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Here's What The Richest Man In The World Thinks About Snowden And NSA Surveillance
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
So Bill Gates recently gave an interview to Rolling Stone magazine. The vast majority of the interview focused on his philanthropic efforts, with a particular focus on poverty and climate change. However, several questions were brought up on illegal NSA surveillance in general, and Edward Snowden in particular.
His answers reveal one of the biggest problems facing America today, which is the fact that the billionaire class as a whole does not question or rock the boat whatsoever. They criticize only when it is convenient or easy to do so, never putting themselves at risk for the sake of civil liberties and the Constitution.
In mosts cases, this is due to the fact that they themselves are the characters pulling the strings of the political class in Washington D.C. So when it comes down to it, their policies ultimately become our policies.
It is also important to note that Microsoft was a particularly eager participant in NSA spying from the very beginning. For example, according to the following PRISM slide provided by Edward Snowden, we see that Gates’ company was the first to become involved. In fact, they were participating a full six months before Yahoo!, while Apple didn’t join until a year after Steve Jobs died.
What a tangled web we have weaved. Now from Rolling Stone:
Question: When people think about the cloud, it’s not only the accessibility of information and their documents that comes to mind, but also their privacy – or lack of it.
Gates: Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it. There’s a general view there that it’s not used to invade privacy in some way. Yet in an American city, in order to take advantage of that in the same way, you have to trust what this information is going to be used for.
Do they really catch terrorists because of it in London? Because in the U.S., the NSA chief already admitted that the entire spy program has stopped essentially zero terrorist attacks. It certainly didn’t stop the Boston bombings. So what are we giving up our privacy for exactly?
Question: Thanks to Edward Snowden, who has leaked tens of thousands of NSA documents, we are. Do you consider him a hero or a traitor?
Gates: I think he broke the law, so I certainly wouldn’t characterize him as a hero. If he wanted to raise the issues and stay in the country and engage in civil disobedience or something of that kind, or if he had been careful in terms of what he had released, then it would fit more of the model of “OK, I’m really trying to improve things.” You won’t find much admiration from me.
Sorry Billy boy, but we have had many whistleblowers in the past who went through the system and they ended up in jail or their lives were ruined. For example, the only person imprisoned for torture in the USA is the guy who exposed the torture program, John Kiriakou.
Question: Even so, do you think it’s better now that we know what we know about government surveillance?
Gates: The government has such ability to do these things. There has to be a debate. But the specific techniques they use become unavailable if they’re discussed in detail. So the debate needs to be about the general notion of under what circumstances should they be allowed to do things.
First of all, without the Snowden revelations, there would be no “debate.” As it stands, the intelligence complex and Obama don’t seem to have much interest in changing a single thing anyway.
Before Snowden proved us right, those who accurately claimed the NSA was doing all of these things were labeled paranoid conspiracy theorists. Moreover, how can anyone seriously defend these “techniques” in light of the recent revelations that show activities so egregious that security experts think they threaten the infrastructure of the entire internet?
Gates goes on to ponder…
Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information?Those aren’t easy questions.
How are those not easy questions? They are exceedingly easy questions for a civilized society. The answer is no. Unless you want to toss even more citizens in jail for non-violent offenses, because having 25% of the world’s prison population and only 5% of its population is not inhumane enough.
More from Gates…
The U.S. government in general is one of the better governments in the world. It’s the best in many, many respects. Lack of corruption, for instance, and a reasonable justice system.
Seriously, what country is Gates living in? I suppose when you are the richest man in the world it’s pretty easy to live in a bubble. He is so obsessed with the problems of the outside world and the fact that they are more corrupt than we are, that he is completely blind to the very dangerous trends happening in America.
What a joke.
The entire interview can be read here.
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he dosent want someone working out of a garage to someday put ms outa biz
Bill Gates can suck a big fat donkey dick. I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of my last remaining Windows systems.
Bill,
Fuck you motherfucker!
+ 1, hear you big-time, but of all the open-source stuff out there (esp. easy to use database and stats programs), I am locked into a Windows world.
Apple, no thanks.
Someone will come along with an alternative that frees us soon I hope. There are tablet computers here in Peru (Android OS) that sell for about $80.
Have you played around with WINE? It's amazing how far it's come in 10 years. It works really well. Otherwise vmware workstation screams on a linux back-end. So you can use your windows apps in a sandboxed vm when you need them, but keep them off the network.
I should try it again but I haven't got it, last time at it, to run silverlight. mono just doesn't cut it. I get my CSV data for LibreOffice from freestockcharts.com and it requires silverlight to use the icon to download the data. No screen appears without it.
So for now I'm dual booting just to get that data and then produce my scatterplots.
Other than those for gold, thankfully they are in zip files with CSV text data inside:
http://www.fxhistoricaldata.com/download/XAGUSD?t=day
http://www.fxhistoricaldata.com/download/XAGUSD?t=hour
http://www.fxhistoricaldata.com/download/XAUUSD?t=day
http://www.fxhistoricaldata.com/download/XAUUSD?t=hour
10 years data there. Some entries are missing which is annoying for hourly 10 year if you want to scatterplot since you need matching prices on every date or something in its place to match up the rows.
That's why my scatterplots for 10 year or even more than 3 year are never hourly. It's possible but I don't have the time to manually insert rows.
Put Ubuntu on all the machines. Works great. You will only suffer 1 month getting used to work with Linux.
I run Zorin-8 (ubuntu) on my machines with wine. All my(windows based) trading platforms work great!
http://zorin-os.com/
Correct, Bill Gates is a statist bitch. Microsoft belongs to the most corrupt companies in the world.
The guy is a special kind of Soros. And the bullshit about climate change.. geez, this guy is fucked and corrupt as hell.
Fuck you Gates, you windose asshole!
Overlord Bill, the closet eugenist, has worked with (read: for) the government for years. Whether or not Snowden is part of a 'limited hangout' like Greenwald, is still open for debate...
www.TopTheNews.com
The closet eugenist Bill wants to destroy the white race and put these people in charge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_ hkKUCWltc
Right place, right time, right price...the guy didn't invent shit but he did make a of lot of it. Fuck you Gates!
Cocksucker Bill "lets reduce the population with vaccines" Gates. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUJMR3BUm2s
I'm for anything that will make the world a better place for Bill Gates and his progeny.
The bastard got his software business, when a corrupt federal judge split IBM's hardware and software business. His mother was on the IBM board. He didn't invent it in a garage. He's buying protection, like Buffet. S&P is prosecuted, but Buffet at Moody's isn't. He needs the government and its media to protect him and his wealth. This is one of his protection payments to the government/media cabal.
She wasn't on the board of IBM, she was on the board of the United Way.
"She was later appointed to the board of the United Way of America; in 1983, she became the first woman to lead it. Right Time, Right Place
Her tenure on the national board's executive committee is believed to have helped Microsoft, based in Seattle, at a crucial time. In 1980, she discussed with John R. Opel, a fellow committee member who was the chairman of the International Business Machines Corporation, the business that I.B.M. was doing with Microsoft.
