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Skriven 2006-06-07 23:12:00 av Robert E Starr JR (2494.babylon5)
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In article <lp0e82t5qd7gn7reo8b1gj31nr8irs844e@4ax.com>,
 Josh Hill <usereplyto@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 19:12:35 +0000 (UTC), Kurt Ullman
> <kurtullman@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >In article <q0fb82hh1oacohpiniulqqb0anfpv8c167@4ax.com>,
> > Josh Hill <usereplyto@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 08:57:13 +0000 (UTC), Paul Harper <paul@harper.net>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 03:35:10 +0000 (UTC), Josh Hill
> >> ><usereplyto@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 20:13:45 +0000 (UTC), "Carl" <cengman7@hotmail.com>
> >> >>wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>>And Bill Gates never killed anyone.
> >> >>
> >> >>Didn't he? What was that figure for oral fluid replacement treatment
> >> >>for infantile diarrhea, eight cents? And how much did his 200-car
> >> >>garage cost?
> >> >
> >> >Josh, you're *really* grasping at straws here.
> >> 
> >> IIRC, I thought so when I started typing that sentence, but not at the
> >> end. Why does our society now take it for granted that there's no
> >> moral penalty attached to the excesses of conspicuous consumption?
> >      That wasn't even remotely what you said. You made a direct link 
> >between Gate's garage and the fact that oral fluid replacement was 
> >killing kids.
> 
> Methinks you're being a tad too literal.
   ME thinks you were a tad untidy in your usage and is now backing away 
from a very straightofrward statement. 


> >      Or be too rich for Josh,...
> 
> Should I respect the guy who steals radios out of the neighbors' cars
> to buy junk? No? Then why should I respect a guy who amasses billions
> in part through activities that the courts have repeatedly found
> criminal and then uses some of it to heap obscene 200 car luxury upon
> himself? A pig's a pig, whether powerful or not, but you'd scarcely
> know it from conservatives who reflexively defend the rich while
> excoriating the poor.
        Ah, so now Bill Gates is nothing more than a common criminal and 
MS is just a large fencing operation.  BTW: Courts have yet to find it 
criminal in any manner. Some, mostly EU, have found it to be civily not 
nice. Nobody has found anything criminal as of yet.
         
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