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It's a fake. See the unnaturally bent arm?

Onvacation says

It's a fake. See the unnaturally bent arm?

The tell is he is acting almost human, but not quite..

Gates is a real shitbag. DR-DOS, Stacker, Spyglass. He ruthlessly stole and ripped off corporations all through the 1990's. He's no humanitarian. I saw company after company destroyed by him. Microsoft is a radioactive company filled with viscous lawyers and people with no moral sensibilities at all. The crap they did, just a ruthlessly immoral corporation.

"It's not finished until Notes is broke".

Bill Gates talking about the latest DOS release and one of Microsoft's biggest rivals Lotus Software. I used to install Lotus Notes when I was a technician back in the mid nineties. We had to run a page long script in order for it to work after the install. Microsoft had a bad habit of releasing inaccurate API's with wrong and missing functions.

Onvacation says

"It's not finished until Notes is broke".

Bill Gates talking about the latest DOS release and one of Microsoft's biggest rivals Lotus Software. I used to install Lotus Notes when I was a technician back in the mid nineties. We had to run a page long script in order for it to work after the install. Microsoft had a bad habit of releasing inaccurate API's with wrong and missing functions.

I remember Lotus AmiPro as being an excellent word processor that was superior to Word or WordPerfect. AmiPro did not use the registry, you could install it by dragging a file as if it were a DOS program or a modern portable app. It ran like a Windows program though, including mapped drives and the Windows print manager.

HeadSet says

I remember Lotus AmiPro

I remember rich text format (.rtf) was supposed to be platform independent. When you created an rtf document in Amipro and then opened it up in Word the formatting would be so screwed up that you might as well start over.

AmiPro also was easy to make documents with pictures, diagrams, and complex arrangements. In contrast to Word even today, if you so much as resize a picture it will scramble the formatting for the whole Word document.

Anyone remember Winfax pro? It's still around but it used to be everywhere.

For you youngsters, there used to be this thing called a "facsimile machine" that would scan, send, and print documents over the phone lines. For you really young people, we used to talk on phones that were always connected to the wall, not just when charging.

WIn95 came out with a built in Fax program. It didn't have as many features as Winfax, but it was "free" and many businesses did not see the need to upgrade. Winfax'es market share crashed,

Onvacation says

Anyone remember Winfax pro? It's still around but it used to be everywhere.

For you youngsters, there used to be this thing called a "facsimile machine" that would scan, send, and print documents over the phone lines. For you really young people, we used to talk on phones that were always connected to the wall, not just when charging.

WIn95 came out with a built in Fax program. It didn't have as many features as Winfax, but it was "free" and many businesses did not see the need to upgrade. Winfax'es market share crashed,

Fax is still very much alive in all sorts of financial and bureaucracy dealings.

mell says

Fax is still very much alive in all sorts of financial and bureaucracy dealings.

I was in commercial real estate in the 90s. We were talking about the "21st Century Paperless Office". I guess it hasn't happened?

Did Bill Gates ‘Admit’ Vaccinations Are Designed So Governments Can ‘Depopulate’ the World?

The computer magnate believes that vaccines can be used to reduce childhood mortality and ultimately reduce population growth through associated social changes, not as an agent of death.

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Bill Gates has openly admitted that vaccinations are designed so that governments can depopulate the world.
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On 21 January 2016, dubious news and conspiracy theory site Your News Wire (now NewsPunch) published an article with the headline “Bill Gates Admits ‘Vaccines Are Best Way to Depopulate’”. The article opened with a damning assertion: “Bill Gates has openly admitted that vaccinations are designed so that governments can depopulate the world.”

To support this claim, the site presented a February 2011 video clip of Bill Gates being interviewed by CNN’s Sanjay Gupta about his foundation’s vaccination efforts:

Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Ten billion dollars over the next 10 years to make it “the year of the vaccines.” What does that mean exactly?

Bill Gates: Over this decade, we believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them … We only need about six or seven more — and then you would have all the tools to reduce childhood death, reduce population growth, and everything — the stability, the environment — benefits from that.

