On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:41:30 +0100, Mxsmanic wrote:

Gary H writes:

Awwww, please don't practice your dime store psychology on me?

I don't recall mentioning you. Hmm.

I know Bill Gates is much much smarter than I am, no question
about it. I didn't say he wasn't. I merely said he was a thief
with accomplices before and after the fact. Why do you have to
make it complicated?

Do you find "dime-store" psychology to be complicated?

Bill Gates is no more a thief than any other corporate CEO. He
happens to be the founder of a very successful company, and the
founders of successful companies are routinely demonized, typically
without any rational basis for doing so.

I've heard him called a "brilliant opportunist", which, AFAIU,
means, "being in the right place at the right time and being
conscious/sober enough at the time to spot the goose that's laying
the golden egg".

I want to sell bumper stickers that say, "If you're so rich, howcome
you're not smart?" ;-)

Thanks!
Rich