lowrider Posted July 24, 2020 Report Share Posted July 24, 2020 Anybody watch it ? Bill Gates may save us from ourselves yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRAZZ Posted July 24, 2020 Report Share Posted July 24, 2020 Either that or chip us all with 5G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted July 24, 2020 Report Share Posted July 24, 2020 every time I misplace my phone it's like "just chip me and get it overwith" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVR Posted July 24, 2020 Report Share Posted July 24, 2020 I don't want this to get political, but Bill Gates is not looking out for us humans in any good way; his actions are not as altruistic as he attempts to portray them. He might have been part of the growth of technology as we use it now, but since then his motives have changed. Trust him, his products, and his directives at your own peril. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softbootsurfer Posted July 24, 2020 Report Share Posted July 24, 2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVR Posted July 24, 2020 Report Share Posted July 24, 2020 Well now. No one will ever state the font was too small....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowrider Posted July 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2020 My point is not about his company and their technology but about rational plans with emphasis on stemming the growth of this pandemic and putting resources where they need to be in order to deliver a vaccine to the world not just the wealthy countries. He admitted that some of his early predictions about technology and the work place weren't always accurate. I would add that so far all his predictions about where the US is headed with it's handling of this pandemic has been correct his entire work force has been working from home since March and he doesn't see them returning anytime soon. His emphasis on building new factories for producing new vaccines specifically for early possibly less effective vaccines as well as those on target for later release with more extensive efficacy. One comment that was interesting was his questioning of peoples acceptance to take a vaccine ( At minimum 60 % compliance is needed) As far as trusting any technology from any source that's up to you. So far i'm still questioning if i can participate safely with social distancing given the way my local bump runs things. So far it looks like MCC with limited participants and a two man chair is the safest bet. The hot tub at the motel is out and the evening social gatherings. Perhaps more electrical hook ups at resorts so we can use our own facilities ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pow4ever Posted July 24, 2020 Report Share Posted July 24, 2020 Not saying that we should strive to be ignorant. Limit my news intake seems to do wonder for sanity. If someone do/say can affect my feeling then I am not in complete control of my emotion. Return to reading book/long form media allow me to be more objective/tolerance with idea that's in conflict with my core belief. clickbait-y headline is just straight manipulation with very little substance/real information. Ask youself for "news": (How)can i do something about it? (How)Does it apply to me? What's their angle? what are they trying to sell? even NPR(I love NPR) got "master" to answer to. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumpyride Posted July 24, 2020 Report Share Posted July 24, 2020 I used to think that Bill Gates was pretty evil, and rightly so with his business practices and information technologies. I now think that having so much wealth in his hands has changed his perspective. Hard to spend $17 Million a day no matter who you are, and when he can make a better world for his children by doing what he can to save us from ourselves, I do have to believe it's wealth in a very good place. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pow4ever Posted July 24, 2020 Report Share Posted July 24, 2020 1 minute ago, bumpyride said: I used to think that Bill Gates was pretty evil, and rightly so with his business practices and information technologies. I now think that having so much wealth in his hands has changed his perspective. Hard to spend $17 Million a day no matter who you are, and when he can make a better world for his children by doing what he can to save us from ourselves, I do have to believe it's wealth in a very good place. amen... people change for better or worse. I hate to think people who meet me 10+ years ago still think I suck at snowboarding. well I still suck but with much nicer/expensive gears lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted July 25, 2020 Report Share Posted July 25, 2020 Oh, ineffective vaccines to be approved, how convenient! You get to sell the same product twice... or multitude of times, as it gradually becomes better. Then, when it approaches good, make it obsolete, for whatever reason... It reminds me of a story of an operating system, somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowrider Posted July 25, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2020 4 hours ago, BlueB said: Oh, ineffective vaccines to be approved, how convenient! You get to sell the same product twice... or multitude of times, as it gradually becomes better. Then, when it approaches good, make it obsolete, for whatever reason... It reminds me of a story of an operating system, somehow. No! vaccine is to be offered free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softbootsurfer Posted July 25, 2020 Report Share Posted July 25, 2020 and on it goes... https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/202005/anti-vaccine-and-covid-19-conspiracy-theories-perfect-storm 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted July 25, 2020 Report Share Posted July 25, 2020 somebody will always see a boogeyman in the shadows who isn't there, doesn't mean there is no such thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumpyride Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 At least I hope the vaccine works. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordmetroland Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 On 7/24/2020 at 5:27 AM, TVR said: I don't want this to get political, but Bill Gates is not looking out for us humans in any good way...Trust him, his products, and his directives at your own peril. If you substituted "Larry Ellison" for "Bill Gates" I'd be nodding vigorously in agreement. As far I can make out, Bill Gates is a whole lot less sinister than when he took over the world in the 90s. Unless, of course, you're malaria in which case he truly is a treacherous, sinister SOB. You aren't malaria, are you? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 Reminder: No politics here. That's what Facebook is for! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowrider Posted July 27, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 But Corey FB is where the 3 percent live and i don't think many of them snowboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 Yah, in my view Bill was an anti-competitive Borg monopolist back during Microsoft's biggest growth years, but he has matured. I think there is something to be said for the view that he has achieved everything he hoped to achieve in his business and has now set his sights on more philanthropic goals. That, gaining maturity (temporal as well as mental), and maybe starting to think a little bit about what his legacy will look like. He came up with the Giving Pledge (with Buffett), and the Gates Foundation has been doing indisputably good work in disease prevention since he founded it in 2000. Now, is he doing all this to whitewash his reputation and be looked on more favorably by history, or does he have genuinely philanthropic instincts? Don't know, who cares. In the immortal words of Deng Xiaoping "It doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice." Having said that, I don't think his participation in the Reddit Secret Santa gift exchange every year is what you would typically expect from an Illuminati. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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