http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/billgates/ en-us Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:45:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414069/posts Microsoft Word is now scheduled to be prohibited from sale beginning January 11, 2010. That's less than three weeks away. The good news: Microsoft has promised a fix, one which will be rolled out before the deadline arrives. If you don't understand, you might have simply missed this story, or dismissed it as something that Microsoft would ultimately use its considerable clout to have pushed under a legal rug. But it's no joke. In August of this year, a court sided with a small Canadian company called i4i that holds a 1998 patent on the way the XML language is... Yahoo! Tech http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414069/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:45:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405295/posts Bill Gates is known as the world’s most successful capitalist and is less famous for being the world’s biggest philanthropist. Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405295/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:02:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2393470/posts The Empire Strikes Back Malcolm A. Kline, November 24, 2009 Bill and Melinda Gates, in their education reform efforts, have drawn the ire of NEA types, RiShawn Biddle at the Capital Research Center points out. “From the bastions of traditional public education—the National Education Association (NEA), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the university-level schools of education that dominate teacher training, and the public school superintendents—the alarm has sounded: the Gates Foundation engages in ‘misinformation campaigns,’ and wants to ‘effectively cripple public control’ of schools,” Biddle writes. “Two years ago the National Commission on Skills in the Workplace, a Gates... AIA-FL Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2393470/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:51:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385230/posts Interesting discussion CNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385230/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:20:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375008/posts Bill Gates took on the Famine Lobby while addressing a forum on the world food supply in Iowa. Speaking at the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines, Gates took aim at the chorus of environmental leftists and organic food advocates who believe Africans should starve rather than eat genetically modified (GM) foods. “Some voices are instantly hostile to any emphasis on productivity. They act as if there is no emergency, even though in the poorest, hungriest places on earth, population is growing faster than productivity,” he said.The opposition is significant, because Gates is left-of-center himself. The Bill and Melinda... FrontPageMag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375008/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:38:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374761/posts Bill Gates took on the Famine Lobby while addressing a forum on the world food supply in Iowa. Speaking at the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines, Gates took aim at the chorus of environmental leftists and organic food advocates who believe Africans should starve rather than eat genetically modified (GM) foods. “Some voices are instantly hostile to any emphasis on productivity. They act as if there is no emergency, even though in the poorest, hungriest places on earth, population is growing faster than productivity,” he said. FrontPage Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374761/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:36:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364074/posts Although large majorities of House and Senate Democrats have voted to cut off funding for ACORN, this rebuke could be reversed as soon as November 1st. This is a point that has been overlooked in press coverage of the besieged left-leaning community action group. Moreover, even if ACORN (the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now) does lose out on public funding it continues to receive support from foundations, corporations and individual donors, including George Soros. Despite the scope and magnitude of ongoing scandals that have ensnared ACORN officials, there remains a certain slyness to the news coverage in that... Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364074/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:42:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318631/posts Were you taken back by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg's recent admission that Roe v. Wade was decided because persons were worried about "populations that we don't want to have too many of"? Ginsburg's atavistic views can be traced back to the pioneering work of Margaret Sanger, the celebrated American feminist who later founded Planned Parenthood. Beyond her feverish crusade to convince women to use birth control, Sanger was an unapologetic eugenicist. In her book The Pivot of Civilization she wrote, "More children from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the chief issue of birth control." In... Renew America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318631/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:47:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2317073/posts SAN FRANCISCO -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private philanthropy fund, sold off almost all of its pharmaceutical, biotechnology and health-care investments in the quarter ended June 30, according to a regulatory filing published Friday. The Seattle-based charity endowment, set up by Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates and his wife, sold its total holding of 2.5 million shares in health-care giant Johnson & Johnson in the quarter, according to the filing. wsjmarkets http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2317073/posts#comment Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:33:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301173/posts Microsoft’s Gates gets Indira Gandhi Prize Foundation has committed nearly $1 billion to India for health projects NEW DELHI - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Saturday received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development from India's president, a government statement said. The prize recognizes his work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It is awarded annually to individuals or organizations for creative efforts that promote peace, development and a new international economic order. As of this month, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation had committed nearly $1 billion for health and development projects in India. Most of... AP Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301173/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:35:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301066/posts NEW DELHI (AFP) – Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he was forced to give up on the social networking phenomenon Facebook after too many people wanted to be his friend. Gates, the billionaire computer geek-turned-philanthropist who was honoured Saturday by India for his charity work, told an audience in New Delhi he had tried out Facebook but ended up with "10,000 people wanting to be my friends". Gates, who remains Microsoft chairman, said he had trouble figuring out whether he "knew this person, did I not know this person". Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301066/posts#comment Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:35:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295771/posts The world’s richest man has joined the battle against the world’s most destructive weather. Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, is backing inventors and climate scientists who claim to have devised a technique for diminishing the power of hurricanes. Gates was named last week among a group of weather experts who have applied for patents on a system for lowering ocean temperatures. Using a fleet of barges equipped with pumps, Gates and his team believe a hurricane can be slowed by cooling the tropical waters that fuel its progress. American scientists agreed last week that the system was theoretically feasible... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295771/posts#comment Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:27:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294259/posts The following letter was confirmed to me by Mr. Greenberg with the following statement:"The letter was sent to Senators Sessions, Hatch, Grassley, Graham and Coburn. It was also sent to Cong. Peter King (R) NY. The story is being covered extensively by the photo blogs, the trade publications and the NY Times. No politician has responded. The NY Times quotes attributed to me are accurate and therefore I assume that the quotes of my adversary Mr. Fairhurst are accurate as well."Text of the letter: I am an attorney in NYC who represented White House Photographer Chris Usher in litigation against... