akasha_108 wrote: >--- In [email protected], "uns_tressor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > >>--- In [email protected], Rick Archer >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>on 11/10/05 8:30 PM, uns_tressor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>--- In [email protected], "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. >> >> > > >I am pretty happy with XP Pro. Maybe your needs are much more demanding. > > Until it gets a virus they can't figure out. I use Linux for email and web browsing.
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