Mr. Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other I.B.M. executives. A few weeks later, I.B.M. took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer."
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/11/obituaries/mary-gates-64-helped-her-so...
a conspiracy theory is that IBM would have the upstart make the OS for the pc, and that having a sort of crippled CPU and non-re-entrant OS would doom the thing from the start, then IBM could say, 'see, a personal computer really could never work', then IBM could go on making megabux from their minicomputers on up.
but the 'crippled personal computer with the crappy OS' blew up in their faces and was a great success. kind of like that movie, the producers.
that's a theory anyway.
The U.S. government in general is one of the better governments in the world. It’s the best in many, many respects.
What a bunch of self-serving bullshit, you hypocritical liar. You have betrayed the trust of billions of your customers by building backdoors for the NSA and yet people ask you for moral judgments? It is like asking Pol Pot or Mao about compassion.
Here is your best government in the world:
The most extraordinary passage in the memo requires that the Israeli spooks “destroy upon recognition” any communication provided by the NSA “that is either to or from an official of the US government.” It goes on to spell out that this includes “officials of the Executive Branch (including the White House, Cabinet Departments, and independent agencies); the US House of Representatives and Senate (members and staff); and the US Federal Court System (including, but not limited to, the Supreme Court).”
The stunning implication of this passage is that NSA spying targets not only ordinary American citizens, but also Supreme Court justices, members of Congress and the White House itself. One could hardly ask for a more naked exposure of a police state.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/13/surv-s13.html
Observer:
Perhaps one thought that may give us some comfort is that the huge amount of spying and malfeasance will help, and soon, collapse the state of its own heavy and stinking weight.
"They're (Washington collectively) not going to work their way out of it, so it's just (all) going to collapse," he said. "Let's just keep working on the fact that, when we get around to rebuilding this whole entire system, that we do it the way it was intended originally, and actually improve upon it."
http://www.naturalnews.com/042560_Ron_Paul_US_empire_collapse.html
manchurian nerd.
At the risk of being coarse and vulgar, let me just be the first to say FUCK BILL GATES !!!!!!!
EAT SHIT AND DIE BILLY BOY !!!!!!!!!
Another five years and the surveillance web will be complete and there will be no escape from its reach. We either put a stop to this bullshit right now or say goodbye to any ideas of freedom forever.......
IMO you don't have 5 years. Now the Orwellian state is a reality. You could have said we have 5 years in 2009.
It will take MAJOR economic upheaval that affects the electric power distribution to dislodge the parasites. I don't believe for a minute it can be unwound through political action at this point.
It will take a few years to get the thousands of drones operational, cameras on every street corner, healthcare, monetary and travel controls implemented to their full advantage. I agree that the basics are operational, however refinements are on the way. We truly haven't seen anything yet.........
The blind monkey has more sight than most...
The only thing that is going to dislodge the parasite from the host is Revolution 2.0, we're all just waiting for the trigger to be pulled.
The triggering event will be economical in my view.
WW3 will be the result as the currencies that matter are all on the verge of collapse.
The globalists like Bill Gates, really have no clue about reality. The oligarchs that matter use the Gates, Buffets, et all as tools, nothing more.
DaddyO
August 12, 2014. A good a date as any for a revolution/collapse/reset?
Peak meteor shower.
No wonder why Paul Allen hates this asshole.
Bill Gates made a pile of money but he is not an inventor, not a scientist, not an artist, He is just , a nothing. Who needs his opinion ?
"richest"
as if.
Funny how they never mention the owners of it all. R and R
I worked at Oracle from its early days when there were less than 200 employees and know that Oracle was tight with the CIA from its start. Larry Ellison and Bob Miner implemented the SQL standard (as defined by IBM) on the DEC VAX platform for the CIA. Oracle is still deeply coupled to the CIA.
Do some research on the use of technology by the OSS that became the CIA. They have continuously been on the leading edge in the use of new technology.
Oracle, Microsoft, and others are tightly coupled to the US government. Why should this surprise us? Don't we see evidence of it every day in the MSM?
Jim Willie is right, that the US operates within the fascist business model. Why are we surprised when we see the US aid and abet fascist (and jihadi) groups in the Balkans, Egypt, Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Chechnya, ...? It is a reflection of what the US (and the West) is.
I can confirm that Oracle´s first (or one of the first) big customer was the CIA and they are (or were, back in the day when I saw for myself -- I am sure they still are, Ellison himself said a few years ago that we have no privacy anymore) very tight.
When you redefine the word corruption, everything he says actually makes alot of sense.
Hello Mr. Gates. How much of your money left the US to avoid paying IRS taxes? Hire slow, fire fast
That is a great article. Roughly equivalent to try not to make mistakes, but when you do (and you always will), clean them up right away.
+ a bunch
The ultra-rich don't criticize for two reasons:
1) They have too much to lose, and they know they can lose it if the government turns on them.
2) They have no interest in upsetting the system that keeps them in power.
Revolution is a poor-man's game.
Exactly right, Dollar. Government is an attack dog that can be turned on anyone. Remember the antitrust litigation against Microsoft? Before that Gates did not have lobbyists and generous campaign donations. He has corrected that "oversight", now.
I will add that it is why the U.S. populace does not revolt. We all have too much at stake. So while the evils of government are still tolerable we will prefer to tolerate them (with reference to T. Jefferson).
Revolutions tend to occur in impoverished nations and peoples. Communist revolutions tend to occur in poor peasant nations.
I would add that there is this myth that the wealthy oppose government. There are reasons they might but it may well appeal to their personal sense of superiority and elitism. Bloomberg would be my favorite poster boy for that....another billionaire.
you don't bite the hand that feeds you.
BG, JD, WB are all Oligarchs on the same gravy train. Period.
Oh my god, where to start, where to stop. Fuck you Bill Gates. You are as hated as Jamie Dimon.
There are SO many problems with Gate's assertions but I'll stick with the most obvious, to me...
Gates states that Snowden broke the law while ignoring the fact that the CONSTITUTION IS THE LAW OF THE LAND.
We know that Gates got his money from monopolistic practices and stepped on competition through many highly illegal routes. Of course, microsoft creates all forms of back doors for the govt to step through in order to further skull fuck our right to privacy. I know, I know, the govt just wants to protect us as they attack countries around the world, stage coups, and sew economic chaos while sheltering bankers guilty of securities fraud, money laundering and market manipulation.
Shit, I'm glad gates glossed over all this, cuz , if you are rich you must be brilliant and ethically grounded.
What does Mr. Gates think about the NSA? Well...
He thinks they're a talented bunch and have been a great business partner all these long years, perhaps a bit pushy and stubborn at times, but he's always happy to oblige cause he knows his place and is fully aware of the competitive advantage the government has given him, it's just quid pro quo.
...
