What do you think Bill Gates should do with his wealth?

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Gates has said he intends to give 90 percent of his wealth away while he is still alive, but right now he is busy building Microsoft. --Washington Post, November 16, 1997

What do you think Bill Gates should do with his wealth?

Here are some ideas 

  • pay for the creation of great educational content on the Internet.
  • Put something of value (i.e. Beckman Archives?) into the public domain for non commercial use.
  • Start a "Gates Fellows" program to pay for scholarship (good press for little cost).

    -- rp (zpub@sirius.com), February 15, 1998

    • Answers

    MR bill Gates its great you have millions of dollars and your a wealthy man i think you need to help people who are less fortunate than you sir i promise you i can spend that for you but its not me i will just wait until its my time spend it any way you like you earned it

    -- you dont need to know (jefftn22@hotmail.com), February 16, 1998.
    Buy a third-world country and setup death squads like a real dictator!

    -- Dana Nutter (dana@nutter.net), February 19, 1998.
    Share it with struggling individuals like myself. I'm not asking for much. $50,000.00 would help me to get out of debt and start my own business. When I am financially secure, I plan to help others who are struggling.

    -- Pat Browne (PBr4932321@aol.com), February 21, 1998.
    I think that Bill Gate should help out with training for single mothers who find it impossible to pay for a Microsoft training. Be there for someone who cares but can't afford to take care.

    -- Malou Kemp (kempm@nsu.law.nova.edu), February 23, 1998.
    I think he should help with Scholarships and people that are trying to make it. I sure could use some my Husband is disable and I have a bad back, I have two children and a step child. We don't get very much and I know how hard it is. Jobs are very hard to get when you don't have the proper education. Sure do hope that you get these messages and read them, there are some very good suggestions. Could use some of your good futune. Good luck in the decision that you make.

    -- Tammy Moses (Pierce@iamerica.net), February 26, 1998.
    Give it all to me, you asshole!

    -- Jagdip Singh (rekhraj@hotmail.com), February 27, 1998.
    Why be content with mere scholarships? Here's a horrifying thought: "Gates University," or even "Microsoft College" He's got the deep pockets to fund his own private college. Imagine hundreds of college graduates, trained the Microsoft Way(tm), unleashed upon the workforce and spreading the Word of Bill(tm). Ok, just those that didn't make the cut at Microsoft itself...

    I can see it now: degree programs in Marketing, Marketing & Computer Programming, Marketing & Computer Engineering, and Marketing & Law. The emphasis of course, would be on Marketing for all degrees. Soon all colleges would be held to the Microsoft standard, swept along by the tide of "progress", they would quickly sell out to Microsoft or become obsolete.

    -- Aeric T. Acraquox (taeric@castle.net), March 04, 1998.

    I think Bill Gates Should Make like Paul Allen and actually spend his money on something besides his house! Maby he could buy a football team or two. Maby buy some women.

    -- Jacob Garfield ('Bob@Bob.com'), March 06, 1998.
    I think Bill Gates Should Make like Paul Allen and actually spend his money on something besides his house! Maby he could buy a football team or two. Heck why not buy the NFL.

    -- Jacob Garfield ('Bob@Bob.com'), March 06, 1998.
    Hell, spend it! Buy lots of expensive things that are beautiful and fun to look at. He should surround himself in things that he likes, and then when he doesn't like them anymore... throw them away!! I think he should eat well, dress well, and play well. Do unimaginable things that no one else on the planet could possibly do. Buy the world and sell it all for another cool billion. Let the guy enjoy his money... after all it'll only do him good for a few more years. Life's short.

    -- Katie Lehman (klehman@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu), March 07, 1998.
    would mr gates ever consider becoming a secular franciscan and living only on what he needs to live on? Of course, giving money to charity is not the ONLY answer this country needs. Our education system is flawed. the entertainment industry could do a LOT better. tv is horrid. we have no value system for our youth anymore. abortion is legal and euthanasia not far behind. putting all money into charity won't solve these problems..but i'm sure bill could live comfortably no matter what. but bill hs to follow his own conscience as i follow mine. my opening suggestion sounds good but i'm sure bill himself has struggled with a lot of his own questions. who knows. guess ONLY bill could answer that one. but it would certainly be amazing. course i wouldn't guess that bill knows what secular franciscan is and i'm not sure that one MUST be in SFO to live as St. Francis did. oh well..who knows. PAX ET BONUM!

    -- patty sarver (uboat@tbscc.com), March 07, 1998.
    What I think is that Bill Gates should donate some of his money to schools for more and better computers. And maybe give me one.

    -- Dac Su (quyen@.ttns.net), March 08, 1998.
    What I think Bill Gates should do with his money is donate some of it to schools for new and better computers. And maybe give me one.

    -- Dac Su (quyen@ttns.net), March 08, 1998.
    Bill Gates should work out a deal with the government where he can give out 500,000 $1,000.00 computers to every state in the union. Each state would then be required to put and ample amount of these computers in classrooms of the poorest schools first on up to the wealthier schools. The states (with help from the feds) would be responsible for the distribution, networking of the computers and the training of the teachers.

    Maybe the wealthy heads of school aged software manufacturers would consider adding their products/money to the cause.

    They'd all end up wealthier in the long run, too!

    -- (foo@bar.com), March 08, 1998.

    Mr. Gates should spend his money as He sees best to, but, if he plans to give 90% of it away.....I'D LOVE TO SEE HIM GIVE MONEY TO OUR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, MICHAEL'S WEIGH OF HOPE. We have a website; HTTP://pages.prodigy.com/AMWH , which tells of our story and how 2 desperate loving women are trying to help more than half of the US fight a deadly disease, obesity. I can only pray that Mr. Gates may read this himself and might consider a helping hand in helping more than half of the US get healthy and regain a life back. I think you're a super man Mr Gates and love you for your mind and hard work, not your worth. Thank you. Sincerely, Sarah Coulon, Director of MWH

    -- SARAH COULON (MPDU07A@PRODIGY.COM), March 10, 1998.
    sod the money! just employ people to work on finding a solution to getting computer bozo's like myself up and running smoothly on their p.c.'s. No problem using the damn thing as a tool...but what about when it doesnt do what I want and acts up?????? Please Bill...there are thousands of us out there who need help!

    -- meg (n9607764@scholar.nepean.uws.edu.au), March 11, 1998.
    I think he should sponsor my daddys race car. And give me the rest of the money to me because I would be a really good rich person.

    -- Cindy Bates (Cindel_1@yahoo.com), March 11, 1998.
    I think that Bill Gates should give me $10,000 for my 17th birthday in July so i can buy a car. actually, i think it would be awesome if he donated his money to help feed, clothe and school inner city children. or maybe contribute money to United Way or the YMCA etc.

    -- jenn (jenn_joy@hotmail.com), March 11, 1998.
    Off the top of my head, I'd have to say (hold on, let me commission the Muses... O.K. where was I?) Oh yes... what to do with the money... Here is the correct answer... 1. Sponsor a World Genius Search. 2. Have the qualifying question be: What should Bill Gates do with his money? 3. Have the world vote on the top answers and answerer-geniuses. 4. Have the top geniuses try and improve the answer, or best the answer. 5. Have the world vote on the attempt to improve upon their previous best answer. 6. Inform Mr. Gates of the findings and assume he will comply, and that thousands of other billionaires and millionaires and so on will follow suit.

    Seems to me that something that would positively effect all lifeforms in the best and most lasting way would be a reasonable starting point. World Peace Treaty 2000, for example, would, at the most timely point in our lifetimes, achieve such a goal. There is an organization in California working on that problem, nay solution, as we speak, and they can be contacted through their website at: www.worldpeacetreaty2000.org.

    Achieve this and the Nobel Prize is yours to share with the world!

    -- Dave Beckwith (MrWondrous@aol.com), March 16, 1998.

    Let's see, what should Bill do with his money. Spend 4 mill on a house, buy a small tropical island, get a herd of Fresians, a fleet of Suburbans, upgrade my 5 computers to the latest greatest. Go to Africa, Australia and the Antarctic, maybe Russia. Oh wait, that's what I would do!

    What would Bill do? I guess give over 250 mill to education and other useful endeavors. Help kids learn about computers and visit lots of schools and poorer nations and help them catch up. BORING.

    It's his money. Leave the man alone.

    -- dona herweyer (jhddi@juno.com), March 21, 1998.

    I think Bill should give the money to cancer and aids research that way people would love him. That much money could cure the two!!!!!! Hello "BILL GATES CURES CANCER AND AIDS"!!!!!! That would make one hell of a headline in the news paper!!!!!!!!!

    Many people are affected by these terminal diseases. If he where to cure the two then imagine how much more famous he could be. People would treat the man like a savior...not that some don't already.

    -- PHILLIP C. Age 14 (cecilnight@Aol.com), March 22, 1998.

    I have a vision and in that vision the world is a beter place.......Why I hear you ask Because Bill Has moved the general populus of the world to mars and is living on earth using it as a factory to create commys for the universe. Thousands of different species will come allong ang buy them even though they are outragiously priced and dont work all the time..

    But then i awake with a piercing scream. Thank god it wasn't real

    I think that bill should give the majority of his money to me so that i can spend it all on stupid pointless things which i wont use any way butt will end up in the bin. Oh yeay I would buy the Millenium Dome in london, cover it with snow and turn it into the ultimate sledge run.

    -- Outspan Oranges (Hitler@forpresident.com), March 23, 1998.

    He should buy several small countries, make them the most technologically advanced in the world, rename them Microsoft, then move the company there. That way he needs not worry about the Justice Department or copyright laws.

    -- Brian Williams (williamsb@mail.pahs.pointarena.k12.ca.us), March 25, 1998.
    Give it all to me I know exactly how to use it wisely. I would blow it all on myself. I have not ever did a hard days work and with that kind of money no one around me would. Bill Gates you are the American Icon

    -- Bryan Bethel (wku@bethel.edu), March 27, 1998.
    I think he should buy the debts of third world country at a discounted rate and then help them finance at a lower rate. But, the condition of offering them a lower loan rate would be that you intervene in their budgets, monitoring systems, selecting the right people at the right places; you know like hiring the best man for each job from the level of collecting taxes to making the economic policies of that country. YOU AND THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS THAT THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES ARE THE MOST CORRUPT COUNTRIES IN THE ENTIRE GALAXY.

    THANK YOU

    -- Khan (asim_khan@iname.com), March 28, 1998.

    He should give some his wealth to build unversity,schools,research centres.Help to medical research centers which will benefits everyone in this world.He has reach every decktop ,now try to reach every commonman houses in this world by helping setting up research centres in medical,technology which will finally benefits commmanman. His name will be on every house windows by doing help commonman. Help poor people who are suffering from so many problems by investing on researches.

    -- d.deepak (deepak@digitek.com.sg), March 31, 1998.
    Personally i think bill gates should do nothing with his money and anyone one that asked for money from him or wants him to donate are stupid cause he earned it .(well not really windows 95 is a stolen program) Just doing nothing with his money and collecting intersest alone in 35 years bill gates will own the world BILL GATES IS THE ANTI CHRIST!!!!!! members.xoom.com/sky_line/

    -- Carlos Sentina (dr_love98@hotmail.com), April 01, 1998.
    In Reader's Digest magazine (January 1998)Mr. Gates is planning to give away 95% of his wealth after ten years. Thats not a problem and will make Gates a happy man

    -- Arthur Coleman (coleman@yahoo.com), April 02, 1998.
    i think mr. gates is smart enough to know the best thing to do with his money to get the results he wants. i know he and his wife gave $200-million last year to establish the gates library foundation. this foundation puts computers in libraries accross the u.s. (that's a good thing). that's enough sucking up...right! now let's get real. i'd like to see bill gates take 3000 dollars and send it to Janet mounce to fund her missions trip. she's not having much luck raising the funds she needs to go along with operation blessing to aid the navajo people. She told me i couldn't write bill gates and ask him for the money,i gess she was right,this is as close as i could get. if you do read this mr. gates please consider that,janet is a good person and the best sister anyone could ask for. thanks

    -- elaine oram (Elaine_Oram@VaPower.com), April 03, 1998.
    You don't have to do anything with it Bill, you earned it, you can spend it how ever you like.

    -- pezcal (pezcal@dcr.net), April 08, 1998.
    How much awareness does Bill Gates have of the actual cost of small business owners to become year 2000 compliant. Worldwide, his microsoft products are forcing business owners to upgrade and buynew hardware and software and keep getting told "you have no choice but to go to Windows 95" I HAVE NO CHOICE!!!!! Yes, folks, I HAVE NO CHOICE, and because I must do this, I have to buy this, buy that, change my network and WAN from this to that and our costs have already hit $75,000 CDN, and we're not finished fixing our entire wide area network system to be able to operate in the year 2000 ---- Where is Mr. Gates on this problem ---- why doesn't he fix it! Estimates put it that virtually 5% of businesses worldwide will not be able to afford to upgrade for 2000 and simply go out of business. Permanently. Shame on Bill Gates --- He is as responsible as any one individual could possibly be, where is the fix --- and how much more money will he make as we all go broke fixing the problem in business.

    -- aileen p. reid (aileen@apreidinsurance.ns.ca), April 09, 1998.
    Give it all to me

    -- Rob Smit (ddesigns@bluebeetle.org), April 11, 1998.
    As far as I'm concerned, he can choke on it. No human needs that kind of money while so many others are so hard pressed just to survive. Shit man, he can pay off the national debt, finance the space programs, put food in america's hungary stomachs, and still have enuf to by himself a personality. Thanks Bill, for being the man who made money unimportant to me. Fucker, you have it all.

    -- Takeastabatit (jeff@colois.com), April 13, 1998.
    Microsoft did great things when it was still struggling to reach the top, but now that it has, it is only concerned with staying there, since it can go no farther. There is no longer and incentive to do anything offensive and wonderful, only defend that position. The cyber world owes much to Mr. Gates for promoting computing so much by providing an almost ubiquitous platform, but is now aiding the stagnation of future developments. Found a new innovative type of university for computer-related research and education with most of it and keep just enough to start another company to then try to perform the miracle again; and maybe put Microsoft out of business if it can't be innovative anymore.

    -- Christopher Hallaxs (challaxs@up.net), April 14, 1998.
    He should look after all the street children in third world countries such as Brazil, China, and India. They should be given the oppurtunity to live a normal happy healthy life and since their own country does not give a damn its Bill Gates responsibility to do so. We all came into this world the same way so we should each be giving the same standard of life. Plus Bill Gates should buy huge portions of forest throughout the world so the future generations of children can grow up in a healthy natural environment and since the world will be over-crowed and full of problems and hate it will be a last refugee for people to escape the evil ways of society and plus think of all the other reasons scientists have given us for the importance of forests. So I will say once again since these governements dont conserve the forests, Bill gates should take on the responsibility. This is his oppurutunity to do a great favour for all of mankind. I always get a great sense of happiness inside me when I make a difference and help somebody/something that has it less off than me. Whether you feed one little girl and see her happy face after or whether you save one large tree from falling in the forest that lived for 1000 years untouched. Plus when I'm in a natural beautiful environemt, unraveged by man, with no signs of mans destructive ways, it brings out the best in me and I go places in the mind where I have never been before and the sensations of life seem to beyond the way of describing.

