kemmer

I certainly might ask you the same question.

thinksense

I see you have answered my question to the best of your ability.

I feel sorry for your inability to think for yourself, ( I do ,however, compliment you on your ability to parrot your controler's mottoes) we do need ditch diggers and water carriers. So carry on with your silliness. Just don't expect an answer from me.

rafterman Loc: South Florida

Come on thinksense; why not start practicing some "thinksense" yourself. Do you really care what kind of background Bill Gates had? Rich or poor so what. Besides, everyone who invents something ultimately has others do their work for them. Do you think Thomas Edison made every single light bulb after he invented it? Or, Alexander Graham Bell every telephone after inventing it? And Bill Gates did not invent the software for the personal computer, but he sure did know how to market it. The original geeks who designed the software got bilked by Gates for pennies compared to the billions Gates had made - and while making those billions has employed over 30,000 people world wide in direct support of the operating system - plus, an untold number of millions of people in associated personal computer hardware and software companies. No, Bill Gates couldn't make it himself without his family being rich and WITHOUT HIS OWN PERSONAL GENIUS. He and his family have been EXTREMELY generous with donations from their foundation. Thanks to Bill Gates "coasting through life" as you call it, millions of people have benefited from this guy who seems to have drawn ire for borrowing the money to do it. Don't most entrepreneurs borrow money to start up a company or at least borrow it at sometime during their business owner career? Come on thinksense; give Gates a break. I suggest you go to htpps://www.gatesfoundation.org/ to look at some of the things he and his wife do for mankind with the money he so slovenly borrowed to get started.

thinksense

First of all I must ask you what you think I should find appealing about Bill’s Foundation trying to kill people off with vaccines, etc. One of their main stated goals is to reduce the African population. His foundation is not what you make it out to be. That is why it has been kicked out of several African countries. There are a lot of snakes in that breeding ball.

Hell, you yourself speak about how he shafted people, Quote
," Bill Gates did not invent the software for the personal computer, but he sure did know how to market it. The original geeks who designed the software got bilked by Gates for pennies compared to the billions Gates had made -"

You seem to think that Bill actually does more than Figurehead his company. As far as being an entrepreneurial genius is concerned, (do you know what his college grades were?) It is not so important when you are born into an Illuminati/NWO family. They only need to hire the entrepreneurial geniuses who guide their businesses. Plus, when you are a member of the club, the other members help smooth out the bumps. What do you think all this Political BS. that the people here babble about is all about?

Tell me you don’t know this.

Btw, Edison did NOT invent the first electric light bulb. He had seen one and knew it could be made, but just not how. That is why he paid workers to spend all that time and effort to try to find how it had been done.

kemmer

Don't try recruiting me to your lawn mowing crew; I'm a retired teacher.

cold iron Loc: White House

I do detect a bit of jealousy there.
Why didn't you buy the DOS program and then sell it to IBM?

thinksense

You are wrong about the jealousy. I know you won't believe this but I don't care what "wealth" anyone has. What use for great wealth would I have. My kids, grand kids, and great grand kids will and are able to take care of themselves, and my wife is 80, and I'm standing on a banana peel at the edge of a large hole at age 84.
My only worry is that the Govt. Gang will steal what I have befor I die. They are working up to that for all of you I'll leave behind. Coming soon to your neighborhood, kind of like California is doing right now.


I wouldn't want to have to have a large crew of bodyguards needed around me and my family all the time, as the "super rich" do. Nor the paranoid phantasies they all have. Most are scared to death of the thought of the billions of dangerous idiots all around them, no matter where they try to hide out. That is one main reason they want to reduce the world population by 95%.

As for computer toy stuff, I wouldn't have bought (and didn't) at that time, and look what happened to 99% of those who did. Remember the "Bubble".

As a matter of fact when it comes to money, I am not a gambler. Although when I was in the Corps I used to double my pay each month playing craps and poker with the guys. I never could figure out why they would play with me. They all knew that I almost always won. (I'd lend 'em money so they could play some more when they were broke.) An acquaintance of mine, who was a stock broker, once told me that stock buyers were gambling in a crooked game, looking for something for nothing, and getting nothing, as they deserved.

cold iron Loc: White House

I know not of what you speak! I am as old as you and I own everything, no debt. I have stocks and I have made say $100k since Trump said "I will uphold the Constitution of the United States. "
What is it you want? A nanny to look after you?
The stock market is what it is. If you think is rigged don't buy from it.

thinksense

Right..and I didn't.

I made enough money during my carreer that I am comfortable, and I made it, not stole it from fools.

1... The prime rule of investing is...Don"t lose money. ( I wonder how much you have lost over the years (that I didn't). And you must have lost some, if only you will add up the commissions you've paid. You do realize the stock market is a zero sum game, right?

I too own everything that the state allows. That means things that they rent to me, such as my long since fully paid houses and ranch, that the state claims by charging me tax every year. No one owns their own house, etc.

I have no debts and haven't had since 1970.

Btw, ... What got your hackles up at this time? You usually seem to think sensibly, (meaning on this board, we generally post alike). What toe did I step on inadvertantly?

cold iron Loc: White House

I guess I'm getting old and grumpy.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Thanks for posting this clarification, rafterman.
good rules, but did not make sence that they came from leftist Bill Gates

thinksense

Me too.

rafterman Loc: South Florida

Bill Gates was a college dropout. It just proves what I've said - WHO CARES ABOUT HIS BACKGROUND! You're a jealous whining person who just can't give people credit for doing something for themselves while you sat around complaining and making excuses for your failures. And no, Gates did not do all the heavy lifting but he is far from just a figurehead. Leaders DON'T do heavy all the heavy lifting - they lead the people who do with ideas and inspiration. They hire the right people. They USE PEOPLE but do so by ensuring they are used WITH DIGNITY. The company Mr. Gates founded employ's over 124,000 people (see https://tinyurl.com/y7xk45vg). What have you done lately?

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

The point was; a Lefty like Bill Gates didn't come up with these 10 sayings.

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about eleven (11) things they did not and will not ever learn in school.

He talks about how the feel-good, unionized, politically correct teachings created 2 generations of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept sets them up to be failures in the real world.

This should be posted in every schoolroom and in your kid's bedroom.

Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: They called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you think you are: So before you save the rain forest from parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. *This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. *Do that on your own time.

Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave their i-phones and go to jobs.

Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

If you can read this... Thank a Teacher
If you can read this in English... Thank a Soldier!
And for life and everything else you have... Thank God!!

thinksense

I retired.

I'm sorry you misread what I wrote as reflecting a whining, jealous person with failures in his background.

Guys like Mr. Gates, are often given credit for things they did not do or say, and that is the case for this particular string where he's given credit for an 11 point comment that he never made.

Anyone who has followed his career knows that he not only did not follow those 11 points, but on a more important level would never agree with them. And I don't like to see people fooled by the advertising/public relations people that people like Bill have working for them.