I've been banned because I'm against the mindless m$/Gates bootlicking. Nice. How do you feel as a person? Can you sleep? Don't you think that your shitty rules just create a hivemind? Nevermind, HN is full with retards who think they're geniuses.
Btw, you're quite famous for being a shitty moderator. No doubt you're part of HN's problem: you're just a shill who tries to keep the bubble intact.
That child abuse thing wasn't that common at all and don't act like today's people care about their kids more. You can see serious child abuse in the poorer parts of the society every day.
> yes, but it requires a very unkind reading of history to deny the absolutely huge role they played in bring about the world we take for granted today.
Yes huge role: but not a good one.
> Microsoft got so incredibly many things right
Like the FUD, EEE and the rest of the nasty stuff? Ms gets too much positive credit for all the bad things it has done.
> I feel I need to be direct: you seem to be failing at reading comprehension 101 all throughout this thread (I assume tiredness). I was not comparing Bill to Jesus.
No, but the traits you've described your "jesus" almost matched bill. You're constantly describing him as a saint.
> I was implying that you, and similar critics, think that we have streams of Jesus-scale saints who are smart, rich and ready to help, and we prefer Gates instead. But we don't have those saints. Right now, we can only choose between Gates and no one at all.
That's some seriously ignorant nonsense. What does Gates do? Compared to most charity organizations and governments: nothing. Even if they'd donate all their money it'd barely change anything. This is just PR. Are you working for them?
> I will readily, and entirely for free, support every single company, organization, government and individual who puts a honest and smart effort to make the world a better place.
So, not microsoft then. Which's the one you're implicitly promoting right now.
> I will readily, and entirely for free, support every single company, organization, government and individual who puts a honest and smart effort to make the world a better place.
This means you're not immune to PR. Sorry, but the world doesn't work like that. Ms constantly says how it'll change the world for the better and look at the software industry. Support those who don't do evil things to get rich, how about that?
> Still, all the bad things Microsoft did back then are a rounding error compared to all the good Bill and Melinda are doing right now.
Not just "back then" but even now. They cause(d) more harm than the good they'll ever be able to do in their lives. They've a lot of money and by charity they won't need to pay as much tax and those are the most important reasons behind their charities. I can donate unused money too it doesn't mean I'm a saint.
> I understand the idea of not promoting "end justifies the means" thinking, but we need to be pragmatic about this - there are only few people on this planet who have, simultaneously, lots of resources, their heart in the right place, and enough smarts to use those resources effectively for the common good. Discouraging those people from helping is a pretty stupid thing to do.
You know what is more stupid? Idolizing rich criminals. They're not saints they just have too much disposable money and they partially use it to whitewash their names.
Edit: it seems like the ms PR army is here. I expected it: HN is its nest and you're just validating it. Downvote everything which disagrees with Saint Gates and Saint Ms! Sheeps.
Btw, you're quite famous for being a shitty moderator. No doubt you're part of HN's problem: you're just a shill who tries to keep the bubble intact.