Bill Gates & the downfall of the US
I read a speech made to a high school credited to Bill Gates: "Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to
it!" It is so easy to espouse such edicts, dictators and tyrants have told their ‘subjects’ much the same thing for years.
It is no coincidence that the guy on the other end, some 99% of the people that do the actual work have never said, "yeah, my life is tough but I'll get used to it." I don't begrudge the man because he had some good luck and the foresight to follow up on a great situation. But think about this. Not only did he take advantage a situation, he did (and does) everything in his power to Monopolize the market and he does so to this very day.
Bill Clinton had the federal government pressing a anti-trust case against Gates and Microsoft for being a Monopoly and the case had gone far enough for them to admit they did have special code in their operating systems to favor 'their' products. Microsoft/Gates made a donation to the Republicans and when the Bush administration came along they called off the law suit. Coincidence you think? Now, since the admission of wrong doing was done in court under some sort of legal status when the suit was called off, the admission is not valid in any other legal proceedings, hence Bill Gates is getting away with monopolizing the computer industry. So when you; 'got it all,' it is real easy to be smug and say, "life isn't fair." The richest man in the world shouldn't be saying "life isn't fair," a person such as Gates shouldn't be telling someone less fortunate life is tough and it is too bad he doesn't have enough money to eat. The list of things that Microsoft does that are anti-competitive in just this one program is to long to list here, and that is not the point of this message. He is and they are, is all you need to know.
In the late 1800's the United States government took the DuPont corporation to court for having a monopoly of the explosives market, Dupont had over 70% of the market. DuPont was forced to diverse almost half of it's explosives holdings to settle the dispute. In the 1960's the government sued Xerox for having a monopoly of the copier market, roughly 80%, and it too, was forced to open its copy technology to the world. In the 70's AT&T having approximately 90% of the communications market, was forced to release its grip on the communications market. Microsoft has over 95% of the internet market yet when the Bush administration came in to office, the suit against Microsoft was called off despite their admission of guilt. Atta-boy, their Bush! Gates has made over 50 billion dollars and has essentially given peanuts back. e.g. for every $100 he has made, he has given back pennies and by far the majority of the money he has given back, has gone to other countries. Yeah, he is a real generous SOB. What he has spent it on has been "feel good, look good" stuff in my opinion. What you and I do to help our fellow man is just that, we give to charity, and/or help someone out of a tough spot, if we can. Bill Gates does pretty much the same thing but here is the difference. You or I might give one or two or five or ten percent of our income to help someone or at least try to help others out. Gates gives one-hundred-million to somebody and that sounds like a lot of money but it is 0.002% of fifty Billion. Besides, once you have a billion dollars, just how much more do you need, and Gates is trying hard to increase his wealth. It is giving what you are able rather than the quantity that matters. Gates is in a position to make some fundamental changes in the world, changes that would help all humanity for all time. Instead, Gates is doing one hundred times no a thousand times less, relative to income, relative to ability. Feeding the hungry is great, but they will be hungry tomorrow still, nothing gets fixed. You can even find a cure for a disease but there will still be another one. Do you see what I'm getting at? Bill Gates isn't fixing anything, he is still doing little things. He just does eye-wash, things that make him look good. He is working on his image, sprinklings a few thousandths of his income around to look good. Bill Gates could literally give away a million no 10 million dollars easier than I could a dollar. A person in his position should take on a problem relative to his ability and forget the eye-wash shit. I believe history will show that Bill Gates what he really is, a greedy little man. I know a little bit about computers but I have been unable to turn off the "Windows Update" function on my computer or Microsoft's gateway to your info. I have tried to "not" turn it on, but failed. Microsoft gets away with it because it seems a normal thing to do, keep the latest and greatest for "free," except of course, it is not ‘free,' you paid for it. Bill Gates wants to know if you have paid him 'his' due, every time you log into the internet. So what is the big deal? I'm not a computer geek but even I found a "log" of WEB sites I had visited in the windows software and I'm not talking about the log associated with the browser. There is only one explanation for such a log. It gets accessed and downloaded. Windows update? Do a little searching on the WEB and you will find where lots of other people have found many such files "spy ware" so to speak, lurking in the Windows software. Be careful though, Microsoft is aware of you looking. They will be notified next time you log on to the WEB. I recently changed ISP's for good reason only to learn after I had committed myself that I was actually signing up on the MSN network. Well, it would have been real messy to back out & probably cost me, so I stayed with it. Try this link; "http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html." In it is a pretty good discussion of what is wrong with one person monopolizing the internet with links to further discussions.
