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So, if you were somehow able to amass that much money, you'd give everything
over $1 million away to others?  Forgive me if I say that I don't believe that.
 However, we'll never be able to test that.  I could SAY that I'd be happy with
a couple million, but there's no way to prove it.

Also, what's the incentive for someone that rich to keep working?  I know I
wouldn't bust my ass day after day if I was forced to give away all the 'extra'
income...  I'd just sit back, relax, and live off my interest.

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Regards, Ruud

Apart from that, when you're on the brink of starvation (possibly
because of "global freedom - for the wealthy nations that is, of
course"), you're gonna be darned glad to take any PC government hand-out
any ***y day. It's not like you have a choice in such conditions!

Regards, Ruud

PS. Now I forgot what this had to do with LFS...

Dude, the only one this money does work for is Gates himself.

Regards, Ruud

PS. Now if HE would fund GPL II.... that would be a useful purpose, kinda.

Well, they're not directly related, but they're related. Bill and other
billionaires having excessive wealth (note the excessive) and not being
limited to do so in any way, means green light for unequal distribution
of wealth. If not limited, this tends to result in HUGE wealth for some,
and often HUGE poverty for many. Imho, that's worth an adjustment,
without leaving Bill c.s. poor.

Regards, Ruud

PS. I'd rather see the Papyrus guys cash in than Bill...

A generous man is someone who gives till it hurts. Bill is not a
particularly generous man until he donates about 58 billion dollars, and
then he still has 1000 million left!

That's for sure, alas.

Yes and no. Yes in the absolute sense, and no in the sense that stealing
$ 1000 from a billionaire is not the same as stealing from some poor sod
who makes $ 90 a month.

Bill wouldn't even notice if he had $ 1000 stolen... If he sneezes, he's
made that much already.

Like I said, I don't condone theft per se, but a Robin Hood-type action
where 50+ billion is transferred from Bill to Africa, I'd welcome, since
it would still leave BG with a cool coupla billion dollars to live on.
(It's not that I'd want to see Bill poor himself, although that would be
the first chance the man had to build some character...)

Regards, Ruud

PS. Now where's LFS gone    ;)

True.

No. The problem is more that when left uncontrolled in the *real* sense,
(not the American "society serves business instead of the other way
around"-sense) it tends to eat every resource it can find, including
people. Microsoft and Enron are pretty good cases in point.

That's why I think capitalism should be confined to business, not
government or society as a whole. It should be more strictly controlled.

No, I don't think my country (the Netherlands) is "best". That's more
like a typical American spoonfed dogma  ;)   In some ways we score
pretty good (weed anyone?  ;), and bad in others.

Nobody of us, in general, leaves their country unless they have to. But
if I could just live where I wanted, I'd be sitting on a beach in Hawaii
with a nice laptop playing GPL instead of soggy northern Europe   ;)

Regards, Ruud

I'm not one of these people who has to have more just because it makes a
nice number that keeps on growing... Heck, if I had half a million...

(And like I said, as soon as I'd sink under a certain minimum (let's say
the 100.000 dollar mark) I'd be allowed to build it up again.)

Yeah, but sitting at home all day usually gets boring for any working
man/woman, wealthy or not. After all, BillG is still working too (alas).

But I think I'd finally get the time on lowering my too-average GPL
laptimes..!   ;)

Regards, Ruud

Oh so now just giving isn't enough -- you have to give to the point that
it actually damages you financially in order for it to count? Wow.

They are both crimes and they are both wrong. You are simply attempting
to justify stealing from the billionaire in order to support your
position.

So what? It's HIS $1000 and you and I have no right to it.

So how long have you known Mr. Gates personally? I assume that you do
since you are making statements about his character. What did Bill do to
you to make you so bitter toward him?

If you don't know Bill personally I can only assume that your comments
are motivated by jealousy and envy.

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The very concept of the government "allowing" you to build wealth makes
my skin crawl. I can't believe there are people in the world who believe
this is the right way to run things. I thought the liberals in this
country were bad -- they ain't got nothin' on the Euro-libs...

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Regards,

Uwe

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I guess you also think it's ok to burn books about Darwinism and instead
teach kids that God made us all in his image... no need to accept
evolutionary facts about flocks ?? How long will you allow religion to rule
your country ?

Please please please show me the difference between your religious right
wing fanatics &  Muslim fanatics ? Somehow it seems you do not really
understand the importance of seperating politics and religion, despite being
so offended that muslims cannot seperate those issues either.
When you want to scare the american people, show them a bunch of dirty
muslims praying to Allah while holding guns, I see the same picture when
looking at american troops holding guns saying they will get the enemy "by
the will of God".
Different god, same way of thinking....it honestly scares me.

Mikkel

YAWN.

You don't know me, and you obviously don't have a clue about life in the US.

-Scott Johnson
 "There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than
  to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go
  to watch their school play basketball every Saturday
  and regard that as their week's exercise."
                       - John F. Kennedy, 1962

Most starvation comes not from lack of food, but from crappy government
policies. Do a news.google.com search on Zimbabwe.

We need a couple more tracks, 16 cars in multiplayer, and more people online
serious about racing.

-Scott Johnson
 "There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than
  to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go
  to watch their school play basketball every Saturday
  and regard that as their week's exercise."
                       - John F. Kennedy, 1962