Bill Gates assists in funding first aviation-themed public high school

Billy is redeeming himself in my eyes after foisting his insecure OS
(and Outlook) on us:




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AVflash Volume 10, Number 07b -- February 12, 2004

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AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL TO OPEN, THANK GATES
Washington State's first aviation-themed public high school,
Aviation High School, will open its doors this fall, thank$ in
part to a gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The
school is expected to become "a state and national model,"
according to its organizers, thanks to its focus on high standards
for student achievement. The school's goals include sending 100
percent of its graduates on to postsecondary education, preparing
them thoroughly to be competitive in aviation careers, and
encouraging parent participation, mentoring and industry support.
The school's location has not yet been selected, but it will be in
Puget Sound's Highline School District, near Seattle-Tacoma
International Airport and Boeing Field.
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#186714

In a previous article, Larry Dighera said:
Billy is redeeming himself in my eyes after foisting his insecure OS
(and Outlook) on us:

He's only doing it to sell more copies of MS Flight Simulator.


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Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
"I find your lack of clue...disturbing" - SithAdmin Vader.

Paul Tomblin wrote:
In a previous article, Larry Dighera said:
Billy is redeeming himself in my eyes after foisting his insecure OS
(and Outlook) on us:

He's only doing it to sell more copies of MS Flight Simulator.

Sheesh.

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:49:43 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote in Message-Id: :

In a previous article, Larry Dighera said:
Billy is redeeming himself in my eyes after foisting his insecure OS
(and Outlook) on us:

He's only doing it to sell more copies of MS Flight Simulator.

Profound cynicism indeed. But it may explain why he didn't fund the
entire project.

"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
...
| In a previous article, Larry Dighera said:
| Billy is redeeming himself in my eyes after foisting his insecure OS
| (and Outlook) on us:
|
| He's only doing it to sell more copies of MS Flight Simulator.
|

It is interesting how, once you decide that someone is evil, that it is
possible to attribute an evil motive to every single thing that person does.

It is interesting how, once you decide that someone is evil, that it is
possible to attribute an evil motive to every single thing that person
does.
"C J Campbell" wrote in message

Absolutely.... Gotta say, Gates and his wife (wow) have contributed more to
charities than I've seen most of our CEO's do in this country.... His only
'sin' has been to take an operating system that was not even on the 'map'
and turn it into one of the most popular O/S's,,, Seems everyone forgets
that Microsoft was once a struggling underdog (remember Windows 3.0,,,,,,
Yeech....). For some reason America loves an underdog, but when that
underdog finally succeeds, they can't wait to watch them fall/fail...
Kinda sick, IMHO.

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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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Billy is redeeming himself in my eyes after foisting his insecure OS
(and Outlook) on us:



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Larry, is Bill Gates twisting your arm to use his products ?

I bet that you have really hurt his feelings now that you have come out in
public and bad mouthed his company and products.


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I've always suggested what I believe to be the perfect solution for people
who don't like Bill, don't like Microsoft, or don't like their products ...

.... Don't use them.

In my eyes, Bill Gates is a modern day hero, not the bad guy. A CREATOR of
values, not a destroyer as seem so many in this world (not aimed at original
poster).

In a previous article, "Cockpit Colin" said:
I've always suggested what I believe to be the perfect solution for people
who don't like Bill, don't like Microsoft, or don't like their products ...

... Don't use them.

Great. Now convince the people who use my web sites not to use IE, so I
don't have to make dozens of work-arounds for the fact that millions of
people continue to use that piece of crap in spite of the fact that it's
demonstrably the worst browser on the market today. And convince the
company I work for to stop requiring certain documents in Word, a
thoroughly horrible word processor. And stop people who subcribe to my
mailing lists from using Outlook and Outlook Express, so they don't flood
my mail servers with the viruses which they inevitably get because of it.

Microsoft wouldn't be a problem if they weren't a combination of the most
evil, dishonest and illegal monopolists on the planet, AND the worst
programmers.

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Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
"Only a NAZI would try to invoke Godwin's [law] deliberately"
- Jeff Gostin in a.s.r

Paul Tomblin wrote:

And stop people who subcribe to my
mailing lists from using Outlook and Outlook Express, so they don't flood
my mail servers with the viruses which they inevitably get because of it.

Stop people that happen to visit a web site or view a mail message with my
email address from using MSFT products. That would prevent those products
from sending out viruses forged to appear to be from me.

- Andrew