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I'm willing to listen to about most everything you've said(excluded the ridiculous comparison of Bill Gates to Mother Teresa that's just complete fucking bullshit) but please give me some proof.

You want proof that Bill Gates has given about 3 billion dollars to charity? That won't be too tough to provide.

http://www.glf.org

http://www3.sympatico.ca/truegrowth/gates1.html

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_707992.html?menu=

oh yeah, i forgot about how bill wakes up every morning and spends all day making the world safe for orphans in india with his perfectly secure and stable operating systems.

No, he goes to India personally and gives them $400,000,000 for AIDS research. And it's paid for with the best operating system on earth, Windows 2000.

sorry cam. feel free to follow up.

I will. You're an asshole.

The difference with armed robbery is the money is not spent on my country and community, in theory for the benefit of all, and I can't leave the country if I dislike an armed robbery.

Wrong! If someone robs me and says they're going to use the money to feed their starving kids and give medicine to their elderly mother, it doesn't make it any less robbery. And the money that's stolen from us does not benefit everyone or anyone. Welfare doesn't help people, it keeps them in a self-perpetuating cycle of poverty. Public education doesn't help people. It makes Americans less educated than most other countries when private education costs half of what is spent per student in public schools and provide a superior education. Medicare and Social security don't help people. If someone put the same money into a savings account over their working career as they do into social security they'd have more than a million dollars to retire on, have more money each month, and be able to leave it to their family. You can't name a single government program that has done it's job. Welfare was created to end poverty. Has it? Social security was made to provide a retirement that people can live on in their autumn years. Does it?

The answer on all these is NO!!!

Private charities are often a vehicle for religious institutions and these days have become a competitive industry, with marketing budgets as big as their welfare budgets

Bullshit. Private non-profit charities RARELY keep more than 20% of money collected for overhead while the government keeps 85% of every dollar stolen. There are also hundreds if not thousands of these non-profits that aren't related in any way to any religious organization. The Red Cross, The United Way, and hundreds of charities to fund research for AIDS, Cancer, Abused Children, food banks, and other such things.

I see you have no actually made any rebuttal to the healthcare sys I explained, that is in place here, but instead have continued with your unsupported rubbish.

I see you're still talking shit even though I've backed up everything I've said with actual numbers and indisputable facts.

I’ve worked a bit in IT, but there are people here who get their bread and butter out of HPUX and the like who I’m sure will enjoy ripping up your farcical statement.

I've been in IT for 17 years and you're a complete idiot if you think any of those OS's provide more security, are more user friendly, or are more stable than Win2k. I can talk about anything you want in the computer realm and put you and most others to shame. Now sit down little boy, you've been schooled.

This is a bit simplistic, of course; there are extremes at each end. But the people who claim that taxes or social policies are illegal are at the far end of the constitutionalist spectrum. They do not understand how much revenue is required to run the greatest (by size & influence) economic, military, political and ideological power in the world.

I'm not extreme in any sense of the word. Let me help you out. Read the 9th and 10th amendments. They say that anything not specifically listed in the constitution is a right of the people or a power of the states. And that the fed may not take part in anything not enumerated (specifically listed) in the constitution. Government funded charity, education, healthcare, retirement, etc. ARE NOT LISTED IN THE CONSTITUTION AND ARE THUS ILLEGAL FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO TAKE PART IN!

Yes the constitution can be changed, but only with a constitutional amendment. Not an act declaring a change of government powers like the war powers act, or the homeland security act. Only an actual amendment can change the powers of government or add new parts to government. Nothing less is acceptable or legal. The constitution doesn't require "interpretation". It's written in simple English and it means what it says; nothing more and nothing less.

That's a lame simile. Coke never agreed to include Pepsi in every future twelve-pack during some hypothetical time when it was to their advantage to do so.

It's a metaphore. And it's legitimate. Microsoft never agreed to sell their product with anyone else's product included. Especially a competing browser or even Java. Microsoft did break their license agreement not to change Java. But they didn't make any promises to distribute Java. They merely got a license to use it.

2 TRILLION dollar budget......and they couldn't keep 4 planes from being used at weapons. Maybe 5 trillion will do the trick. Or 7......or 12.....or 20..........

Exactly. The military budget is FAAAR to big. Every single American military base outside our own borders should be shut down immediately. The constitution provides for a DEFENSIVE military not an OFFENSIVE show of force spread out all over the globe like the Roman empire.

(That's not sarcasm.. I am really interested by what measure you find Win2k more stable than Linux.)

It's from personal experience. I am a consultant that literally sees thousands upon thousands of machines of all operating sytems. And don't get me wrong I really like Linux. But I've had 1 or 2 linux machines crash on me. But have never seen a Win2k machine crash. I will give Linux this, it almost never has to be rebooted. And while win2k rarely has to be rebooted, it still does on occasion when you install software packages. Win2k has a lot of features Linux doesn't have such as R.I.S. and other stuff included as part of the operating sytem.

Could you please show me an RFC where that is documented?

I never said everything they do is based on standards, but nearly everything is. I am sure I can name a dozen things Microsoft does by standards that have RFC's you can look up for every one you can provide that doesn't have one. And I'd look for that RFC but I've got to get to bed. As it is I'll get 4 hours of sleep before work if I leave right this second and immediately fall asleep.