To make sure the point was not lost on the reader, Your News Wire repeated the “reduce population growth” emphasized above numerous times at a variety of different playback speeds, as if to suggest this were a slip of the tongue revealing some nefarious secret. This narrative was reinforced with another video that opens with this text

Next are two short excerpts from a recently filmed TED presentation (Feb 2010) by none other than Bill “Microsoft” Gates … As Gates casually addresses the issue [of reducing carbon emissions], he goes on to state that one way to accomplish this goal is to reduce the global human population.

In the first clip you will hear him state in plain language that he considers VACCINES to be desirable to that end. You will also casually hear him promoting HEALTH CARE and REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES, to accomplish that same goal.

In the second excerpt you will hear Gates again confirming his profound affection for vaccines

The damming moment, according to Your News Wire was the following statement from Gates: “First, we’ve got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent …”

The suggestion, hinted at by both of these clips and argued later in the article, was that Gates knows vaccines are dangerous — and he is using this information to kill children in the developing world to stem population growth. In reality, however, Gates’ statements regarding vaccines and population growth were neither an accidental slip nor a nefarious admission of plans for a new world order.

As discussed in a 21 November 2011 Forbes cover story profiling the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, reducing population growth has always been integral to their stated mission of “improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty”:

In 1997, when he and Melinda first ventured into public health … they focused on birth control, funding a Johns Hopkins effort to use computers to help women in the developing world learn about contraception. The logic was crisp and Bill Gates-friendly. Health = resources ÷ people. And since resources, as Gates noted, are relatively fixed, the answer lay in population control.

As further discussed in this piece, Gates later came to the conclusion that birth control was not the best approach to achieve the goal of slower population growth, instead realizing that — counterintuitively — a reduction in childhood mortality was the best way to limit population growth:

In society after society, he saw, when the mortality rate falls—specifically, below 10 deaths per 1,000 people—the birth rate follows, and population growth stabilizes. “It goes against common sense,” Gates says. Most parents don’t choose to have eight children because they want to have big families, it turns out, but because they know many of their children will die.

“If a mother and father know their child is going to live to adulthood, they start to naturally reduce their population size,” says Melinda.

This is a point Gates has made repeatedly, and his views were clearly articulated in the 2009 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Annual Letter:

A surprising but critical fact we learned was that reducing the number of deaths actually reduces population growth … Contrary to the Malthusian view that population will grow to the limit of however many kids can be fed, in fact parents choose to have enough kids to give them a high chance that several will survive to support them as they grow old. As the number of kids who survive to adulthood goes up, parents can achieve this goal without having as many children.

In other words, Gates is not interested in using vaccines to reduce the population by using them as an agent of death or a tool to sterilize unsuspecting masses. Rather, Gates is interested in keeping more children alive in order to reduce the need for parents to have more children, thus limiting the overall population growth rate.

As evidenced in a 2014 paper published in Science that attempted to calculate future population growth, not everyone is convinced childhood mortality is the smoking gun to quell population growth:

Among the most robust empirical findings in the literature on fertility transitions are that higher contraceptive use and higher female education are associated with faster fertility decline. These suggest that the projected rapid population growth could be moderated by greater investments in family planning programs to satisfy the unmet need for contraception and in girls’ education.

But Gates’ view on childhood mortality contribution to population growth is increasingly discussed in the scientific literature and is still subject to debate. What is not up to debate are the intentions of the Bill and Melinda Gate’s Foundation with regard to vaccines and population growth, as articulated by Bill and Melinda Gates in their Foundation’s 2017 Annual Letter:

Melinda: Saving children’s lives is the goal that launched our global work. It’s an end in itself. But then we learned it has all these other benefits as well. If parents believe their children will survive — and if they have the power to time and space their pregnancies — they choose to have fewer children.

Bill: When a mother can choose how many children to have, her children are healthier, they’re better nourished, their mental capacities are higher — and parents have more time and money to spend on each child’s health and schooling. That’s how families and countries get out of poverty. This link between saving lives, a lower birthrate, and ending poverty was the most important early lesson Melinda and I learned about global health.