    -- SCJ (sjabs@shaw.wave.ca), April 15, 1998.
    "He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?" declares the Lord. Jeremiah 22:11 NIV Bill Gates should do as all men, who are given gifts, knowledge, wisdom, wealth and power by God, are commanded to do. The origins of creative thought are gifts from the creator and those who are wise use them to His glory and not for selfish gain. The gift of eternal life cost us nothing, as it was paid for by the blood of the anointed son of God, a man known in history as Jesus. If we believe this promise of God, we have life eternal, whereas earthly wealth is short and fleeting. Also, a great project would be to finance the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. Abraham had two sons and it was not the choice of Abraham as to which was to be the inheritor. God gave the inheritance of the land of Israel to Abraham's son Isaac, but also blessed Ishmael with the inheritance of the oldest son in worldly wealth. The sons of Isaac became greedy in their wealth and power and were sent out of the land, but through the prophets were promised to return. This amazingly happened in this century after almost two millineum. Now the temple needs to be rebuilt. How about it Bill, think the Justice Dept. is a challenge. Take this one on. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

    -- William Perry (sojourner@prodigy.net), April 15, 1998.
    At risk of even drawing attention to the blather and its accompanying social, spiritual, and logical dearth heretofore spouted by the many well-meaning but brain-dead thinkers, I offer this sugeestion, not to Mr. Gates, but to you: if we continue to champion equality and social welfare for the world that's exactly what we will get. As for Mr. Gates: SPEND YOUR MONEY ON EVERY SUGGESTION GIVEN IN THESE SPACES!! Build a world dedicated to the common man, to those who suffer through no fault of their own, to the unlucky and uderendowed - - they deserve compensation of some sort and we believe you are obligated to give it to them. Do this and, after the benefactors destroy themselves, we will eventually have a society worthy of the men inhabiting it.

    -- Greg Kennedy (gregoryjames@msn.com), April 16, 1998.
    I know Mr. Gates will do what he thinks is best. if he helps other people whit it, fine, if not, who cares. after all IT'S HIS MONEY.

    -- Juan Miguel Ferriolli. (aliciaf@prodigy.net), April 19, 1998.
    I think he need to help other people specially suffering for crisis...

    -- Dexter T. Velez (dexlaine@globalink.net.ph), April 19, 1998.
    I think you should give it all to me and every one i know (with 99% going to me of course

    -- Ikeepmyteeth Inajar Besidethebed (pwatson@swspectrum.com), April 20, 1998.
    I think that he should do what ever he wants to . Thay say he who has the gold MAKES THE RULESl . but in my mind he just loves the computer not the money! I could use SOME OF THE MONEY THO... to Bill the man with the plan. Hope I am in than plan? $$$

    -- Jason Wade (missdmeanor@mindspring.com), April 20, 1998.
    All profits should go to the needy. He now has enough money to survive 10,000 times over.

    -- Tim Atkinson (tim.atkinson@tafensw.edu.au), April 21, 1998.
    How might Bill Gates spend his money? The best way for him to spend it would be for Research and Development for Microsoft. With unlimited resources and the best minds money could buy, Microsoft could probably get a technological leg-up on every other organization in the world.

    -- Velding (Velding@Hotmail.com), April 26, 1998.
    Bribe all the third world armies and conquer the. Upgrade you crappy shiddy win98 you baster.

    -- Bill sohara (Ihate@billgates.com), April 27, 1998.
    Bribe all the third world armies and conquer the world. Upgrade you crappy shiddy win98 you basterd.

    -- Bill sohara (Ihate@billgates.com), April 27, 1998.
    Fast Cars, Hot Women,Buy the Chicago Bulls Basketball Team,do whateva he wants....IT 'S HIS MONEY! Help underprivileged children in developing countries like India. Try to ablolish child labour. Research on AIDS & Cancer. Colleges & Universities. "An education is tha best thing you can give a person" Try & educate as many people as possible...show them tha light!

    -- Kurupt Tha Kingpin (kingkurupt@hotmail.com), April 30, 1998.
    The Child Care Center at Hunter College in NYC is in desperate need of a playground. We have space on the roof of the building but the play area we have has deteriorated. We don't need much - maybe $25,000. The children would be most appreciative and the teachers would sigh a sigh of relief to know they have a safe area to bring the children. Thanks for listening! ZIP

    -- Zully I. Papa (zpap@hejira.hunter.cuny.edu), April 30, 1998.
    I have had a dream for quite some time to start a working horse ranch in conjunction with local law enforcement. I want to help non-violent youth offenders to learn how to work and provide for themseves in a legal fashion. I also want to hook the ranch into the school system to teach children how to deal with animals. Many children in the U.S. have never seen a horse in real life and once they see that they can control such a large animal then less things seem impossible!

    -- Timothy John Harnishfeger (Harnishfeger@hotmail.com), May 03, 1998.
    Mr. Gates, if I had your amt. of $$$, I would see to it that the less fortunate in this country could eat, clothes to wear, have a roof over their heads and be able to LAUGH AND SMILE!!!!

    Organizations like the Red Cross, Salvation Army and other disaster agencies could benefit greatly from such a wealthy sponsor!

    Hey, how about helping out Habitat for Humanity will you are at it? You know Bill, a lot of good people in several midwestern and southern states have lost their homes due to severe flooding and tornadoes (are you listening?) In case you have forgotten, the flooding of 1993 ended up with the amount of land underwater being larger than that of the square mile surface area of Lake Ontario!

    With your COMPASSION and GENEROSITY you could be giving something MUCH MORE VALUABLE IN SPIRIT AND LOVE TO THE ONE COUNTRY whose IDEAS ON FREE ENTERPRISE made you so rich in the first place! (How about working with an organization such as the "Dream Factory" which grants wishes to disabled or terminally ill children? How about "Dogs for the Deaf" out of Oregon who rescues dogs that would otherwise be put to sleep and trains them to be SPECIAL, LOVING COMPANIONS?)

    Yes, I do work for a living, and like everyone else I have bills to pay too. If $$$ were no concern for me I would be out traveling some, but I want to follow the example of Princess Diana and spend a considerable amount of my time helping those less fortunate than me. The ONLY TRUE WAY TO KNOW THE FEELING OF LOVE AND A PURPOSE FOR BEING HERE ON THIS EARTH IS WHEN YOU KNOW YOU MADE SOMEONE'S ELSE BURDEN A LITTLE EASIER!!!

    Think about it Bill. You could do SO MUCH for SO MANY PEOPLE......

    -- Cecilia L. Davis (cdavis@trib.net), May 07, 1998.

    I have followed the life of Bill Gates since the late 70s, and Lord knows that his genius has earned him every dime that he has. I'm sure that he's smart enough on his own to make the right choices about where to spend HIS money (after all, it is his). He has several options he could choose concerning the problems that the government and Netscape are causing him, but you know what? He hasn't done anything drastic yet in retaliation (a man with that much cash could do untold damage on ANYONE, including Uncle Sam if he wished.) I think that Mr. Gates is a great man and should be an inspiration to all Americans. Instead, so many people would like to do him harm. Sure, I could use some of the extra cash, but I didn't earn it, did I? If you deadbeats want some of his money, do something to earn it and maybe your ship will come in. Until then, let him decide how to spend his own money, and I bet he won't be sending you an e-mail telling you how to spend yours.

    -- Richard Stitz, owner - Stitz Computers (stitzcom@dexter.net), May 08, 1998.
    i think he should gimme the half, he can give the half of the half to my dad, the half of the half of the half to my mom, and he should kiss my ass

    -- jaime bravo (jaibra@pty.com), May 10, 1998.
    All you loosers that want HIS money should maybe get a job at Microsoft cleaning monitors and dusting counters because thats all you are qualified to do. It is his money, sad but true, it is all his.

    -- Eric Reed (Ereed36719@aol.com), May 11, 1998.
    Colonize Mars. You know, with an ark and two of everything. Or, he could move Microsoft to Mars and send us all the crap (programs) we need to survive.

    -- aaron (pete@57records.com), May 12, 1998.
    Lend me 30 quid

    -- Paul Mahoney (paul.mahoney@btinternet.com), May 14, 1998.
    Bill Gates has enough money to give every person in the world about 8 dollars. That is just an idea of how much money he has. I think he should pay off the USA's national debt, or at least some of it. Then he can give my family 100,000 dollars. Just Kidding. I do think, however, that he should start some kind of scholarship program to help students who are smart, but don't get some of the other scholarships that schools offer, due to out ranking of other students with higher GPA's. This would give Bill an unofficial good samaritan award. He also can afford it.

    -- Corrine Kirchhoff (SerenaCK@aol.com), May 17, 1998.
    Don't let Microsoft die. Dont' go buying third world countries such as mine Don't give it away to anyone who hasn't earned it Don't go spending it in stuff like cars, palaces, gold and other shit: that's the Sultan Of Brunei's department. Don't listen to any of the assholes who criticize you for having too much $$. It's not your fault your company became the most successful in the world. Ask around: that's what everyone hopes their business will become, the best. You only made it true while others spend their lifetime dreaming about it. Don't take yourself too seriously. It can sure get hazy with all that $$.

    -- (mpachecoperez@hotmail.com), May 26, 1998.
    I think Mr. Gates should do what he does best - develop software. Philanthropy on the scale that he can afford needs to be organized by a foundation with employees doing nothing but researching people and small enterprises who are developing new concepts for communication. The computer as we know it will be and should be totally obsolete by 2010. The world needs to capitalize on the brain tanks of computer "dreamers" and push toward new communication tools. Bill's legacy to computing should not end with what he has accomplished, but rather what he can perpetuate as an ongoing technological research school.

    -- Julie Shearer (jshearer@desupernet.net), June 09, 1998.
    I think that you should use your welth to help me with my inventions. I have invented many things but I just don't have the money to design, perfect, and patent them. It would sure help me alot if you could give me just a little money. Please E-mail me!

    -- Bradford Kolsky (KBartsky@aol.com), June 11, 1998.
    ****** Set up a scholarship foundation for poor but deserving students in every country in this world. ******

    The rest of his money is reseved for Jennifer.

    -- who is setag (eliza.beth@usa.net), June 12, 1998.

    Get a freakin' haircut

    -- yonan mous (someone@anonymous.net), June 17, 1998.
    Dear Mr. Gates, if you you have time to read this... Just ask God. You were blessed with a special ability... and He will show you what to do with it.. by the way.. I just dropped by..because.. they say to hang around what you want to become... and success is a journie...One thing I can say... is that God loves you...Mr. Gates... very much as he loves us all.. He says in his word... that You must believe in Jesus to have eternal life and to be saved. after all ... all the wealth in the world... can not make you live forever... but with Jesus you can. there is a man God gave wisdom too in the bible... (like you) King Solomon... read the old testament... AND PEOPLE should not be jeolous, but stop commaring you are special.. and God gives us all special abilities... we just have to use... them... and they will grow..

    -- Wanda O'Donnell (odonnell@nac.net), June 27, 1998.
    fickle humans, concerned with fickle affairs:

    who`s got the most money? what should he do with it? you all think too much . . . no matter how well thought out the answer it won`t satisfty everybody - so lets not think about it at all. I humbly offer mr. gates the simple solution - he should give his vast wealth to me - the divine q

    -- q as in q, you know q the omnipotent (q@cableinet.co.uk), June 30, 1998.

    Hmmm.... Im just up in the middle of the night and thinking i might be insane. what comes to mind to me for Bill Gates to spend his wealth he could spend his money to start a new country he wouldnt need to much land mabye the half the size of japan or even smaller then with that land he could pay for it to be developed like no other country in the world with research facilitys. They could be used for alot of different things any technology that could be used to gain advantage over his competetors(mabye even nuclear weapons) in tipicol microsoft style. only this time his competitors would be whole countrys. with all the billions that bill gates has though he could aford it. Also he could build some very nice fortresses deep under ground just in case mabye the u.n. would decide to bomb before bills new country could become a real threat. with great power like f-16s being only around 30 million dollars bill could aford quite a substansial air force and pay the pilots that fly them less than most of his microsoft employees. since it is Microsoft and with those reasearch facilitys they have with thier new country mabye they wouldnt need pilots in the planes at all mabye they could just be controlled by some thinking computers developed in one of thier facilitys. even a couple air-craft carriers would be reasonable to aford along with that for him. with all that mabye bill could become a world power and tell even presidents will take orders from bill.

    -- j. j. barone im 16 (MagiTek@codec.ro), July 03, 1998.
    or do some presidents already take orders from bill?

    -- (MagiTek@ro.com), July 03, 1998.
    I think he should put half of his money in a freakin' box and bury it. The other half he should put in a Roth IRA and invest it. He is getting very old and needs to worry about his retirement.

    -- Big Bubba (bubba@bigman.com), July 06, 1998.
    Do what ever you like with your money for good. God Bless You

    -- Desmond O S P (dosp@hotmail.com), July 12, 1998.
    Do what ever you like with your money for good. God Bless You!

    -- O S P Desmond (dosp@hotmail.com), July 12, 1998.
    Give me like 10 grand so I could buy my dream car: A 1971 Chevy Chevelle SS 454.

    -- Panzwami (Panzwami@hotmail.com), July 13, 1998.
    Invest every cent into researching means to immortality. Once immortality is discovered, sell ludicrously expensive "Immortality 98" to rest of humanity. Offer reasonable layaway plan which allows customers to pay gradually over period of eternity.

    -- Jesse Ehnert (ehnert@hotmail.com), July 14, 1998.
    Sparing a little of your wealth so my little sisters can go to colleges is all I ask for; because I have dreams for them.-- :U ,C

    -- Happy (OneHappyPuppy@yahoo.com), July 16, 1998.
    Economic in the East really needs a boost, Mr. Gates. *hint hint*

    -- Happy (OneHappyPuppy@yahoo.com), July 16, 1998.
    i think that the best thing mr.gates could do is supply each state with a specific number of computers and software to be put into the school systems for grades 1-12 so that all kids have a chance to learn computers and not be lost when they get older where they will have to know computers to survive. this also works both ways. if he does this then everyone will know computers and softwares and he will just make more money because of more users. he also should give me a little for the great idea.

