Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water
Cardemaister! Are you really writing about your masculine body parts in Sanskrit?! Only on FFL (-: Anyway, probably some jyotish explanation for the gynophobia. How about some nice yagyas or pujas for Venus and or Moon? Congratulations on your, to use Sho-gun language, lavish endowments. Perhaps such engenders fear on a subtle level because if one is rejected anyway, it makes one mistakenly think there's a lack elsewhere in one's offerings? Not to mention the unrealistic expectations. I have wondered if the marriages of some movie stars aren't hindered by their being so gorgeous and consequently expecting spouse to be always totally enamored. When that does not happen, all hell breaks loose. Maybe it's more difficult to have realistic expectations about love and marriage when one is extraordinarily gifted in some way whether it be in looks or riches or athletic prowess. From: card cardemais...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 3:35 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water Based on my own experience (winning fairly much selling Nokia shares some 13 years back) I think I'm in a position to confirm that. Not that I became *very* wealthy, but anyhoo... At least I, a gynophobic(?; with almost 7,5 inches, bone-press*), became much more courageous as to women! But now, I'm back in square one, so to speak. LoL and go figure! * pariNaama-taapa-saMskaara-duHkhair, **guNa-vRtti-virodhaac** ca duHkham eva sarvaM vivekinaH! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: There is some research that shows that people who are very wealthy show differences in how their brains function compared to average people and that these differences start to show up pretty much instantly if someone wins a major lottery. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Just to give you an example how deluded the rich are Pretty sweeping statement here. How rich is rich? What makes all rich people deluded? Why so angry at rich people? Does being rich change someone or do only assholes become rich? What is the antidote, becoming poor? , here's an article and video about the Nestle CEO who wants all water privatized. This asshat doesn't care about people, just about money. He needs a visit form Lord Yama and soon. http://www.trueactivist.com/nestle-ceo-water-is-not-a-human-right-should-be-privatized/ Billionairism is a mental disorder.
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L, a few decades ago, I got to the point where I literally had $25 to my name. I can say from experience, that definitely does something to the brain functioning! The system is often flooded with the chemicals of fear. Now I have financial security and that too does something to the brain though in the positive direction. I think the bar for financial security might be set lower for me as I live in a fairly inexpensive place and am content with a comfortable but simple lifestyle. And that bar might be set fairly high for people who lived through the Great Depression. I've read that many lottery winners spend most of their winnings pretty quickly whereas many wealthy people are reportedly frugal. It would be interesting to compare their fMRIs. From: sparaig lengli...@cox.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:45 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water There is some research that shows that people who are very wealthy show differences in how their brains function compared to average people and that these differences start to show up pretty much instantly if someone wins a major lottery. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Just to give you an example how deluded the rich are Pretty sweeping statement here. How rich is rich? What makes all rich people deluded? Why so angry at rich people? Does being rich change someone or do only assholes become rich? What is the antidote, becoming poor? , here's an article and video about the Nestle CEO who wants all water privatized. This asshat doesn't care about people, just about money. He needs a visit form Lord Yama and soon. http://www.trueactivist.com/nestle-ceo-water-is-not-a-human-right-should-be-privatized/ Billionairism is a mental disorder.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water
Wasn't your dad the CEO of Kraft at one time? From: Ann awoelfleba...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 11:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Just to give you an example how deluded the rich are Pretty sweeping statement here. How rich is rich? What makes all rich people deluded? Why so angry at rich people? Does being rich change someone or do only assholes become rich? What is the antidote, becoming poor? , here's an article and video about the Nestle CEO who wants all water privatized. This asshat doesn't care about people, just about money. He needs a visit form Lord Yama and soon. http://www.trueactivist.com/nestle-ceo-water-is-not-a-human-right-should-be-privatized/ Billionairism is a mental disorder.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water
