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― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Translation: he relaxes but still gets all the money.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

So he started Microsoft when he was 20? Please don't tell me he was a mega-success at the age of 20.

― Uri Frendimein (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Please don't tell me he was a mega-success at the age of 20.

It didn't hurt that his family was already wealthy. His dad was a well-known Seattle lawyer and his mom was one of the Univ. of Washington regents.

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

yr typical American "riches to even richer" story.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

he's leaving to concentrate on humanitarian work, at least

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

I do give him props for turning to philanthropy, however late in his career.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

"however late in his career."

HES 40-50 SOMETHING ITS NOT LATE IN CAREER JESUS CHRIST

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah he should concentrate on something more important than philanthropy with his money, like selling portable music players.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

gimme a fucking break. He founded Microsoft in 1975, and was making millions through the late 80s (went public in '86, raising $61 million) and on into the 90s. He became the world's first "centibillionaire" in 1999 (that's $100 billion). Gates founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation a year later in 2000, which was 25 YEARS into his career - that's late, in my estimation.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to find him and fuck him up the ass raw (ie. "suprise," no lube).

― Uri Frendimein (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

am I the only person with a calculator here? sorry if I'm not overflowing with sympathy for the richest man on the planet.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

You're the only person who knows enough/cares enough to know enough, I guess. I have a calculator, too, but the last thing I calculated was a percentage of a thing that was basically meaningless to anyone who doesn't know the trivialities of my life.

― Uri Frendimein (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

I do give him props for turning to philanthropy, however late in his career.

Yeah but he did donate a full $50 billion which is pretty significant.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 15 June 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, unlike say the Waltons, who haven't donated squat.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 15 June 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

Gates' dad is also a big proponent of not repealing the inheritance tax. I've heard him on the radio and a couple of talk shows making his points when the GOP was trying to eliminate that tax. It seemed a little suprising to me at the time.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 15 June 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

oh, the Waltons throw a bit of money around, doesn't always turn out the way they expect though...

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 15 June 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

They throw a bit around, but the Walton Family Foundation is under $1 billion in assets, out of a total family net worth of around $90 billion.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 15 June 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

Gates is a big proponent of the inheritance tax himself. Has public plans to donate his entire estate to charity on his death.

I don't get the fuss about him being the richest man in the world, and how its taken too long for him to retire. He made gobs of money through not entirely awful means, and is now likely going to spend a couple decades using that wealth to fix serious humanitarian type problems in a way that few others capable of doing (namely throwing billions of dollars at hard problems). You could do a hell of a lot worse than that...what you you rather, he quit a couple years earlier and cut you a fucking check for some records and a burrito?

― (jacob) (ockle boc), Thursday, 15 June 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

WRF Shakey, do you just blanket-hate everyone who has money???

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

WRF = When Rubbing Funbags

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

jacob otm.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

x-post -- Dangly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

When I'm rubbing funbags, I mostly feel pity for the people who aren't me at that moment, so I kind of see where you're coming from.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

(Sorry, I've been drinking.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

In vino veritas.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

HUSH YOU

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

In beer-o bootyflakes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

DID I STUTTER

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://great-song-stylists-uk.com/Dean%20Martin/Martinandlewis/MandL.jpg

(l.-r.: Dan, me.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

Way to dodge a beating, Strokeface.

(That's a CNN.com reference for those of you at home.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

'OORAH

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

thankyewl+gwehereallweek

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

oh, the Waltons throw a bit of money around,

And this is despite the hardships of the depression.

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Friday, 16 June 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

More interestingly, is Ballmer going to go with Gates? If so, who will take over. Will he or she be worse or better?

I fear for the inevitable "Gates of" puns.

― aDOring NUTbians (donut), Friday, 16 June 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

"funbags" wtf gross (says the gay dude)

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 16 June 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

You have different funbags to suck on.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hasn't he been doing blue-sky rather than "crush them now!" stuff for a few years now?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

THX FOR RUINING FUNBAGS, CHEWSHABADOODYHEAD

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

bags of kiwis

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

BURRITOS ARE HUMAN BATTERIES

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Dan - I don't hate Bill Gates! I'm not in love with him or anything, but I'm not the one threatening to "surprise" ass-rape him. All I said was he came to philanthropy late in his career - which is a fact - and that I respect him for doing so.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

It's not much of a fact; I mean it makes the rather ridiculous (and for all appearances) completely untrue assumption that Gates was not involved in charity work prior to creating his own foundation and doing a mega-massive public donation.

― Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm unaware of any significant philanthropy on Gates' part prior to the Foundation. Can you provide any examples?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.biogs.com/famous/images/gatesbill.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

GEEK!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

is that from when he was arrested for racing his Porsche...?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Shakey, yes, I could, but I'm not going to because I just realized Dan was OTM way upthread. I'm no fan of the dude but you've basically got someone on record as being the most charitable person in the entire history of the world and you're ragging on the supposed "lateness" of his foray? Do scholarships and mass-scale software donations to schools count as philanthropism on his part or on Microsoft's part? Questions, questions.

I mean dude whatevs. When you donate 30% of yr bank account, maybe you can have a point here??

― Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

yr typical American "riches to even richer" story.
-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...), June 15th, 2006 6:10 PM. (Shakey Mo Collier) (link)

Actually, Gate's family's story is a little more interesting than that. Gate's parents weren't born rich. That's why his dad is so supportive of the estate tax. He felt like he got a lot from society that helped him to achieve what he did and that allowed him to support his family and send his kid to Harvard. That seems pretty cool to me.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

That's from when he overclocked his CPU.

AW FUCKIN X-POST

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

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I never said he was a bad person, you guys are all jumpin on me cuz... well I dunno why. cuz yr bored I guess.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

COZ U R STUPID

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Bear in mind that a LOT of the 80s-era Silicon Valley/tech guys didn't donate much of anything until later in their careers. Gates gets singled out because he made the most and is easy to hate, but equal time shit should be given to Ellison, Ballmer, Michael Dell, Bezos

The exceptions that come to mind are Gordon Moore, Wozniak, and Paul Allen

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

JEFF BEZOS HAD MONEY IN THE 80'S????????

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

No US Festival, no credibility.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://dyn.ifilm.com/image/stills/films/resize/istd/2679657.jpg

http://obvi.us/images/bill1.jpg
Hey ladeez in the place, I'm callin' out to ya
There never was a city kid true-ah and blue-ah

http://obvi.us/images/bill2.jpg

http://obvi.us/images/bill3.jpg http://www.kutha.com/weirdscience/pictures/images/tossoff.jpg

http://www.jmusheneaux.com/WINDOWS/GATES/1993g03.jpg

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

hoy coyly he flips his floppies diks at us

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

its only funny if you interleave all the lyrics, like TOMBOT does.

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Shakey, do you know what a backhanded statement is?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

do you know what a patronizing question is?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Into the chasm gaping, "Wheeeee!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

> When you donate 30% of yr bank account, maybe you can have a point here??

i don't think you should look at the percentages but at the absolute total that remains. we'd all quite happily give away 99% of our money if we were still left with a billion dollars afterwards. there is such a thing as too much money.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://obvi.us/images/bill1.jpg

Must... avoid... BLUE SCREEN JOKES

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think you should look at the percentages but at the absolute total that remains

I like that approach. That means Gates will have to give away about 99.9% of his money before I'll be obligated to donate anything!

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

case study of the evolution of american graphic design

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/Old_Microsoft_Logo.gif
(1978)

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~vernal/understand/img/microsoft.jpg

http://ultralight.caltech.edu/web-site/common/logos/logo-microsoft.jpg

http://66.49.231.190/uploaded_images/microsoft_logo-700271.jpg

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

damn hotlink error

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About:_URI_scheme

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1633/oldmicrosoftlogo4om.gif

there we go. 1978.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

I think this debate can be settled in a timely, courteous manner by having Jay Babcock interview Gates in Arthur.

― aDOring NUTbians (donut), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Has no one posted the Gates/Queen Latifah pics yet?

― aDOring NUTbians (donut), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://obvi.us/images/bill2.jpg
http://www.superchicos.net/images/catwomanjulie.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

It's the eyes.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Gates is a big proponent of the inheritance tax himself. Has public plans to donate his entire estate to charity on his death.

His ENTIRE estate??? wifey must be just thrilled at the prospect of being a pauper any day now.

i don't think you should look at the percentages but at the absolute total that remains. we'd all quite happily give away 99% of our money if we were still left with a billion dollars afterwards.

uhh NO.

