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qu1j0t3 | http://www.salon.com/2012/01/26/wall_street_execs_are_major_obama_fundraisers/ | Jan 27 00:26 |
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schestowitz | hope for slush funds... change please | Jan 27 00:54 |
schestowitz | qu1j0t3: the Republican have already won the election | Jan 27 01:04 |
schestowitz | They stack the cards. Left-wing Republican versus 3 stooges | Jan 27 01:04 |
qu1j0t3 | right, it doesn't matter anyway, but the signs were there | Jan 27 01:24 |
qu1j0t3 | that they wanted to change the face | Jan 27 01:25 |
qu1j0t3 | e.g. Murdoch 's tweet | Jan 27 01:25 |
qu1j0t3 | and other signs | Jan 27 01:25 |
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schestowitz | I'm still aching from hard exercise yesterday and I'm trying to see how much I can build up while losing weight, owing to a special diet of protein and low carbs | Jan 27 14:41 |
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schestowitz | qu1j0t3: Blech http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/davos-sandberg-facebook/ | Jan 27 14:56 |
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qu1j0t3 | :< | Jan 27 15:00 |
qu1j0t3 | even the url makes me retch | Jan 27 15:00 |
schestowitz | davos... facebork | Jan 27 15:02 |
schestowitz | worl summit | Jan 27 15:02 |
schestowitz | rich and powerful.. and their watchdog | Jan 27 15:02 |
schestowitz | Neelie Likes | Jan 27 15:02 |
schestowitz | And remember she also attends BIlderberg meetings | Jan 27 15:02 |
qu1j0t3 | it just shows that Facebook is wired in -- the locus of the plutocracy | Jan 27 15:05 |
qu1j0t3 | 1 stop shop | Jan 27 15:05 |
schestowitz | " | Jan 27 15:07 |
schestowitz | > do you use his L_2 or L_infty version? | Jan 27 15:07 |
schestowitz | > L_infty should be much more sensitive to noise... | Jan 27 15:07 |
schestowitz | I spent nearly an hour trying to compile L_infty on the computational servers (some maintenance done on them this week), but since it was built on Windows, unintentionally for Windows, the code has all sorts of dependencies (including Visual Studio libraries, AFAICT) that impede me making the binary. The L_2 variant had a binary lying around for a long time, but it was created by the person most familiar with the code. | Jan 27 15:07 |
schestowitz | " | Jan 27 15:07 |
schestowitz | windows.h | Jan 27 15:07 |
schestowitz | :/ | Jan 27 15:07 |
schestowitz | qu1j0t3: we get the facebook front end | Jan 27 15:08 |
schestowitz | sharing info | Jan 27 15:08 |
schestowitz | interacting | Jan 27 15:08 |
schestowitz | communicating | Jan 27 15:08 |
schestowitz | but the back end is not ours | Jan 27 15:08 |
schestowitz | the political censorship | Jan 27 15:08 |
schestowitz | e.g. pro-palestine causes and such | Jan 27 15:08 |
schestowitz | the surveillance | Jan 27 15:08 |
schestowitz | the profiles (not public, the machine learned stuff) | Jan 27 15:08 |
schestowitz | So they stick close to Mark | Jan 27 15:08 |
schestowitz | they're on Heaven above the 'cloud' while we continue to worship this 'cloud', giving it our photos and thoughts and even mental stimuli ("like") | Jan 27 15:09 |
qu1j0t3 | facebook - spying, PR, consumerism all in one package. | Jan 27 15:14 |
qu1j0t3 | it's the absolute perfection of the mental control started by TV | Jan 27 15:14 |
qu1j0t3 | distraction, too. | Jan 27 15:14 |
qu1j0t3 | just throw in a new sack of slop, like a pig farm | Jan 27 15:14 |
qu1j0t3 | keep the pigs busy | Jan 27 15:14 |
qu1j0t3 | no revolt | Jan 27 15:14 |
qu1j0t3 | and watch them too | Jan 27 15:14 |
qu1j0t3 | all owned by the plutocrats | Jan 27 15:14 |
qu1j0t3 | and a close medium for their messages | Jan 27 15:15 |
qu1j0t3 | no ambiguity, just a direct jab in the vein with PR | Jan 27 15:15 |
qu1j0t3 | "Gates Better than Batman" | Jan 27 15:15 |
qu1j0t3 | message received by 500 million | Jan 27 15:15 |
qu1j0t3 | can't do that with TV | Jan 27 15:15 |
qu1j0t3 | well you can, but only for megaevents | Jan 27 15:15 |