On 05/27/2013 08:51 PM, Ann wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Just to give you an example how deluded the rich are Pretty sweeping statement here. How rich is rich? What makes all rich people deluded? Why so angry at rich people? Does being rich change someone or do only assholes become rich? What is the antidote, becoming poor? Better to just rich and have the rich defend themselves than say some rich. How rich is rich? Those here who have read my posts over the years know that I'm not talking about the millionaire down the street. The clue was in my final statement in the post. There used to be this term back in the 50s and 60s: nouveau rich. That meant people who just became rich, would often unwisely flaunt their wealth even in a few years become nouveau poor. Later we called these yuppies. Wealth is a responsibility. I can change someone. And BTW, I not just someone casting aspersions from the peanut gallery. My own brother was an on again off again millionaire defense contractor (so I can also be a critic of the latter having seen it from the inside.). And if one thinks I'm jealous, I did okay in the 1990s as a tech guy. I'll talk about wealth more and billionaires when I respond to Turq's post. , here's an article and video about the Nestle CEO who wants all water privatized. This asshat doesn't care about people, just about money. He needs a visit form Lord Yama and soon. http://www.trueactivist.com/nestle-ceo-water-is-not-a-human-right-should-be-privatized/ Billionairism is a mental disorder.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water
When I was living in Redmond (home of Microsoft) near Seattle around 1990, local newscaster Jean Enerson did an interview with Bill Gates. She asked him about his wealth. You would have loved his Buddhist like response. He knew he had money but it was out there somewhere and didn't think about it much nor had much attachment too it. Bill's father was a corporate attorney and most likely advised Bill when Microsoft start flowing with money. Most likely his income got turned over to a good financial management firm. Which is what many people do who find themselves coming into money. Or like the old nouveau rich might just blow all that money and become nouveau poor. The TV series Lost made an example of this out of the character Hurley who as a slacker fast food employee wins a big lottery prize. He does wisely have a financial services firm invest that money. There were some episodes where he checks in with them and finds out that he owns some company he has been having some problems with. Gates is an accidental billionaire just like Facebook's Zuckerberg. But those two are miles apart in personality. I once was liason between Gates and my company's President who had made a statement of displeasure about Microsoft to the press and so Bill had one of his VPs contact me because I had been involved with Microsoft in a Silicon Valley consortium known as Games PC. Gates was interested in what we thought Microsoft could be doing to make things better. I had also attended a Computer Bowl at the Tech Museum in San Jose which Gates was a co-emcee. Afterwards at the reception I was standing with one of our company programmers who had also attended the Bowl as Gates came walking our way. The main crowd was smoking so I commented looks like someone else doesn't care much for cigarette smoke. He got a few feet away and was suddenly mobbed by some of the crowd. He kept looking over at us and I think he had spied my company jacket and wanted to ask about the company. Rumors were he wanted to buy us as we distributed his pet project software for him. When I lived for that brief time in the 1969-70 in Mill Valley it was at the home of a woman who was from an old money family. I've mentioned here before that the father made the kids go out an earn a living on their own before they were allowed their trust fund. He wanted them to learn the value of money and how to be responsible with wealth. There are indeed good billionaires like Gates, Buffet, Mark Cuban, George Lucas, etc. They are responsible with their wealth. But the guy from Nestle's (unless that was a clever punk) seems a bit arrogant like the old aristocracy of Europe. BTW, I've been enjoying the Brazilian TV series on HBO Preamar which is about an investment banker who loses his job but doesn't tell his family (tells them he's on a sabbatical). It's very much about class conflict in Brazil and his fall from grace and trying to pick up the pieces. His mistake as a banker was that he invested some of the firm's clients in Madoff's scam. On 05/28/2013 03:59 AM, turquoiseb wrote: This ties in with a response I made earlier to Lawson, but which for some reason Yahoo wouldn't let me post at the time: I'd be interested in a citation about this research, if you can track it down. I've always been fascinated by the subject. It would be interesting to hear what researchers feel that these brain changes map to in terms of behavior and beliefs. One of the things I would expect -- both from those