    -- wayne roy (wayne.roy@dana.com), July 22, 1998.
    I realize Bill doesn't actually see any of these notes that are sent and there are a lot of people giving advice so I thought I would throw my two cents in as well. Being an animal lover, I think anyone that has some money to spare should give something to the animal of their choice to save them from cruelty, torture, and extinction. I'm not really religious but I believe that all creatures have the right to live well on this earth. I believe that mankind has appointed themselves God and, therefore, superior to the animal kingdom. Not true. Animals have just as much right as any person. I am a secretary and don't make much yearly but I contribute to the National Wolf Research Center, the National Wildlife, the Audubon, and the Humane Society. My favorite, I guess I would have to say, is the NWRC. Wolves are beautiful creatures that have more of a history than man. It is a real crime that these beautiful, intelligent, and family oriented animals are being driven to extinction. Wolves kill ONLY for survival, men kill for sport. I think it was back in the 1940's or 1950's that the government gave men the go ahead to kill as many wolves as possible because they were labeled a menace to people. There were 2 million wolves killed then. How incredibly stupid! RIGHT NOW THERE IS A BILL THAT IS THREATENING DANGER OF KILLING OFF THE WOLVES THAT ARE NOW IN YELLOWSTONE PARK. A judge wants to take them off the endangered species list because the program to repopulate is turning out to be successful, therefore, stepping backwards in time and endangering them once again. How can this be! I don't understand this way of thinking! If you could possibly see your way to helping out the predicament of the wolves that would be wonderful. If the day ever comes when these beautiful animals were to become extinct, it would truly be a very sad day. Just to quote a couple of saying for you, please remember: "Extinction is Forever" and "In Wildness is the Preservation of the World." Thanks.

    -- Joanne Herge (jherge@ford.com), August 03, 1998.
    He should change it to cash. Quickly. More and more computers are running Windows. When it hits the financial banking servers, his money's gonna disappear. Just like that. Small bug. Service Pack 1 will fix it. No, we don't know how much you had, mr. Gates. We're sorry. But try the Microsoft help desk.

    -- Jeroen Mostert (J.Mostert@oke.nl), August 05, 1998.
    Bill Gates should keep his money to himslf, if he wants to donate, then let him, if he doesn't, then don't pressure him!

    -- Mounir you don't need to know! (Arabic_2@hotmail.com), August 08, 1998.
    I always marvel at the wealth that Gates has managed to put together and what he should use it for. I would agree with this assertion that Bill Gates starts a "Gates Fellows" program to pay for scholarship for those who are unable to fund thier education. There is nothing noble, in this world like helping out one soul to attain his or her visions. I'm a leaving example. I got admitted to graduate school for my masters but, I have failed to raise only $15,000 for tution, transport and up keep. Even if I went on saving for the rest of my life time(I'm just 29 years) , I may never get this money in a lump some so that I fulfill my dream of doing a masters degree in journalism. Bill Gates would certainly touch a lot of hearts if he put up a grant in education for those who are not previlaged

    Dismas Nkunda (Mr) P.O.Box 7730 Kampala Uganda East Africa

    -- Dismas Nkunda (aha@imul.com), August 09, 1998.

    Gee......... Lets see.......... Hey Billy, how about sinking some of that money back into Micro$oft and hiring a couple of decent programmers to tighten up that crap that you're currently producing, loosely know as code. Then maybe, just MAYBE everyone wouldn't need four Pentium 2 processors pipelined, and two 3dfx cards to play the current crop of 3D games. Oh, while your at it, throw some money the way of a decent tech writer and release a manual with your NEW operating system, instead of the pamphlet we all got with windoze 95, then maybe the little guy could write decent code for your 450MB monster. INFO BILL, INFO. EDUCATE, NOT ALIENATE. Ya four-eyed GOOBER!

    -- assembler (JohnHoward@baldandsexy.com), August 16, 1998.
    I think Bill should open a bank that would provide a low interest rate or possiblly a no interest loan to those that are less fortunate. Personally I don't think Bill sould just give his money away to anyone, I don't think money is as appriciated as much when it's just handed out, when a loan is given it's a hand up not a hand out and when you have to pay for things most people end up having a greater appriciation for what it is they have. I also think it would be a good idea for him to start different types of businesses accross the country, in areas that need an economic boost, that would provide jobs to those that are willing to work. I think scholarships and financial aid to students would be a good thing. I think that if it is handed out to help someone, that it should be given back when that person gets on his/her feet, so that it can be handed out to help others.

    -- John H. Pyle (stepinup@msn.com), August 22, 1998.
    Hey man,persons like you are born only once a century and with all the wealth you have i suppose you spend it on the microsoft technology to improvise it a lot more 'cos 'THE FUTURE IS MICROSOFT AND THE WORLD KNOWS IT'

    -- GANESH KANNA.R (gkanna@hotmail.com), August 27, 1998.
    Well...one thing for sure....give me $1,000,000.00 (that's nothing to him..right?). The rest of his billions, let him decide. It's up to him. Just give me my share and get a degree in computers, start my own business and help my poor people in the Philippines. Give them good education! Help President ERAP rescue the people from poverty!!!

    -- Emmanuel Rona (wengrona@hotmail.com), August 30, 1998.
    hi! my thoughts.... is this the only teaser bill gates page? hee hee love it. no, but actually, lets get over the cute ideas bout shelling money out. sure, i would like to have 50k in my bank account, indulging on life that would give me a toothache, but does bill really give out that much? 90 percent is a lot. Then again, he sort of runs the show in disk operating system sells, upgrades, and all that business gook. hey, alot has been done by this man's company. there is nothing much to be said bout this guy(his personal life maybe, maybe not) except for the fact that he sort of monopolizes the industry just like campbell soup sort of monopolizes the soup industry. what is it? something like in the commerce industry rules bout monopolizing that only a company and its subsidaries can only obtain seventy percent of the industry? oh, well, point is bill gates and co sits on boardwalk and everyone else is park avenue and elsewhere. not saying we aren't of the highest personal wealth on the game of boardwalk but maybe we should be encouraged to at least try to duplicate or even suceed bill the man. hopefully his opps are working to that point, but as of win 95, he is sprinting. like the wind. i dunno if this has enlighten anyone, but it sure has for me. Motivation. thats the word. anyways, hope i didn't discourage anyone. BILL, "May the Force be with you."

    -- l. kuhn (orangejuice97@hotmail.com), August 30, 1998.
    He could try and sort out his hair...... but even with all the money in the world (the majority of which is Bills) I dont think this is possible.

    OR

    A naked Bill Gates Screen Saver, how big's your Megabyte?!

    -- LYNSEY PRICE (GRANT.WARD@UKONLINE.COM), September 02, 1998.

    Whatever you do, do it yourself don't give your money to anyone who thinks they know how to put it to good use. If you do this you probably won't have to worry about any "human being" misusing any funds. Instead the wealth should go straight to the person you want to reach.

    -- P.G. (glenchem@iafrica.com), September 06, 1998.
    I think that he should give me some of his riches to put me through collage because I'm really, really poor and I wish he was my dad. Andrew Else 17 (519) 631-0725

    Thanx very much.

    -- Andrew G. G. Else (paco117@hotmail.com), September 29, 1998.

    I think Bill Gates should be able to do what ever he wants with it,but we all know he can't do that.So if you have to give it away I say help save culture resources. The small towns across the U.S. are filled with historical sites that will be gone if no one saves them.Once they are gone you can't get them back. If you are interested in saving one of these sites feel free to contact me.

    -- Betty Solano (solano@coastalnet.com), September 30, 1998.
    I think he should donate money to build schools as well as fund computers with internet access. he could also to build and fund prisons for all criminals who seem to be getting away with murder.

    -- xxx (kjs2795@pacbell.net), October 05, 1998.
    Whatever he wants.......

    -- Margaret (Peggy) Whitcomb (margo@open.com), October 07, 1998.
    Whatever he wants.......just as the rest of us do.

    -- Margaret (Peggy) Whitcomb (margo@open.com), October 07, 1998.
    Mr Gates - I think you could perhaps give something towards God's cause - to help dying souls learn of a blessed hope. The people in Ghana need to know about Jesus and His saving grace, and I have the wonderful opportunity to go there on a mission trip in Dec.'98. What I need is about $2000 for my travel expences. PLEASE CONSIDER THIS - God is going to bless you 10-fold, 100-fold for what you do for Him. He is incredible!!...

    -- Inge Evert (inge@youngdisciple.com), October 07, 1998.
    I think what you have to do is help the poor people.Help schools like giving them computers.Also give me 5 million.Is not too much.

    -- Jesus Perez (bjwutang@juno.com), October 14, 1998.
    As you have so much money, I think you can donate it to the people in the third world. Their living condition is poor. They are hungry and nearly going to die. You should not only concentrat on the people in wealthy country!

    -- Candy Wong Hang Tim (htowng7@se.cuhk.edu.hk), October 16, 1998.
    He should Use his money to help all of the poor birds and parrots in the world, expecillay Cokiteils and Cockatoos. Then he should buy a small island and start genitacally engineering dinosaurs out of DNA found in amber. Then he should use a lot of money to fight the Yeeerks and Controllers that are invading.

    *and yes, i'm a JP and Animorphs fan.

    -- Hardra6 (hardra6@hotmail.com), November 01, 1998.

    Give it to teachers so they won't make kids do stupid biographys on him.

    -- Hardra6 (hardra6@hotmail.com), November 01, 1998.
    Bill gates has made his money by being a very smart businessman. Regardless of really how he got there, but the end justifies the means. I do not think that he should be giving his money away to people because they are poorer. Problems are relative. Charity is a good thing, do not get me wrong, but he does not have an obligation towards me or you or anyone else except for his wife and daughter. The whole world is against the guy, it is as if having money is a sin.Yet i am sure that he really does not give flying .... because he knows that his future and his family's future is very secure. I just think that he should realy forget about work and sit and enjoy his wealth. They is no reason at this point for him wake up early and go to meetings and live a normal life like me and you. Well i guess it must be a power trip for him. Microsoft is a great company and conducts business very fairly, all is fair in love and war, and instead of running to the government crying, other companies should learn from the example and fight back with business strategies. Netscape and Intel are just examples of that. Plus when you think about it if there were different OS, things would become very confusing for many people.

    Anyway Bill Gates, enjoy.

    -- (nile_prince@hotmail.com), November 01, 1998.

    I THINK HE SHOULD HELP OUT THE FASTEST GROWING ORGANIZATION IN THE U.S IM TALKING ABOUT THE N.W.W.A HARDCORE WRESTLING.AFTER ALL I AM HIS ILLIGITMATE SON WILLIAM GATES THE FOURTH.

    -- (gumu2@webtv.net), November 08, 1998.
    He should do what anyone else would do - keep it. I think everyone who demands that he give away 90% of his wealth should be forced to give away 90% of everything they have. Anyone who ownes a computer and an internet connection has more than the poorest people in our country - so why are they telling him to do something instead of doing something themselves. His taxes already pay for the entire Department of Education among other thing and He did donate over $1 billion last year in addition to donations of software to schools and Universities

    -- SMH (SMH@SMH.com), November 09, 1998.
    He should contribute some of his money to college and university students who don't have the money to continue their education. it's really for none of us to decide, but himself.

    -- Katie Roberts (katieroberts@hotmail.com), November 13, 1998.
    I think he should put up 1 billion dollars for a contest in which people build the most useless things. The top 3 winners share a billion dollars.

    I think he should also start a tv gameshow in which he see's what people would do for a billion dollars. The winner of the contest gets one billion dollars.

    -- Gregg Meister (gfidan@gloryroad.net), November 15, 1998.

    I believe Bill Gates should give some to churches around the nation, some to charities, and the rest of the money he should keep. He earned the money, so he should keep it and inherite it to his family and friends.

    -- Matthew Gross (mattgross11@hotmail.com), November 18, 1998.
    I believe Bill Gates should give some to the poor or churches around the nation, some to charities, and the rest of the money he should keep. He earned the money, so he should keep it and inherite it to his family and friends. sorry bad speller

    -- Matthew Gross (mattgross11@hotmail.com), November 18, 1998.
    I commend Mr. Gates. God blessed him with the skill, knowledge and know-how, and the money. It's his blessing; he can use it as he chooses. I must admit, I had been searching the web for some place to ask Mr. Gates to assist an Outreach Mission ministries at our church with some computers with which to work with at-risk children; and to enhance skills of adults in the work place or better still, teach computer literacy skills to those who really need the chance and opportunity. I'm retired, funded one by recylying and selling cans, it just a long journey trying to secure enough computers to help six people doing one sitting.

    -- R.A.Edwards (RAE@ipa.net), November 20, 1998.
    I would suggest Mr Bill Gates, to donate his 10% of his income to the church, missionary and to the poor people. As the bible say every income you earn, 10% belongs to our Lord God Almighty. Don't bother what other people will say about you. Whatever you earned, you deserve it. Because you had succeed your vision. The world should respect and admire the you do. YOU ARE REALLY WORK HARD AND WRK SMART. If they want to be like you. They had to learn more from you. Would you give your money to other people whom you don't know them. I don't think so. So, as i say, whatever yiou earn that's yours... Only 10% belongs to God..... REMEMBER THAT !!!!!...

    -- john patiung petrus (johnppetrus@hotmail.com), November 25, 1998.
    I would suggest Mr Bill Gates, to donate his 10% of his income to the church, missionary and to the poor people. As the bible say every income you earn, 10% belongs to our Lord God Almighty. Don't bother what other people will say about you. Whatever you earned, you deserve it. Because you had succeed your vision. The world should respect and admire the way you do. YOU ARE REALLY WORK HARD AND WRK SMART. If they want to be like you. They had to learn more from you. Would you give your money to other people whom you don't know them?. I don't think so. So, as i say, whatever you've earned, that's yours... Only 10% belongs to God..... REMEMBER THAT !!!!!...

    -- john patiung petrus (johnppetrus@hotmail.com), November 25, 1998.
    It is his money and he worked for it...he got lucky and was blessed on this earth. Would you like anybody to tell you what to do with your money? I don't think so. Mr. Bill Gates, enjoy.

    -- Mary D. Farah (mary10452@aol.com), December 07, 1998.
    I am a senior in high school and I would like to ask Bill Gates to help finance my way through College. My dream is to make a name for myself in a male dominated industry, avaition. I hope you read this and would consider helping me out. Thank you

    -- Melissa Rogers (MDR2281@aol.com), January 05, 1999.
    Bill Gates should invest HEAVILY into the prostitution business, not to mention drug trafficing is in the dumps. Coming from Pakistan I Fahad Hassan believe that we should exterminate those dirty Indian bastards and burn there bodies into an iternal flame. I also believe that Mr. Gates should invest into a Pakistani pornography business using my people as models.

    -- Johnny Walker (hassanf@mail.las.ch/), January 11, 1999.
    Mr Gates...DO with your money as you please but don't forget to look at the rest of the world...mybe you can make a difference.

    -- eugene fillis (eugenef@ibm.co.za), January 13, 1999.
    I don't care what he does with it - but, how sad is it for the guy who has all the money he could ever spend and then can't think of anything more fun to do than go back to work each day - I think he should pay someone to sit him down and expalin that life can be fun!!

