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Why do ppl still look up to Bill Gates?


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2020 Apr 5, 3:18pm   4,693 views  75 comments

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From this thread ( https://patrick.net/post/1331233?offset=0#comment-1659562 )

Seriously, I don't get all the adulation.

Certainly, Gates made a lot of money and sure, his first thousand Microsoft employees all became millionaires but that's being a shrewd businessman, making the starting 1K have a full stake in the outcome.

Regardless, I never saw people talk about John D Rockefeller as a genius, tech visionary, nor humanitarian.

In contrast, people are saying that Gates is one of the greatest men, for giving away his wealth for the betterment of humanity but I say, he's just an egotist who's using his foundation as both, a tax sheltered hedge fund (as his billions of dollars of equity then don't go through the probate system), as well as a platform for people to speak highly of him, giving himself a title of nobility of sorts.

The Czar of International Health Care (plus Vaccinations).

----

So what's the Real Politik of William Gates III?

The story of Microsoft is that his mother helped him broker the deal with IBM, which got MS-DOS onto every shipped PC. And MS-DOS, itself, was bought from some Seattle firm for $50K.

Let's contrast that to an actual software (not re-packaging) billionaire, one that I model myself after.

Larry Ellison, clearly a playboy/party animal (and not the stereotype of an engineering nerd), did more programming than Gates, on both the mainframe and minicomputers, during his IT career prior to starting Relational Software (changed to Oracle) and afterwards, up until version 2 where he transitioned into a CEO type, selling his vision while letting others do the work.

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36   Rin   2020 Apr 24, 6:57pm  

Ceffer says
Create the non existent disease, establish draconian policy, and then claim credit for fixing the problem which was non-existent in the first place.


One more time and this is aimed at ppl who defend Gates ... why is it that I have no problems with Larry Ellison?

Is it because he's an honest rich guy? A man who's doing his thing ... crushing IT competitors (in Oracle's space) and enjoying his hobbies?

And he's not some forked tongue do-gooder who's really just pushing for more authoritarianism but against the general populace?
37   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Apr 27, 1:16pm  

Appearing on CNN, Gates gushed that “China did a lot of things right at the beginning,” but added that “Like any country where a virus first shows up, they can look back and see where they missed some things.”

I guess silencing whistleblowers and lying about transmissibility count as “right things” in billionaire Bill’s mind.

When CNN host Fareed Zakaria asked Gates what he thinks about China’s lies, the billionaire dismissed it as “a distraction.”

WATCH:

“How would you respond to the charge that the Chinese covered this up, they essentially deceived the rest of the world, and as a result, they should be held in someway responsible for this?” Zakaria asked Gates.

“Well, I don’t think that’s a timely thing because it doesn’t affect how we act today,” Gates responded.

Summit.news reports: In addition, Gates attacked the US government’s response to the outbreak, saying that “Some countries did respond very quickly and get their testing in place and they avoided the incredible economic pain, and its sad that even the US, that you would have expected to do this well, did it particularly poorly.”

Gates, who stands to profit in the billions, then urged that the only thing on everyone’s minds now should be “to take the great science we have, the fact that we’re in this together, fix testing and treatments and get that vaccine.”

It is obvious that Gates would take this position, given that he basically is the World Health Organisation.

The WHO has faced global shame for parroting the dangerous lies of a tyrannical regime, which is still claiming fewer than 5000 deaths in the whole of China from COVID-19.

Gates’ foundation is now the WHO’s biggest patron, since the US halted all funding to the organisation.

While most expressed disgust at Gates’ comments, China enjoyed the interview, and immediately used it as propaganda:

https://newspunch.com/bill-gates-defends-communist-china-they-did-lot-things-right-us-acted-poorly/
38   Ceffer   2020 Apr 27, 2:38pm  

Gates is a bubble boy corporate psychopath. Couldn't change his stripes if he wanted to.
39   Rin   2020 Apr 27, 3:24pm  

Ceffer says

Gates is a bubble boy corporate psychopath. Couldn't change his stripes if he wanted to


Yep, which is why it's imperative that now that he's no longer in his own Private Idaho (a.k.a Microsoft), that he's criticized left and right since he can't fire the general public.