qu1j0t3 | not every minute of every day like Fb | Jan 27 15:16 |
qu1j0t3 | it's perfect | Jan 27 15:16 |
schestowitz | http://identi.ca/notice/89448067 | Jan 27 15:16 |
TechrightsSocial | @Kevin Granade (kevingranade)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-12 15:10:49 UTC - linuxwrangling: @schestowitz it's amazing how effective my physical keyboard fetish is at dulling tech toy cravings ;) | Jan 27 15:16 |
schestowitz | [15:15] <qu1j0t3> message received by 500 million | Jan 27 15:16 |
schestowitz | doubt it | Jan 27 15:16 |
schestowitz | it had limited reach that propagabnda | Jan 27 15:17 |
schestowitz | but the Gates PR machines as a whole reaches that sort of audience | Jan 27 15:17 |
schestowitz | some of it becomes word of mouth marketing | Jan 27 15:17 |
schestowitz | peer to peer | Jan 27 15:17 |
schestowitz | Gates carried the burden of having to prove that the plutocrats are our best friend because Forbes positions him as such | Jan 27 15:17 |
schestowitz | Warren joined in to cover his own arse too and thus far it works. He's seen as one of the "good" plutocrats | Jan 27 15:18 |
schestowitz | Russian oligarchs must be green with envy... maybe they should hire Bernays | Jan 27 15:18 |
schestowitz | http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2012/01/katherine-noyes-im-linux-fan-and-i.html | Jan 27 15:20 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Katherine Noyes: I'm a Linux fan, and I enjoy helping to bring Linux to the forefront - Linux notes from DarkDuck .::. Size~: 113.32 KB | Jan 27 15:20 |
schestowitz | Katherine Noyes is a very cool Canadian | Jan 27 15:20 |
schestowitz | She dedicated her career to promoting Linux | Jan 27 15:20 |
schestowitz | For ideology, not money | Jan 27 15:20 |
schestowitz | ANd she does something similar to what I do, bar the activism | Jan 27 15:21 |
schestowitz | This guy's lyrics are awesome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caf51I-MRQY&list=PLD7647DDCCCDE7E62&index=5&feature=plpp_video http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7647DDCCCDE7E62 | Jan 27 15:26 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Behind That Gate - David Rovics - YouTube .::. Size~: 125.31 KB | Jan 27 15:26 |
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qu1j0t3 | right , gates blazed the trail in some ways for the Big LIe, and now everyone is copying him | Jan 27 15:28 |
qu1j0t3 | notably, Fuckerberg | Jan 27 15:28 |
qu1j0t3 | call it 'education reform' | Jan 27 15:28 |
qu1j0t3 | Batman and Robin will save American education!!!! | Jan 27 15:28 |
qu1j0t3 | as if money was the problem | Jan 27 15:28 |
qu1j0t3 | sure money's the problem; cut taxes and spend on weapons | Jan 27 15:28 |
qu1j0t3 | then blame unions for an imaginary problem with education | Jan 27 15:29 |
qu1j0t3 | let the billionaires who enriched themselves on a tax-free, corruption-tolerant regime march in | Jan 27 15:29 |
qu1j0t3 | and take it over | Jan 27 15:29 |
qu1j0t3 | checkmate | Jan 27 15:29 |
schestowitz | yeah, scary how it works | Jan 27 15:32 |
schestowitz | I can only hope that we'll win the minds, but doubt it's achievable | Jan 27 15:32 |
schestowitz | They have TV | Jan 27 15:32 |
schestowitz | They have radio | Jan 27 15:33 |
schestowitz | Bribed for and paid for | Jan 27 15:33 |
schestowitz | And those means of media have a lot more air time than people in this generation | Jan 27 15:33 |
qu1j0t3 | http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/27/047243/pentagon-drafts-kids-to-build-drones-and-robots | Jan 27 15:34 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Pentagon Drafts Kids To Build Drones and Robots - Slashdot .::. Size~: 202.56 KB | Jan 27 15:34 |
schestowitz | also making guns for kids | Jan 27 15:44 |
schestowitz | first with foam and plastic | Jan 27 15:44 |
schestowitz | then pellets, paint ball, etc. | Jan 27 15:44 |
schestowitz | gun culture made hip | Jan 27 15:44 |
schestowitz | peer acceptance | Jan 27 15:45 |
schestowitz | no longer swords and sticks | Jan 27 15:45 |
