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    Bill Gates's Childhood Counselor to His Parents: "Give Up"

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    04/30/09

    In reply to Bill Gates's Childhood Counselor to His Parents: "Give Up"
    The same psychologist told Ballmer's parents to "leave town in the middle of the night while he's asleep".
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    04/29/09

    In reply to Bill Gates's Childhood Counselor to His Parents: "Give Up"
    I am glad it all worked out in the end and Bill and his mom have hopefully made peace. Where I come from, though, backtalking to your Mama at 12 years old is considered disrespectful and good way to get your ass (rightfully) kicked.
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    04/29/09

    In reply to Bill Gates's Childhood Counselor to His Parents: "Give Up"
    how come gizmodo's video never works on safari???
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    04/29/09

    @bookmark: Lemme guess, do you have problems with staying logged in? If so, then you're not alone.


    Another question. Is this on a PPC or Intel Mac?

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    04/29/09

    In reply to Bill Gates's Childhood Counselor to His Parents: "Give Up"
    So, I guess a pirate who rapes and pillages then gives away a bunch of his wealth is better than Steve Jobs by that logic. What ever happened to people giving privately without the need for such recognition?


    Hear, Hear! for ill-begotten wealth and the propaganda of public giving!

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    04/29/09

    @Slappy McSlapp: Hey, you'll never get those rape charges to stick buddy. He knows people. Scary people.
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    04/29/09

    In reply to Bill Gates's Childhood Counselor to His Parents: "Give Up"
    Bill Gates = Giving away his fortune through philanthropic causes


    Steve Jobs = Doesn't donate worth shit! He has allowed a mansion he bought become a mess [apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com] In fact I can't seem to track down anything that Steve Jobs has donated to or a charity he himself funds. Seems like Steve is like Scrooge Mc Duck who likes to horde his money.

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    04/29/09

    @Korgoths: While I understand your concerns, I, personally, don't give a shift if some rich dude wants to spread the wealth around or not. So Steve Jobs doesn't give to charity. Big deal. How many people out there, who have money oozing out of every orifice, don't give to charity. I couldn't even guess a ballpark figure, but the way I see it, so long as they're not actually stealing this money from other people, I really couldn't care less.
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    04/29/09

    In reply to Bill Gates's Childhood Counselor to His Parents: "Give Up"
    I can recall quite clearly the time I spent trapped, huddled in gestational limbo within that woman's ovarian Bastille. None of them knew my plants, for they'd surely extinguish my ambitions with heavy doses of sedatives. But one day, they'll all see. The world will know the word 'Zune'!.


    ~Bill Gates Jr. 1956

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    04/29/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: He had plants in there?
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    04/29/09

    @nick800: I just caught that. Bah.
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    04/29/09

    In reply to Bill Gates's Childhood Counselor to His Parents: "Give Up"
    Steve Jobs to Bill Gates: "Give Up"
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    04/29/09

    @ilovexspin: He did. He retired.
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    04/29/09

    @ilovexspin: rick astley to bill gates: "never gonna give you up."
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    04/29/09

    @ilovexspin: Gates' response to Jobs (in extremely poor taste)
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    04/29/09

    @ilovexspin: Yes.


    Because founding a company that currently has over $160 billion in market capitalization that manufacturers, among other things, operating systems that run across a wide variety of equipment in various applications running the gamut from desktop computers to ATMs, and having the dominant office suite in the workplace for over a decade, proves what a miserable failure Bill Gates' software company was.

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    04/29/09

    @ilovexspin: Steve Jobs is great and all, but he's nowhere near Bill Gates, both in terms of money and influence. Apple might have influenced many peoples' lives, but it is scary once you think about how vast Microsoft's tendrils extend around the world. Macs and iPods are still uncommon in most countries other than America. Windows is everywhere. Imagine if Windows had a secret code that shut every computer that it was on today. The world would stop moving.
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    04/29/09

    In reply to Bill Gates's Childhood Counselor to His Parents: "Give Up"
    obviously they put him on focusin.
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Bill Gates Sr. Profile Details Humble Philanthropic Beginnings, Flying Water
    When people get old they start doing nice things because they're trying to get in good with their God before they meet him.