Or can people not fathom the concept that they work in partnership, quid pro quo, on a forward basis, and have for decades? The only antagonism that exists there is office politics, watercooler intrigues. The guy who started and ran the company that makes the OS of about 90% (admittedly decreasing in absolute terms) of the worlds computers isn't going to be friendly with the agency in charge of computer (among other electronic) surveillance? Really?
Gates: Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing
Really? it's ok to place cameras where WE, The People live. How about placing cameras next to the mansion where YOU, a-hole, live??
Terrorists? Petty crimes? BULL-SH*T! HE, like other 0.01%-ers, including the governemnet parasites, need protection from US, The people!
MSFT and Mr. Gates have made billions off of the us gov. No possible conflict of interest I'm sure.
The gov't bailed them out again in the wake of Windows 8 being a COMPLETE POS
He's one of them now. There was only one correct answer. The people responsible for the nsa spying should be publically . .. Bill is hopping back and forth aross the line protecting his little database of every school child in America. You can only fence sit so long.
gates is a totalitarian war mongering sack of shit.
Windoz is the safest operating system out there.
http://pastebin.com/hqSqXx2B
Yeah, Gates is right, The USA govt aint corrupt no way no how, not ever. And the US govt can be trusted to film every fucking thing you do, record everything you say, and intercept every piece of correspondence you write and never ever twist and turn that against you because, after all, the US govt is run by a bunch of saints who would never trample the rights of citizens ....
... as long as those citizens have a net worth of over $1 billion and are connected to the right folks, and if you are not, well then you get what Uncle Slam thinks you deserve, and worse. Suckers.
"Gates: I think he broke the law, so I certainly wouldn’t characterize him as a hero."
I guess by the same token one should not call Nelson Mandela a hero then either? Why did the entire world celebrate Mandela, did top politicians from all over the world, including the USA, attend his funeral? Mandela started off as a "terrorist" now, didn't he?
King, Gandhi, almost all true heroes have been, in a narrow sense, "lawbreakers".
Why look so far? John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington were all terrorists by definition.
The U.S. Government Believes that the Founding Father Were Terrorists http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/the-u-s-government-believes-that-...Behind every fortune there's a crime...
Retaining said fortune requires continued criminal activity.
and more often than not --murder
Snowden at this point hasn't touched Sibel Edmonds in the realm of leak and destroy, but she was heard by few, he has the limelight to seriously awaken the population. The Sibel Edmonds material is the proverbial Red Pill.... there is no going back after that, every hair on your neck will stand up and then you will sit with a 1000 yard stare as you experience violent schema change. Snowden is certainly holding back wildcards and we don't seem to be doing so well on time....
SNOWDEN UNLEASH THE KRAKEN!! And the truth shall set us free.
Gates learned the hard way that you gotta pay off the pols...
After that he learned you can buy, own and keep them at your will...
Smart boy.
Orrin Hatch, Orrin Hatch, Orrin Hatch.....
i was thinking the same thing from the 'inside'... back in the day when msft started having problems with the ftc and such, i was like, 'wow, as smart as gates and co. are, they really don't (yet) understand politics/politicians'.
then there was that ftc panel regarding the dr-dos affair during the win3.1 beta, and things began turning around from there. but for awhile there, gates really came across as a political neophyte. maybe it was all an act. it certainly seems to have worked out well for him in any event...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzhydg1UKpQ
vidoe surveillence... great after the fact
FBI trying to operate two terrorist punks who were playing them... and not informing the boston pd... oh well just like 9-11 it gets shoved under the rug... the fbi does nothing til after the fact... WHY
hey by the way FBI.... how's that benghazi investigaiton working out?? or do you need more time... hint: check with the nsa that intercepted the telcons between the initiators (zawahiri) and the perpetrators (you already have their names and addresses).. what are ou waiting for? the ok from obama via holder?? wink and nod ...
Fuck you Bill.
The correct term for Gates and Buffett is AMERICAN OLIGARCH. Don't be too hard on them. They know that billionaires can "drown" and "fall" and have "heart attacks". Just like every president gets to watch the Zapruder film early in their first briefing.
At least they're probably safe from nail guns, so they've got that.
>>>>>He is so obsessed with the problems of the outside world and the fact that they are more corrupt than we are
Me thinks Mike needs a perspective adjustment. Gates along with his siamese twin Rottenfellar are solving the problems of overpopulation with the outside world. His vaccines are NOT to spare life but to take it. G@@gle the tetanus vaccine they gave to pregnant women in Thailand. Babies 8 mos in utero were stillborn yet alive & viable prior to the threat of tetanus. The women were rendered sterile.
It's no different than laws passed that are named one thing & clearly represent the polar opposite.
Fuck them both sideways with glass, a rusty chainsaw & rubbing alcohol.
Billionaires are tools of the state. If you don't believe it why hasn't one single billionaire created a non-profit group to investigate corruption in government? Corruption is the number one issue with almost everyone on the planet including the U.S. Think what could be accomplished if a $B were committed to a group of lawyers and investigators to uncover corruption in D.C. Bah. This generation of rich are all suck-ups to the state.
Abetted by accountants, of course.
Penn Cove doesn't like Bill either. His dad is an attorney. Ok, got it.
With rare exception, the more a person has to lose, the more he is invested in the status quo, the more he benefits from the status quo, the more he plays ball.
We can go to the other end of the economic spectrum, and ask people on welfare what they think of all these issues and those who can comprehend them will give similar answers.
But of course. Bill Gates is part of the problem.
Vote with your feet (againt Bill Gates). Switch to Linux, LibreOffice, Ekiga, Jitsi, OsTel, etc.
Gates desperately wants to be seen by history as the Henry Ford or Edison of his time.
That's not going to happen, because Gates locked the computing world into decades of anti-competitive forced medocrity.
He makes my life miserable every day because of the hideously poor quality of his oldest products (which I am forced to use).
Gates will never cure a disease with his foundation because there is no profit in that. He will only get the third world hooked on whatever little plastic disposable annuity thingies he has to sell. Big Pharma writ larger.
Gates is despised, but I doubt he hears that much from the sycophant groupie-toads surrounding him.
This is the guy behind Internet Explorer. Need I add more?
Tell you what, I’ll be all OK with this surveillance shit when they position the first 24/7 cameras on Goldman Sachs, JPM, and Jeffries trading desks so we can all see what goes on there. Oh, put a couple on the trading floor of the NY Fed, and one in the Boardroom of Microsoft, Google, and Facebook while you're at it..
What’s good for the goose……
I love listening to Bill's horse shit. Like Warren Buffet (his favorite donator) he is bought and paid for by the government. This man was an example of the ultimate salesman. He created nothing on his own but used others to propel himself to the richest money junkie on the planet. No easy task I'll admit but he opened the gate to what was possible if you really worked hard and were good at Bullshit.
"Yes you too can become a billionaire if you can sell your products".
Just the fact that he convinced Buffet and some of the other philanthropic morons to give up 50% their money to Charity (which for all essence has produced nothing of value for human kind) in the political movement to show that they really are giving people which was simply a smart tax shelter to have control of their money and to keep it in difficult times is proof enough that he is the ultimate salesman.