One more time, Larry Ellison is a cool, corporate shark, billionaire. --- Defects socialism strawman attack

In contrast, Bill Gates is a dickwad.
41   theoakman   2020 May 2, 7:44am  

The Australian news has been a great source for objective reporting. They are openly discussing the WHO and China's role.

www.youtube.com/embed/2WvzHvN6mCM

warning: The guy they interview, Lawrence Gostin is a WHO political hack who is trying to change the narrative on the WHO's culpability. He was on record criticizing the travel bans back in early Feb.
42   theoakman   2020 May 2, 7:45am  

Here is Australia asking for a probe into Wuhan scientists and China responding with boycott threats.

www.youtube.com/embed/pjYsqFpF2qQ
46   Onvacation   2021 Mar 22, 8:06am  

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Is Bill Gates Satan’s Spawn? Or Merely a Geek Gone Mad and Turned Traitor/Murderer?



“Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vac ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control over global health policy—the spear tip of corporate neo-imperialism.

Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems fueled by a messianic conviction that he is ordained to save the world with technology and a god-like willingness to experiment with the lives of lesser humans.


Promising to eradicate Polio with $1.2 billion, Gates took control of India ‘s National Advisory Board (NAB) and mandated 50 polio vaccines (up from 5) to every child before age 5. Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating vaccine-strain polio epidemic that paralyzed 496,000 children between 2000 and 2017. In 2017, the Indian Government dialed back Gates’ vaccine regimen and evicted Gates and his cronies from the NAB. Polio paralysis rates dropped precipitously. In 2017, the World Health Organization reluctantly admitted that the global polio explosion is predominantly vaccine strain, meaning it is coming from Gates’ Vaccine Program. The most frightening epidemics in Congo, the Philippines, and Afghanistan are all linked to Gates’ vaccines. By 2018, ¾ of global polio cases were from Gates’ vaccines.


https://phibetaiota.net/2020/04/robert-f-kennedy-jr-is-bill-gates-satans-spawn-or-merely-a-geek-gone-mad-and-turned-traitor/

This is the man funding the Wuhan experimental biologic agent.
47   Onvacation   2021 Mar 22, 8:22am  

More from same article:

Nelson Mandela’s former Senior Economist, Professor Patrick Bond, describes Gates’ philantropic practises as “ruthless” and immoral”.

In 2010, Gates committed $ 10 billion to the WHO promising to reduce population, in part, through new vaccines. A month later Gates told a Ted Talk that new vaccines “could reduce population”. In 2014, Kenya’s Catholic Doctors Association accused the WHO of chemically sterilizing millions of unwilling Kenyan women with a phony “tetanus” vaccine campaign.

Independent labs found the sterility formula in every vaccine tested.

After denying the charges, WHO finally admitted it had been developing the sterility vaccines for over a decade.

Similar accusations came from Tanzania, Nicaragua, Mexico and the Philippines.

A 2017 study (Morgensen et.Al.2017) showed that WHO’s popular DTP is killing more Africans than the disease it pretends to prevent. Vaccinated girls suffered 10x the death rate of unvaccinated children.

Gates and the WHO refused to recall the lethal vaccine which WHO forces upon millions of African children annually.

Global public health advocates around the world accuse Gates of – hijacking WHO’s agenda away from the projects that are proven to curb infectious diseases; clean water, hygiene, nutrition and economic development.

They say he has diverted agency resources to serve his personal fetish – that good health only comes in a syringe.

In addition to using his philantropy to control WHO, UNICEF, GAVI and PATH, Gates funds private pharmaceutical companies that manifacture vaccines, and a massive network of pharmaceutical -industry front groups that broadcast deceptive propaganda, develop fraudulent studies, conduct surveillance and psychological operations against vaccine hesitancy and use Gates’ power and money to silence dissent and coerce compliance.

