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Bill Gates Suggests Taxing Banks to Cut Federal Deficit
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| Bill, let's be honest, it's hypocritical to
| suggest taxing banks to reduce the federal
| deficit while your company Microsoft
| contributes to Washington State's $2.6
| billion deficit with its alleged $728 million
| evasion of the royalty tax.
|
| You say the federal deficit could be the
| "next crisis". What about your home state's
| impending insolvency? What about our current
| local crisis?
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http://microsofttaxdodge.com/2010/01/bill-gates-wants-to-tax-banks-to-cut-federal-deficit.html
Older:
Hasta la Vista, part 1: Microsofts final death march
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| Unfortunately, Bill Gates is not a wizard.
| Even worse, he is a bad programmer. When
| Martin Eller, a Microsoft programmer, found
| an error in the flood fill routine of the MS-
| Basic interpreter, he exclaimed "Which moron
| wrote this brainless sh*t?" only to find out
| it was Gates himself who wrote the "brainless
| sh*t". I think it is safe to say that Bill
| Gates is hardly the technical wizard he would
| so much like to be.
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http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2007/07/hasta-la-vista-part-1-microsofts-final.html
programmers at work
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| Bricklin sent waves of laughter through
| the auditorium by reading a passage from
| Lammers' interview with Bill Gates in
| which the young Microsoft founder
| explained that his work on different
| versions of Microsoft's BASIC compiler
| was shaped by looking at how other
| programmers had gone about the same task.
| Gates went on to say that young
| programmers don't need computer science
| degrees: "The best way to prepare is to
| write programs, and to study great
| programs that other people have written.
| In my case, I went to the garbage cans at
| the Computer Science Center and I fished
| out listings of their operating systems."
|
| Bricklin finished reading Gates' words
| and announced, with an impish smile,
| "This is where Gates and [Richard]
| Stallman agree!"
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http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002646.html
Recent:
Steve Jobs and Sir Tim Berners-Lee baffle the Brits
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| Microsoft boss Bill Gates was the most
| well-known but 5% of the group thought he
| was a comedian or a famous thief.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8458880.stm
PPS and the philanthro-capitalists
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| The free market approach to enrollment and
| funding is a demonstrable failure in
| Portland, when measured by access to
| educational opportunity. Unless the
| district is willing to significantly reduce
| opportunity for the white middle class,
| thereâs no way they can pay for equity of
| opportunity without balancing enrollment,
| that is, by curtailing school choice. This
| is a significant element of the high school
| plan. With it, the district appears to be
| forging a path independent of current
| trends pushed by Gates, at least for high
| schools.
|
| But the district appears unwilling to apply
| the same lesson to middle grades.
|
| Sara Allanâs contention that itâs not the
| structure of the school that matters, but
| what goes on in the classroom, also closely
| parrots the current line being sold by
| Phillips, now head of education for the
| Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
|
| Phillips was the keynote speaker at the
| Council of The Great City Schools
| conference held in Portland last month,
| attended by Allan and quite a few of her
| administrative colleagues. In her speech,
| Phillips promoted merit pay for teachers,
| the latest policy thrust of Gates.
|
| While superintendent in Portland, Philips
| was responsible for both the transition to
| K-8 schools and the âsmall schoolsâ
| initiative, funded largely by the Gates
| foundation, which dismantled every
| comprehensive high school in Portland
| serving majority non-white students, and
| split them into rigid âacademies.â These
| academies forced students to choose a
| narrow field of study as freshmen, and
| didnât allow students to take electives
| offered in other academies in the same
| building.
|
| [...]
|
| Gatesâ quiet partner
|
| The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has
| grown to be the dominant voice in the
| national education dialogue, heavily
| influencing the federal education policy of
| both George W. Bush and Barack Obama. But
| even as PPS appears to be taking a non-
| Gates path on high schools, the district
| continues to be enamored with Gatesâ
| biggest private-sector education policy
| ally: Eli Broadâs education foundation.
|
| [...]
|
| âStudent performance,â entirely measured by
| standardized test scores, correlates highly
| to poverty. Broadâs scheme would almost
| certainly assure that teachers in poor and
| minority communities would make less than
| their colleagues in wealthier schools, only
| worsening the achievement gap. This puts
| the lie to Broadâs (and Gatesâ) stated
| mission of closing that gap.
|
| [...]
|
| âStudent performance,â entirely measured by
| standardized test scores, correlates highly
| to poverty. Broadâs scheme would almost
| certainly assure that teachers in poor and
| minority communities would make less than
| their colleagues in wealthier schools, only
| worsening the achievement gap. This puts
| the lie to Broadâs (and Gatesâ) stated
| mission of closing that gap.
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http://ppsequity.org/2009/11/30/pps-and-the-philanthro-capitalists/
Related:
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Found
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttq0IdULfjg
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVlnqnMHQ1c
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