MinceR | you'd be whining about swords and sticks then :> | Jan 27 15:45 |
schestowitz | just ejecting objects at high velocity | Jan 27 15:45 |
schestowitz | to hit human-like targets | Jan 27 15:45 |
schestowitz | kids dress up as cowboys for halloween | Jan 27 15:45 |
schestowitz | "Great to see a representative reaching out via reddit!" https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1223070 | Jan 27 15:57 |
TechrightsSocial | @: | Jan 27 15:57 |
schestowitz | she wrote to me :-) | Jan 27 15:59 |
schestowitz | http://twitter.com/MarietjeD66/status/162927212373344257?iid=am-209358414613276798493402183&nid=4+status_timestamp&uid=26603208 | Jan 27 15:59 |
TechrightsSocial | @MarietjeD66: @schestowitz thanks for sharing! | Jan 27 15:59 |
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schestowitz | 0/ | Jan 27 16:44 |
qu1j0t3 | "But Terry Gou isn't some villain from a Cold War era cartoon book. He's founded charitable foundations and has said that he eventually intends to give away one third of his personal wealth (and this is a man worth around $6 billion). | Jan 27 17:14 |
qu1j0t3 | http://www.salon.com/2012/01/24/the_ugly_truth_about_school_choice/singleton | Jan 27 17:29 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: The ugly truth about “school choice” - Salon.com .::. Size~: 106.47 KB | Jan 27 17:29 |
schestowitz | "charitable foundation" | Jan 27 17:34 |
schestowitz | So charitable that it's tax excempt :-) | Jan 27 17:34 |
schestowitz | exempt | Jan 27 17:34 |
schestowitz | The trickle-down PR effect | Jan 27 17:35 |
qu1j0t3 | sigh | Jan 27 17:41 |
qu1j0t3 | "one third" of a six billion fortune. | Jan 27 17:41 |
qu1j0t3 | lol | Jan 27 17:41 |
qu1j0t3 | "Yeah I robbed a bank, so I'm giving away some of it. Consider me a saint please?" | Jan 27 17:41 |
qu1j0t3 | schestowitz: this needs more downvotes. Have you? http://www.quora.com/Does-Bill-Gates-get-too-much-credit-for-his-donation-to-charity/answer/Adam-Mordecai | Jan 27 17:45 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Adam Mordecai's answer to Does Bill Gates get too much credit for his donation to charity? - Quora .::. Size~: 131.31 KB | Jan 27 17:45 |
schestowitz | [17:48] <XFaCE> schestowitz: prurigro sent me this link http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/oxs6n/gates_donates_750_million_to_fight_aids_tb_and/ | Jan 27 17:52 |
schestowitz | [17:48] <TechrightsBot-tr> Title: Gates donates $750 million to fight AIDS, TB and malaria : worldnews .::. Size~: 609.39 KB | Jan 27 17:52 |
schestowitz | [17:49] <XFaCE> I keep a sceptical, but open mind | Jan 27 17:52 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Gates donates $750 million to fight AIDS, TB and malaria : worldnews .::. Size~: 609.38 KB | Jan 27 17:52 |
schestowitz | [17:50] <SpenserWilde> DaemonFC, Agreed. | Jan 27 17:52 |
schestowitz | [17:50] *** XFaCE gives SpenserWilde permission to talk. | Jan 27 17:52 |
schestowitz | [17:51] <schestowitz> XFaCE: it's a lie | Jan 27 17:52 |
schestowitz | [17:51] <schestowitz> and the reddit link is dubious | Jan 27 17:52 |
schestowitz | [17:51] <schestowitz> they have a PR campaign running | Jan 27 17:52 |
schestowitz | [17:51] <schestowitz> in techrights I explain what they mean by "donate" | Jan 27 17:52 |
schestowitz | [17:52] <schestowitz> It' should not be called "donate", but the PR astroturfers keep repeating this word, and it works | Jan 27 17:52 |
schestowitz | Maybe there's a new PR push in social networks now | Jan 27 17:52 |
schestowitz | to fool the masses more | Jan 27 17:53 |
schestowitz | and pollute smaller sites too, not just older people | Jan 27 17:53 |
qu1j0t3 | https://twitter.com/#!/obra/status/146687283058323456 | Jan 27 17:53 |
TechrightsSocial | @obra: From someone at lunch: 10 years ago, would you have believed that the major phone operating system battle would be Linux vs BSD? | Jan 27 17:53 |
qu1j0t3 | https://twitter.com/#!/qu1j0t3/status/162956815032795138 | Jan 27 17:55 |