As for trusting his motives?
He is no more trustable than Buffet or anyone else who thinks that throwing your money at charity can produce more than able minded people being given free opportunity to compete freely in an open capitalist system.
I think Tyler already showed by factual evidence that these guy stalk a big game but when it comes to action it is another story entirely. This was evident in how much they donated of their own free will to the site that allows you to give to the government coffers. The long and short of it was, they donated next to nothing and I suspect that the data this year will show the same thing.
Fuck this guy!
So the whole "we need to have a debate" meme...
WHO is doing the debating? You hear this phrase a lot, but it's total bullshit. They have no intention of having a debate.
AND
They've known about it for over a decade. And it was only until someone revealed that they were actually doing it, do they decide that now is a good time to have a debate.
Everything coming from spying side is complete bullshit.
The debate can be this "should we disband half the federal government, release the private information of the specific government employees who spied on americans, and should we revoke the patent/copyright protections for tech companies that have been shown to knowingly aid the rogue government employees in breaking the law?" The debate can be had amoungst those not in the government at all.
The guillotine list just got longer.
Gates has always used the strategy of embracing TPTB for instance jumping at the opprotunity to write DOS for IBM and treating the prole as the idiots they are see Microsoft Bob.
This is the same dickbag who uses his philanthropy to help such benevolent causes as Common Core and honeypots errr cloud databases to mass collect every child's personal information indirectly for the Department of Education.
https://www.inbloom.org/
Then they have the balls to say this concerning privacy.
Student data privacy is a top priority for inBloom, and protections for student privacy have been addressed throughout the design and ongoing operations of our solution, in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. §1232g, and its associated regulations, and other data privacy and security laws. Click here for details about how the inBloom technology (formerly known as the “Shared Learning Infrastructure”) complies with FERPA.
....
FERPA was written in 1974 for starters and has never been updated for the cloud based age.... So my kid's personal information is protected by computing privacy policies written for machines and networks from 40 years ago now like time and technology stood still.
http://crazycrawfish.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/ferpa-does-not-protect-stu...
This same Department Of Education in 2011 changed rules to FERPA that allows information collected in databases to be shared with 3rd parties for non academic purposes and if you read the privacy policy guess who is in charge of flagging FERPA violations in the Inbloom system, why Inbloom itself then it gets better
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/03/13/lawsuit-c...
...
inBloom, Inc employees and inBloom, Inc Contractors are permitted to download information from inBloom or other sources of PII on to local or portable devices or storage only when necessary or as directed by a School District or State Educational Agency and must confirm that the information is encrypted and stored in password-protected files, and that devices containing the information have appropriate security settings in place (such as encryption, firewall protection, anti-virus software and malware protection).
–inBloom, Inc requires that any downloaded materials consisting of PII remain in the United States and Canada.
I think we know who one of those 3rd party people are who just happen to be in Canada and happen to tied to PRISM and in turn Microsoft why one Silver Oaks Solution owned by CGI who just happened to get a no bid contract to develop healthcare.gov website.
What a 2 faced p.o.s. Gates is. If he meant it he'd do something about Inbloom to protect the data.
Gates is part of the program; instead of running the company now, he’s trying to run the country.
He’s a traitor.
Instead of “shutting off the air supply” of competitors while in charge of Microsoft’s daily operations, Gates has now taken on the job of shutting off the air supply of American workers and opportunities for America’s young people, including their freedoms – by bringing in foreign workers, by constantly lobbying for H-1b visas, and, now, according to his answers on these NSA questions, he might as well be in charge of NSA.
Gate’s is anti-American. That's what he is.
All past tyrannies by comprison with that existing today were half-hearted and inefficient... George Orwell explained how and why:
"Pare of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citzens under constant surveillance."
Hey William, your operating system stinks. Just think, somewhere in Hell, Steven is waiting for you.
There are actually people out there that think Gates is a nice guy in a sweater, a humble nerd in glasses that struck it rich by delivering what everyone wanted. The American Dream.
You think the richest man on earth was allowed to become that way by accident, or would even for a second allow the status quo to be changed? They own the goddamn apparatus, they are as complicit in the spying backdoors written into all the hardware and software as anyone else, in fact, Microsoft leads the way with their OS wide open to all the sureveillance agencies and Christ knows who else with the temerity to make it happen.
He is also a eugenicist, from a father who is a eugenicist. Bad new all around.
The Rolling Stone interview is more revealing than I ever thought possible. Bill Gates' comments are an aknowledgement by the beast that it has now been exposed. And the beast is angrily thumbing its nose at everyone because it fears the daylight that has now been cast upon it.
Expect similar public comments from other billiionaires soon.
"And other cuntlike tendencies."
Somebody,
please,
reboot this bot of the bourgeois state.
His brain has blue screened.
Just boot him - Out
Rebooting him could do more damage to us.
Gates's views on NSA spying and Microsoft's eager involvement in it under Gates does not surprise me one jot.
He is a shame to the very concept of free market capitalism.
--He is a shame to the very concept of free market capitalism.--
speaking of which... it blew my mind when ZON Power (formerly Neo-Tech from Frank Wallace) endorsed msft's practices.
kooky as they were in certain areas ('rachmaninov and chopin are superior to mendelssohn'), neo-tech/zon had a lot of great ideas, one of which appeared to have been free markets. then they went all fanboi wrt to msft... bizarre... last time i looked though was around 1997... maybe zon-power has since modified their msft stance.
the man created his own personal government bureaucracy. bureau of personal computing, new technology and old ideas. hard to imagine what ralph nader was thinking when he put him on his list of twenty names who should run for president (but after bush and obama he may look pretty good) i know its fashionable to blame the system and not the leadership (bush obama or gates) but if gates had any respect for the technology he championed wouldn't have robber barroned his way over better technologies just to make his system the universal application. nader suggests that the list of twenty are people without egos, and to that i have to laugh. i suppose its possible to have a power complex without an ego, just like the immacutate conception. and if bush or obama had any respect for the constitution and the american way of life they would have stayed home. sometimes you have to blame the leadership. its like heroin, you don't have to use it, and if you see someone selling it call a cop. life is really a lot simpler than they think. to obama the absolute best at dissembling the man has never given a straight answer to anything in his life. as gate yeah no billionaires want to get involved, mostly because their personalities are way too distorted to make any kind of clear policy judgements. they know their limitations anyway
"It is also important to note that Microsoft was a particularly eager participant in NSA spying from the very beginning. For example, according to the following PRISM slide provided by Edward Snowden, we see that Gates’ company was the first to become involved. In fact, they were participating a full six months before Yahoo!, while Apple didn’t join until a year after Steve Jobs died."