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294259/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:26:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294224/posts In an era when slides and negatives are no longer the coin of the realm, the case of Usher v. Corbis-Sygma may seem to have lost much timeliness. Except for this: one member of the three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals that most recently heard the case was Judge Sonia Sotomayor. The portfolio included photographs Mr. Usher had taken during the 2000 presidential campaign. “The value of these images is certainly more than $7 each,” Mr. Usher, 47, said in a telephone interview Tuesday from Alexandria, Va., where he lives. “But I’d so much rather have the... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294224/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:38:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293016/posts If you thought domination of the world's software market was cool, get a load of Bill Gates' next technological vision: giant ocean-going tubs that fight hurricanes by draining warm water from the surface to the depths, through a long tube. A second tube could simultaneously suck cool water from the depths to the surface. Microsoft founder Gates and a dozen other scientists and engineers have a patent pending for deploying such vessels, which they say would collect water through waves breaking over the walls of the tub. Some variations have the water moving through turbines on their way down, which... nola.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293016/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:38:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278973/posts The New Jacobin Elite | Print | Written by William F. Jasper    Wednesday, 24 June 2009 06:00 The Socialist Party of Great Britain is celebrating the reissuing of Peter Taaffe’s book, The Masses Arise: The Great French Revolution 1789 -1815. “Its republication by Socialist Publications, in time for the 220th anniversary of this great event in July 2009, is extremely timely,” says the party’s website. A different page on the party’s site promoting the same book instructs readers: “An understanding of the French Revolution remains crucial for all revolutionaries. Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky studied it intensely to gain an... The New American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278973/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:20:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255553/posts President Barack Obama sees his secretary of defense just about every day, but he still flubbed Robert Gates' name on Thursday. Gates was in the crowd for Obama's national security speech. Pointing him out, the president said "William Gates" was on hand. FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255553/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 16:13:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256085/posts NECN: Washington, D.C.) - President Barack Obama, preparing to give a speech on Bush administration interrogation techniques and the prospective closure of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, took a moment to share the names of the members of his cabinet that were in attendance. Except he got one wrong. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in the crowd, but President Obama said that "William Gates" was on hand. Was that William Gates, as in the Microsoft billionaire? On Tuesday, Gates was introduced at a Pentagon ceremony as Ronald Gates. At the time, Gates joked that he had recently been introduced... NECN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256085/posts#comment Fri, 22 May 2009 04:53:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255772/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama sees his secretary of defense just about every day, but he still flubbed Robert Gates' name on Thursday. Gates was in the crowd for Obama's national security speech. Pointing him out, the president said "William Gates" was on hand. Perhaps Obama was thinking of Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire. The defense chief, who goes by Bob, was also misidentified at a Pentagon ceremony on Tuesday. Then, he was introduced as Ronald Gates. Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255772/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 20:43:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204665/posts NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates is the richest man again, overtaking investor Warren Buffett, as the global financial meltdown wiped out $2 trillion from the net worth of the world's billionaires, Forbes Magazine said on Wednesday. The number of billionaires in the world fell by nearly a third to 793 in the past year, with large numbers dropping off the list in Russia, India and Turkey. Gates regained his title as the richest man in the world, with $40 billion after slipping to third last year when he was worth $58 billion. Buffett, last year's richest... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204665/posts#comment Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:57:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202138/posts The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sold 36,056 Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRKA, BRKB), the holding company run by famed value investor Warren Buffett. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Gates Foundation sold the shares from Jan. 5 through Thursday for a total of $99.7 million, or $2,766.66 a share. Berkshire Hathaway's Class B shares closed on Friday at $2,327. Marketwatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202138/posts#comment Sun, 8 Mar 2009 23:59:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198537/posts You'd think the children of the world's richest man could get anything they wanted. But Bill Gates' kids aren't allowed to have any Apple products, the Microsoft founder's wife tells Vogue magazine. "There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household," Melinda Gates, a Microsoft millionaire in her own right, tells interviewer Michael Specter. "But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids." It's pretty clear Bill Gates is familiar with Apple products — after all, Microsoft Word was first written for the original Mac. Yet the silken tentacles of Steve... FOX NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198537/posts#comment Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:03:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2185172/posts Microsoft to open own stores, take on Apple (Reuters) Posted on Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:20PM EST SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp announced plans Thursday to open its own chain of branded stores as it looks to catch up with rival Apple Inc's successful move into retailing. The world's largest software company, which also makes the Xbox video game console and the Zune digital music player, did not say how many stores it was looking to open, or when, or which of its products would be on sale. That is to be decided by David Porter, a former DreamWorks Animation... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2185172/posts#comment Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:58:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181411/posts To make his point about the deadly and fearsome plague of malaria, Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes on the unsuspecting crowd at the Technology, Entertainment Design Conference in Long Beach, California. Did Gates plan on infecting some rich folks to prove his point? The answer is yes, although Gates quickly pointed out that the pests released were not malarial. Mr. Moneybags only intended to infect his audience with guilt. And guilt-inducement is the last refuge of the liberal scoundrel. It has become the go-to move for so-called progressives when intellectual argument fails and one can't muster the facts... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181411/posts#comment Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:28:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2179302/posts Should Bill Gates be prosecuted?Bill Gates released a swarm of potentially deadly mosquitoes at a technology conference and yelled, 'There's no reason only poor people should get malaria'. What an idiot. While it is unlikely these mosquitoes were malaria carriers, there are a host of other potentially fatal diseases that mosquitoes carry. Among these diseases are various forms of encephalitis and West Nile virus that are common among North American Mosquitoes. My granddaughter got La Crosse encephalitis from mosquitoes a few years ago. She spent several very scary days in pediatric intensive care. Anyone who would deliberately release these potentially... The Intellectual Redneck http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2179302/posts#comment Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:48:50 GMT