In this recent nonstop Pharmedia appearances, Gates appears gleeful that the Covid-19 crisis will give him the opportunity to force his third-world vaccine programs on American children.”

Murderous Bastard!
48   Rin   2021 May 18, 3:04pm  

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-reputation-could-clouded-222800773.html

Yay!!!!!!!!

Bill Gates's reputation as Mr "I'm not like Larry Ellison (who honestly fucks women)" perfect nerdy husband (whose out to solve world health and hunger issues) has been brought down to earth.

Well, it's about time because if it were me, in place of Gates, I would have solved many of world's health problems through nutrition, diet, and exercise.

And yes, I fuck hoes and don't care to marry she-males like Mel French Gates!

Anyone who doesn't like my lifestyle or p.o.v ... see the following jpeg of what I think about you ...

50   KgK one   2021 Jun 26, 9:09am  

His transformation,
can someone add devil st the end to make it fun..
https://youtube.com/shorts/YyBB7nQuWnI?feature=share


I still don't get why it's looked down upon having more than few girlfriends or wives when u r rich. If u hit billion u should be openly allowed to have few gfs. Rest of the world does no issues.
51   SumatraBosch   2021 Jun 26, 9:47am  

His father modeled the license for MS-DOS which fucked IBM really fucking hard.

I wonder if it was Dad Gates that came up with the boot loader restriction - and if it was on the original license deal with IBM.
52   Patrick   2021 Jun 26, 10:16am  

KgK one says
I still don't get why it's looked down upon having more than few girlfriends or wives when u r rich. If u hit billion u should be openly allowed to have few gfs. Rest of the world does no issues.



Wives don't like it, and women have more political power than men do in America now.
53   B.A.C.A.H.   2021 Jun 26, 11:13am  

Rin says
Regardless, I never saw people talk about John D Rockefeller as a genius, tech visionary, nor humanitarian.


None of us here on this blog were present in those days 40 years after Rockefeller began his monopolistic, anti-competitive business practices, to read the contemporaneous headlines. We only have long-retrospective view filtered through the historical legacy narrative.

Rin says
In contrast, people are saying that Gates is one of the greatest men, for giving away his wealth for the betterment of humanity but I say, he's just an egotist who's using his foundation as both, a tax sheltered hedge fund (as his billions of dollars of equity then don't go through the probate system), as well as a platform for people to speak highly of him, giving himself a title of nobility of sorts.


Give it time.


Rin says
To those ppl who've argued against me ... have you noticed that I didn't post any criticism towards Larry Ellison, another software billionaire worth some $58 billion?


Rockefeller was not the only anti-competitive, monopolistic, robber baron of his day. Nor is Gates. I am a lifelong resident of Silicon Valley. I did not ask to come here, nor like so many others who follow this thread did I come here to seek employment in the Gold Rush mentality. I am comfortable living here. I have close family with ties to some of the Silicon Valley robber baron types. They have shared some accounts with me. People I know were hurt by Ellison's anti-competitive steamroller.

It's the brutality of capitalism. It happens. As others said on this thread, not every consequence of these guys' actions has been bad. It's a mixed bag. In all, we're likely better off than if in a Centrally-Planned society like Maoist China or the Soviet Union.

Gates piggybacking off his mom's insider status is an open secret, actually, not really a secret. We all know it.
54   clambo   2021 Jun 26, 11:47am  

The media like him because he's rich.

I always thought he sucked and never listened to him on TV interviews, etc
55   SumatraBosch   2021 Jun 26, 11:49am  

Gates' mom's sleazing and grifting on behalf of her son's cheezy, broken operating system will allow Melinda to retire to Taratupa with her own hockey team to service her on a three-shift basis.
56   AmericanKulak   2021 Jun 26, 11:58am  

SumatraBosch says
Gates' mom's sleazing and grifting on behalf of her son's cheezy, broken operating system will allow Melinda to retire to Taratupa with her own hockey team to service her on a three-shift basis.


