On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:31:45 +0100, Mxsmanic wrote:

Michael A. Terrell writes:

So he gives more in dollars, but a LOT less in percentage of income
or total worth.

That's not true. He has already given away perhaps 6% of his total
lifetime worth. How many ordinary people have given away $100,000?

How many people _have_ $1,666,666.67 to give away 6% _OF_? (which, BTW,
is probably a serious underestimate of Uncle Billy's "total lifetime
worth".)

If I have ten bucks in my pocket, and I give a street bum a buck,
am I more generous than Bill Gates, since that's 10% of my entire
wealth?

And another thing - there's a serious misunderstanding going around that
says that "size of pile of money" can in any way be related to "worth".

Just ask Nicklaus:
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~omri/Humor/real-progstory.html
;-P

Cheers!
Rich