    -- Simon Johsnon (simon@bpgraphics.co.uk), January 18, 1999.
    I couldn't really care what Bill does with his money, after all it is his money. If he wanted to buy a third world country and rule over its citizens like a ruthless ruler (like one of the other e-mailers mentioned)then he can do so. If he wanted to pile it all up (if he could possibly do that) and set it all on fire, then he s free to do that. He said that he would give away 90% of his money while he is still alive. The way the government and other businesses like Netscape and Sun are always on his back, are not helping him at all. First he has to take his mind of that then he can start thinking about how to give away his money, if he wants to in the end. Bill seems like a nice enough guy, so why couldn't everyone just leave him alone. If I for instance won the lottery and people started telling me how to spend it, I would smack them upside the head and tell them to get on with their little lives. It's his money so let him spend it Bill Gates style.

    -- Mohammed Siddiqui (anjumrasheed@home.com), January 18, 1999.
    Listen, you smug, superior, bloodsucking, self-righteous second- handers! YOU LEAVE BILL GATES ALONE! You destroyed Michael Milken, you shackled John D. Rockefeller, you've branded every money making hero as evil--in order to rob them, all the while yelling how evil they are, in order to hide your own guilt. You see great men and you want to destroy them, because if they collapse, you think that their weakness will give you a right to yours. Let him do what he wants with his money. It's HIS. LEAVE HIM ALONE. I WON'T let you destroy him.

    -- Rose Ellen Weber (schildkroete@juno.com), January 19, 1999.
    Mr Gates will make a hell of a difference in this world when he finds what he is looking for (namely a deserving cause which needs him and his money). In the short term maybe some hospitals or fixing up the health system in the US. Bailing out a small country which is in debt or still has it's populace living in under-developed conditions. But as to what the money will be used for, who knows ?

    -- Bernard Jeremy (chives99@hotmail.com), January 27, 1999.
    I think with over 50 Billions, Bill can do anything he wants event he can buy a country to live with his family and event just give me 0.01 percent of his wealth he is still a richest man.

    -- John (vuab@hotmail.com), February 03, 1999.
    I think he should help the less fortunate. Then with what's left over he should give it back to the people who bought his software. Give it back to the people that made him a BILLIONAIRE. Or he could just start giving his products away for free

    -- I. Hate Beinpoor (Chad@poorboy.com), February 17, 1999.
    Besides as long as he gives it away as a charitable contribution, he will write it off on his taxes and get it all back anyway.

    -- I. Hate Beinpoor (Chad@poorboy.com), February 17, 1999.
    I'd love to ask for just a little bit of that money for myself, but that would seem extremely selfish and it seems that the content of most of the replies are just that. I am a teacher and have been for four years. At the present moment I teach first grade and I am tired of the school districts and State of Texas saying there are no monies for certain advances that we need in education. There are never any funds for the little things and we as teachers end up paying for them out of our own pocket. Then we get down to the issue of teacher salaries. Embarrassing to say the least. Bill Gates is probably an incredibly intelligent man but he definitely didn't get there alone. I'm sure there were a few teachers in there who made an impact. So Mr. Gates if you ever get to read this which you probably won't. Don't go too far away with that money. Our future leaders in elementary schools today need it too.

    -- Michelle Reyna (mreyna@99.yahoo.com), February 25, 1999.
    At the Institution that I attented there is an effort to help students who realy are ambitions and who realy wants to get them self some education, but can not affort it. those studnets have to work long hours per day and also go to class and still have to fine time to study and go to the labs and so fort. I happen to be one of them so i know what they are going through students at Northern Caribbean University in Mandeville , Manchester , Jamaica W.I., and also studnets from other instition would realy love some help from mr gates. because we do respect the fact that he worked hard to reach where he is but i do believe that he got help when he was young, whether financial or moral or instirational, therefore i would love to recomend that he help someone else to help themself in the same way........... I wish he was realy seeing this mail......

    ckyoung

    -- Christopher Young (kevinchris_1998@yahoo.com), March 02, 1999.

    I think you should donate some to the Boy Scouts Of America because i know you are and Eagle and so am I and BSA needs help now. thank you Mr. Gates

    -- George T. Foshee IV (Cloud91043@aol.com), March 18, 1999.
    Just as I spend the meager money I make anyway I want, so should Mr. Gates. Anyone who bitches about the way he spends it, is just jealous.

    If he was going to do anything with it, I believe that he should help all the homeless animals in the U.S. Have you been to your local shelter lately? People have the opportunity to make their own money, even if they start with nothing. Animals on the other hand are subjected to the abuse of humans and deserve the freedom his money would provide.

    -- Treena Phillips (treenatim@earthlink.net), March 21, 1999.

    I think bill gates should buy McDonalds, so 95% of the world's rectuums would now be able to enjoy hating him for torturing rain forests, de-foliating terrified cows, and bundling internet browsers in with happy meels. Not to mention offing that fag clown.

    Aw, hell, you know that's just a joke. He really should buy Bill Clinton some whores. With his money, he might just get Cindy Crawford or maybe even Cameron Diaz to do Monica's on the prez. and then wouldn't he owe him a big debt of gratitude. Bet Janet reno gets jerked off (sorry, unintentional pun) that Netscape crybaby case so fast her jockstrap flies off !

    -- Shadrack Amigo (shepfur@pointdot.net), March 25, 1999.

    I think that Willy Gates should open up a pimp and ho diner. He has all the good stuff going on. He should buy Bennigan's, and make me a manager. WORD UP, HOOKAH!!!

    Ron

    -- Ronald E. Hollingsworth (ronmx3@aol.com), March 25, 1999.

    I think that he is a cool guy. Heck guy, I think that Bill is one of the smartest, nicest, intellegentest guys around. Keep up the good work, Guy!

    David Harvey

    -- David Harvey (dharvey121@aol.com), March 25, 1999.

    HI BILL TOOK A COMPUTER COURSE FROM SOME ONE WHO THINKS YOU ARE THE BEST. HAD TO KNOW ALL ABOUT YOU AND NOW YOU STARTED OUT RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME WELL LIVING UP NORTH IN CANADA YOU DONT GET THE SAME HELP AS PEOPLE AROUND CITIES MY SON IS 18 AND WANTS TO GO INTO COMPUTER SIENCE .CAN TOU HELP. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MEET HIM WE LIVE IN NIPIGON ONT IN CANADA. I WILL PRAY FOR YOUR HELP. ALL THE BEST

    -- ROSEMARY HOTCHKISS (RHOTCHKI@NIPIGON.LAKEHEADU.CA), April 01, 1999.
    Well since money isn't everything, an ole saying from way back....I believe that he will do whatever he thinks best. But wouldn't it be something if he chose to take it all with him? Naw don't do that, heck buy Mexico and maybe stop some of the factories from going down there for cheap labor! Then again I ain't got time to worry about this dilema! To Be or not to Be? To Have or Have Not? Good Luck Bill Gates and may your health stay with you and yours!

    -- Gene A. Flake (gaflake@aol.com), April 05, 1999.
    What should Bill Gates do with his money? He could:

    1. Decide that he's so damn rich that he no longer needs to charge people who are registered owners of any Microsoft products, so when products get updated it's possible to have functioning software (which is what you actually purchased in the first place) for umm... dare we say it, FREE?

    2. Offer a "ZERO" interest bank card.

    3. Hire an honest to god programmer who know what they're doing to program that crappy web site of his.

    4. Search for GOD.... Who knows... with all that money, he might just find her/him/whatever....

    5. Clone himself..... can't spend it all by himself....

    6. Thaw out Walt Disney and bring him back to life (or have him cloned), the cartoons just haven't been the same since he died ...

    7. Set his "Think tank" on the quest for "Virtual Sex" toys, in order to curb VD....

    8. Alternatively, fund the quest for the Holy Grail.

    9. Resurrect Jim Hensen... to help Walt.

    10. Pay all the taxes for every U.S. citizen for five years.

    11. Make all public transportation free.

    12. Start an affordable nationwide group health insurance company. Clinton couldn't do it, maybe he can.

    13. Part the Red Sea, and feed the multitudes.

    14. Okay, one for me (and I figure after all these incredible suggestions I deserve a consultancy fee) Give me $500,000. That's it, not a dime more. I figure he earns 1/2 million in what, 20 minutes??? It would eliminate every problem for me and my loved ones and he'd never miss it.

    15. Can't buy love.

    16. I am a charity, and will obtain a tax number when it becomes necessary.

    17. Subsidize treatment for ADHD, so there won't be any future "Bill Gates'".....

    18. Lobby for "Logan's Run" ammendment to the Constitution. (why not... he has all of the money any way).

    -- Jame&Hari (amber@juno.com), April 05, 1999.

    give the $$ to my family. i figure all the hell i put them through, they deserve it. and when they pass on... THE MONEY IS MINE!! well, and my 2 brothers, that is if they live that long!! he-he

    -- korye nicole markiewicz (knm_12@hotmail.com), April 12, 1999.
    Build a plush rocket and launch yourself out of the solar system.

    -- Wayne Jackson (waynej@emu.com), April 14, 1999.
    How about offering Micheal Jordan 1 billion dollars to play for the Chicago Bulls we need him back!

    -- Paul Nicolosi (mira@safeplace.net), April 18, 1999.
    Do what he like with it- it's his? Is it hell - he ripped it off everyone who bought one of his crappy products. I hate it when these rich, boring people, who have no personality and no interest in human beings, plunder the earth and its people of all their resources, and expect us to be grateful when they give a millionth of it to a kids home. He's not a wonderful entrepreneur, he's a selfish, boring individual, who should never have been allowed to accumulate that much wealth - no one in the world is worth that much money, lease of all someone like him.

    -- Joe (joseph@livingtime.freeserve.co.uk), April 19, 1999.
    Give it all to the open source community, make some decent code even once !

    -- Saku Kaukinen (sz@lousy.org), April 22, 1999.
    I don't think we should answer the quetion sine it's not our money.It's Bill Gates money so let him decide!

    -- Chris Remington (Misticmyst73@yahoo.com), April 26, 1999.
    Bill you have a hell of a lot of cash and there is no possible way to satisfy the nation, but at least do something with the damn money. You invest it like there is any chance of you needing that much cash. Give me 80,000 dollars to make it through college and a couple mill to set me off in life. Screw saving up, your rich I'm happy for your genius ass but you need to do something with it.

    Signed One of us poor folk trying to make it through college and get a life How about you try it

    PS if all of this is too much, send a post card

    -- Corky Botkin (cbal69@yahoo.com), May 07, 1999.

    1. Spelling and grammer lessons for every person above (and most likely below) - YOU ALL NEED IT!!

    2. Start other software companies, and compete with himself.

    3. Bankroll Alan Keyes' run for the Presidency.

    4. Advertise nationwide; inform every jealous person that most of his wealth is locked up in Microsoft stock, all of which he'd have to sell in order to pay for most of the crappy ideas located in this site.

    5. Hire hit men to take out Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosovic, Fidel Castro, Ted Turner, and other worthless dictators. Throw in Geraldo Rivera and Jane Fonda for good measure.

    6. Send a nuclear bomb to Beijing, disguised as a computer that contains all of America's weapons secrets in Microsoft Word format; it will detonate when Windows launches.

    -- David Colpo (lisandavid@juno.com), May 08, 1999.

    1) I think you should give part of your money to the poorest people ot the world, like the Africans or the Latinoamericans because they need the money for food, And you use it for fun.

    2) Buy some f-22's, f-15's and B2-spirit and establish your microsoft's army, navy and air force.

    2) Give 1 million dollars and I will be happy.

    -- Jaime Alegria (jaimealegria@usa.net), May 27, 1999.

    1) I think you should give part of your money to the poorest people ot the world, like the Africans or the Latinoamericans because they need the money for food, And you use it for fun.

    2) Buy some f-22's, f-15's and B2-spirit and establish your microsoft's army, navy and air force.

    3) Give 1 million dollars and I will be happy.

    -- Jaime Alegria (jaimealegria@usa.net), May 27, 1999.

    Ok, I'm not even going to bother with the question - Bill can do as he chooses with his OWN money. BUT... I must say I've never seen so much crap in my life as what I've seen reading some of the comments above! Sure some are valid, and it's easy to just name a couple of random charities, but wake up people. Why would Bill give any of us a million dollars? Why would he even give us $1 ?? Try and come up with realistic ideas... this is a goddam joke!

    -- matt (matt@noway.com), May 27, 1999.
    Dear Bill,

    You can't take it with you. But you can send it on ahead. Jesus said where your treasure is...there your heart would be also. Sharing the good news of God's free gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ would be a great place to start. Bill Gates, you could help reach people around the world with the gospel and reap a tremendous reward in the world to come...if, of course, you have or will ever receive that same gift, yourself.

    Bill...I respect you. No B.S. You have accomplished much in your life. But there's so much more to accomplish...and so little time. If you sense an urgency in your spirit to make an eternal difference and please God, I urge you to e-mail me in response.

    There are some ideas I've been given that require your unique gifts and talents to change the destinies of millions of people in the third world for the better. Your products can make the difference.

    I hope you read this and God challenges you to respond.

    Yours in Christ,

    Todd Beezley

    -- Todd Beezley (TBeezley1@aol.com), May 27, 1999.

    Bill Gates Wealth: 5 Billion - Aids Cure 5 Billion - Cancer Cure 5 Billion - Spinal Cure 20 Billion - Homeless problem solved 5 Billion - Hunger problem solved 10 Billion - Splitup among all families in America with incomes less than $30,000 a year At this point Bill Gates still has over 10 billion left. If he did all the above mentioned things he would be a worldwide hero and people would worship him like a king. He wouldn't even need money anymore.

    -- Anthony Perkinson (aperki4343@aol.com), June 21, 1999.
    Suggestions:

    Plant flowers in barren places.

    Assume a new identity and live life all over again, without the money. Make a real friend.

    Spend time with the old and the young, and I'm sure the answer to "What should I do with my money?" would be clear.

    Last advice: Stay away from people looking for handouts! Teach people what you've learned so they can help themselves.

    -- elizabeth dirnfeld (elizabeth.dirnfeld@spcorp.com), June 21, 1999.

    Bill should made the biggest and beautiful Mosque in the world. Perhaps in Seattle, WA or in Portland, OR. Where millions of muslims & non-muslims will gather and pray for themselves and for Bill and his familys Paradise in heaven. If Bill would have known that if he ever build that house of God, God will built millions times bigger house for Bill in Paradise. And Almighty God knows the rest.

    -- Angel (dakbabu@hotmail.com), June 22, 1999.
    I think he should keep his money, Look at all these vultures begging for handouts, If you want money MAKE IT yourself he is not responsible for paying our bills, our college funds, our football fields....Bill Gates is a very wealthy man For ONE reason becuase HE EARNED IT you go BILL

    -- Sheila (Faithsher2@aol.com), June 22, 1999.
    I think that Bill should take at least half of his money and help those of us who are on government support(or none at all!)and still working in the job force. There are plenty of people in this country who cant even afford to breathe, and a lot of it is not their fault. I think the Lord gives us money to help others, not ourselves. I am hoping someday that we will have money and be able to help our family as much as the next family with nothing. I dont think that it is right to hoard a fortune when there are so many in need. I think its great that he is so wealthy, but what was the very first thing your parents taught you? Sharing!! :)

    -- AMA (chriskets@aol.com), June 24, 1999.
    Build a better Operating System!!!!

