At 11:59 PM 5/6/2005, you wrote: >$10 million is a meaningless amount of money to Bill Gates with which he >dazzles people into thinking he's a nice guy. How about 30 BILLION -- with a 'b'? Is that meaningless? That's the present endowment of the Gates fund. Is that really "Meaningless"? I mean, if you're GOING to make billions and billions, isn't it KIND of 'nice' to give a whole lot of that back? not loving mr. gates, p _________________ [insert pithy quote here] Paul Stone pas@xxxxxxxx Leamington, ON. Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html