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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: piratePenguin on 18 December 2005, 21:54

Title: Time names Gateses, Bono
Post by: piratePenguin on 18 December 2005, 21:54: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10516674/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10516674/)
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NEW YORK - The richest man in the world, Bill Gates, and his wife, Melinda, were named Time magazine
Title: Re: Time names Gateses, Bono ‘Persons of 2005’
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 18 December 2005, 22:00: :D :D :D
Title: Re: Time names Gateses, Bono
Post by: Calum on 18 December 2005, 22:18: gates hasn't affected my life this year all that much.

i would have thought people like george bush, tony blair and so on would be up there.
Title: Re: Time names Gateses, Bono
Post by: toadlife on 19 December 2005, 05:09: haha. I guess this makes today like "Black Sunday" for you guys. :D
Title: Re: Time names Gateses, Bono
Post by: Dark_Me on 19 December 2005, 05:25: Quote
Managing Editor James Kelly said the three had been chosen as the people most effective at finding ways to eradicate such calamities as malaria in Africa, HIV and AIDS and the grinding poverty that kills 8 million people a year.
Don't you think that's worded wrong? It's the many volunteers ans scientists which will do that. They might be able to help out with the poverty but it's doubtful.
Title: Re: Time names Gateses, Bono ‘Persons of 2005’
Post by: Refalm on 19 December 2005, 11:38: Bono is a fucking moron. His actions cover up the mass stealing of economic strength from Africa by the United States.
Title: Re: Time names Gateses, Bono ‘Persons of 2005’
Post by: WMD on 19 December 2005, 23:04: Quote from: Refalm
Bono is a fucking moron. His actions cover up the mass stealing of economic strength from Africa by the United States.

I only needed to hear "Vertigo" to realize Bono is a moron. :D

As for BillyG...I think he deserves credit for doing these things, no doubt. I don't really like how he got the money, but alas - he could've just kept it.

So toadlife, it's hardly Black Sunday. ;)
Title: Re: Time names Gateses, Bono
Post by: worker201 on 20 December 2005, 00:17: Previous Persons of the Year:
2004 - George W. Bush
2000 - George W. Bush
1995 - Newt Gingrich
1990 - George H.W. Bush
1983 - Ronald Reagan
1980 - Ronald Reagan
1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini
1972 - Richard Nixon
1971 - Richard Nixon
1967 - Lyndon Johnson
1964 - Lyndon Johnson
1957 - Nikita Kruschev
1942 - Joseph Stalin
1939 - Joseph Stalin
1938 - Adolf Hitler
1935 - Halie Selassie

Quote from: wikipedia
The title is frequently mistaken as being an honor.

Welcome to the fucking club, Bill.
Rest assured, you will NOT be sitting next to Martin Luther King Jr (1963), or Mahatma Gandhi (1930), or Jimmy Carter (1976) at the Clubhouse dinners.
Title: Re: Time names Gateses, Bono
Post by: WMD on 20 December 2005, 01:15: Yeah, forgot to mention it. It DOES include bad people. At that rate, Osama bin Laden should've been the 2001 "winner," but Time chickened out.
Title: Re: Time names Gateses, Bono
Post by: Dark_Me on 20 December 2005, 06:21: The point of it is not to include good people but the people who have affected our lives most. Hitler I think we can agree most certainly did that.
Title: Re: Time names Gateses, Bono
Post by: cahult on 23 December 2005, 04:30: A swedish newspaper named Bill as Bill Hates...
Title: Re: Time names Gateses, Bono
Post by: jtpenrod on 28 December 2005, 23:47: "gates hasn't affected my life this year all that much."

Hasn't affected my life at all since I ditched all MS soft in 2001. :p
Title: Re: Time names Gateses, Bono
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 6 January 2006, 19:22: The perfect threesome ... :D
Title: Re: Time names Gateses, Bono
Post by: DavidB on 11 January 2006, 03:14: I wonder how much Bill Gates and corporate rock star Bonehead paid Time for that honor. With Google threatening to castrate Gates, anyone could have predicted that the world's richest as*hole would soon cut loose with another blast of charity, with the inevitable accompanying cover story.

I'm just amazed some people still don't see the strings attached to Bill Gates' "donations"...like "Microsoft Auditorium" in the Seattle Public Library.