Gates' mom is the reason he's rich. She was a corporate lawyer, as was his father, with all the Aerospace/IT companies on the West Coast on Speeddial.

That's why he was given meetings with Xerox, HP, etc. back when any other 19-year old drop out would be given an unpaid internship form and would have been stopped at the security desk. Never would have even made it to the Executive Secretary.
57   Rin   2021 Jun 26, 4:18pm  

B.A.C.A.H. says
People I know were hurt by Ellison's anti-competitive steamroller.


Yes, some even in MA, at Digital Equipment Corp, when I was a kid.

The point isn't that the top dog, whether it's in relational databases/ERPs or desktop operating systems, isn't a shrewd and cunning business person but it's the fact that instead of being seen as one, people actually believe that Gates is a genius humanitarian ... a mix of Doogie Howser's brains & Mother Teresa's charities. In reality, he's none of the above. The only thing him and Paul Allen did was write a basic compiler, BFD! Nearly every comp science major writes some compiler during his studies.

Ellison is exactly what he is in the news ... shrewd, cutthroat, visionary, athletic, party animal, competitor, and a narcissist.

And yes, he was a minicomputer programmer, among his starting three, before becoming a loud mouth and a general 'bad boy' CEO of the Valley.

Instead of the above, Gates bought DOS from another Seattle company & afterwards, basically had his staff reverse engineer the Mac UI to put Windows on top of DOS and won the lawsuit against Jobs by not using any of the actual libraries from the Mac but only 'the features'.

The public image of Bill Gates is a complete sham.
58   Patrick   2021 Jun 26, 4:37pm  

I'd enjoy seeing Larry Ellison vs Bill Gates in a fistfight.

Just because everyone knows who would win.
59   richwicks   2021 Jun 26, 4:43pm  

Rin says
Instead of the above, Gates bought DOS from another Seattle company & afterwards, basically had his staff reverse engineer the Mac UI to put Windows on top of DOS and won the lawsuit against Jobs by not using any of the actual libraries from the Mac but only 'the features'.


I need to correct you one a few things - which you may already know.

The MAC GUI was not created by Apple. It was created by Xerox Parc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H79_kKzmFs

Apple is more famous for appearing to invent things, but I can't think of anything they've actually invented. They're very good at marketing.

Anyhow, Microsoft certainly deserved to win that lawsuit and X11 predated Windows 1.0. Amiga did as well.
60   Booger   2021 Jun 26, 5:35pm  

Even Hitler hates Windows 11
https://youtu.be/qzj6hFk_fgI
61   B.A.C.A.H.   2021 Jun 26, 6:21pm  

Rin says
The public image of Bill Gates is a complete sham.


Like JD Rockefeller back in the day. Give it time.
62   HeadSet   2021 Jun 27, 8:19am  

richwicks says
Anyhow, Microsoft certainly deserved to win that lawsuit and X11 predated Windows 1.0. Amiga did as well.

As did GEOS.
63   RC2006   2021 Jun 27, 10:04am  

HeadSet says
richwicks says
Anyhow, Microsoft certainly deserved to win that lawsuit and X11 predated Windows 1.0. Amiga did as well.

As did GEOS.


GEOS, that was running on my 386 forgot about that one.
64   Onvacation   2021 Jun 27, 12:39pm  

BILL GATES ASKED TRUMP TO NOT INVESTIGATE INTO VACCINE SIDE EFFECTS
65   richwicks   2021 Jun 27, 8:07pm  

HeadSet says
richwicks says
Anyhow, Microsoft certainly deserved to win that lawsuit and X11 predated Windows 1.0. Amiga did as well.

As did GEOS.


Oh yeah! I forgot about Geos. That came out in 1986 (had to look that up).
66   HeadSet   2021 Jun 28, 3:03pm  

RC2006 says
GEOS, that was running on my 386 forgot about that one.