    Bill is no different.

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    04/27/09

    In reply to Bill Gates Sr. Profile Details Humble Philanthropic Beginnings, Flying Water
    Of course you had to get your jabs in, Loftus. Cuz Apple's marketing is much more fair and honest.
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    04/27/09

    @rcast1986:


    you are a moron rcast.


    where in this whole story did loftus talk about apple??


    WHERE??!?!?!?!?!?


    You apple fanboys are so hardcore you just make up shit as you go along to have something to talk about? It's even more out of hand than I thought.


    Grow a brain and try to understand the big picture here. Gates/Microsoft - Amazing humanitarian, creators of revolutionary software that will continue to dominate because they have an amazing product that can't be beat with two monkeys and a white background on television.


    Apple - "Last year the founder of the Stanford Social Innovation Review called Apple one of "America's Least Philanthropic Companies." Jobs had terminated all of Apple's long-standing corporate philanthropy programs within weeks after returning to Apple in 1997, citing the need to cut costs until profitability rebounded. But the programs have never been restored."

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    04/27/09

    @Jonathan Berkasha:


    You are right about MS - Gates/Microsoft are amazing humanitarians, creators of revolutionary software and unprecedented philanthropy.


    However, you are clueless about Apple/Jobs. Understandably, because they go out of their way to keep their philanthropic efforts quiet, even if it means encouraging zealots like yourself.

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    04/26/09

    In reply to Bill Gates Sr. Profile Details Humble Philanthropic Beginnings, Flying Water
    I think Bill Gates Sr looks like one of those old man muppets that sit in that booth. Thats a good thing by the way.
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    04/27/09

    @Paul Beardfacé: Stalter and Waldorf don't appreciate this.
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    04/26/09

    In reply to Bill Gates Sr. Profile Details Humble Philanthropic Beginnings, Flying Water
    Last year the founder of the Stanford Social Innovation Review called Apple one of "America's Least Philanthropic Companies." Jobs had terminated all of Apple's long-standing corporate philanthropy programs within weeks after returning to Apple in 1997, citing the need to cut costs until profitability rebounded. But the programs have never been restored.


    [money.cnn.com]


    [www.tuaw.com]

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    04/27/09

    @Jonathan Berkasha: That's not entirely true.


    I understand they now prefer to do it quietly rather than publicly, regardless of how that might look (or fail to register) in official reviews of do-gooders.

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    04/27/09

    @jepzilla:

    thank you jepzilla, this frigg dude is a moron.


    @frigg: frigg - I'll say it to you again.


    PUBLIC COMPANY.


    If they are going to donate, they are going to do it PUBLICLY for the tax write off. No one is going to avoid the write off so they can seem quiet. Only individuals can do that, no board of directors would EVER EVER EVER approve that - unless they were donating to shady charities.


    get your facts straight. You have the nerve to say "not true" then follow up with, "i heard" you are an absolute monkey moron.

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    04/27/09

    @Jonathan Berkasha: sorry dude. Just because you don't know something doesn't mean it isn't true. If Apple wants to keep it on the DL, who am I to say anything more than "I heard"....
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    04/26/09

    In reply to Bill Gates Sr. Profile Details Humble Philanthropic Beginnings, Flying Water
    Look at how amazing that is, Gates Jr and Sr both philanthropists.


    Steve jobs - NOTHING


    apple as a whole - NOTHING


    30 billion in cash sitting over at apple and they can't give back to the world. Pieces of garbage is what they are.

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    04/27/09

    @Jonathan Berkasha: Not true.


    I've heard they just prefer to do it quietly.

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