This is obviously a far cry from, as Your News Wire.com put it, having Bill Gates tell us “how we must all consent to a ‘kill the humans’ strategy, to ‘save the planet’ from the carbon dioxide we make.”

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-gates-vaccinations-depopulation/

So Bill doesn't want to kill kids.

GENEVA – In a major development, the World Health Organization (WHO) is finally admitting that the vaccines pushed by the likes of oligarch Bill Gates and similar globalist technocrats have caused a polio outbreak in Sudan.

As a result, this polio outbreak is now spreading outside of Sudan to neighboring countries.

In the confession, they say that several children – one from South Darfur and another from Gedarif – had already been paralyzed as a result of being administered the oral polio vaccine. The outbreak reportedly is spreading to Chad and Cameroon now.

“Sequencing of viruses isolated in Sudan so far reflects that the viruses are related with viruses reported earlier in neighboring Chad from where there were multiple separate introductions into Sudan from Chad. There is local circulation in Sudan and continued sharing of transmission with Chad,” the WHO wrote in their official statement.

It was the same WHO which just last week was boasting about eradicating the wild polio virus from the African continent. But in their latest confession, they concluded that their own vaccines are responsible for the rapid spread of the virus throughout Africa.

https://fort-russ.com/2020/09/major-who-admits-gates-backed-vaccine-caused-recent-polio-outbreak-in-africa/

Maybe Bill accidentally kills kids.

I think I am suffering from confirmation bias. I think Bill Gates is a lying cheating murdering oligarchical eugenicist probably backed from day one by the intelligence media political military industrial complex and that's all I find on the internet.

But I'm just a conspiracy theorist.

HeadSet says

AmiPro also was easy to make documents with pictures, diagrams, and complex arrangements. In contrast to Word even today, if you so much as resize a picture it will scramble the formatting for the whole Word document.

Use Libre Office, formally Open Office.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

This was created PRECISELY because of MS' fuckery. It's as goddamned easy to use as MS Office, but still, you have dummy organizations that use MS Office. Any individual that I can (rarely) convince to try it is always like "this is great! I wish I knew about it before!". It's an entirely adequate replacement although I've heard some complained (a decade ago) that the spreadsheet wasn't all that.

It's perfectly fine for me.

It's also GPL, on every platform, and is (reasonably) compatible with MS Office, although MS does everything they can to break it. People are stupid to continue to use MS products, companies are stupid to use it.

I have a full anti-Bill Gates thread ...

https://patrick.net/post/1331248/2020-04-05-why-do-ppl-still-look-up-to-bill-gates

where I use Oracle's Larry Ellison as his counterpoint, since Larry's also a ruthless IT Billionaire CEO but at the same time, doesn't play with ppl's health and actually knows about technologies than in simply making WinXP APIs to slow down his competitors' code base.

richwicks says

Use Libre Office, formally Open Office.

I have been using LibreOffice for years. A couple years ago, I had all the computers at the company using it, but too many complained they wanted Office. Not because Office was better, but likely because they could put "Microsoft Office experience" on the resume. I have found no problems with the spreadsheet OpenOffice Calc. In fact, it can handle much large files than Excel can. I had to open a legacy dBase3 file that turned out to be too large for Excel, so Excel truncated most of it. Calc was able to handle the entire dBase file.

HeadSet says

Not because Office was better, but likely because they could put "Microsoft Office experience" on the resume.

???

Since when is that something that you list on a resume???

Booger says

HeadSet says

Not because Office was better, but likely because they could put "Microsoft Office experience" on the resume.

???

Since when is that something that you list on a resume???

Accounting clerks, office assistants, and temp agency employees put Microsoft Office experience on the resume.

HeadSet says

Not because Office was better, but likely because they could put "Microsoft Office experience" on the resume.

I would have said "really? You require MS Office to work here? BTW - you should update your resume real soon.."

I would have allowed them to use MS Office, if they purchased it themselves, and first imported the documents they created into LibreOffice before they distributed it. There - tada! They have work experience with MS Office.

MS Office is quite good at reading LibreOffice files - not so good at writing them.