who were born and raised rich and those who become rich suddenly -- would be the development of delusions about their own self importance. The belief that people should pay attention to them and listen to their opinions, for example. I would expect that wealth translates to greater self-identification and an increasingly delusional belief in one's own self-importance and effect upon the world. I would also expect those delusions to have nothing to do with one's *real* effect on the world. In other words, I would suspect that rich people who give only the absolute minimum of their money to charity to qualify for tax deductions feel that they've done as much for humanity as people like Bill Gates, who has recently stated that his life plan is to give away 90% of his wealth before he dies. In Bill's case, I suspect it has been the influence of his wife (who, by all reports, is quite a lovely and charming woman) who has helped him to find a sense of balance with regard to his immense wealth. Other rich people have not been so lucky. This week in Paris, I've been staying near the Bastille, which is not as upscale as the Vth or VIth arrondissements, but still has its share of luxury. I live across the street from one of the most famous restaurants in Paris, called Bofinger (pronounced Beaux-fan-zhey, not the way it sounds to us Americans). From my window I can see rich people pulling up in their
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water
You are living in a dreamworld if you think Gates is responsible with his wealth given the fact that he is bent of helping Monsanto and the Big Pharma corporations take over the world. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water When I was living in Redmond (home of Microsoft) near Seattle around 1990, local newscaster Jean Enerson did an interview with Bill Gates. She asked him about his wealth. You would have loved his Buddhist like response. He knew he had money but it was out there somewhere and didn't think about it much nor had much attachment too it. Bill's father was a corporate attorney and most likely advised Bill when Microsoft start flowing with money. Most likely his income got turned over to a good financial management firm. Which is what many people do who find themselves coming into money. Or like the old nouveau rich might just blow all that money and become nouveau poor. The TV series Lost made an example of this out of the character Hurley who as a slacker fast food employee wins a big lottery prize. He does wisely have a financial services firm invest that money. There were some episodes where he checks in with them and finds out that he owns some company he has been having some problems with. Gates is an accidental billionaire just like Facebook's Zuckerberg. But those two are miles apart in personality. I once was liason between Gates and my company's President who had made a statement of displeasure about Microsoft to the press and so Bill had one of his VPs contact me because I had been involved with Microsoft in a Silicon Valley consortium known as Games PC. Gates was interested in what we thought Microsoft could be doing to make things better. I had also attended a Computer Bowl at the Tech Museum in San Jose which Gates was a co-emcee. Afterwards at the reception I was standing with one of our company programmers who had also attended the Bowl as Gates came walking our way. The main crowd was smoking so I commented looks like someone else doesn't care much for cigarette smoke. He got a few feet away and was suddenly mobbed by some of the crowd. He kept looking over at us and I think he had spied my company jacket and wanted to ask about the company. Rumors were he wanted to buy us as we distributed his pet project software for him. When I lived for that brief time in the 1969-70 in Mill Valley it was at the home of a woman who was from an old money family. I've mentioned here before that the father made the kids go out an earn a living on their own before they were allowed their trust fund. He wanted them to learn the value of money and how to be responsible with wealth. There are indeed good billionaires like Gates, Buffet, Mark Cuban, George Lucas, etc. They are responsible with their wealth. But the guy from Nestle's (unless that was a clever punk) seems a bit arrogant like the old aristocracy of Europe. BTW, I've been enjoying the Brazilian TV series on HBO Preamar which is about an investment banker who loses his job but doesn't tell his family (tells them he's on a sabbatical). It's very much about class conflict in Brazil and his fall from grace and trying to pick up the pieces. His mistake as a banker was that he invested some of the firm's clients in Madoff's scam. On 05/28/2013 03:59 AM, turquoiseb wrote: This ties in with a response I made earlier to Lawson, but which for some reason Yahoo wouldn't let me post at the time: I'd be interested in a citation about this research, if you can track it down. I've always been fascinated by the subject. It would be interesting to hear what researchers feel that these brain changes map