If the statement is factual, if publicized, and if citizens care, there ought to be instantaneous delcine measurable on the internet of use of Microsoft products and their purchase. Let's all hold our breath for that...
bill gates now has his ticket and in the line up for a position in the pot sewer tanks of calcutta.....this a yearly event and is assigned to the richest of the richest
how else to fill these positions in the sewers of calcutta standing room only ...as you sew you reap
a assignment given at death and that karma thing
bill gates filled the world with muck .. His time will come to clean some of the shift ... being filthy rich at the expense of the values is a bitch
come here gates lets get you fitted up with a nich size bucket and a slop mop to makes your clan glow all over
I am always happy to see you around dumpster. Keep coming back.
"Lack of corruption".........LMAO.
And if there were such a thing:
"Lack of corruption, we're devoting 100% of our resources to change that" Mr. Obama.
HERE IS THE CORE OF OUR PROBLEM.........
FROM GATES: "The Government has such an ability to do this....."
"THEY catch terrorists......."
"use in INNER CITIES......." is ok.
Gates has forfeited his freedom already to "THE GOVERNMENT"....A LIFE FORM THAT EXISTS INDEPENDENT OF ITS CITIZENS....
In America, it is WE catch terrorists....We have the ability to do this....I think cameras should be in his bedroom to see how dinky his winky really is.
We NEED TO WANT TO HAVE OURSELVES PLACED UNDER 24 HOUR SURVEILLANCE. If so, then do it.
It is "WE THE PEOPLE"..........NOT "THEY THE GOVERNMENT" OR "mE, THE pRESIDINK"
Surveillance for all or none for all. Don't discriminate. He is a racist punk. I say BUY Apple computers and products !!!!
Wait till 10 minutes after the open on Monday for me, ok!? :)
Gates is the absolute biggest THIEF (REMEMBER NETSCAPE?)
He should be forced to raise mosquitoes in his bedroom.
And finally................Money does not make one intelligent, wise, practical, creative, or good looking. It makes him rich....which in heaven really isn't counted in the equation for living a good life.
STOP GIVING YOUR GOVERNMENT THE ABILITY TO SUCK ALL THE LIFE AND SPIRIT OUT OF YOU. DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY.
ALL THE WEALTH.....ALL THE WEALTH ....OF ANY AND ALL POLITICIAN THAT SUPPORTED ANY BILL OR BUDGET THAT INCREASED THE DEBT....SHOULD BE CONFISCATED AND USED TO PAY DOWN THE DEBT.
WE NEED AN IMMEDIATE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT.
WE NEED TO CALL OUT THAT SLAVE OWNER, BARRY O'BAMA. HE HAS MADE SLAVES OF 40 PLUS PERCENT OF THE AMERICAN POPULATION.
THEY ARE COMPLETELY DEPENDANT ON THEIR SLAVE OWNER FOR THEIR CRUMBS OF BREAD AND BUDWEISER AND CASINO TICKETS.
They are capable humans, able to dream and build, but instead are given crumbs that distracts them from seeking out the genuine opportunity that exists all about them.
toutonghi and his team blew netscape and sun out of the water.
One would think libertarians would be more tolerant of others but it is not the case. There are probably more rules for being a good libertarian than any other document. Even throwing out the contradictions.
Gates is a destroyer. He’s able to have access to the banker money because he performs what the bankers want. If he were in Stalin’s Soviet system, he would be a party member.
The reason the currency is an American weapon around the world is because it’s controlled by the tribe that prints the money.
We can see in the succession of presidents we’ve had in recent years – Clinton, the Bushes, Obama – what has become a failed system.
The real aspects of growth in a nation are man-to-man trust and a basis of morality whereby men can build things together; if a man seeks to prosper legitimately, the system supports him. Men can trust each other, as a team; as it is now, you’re afraid of your neighbor, or your boss, or the police, or the government.
The pigs, as in Orwell’s Animal Farm, are in control of the White House and the out buildings.
Mike, we’ve seen the Gates quotes all over the major media, primarily focused on calling Snowden a traitor. It was such a breath of fresh air to see your immediate take on this interview and the background details you’ve provided on the hypocrisy and duplicity of Microsoft.
"If he [Gates] were in Stalin’s Soviet system, he would be a party member."
Beautifully put JR. That says everything anyone needs to know about Gates. The guy has zero attachment to customers and free market enterprise.
I would venture to say that if Gates was in Hitler's Germany, he'd be a party member too, happily collaborating with Party apparatchiks.
Gates never could do tech. Him and his wife are best at poisons for killing things.
---> Gates of Hell
---> Pearly Gates
"never putting themselves at risk for the sake of civil liberties and the Constitution."
In other words, Amerika has been feminized.
Yes, Gates is right. US government is much better than Putin-government. Google is much better than Yandex. People in US have still freedom to speak what ever they want. I don't understand what's your problem?
You need to remember that without USA for example whole Europe would big bad mess. It's sure that without USA nazis or Soviets would have been ruling Europe from 30's to 90's and now there would be just pure poverty.
So I understand much this mr Gates, even I like more Linux than Windows, but he knows that US still has good justice system and government. If you don't believe, then just travel and look.
Yes, + 1 for the history. True, Europe would be sepaking Russian other wise.
But our USA has fallen very far below what we were in the 1940s.
One of the many costs of war is converging to a state of being indistinguishable from the enemy.
So what were you expecting from a guy who made his fortune selling it to the Federal Government as his #1 Client?
Gates et familia are HOSTILE to White Americans and to the 2nd Amendment.
A SINGLE example of Gates hostility to the White American:
Bill Gates Millenium Scholarships "Students are eligible to be considered for a GMS scholarship if they: • Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian and Pacific Islander American, or Hispanic American;"
"The goal of GMS is to promote academic excellence and to provide an opportunity for outstanding minority students with significant financial need to reach their highest potential by: Reducing financial barriers for African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American and Hispanic American students with high academic and leadership promise who have significant financial need;"
http://www.gmsp.org/
http://college.lovetoknow.com/Bill_Gates_Scholarship
This is not philanthropy, this is affirmative action by a private citizen who uses a racist program to gain insider status with the Washington political establishment.
He picks the "minorities" (soon to be 83 million Mexicans if amnesty passes) in order to comply with the recent moves by America’s rulers against the white culture, all structured within the 1965 Immigration Act, the aim of which was “to alter the ethnic composition of the United States.”
Jewish activist Earl Raab, who took the leadership role in passage of this demographic changing Act, wrote in the Jewish Bulletin (1993) that the goal, “by increasing ethnic heterogeneity” in America, was to make “it even more difficult for a political party or mass movement of bigotry to develop” that might be a threat to the Jews.
Earlier, in 1952, Senator Pat McCarran, in a hard won battle that at the time retained the national origins provisions of America’s immigration system, was well aware of the high stakes at risk in U.S. immigration policy and the forces he was fighting:
"I believe that this nation is the last hope of Western civilization and if this oasis of the world shall be overrun, perverted, contaminated or destroyed, then the last flickering light of humanity will be extinguished. I take no issue with those who would praise the contributions which have been made to our society by people of many races, of varied creeds and colors. America is indeed a joining together of many streams which go to form a mighty river which we call the American way. However, we have in the United States today hard-core, indigestible blocs which have not become integrated into the American way of life, but which, on the contrary are its deadly enemies. Today, as never before, untold millions are storming our gates for admission and those gates are cracking under the strain. The solution of the problems of Europe and Asia will not come through a transplanting of those problems en masse to the United States.... I do not intend to become prophetic, but if the enemies of this legislation succeed in riddling it to pieces (the McCarran-Walter act of 1952), or in amending it beyond recognition, they will have contributed more to promote this nation's downfall than any other group since we achieved our independence as a nation." (Senator Pat McCarran, Cong. Rec., March 2, 1953, p. 1518.)