TechrightsSocial | @qu1j0t3: If you think Romney is grasping, greedy and vicious, wait until you meet Bill Gates. | Jan 27 17:55 |
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schestowitz | qu1j0t3: wait for the PR agents to troll you | Jan 27 18:35 |
schestowitz | "why are you do jealous?" | Jan 27 18:38 |
qu1j0t3 | LOL | Jan 27 18:38 |
qu1j0t3 | 'why do you hate success' | Jan 27 18:38 |
qu1j0t3 | schestowitz: did u downvote that answer? | Jan 27 18:38 |
qu1j0t3 | it's extraordinarily offensive | Jan 27 18:38 |
schestowitz | no, I didn't | Jan 27 18:44 |
schestowitz | I try not to get involved outside the site where PR agents roam | Jan 27 18:44 |
schestowitz | I know the Gates apologists and PR agents | Jan 27 18:44 |
schestowitz | Seen them over the years | Jan 27 18:44 |
schestowitz | Best method now is to write meaningful articles about what he does do | Jan 27 18:45 |
schestowitz | articles that are BS can be cited and their authors shown how stupid they were | Jan 27 18:45 |
schestowitz | and occasionally they will respond | Jan 27 18:45 |
schestowitz | the PR agents would outnumber you otherwise | Jan 27 18:46 |
schestowitz | They are very well funded and coordinated | Jan 27 18:46 |
schestowitz | Edelman is among the agents | Jan 27 18:46 |
schestowitz | And W-E | Jan 27 18:46 |
schestowitz | Same PR agents that work for MS and bribe bloggers | Jan 27 18:46 |
qu1j0t3 | true | Jan 27 18:46 |
schestowitz | They can mock you publicly | Jan 27 18:47 |
schestowitz | But they cannot remove your own blog posts | Jan 27 18:47 |
schestowitz | Which is why I stay away from the hecklers | Jan 27 18:47 |
schestowitz | http://osdir.com/Article11019.phtml | Jan 27 18:47 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Twitter Announces It Can Block Tweets Per Country :: OSDir.com :: Open Source, Linux News & Software .::. Size~: 25.63 KB | Jan 27 18:47 |
schestowitz | Twitter is not truthworthy | Jan 27 18:47 |
qu1j0t3 | schestowitz: right; Saudi Arabia invested in it. | Jan 27 18:47 |
qu1j0t3 | I WONDER WHY. | Jan 27 18:47 |
schestowitz | Remember what they did about twitter subpoenas | Jan 27 18:47 |
schestowitz | qu1j0t3: yeah | Jan 27 18:47 |
schestowitz | 100 million IIRC | Jan 27 18:47 |
schestowitz | Bill's mate | Jan 27 18:47 |
schestowitz | if you have a blog and they have to sign up with IP+email to comment, there is nothing the agents can do | Jan 27 18:51 |
schestowitz | They'd give away their affiliation, which would basically only cause even more trouble to the Gates cronies | Jan 27 18:51 |
schestowitz | In the past 2+ years that I wrote about Gates I didn't get any troll comments | Jan 27 18:52 |
schestowitz | AFAICR | Jan 27 18:52 |
qu1j0t3 | :) | Jan 27 18:54 |
schestowitz | qu1j0t3: http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/davos-myanmar-soe-thein/ http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/blogging-from-davos-i-meet-thorbj%c3%b8rn-jagland-secretary-general-of-the-council-of-europe/ | Jan 27 18:55 |
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schestowitz | Neelie is having powerful time with powerful people | Jan 27 18:55 |
schestowitz | I was in Davos a couple of times for skiing, but I wasn\t invited to these events :-) Not enough money | Jan 27 18:55 |
qu1j0t3 | schestowitz: http://www.quora.com/Should-Apple-products-be-boycotted-due-to-them-keeping-the-majority-of-their-money-out-of-country-to-avoid-paying-US-taxes-on/answer/Toby-Thain | Jan 27 20:39 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Toby Thain's answer to Should Apple products be boycotted due to them keeping the majority of their money out of country to avoid paying US taxes on? - Quora .::. Size~: 40.42 KB | Jan 27 20:39 |
qu1j0t3 | http://mashable.com/2012/01/27/facebook-worth-100-billion/ "On the other hand, $10 billion — the amount Facebook will see from this IPO — is a lot of scratch. Yes, some people will get very rich, Zuckerberg in particular. But the chief Facebook Geek has said he’s not interested in the wealth, and I believe him. For Zuckerberg, winning has always been more important than money. | Jan 27 21:23 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Why Facebook is Really Worth $100 Billion .::. Size~: 147.03 KB | Jan 27 21:23 |