    -- Mike (mike@prismnet.com), July 07, 1999.
    "Gates has said he intends to give 90 percent of his wealth away while he is still alive, but right now he is busy building Microsoft" -Give it away when? What is he waiting for? What more does he need to accomplish? He could get hit by a bus tomorrow... I think he should wipe out homlessness, hunger and cure a few diseases.

    -- Alex (alex@colint.com), July 12, 1999.
    I think he should donate 500 mill to the American Heart Association, and to the American Cancer Society, then give me 20,000 dollars to give my wife a wardrobe of bergdorf goodman clothing for our aniversery

    -- Jim H. (qwerty_110@hotmail.com), July 21, 1999.
    Tithe. Give ten percent to the church. If you give to God he'll give right back to you. You can't go wrong with God on your side. Oh yeah, you don't even have to give him money and he'll be there for you anyway but I would give him at least ten percent. Doesn't he deserve it?

    -- Josh Grabarek (joshgrabarek@hotmail.com), July 22, 1999.
    bill should do whatever he wants with his money,this is america and we all would like to be so prosperous,he;brilliant he earned it,he dont owe anybody anything except god and his wife and children,so all the socialists and communist's critisizing,him should move to cuba or china,make lot's more money bill,and hang on to it if you want.BILL IF YOU READ THIS I WOULD'NT MIND AN AUTOGRAPH!

    -- james mcdonald (sommerled@globalfrontiers.com), July 26, 1999.
    I think that Bill Gates should give a couple of million dollars so that West Blocton High School can have a new school. Our school is very old, there are leaks everywhere, the floors have cracks in them, there are huge potholes in our parking lot, there is an overflow of children,(the school was built for 300 people, and we now getting close to 600), our football stadium needs new bleachers,teachers have to share classrooms, and I could go on and on forever. SO please of you could a couple of million dollars, it would b every appreciated. I also think that you should pay for students with a b average to go to school.

    -- Ashley Jill Jones (jsajones@gateway.net), September 07, 1999.
    It's his money. Let him do what ever he wants! If you had that much money you wouldn't want people bothering you about it. Bill Gates is a great guy. He has done alot for computers and this world. Where would we be if it wasn't for him. So ya'll quit bothering the fellow. Also, he is NOT THE ANTI-CHRIST!! The anti-christ will not be until after the rapture, plus the anti-christ will come out of Europe. Thanks Mr. Gates keep up the GOOD WORK!!

    -- Marcus May age 13 (marcus_may@yahoo.com), September 17, 1999.
    Well its simple and obvious what Bill needs to do with his money.Help make this country,world a better place money cant do everything but when it comes to all of the poverty around the world Bill Gates could help change all of that.And why not just start giving it away to less fortunite people he can never spend all that.The intrest his money makes every day would even help out alot.And of course i wouldnt mind him giving me 1 million considering it wouldnt even make the smallest dent in the amount he has.I cant think of anything smart to say so thats it.

    -- Dustin Bell (dirtbikes_rule@hotmail.com), September 17, 1999.
    Bill should continue to invest and reinvest in Microsoft. Thank you for keeping the company in the U.S. and giving thousands of people jobs. If Bill wants to branch out and create more jobs by starting new companies, all the better.

    -- Chris Coddington (chriscoddington@hotmail.com), September 18, 1999.
    buy all the condoms he can get and have sex with all the beautiful women in the world - its good for buying viagra too.

    -- michael escobar age 16 (escobarmichael@email.com), September 26, 1999.
    Actually, I am writing on behalf of my sister, Joji, who requested for financial assistance, possibly the grant of $5,000. I have went through the entire email responses of many people in this site and I humbled by the fact that Mr. Gates shares his blessings to many.

    I was supposed to send my sister's email letter to billgates@microsoft.com, but for whatever reasons, it got lost somewhere in the emal trainsit. I hope this message reaches to mr, Gates in time for Christmas so that we may be able to spend the holidays in Manila with much joy and blessings

    -- Ian A. Briones (ian777@hotmail.com), October 04, 1999.

    GIVE IT TO ME GOD DAMMIT.! IAM A POOR BASTARD!

    -- yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo (yoyoyoyo@yoyoyo.com), October 05, 1999.
    Mr Gates,

    Firstly I would like to say you have achieved a milestone in the business/Information Technology industries. You have made business, and computing go hand in hand. The programs like Microsoft Office packages, NT4, Win 98 etc. are just a few to mind. Your skill and your determination of being the "Best" has surely paid off. I support your legal battles whole heartly. The idea of dominating the market, with respect to the Anti-Trust court case, is plain and simple....Microsoft was there 1st, Grow-up and think logically of your own programs. STOP harassing Microsoft.

    Cheers

    D.Lewis from AU

    -- D.Lewis (seth@thehub.com.au), October 08, 1999.

    Why not do something useful for once like vaccinate everyon in the third world?

    -- Nick Street (nstreet@netcomuk.co.uk), October 17, 1999.
    Uhhhhhhhh..... I Think If He Cant Spend It Let Me Help Him.I Think Then He Will Not Need Any More Banks.

    -- Rizwan Bashir Malik (rbmalik@hotmail.com), October 19, 1999.
    I think he should donate to a very wealthy cause.... ME!

    -- Kyle A. Nichols (Cash25569@aol.com), November 11, 1999.
    1) He shouild do exactly as he wants with it. It's his. 2) He should NOT give any to me. I hope I'll make my own. 3) It's only good for giving away, he can't possibly spend much of it so what else could he do with it. 4) How about endowing a think tank to search for methods of electing HONEST politicians and eliminating the corrupt. 5) My suggested allocation: 50% to education,30% to medical research, 15% to crime prevention and 5% to something whimsical.

    -- Sam Davis (ocsbat@aol.com), November 14, 1999.
    SPEND THEM AS YOU LIKE BILL,I SUPOSE THAT YOU DIND EARN THEM SO EASY, SO AT LEAST TRY TO ENJOY SPENDING THEM.YOU ONLY HAVE ONE LIFE DONT FORGET IT.

    -- DESIPRIS GEORGE (tourline@her.forthnet.gr), November 18, 1999.
    Sunday, 21 November 1999 Hi Bill, I could appreciate a "free" scanner for my Compaq Presario, Model #4160. I have loads of information for Genealogy Research that I am constantly compiling into indexes.

    My goal is to share this information with others. I have made booklets of my prepared materials. Pictures tell a story and my "Family Tree" is waiting for the picture, that would complete the booklet.

    I have never seen a Computer Scanner, but heard that it is the best thing invented since the computer....and Bill, you sure would know enough about the value of this item. It is a "boon" to researchers just like me, who are dedicated to compiling information. I couldn't think of typing endless hours without this Compaq Presario. It sure would help out if I had a scanner tho.

    Thanks, Talk to You Later....Hazel J. Menchinsky

    P.S. My letter was inspired by the recent article in Newsweek...August 30, 1999.

    -- Hazel J. Menchinsky (menchhj@epix.net), November 21, 1999.

    I do not care .I do not need your money but I want to be the reachest boy in Africa so please give me a piece of advise.

    -- Tadele Assefa (alphabu@yahoo.com), November 25, 1999.
    He should do whatever he wants with it. The problem with this country is one guy makes money, and everyone else wants it. Way to go Bill.

    -- tony (tonymn@excite.com), November 28, 1999.
    pay all your BILLS and build long GATES

    -- bill gates (mourad@mourad.com), December 02, 1999.
    HIS MONEY WONT STOP HIM FROM DYING

    -- bill gates (BILL@GATES.COM), December 02, 1999.
    SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS

    -- microsoft gates (bill@gates.com), December 02, 1999.
    E-MAIL THEM ALL TO ME

    -- bill gates (bill@gates.com), December 02, 1999.
    THROW THEM IN THE BIN

    -- BILL GATES (BILL@GATES.COM), December 02, 1999.
    BUY ANOTHER BILL GATES TO WORK WITH YOU EXAMPLE ME IM ANOTHER BILL GATES YOU RICH BASTARD FEED THE POOR YOU CRIMINAL I USED TO BE YOUR NEIGHBOUR REMEMBER ME? YES THATS RIGHT I AM, BILL GATES THE CRIMINAL I GAVE YOU THE IDEA

    -- BILL GATES (BILL@GATES.COM), December 02, 1999.
    SAVE THEM FOR YOUR FUNERAL WHEN YOU DIE

    -- BILL GATES (BILL@GATES.COM), December 02, 1999.
    BY MY HOUSE ITS FOR SALE 200 BILLION DOLLARS COME ON BILL YOU CAN DO IT!!!!

    -- BILL GATES (BILL@GATES.COM), December 02, 1999.
    bill, try do spend one dollar tommorow for something good for people. next day spend twice as the day before. and do it every day. how long can you stick it? if you can, please answer me.

    -- laco szabo (remisplus@ba.telecom.sk), December 03, 1999.
    TAKE THEM WITH YOU TO THE GRAVE WHEN YOU DIE

    -- bill gates (BILL@GATES.COM), December 08, 1999.
    I think that he should use the money to help all the poor in the world and to research more on the world beyond us(Outer Space). He could use it help build a better future for homeless people.

    -- Andy (HienPham20@hotmail.com), December 09, 1999.
    for all the money that you have , can't you just make a decent muthafucking OS?

    -- Edin (bosnarave@mediaone.net), December 10, 1999.
    I think he should just give all the money to me!!!! I mean why not it's my turn to be rich!!!

    -- Chris Parker (trevalon6499@yahoo.com), December 15, 1999.
    I am sorry to see Bill Gates giving money to improve health and extend life, UNLESS he also equally funds birth control. Face it, Bill, the world does not need more surviving human beings!! Why not buy up the Amazon rain forest to preserve it from the swarming hordes? Why not buy up every available acre in the USA and donate them as conservation preserves for all of our endangered wildlife? How about free vasectomies and tubal ligations for all applicants, here and abroad?

    -- Dorian McKenzie (dmckenzie@ij.net), December 17, 1999.
    I think Bill Gates should just say fuck those other Operating system there just copies.after all, MS-DOS was modeled on the CP/M operating system, which in turn was modeled on UNIX.I like WINDOWS but i also have linux hehe

    -- Demented Wizard (Demented_Wizard@hotmail.com), December 20, 1999.
    I think Bill Gates should keep enough money to keep him and himself happy and contribute the rest of it in another source, like a mall or a transit company. He should design a 20 mile block of house divisions, he could make more money and also give more people jobs and a place to live

    Michael Kennedy..............Irrigon Oregon 97882

    -- michael kennedy (michaelkennedy@hotmail.com), December 31, 1999.

    I think Bill should buy a nice little country like Belgium and cultivate it with bill Gates clones, with all these clones setting up multi national computer companies the original bill will be rich and then can buy enough tanks and planes and make more Clones of himself for troops. He can then invade the surrounding countries, getting more money and resources to make more and more clones of himself which can then help him take over more countries and more countries until he owns the whole world. Either that or make the internet faster and possibly free, that would be cool.

    -- hidden angel (hiddenangel@yahoo.com), January 14, 2000.
    Bill Gates should start a new Bill Gates University in Delaware - the First State,Small Wonder. Bill Gates University would be another wonder in Delaware and not only there. Together with Bill Gates scholarship the University would be a good start for the new century ,for the new millennium and it would become as popular as Microsoft among students all over the world. Why in Delaware?-It was the first state to sign the Declaration of Independence to create a new society and it is symbolic. Besides ,the people in Delaware are wonderful who can really work wonders. And my friend Bill with a heart of gold also lives there . Bayram

    -- Kojageldiyev Bayram (cotonella@usa.net), January 15, 2000.
    I think he should keep he`s money for himself. He has worked for them and is really smart, so he diserves them.

    -- Kristin (b_kristin_@hotmail.com), January 17, 2000.
    I think he should spend all of his money hiring people to beat the living tar out of you people. Its his money and he can do what he wants to with it.

    -- Derrek C. Martin (cool_cowboy80@yahoo.com), January 23, 2000.
    Please help me to study in America and to learn programming. I want to be as you.

    -- Tural Azizov (t_azizov@hotmail.com), January 31, 2000.
    There will be another world after our death.And then God will punish men who had great wealth and didn't gave at least 1/40 of it to the poor people.You can be one of that men.

    -- Tural Azizov (t_azizov@hotmail.com), January 31, 2000.
    Give Your Money to ME!!!!!! If U dont i will come in the night and slay you..UR SOUL IS MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Have a nice day BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!

    -- Bill Gates Prince of Darkness (satan@iAmComingForU.com), February 05, 2000.
    Whatever you choose to do with it. I'm just glad to be able to use a computer, and have so much fun with it. Thank You for all I have learned with microsoft,and in another 100 years I should be pretty good at this. I really do enoy my microsoft products.

    -- Nancy L. Frye (nancee@intrepid.net), February 05, 2000.
    I think Bill Gates should give all his wealth to the draxl corporation this is an a corporation that has it's sites set on total world domination using the sunblocker if you want to know more about this then E-Mail us at draxl-2000@hotmail.com

    -- Hans Draxl (draxl_2000@hotmail.com), February 18, 2000.
    I think Bill gates should do with his money is to help others that want to be like him and be an entreprenuer and make a living with there lives. Also to donate money to schools Such as Falling Creek Middle School in Richmond,Chesterfield. Bill Gates is like A roll model to me some day when i get of age i hope i can be like bill gates financle wise. i hope however reads this agrees with me and try to help others in need.

    -- Brenton Clarke (Quietstorm992@cs.com), February 19, 2000.
    You could donate a little of your wealth to laurent hill acadamy in Quebec. Or you give me a nice sum of 0.0000001%. P.S. Please

    -- noah reboh (n_reboh@hotmail.com), February 21, 2000.
    Dear Mr Gates, 32/03/2000

    I have read alot about your comments and anwers by alot of people around the world and one of the things that really facinates me is your heart of giving. It has taken awhile for me to make up mind whether to ask you for a support grants or not, for a country who is struggling for 'Independence?' This is a third world country of 'West Papua' or Irian Jaya'and is the other half of Papua New Guinea, who is currently ruled by or under the colonial rule of Indonesia, who does not want to give Independence because of the wealth the nation of West Papua holds. Mr Gates, I sympatheze with my people and at presesnt we reside in Papua New Guinea as Refugees and at the same time demanding for our rightful inheritance of our land. Alot of these people died because of this issue and by the hundreds going to the graves, sluaghtered, murdered, raped, tortured and so many cruel behaviours done by this nation of Indonesia.( a muslim nation with no heart for peace but war to kill) I on behalf of our office of 'West Papua New Guinea National Congress' in Port Moresby PNG,- established in April,1996, request these needs for our office and currently operating with only one computer and a printer to serve and dialoge with the outside world for our struggle.