This guy was the author of the 1965 bill, and YES he was one of the boys
Norbert Schlei—Guilty of Malice Aforethought in America's Immigration Disaster?
Thanks, Laddie. A little research finds many sources in agreement that Schlei’s legal and political effort was major in the final push behind the 1965 law.
In addition, according to his 2003 LA Times obituary: Schlei was the principal draftsman of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Immigration Reform Act of 1967.
The Times also states that “Schlei was acquitted of eight counts, including wire and bank fraud and money laundering, but was convicted by a jury of conspiracy and securities fraud for purportedly helping five others sell $16 billion in fake Japanese government bonds from the mid-1980s to 1992.
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/apr/21/local/me-schlei21
Hugh Davis Graham wrote in his 2002 book Collision Course (pp. 56-57):
"Most important for the content of immigration reform [i.e., loosening], the driving force at the core of the movement, reaching back to the 1920s, were Jewish organizations long active in opposing racial and ethnic quotas. These included the American Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, and the American Federation of Jews from Eastern Europe. Jewish members of the Congress, particularly representatives from New York and Chicago, had maintained steady but largely ineffective pressure against the national origins quotas since the 1920s…. To the public, the most visible evidence of the immigration reform drive was played by Jewish legislative leaders, such as Representative Celler and Senator Jacob Javits of New York. Less visible, but equally important, were the efforts of key advisers on presidential and agency staffs. These included senior policy advisers such as Julius Edelson and Harry Rosenfield in the Truman administration, Maxwell Rabb in the Eisenhower White House, and presidential aide Myer Feldman, assistant secretary of state Abba Schwartz, and deputy attorney general Norbert Schlei in the Kennedy-Johnson administration."
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2010/01/kevin-macdonald-jews-and-immigration-policy-%E2%80%94-again/
Wayne Lutton of The Social Contract Press states that “within the Kennedy administration, the key player involved in trying to eliminate the national origins provisions was Abba Schwartz of the State Department, who later called himself the “architect” of the Kennedy-Johnson era immigration policy. He received important support from Meyer Feldman, Norbert Schlei, and Adam Walinsky at the Justice Department."
http://irishnationalist.tumblr.com/post/73580828523/from-1956-on-senator-john-f-kennedy-saw
“As a result, by restricting US immigration almost exclusively to the Third World for nearly 50 years, the Jews have been influential in the decline of homogeneous Protestant Christian culture in America.” -- D. A. Hollinger, Science, Jews, and secular culture: Studies in mid-twentieth century American intellectual history.
Billy Boy ain't so nice to Black Africans either!!!!!!!
Technology has a bright side and a dark side; and for a tech company now to be linked to NSA is like a Democrat incumbent appearing on the stage with Obama.
IBM denies sharing client data with NSA | RT | March 15, 2014
US technology giant IBM has fought back against speculation that the company cooperated with the National Security Agency, publishing a letter to clients Friday in an attempt to distance itself from the embattled intelligence agency.
“IBM has not provided client data to the NSA or any other government agency under any surveillance program involving the bulk collection of content or metadata,” Robert Weber, the company’s senior vice president of legal and regulatory affairs, wrote in a blog post quoted by Reuters.
“If the US government were to serve a national security order on IBM to obtain data from an enterprise client and impose a gag order that prohibits IBM from notifying that client, IBM will take appropriate steps to challenge the gag order through judicial action or other means,” he went on…
Nicknamed “Big Blue,” IBM provides computer software and infrastructure, along with hosting and a number of other services to customers around the globe. It is consistently ranked among the most profitable and recognizable companies in the US.
Weber also claimed that IBM had not installed so-called “backdoors” into its products like other technology companies have, either voluntarily or otherwise. The classified documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden implicated Facebook, Google, Apple, and a number of other Silicon Valley giants, as well as Verizon and other major telecommunication companies.
"Our business model sets us apart from many of the companies that have been associated with the surveillance programs that have been disclosed,” Weber wrote. “Unlike those companies, IBM’s primary business does not involve providing telephone or Internet-based communication services to the general public. Rather, because the vast majority of our customers are other companies and organizations, we deal mainly with business data.”
Previous reports have speculated that the NSA revelations will cost US firms $35 billion over the next several years if international companies decide to take their business elsewhere, according to Sam Gustin of Time magazine.
With over half of its revenue base coming from clients located outside the US, Big Blue has already taken a hit, watching its revenue from China alone fall by 22 percent over the second half of 2013. News of the Snowden leak convinced Beijing to encourage state-owned companies to buy Chinese products rather than the typical US technology to avoid any espionage efforts.
“Governments must act to restore trust,” Weber wrote. “Technology often challenges us as a society. This is one instance in which both business and government must respond. Data is the next great natural resource, with the potential to improve lives and transform institutions for the better. However, establishing and maintaining the public’s trust in new technologies is essential.”
http://rt.com/usa/ibm-denies-sharing-data-nsa-018/
WE have a billionaire class . Some billionaires want completely clean air as we've seen recently on the news. They give no thought to the ruined middle class that needs badly heavy industry back in America. That means middle class can't have career jobs from high school to retirement like our Fathers. The rich want no carbon emissions, no factory jobs. It never enters their mind that those jobs built this country and its middle class from the 1850's thru 1960's. And now, because of non-competitive Federal government we can't get them back!
This president is socialistic with all his Federal programs (That's what Socialism is). But, unfortunately this has been building since the late 60's!! It's just a continuance of bad policy! Our businesses went away because of distribution and wages back then. The international wages have evened out unless an uncaring president raises minimum wage and makes us non-competitive again. It may not matter!
The EPA rules! That means the EPA makes emission rules that no Industry that does heavy manufacturing can match so they all go to Mexico! That's right!! They are all in Mexico!! LOOK IT UP!
We get their poor and they get our Industry and good jobs that made our private sector middle class!! That's Fair. Do your homework!! GE, GM, Honeywell, Goodrich, Cessna and many others are in Mexico right now hiring tens of thousands for good jobs. High school graduates! Support industries for those manufactures are hiring even more! If America doesn't get competitive all of these good Government jobs will disappear forever when the private sector totally fails and the dollar goes bye bye! hedgemastermb.blogspot.com
Sort of funny coming from a guy who is really only a billionaire due to the fact that he always broke the law while building up microsoft.
Sort of funny coming from a guy who is really only a billionaire due to the fact that he always broke the law while building up microsoft.
