hey man, Gates is doing a lot more in helping the world than any government in the world through his Bill & Melisa Gates Foundation. Props to him.
Hey man, I know of lots of criminals who ended up making a lot of money through their criminal activities and then ended up "giving back" to the communities, organizations, causes, etc. in order to try and detract from the fact that the money that they were able to obtain, was ill gotten to begin with. You ever here of the mob, mafia, etc? Big givers, and big criminals. Blood money, if you will.
In the case of gates & co. though, its "blood, sweat, and tears of others' innovations money".
Am I downplaying the fact that gates is doing much needed good now because he can?
No.
Am I absolving him of the criminal business activities that he and his company have engaged in for more than a decade [and have subsequently been convicted for three times within the past five years by three countries - U.S. in 2001, European Union in 2004, and South Korea in 2005] and now finance his "philanthropy"?
HELL NO.
Doing good is good.
Being able to do good because you did bad. Not so much.
BenRoethig said:
I hope this is the last one of these adds. The only thing they have done is make the Mac look like a computer for snotty teenagers
This is hilarious. It's just like all the people who said that the '02 "Switch" campaign did nothing and actually made Macs look bad because they come across as not serious computers, or too simple.
Meanwhile, I was posting that it was working and witnessing people switching consistently. I even talk to people today about the fact that I've watched the switcher movement go from the average 2-3 visits for a switcher to switch back in '02-'03, to 1-2 visits back in '04-'05, to the 1st or same visit this year with the switch to Intel, and now switcher apprehension is down to such a minimum that they come in
knowing that their gonna get a Mac because they have they have the safety net of being able to run windows
if they have to.
That's when I drive the last nail into the windows coffin by asking, "What do you need windows for,
other than microsoft Office?".
At the point, 80% of the time [I'm not exaggerating either], people realize they don't need windows at all, just Office.
That's when they walk out with a Mac and Office for Mac, basically waving the finger to windows all together.
That happens on average 2-4x a day, 5 days a week.
