--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "uns_tressor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > on 11/10/05 8:30 PM, uns_tressor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > >> Would you have allowed Bill Gates to be born? > > >> Advances in prenatal genetic testing pose tough questions > > >> http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7899821/ > > >> Who needs Bill Gates? No, I don't mean who needs a gazillionaire > > >> corporate titan, a man whose company, Microsoft, took in > >billions of > > >> dollars last year by controlling nearly all the software used to > >run > > >> nearly every computer on the planet. > > >> > > >> No, I mean, literally, who needs him? If you could go back in > >time > > >> and stop the birth of the world's most famous nerd, would you? > > >> > > >> You probably answered my question with a "no." Whatever Gates' > >sins > > >> may be, he is the father of a computer revolution... > > > > > > He might have earned that moniker if it hadn't > > > been for Charles Babbage 150 years ago, or > > > Alan Turing or Clive Sinclair who created the concept > > > of "home computer". History will see Gates as someone > > > who used the chance for bare faced profit, making > > > £75,000,000,000 selling faulty goods. No car manufacturer > > > could get away with it. And we put up with it. > > > > He's leaving comparatively little to his children. Donating > > billions to AIDS research and other worthy causes... > > ...which tend to be glamorous causes rather than assisting > those who spend hours stripping and re-rigging his products > because they are faulty. > Uns.
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