network is cheaper if someone else is paying the bill? Logically...that's a stupid comment from gryf)
I know how gung-ho you all are about Linux/Unix/Anything-not-Microsoft but come on, I don't see any Linux company building a high school and funding it. Imagine all of the education that they will be getting both in technology and outside of it (i.e. English, History, etc). Who cares if they all grow up to work with Windows machines instead of Linux. Regardless of Microsofts 'reasons' (and I'm sure it isn't just to battle bad press you numbnut) but the benefit to those kids far outweighs any reason that anyone, even LynchMan, could come up with. I say, Go Microsoft! Heck, I wish I'd been able to go to a school like that.
Oh please, everyone that thinks the government wants to spy on everyone all the time is pathetically paranoid. Just because something can be used for something, doesn't mean that it is automatically going to be used to spy on us. Stop looking over your shoulder and move on with your life.
This also opens up possibilities for payback. You know someone's cell phone number so you load it into your Yahoo! account and sign up for stuff.
This would be especially bad for those that have Nextels and pay $0.10 a piece for every text message they get.
Of course, now that I've said something it's going to happen to me...*sigh*