schestowitz | I've just had two of my mates over here for a couple of hours. One of them is originally from Hong Kong but he grew up here -- very interesting iinsights from him on the world's economy. | Jan 27 21:55 |
schestowitz | hmmm... Thank you for coming | Jan 27 21:58 |
MinceR | that's what she said. | Jan 27 21:59 |
schestowitz | and then she went out for a smoke | Jan 27 22:35 |
MinceR | :> | Jan 27 22:36 |
schestowitz | I've run our of news to dent or blog - for today | Jan 27 22:36 |
schestowitz | boring, so had guests over at my house... work has been slow too (no pressure) | Jan 27 22:37 |
schestowitz | I don't think I've been THIS much on top of news at work since like... 2003 | Jan 27 22:37 |
schestowitz | This whole past week has been a breeze | Jan 27 22:37 |
schestowitz | I think I'll take a vacation soon | Jan 27 22:37 |
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schestowitz | http://www.ismashphone.com/2011/01/microsoft-wants-to-patent-method-of-fighting-diseasewith-a-controller.html | Jan 27 23:00 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Microsoft Wants to Patent Method of Fighting Disease…With A Controller | iSmashPhone .::. Size~: 77.3 KB | Jan 27 23:00 |
schestowitz | qu1j0t3: http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/625/000013586/ | Jan 27 23:01 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: gates links .::. Size~: 17.91 KB | Jan 27 23:01 |
schestowitz | http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2011/10/26/4926425.html "If you invest enough money in a country you can get its leader to say anything." | Jan 27 23:11 |
schestowitz | Moutpieces | Jan 27 23:12 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Gates Keepers :: The Gates Foundation gets a commitment that cannot be guaranteed .::. Size~: 24.96 KB | Jan 27 23:12 |
schestowitz | wave the money, Bill | Jan 27 23:12 |
schestowitz | Make em dance | Jan 27 23:12 |
schestowitz | Bill's investment sin Shell CAUSE Polio | Jan 27 23:12 |
schestowitz | https://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/the-seattle-school-board-incumbents-stand-for-children-and-other-corporate-reform-backers/ "He also contributed to the Gates backed Seattle Foundation to cover the Seattle Public School district’s cost of hiring Teach for America, Inc. temps. His wife, Evelyne Rozner contributed $6,000 in 2007 to Peter Maier’s campaign, and $1,000 to the 2011 campaign. Ms. Rozner also | Jan 27 23:13 |
schestowitz | gave Carr and Martin-Morris $2,000 each and Sundquist $1,000." | Jan 27 23:13 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: The Seattle School Board Incumbents, Stand for Children and Other Corporate Reform Backers | Seattle Education .::. Size~: 504.09 KB | Jan 27 23:13 |
schestowitz | http://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2011/10/25/rajat-gupta-to-be-charged-for-insider-trading/ "Rajat Gupta To Be Charged Over Insider Trading" | Jan 27 23:14 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Rajat Gupta To Be Charged Over Insider Trading - Forbes .::. Size~: 94.68 KB | Jan 27 23:14 |
schestowitz | Stock adviser for Bill Gates | Jan 27 23:14 |
schestowitz | cheating | Jan 27 23:14 |
qu1j0t3 | https://twitter.com/#!/qu1j0t3/status/163037341018112000 | Jan 27 23:15 |
TechrightsSocial | @qu1j0t3: Gates Foundation: Now running Nigeria http://t.co/M8KzoPeY #SoThatsDemocracy | Jan 27 23:15 |
TechrightsSocial | @: | Jan 27 23:15 |
schestowitz | http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016583019_immigration23m.html "Sponsored in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and hosted by the foundation and the immigrant group OneAmerica, the event will bring to town some of the biggest names in immigration advocacy to discuss ways to help immigrants become more comfortable in an increasingly diverse America." | Jan 27 23:15 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Local News | Undocumented immigrant, journalist shares story in Seattle | Seattle Times Newspaper .::. Size~: 76.51 KB | Jan 27 23:16 |