to in terms of behavior and beliefs. One of the things I would expect -- both from those who were born and raised rich and those who become rich suddenly -- would be the development of delusions about their own self importance. The belief that people should pay attention to them and listen to their opinions, for example. I would expect that wealth translates to greater self-identification and an increasingly delusional belief in one's own self-importance and effect upon the world. I would also expect those delusions to have nothing to do with one's *real* effect on the world. In other words, I would suspect that rich people who give only the absolute minimum of their money to charity to qualify for tax deductions feel that they've done as much for humanity as people like Bill Gates, who has recently stated that his life plan is to give away 90% of his wealth before he dies. In Bill's case, I suspect it has been the influence of his wife (who, by all reports, is quite a lovely and charming woman) who has helped him to find a sense of balance with regard to his immense wealth. Other rich
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water
Yep, but he is nothing like the Koch Brothers who earned their wealth the old fashioned way: they inherited it and keep messing with US politics. Not saying the Gates and Buffet too are all that wonderful. Buffet though has particularly has tried to kick Americans in the butt and demand higher taxes on the rich and eliminating loopholes. Don't think that Gates would be opposed to that either. Gate's father campaigned for an initiative to raise taxes on the rich in Washington state which didn't pass. On 05/28/2013 09:43 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: You are living in a dreamworld if you think Gates is responsible with his wealth given the fact that he is bent of helping Monsanto and the Big Pharma corporations take over the world. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water When I was living in Redmond (home of Microsoft) near Seattle around 1990, local newscaster Jean Enerson did an interview with Bill Gates. She asked him about his wealth. You would have loved his Buddhist like response. He knew he had money but it was out there somewhere and didn't think about it much nor had much attachment too it. Bill's father was a corporate attorney and most likely advised Bill when Microsoft start flowing with money. Most likely his income got turned over to a good financial management firm. Which is what many people do who find themselves coming into money. Or like the old nouveau rich might just blow all that money and become nouveau poor. The TV series Lost made an example of this out of the character Hurley who as a slacker fast food employee wins a big lottery prize. He does wisely have a financial services firm invest that money. There were some episodes where he checks in with them and finds out that he owns some company he has been having some problems with. Gates is an accidental billionaire just like Facebook's Zuckerberg. But those two are miles apart in personality. I once was liason between Gates and my company's President who had made a statement of displeasure about Microsoft to the press and so Bill had one of his VPs contact me because I had been involved with Microsoft in a Silicon Valley consortium known as Games PC. Gates was interested in what we thought Microsoft could be doing to make things better. I had also attended a Computer Bowl at the Tech Museum in San Jose which Gates was a co-emcee. Afterwards at the reception I was standing with one of our company programmers who had also attended the Bowl as Gates came walking our way. The main crowd was smoking so I commented looks like someone else doesn't care much for cigarette smoke. He got a few feet away and was suddenly mobbed by some of the crowd. He kept looking over at us and I think he had spied my company jacket and wanted to ask about the company. Rumors were he wanted to buy us as we distributed his pet project software for him. When I lived for that brief time in the 1969-70 in Mill Valley it was at the home of a woman who was from an old money family. I've mentioned here before that the father made the kids go out an earn a living on their own before they were allowed their trust fund. He wanted them to learn the value of money and how to be responsible with wealth. There are indeed good billionaires like Gates, Buffet, Mark Cuban, George Lucas, etc. They are responsible with their wealth. But the guy from Nestle's (unless that was a clever punk) seems a bit arrogant like the old aristocracy of Europe. BTW, I've been enjoying the Brazilian TV series on HBO Preamar which is about an investment banker who loses his job but doesn't tell his family (tells them he's on a sabbatical). It's very much about class conflict in Brazil and his fall from grace and trying to pick up the pieces. His mistake as a banker was that he invested some of the firm's clients in Madoff's scam. On 05/28/2013 03:59 AM, turquoiseb wrote: This ties in with a response I made earlier to Lawson, but