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Offline xrtoronto

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Microsoft founder too rich for tax computer to handle
« on: February 02, 2006, 09:20:31 PM »
Tue Jan 31, 4:34 PM ET

LISBON (AFP)

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world's richest man, said the tax office in the US has to store his financial data on a special computer because his fortune is so vast.

"My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers," he said at a Microsoft conference held in Lisbon.

"So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer," he added in comments broadcast on television.

"Then they will send me another notice telling me how bad they feel they that they sent me a notice that was a mistake," he said

Gates's fortune is put at 47 billion dollars (38.9 billion euros), according to the latest list of the world's rich published by Forbes magazine.

Last month Time magazine named Gates and his wife Melinda, along with rock star Bono, its "Persons of the Year" for 2005, citing their charitable work and activism aimed at reducing global poverty and improving world health.

The couple's Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has a 29 billion dollar endowment making it the world's biggest charity.

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« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2006, 09:36:00 PM »
i still think south park the movie had it right on.

shoot him in the head.
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« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2006, 09:43:25 PM »
can I borrow 20 bucks Bill?


wow! 100 posts! i feel so special.
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« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2006, 09:45:35 PM »
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shoot him in the head.


Why?
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Offline B@tfinkV

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« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2006, 10:36:03 PM »
why not?
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« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2006, 10:59:08 PM »
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why not?


If I was worth $40 Billion I'd probably have a few spetznaz/storm trooper private security guards around me at all times.
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Offline DREDIOCK

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« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2006, 11:35:19 PM »
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"Then they will send me another notice telling me how bad they feel they that they sent me a notice that was a mistake," he said


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And if they sent you or I a notice by mistake what kind of apology do you think we would get?
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« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2006, 11:40:41 PM »
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And if they sent you or I a notice by mistake what kind of apology do you think we would get?


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« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2006, 11:46:08 PM »
If it were me, they would carry me around in a sold gold sedan car & i would use picassos for toilet paper
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« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2006, 11:59:57 PM »
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