Posted on 07/02/2013 12:32:36 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
You can't found a company like Microsoft from scratch, build it into the world's biggest software company and hold that position for for decades, and in the process become the world's richest man for 14 straight years, and America's richest man for even longer, in a super competitive business like technology, by being a dumbass. You need plenty of smarts, determination, grit etc.
Looking down the Frobes 400 list of the richest Americans(and leaving out those who inherited their wealth), I can't see even one person at the higher echelons of that list, who I will not consider pretty smart.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/
If you think its so easy, try making a billion, and see where you get.
And intelligence does not equal wisdom.
I refuse to give any of my hard-earned money to a pro-death, anti-American, pro-tyranny, liberal idiot. You want to support the opposition? You just make our jobs harder. You finance our government, Planned Parenthood, and the ACLU. You finance world-wide abortion programs, and support dictators.
Not me. I'm actually a conservative.
Fully updated Vista 64 is rock solid. It feels much more like XP (which is so well liked but is just too insecure now if used on the internet) much nicer than Windows 7, and yet is much more secure, and also better with more modern hardware. Hard to believe it was so maligned. It’s really my favorite Windows in a lot of ways. (By the way I use Windows 7 and 8 a lot.)
I’m giving my wife my incredibly stable desktop with XP, so she can do some online classes without dealing with a screwed up laptop her administrators won’t fix. The parts to build a new desktop for me will be in by next week, and I’m going to try Win 8. I figure if I hate it, I can always go back to XP, or Win 7, but curiosity has the best of me.
Why does OSX get to roll up all their flavors as one? A fair comparison would be to add up all Windows and compare to OSX.
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