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« on: January 15, 2016, 04:52:16 PM »

Since money is the root of all evil, the richest man in the world (or at least the US) must be evil, right?
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« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2016, 05:56:54 PM »

Terrible yes, but not "evil".
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« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2016, 06:08:25 PM »

Not evil at all. If anything, Steve Jobs was much more evil.
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« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2016, 09:51:52 PM »

Not evil at all. If anything, Steve Jobs was much more evil.
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« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2016, 10:28:22 PM »

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« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2016, 09:44:44 AM »

Since money is the root of all evil, the richest man in the world (or at least the US) must be evil, right?
That's a misquote.  What the Bible actually says is that the love of money is the root of all evil, not money itself.

As for Bill Gates, the man is about as far from evil as anyone in this series so far.  He built a huge software empire from scratch, beginning as a teenager, and he has made tremendous philanthropic contributions with his foundation.
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« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2016, 10:36:22 AM »
« Edited: January 17, 2016, 10:38:03 AM by ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) »

Im interested in knowing who are those 4-5 consistent ultra-left voters. The last time we had a Konrad Adenauer thread and its was 4-5 who voted HP while 25 voted FF. And now its the same voters who voted HP for Bill Gates despite him leaning-democrat, obviously just because he is rich.
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« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2016, 01:23:22 PM »

Merely a man trying to make penance for his anti-competitive and monopolistic behaviour in the 90's. Not a massive fan of his tenure at Microsoft (and I'm not some kind of deranged trot as hydera seems to assume all HP voters are).

As for his post-Internet Explorer days - well, charity is great, for doing specific actions (collect X cash for buying Y drugs for location X), but it's ludicrously bad (combining the flaws of both the public and private sector) at anything more meaningful, especially big top-down orgs like B&M Gates Foundation. The Foundation itself can be criticised for a few specific reasons - the 2007 LA Times expose was pretty embarrassing on their part, and they essentially quashed any investigation into the specific allegations made and doubled down on their strategy. They've done some good stuff, but I can't help think of The Lesson of the Widow's Mite when I think about a lot of the hyper-rich's philanthropy.
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« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2016, 03:34:50 PM »


I reported him four times now, so we'll just have to wait for one to show up.

*sighs*

What did Mr. Morden do to this guy?

EDIT: He's attained the ability to post maps. God help us all.
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« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2016, 03:37:40 PM »


I reported him four times now, so we'll just have to wait for one to show up.

*sighs*

What did Mr. Morden do to this guy?

No idea. It's probably banned poster Atheist2006/solarstorm, though.

This was his last profile before he was banned: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=9330
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« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2016, 03:42:40 PM »


I reported him four times now, so we'll just have to wait for one to show up.

*sighs*

What did Mr. Morden do to this guy?

No idea. It's probably banned poster Atheist2006/solarstorm, though.

This was his last profile before he was banned: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=9330

I see. Well, you learn something new (about Atlas) every day!
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« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2016, 03:56:24 PM »


I reported him four times now, so we'll just have to wait for one to show up.

I PM'd NYM about him
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« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2016, 03:56:48 PM »

Clearly Not Evil
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« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2016, 03:58:41 PM »


I reported him four times now, so we'll just have to wait for one to show up.

I PM'd NYM about him

Thank you, computer89.
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« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2016, 05:11:10 PM »
« Edited: January 17, 2016, 05:15:31 PM by Torie »

Sorry for the delay. I was buffing up at the gym. In culling out the spam, I think I may have accidentally deleted a couple of other posts, because I hit "delete" at the bottom of the post, rather than the top. And for that I apologize. It won't happen again.
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« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2016, 11:04:16 PM »

All things considered it was probably for the best that we had a "national" computer company.

Imagine how ridiculous and impossible things would be if everybody used totally different operating systems in the 1990's.
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