schestowitz | Seattle Times is PAID by Gates | Jan 27 23:16 |
schestowitz | For those who don't know yet :-) | Jan 27 23:16 |
schestowitz | !google techrights polio | Jan 27 23:17 |
TechrightsSocial | [1] - Keeping on Top | Techrights | http://techrights.org/2011/09/30/keeping-on-top/ | Jan 27 23:17 |
TechrightsSocial | [2] - Techrights | Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting ... | http://techrights.org/%3Fstories | Jan 27 23:17 |
TechrightsSocial | [3] - Gates Foundation Critique - Techrights | http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gates_Foundation_Critique | Jan 27 23:17 |
TechrightsSocial | [4] - Techrights group calls for Apple boycott - Android lawsuits show ... | http://news.techeye.net/software/techrights-group-calls-for-apple-boycott | Jan 27 23:17 |
schestowitz | Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204644504576653510801826824.html#ixzz1c7waNHm9 | Jan 27 23:21 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: The Biggest Gift in the World - WSJ.com .::. Size~: 168.56 KB | Jan 27 23:21 |
schestowitz | "Mark Zuckerberg hadn't announced any real philanthropic plans before signing the Pledge last December. " | Jan 27 23:21 |
schestowitz | BIll, Warren, and now Mark | Jan 27 23:21 |
schestowitz | http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/newspaper-honors-assesses-buffett-gates-giving-pledge/41531?sid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en | Jan 27 23:22 |
schestowitz | "Mr. Buffett said the 69 signees to date are “far more” than he and Mr. Gates expected when they went public with the pledge in June 2010, adding, “The hope is that our larger population ends up giving a larger proportion of their income to fund philanthropy.”" | Jan 27 23:22 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Buffett-Gates Giving Pledge Is Called 'Radical in Its Simplicity' - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas .::. Size~: 55.49 KB | Jan 27 23:22 |
schestowitz | https://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/occupy-oakland-the-general-strike-on-november-2-2011-and-an-introduction/ | Jan 27 23:23 |
schestowitz | "That’s what Race to the Top was all about. It was a big con paid for with our tax dollars and brought to you by Bill Gates and Eli Broad." | Jan 27 23:23 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Occupy Oakland, the General Strike on November 2, 2011 and An Introduction | Seattle Education .::. Size~: 489.92 KB | Jan 27 23:24 |
schestowitz | http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2011/11/1/4930857.html | Jan 27 23:25 |
schestowitz | "Amanda Glassman works for the Gates Foundation grantee the Center for Global Development. She sees no problems with the Gates Foundation in this interview. She is a swell cheerleader." | Jan 27 23:25 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Gates Keepers :: Amanda Glassman sees no problems with the Gates Foundation .::. Size~: 17.96 KB | Jan 27 23:25 |
schestowitz | Money buys mindshare | Jan 27 23:25 |
schestowitz | http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/new-data-bill-gates-other-ed-reformers-should-care-about/2011/10/30/gIQAg6JfWM_blog.html#pagebreak | Jan 27 23:28 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: New data Bill Gates, other ed reformers should care about - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post .::. Size~: 116.59 KB | Jan 27 23:28 |
schestowitz | qu1j0t3: http://www.philanthrocapitalism.net/2011/10/king-bill/ | Jan 27 23:30 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: King Bill | Philanthrocapitalism .::. Size~: 82.02 KB | Jan 27 23:30 |