    The present situation lacks support from within this country and with no addequet office equipments like chairs and tables, computers, photo-copy machines fax machine, telephone and so is the progress of achieving our Independence, a very slow progress. The Staff of this office are only supporting with what ever means they have, and to keep the moral of the people up. Mr Gates what are your supports like in helping this organisation who is genuine to see freedom for their Country? Would a hundred thousand dollars (us$100,000.00) would be supportive enough to help this organisation operating? or supply us with office equipments where you see functionable! I would be glad to hear from you and can supply further information about our organisation. I can be contacted on this email address: tobati@hotmail.com or write to P.O.Box 2574.Boroko NCD.Papua New Guinea or fax me on this number: (675) 3201363 Cheers and God bless you in what you are doing....You're Great!

    Yours sicerely Felix Meraudje

    -- Felix.D.Meraudje (tobati@hotmail.com), March 23, 2000.

    Mr. Gates should set up many scholarship foundations for those students who can not afford college!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    -- Satvir Kaur (neuro101usasonia@netscape.net), March 28, 2000.
    i have a vision of a community in Grand Rapids, Mi, where people can live in homes at the cost they can afford. i would ask for money to purshase, improve, and "rent" out homes at the prices that families can afford. This would give them a chance to improve their way of life and help them catch a break in life. Twenty seven million dollars would buy a lot of families homes. i would be happy with one home.

    -- Matthew David Visser (mvisse62@calvin.edu), April 04, 2000.
    Microsoft customers should start a class action suit, country by country and hold Billy boy responsible for continually launching bogus OS's, error ridden MS software, NT (notworking) nightmares to put an end to MS's Ponzi scheme in defrauding its customers. The FTC should also join in by slamming a cease and desist orders on all of MS's present and future attempts of MS's software until the misleading practice to the public has stopped and only bonafide products are released.

    Microsoft should be split up into two companies: Company A's job would be to reimburse all of the customers that were screwed in that they were helping to finance BG's bogus 'ideas of Grandeur' going back at least five years. Cash reimbursements are easily administered by Microsoft using its own product key code (the only segment of MS's software components that really work !)

    Company B must re-engineer and re-design the entire existing product palette (line) to fit the (B)bill

    Carlos Los Reyes

    -- Carlos Los Reyes (layaguara@yahoo.com), April 10, 2000.

    Mr. Gates should contribute 1% of his earnings to me. Me and my boxer "Apollo" would spend it wisely. Giving to charity is great and I admire him for that but why not just drive up and down the roads of America and stop at some poor working joes home and say "Hi, I'm bill gates and here's a million bucks. Have a nice life."

    -- dick ward (phartalator@aol.com), April 10, 2000.
    First I have to commend the Gates family for the 1 billion dollar scholarship that they are planning to give out..wish I was still in High School So I could get one..I personal believe he should do just as he say, give that money away..I mean what can you really do with 90 billion dollars. I mean money is of no object, there nothing we can build that he can't buy, so money is probably an obsolete object..Plus I think he should give all us Computer Engineers a 50,000 stipend for graduating with an engineering degree, I've got a year left and got some loans to pay off lol..

    -- Brian Cuthrell Jr (souledge@udel.edu), April 11, 2000.
    Assuming that his net wealth at this point in time is $83,707,900,000. (I found it on some website somewhere) It wouldn't hurt him to give me .000140966% ($118,000) of his wealth so that I could go to college.

    -- Ryan Poplin (Rpoplin29@hotmail.com), April 15, 2000.
    You earned it, enjoy it, do whatever you think is right,but don't forget, you only have one life to live on this earth and time flies when you're having fun. Don't forget to spend lots of time with your loved ones! Nothing can be more important than that!!!!!!!

    -- Veronica Embry (vembry@bigbear.net), April 18, 2000.
    Few people were there for you when encouragement/support were needed... You and yours had a DREAM/DESIRE/GOAL and succeeded, and our GREED (jumping onto the bandwagon) helped you to achieve your heights.... CUDOS Bill Gates and (true) PARTNERS for your achievements.... Spend your financial gains as you will!!!! beware of the PIRAHNAS!!!!!

    -- (yaqui_51@yahoo.com), April 28, 2000.
    Give it to me. Just kiding No as a matter aof fact there are many young people out there that depend on computors as their only means of communication ,and at the moment a group of my peers are trying to raise money to purchase a unit for a young man who is to attend high school this year. As we have already gone through many of our friends to purchase a unit for another young man it becomes that much more difficult to keep asking the same generous people. We will succeed. I am sure however that there are many more young people out there that needs this service and could use funding to give them that chance that they would not normally have. Thanks for the oppertunity to sound off.

    -- Joe A Davis (uhoh@connect.ab.ca), May 01, 2000.
    I'd really like to see Bill Gates doing something about the famin which is getting worse in Africa.Then when all the people are feed how about giving them an education? Then in perhaps 10-20 years Microsoft will be able to sell computers to Afria. Another suggestion is to build activity centers for the youth of America, this way teens would have other things to do besides going around shooting each other. Whilst your at it why not pour in some money into health care-WORLD WIDE(do you have any idea how cheap it is to vacinate a child for life,and how difficult it is to get proper medication in the third world?), and create more and better schools....This list could go on forever, but I guess you could just open the newspaper yourself and see where your money is needed. I'm sure your good hearted, Bill Gates, but you really need to start distributing even more of your money around. The world needs it!

    -- Sabina Fattah (Sabina_Fatah@hotmail.com), May 02, 2000.
    blablablabla who cares

    -- jhon figo (tatata45@hotmail.com), May 03, 2000.
    Dear Mr Gates

    I hear you are going to donate 95% of your money to needy people. I think you should give your money to NASA or build your own organisation to explore space.One day we will have to leave earth and find another planet to live on.I think giving money to them for research into finding a faster way of space travel..etc would truly help the human race for the long term. And PLEASE Mr Gates, if you read this, please give me some money, not much as much as you can spare,like you i have a business mind but i need money to start,ok, i have some great business ideas,but i need capital,if you ever feel helpful than please, i could use the money for very good smart reasons,THANK YOU, BILLY!!!!.

    -- jacob sanecki (mikoh@iprimus.com.au), May 23, 2000.

    Bill Gates must suppport IT industry & Supporting IT Professional make more Scholarship and create special committees through the internet to do that

    -- Al Sayed shaaban (alsayedcom@yahoo.com), May 30, 2000.
    I think that he should FUCl
    -- john hayes (the_man@AOL.com), May 31, 2000.
    Give it to charity (keep some for yourself). Live a simple life its much better than living in a fishbowl. Money isnt everything and I think he knows that.

    -- (belemjoe@usa.net), June 07, 2000.
    My address is 227-23 114RD, Cambria Heights, NY 11411. I need only $100,000+ to open a day care, so as to create job for me,and others. Yes,in my community there is a great need for day care centers, but no body seems to have the money that it takes to open one. I would certainly appreciated if you send it to me. Indeed, I will try to keep you posted on the progress. Thanks In Advance. As long as the sun is shinning, may your life and family shine. Good luck in all your future endeavors. Thanks a million for using your God giving gifts or talents, it surely benefited our sociey.

    -- wilnie Larosiliere (wlarosili@hejira.hunter.cuny.edu), June 15, 2000.
    My address is 227-23 114RD, Cambria Heights, NY 11411. I need only $100,000+ to open a day care, so as to create job for me,and others. Yes,in my community there is a great need for day care centers, but no body seems to have the money that it takes to open one. I would certainly appreciated if you send it to me. Indeed, I will try to keep you posted on the progress. Thanks In Advance. As long as the sun is shinning, may your life and family shine. Good luck in all your future endeavors. Thanks a million for using your God giving gifts or talents, it surely benefited us.

    -- wilnie Larosiliere (wlarosil@hejira.hunter.cuny.edu), June 15, 2000.
    I think he should do whatever the hell he wants with it. I wouldn't want any of these idiots telling me what to do with my $$$$$$$$$$

    -- HUSH (evil1@access1.net), June 17, 2000.
    it's his money and he has the right to do whatever with it. I advise he gives 20% to poor african children with no opportunity and God will really bless him more. AMEN.

    -- uro oscar (uroscar@hyperia.net), June 28, 2000.
    Keep it safe as I'm coming soon, to be the richest man.

    -- mohit saraogi (mohit_s21@hotmail.com), July 03, 2000.
    What is the point in having a page like this? Bill Gates has guided Microsoft since its creation..... now Microsoft is one of the largest and certainly the most successful companies in history! do you really think that he needs our guidance? He knows what he's doing!

    Bill Gates is a remarkable man and I am sure that whatever he does with his wealth it will be in all of our best interests.

    -- David Stockdale (DWStock123@aol.com), July 03, 2000.

    I think Mr. Gates should enjpy his wealth. I don't see Coke or Pepsi or Nike having to split their companies. Mr. & Mrs. gates created and invested time and money. YES, it is theirs to spend. All you people out there whom think they should have a cut in it, ask yourselves if coke or pepsi are giving you anything?? They made a company, I am sure they have both spent more time, money and energy in it, now every one wants a cut. So all the people out there that think he should give it up or split in in half, would you be saying this if it were your money, brains and time in this?? I don't think so. Leave these people alone and get on with life, it is short. By the way, we own our own company also, we have put too many hours in to count, spent too much money on equipment, and have a very nice company. It certainly isn't Micro soft, but I don't want to have to give ours up or split it in half. Shame on the people who don't have any thing better to do with their time, hey, here's a thought, create a company, see how hard it is. Then maybe you will understand how they feel.

    -- hopeful (mol@nwlink.com), July 06, 2000.
    Mr Gates you are a kind hearted man because you have contribute more to humanity and community deeds than any other wealty man in this decade.My wife dream is to operate a center for runaway and abused girls and to help others that are lest fortune and need help. Mr gates even if you never give me a dine I would still speak highly of you because your record speaks for it self.By chance if we are chosen $400.000 would greatly, greatly appreciated and used for a good cause.

    -- Bruce Ferguson (bferg32955@yahoo.com), July 31, 2000.
    mr bill gates being a very,very,very kind hearted man should spend his wealth by giving it in charity and stuff like that. and above all he should call me to (usa) on his expense because i want that i should study more about computer's. and i want to learn more and more. so mr bill gates i am sure that you will agree to what i have written to u. your's sincerly. fuad shah

    -- Fuad Shah (fuadshah@hotmail.com), August 05, 2000.
    I Think Bill should "loan" me $150.000 to Start a Music Studio In His Name. music is my passion and i cant get no help. and I think He should run for President. he made it in buseness he might make it in politics.i think he should donate money on new technolgies and the space program. to better mankind. and making the internet a free accesss open domain a nuteral teritory i dont think you should have to pay for cyberspace access it's not physical like land and you have to pay to use it or rent it you know what im saying. i think in the next 5 years 90% of the peaple will realy on the internet.

    -- David Verbanac (Restacess@Aol.com), August 22, 2000.
    He should retire from his crazy job and should get wicked pissed everyday. He should spend more money on drugs, women, and super hudge parties. Basically he should paint the town red every single day untill that gets old, and then move on. Also Bill should keep all of his money to himself. Maybe take up rolling around in it. Just love your money Bill. Keep on squashing the little people!!!

    -- DRD (bugzzy@hotmail.com), August 25, 2000.
    He should give it all to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my address is 20 verdi glen st clair, 2759, nsw Austrlia Make the cheque out to Mr Balov

    -- BB (bbalov@hotmail.com), August 28, 2000.
    He should spend his money on making a mad porn movie, he should star with Britney Spears!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!=D

    -- DHFR (pornstar@mail.com), August 28, 2000.
    He should spend his money on a penis enlargement, because everybody knows bill's got a small pecker!!!!

    -- DHFR (pornstar@mail.com), August 28, 2000.
    this will sound old, but i'll still say it, GIVE IT TO ME, AT LEAST 15% OF IT AND WATCH ME DO WONDERS WITH IT HERE IN AFRICA.

    -- IBRAHIM ZUBAIRU (zubairu@excite.com), August 29, 2000.
    I think that Mr. Gates should spend some of his money to help out millions of the needy that were not as fortunate as him, and then maybe he would feel that he did not just come to this world, but did something for it.

    -- Danai Singh (danaisingh@hotmail.com), September 15, 2000.
    I think that Mr. Gates should pay off the National Debt. That way, taxes will go down and people like myself can afford to live.

    -- N.T. (Nted360966@aol.com), October 03, 2000.
    I think that Bill Gates- the smartest, nicest, and coolest man on the planet, should send $50,000 to me so that I can buy the offroading machine I've been wanting for the past three years. But hey, should we really be telling him what to do with his money?

    -- Allen Saunders (OFFRoaderAl@hotmail.com), October 03, 2000.
    i think THAT BILL SHOULD SPONSER ME AND PAY FOR MY COLLEGE EDUCATION. YES I AM A MINORITY, MY MOM IS A SINGLE PARENT AND WE ARE MAKING BY A STRING. MY MOM WORKS SO HARD I HARDLY SEE HER. SO MR BILL GATES IF YOU DO GET THIS MESSAGE PLEASE WRITE ME BACK, SO WE CAN SHARE MORE DETAILS. SINCERELY DEANA-RAE

    -- deanarae brown (deanaraeb@yahoo.com), October 09, 2000.
    i think THAT BILL SHOULD SPONSER ME AND PAY FOR MY COLLEGE EDUCATION. YES I AM A MINORITY, MY MOM IS A SINGLE PARENT AND WE ARE MAKING BY A STRING. MY MOM WORKS SO HARD I HARDLY SEE HER. SO MR BILL GATES IF YOU DO GET THIS MESSAGE PLEASE WRITE ME BACK, SO WE CAN SHARE MORE DETAILS. SINCERELY DEANA-RAE 10/9/00

    -- deanarae brown (deanaraeb@yahoo.com), October 09, 2000.
    It's his money, he should do whatever the hell he wants with it. I think Gates knows best what to do with his fortune. However, if it were my fortune, I would spend it on women and beer and spend the rest foolishly.

    -- Fred Stratton (festratton@home.com), October 15, 2000.
    Before he does anything to it, 10% should go to the church... after all, God is the one who gave it to him. Then, he might want to consider sending me to college and hiring me because I am an awesome programmer who needs an education and a job.

    -- Jerry Burris III (ideal_softworks@hotmail.com), October 24, 2000.
    I think he should give to rae some mony and the same to me, because i want to see how is it to have mony.I want the mony because I don't want to depend anymore of this world, the material world.Why me? Because I now what to do with them.I choise the LIFE!

    -- bulc ionut ovidiu (yzonepersonal@yahoo.com), October 24, 2000.
    I think he should give me some mony to explore this material world. I don't need so much mony let's say a million dollars.And after this expereance I will publish a book about "meaning of LIFE"

    BULC

    -- bulc ovidiu (yzonepersonal@yahoo.com), October 24, 2000.

    Everybody should stop trying to spend Bill Gates' money for him. He earned it. He took a risk by dropping out of Harvard to start a business, and he's obviously done a good job. How would you like it if everyone told you how to spend your money? Let the poor (poor as in picked on) man make is own decisions.