I think bill looks hot in those desk photos. All eric formanish, no? I also want to see what that flowery shirt hes wearing in the mugshot looks like.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

> uhh NO.

common consensus is that a billion dollars will get you about 100 million a year (EACH YEAR) in interest if invested correctly (10%). is that not enough? i could happily live off the interest of the interest of the interest.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Shakey, I'll stop being patronizing when you stop being disingenuous.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

His ENTIRE estate??? wifey must be just thrilled at the prospect of being a pauper any day now.

wifey was a microsoft project lead, and thus has some dosh of her own.

i believe that bill has stated that each of his kids will get $1M of his cash, no more. Not a bad trust fund to start with.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

but for realz, if i had that much scratch and was gunna give it all away, i'd dress like some sorta victorian willy wonka every single day of the rest of my life and happily triapse around the globe, spreading goodwill, funding, and protein samples everywhere i went. you gotta leave your mark somehow.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

uh, okay...? I've tried to be clear, I would hope you can take my posts at face value. If they're poorly worded or convey a hostility towards Gates that I do not actually posess, then I apologize.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Also, i think that the resentment of gates came more from M$ business practices, not from just his wealth

on the other hand, it's just funny to see him hanging out with fuckin' purple-shaded bono.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Microsoft's predatory business practices are a separate issue from Gates' use of his personal wealth tho.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Even as a MS hater, I really like a few MS products! Mostly SQL Server's admin tools and the snap in admin panel things

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

jeezus... dude seriously needs his trademark since his face went all middle-aged lumpy

(and turnabout is fair play)

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

New Star Trex series:

http://enlaceaguascalientes.com/sitespecifics/imgs/articles/art_400.jpg

Commander Bono, beams down with Ensign O'neil:

http://www.mullings.com/bono-o

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Even as a MS hater, I really like a few MS products! Mostly SQL Server's admin tools and the snap in admin panel things

I liked Word 5.1 and Excel 2(?) for Mac. And IE 5.1 was amazing when it came out, but then stagnated badly. Everything else, grrr.

― stet (stet), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yea, IEMAC 5.1 was amazing

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Captain Gates gets gooped by mysterious alien life form:

http://www.c2000.com/gifs/billgates.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

If hating the uber-rich is wrong, I don't want to be right.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 16 June 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Bill Gates was amusing in that Frasier episode.

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 18 June 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, who cares what someone does? What's IMPORTANT is whether they've got tons of money or not.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 18 June 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

5.1?? WTF are you people talking about?

> uhh NO

-- koogy wonderland (il...) (webmail), Friday 12:25 PM. (koogs) (later)

no, thats not enough. im a firm believer in the theory that you spend what you make ie you make 10,000 a year, you'll spend 10,000; you make 1 billion a year, you'll spend 1 billion.
well, i would anyway.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 19 June 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

You can't buy 1 billion dollars worth of drugs!...and not share.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 June 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

> you make 1 billion a year, you'll spend 1 billion.

but sooner or later you'll run out of countries to buy 8)

i have trouble spending what i'm paid (which is substantially less than $1bn). the yearly interest on $1m is about twice my current salary (but i'm sure i could stretch to it). bill's shares are currently worth about $50bn, 50,000 times as much.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 19 June 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

you arent trying hard enough.

You can't buy 1 billion dollars worth of drugs!...and not share.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...) (webmail), Yesterday 10:09 PM. (Ned) (later)

dude! what are you saying??

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 19 June 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/61/170435203_fe4331b6c9_o.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

i like this run down of events

and this frog putting on airs, linked to in that bit:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/_g/pulp.jpg

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

..except it's a barely informed opinion based on barely informed "research" on Microsoft culture that even the guy or gal at the front desk of any of MS's gazillions can disprove.

I'm not saying the next two years aren't critical for MS. They are. But the chances of the cards falling in the way the link above describes is about as accurate as me describing exactly how, where, and when the next major hurricane is going to affect the U.S...

..which is, um, it's going to strike just south of Brownsville TX as a Level 1, and create flooding issues in Monterrey, Mexico.

There. YOU HEARD IT FROM ME FIRST! I'M SAYING "I TOLD YOU SO" SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO...

― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

now you've gotten the frog putting on airs all upset. I hope you're happy.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

It's a cane toad in disguise.

― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

LICK IT

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAkuJXGldrM

― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 27 March 2021 17:49 (four years ago)

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