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I'm glad I don't live in LA
If you rode the early wave with him, you would probably be retired by now. True. Except that, from what I've read of his approach, I would have fled screaming. So many of you owe your careers to Bill Gates. As do I. I don't owe squat to Bill Gates. What? Usually cola is whining about MS vaporware, and Longhorn

Attn: Laurie and Angela
By Peter Spiegel Los Angeles Times Staff Writer January 16, 2008 WASHINGTON -- In an unusual public criticism, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said he believes .... Barno retired from the military and heads the Near East South Asia Center at the National Defense University. In an article in the influential Army

barbarians at the gates
shwanyboy shawnwald...@gmail.com rec sport disc Word on the street is that Gates is hanging up his cleats this year - has anybody heard this in the TC?? From what I've seen on DVD's and UV COTD, it looked like this guy had a few good years left in him. Probably makes sense after being on top for so long,

THE ENEMY IS INSIDE THE GATES
Sure, we've made a few mistakes but the Mullahs are coming to our holy gates and it's going to take generations to win this fight. That is in my mind what the big problem is. It's sold to yankies in just that way. A war on "terror" what a joke. If they could actually explain why, to "Joe Six Pack" sometime then the

OH MY GOSH! -- Retired Officers To Criticize Rumsfeld
... the other players, in rotation, has the option of taking it, but he must start the bank with the same amount at rtg casino bonus which it stood when the last banker retired. Enters one of multiple "rapid payout" modes if it goes in a "mode initiating" gate. Once in a rapid payout mode: Other gates open up,

Bill Gates gives away $24 billion
Nobody expects Ted Turner or Bill Gates or Steve Case to quit their jobs just because they've made a lot of money. Why would people expect ballplayers to do so? --------------------------------------------- David M. Nieporent niepo...@alumni.princeton.edu.

September 11th Tribute to the Legions of Unemployed & Retired ...
According to some russians, british and american experts (ie: people who are retired and used to build bombs for a living) these particular components do not age. They believe that these plants are being opened to make new weapons - and thereby increase the arsenal. Ionizing radiation will degrade any kind of

GATES STEPS DOWN: WHO TOLD YOU?!?!?!
cox.net> wrote: Georgiana Gates wrote: stephenj wrote: Dave Hazelwood wrote: Seen this ????? er, we won 4 years ago. If we won 4 years ago, why are we still there? we're excercising our sense of moral obligation to help rebuild iraq. misguided, in my opinion, but .. -- .. the profiteers are a consequence not a

I-70 / road trip
Retired
generals? Serving generals? Future generals? Troops returning to Iraq for the umpteenth time without a decent strategy? Democrats? Republicans? Two trusted members of the Bush 41 war council, Mr. Baker and Robert Gates, have been dispatched to discipline the delinquent juvenile and extricate him from

Gates: Changes possible for officer promotions
Michael C. Desch holds the Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security Decision-Making at Texas A&M's George HW Bush School of Government When those "postwar" operations ran into trouble, finger-pointing and mutual recriminations between recently retired generals and civilian leaders in the Bush

Gates closed to women at crusty Augusta
Gates and Senators and Congresspeople from both parties, powers-that-be in Washington, DC, have been for months and months vociferously insisting that a bill be passed in the Iraqi parliament. They use big, sophisticated words like ``reconciliation'', ``progress'', ``benchmark for progress'' to encode a purpose

Gates Says Iraq Troop Surge Only Starting To Bite
yahoo.com> wrote: Until Gates was forced out, nepotism might have gotten your foot in the door but you had to perform to stay in the position. Gates was there a One of his sworn staff/command officers was trading sex for promotions and retired as a high ranking member. I never knew Bratton was such an ass.

Editor's Perspective: Micrsoft Will Not Miss Gates
State-run radio suggested Gates may have breached a US "don't ask, don't tell" policy that dates back to the late 1960s. "It's quite unprecedented," a retired Israeli diplomat told Reuters on Thursday when asked about Gates's testimony. "I can only assume he has yet to get to grips with the understandings that

Spy Hanssen keeps pension
After Defense Secretary Robert Gates declared the MRAP (pronounced M-rap) the Pentagon's No. 1 acquisition priority in May 2007, the trucks began to be shipped to Iraq in large quantities. The Combat Development Command has managers -- some of whom are retired Marines -- who lack adequate technical credentials.

US can forget about winning in Iraq: top retired general
I am not sure what you mean here, there is no question that Bill Gates is a "working" person. He's retired. Bush is president, so Federal taxes are what he can effect, and we both know that the "working people" are not taxed at a higher rate than Bill Gates. Sure they are. Bill Gates pays basically nothing in FICA,

THIS IS GOOD!! Bill Gates's Rules
Gates closed to women at crusty Augusta December 21 2002 By Gerard Wright In the annals of American public life, it might be the strangest of all after a 19th century suffragette; and the 71-year-old retired banking executive, 51 years wed, with the power to wrap a television network around his little finger.

Don't let Bill Gates & CeeDuhPee force gun control in WA!
But no one is in retirement mode—not even the nearly seven-foot-tall paterfamilias Bill Gates Sr., a retired lawyer who serves as the foundation’s CEO. Patty Stonesifer, the former Microsoft executive who co-chairs the foundation with Bill Sr., is under 50 but works full time without a salary, having cashed out

A Citizen Laying down the law
edi...@netpath.net edi...@netpath.net alt military alt military retired misc survivalism soc veterans us military army Omega D. wrote: Our friend the "editor" may lack the guts and the balls to just go start his own company. Bull. I was a profitable dealer on the gun-show circuit for over a year - until,

Bill Gates tells governors that US high schools are 'obsolete'
Sure
they could -- if they were Bill Gates. When my father retired from the Army ten years ago, he immediately turned around and got a job with a government contractor doing the exact same thing for twice the salary. (If you want to know where the government spends its money, private contractors are where you want

Bill Gates resigns!!!
Gunner gun...@lightspeed.net alt military alt military retired misc survivalism soc veterans us military army On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:44:37 -0700, not_giv...@you.my.address.com (Willcox) wrote: Omega <2121(d)@insightbb.com> wrote: The most blunt assessment came from Microsoft chief Bill Gates, who has put more than