    -- Grover (flyernet@in.freei.net), October 26, 2000.
    If Napoleaon was Bill's childhood inspiration, he's got some more work to do. So far he's on track as the richest man on Earth, but not the most powerful. To get to the next level, he should work with the russian mafia, gets his own private army, and above all, nuclear war heads. Ultimately he should think about having his own legitimate Nation state, and hold the US hostage to Microsoft with his Windows trojan horses, backdoors and time bombs. If it fails, he'll still be able to declare global thermonuclear war, and not just be cast aside on his Island like Napoleon.

    -- John Takaki (john@gomigomi.com), October 26, 2000.
    I think he should help some needy people who are now living in some vilages in Ghana to suport their childrens education. and some money for them to live on etc

    -- abdul samadu seidu (sam2@gppo.africaonline.com.gh), October 27, 2000.
    The man should enjoy his money... I picture him actually living a very boring life.... Enjoy! Retire as CEO of Microsoft, spend the rest of your life travelling, staying at the best hotels, eating the best food, going to the most exotic places... And whatever's left by the end of his life just give it to a cause he believes in. That's it!

    -- Changhee Hahn (changhee516@yahoo.com), October 27, 2000.
    educate people on The Truth. Creation, Adam & Eve, The Curse, Noah's Flood, Jesus Christ. All true Success comes from God and his Word to us.

    -- Richard (rlmpjmgrm@aol.com), November 09, 2000.
    Bill, IF YOUR'E REALLY SINCERE IN HELPING PEOPLE THEN HELP ME ACHIEVE MY DREAM IN HAVING MY OWN COMPUTER SHOP HERE IN OUR MOUNTAIN HAVEN- CORDILLERA ,PHILIPPINES. IT WOULD BE A BIG HELP TO ME AND MY FAMILY! BEING POOR IS HARD WHILE BILL IS RICH. SIGH...

    -- dean michael t. cuanso (Humarri@yahoo.com), November 13, 2000.
    Regarding an article "Difficult Destinations" published in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on Sunday, October 8, 2000. The people of Romania remain in the hearts of all who visit. For those who have not visited the country, the concept that is formed is from the pictures of the orphanages depicted in the media. Strangely enough, traveling to Romania last week I chanced to chat with some folks on a transfer bus in New York. Although my husband and I are 65 and 62 years of age, the question was asked of us "Are you going to Romania to adopt a child?" Perhaps it is the primary reason to visit Romania?

    Since the execution of Ceaucescu in 1989, not much has changed in the country. The roads are still very bad in most areas, the villages still function as they did 11 years ago. The general populace cannot afford to eat at McDonalds. There was not a Marshall Plan in place to change the infrastructure of most countries recovering from communism - and so, there being no exposure to Western ways, i.e., secure banking institutions, purchase without "graft", trust, etc., there has been no recovery in those areas.

    The orphaned children of 11 years ago have grown up and many live on the streets. Babies are still abandoned in hospitals and streets because their parents can just barely afford to feed themselves. Where there has been no intervention by churches and western influences, old ways still exist.

    In 1995, my husband and I met many young pastors (twenty-somethings) at the seminary in Cluj/Napoca/Kolosovar, Transylvania. These wonderful young men and women know English (along with Hungarian, Romanian, German, etc.), and as we have visited them in subsequent years, they tell us of their work in the villages. Most villages are without electricity or telephone lines (imagine a twenty-something without a telephone, computer, or internet access, although most of these young people know the technology from university experiences in the city). Many of the churches they serve are still in horrific condition from communist years - the roofs and furniture have been stolen for firewood - there is no money for purchase of repair supplies.

    In 1998, we brought one of the pastors, Kovacs Lorinc, to America. He had flunked the Toefl exam (English language) required for entry to seminary in the USA, so we asked him just to get a tourist visa and visit us for a few months to learn some financial management and some ways of democracy, etc. We thought he might be able to take some skills back to Romania to help his people.

    By some miracle, when we took him to visit the Pittsburgh seminary, the dean said his English was adequate - he could enroll in the graduate program there immediately. We were delighted, and asked the seminary to begin process for change from a tourist visa to a student visa. Lorinc was able to stay long enough (10 months) to get his graduate degree from the seminary. It is a long story, but in the ways of the Bucharest USA Embassy, they have banned Lorinc from ever entering the USA again, citing that his immediate acceptance at the seminary meant that he deceived them by applying for a tourist visa - not a student visa. Sounds more like the Romanian Embassy - but it is the USA embassy. Lorinc is banned from the USA.

    My husband and I are board members of a foundation in Romania which Lorinc manages. This includes a building to house the elderly (who cares about them?), a wing for orphaned children, a feeding station for the street children, some modern tourist rooms, and medical care for all. We have made inquiries about the medical system (there are doctors researching leukemia who would benefit from association with other leukemia researchers. Hungary has an excellent medical system - but it takes a person with some expertise to set up the exchanges due to ethnic differences). There have been some persons from other nations sending in medical teams to improve the system.

    Graft and deception are the main barriers to improvement of the infrastructure. The roads that were under construction when we visited several years ago have barely progressed, except in the major cities of Bucharest and Cluj/Napoca/Kolosovar. The trains run very well and we see some tourist buses at the hotels. We discovered the "Carpat Airlines", a new private venture airline which flies from Budapest to Cluj/Napoca/Kolosovar. It is clean, new, and a pleasant experience. The state run "Tarom" airline which travels across country originating in Bucharest, is a bit of a challenge to the spirit.

    Transylvania is a beautiful country nestled in the Carpathian mountains and will someday lose it's reputation as a "Difficult Destination." It is hoped that as this country is "discovered", there will be some others who catch the spirit of helping this country recover. In this case we paraphrase "it takes a village" to "let's help the village." Technology is also needed here. Can Bill Gates help?

    Jessica D. Flynn e-mail: castletraz@aol.com



    -- Jessica Flynn (castletraz@aol.com), November 14, 2000.

    Dear Mr. Gates, I am a correctional officer working for the State of Washington. I have been an active worker since I was 16 years of age. I am now 39 years old. I have always been in the lower middle class range of annual salaries. On top of this I served 12 years in the military. I do know the meaning of stretching the dollar to make ends meet. Paycheck to paycheck. I rarely call in sick and I can't remember my last vacation. My wife and I both survived seperate divorces and as a result survived a bancruptcy in 1994. We re- established credit several times over. We are soon to be cleared of that horrendous blow to our credit rating. Now, just as a result of our car breaking down and a cascading line of "nsf's" caused by a creditor's "error" while trying to remit a payment. We once again are looking at possible bancruptcy. Just because we make JUST ENOUGH MONEY (net) to survive paycheck to paycheck and was _not prepared_ for these events to happen financially. It's not fair that We as "common citizen's" must endure such financial hardships while the "clientele" that I supervise in prison, can rely on our gov't to hand them over up to $300,000 in support simply because they have become "disadvantaged" because of they're incarceration. I have worked and paid my taxes annually, and feel that I definately deserve a break. I am not asking for much, just for the debt (that my wife and I have accumulated simply by trying to live average lifestyles.) to be lifted off of our shoulders. Since there is a lot of inequality in the world where finances are concerned. I feel that the lower middle class workers need a break. We make too much money to gain on the programs designed to help lower class income people. (Most of them are riding the welfare system anyway) But DO NOT QUALIFY for any programs because we don't make enough money. We pay the highest amount of taxes and receive the littlest amount of financial support. Where sir is our incentive to try harder to prosper when we are making just enough to eke out a life and teetering on the brink of financial ruin because the money we bring home is just not enough to stave off the cost of living. Case in point, my wife and I both are still working trying to keep afloat. I work sometimes 24 to 36 hours of overtime in addition to my regular work week of 40 plus hours per week. however I must keep plugging along to make the budget work. I have looked into stocks and bonds but without up front capital it became a pipe dream, waiting for that good year when the income was better than the debt and of course the big tax refund at the end of the year. My wife also exceeds her expectations from her supervisors. She is an outstanding office worker/supervisor in her own right. She types 110 wpms and completes whole projects on an executive level at 1/3rd of the normal time expected. I being a prison guard, only have to supervise and monitor inmate behaviour. A long, tedious process I assure you. Keeping our community safe from the very "clientele" afore-mentioned earlier who have tried to usurp the system illegally. Our debt is mostly the House, 2 Cars, 2 outstanding credit cards, and a 2nd mortgage.. The only recreation expenses have been movies when we had an extra 20 dollars or dinner at a restaurant. To summarize; There are good people like me, who work very hard for a living but cannot get a financial break. Perhaps you could set up some kind of a program to help the lower/middle class workers to help them stave off debt that we sometimes cannot help accumulate and or affordable programs to help us earn our nest egg. ie affordable investment programs to help us live more securely financially. I don't know if you personally will read this but I want you (your designee's) to know that personally I don't hate you for your fortune, you worked hard for where you are at. I would just like a "hand up" so my familiy's life can flourish as well. Thank you sir, for your time Deen W. Hanson

    slpwlkur@aol.com

    -- D.W. Hanson (slpwlkur@aol.com), November 16, 2000.

    I think he should adopt me so i can become his loving son and then decide to pass down his business and wealth to me.

    I lOVE YOU DAD aka bill gates

    -- Russ Kolodenker (xrustyx09@yahoo.com), November 17, 2000.

    well i think that bill gates should do some good think with his wealth such as : 1) donate his money for the poor. so that they can buy a computer and they will learn how generous mr.Gates realy is and they will be part of this edge of technology . 2) give scholarship to any AA student esspecially the one who is real good in computer studies .who knows may be he or she can help mr gates with his company . may the microsoft be the only company that has the best knowledge about sofware . 3) mr gates can also adopt some children and gave them pocket money monthly . this will reduce the risk of his children to be kidnap for ransom . u know i always wanted to know how does the life being bill gates son . if i had a wish i would wish to be bill gates son . just for one day is enough for me. I WISH TO BE A "ONE DAY BEING GILL GATES' SON"

    4) should he open a company in a poorer country .

    i wish that mr gates will be in good health and be more richer than before ,ten times more money than now

    -- tommy bunsu (devilish@satannet.net), November 18, 2000.

    i think he should daily give his entire day's income to teenagers like me. we can do any thing with it....

    and I PERSONALLY WILL GIVE HIM A LEAVE ON SUNDAY ON WHICH NO ONE WOULD TAKE HIS MONEY.....

    -- ankur b (its_ankur@hotmail.com), November 19, 2000.

    miels power ryguy jones

    -- (ryanditchfield@home.com), November 19, 2000.
    He should do whatever he want's with it!

    -- Gene G (Wolfy1@optushome.com.au), November 22, 2000.
    How would yould like some government agency dictating how you should spend your money? Well, if you're one of those unfortunate socialists who think that we need more government and more government controls on your life you might get your wish. Leave the man alone. Capitalism is what made this country the greatest nation on earth. It's easy to spend someone else's money. It's not so easy to let others spend yours though is it?

    -- Willie Grubbs (wgrubbs1@yahoo.com), November 25, 2000.
    I am trying to recover my daughter from dynamic progressive hearing loss,for which there is no any proven procedure and hence searching remedy for it.At present her hearing loss is about115 decibles. Mr.Bill Gate is the owner of HIS wealth and he has the right to decide about it, but to support health,education and to promote equality in many aspect of life throught the world will be the NATURAL choice.To save my daughter is one of them

    -- Sharad Deshmukh (sharaddeshmukh@yahoo.com), November 26, 2000.
    I personally believe that Bill Gates is selfish and a money grabbing person who does not want anyone to have the part of his fortune. I have asked for money to help me to me out of my personal financial problems and his representative/secretary has seen the word every letter that I have written to him.

    I have asked for money to help others who are in my situation in an disabled, and he only gives his money to "organizations" not to personal people who could use the money for their own problems.

    If this is his way of giving back to the poor, who actually be the money, more than he does, then I think that he has no right to become a billionaire.

    -- Ronald B. Edwards (rojoedw@mcleodusa.net), November 26, 2000.

    He should give it to me.

    -- John Ray Smith (Dragon_S47@hotmail.com), December 01, 2000.
    FOOLS!!!!

    I think he should expand his business into other sectors of the economy, having worked hard for his money i believe he deserves control of the entire business sector. Hell why not the entire country.

    Wither way you stupid yanks are being controlled!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I support him 100%

    -- Cant tell dat (Amackenzie@usa.net), December 04, 2000.

    I am too late to give him idea what he should do with his money beside he alrady found out the answer. If I get chance to see Gate I will look in his eyes and I will say Bill! thank you for what ever you do for the world children and disadvantaged people.

    -- Yonas Buraka (Burayo@wwc.edu), December 06, 2000.
    hello I know that you hove so much money why dont you give people money is they are poor. If you see a person walking around why dont you give a little. Thank you for you time

    -- Norma korn (Normakcolabear@aol.com), December 06, 2000.
    Can anyone give me some exact stats on what percent of BG's income has been donated to charity say in 1998, 1999?

    -- Ben"Jammin" (bens@skwwc.com), December 06, 2000.
    Mr. and Mrs. Gates, I saw the documentary that aired last night about your humanitarian efforts and I believe you must be truly good and sincere of heart. I have read most of the comments that people have made and am in disbelief that people can be so cruel and disrepectful. I realize that you can give away alot and still have plenty and you are doing that. I was so happy and surprised to see that you went to India and helped immunize the children for Polio prevention. I am myself a victim of that dreaded disease and its after effects of Post Plio Syndrome. I had Polio at age three in l946 and now I am disabled at age fifty-seven from the after effects which leave you with chronic fatigue and skeletal and muscular weakness and much pain. I would implore you both from the heart, to begin to help individuals who are worthy, as well as organizations. It is common knowledge that most of the money given to large organizations never reach the people for it is used in the management and never dispensed to but a select few. I plead with your heart of compassion to pray and think about this, as you must be God fearing people or you would not consider the poor and needy at all. Jesus Christ, our supreme example, ministered to several thousand at a time, but, his day to day works of humanity performed, was to individuals, with which he took personal time and care for each, though they were very diverse one from the other. I too, have attempted to contact your office, just as I am today, but, without any return response. I believe you are good and sincere people and do pray you will reconsider helping individuals such as myself with software and special helps and grants for continued education in some field of endeavor which could help us increase our income to a place where we could live. Disability is not nearly sufficent to live. Some people want a handout with no responsibility and then there are others who by reason of tradgedys in their lives have fallen into a needy place, yet, they want to do better, please help them too. But, whatever you decide, God Bless you for what you are doing and will do. If there were more like you, human suffering would be destroyed. Thank you for caring.....

    -- jane Mills (janemcduffee@yahoo.com), December 06, 2000.
    i believe mr. gates should and will do whatever he wants to with HIS money , hes the one that was smart enough to put it all together so theres no doubt hes smart enough to do anything he wishes to do with it , and should not be hassled in the process

    -- stephen rakoci (prpltrk@pdai.com), December 07, 2000.
    hi Bill i beleive that you are rich because you earned all of the money by inventing windows and all that. you could possibly donate some more money to every big countries like australia, greece (etc) i also would like to get your own personal email address if possible and best wishes to you and your family for christmas! Trent

    -- Trent hansen (Trhansen@aol.com), December 10, 2000.
    Dear Bill, There are so many people out there with thousands of sweet dreams. I am gleafully talking to you about the best way of donating our money to make these dreams become true in december 10th, 2010. By that time I'll be 32 years old. Now I don't know where you can spend your money but then I'll help you. Don't forget my name!

