On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:15:48 +0100, Nigel Feltham wrote:
> Ezekiel wrote:
>
>
>> "Nigel Feltham" <nigel.feltham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:NfCdnd_2UYpenhXXnZ2dnUVZ8mti4p2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Hadron wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nigel Feltham <nigel.feltham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Tim Smith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In article <4a877b0d$0$4426$6e1ede2f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>>>> High Plains Thumper <highplainsthumper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>> > Besides which, Microsoft has done more for charities and the
>>>>>>> > homeless and the 3rd world than the silly open source
>>>>>>> > "community" ever will.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Like?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm pretty sure he meant the Gates Foundation, not Microsoft, of
>>>>>> course.
>>>>>> Examples of what the Gates Foundation has done:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> March 2009, $350k to The Greater New Orleans Foundation, to
>>>>>> support
>>>>>> and build a coordinated network of Housing Resource Centers to
>>>>>> serve property owners who have not yet recovered from Katrina.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> February 2009 $375k to The National Alliance to End
>>>>>> Homelessness, Inc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> December 2008 $200k to King County, Washington to support
>>>>>> development
>>>>>> of a family homelessness business plan.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> July 2008 $336k to Washington Low Income Housing Alliance to
>>>>>> support
>>>>>> advocacy efforts to increase affordable housing and end
>>>>>> homelessness in
>>>>>> Washington state.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> July 2008 $5.4 million to Building Changes to support their
>>>>>> efforts
>>>>>> aimed at reducing family homelessness.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> July 2008 $750k to Building Change to support capacity building
>>>>>> efforts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> May 2008 $25k to Community Shelter Board of Ohio for general
>>>>>> operating support.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> April 2008 $10k to Housing Consortium of Everett and Snohomish
>>>>>> County
>>>>>> to support production of an Affordable Housing Action Plan for
>>>>>> Snohomish
>>>>>> County.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> March 2008 $1.3 million to Building Changes to support housing
>>>>>> programs in the Puget Sound area.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's just the grants in the Housing and Homelessness category for
>>>>>> 2008
>>>>>> and 2009 so far. Many of the grants in the Community Grants
>>>>>> category are
>>>>>> also relevant for homelessness.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As for 3rd world, here are a few, just from the category of
>>>>>> emergency relief.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dec 2008 $1 million to Oxfam America for emergency assistance in
>>>>>> response to a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nov 2008 $1.3 million to Lutheran World Relief to mitigate the
>>>>>> impact
>>>>>> of rising food prices on rural communities through optimum rice and
>>>>>> wheat production in Mali and Niger.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sept 2008 $700k to Catholic Relief Services to provide emergency
>>>>>> relief for those affected by hurricanes Gustav, Hanna, and Ike in
>>>>>> the worst-affected areas of Haiti.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sept 2008 $2.9 million to Catholic Relief Services to provide
>>>>>> assistance to vulnerable households in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso
>>>>>> and Haiti in response to the global food crisis
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aug 2008 $2 million to Oxfam America to assist in alleviating
>>>>>> hunger,
>>>>>> malnutrition, and the deterioration of health of vulnerable
>>>>>> families caused by the food crisis and drought in the Oromia and
>>>>>> Tigray regions of Ethiopia.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> July 2008 $10 million to United Nations World Food Programme to
>>>>>> assist young children, pregnant and lactating women in Niger, Cote
>>>>>> d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso affected by the high food prices
>>>>>> emergency.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> May 2008 $1.3 million to Chinese Ministry of Health to support
>>>>>> emergency relief activities for the Sichuan earthquake.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here's a good one from the neglected disease category:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nov 2008 $40 million to The Carter Center for Global Campaign to
>>>>>> Eradicate Guinea Worm Disease.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Complete list here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <http://www.gatesfoundation.org/grants/Pages/search.aspx>
>>>>>
>>>>> So what - running a criminal organisation is now OK if you donate
>>>>> some of
>>>>> the proceeds to charity?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sure Al Capone donated to charity as well, does that now make
>>>>> him one
>>>>> of the Good Guys?
>>>>
>>>> You really are a grade A idiot.
>>>>
>>>> Criminal organisation!?!? Take your meds and go back to bed you
>>>> loonytunes you.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>> So they haven't been prosecuted in the USA and Europe for their
>>> criminal activities then and I've just imagined all the fines they've
>>> had to pay for
>>> it in Europe?
>>
>> Obviously you're not bright enough to understand even the basics of
>> law. Here's a free hint for you... if someone has to pay something like
>> a "parking ticket" it doesn't make then a "criminal."
>
> But the Courts don't normally order your company to be broken up unless
> you've committed a criminal act -
>From where did you get that piece of information?
> and that order was only reversed after
> MS helped with political funding, another illegal act they seem to have
> gotten away with.
--
Rick
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