GEOS also ran on a Commodore 64.
67   Rin   2021 Jun 29, 10:25am  

B.A.C.A.H. says
Rin says
The public image of Bill Gates is a complete sham.


Like JD Rockefeller back in the day. Give it time.


Well, here's what I've heard about JDR I, from now a deceased grand uncle ... he was basically a hated man when Standard Oil was the sole producer and distributor of oil, at some 90% of the nation's supply. This was basically the time of the 1890s to the time prior to the Trust busting era of the 1910s.

So as he got into philanthropy, his son, JDR II led that move and thus, created a type of separation between the patriarch and the scion.

Understand this ... the company hired mercenaries to shoot at the miners in a shantytown tent setup in Ludlow Colorado back in 1914 and it was JDR II, who eventually tried to sooth things over, to prevent a massacre like it in the future where American workers and hitmen went at it full throttle.

This is a far cry from William Gates III, who did all his dirty deeds using 3rd world countries as guinea pigs. It's not nearly as explosive nationally, as what JDR I's bad boys did real-time when they were an effective multi-state monopoly.

So for Gates to have a target on his back, all the victims of vaccination need to step up and tell their stories.
68   Rin   2021 Jun 30, 2:55pm  

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-hosted-nude-pool-202524601.html

Excerpt: 'During Microsoft's early days in the late 80's and early 90's, Bill Gates had a propensity for partying, insiders said.

On more than one occasion, during nights he wasn't working his usual 17-hour days, he invited friends and dancers from local all-nude nightclubs to swim naked at his Laurelhurst bachelor pad overlooking Lake Washington, James Wallace, who wrote two biographies on Gates, said.

"Gates himself rounded up the girls and brought them over there," Wallace said. "I don't know if he physically transported them or if he just told them where to show up."

Gates was a regular attendee of exclusive after-parties at major computer expo trade conferences like Comdex and Demo, where Gates was often the keynote speaker. "Bill drank, and he got drunk pretty easily," said Robert X. Cringely, who wrote a popular computer gossip column for InfoWorld around that time.

"All of us will have been at some affair where Bill was clearly impaired. He was happier" drunk, Cringely said.

Gates preferred to keep his romantic options open while he was dating Melinda, and he struggled to commit to her. "Bill wanted to be married, but he didn't know whether he could actually commit to it and have Microsoft," Melinda said of the time they were dating in an interview for the Netflix docuseries "Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates."'

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In other words, Gates was similar to Ellison in terms of partying (sorry, make that attempts at partying) but unlike Larry, he wasn't honest about it and wanted to maintain a faux public image of "Mr Goody-2-Shoes" to fit the narrative of him being a smart humanitarian vs a regular business type with too much money in his hands.
69   AmericanKulak   2021 Jun 30, 5:34pm  

HeadSet says
RC2006 says
GEOS, that was running on my 386 forgot about that one.

GEOS also ran on a Commodore 64.


YEP! And the 1541 was deliberately slowed down to be VIC-20 compatible.
70   Patrick   2021 Jun 30, 5:43pm  

Oh wow, VIC-20. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

71   Ceffer   2021 Jun 30, 5:51pm  

Rin says
In other words, Gates was similar to Ellison in terms of partying


I'm disappointed. I would have thought they would crack open the necks of a few terrified children and drank direct from the spigot while kneeling whores serviced them, the blood pouring over their faces. They are losers as Globalists.
72   Rin   2021 Jun 30, 6:14pm  

Ceffer says
Rin says
In other words, Gates was similar to Ellison in terms of partying


I'm disappointed.


Yes, as a partier, Gates is totally lame against the likes of a Larry Ellison.
73   KgK one   2021 Jul 2, 8:45am  

Bill gates been investing lot on vaccines. I wonder if he will bundle vaccine with MS product like office. Free vaccine with office purchase. Or vice versa.

Once all your files n health are on Microsoft then upgrades , membership, n booster shot will be extra. Wink wink.
74   KgK one   2021 Jul 2, 8:46am  

Anyone got list of vaccine companies he is vested in

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