Sort of funny coming from a guy who is really only a billionaire due to the fact that he always broke the law while building up microsoft.
Hey, it is a very reasonable justice system, if you're a billionaire. Some justice systems are expensive, but the U.S. system can be had quite reasonably.
When I was young my CPA told me,
"It's impossible to build a company in America over $10 Million USD gross / year , without being involved with CRIME".
Keep good lawyers on retainer, or better yet think Italy.
One son goes to the Vatican, another son goes to the Mafia, and another son becomes a lawyer.
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Bill is just a normal crook, but he won big, only because his PAPA is the KING AIPAC lawyer of PNW america.
Bill Gate has the reputation of being more an inventor than a businessman; his empire was built on the genius of the legal contracts overseen and/or written by his corporate lawyer father.
Not only does.he give us least common denominator shit software, but now he wants to exercise control of our freedoms.
Fuck you Bill.
F that vaccine mongering ass muncher.
Is it just me or are you guys not feeling a lot of love for Wee Willy right here, right now?
It's no coincidence that Bill Gates father and Grandfather are eugenicists and that this gormless moron has become the most successful man in computing, as a result of outsmarting IBM who had such a massive hand in the success of the Nazi campaigns to purify the human race.
And that's not all. William Buffett made an historic gift of more than $31 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to join in the efforts of the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named after his wife, in giving tens of millions of dollars to various groups that perform abortions, and proselytize for abortion at home and abroad…
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates reveals that his parents were the inspiration for his funding of pro-abortion population control measures. Responding to a question by Moyers on how he came to fund "reproductive issues" Gates answered, "When I was growing up, my parents were always involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that. And so it's fascinating. At the dinner table my parents are very good at sharing the things that they were doing. And almost treating us like adults, talking about that."
Gates Sr. is a co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which his son Bill and his son's wife Melinda founded. He also has served as a director for Costco wholesale, a bulk retail corporation, since 2003.
Under the guise of 'medical philanthropy' GATES will OWN the MEDICAL database of every HUMAN on earth. DNA & all, then imagine how easy it would have been to find Usama Bin Laden.
In time the GATES FOUNDATION will justify collecting all DNA for everyone on earth, then that data will be fed with NSA and they'll be able to track everybody by DNA.
All Using Microsoft Software, ... all using Oracle Software, and all backed by the 100% cruelty of SKYNET(GOOGLE) robot army's.
IMHO their plan is that when the USD kapoot and the world's police go unpaid, that then they transistion to the ROBOT ARMY to police the world with DRONES.
Don't worry, poor BILL GATES has his own private Island in Hawaii, and you'll never have to worry about him.
Blow yourself Gates.
Your software is shit.
You have yourself prepared for any event with your fucking zillions....
Your charity is but a teaspoon full of your vast wealth - no matter what the excuse....so spare me the platitudes over his and Melinda/gold digging nerd's efforts.
Just you saying "I think he broke the law" had me erping up bile....
Fucking criminal in your own right, Mr. Statute of Limitations.....fuck off.
It's not just Gates,I'm sure that anyone who is wealthy past a certain point is living in a bubble. They have little means of relating to the struggles and fears of ordinary people. These are people that rarely do their own shopping, bill paying, child rearing and many other tasks that most people have to deal with day in and day out.
"having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing"
Because crime never happens in the suburbs I guess...
As to Mr Gates's opinion and its Societal value as a predictive indicator,
please remember that in the early '90's Gates was asked if he saw a future in the Internet.
He answered firmly in the negative suggesting that it was just a passing craze to be best ignored.
So much for Mr. Gates, and as a person who built his empire on acquired software.
Ho hum
I am sure patriot Bill Gates would just love to give Edward Snowden one of his special vaccines. What a scumbug!!!!!!!
I am Tuco
Bill Gates is more than odd.
Does anyone recall the sory about Bill Gates where he went to a restauant or pizzaria with a few other people.
He rocked back and forth in his chair. That's a sign that he was physically neglected as a child, not held nearly enough.
I met guy guy who was a close friend of Gates. This guy would go through his address book and remove the names of those who would not help him to get ahead. He did this every year. In other words, he was a cold calculating sort of person.
Like I said, he was good friends with Gates. Gates apparently liked this cold calculating guy.
Snowden is a PATRIOT
Snowden is a ZIO-GIMP
Just like Obama
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What is it with our Hero's
Anybody notice that Chelsea Manning, Assuange, Snowden, and Obama.
They're all Pussy-Men, Man-Twat's, Girly-Boyz,
Tel-Aviv must be lauging their ass off in the mean time Tel-Aviv has Netanyahu a real fucking man, and Russia has Putin, but the USA has Man-Cunt as Heroe's.
Like the recent Captain America, ... complete buggery is the role model for today youth
A naseating, abominable, horrible, two timing character who joined hands with the cabal to destroy people and nations.
Propped up by the cabal's media.
No shit. Do you think that if we were a free society in the purest sense of the word, that elitist, corporatist dogshit like Gates could acheive what he has? He, they, won't bite the hand that feeds. By the way, his operating system is dogshit.
dupe
.....well,
"NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999"
No shit.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/microsoft-programmed-in-nsa-backd...
BeetleBailey : "Blow yourself Gates.
Your software is shit."
I've always said Windoze was a computer virus masquerading as an Operating System.
ZH BIG LIE, .. GATES is NOT the Richest Man on Earth
There are dozens of TRILLIONAIRES that go unmentioned.
The MSM(ZH) perpetuates this myth that 'self-made' men are the richest folk, this is a BOLD faced lie and ZH must be called on this.
PRISM, don't forget that all PRISM HW&SW came out of Israel.
Bill Gates and Family are HARD-CORE Zionists.
Never mind htis story about SNOWDEN, just change the words "I love the NSA", to "I love Zionism", then all else will make sense.
I had no idea that Bill Gates was such a DOUCHE BAG.
Think about how idiotic this punk is and how much money our economy rewarded onto him! Then please try and tell me that our economic system works. I dare you!
Thanks, Zero Hedge.
If your daddy was one of the most powerful AIPAC lawerys in the USA, think Cass Sunstein power, then imagine your daddy sent you to Harvard at 14 years of age, where Gates was bored,
Then Gates dropped out, and he had an 'older mentor' sex-gimp, name Paul Allen, who together they 'decided' to OWN an industry.
Make no mistake there was NO reward here, that Gate's Father made sure his son would become KING at all costs. All the power of GUBMINT and LAW was behind Gates from the start.
Gates wrote one little shitty basic intrepreter when young, after that every piece of software he SOLD, he STOLE with the power of the USA LAW to back him up.
One of the first moves of Gates and partner Paul Allen was to purchase for $50,000 an operating system called Q-Dos developed by Seattle Computer. They redesigned it for IBM, neglecting to mention to Seattle Computer what they were doing, enabling them to buy it at a bargain price.