which for some reason Yahoo wouldn't let me post at the time: I'd be interested in a citation about this research, if you can track it down. I've always been fascinated by the subject. It would be interesting to hear what researchers feel that these brain changes map to in terms of behavior and beliefs. One of the things I would expect -- both from those who were born and raised rich and those who become rich suddenly -- would be the development of delusions about their own self importance. The belief that people should pay attention to them and listen to their opinions, for example. I would expect that wealth translates to greater self-identification and an increasingly delusional belief in one's own self-importance and effect upon the world. I would also expect those delusions to have nothing
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water
I'm more concerned with his supporting Monsanto, making Monsanto GMO crops the cornerstone of his outreach to so-called help third world countries grow enough food, having a revolving door between his Monsanto and his foundations - high level Monsanto executives slipping into Gate's foundations: Dr. Robert Horsch, a former Monsanto executive for 25 years who developed Roundup, to head up AGRA (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa) back in 2006. According to a report published in La Via Campesina back in 2010, 70 percent of AGRA's grantees in Kenya work directly with Monsanto, and nearly 80 percent of the Gates Foundation funding is devoted to biotechnology (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21606.cfm). Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com Gates is a sorry sob who mis-uses his wealth to try to assist huge corporations in taking over the world. He is a sorrier and more devious bastard than Marshy himself. At least Marshy only wanted money for himself. He didn't try to help make slaves out of everyone on earth. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water Yep, but he is nothing like the Koch Brothers who earned their wealth the old fashioned way: they inherited it and keep messing with US politics. Not saying the Gates and Buffet too are all that wonderful. Buffet though has particularly has tried to kick Americans in the butt and demand higher taxes on the rich and eliminating loopholes. Don't think that Gates would be opposed to that either. Gate's father campaigned for an initiative to raise taxes on the rich in Washington state which didn't pass. On 05/28/2013 09:43 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: You are living in a dreamworld if you think Gates is responsible with his wealth given the fact that he is bent of helping Monsanto and the Big Pharma corporations take over the world. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water When I was living in Redmond (home of Microsoft) near Seattle around 1990, local newscaster Jean Enerson did an interview with Bill Gates. She asked him about his wealth. You would have loved his Buddhist like response. He knew he had money but it was out there somewhere and didn't think about it much nor had much attachment too it. Bill's father was a corporate attorney and most likely advised Bill when Microsoft start flowing with money. Most likely his income got turned over to a good financial management firm. Which is what many people do who find themselves coming into money. Or like the old nouveau rich might just blow all that money and become nouveau poor. The TV series Lost made an example of this out of the character Hurley who as a slacker fast food employee wins a big lottery prize. He does wisely have a financial services firm invest that money. There were some episodes where he checks in with them and finds out that he owns some company he has been having some problems with. Gates is an accidental billionaire just like Facebook's Zuckerberg. But those two are miles apart in personality. I once was liason between Gates and my company's President who had made a statement of displeasure about Microsoft to the press and so Bill had one of his VPs contact me because I had been involved with Microsoft in a Silicon Valley consortium known as Games PC. Gates was interested in what we thought Microsoft could be doing to make things better. I had also attended a Computer Bowl at the Tech Museum in San Jose which Gates was a co-emcee. Afterwards at the reception I was standing with one of our company programmers who had also attended the Bowl as Gates came walking our way. The main crowd was smoking so I commented looks like someone else doesn't care much for cigarette smoke. He got a few feet away and was suddenly mobbed by some of the crowd. He kept looking over at us and I think he had spied my company jacket and wanted to ask about the company. Rumors were he wanted to buy us as we distributed his pet project software for him. When I lived for that brief time in the 1969-70 in Mill Valley it was at the home of a woman who was from an old money family. I've mentioned here before that the father made the kids go out an earn a living on their own before they were allowed their trust fund. He wanted them to learn the value of money and how to be responsible with wealth. There are indeed good billionaires like Gates, Buffet, Mark Cuban, George Lucas, etc. They are responsible with their wealth. But the guy from Nestle's (unless that was a clever punk) seems a bit arrogant like the old aristocracy of Europe. BTW, I've been