On the 5th of February we got DSL through Quest which I didn’t realize at the time was a clone for Microsoft. I was supplied with a CD containing MSN Premium as part of the installation. MSN certainly wasn’t my choice but I let it go at the time. I used it about 3 weeks. If you don’t know what MSN Premium is, I’ll tell you. Everything is loaded at once and focused on promoting Microsoft. It takes awhile to load, maybe 5 minutes. I’m running a computer at 3 Ghz and it takes 5 minutes to load my mail? Well, like I said, I tried it for a while and everything I did took me to or through something Microsoft and the computer was always loading and unloading files making everything ran slow. I got tired of that and I really resent Microsoft trying to assert itself on everything. I never used IE on purpose, it was forced on me here, Windows Live,” thing always seemed to come up I didn’t like it at all. So now I’m really pissed. This morning after getting my mail, I did a ‘System Restore’ to before I had MSN. It took quite some time but hopefully it completely rid my computer of MSN Premium. Unfortunately it also got rid of virus & firewall protection that was part of my package and what I had before I agreed to go with MSN was deleted in preparation. Now I didn’t even have a connection to the internet. I’m sitting here looking at the router and the lights are indicating; ‘I’m not here.’ Well, I’m sure I’m here, I just need to know how to get there. I called the Qwest help line which switches me over to the MSN help line which is in the Philippines. I explained what I was doing and what needed to happen and I always get. “ sure, we can do that.” I’ve worked with MSN Philipino ‘help’ before and after some floundering around finally struck out on my own to restore the connection. Well, I’m back connected to the internet and MS Premium seems to be gone. I went on the help line and after much searching I found I might be able to restore my virus and firewall protection but (MSN) wants my primary e-mail password and we seem to have a disagreement on to exactly what that is. There seems to be a lot of other issues yet to be resolved as the restore put me back a month in time and I’ve had to do things like download my browser again (Firefox, much superior to IE, some 14% of computers now use Firefox IE has actually shown a 10% loss) and I’m sure there are more. Also missing are: Quicken files Shockwave files TSR files for Word Perfect Quicken (data) files gone a second time 3-3-07 In conclusion, I would advise anyone against anything to do with Microsoft when ever possible, I would not recommend their network and I would strongly advise against ever load MS Premium service. Microsoft lies. I had no end to trouble with my e-mail. I already told you MSN deleted my Quicken (it competes with Microsofts 'Money'), it deleted all my running files for Word Perfect, it deleted several of the accessory files like shockwave for viewing graphics in e-mail and I'm still finding things it screwed up. I clicked on "reset the password" and they said they would send a new password via e-mail.. I don't have the password so how can I get the mail? Down below there is another window that says, "how can I get my password if I can't log onto the account?" I clicked on that and it took me to their general help file where it says "Reset Password" in one place and around and around we go. If I call MSN help, I get a philippino that really don't know what I'm talking about. If I don't ask a question they haven't been specifically quizzed on, they can't answer it. Never, Never have anything to do with MSN if at all possible........
Bill Clinton had the federal government pressing a anti-trust case against Gates and Microsoft for being a Monopoly and the case had gone far enough for them to admit they did have special code in their operating systems to favor 'their' products. Microsoft/Gates made a donation to the Republicans and when the Bush administration came along they called off the law suit. Coincidence you think? Now, since the admission of wrong doing was done in court under some sort of legal status when the suit was called off, the admission is not valid in any other legal proceedings, hence Bill Gates is getting away with monopolizing the computer industry. So when you; 'got it all,' it is real easy to be smug and say, "life isn't fair." The richest man in the world shouldn't be saying "life isn't fair," a person such as Gates shouldn't be telling someone less fortunate life is tough and it is too bad he doesn't have enough money to eat. The list of things that Microsoft does that are anti-competitive in just this one program is to long to list here, and that is not the point of this message. He is and they are, is all you need to know.