schestowitz | "Doctors, as much as lawyers and other professions, will often resist outsiders who want to disrupt and challenge their expert view. But this critique should not be too easily dismissed. Indeed, as we argue in the book, rather than giving the lion’s share of his cash to the Gates Foundation, Warren Buffett might have been better to divide it between two or three foundations to create a bit of competition and diversify his | Jan 27 23:30 |
schestowitz | philanthropic portfolio. There are two important issues that are worth debating:" | Jan 27 23:30 |
schestowitz | qu1j0t3: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/feb/24/stopping-malaria-wrong-road/?pagination=false “Even Gates suffered a failure of imagination when it came to fighting polio.” | Jan 27 23:41 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: Stopping Malaria: The Wrong Road by Richard Horton | The New York Review of Books .::. Size~: 25.65 KB | Jan 27 23:41 |
schestowitz | <qu1j0t3> 'why do you hate success' | Jan 27 23:43 |
schestowitz | "why do you hate success" (where success means money) ->"why do you hate money" -> "why do you a commie" | Jan 27 23:43 |
qu1j0t3 | https://twitter.com/#!/qu1j0t3/status/163044603681976321 | Jan 27 23:44 |
TechrightsSocial | @qu1j0t3: You know what, fat cat faux-lanthropists? Society works a lot better when you don't steal from it in the first place. #GatesFoundation | Jan 27 23:44 |
schestowitz | "i shalt repory thy to the authorities" | Jan 27 23:44 |
schestowitz | qu1j0t3: not true | Jan 27 23:44 |
schestowitz | he stole.. from the poor | Jan 27 23:44 |
schestowitz | to give to the rich | Jan 27 23:44 |
qu1j0t3 | sure | Jan 27 23:44 |
schestowitz | wait | Jan 27 23:44 |
schestowitz | that's not Robin | Jan 27 23:44 |
schestowitz | It's Batman | Jan 27 23:44 |
qu1j0t3 | that's probably more than a lot of my followers can take. watch them drop off. :D | Jan 27 23:45 |
schestowitz | qu1j0t3: don't overload readers with logic | Jan 27 23:45 |
qu1j0t3 | sure got some acidic comments when i criticised gates on quora | Jan 27 23:45 |
qu1j0t3 | "you're jealous" | Jan 27 23:45 |
*qu1j0t3 laughs | Jan 27 23:45 | |
schestowitz | although, in your case, they'd have to be smart to be critics-tolerant | Jan 27 23:45 |
schestowitz | Crtiicise the rich? Commie! | Jan 27 23:46 |
schestowitz | Crtiicise the famous? Commies? Jrealous. | Jan 27 23:46 |
schestowitz | Crtiicise the US? capitalism hater | Jan 27 23:46 |
schestowitz | Crtiicise Israel? Anti-Semite. | Jan 27 23:47 |
qu1j0t3 | LOL | Jan 27 23:47 |
schestowitz | Crtiicise religion? Militant. | Jan 27 23:47 |
schestowitz | Crtiicise the government? Anarchist. | Jan 27 23:47 |
schestowitz | Crtiicise education? Stupid. | Jan 27 23:47 |
schestowitz | Cult of Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/11/02/the-second-coming-of-bill-gates/ | Jan 27 23:48 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: With Vaccines, Bill Gates Changes The World Again - Forbes .::. Size~: 141.97 KB | Jan 27 23:48 |
schestowitz | Crowining their king | Jan 27 23:48 |
schestowitz | cover page | Jan 27 23:48 |
schestowitz | Forbes: we worship money | Jan 27 23:48 |
schestowitz | I guess they know their readers: people who convinced themselves that people who make more money are more contributory to society | Jan 27 23:50 |
schestowitz | Implicit message: Be a better person by making more money... | Jan 27 23:50 |
schestowitz | If only it worked this way | Jan 27 23:50 |
schestowitz | http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/how-bill-gates-throws-his-money-around-in-education/2011/11/06/gIQAXqrasM_blog.html | Jan 27 23:55 |
TechrightsSocial | Title: How Bill Gates throws his money around in education - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post .::. Size~: 117.26 KB | Jan 27 23:55 |
schestowitz | "Influence the media: Sponsor coverage of education in the media, including major television news events such as NBC’s Education Nation. Last year’s Education Nation was tied into the release of Waiting for Superman, which had a $2 million publicity effort sponsored by the Gates Foundation." | Jan 27 23:55 |
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