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Yeah, but we all know how many rich bastards there are out there that wouldn't give away a dime even if you paid them to.Quote:
Bill Gates is an exceptionally wealthy person, and $500,000 to him is worth about the same as 50c to most people like me.
My thoughts.
How do people make comparisons like this? Saying that $500,000 to one person is like 50 cents to another. Now maybe they have enough money that that is a decent comparison, but just because they have more doesn't mean they value it any less. A lot of well off and rich people have worked damn hard for their money. Sure once you have money, getting more is easier but a lot of people work there asses off in the beginning and know what it's like to go without. I'm a poor starving student, I have 20 bux to my name and quite honestly I couldn't afford to put 50 cents in a collection box. However I know many people who could put in hundreds of dollars and they wouldn't bat an eye. So because they have more to give does that mean it's less meaningful? A donation of a half-million dollars is amazing in my books regardless of who gives it? Why punish a person because they are wealthy? It isn't fair. if you make $50,000 a year and give $1000 to charity does that mean a person who makes a million dollars a year should give $20000 to charity? Doesn't work out to me. The more you give the better, but you should never assume that rich people don't value their money, and that it means nothing to them, you also should assume that they _MUST_ give more than the average person. If everyone helps a little in the end we help a lot, however why should one person take a larger burden than others, because they have the means? Well boohoo, if giving a half mil. isnt' enough for you then quit your whining until you match the donation.Quote:
Originally posted here by nihil
Bill Gates is an exceptionally wealthy person, and $500,000 to him is worth about the same as 50c to most people like me. Now, if there is a charity collecting for child protection on the street, I would gladly put 50c in the box.............wouldn't you?
As for the privacy issue, I don't like my privacy invaded because some of my activities are at times questionable. However if it will help catch these bloody perverts, then all the power to them. So I agree with Deb, and Jack and others, I'll sacrifice a lil for that.
Well, giving and sacrifice for others is an important aspect of what we are as a human community.
Not to pick on HTRegz, but here is a reference:
Mark 12:41-44
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1> This isn't an invasion of privacy. Its a stand alone program. i didn't see anything talking about it being integrated into windows. Whoever said it was a way to index porn is basically right. it is a next generation database that will do preliminary scans on the pictures. If the person has grey hair and wrinkles, they are obviously over 18. If the person has no pubic hair, babyfat cheeks, perfect skin, and no boobs, then it gets flagged to be checked by people.
No invasion of privacy if you ask me.Quote:
designed to store copies of all the images police find, creating a searchable database that can help them uncover similarities among cases. It can also analyze pictures and classify those that are child pornography,
2> BG may be the richest person in the world. You can say his 41 billion dollars or whatever makes 50,000 look like 50cent. But he doesn't have 1 billion dollars. That is his net worth. Lets say you own a $100,000 house and have $2 in the bank. Your net worth is $100,002, but you can't buy a $4 cup of coffee from Starbucks. Most of BG's worth is in stock. Any time he sells more then x ammount of stock (don't remeber the exact number) he has to declare it to the SEC. Now lets say suddenly BG decides to sell 50,000,000 shares of stock. That is going to drop the value of the stock so quick because everyone is going to be selling because something must be wrong for him to sell that many shares. So now the stock went from $50 a share (or whatever) to $20 a share.
Thats a lot of money to be giving away. Now its not all HIS money as it is a foundation, but he has made some rather large investments into that foundation.Quote:
and his philanthropic foundation, with an endowment of $24 billion, has made large donations to global health initiatives among other causes.
you made a point that almost no one had in consideration, the fortune that they say he has is in all of he stuff to have that cash he would need to sell all his stuff(company, house, cars), but the amount they say he is worth i thinks is only for microsoft.
this is a point to ponder on....... so if he sell alot. then he will have aproblem.. since all the stocks will fall that is all his fortune will be hit by it...... so if the stock is 10% down..... he will lose 4+ billion $... nice...... but if the stock is up 10% then... that is profit... not net..... but profite
Oh smeg, did I read some people defending Bill Gates? ;-) j/k
Actually, I do agree with what many of the people in this thread have said. I do not think MS is an inherently evil organization. Are they aggressive, competetive, and ruthless? Absolutely. But any corporation of their size has to be. And rapier57 makes a very good point in that BG does not have much to do with the daily runnings of MS anymore, but is in fact mostly spending his time (and money) on his foundation.
And catch also makes a really excellent point: as far as evil empires, go MS is a pup. Stealing the Mac GUI and trying to kill Netscape is childs play compared to the stuff DeBeers and Chevron has done. Entire wars in Africa have been directly begun and funded by these corporations. Thousands upon thousands killed in the course of business.
Am I concerned about privacy and security issues regarding windows? Extremely. But at least I don't have to worry about a MS Death Squad killing me for switching to Red Hat! :-)
lol....... well
" I am ther Micronater... I will M$ u in 10seconds" :use arnold tone& voince :P
this is the futer who doesnt use M$ Will be visited by the Micronator that will M$ all the ppl :P
lol.......
but any way child p0rN is bad...... any way wt sick mind would like that stuff. dam pidophils.....
First off, the Gates's foundation gives an incredible amount of money to help people. Second, I dont hate MS, I just dont agree with its business practices.
Ok, no for the original thread. I know there is imaging software in development, especially for security to identify someones face real time on a security camera and alert the police. I think it's really cool stuff. But, it is never worth giving up your privacy for that trash they made. How can you determine age, pubes? [/Sick] You cant really. This is more like a porn finder type of thing. I consider it spyware in all aspects and useless.
I wonder... perhaps advanced facial recognition software may be the trick. Given that many countries are now going to special digital images that can be used with face recognition software, perhaps there are other advances in this biometric that may prove beneficial in stopping child pornography.