Then, as things developed, Gates discovered that a mouse-driven computer system from VisiCorp was the wave of the future in an operating system. Microsoft did not have a system ready but Gates bluffed the industry by suggesting one was coming and this marketing ploy enabled hardware people with Microsoft products to wait for this system rather than buy VisiCorp. Windows 1.0 was finally released in 1985.
In short, Microsoft's very first moves were unethical. And from then on, that’s how Microsoft operated.
Steve Jobs was murdered by the CIA, just like Bob Marley with 'Cancer', because they wouldn't "PLAY BALL",
Once Job's was a 'walking dead man' is when Apple went over to the NSA, prior to that Job's hated the FBI and vice-versa,
But make no mistake that Microsoft going back to 1975 was in political Bed with Gubmint, Bill Gates father is/was one of the most powerful lawyers and lawfirms in America, a ZIONIST lawfirm, and essentially PAPA helped his son steal every piece of software they sold. Steal legally, and yep get the H1 visa's, Gates has more India PHD's in Bellevue(WA) per sq-ft than Bangalore.
Gates is Zionism, his family is Zionism, and they made the decision in 1970's not to start a company, but to own an industry.
Gates may no FORD, or HEARST, or ROCKEFELLER in your minds, but in time Gates will be found to be much worse, than the Ford Foundation, or the Rockefeller Foundation, they will rule the world, first an industry then the world.
Gates will control all computers and medical tracking, GATES biggest ENEMY is SKYNET aka GOOGLE. I suspect they'll merge, but of course GOOGLE will have none of it.
+1
Bill Gates is complicit in crimes committed by the NSA and other intelligence agencies against the serfs who are forced to pay their salaries. His opinion is meaningless.
did gates steal dos? http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/did-bill-gates-steal-the-hea...
looks like maybe, 'no'
Fucking Bill Gates was allowing the NSA a backdoor to the NSA long ago....and he is for population reduction/"Negro removal". To all you Windoze fools-he had made billions allowing the NSA into your PC....with an "antiquated operating system" -WSJ-The crybaby even demanded that if he gave a grant to the New Super Seattle Central Library-that no APPLE computer could be used in the building. When i cornmented to the head librarian about this she hemmed and hawed and said quote: "We really dont understand that kind of Operating System" !!!!!! =THIS from a "world class Library" lol-
Well certainly BILL owns Seattle, and I'm sure down in the CUPERTINO library a PC would be hard to find a PC running windoze.
Like at REED COLLEGE where Job's went, they banned PC's and only allow MAC's, so its not just Seattle that has funny computer racism. :) or should I say big-dick little dick jealousy, ... Reed has the same argument, but its actually better cuz steve essentially gave them the mac's for free, and that my friend's is how MS get's in the door too.
Of course beware of FREE SHIT, cuz that means that anything you do at the Seattle Library, MS knows before even the NSA.
The war between Job's and Gates has been an ego war forever to control the computer world, now with Job's dead, you would think that GATES would just BUY apple.
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FYI for all I remember back in 1980's the AUSTRALIAN government bought licenses for all citizens for windoz, on the precondition that microsoft give the backdoor key to everyones email, and et-al, ... funny thing is that Microsoft complied, as it led to a Australian gubmint monopoly on windows, Aussie knew that MS was an NSA spy-sw system, but simply said "Share with us, and we'll let you fuck our citizens'.
Make NO mistake that if you have been using in MS SW since 1970's then you are Bill Gates little Bitch.
Bill H. Gates Sr.*, corporate attorney, was able to help design a Microsoft monopoly with his son from the ground up by institutionalizing contract agreements which competitors could not overcome. Bill Sr. oversaw the contracts that built the Microsoft Empire.
And even after lawsuits to break this stranglehold on the tech industry, the contracts held, and Microsoft became the operating system of most all computer production.
For as The Sultan of Software: Bill Gates states: He (William Henry Gates III) “is considered more of an inventor than a businessperson.”
It’s crucial that Bill the III’s great grandfather, J.W. Maxwell, was a banker who had banker connections. In short, the expertise and the money for this Empire were there, all the time.
Philip Greenspun in How to Become as Rich as Bill Gates explains:
Lesson 1: Choose Your Grandparents Carefully
William Henry Gates III made his best decision on October 28, 1955, the night he was born. He chose J.W. Maxwell as his great-grandfather. Maxwell founded Seattle's National City Bank in 1906. His son, James Willard Maxwell was also a banker and established a million-dollar trust fund for William (Bill) Henry Gates III.
Lesson 2: Choose Your Parents Carefully
William Henry Gates, Jr. and Mary Maxwell were among Seattle's social and financial elite. Bill Gates, Jr. was a prominent corporate lawyer while Mary Maxwell was a board member of First Interstate Bank and Pacific Northwest Bell. She was also on the national board of United Way, along with John Opel, the chief executive officer of IBM who approved the inclusion of MS/DOS with the original IBM PC.
Remind your parents not to send you to public school. Bill Gates went to Lakeside, Seattle's most exclusive prep school where tuition in 1967 was $5,000 (Harvard tuition that year was $1760). Typical classmates included the McCaw brothers, who sold the cellular phone licenses they obtained from the U.S. Government to AT&T for $11.5 billion in 1994. When the kids there wanted to use a computer, they got their moms to hold a rummage sale and raise $3,000 to buy time on a DEC PDP-10, the same machine used by computer science researchers at Stanford and MIT.
For the other six lessons see link http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/
IMiddle Class, February 25, 2002, writes in conclusion:
“Today we are all born with a "multi-million" dollar trust fund: We all have access to first rate education. We can all go on welfare while we develop our business. And we can all join the local Chamber of Commerce and meet some oldies who will write us very lucrative contracts for the sake of friendship. Making enough to buy 561 thousand homes ought to be quite easy. Oh yeah, BTW, when we decide on a business strategy then we should be free to do it. If we want to copy another companies product ideas (well 2/3 of the product features, patent process does more harm than good anyway) and give it to our current followers then we can. And when the losers cry to the government then we can just laugh because, darn it, we are after all just smarter.
“On a truthful note, the leverage of human cooperation could bring us all a very advanced existence but is greatly siphoned by the reach, er, rich. E.g. some 80% of all sales are by Fortune 1000 companies while over 80% of the populace works in non-Fortune 1000 companies.” -- Middle Class, February 25, 2002
*William H. Gates II refers to himself as Sr. to differentiate himself from his son.
Not every billionaire is a coward. You know who's out there catching bullets for liberty? The Koch Brothers.
This orgy of left wing hate directed against private citizens for speaking their mind--orchestrated at the highest levels of government--is among the most disgusting spectacles of the Obama years, and that is really saying something.
"His answers reveal one of the biggest problems facing America today, which is the fact that the billionaire class as a whole does not question or rock the boat whatsoever. They criticize only when it is convenient or easy to do so, never putting themselves at risk for the sake of civil liberties and the Constitution."
Uh, Charles and David Koch certainly rock the boat for the sake of civil liberties and the Constitution, so much so that they are called out personally by the president and Harry Reid.