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Bill Gates and Bono named Time's Man of the Year... WTF?
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Cubeoid
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Dec 19, 2005, 07:25 AM
 
It's super weird, concidering Bono did adds for Apple, and not Microsoft.
     
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Dec 20, 2005, 12:21 AM
 
Don't forget Melinda Gates!
     
Cubeoid  (op)
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Dec 20, 2005, 12:28 AM
 
pfff She's not even a man.
     
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Dec 20, 2005, 12:40 AM
 
"Person" of the year.
     
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Dec 20, 2005, 07:52 PM
 
Rufus the stunt bum should have won!
     
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Dec 20, 2005, 09:07 PM
 
Originally Posted by demograph68
"Person" of the year.
Please... spare me your feminist mumbo jumbo.
     
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Dec 20, 2005, 09:14 PM
 
Originally Posted by Cubeoid
Please... spare me your feminist mumbo jumbo.

Well can a woman be named man of the year


Back to the main point (without reading the article) I can only assume in the gates case they gave a boat load of money away for a variety of humanistic causes. Few people have the money he has and most of them do all that they can do to hold on to it, he's different in giving it away.
     
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Dec 20, 2005, 09:38 PM
 
i bet the Time people said...bono/gate! then someone said gates was married...
     
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Dec 20, 2005, 09:43 PM
 
they might as well have given the award to his pet rock.
     
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Dec 20, 2005, 09:51 PM
 
Originally Posted by Cubeoid
they might as well have given the award to his pet rock.

windows?
     
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Dec 20, 2005, 10:35 PM
 
Originally Posted by Cubeoid
It's super weird, concidering Bono did adds for Apple, and not Microsoft.
Being Time's "Man of the Year" has nothing to do with selling iPods ... Bono and Gates both give alot in terms of money and time to charity. What does His Steveness do to deserve being Time's "Man of the Year" (since you're obviously making an Apple vs M$ statement)?
     
   
 
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