Re: HLA v1.78 is now available

Annie wrote:
> On 2005-10-21 sevagK said:
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>    > Bill Gates has also donated more money to charities than you can
>    > ever hope to see your entire life, thousands of times over..
>    > That really must make him 1,000,000,000 times more worthy than you.
>    >
>    > -sevag.K                                _____
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> 1. On the basis of total wealth vs. percentage donated, Gates is
>    a piker. The donations are, to him, chump change.
>
> 2. The monies donated to, and disbursed by, the Gates Foundation
>    are tax-sheltered.
>
> 3. The "philanthropy" is strictly self-serving.
>
>    A fair ****tion of the give-away takes the form of hardware and
>    software...which ultimately benefits M$ by creating even MORE
>    brain-dead pointee-clickee WinDoze Weenies around the world --
>    thus insuring a continuing Mikro$loth customer base.
>
>    But more im****tantly, it buys him friends and political influence.
>    Remember: until Mikro$loth started having major legal troubles with
>    the Feds (mid/late 1990s) over illegal business practices, Gates had
>    never given away a single dime. When he ultimately could've used
>    some "friends" inside The Wa****ngton D.C. Beltway, he found that he
>    didn't have any. That's when the Gates Foundation was formed, and
>    the money started flowing.
>
>    Coincidentally, that's also when Gates' cor****ate and personal
>    monetary "contributions" -- to BOTH political parties -- began.
>



He's a smart fellow, Bill Gates. One may only wish that he would be the
next President of the United States, France or EU or the Whole World :)
 However, I greatly doubt that he's got time for such a boring business
:))

Currently, I'm running through memory tests (Suse Linux install) and
there is a Memory Failure. Failing Address: 00019...
Bill Gates is innocent. I knew I should have not been saving on
hardware :)))

And too bad Windows does not check memory... this would save a few
bucks... I could return the defective chip within 2 weeks getting the
refund. Now I'd just have to through it away.... Hm... No!.. I'll
disassemble it :))