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(12,422 posts) Thu Feb 21, 2019, 08:15 PM Feb 2019

This from Bill Gates is not helpful... [View all]

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This from Bill Gates is not helpful... [View all] pbmus Feb 2019 OP

LibreOffice Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2019 #1

+1. dalton99a Feb 2019 #3

Yes!! dragonlady Feb 2019 #9

Gee, thanks for the letter Bill, now pay your taxes. We don't want handouts. PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #2

Unlike some billionaires, he pays his taxes and he's given a large share of his wealth pnwmom Feb 2019 #16

THANK YOU!! Gates is what billionaires should be like. nt USALiberal Feb 2019 #19

Gates is a thief. You should read up on him some time. PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #40

IF, and I say IF.. MicaelS Feb 2019 #45

Not in the corporate environment you can't. PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #46

OK, so what? MicaelS Feb 2019 #60

No answer... Just pay their taxes and stop this philanthropy BS... PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #64

I'm a hard core Linux guy and socialist. hunter Feb 2019 #50

You can run Linux on Microsoft systems! flyingfysh Feb 2019 #52

Oracle... oh my. If anyone thinks Bill Gates is bad, check out Larry Ellison. hunter Feb 2019 #57

So it's all about you eh? Loki Liesmith Feb 2019 #17

That part struck me also. nt Blue_true Feb 2019 #25

This message was self-deleted by its author PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #39

It is considered bad form to call another duer an "asshole." Tipperary Feb 2019 #41

But it's good form to gang up on nonsense attacks? OK PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #42

Did I say that anywhere? Tipperary Feb 2019 #43

Goodness gracious... I get sick of these posters that thinks its funny to attack other posters... PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #47

Don't attack me. How about I piss on you? PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #38

I wish you had written it that way to begin with. Blue_true Feb 2019 #65

I had to reboot my computer several times until the video would play. nt madinmaryland Feb 2019 #4

LoL... pbmus Feb 2019 #5

Ha! Kurt V. Feb 2019 #7

Get rid of your Mac, that would solve your issue. nt USALiberal Feb 2019 #20

If Bill Gates wants to help with the issue of Climate Change Brawndo Feb 2019 #6

Excellent idea... pbmus Feb 2019 #8

The same goes for the rest of the billionaire philanthropist class Brawndo Feb 2019 #12

Right on...and Welcome to DU.. pbmus Feb 2019 #14

Thanks! Brawndo Feb 2019 #15

Yes, I wish this too. JudyM Feb 2019 #29

What do you think they'll do with all the money? pimpbot Feb 2019 #37

How many big problems do you know that have permanent solutions? Brawndo Feb 2019 #44

Any agreement customerserviceguy Feb 2019 #59

Maybe when Murdoch dies exboyfil Feb 2019 #51

The Disney merger is for Fox Entertainment, not Fox News Brawndo Feb 2019 #54

That is my point exboyfil Feb 2019 #55

Sorry Bill when I tried to watch the video my computer performed an illegal operation and had Downtown Hound Feb 2019 #10

Just type in that you're a republican Quackers Feb 2019 #27

The point isn't to bring emissions to zero. watoos Feb 2019 #11

Actually, less people on Earth helps with climate change enormously. Blue_true Feb 2019 #28

That was dumbed down Leith Feb 2019 #13

Don't you think it needs to be dumbed down for climate change deniers pnwmom Feb 2019 #21

No Leith Feb 2019 #22

Have you listened a few MAGATS? I am not sure about your premise at all. nt Blue_true Feb 2019 #30

Or, you could... you know, do something on your own instead LanternWaste Feb 2019 #53

Please don't criticize what I posted Leith Feb 2019 #63

... lpbk2713 Feb 2019 #18

Perfect. nt littlemissmartypants Feb 2019 #49

We have a capitalist economic system which is based on unlimited growth while we live in an jalan48 Feb 2019 #23

The vast majority of the world's population. Blue_true Feb 2019 #31

The United States has one of the highest per capita emissions rates of any country in the world. jalan48 Feb 2019 #32

There can be only one problem, apparently. Igel Feb 2019 #33

The burning of fossil fuels is the problem. Look at the numbers. We are energy pigs, plain and jalan48 Feb 2019 #35

Capitalism also creates advanced societies radius777 Feb 2019 #34

It can but we are running out of time and making no serious effort to make it happen. jalan48 Feb 2019 #36

per capita rates are meaningless Mosby Feb 2019 #56

Well, I think it's better to at least try and do what we can in our own country. What will our jalan48 Feb 2019 #62

Matter of opinion. I think that he was trying to illustrate the enormity of the challenge ahead of Blue_true Feb 2019 #24

birth control is the biggest help. not mutating mosquitos dumbass. pansypoo53219 Feb 2019 #26

Neither Billo nor Duhlinda are helpful in any way. littlemissmartypants Feb 2019 #48

His video doesn't address a huge environmental polluter -- the livestock industry. Doremus Feb 2019 #58

I don't want a word from Bill Gates until he pays his fare share of taxes. sarcasmo Feb 2019 #61

I don't think I'm cynical enough to see the problem with it. Sapient Donkey Feb 2019 #66