In the late 1800's the United States government took the DuPont corporation to court for having a monopoly of the explosives market, Dupont had over 70% of the market. DuPont was forced to diverse almost half of it's explosives holdings to settle the dispute. In the 1960's the government sued Xerox for having a monopoly of the copier market, roughly 80%, and it too, was forced to open its copy technology to the world. In the 70's AT&T having approximately 90% of the communications market, was forced to release its grip on the communications market. Microsoft has over 95% of the internet market yet when the Bush administration came in to office, the suit against Microsoft was called off despite their admission of guilt. Atta-boy, their Bush! Gates has made over 50 billion dollars and has essentially given peanuts back. e.g. for every $100 he has made, he has given back pennies and by far the majority of the money he has given back, has gone to other countries. Yeah, he is a real generous SOB. What he has spent it on has been "feel good, look good" stuff in my opinion. What you and I do to help our fellow man is just that, we give to charity, and/or help someone out of a tough spot, if we can. Bill Gates does pretty much the same thing but here is the difference. You or I might give one or two or five or ten percent of our income to help someone or at least try to help others out. Gates gives one-hundred-million to somebody and that sounds like a lot of money but it is 0.002% of fifty Billion. Besides, once you have a billion dollars, just how much more do you need, and Gates is trying hard to increase his wealth. It is giving what you are able rather than the quantity that matters. Gates is in a position to make some fundamental changes in the world, changes that would help all humanity for all time. Instead, Gates is doing one hundred times no a thousand times less, relative to income, relative to ability. Feeding the hungry is great, but they will be hungry tomorrow still, nothing gets fixed. You can even find a cure for a disease but there will still be another one. Do you see what I'm getting at? Bill Gates isn't fixing anything, he is still doing little things. He just does eye-wash, things that make him look good. He is working on his image, sprinklings a few thousandths of his income around to look good. Bill Gates could literally give away a million no 10 million dollars easier than I could a dollar. A person in his position should take on a problem relative to his ability and forget the eye-wash shit. I believe history will show that Bill Gates what he really is, a greedy little man. I know a little bit about computers but I have been unable to turn off the "Windows Update" function on my computer or Microsoft's gateway to your info. I have tried to "not" turn it on, but failed. Microsoft gets away with it because it seems a normal thing to do, keep the latest and greatest for "free," except of course, it is not ‘free,' you paid for it. Bill Gates wants to know if you have paid him 'his' due, every time you log into the internet. So what is the big deal? I'm not a computer geek but even I found a "log" of WEB sites I had visited in the windows software and I'm not talking about the log associated with the browser. There is only one explanation for such a log. It gets accessed and downloaded. Windows update? Do a little searching on the WEB and you will find where lots of other people have found many such files "spy ware" so to speak, lurking in the Windows software. Be careful though, Microsoft is aware of you looking. They will be notified next time you log on to the WEB. I recently changed ISP's for good reason only to learn after I had committed myself that I was actually signing up on the MSN network. Well, it would have been real messy to back out & probably cost me, so I stayed with it. Try this link; "http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html." In it is a pretty good discussion of what is wrong with one person monopolizing the internet with links to further discussions.
On the 5th of February we got DSL through Quest which I didn’t realize at the time was a clone for Microsoft. I was supplied with a CD containing MSN Premium as part of the installation. MSN certainly wasn’t my choice but I let it go at the time. I used it about 3 weeks. If you don’t know what MSN Premium is, I’ll tell you. Everything is loaded at once and focused on promoting Microsoft. It takes awhile to load, maybe 5 minutes. I’m running a computer at 3 Ghz and it takes 5 minutes to load my mail? Well, like I said, I tried it for a while and everything I did took me to or through something Microsoft and the computer was always loading and unloading files making everything ran slow. I got tired of that and I really resent Microsoft trying to assert itself on everything. I never used IE on purpose, it was forced on me here, Windows Live,” thing always seemed to come up I didn’t like it at all. So now I’m really pissed. This morning after getting my mail, I did a ‘System Restore’ to before I had MSN. It took quite some time but hopefully it completely rid my computer of MSN Premium. Unfortunately it also got rid of virus & firewall protection that was part of my package and what I had before I agreed to go with MSN was deleted in preparation. Now I didn’t even have a connection to the internet. I’m sitting here looking at the router and the lights are indicating; ‘I’m not here.’ Well, I’m sure I’m here, I just need to know how to get there. I called the Qwest help line which switches me over to the MSN help line which is in the Philippines. I explained what I was doing and what needed to happen and I always get. “ sure, we can do that.” I’ve worked with MSN Philipino ‘help’ before and after some floundering around finally struck out on my own to restore the connection. Well, I’m back connected to the internet and MS Premium seems to be gone. I went on the help line and after much searching I found I might be able to restore my virus and firewall protection but (MSN) wants my primary e-mail password and we seem to have a disagreement on to exactly what that is. There seems to be a lot of other issues yet to be resolved as the restore put me back a month in time and I’ve had to do things like download my browser again (Firefox, much superior to IE, some 14% of computers now use Firefox IE has actually shown a 10% loss) and I’m sure there are more. Also missing are: Quicken files Shockwave files TSR files for Word Perfect Quicken (data) files gone a second time 3-3-07 In conclusion, I would advise anyone against anything to do with Microsoft when ever possible, I would not recommend their network and I would strongly advise against ever load MS Premium service. Microsoft lies. I had no end to trouble with my e-mail. I already told you MSN deleted my Quicken (it competes with Microsofts 'Money'), it deleted all my running files for Word Perfect, it deleted several of the accessory files like shockwave for viewing graphics in e-mail and I'm still finding things it screwed up. I clicked on "reset the password" and they said they would send a new password via e-mail.. I don't have the password so how can I get the mail? Down below there is another window that says, "how can I get my password if I can't log onto the account?" I clicked on that and it took me to their general help file where it says "Reset Password" in one place and around and around we go. If I call MSN help, I get a philippino that really don't know what I'm talking about. If I don't ask a question they haven't been specifically quizzed on, they can't answer it. Never, Never have anything to do with MSN if at all possible........
Labels: Bill Gates, corruption, Microsoft, Monopopy
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