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water
Then did you read the article with video I originally linked too? Or are you just reacting to the thread title and chatter? I would think the Nestle's board of directors ought to send that guy off to the funny farm because he WILL hurt their profits making such statements. That's why I almost wondered if it was a punk like the Yes Men do. But then it's been around long enough to be debunked. On 05/28/2013 10:24 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: I'm more concerned with his supporting Monsanto, making Monsanto GMO crops the cornerstone of his outreach to so-called help third world countries grow enough food, having a revolving door between his Monsanto and his foundations - high level Monsanto executives slipping into Gate's foundations: Dr. Robert Horsch, a former Monsanto executive for 25 years who developed Roundup, to head up AGRA (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa) back in 2006. According to a report published in La Via Campesina back in 2010, 70 percent of AGRA's grantees in Kenya work directly with Monsanto, and nearly 80 percent of the Gates Foundation funding is devoted to biotechnology (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21606.cfm). Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com Gates is a sorry sob who mis-uses his wealth to try to assist huge corporations in taking over the world. He is a sorrier and more devious bastard than Marshy himself. At least Marshy only wanted money for himself. He didn't try to help make slaves out of everyone on earth. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water Yep, but he is nothing like the Koch Brothers who earned their wealth the old fashioned way: they inherited it and keep messing with US politics. Not saying the Gates and Buffet too are all that wonderful. Buffet though has particularly has tried to kick Americans in the butt and demand higher taxes on the rich and eliminating loopholes. Don't think that Gates would be opposed to that either. Gate's father campaigned for an initiative to raise taxes on the rich in Washington state which didn't pass. On 05/28/2013 09:43 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: You are living in a dreamworld if you think Gates is responsible with his wealth given the fact that he is bent of helping Monsanto and the Big Pharma corporations take over the world. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deluded Nestle CEO on your right to water When I was living in Redmond (home of Microsoft) near Seattle around 1990, local newscaster Jean Enerson did an interview with Bill Gates. She asked him about his wealth. You would have loved his Buddhist like response. He knew he had money but it was out there somewhere and didn't think about it much nor had much attachment too it. Bill's father was a corporate attorney and most likely advised Bill when Microsoft start flowing with money. Most likely his income got turned over to a good financial management firm. Which is what many people do who find themselves coming into money. Or like the old nouveau rich might just blow all that money and become nouveau poor. The TV series Lost made an example of this out of the character Hurley who as a slacker fast food employee wins a big lottery prize. He does wisely have a financial services firm invest that money. There were some episodes where he checks in with them and finds out that he owns some company he has been having some problems with. Gates is an accidental billionaire just like Facebook's Zuckerberg. But those two are miles apart in personality. I once was liason between Gates and my company's President who had made a statement of displeasure about Microsoft to the press and so Bill had one of his VPs contact me because I had been involved with Microsoft in a Silicon Valley consortium known as Games PC. Gates was interested in what we thought Microsoft could be doing to make things better. I had also attended a Computer Bowl at the Tech Museum in San Jose which Gates was a co-emcee. Afterwards at the reception I was standing with one of our company programmers who had also attended the Bowl as Gates came walking our way. The main crowd was smoking so I commented looks like someone else doesn't care much for cigarette smoke. He got a few feet away and was suddenly mobbed by some of the crowd. He kept looking over at us and I think he had spied my company jacket and wanted to ask about the company. Rumors were he wanted to buy us as we distributed his pet project software for him. When I lived for that brief time in the 1969-70 in Mill Valley it was at the home of a woman who was from an old money family. I've