    -- Amin Assadi (aminasadi@hotmail.com), December 11, 2000.
    Organise more R&D for Humanoid activities.

    -- Andrew Lee (yewlc@2bsure.com), December 12, 2000.
    I think Bill Gates should buy 1 million Ferraris, and use them as a stress toy. SMASH THEM WITH A BASEBALL BAT!!!! Or just take up smoking Cigars so that you can light them with burning 10000 dollar bills.

    -- The Man (skorr@hotmail.com), December 12, 2000.
    I think he should invest all his money into drugs and then begin selling

    -- James (smokedogg__420@hotmail.com), December 14, 2000.
    I think Bill gates should hired a hitman 2 kill all dose muthafucker who been asking for his money den do any fucking thing he wants 2.

    -- Joemarkatima J. Bynmunm (Ljbster@hotmail.com), December 15, 2000.
    I cannot believe some of the things I have read on this page. Who am I to offer any advice to Mr Gates regarding disbursement of his wealth? I believe that if he is burdened with that type of wealth, he probably has the maturity and the methods to disburse the funds responsibly. I certaily wish him luck and protection from "leeches".

    -- Abbas Naqvi (abbas786@hotmail.com), December 17, 2000.
    I think Bill Gates should save a few million for himself and help out his family, then burn it all in public. Or he could have hundreds of planes to drop it all from thousands of feet up. possibly Donate it all to the animals to get them a good education so they can take over the world.

    -- Mike (Ollie4Dekz@aol.com), December 19, 2000.
    I think Bill Gates should help out less fortunate people (maybe $2 billion) and then give me a little bit of money, so I can invest it and make the money like he has. OR, HE CAN GIVE IT ALL TO ME!!!!

    -- Rodney Lucas (rod_lucas@yahoo.com), December 19, 2000.
    Bill gates should spend all his money on socks, and everyday he should wear twice as many socks as the day before: so he starts off wearing 1 pair of socks ,then the next day 2 pairs, then 4 pairs, then 8 pairs, then 16 pairs....etc. All at the same time so his feet get really hot and after a week or 2 - the ridiculous number of layers on his feet would make his feet look really big and that would be funny. And after a few weeks it would start to get really heavey so walking would become difficult. LOL. That would be crazy!. Will any of you be my friend?

    -- Dr Baboon arse (X@foges.zzn.com), December 21, 2000.
    I just spent about $250 more dollars on my family and friends this Christmas than I anticipated. Sometimes I just can't help getting them things they'll really enjoy and remember. I also under estemated the shipping costs now that I live out of state from all of them. The problem is that I planned to buy a mountain bike for myself. I've waited many years and feel I deserve it, but now I'm about $200 short. Bill can help me get my Christmas wish if he'd like. I work hard, just don't have the midas touch.

    Mr. Mitchell

    -- Mr. Mitchell (ladytor@earthlink.net), December 21, 2000.

    Dear Mr. Gates, I don't know of any other way to get this message to you? I am a K-5 behavior disorder teacher in a small rural town in Iowa. I am trying to raise funds to implement an alternative center that would provide appropriate education for K-12 students that just aren't making it in the public school setting. Most of these kids just happen to be computer wizards and we would appreciate it if we could inherit a few computers to be donated to our new building. My plan is to obtain as many free things as possible so the community will accept the expense of this program (building, materials, teachers, etc) easier. Thank you.

    -- Tara Surprenant (tsurprenant@harlan.k12.ia.us), December 22, 2000.
    Hey, this is more for Melissa Rogers than anyone else, including Mr. gates. Is this the same Melissa rogers that entered in that big Spelling Bee tournament in Washington? Just wandering.... anyway, Mr. gates, I live in Niagar Falls ON, I'm in gr. 11, 16 yrs old. i am in the process of getting a baseball scholorship to teh states, just wanted to know if you like baseball, and if you want to help out....don't worry about it, just wanted to know if you like the game at all.

    -- Francis Ambrosia (deuces_wilder@hotmail.com), December 22, 2000.
    I think he should sell kt for the rest of his life I mean he is so rich. but this is a kid talking here and of course kids don't usally like to work. but you do whatever you want. please e-mail me back if you can you

    -- richard max azzopardi (maxa17@home.com), December 23, 2000.
    i think he should sell or retire his job and just spend the rest of his money. please e-mail me and i will tell more

    -- richard max azzopardi (maxa17@home.com), December 23, 2000.
    I thing Bill Gates is a very weathy man. I think he should think a little bit more about his surroundings and who is saying what about him, I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of companys that would want to buy hiss company. I knwo he likes to work but he has a lot of wealth and he can live off of what he already has. He could give everyone in the world $12 because he has about 75 bill. He should do something more academic with sports and spending time with his family. Now im not so sure about this life for him but its the way a lot of people whould like to live and he sould just RETIRE!!!!!!!

    -- Richared Max Azzopardi (artyboy1234@aol.com), December 23, 2000.
    Leave the guy alone! In my opinion he's done a great job! Why don't you guys try to do something he did. He started from scratch & is the richest guy in the world now... do that! OK?

    -- Safir Jamil (safir_j@yahoo.com.au), December 23, 2000.
    Dear Mr. Gates, This probably sounds like all the letters that you get but I thought that I would give it a try anyways. I am a college student trying very hard. I work two jobs one is at a hospital and the other is as a waitress. I have had a lot of bills adding up and and having a rough time with my family. It's my fault that these bills added up, I will admit that. You just honestly have so much money and no matter what I do I just can't seem to get ahead, I have been kinda tempted to quit school to that I can work but I am really afraid to quit because I don't want to end up still working where I am at now. I am going to have to get a third job after New Years but I wanted to know if there is ANY way possible that you could help me out a little bit, it's really not that much amount of money but since I don't know for sure who is going to read this if you would e-mail me and I could e-mail you back with all my information. You really don't know how much this would me to.

    Thank You for you time. Sincerely, Annie Larsen

    -- Annie Larsen (akl4645@hotmail.com), December 26, 2000.

    I think he should help the less fortunate especially those who struggle to earn a living and setting up a family. Imagine he can spread happiness to others by helping others. And others would in turn help those less fortunate and so on and so forth.. isn't it a great way to spread happiness.

    -- Rain (rainjohn@yahoo.com), December 27, 2000.
    Mr Gates earned his money just like the rest of us do.the only thing that makes him any differant he is very smart,and applied himself.As for as the rest of us, welcome to the human race.And as for as his money.Well he cant take it with.Now can he.His friends and family will fight over his last penny.And if he does give it all away befor he dies,What ever he does with it will be a well thought out thing.Give the man credit. Thank you, Kevin Climer.

    -- Kevin Climer (txblueys46@aol.com), December 30, 2000.
    I have to say just one more thing and i will shut up.People that write to this site begging for money,Sit up and i will throw you a bone,becouse my cuberd is as bear as yours.Stop acting like dogs.If any one of us had any were close to his kind of money we each would do someyhing differant.So just give the man credit.And stop begging! Good luck in all yall do and good health to you all.

    -- Kevin Climer (txblueyes46@aol.com), December 30, 2000.
    PERSONALLY, I THINK THAT BILL SHOULD DO WHATEVER HE WANTS TO DO WIH "HIS" MONEY, WETHER ITS ADDING MORE TO HIS HOUSE OR USING IT TO WIPE HIS A$$. HE OWES THE WORLD NOTHING, HIS DUES ARE PAID.

    -- JAMES CERELL HAWKINS (SPLIFF_2GS@YAHOO.COM), December 31, 2000.
    Perhaps he could spend his money making good software, or failing that give it to me!

    -- Richard James (richard@music-stuff.net), January 04, 2001.
    Buy us all porn subsciptions.

    -- :-) (Icantremember@nimrod.com), January 04, 2001.
    Bill, Have you ever got stressed cause you have alot of money,same here but depressed.You made it to where you wanted to be,and I was wondering if you could write me an email back to try and lead me into a future to get to be someone who could be talented in your field.I want to show my son the world,but I can't do that unless I can get some advice.Thank You George

    -- George deMedeiros (GeorgedeMedeiros@yahoo.com), January 05, 2001.
    hey bill gates, suck my fuck1n d1ck!!!!!!!!!!!

    -- fred durst (freddurst@yahoo.com), January 05, 2001.
    Listen up Bill cause I'm only gonna say this once... Create jobs in this country. Give a man a fish you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime. And hit some of the charities while your at it.

    -- Daniel c Micalizzi (Micalizzids@cs.com), January 08, 2001.
    HE SHOULD GIVE ALL OF HIS MONEY TO ME OHEY I LOOO

    -- lo lo (ike@aol.com), January 08, 2001.
    Certainly Bill Gates has worked hard for his money and has the right to do with it as he pleases. If I were in his position however, I would start a national foundation to fund long term drug treatment centers which would include lifestyle education. Illegal drugs and the totally ineffective way this country has chosen to deal with them has created a very large and growing subculture of drug addicted criminals who have no idea how to function in main stram society.

    That of course would be a long term goal, but right now I would very much appreciate it if Mr. Gates could help me. I need a $50,000. miracle very quickly to pay back property taxes, get a new roof on my house and stop foreclosure proceedings on my home. I lost a good job about 5 years ago and have been strugling to keep my head above water ever since. I don't have frivolous debt. I live a very conservative lifestyle but I have gotten behind so far that I just can't catch up. If you could help me I would be eternally grateful.

    May God forever bless you and guide you in the best use of the you have been blessed with.

    Most Sincerely, Merdis E. Hill

    -- Merdis E. Hill (meremil@aol.com), January 09, 2001.

    Mr. Gates should donate money to the poorer school districts so that they can purchase updated books. He could set up computer learning centers in the inner cities with continuous funding so that all students will have the opportunity to get the practical experience in world of technology. Mr. Gates could also provide schools with financial assistance through grants for various educational programs.

    -- DOROTHY BRUNDIDGE (DBRUNDIDGE@NFSD.NET), January 09, 2001.
    Mr. Gates, It is not really up to us to decide but since this question has been asked we'll try our best to answer. There is an ever growing unfortanate thing happening to man; Greed. Not to advance man, not to do what he likes, but to suceed more than anyone else, to have more than the next person, the latest gizmo's gadgets; useless junk, gadgets, etc. The motto; if you're rich and you can afford it, somebody will make it. I personally think you that you should burn the money, to some it seems like a waste but burn it; commit a statement, show the world that money isn't everything. Thank you for your time.

    -- Aaron (shadoc_ikar@telusplanet.net), January 11, 2001.
    It is very simple and very obvious what he sould do with it. Not give it to people who beg. Mr. Gates was an extremly intelligent man, and now he doesn't have to think at all he has people to do it for him. HE EARNED IT!!! Yes he has more money then he nows what to do with, but don't trouble him with asking for small claims to benifit just you, start an orginazation for the same cause as your's. Money should go to the people who work to earn it, who make it a set goal to acheive the finacial wealth they deserve, because with enough work the money will come! Oh, and Mr. Gates... can I have $5,000 dollars, my band needs new amps!

    Kurt age 15

    -- Kurt (Peavrat_1999@yahoo.com), January 13, 2001.

    Help out those that have a real need...... Homeless shelters, soup kitchens, cell-phones for search and rescue..... Fire equipment for the big forest fires...The disabled that are poor. abused women and children..... Mayo Clinic and research for childhood illnesses.... I'm disabled and need assistance and would be glad to give any help to the assistance of setting up a soup kitchen for the hungery.. without compensation to myself. Get out there across America and help!!! I will volenteer for what I can, as will thousands of others.

    -- Bryan Boyden (hotrose@wazoo.com), January 15, 2001.
    I think bill gates should do what ever he wants to do with his wealth. IT would be nice and joyfull if bill sent a NICE CASH donatation to Reverend Mark Steven Nicoll at PO Box 1120 Pahoa Hawaii zip 96778 Please help Aloha Reverend Mark Steven Nicoll

    -- Reverend Mark Steven Nicoll (nicollm@juno.com), January 15, 2001.
    Hi Bill, I think that you are very intellence about your programmer of computer. What I learned that you were having difficult time to face the trial from government against you. I hope you would get better soon. My name is Tim Connolly and I am deaf. My deaf wife is disabled from health problems. I have two jobs in about 20 years that I am working very hard to buy a new home and a van for my wife who might become handicapped probably. I cannot afford to pay off the rest of the bills including medical bills. I also cannot afford them because the prices would too high and keep climb up that I cannot catch up to buy. My salaries get always small raises per year. So I try to work so hard to be like you but I have some limits on my education. I hope that you can help us on our situations. Only I need (but NOT WANT) about Max up to $120,000.00 for new home (handicapped needs)and about max up to $20,000.00 for new handicapped and that is all. So it's up to you that you could help me to pay my debts include medical bill about least $50,000.00. Believe me that I am not try to advantage your money. All those plans that I could have no choices. If you have any questions about us or need to know about us to prove who we are then I will happy to send you more information, please send eamil to timjimcon@hotmail.com or LynnTrucky@aol.com. I will give our address later after you would send the email to us. Thank you for your concerns Sincerely, Tim Connolly PS My wife and I will going to 19th anniversary on May 1st. My wife and I supposed to have our first honeymoon to Hawaii but never happens. We hope that we would like to go to Hawaii someday.

    -- Tim Connolly (timjimcon@hotmail.com), January 17, 2001.
    Since everyone is aking Mr. Gates for help I will too. Mr. Gates I lost my job becuase it got moved to Mexico, I come from a poor family. My mother is older 67 and has to work to make ends meet. I would like just enough to invest in a CD or Money Market Fund and live of the interest and help out Ma. I figure I would need at least $150,000-$200,000. Thanks,

    -- Kel Rutkowski (kjr@avci.net), January 17, 2001.
    I think Bill Gates should give me fifty-percent of his wealth after taxes are taken out. Otherwise he should burn it.

    -- Harley Smith (har112@hotmail.com), January 19, 2001.
    Promoting global communication is wonderful and if he wants to communicate with poor countries in the future I think he should also spend money to SAVE LIVES NOW by using his influence to RELIEVE THEIR DEBT through moral media campaigns that also educate people about diseases such as aids and about the commitment of the worlds elite to respecting one amazing human race that can create a peaceful world where everyone has healthy food and water and comfortable clothes and shelter by respecting Mother Earth and taking from her in a sustainable way that will ensure a diverse lively world for our children IN THE FUTURE where religions will accept a biological understanding where all living beings are family related through DNA and our children identify themselves first and foremost as loving human beings.

    -- Richard Lightner (richlight@go.com), January 19, 2001.
    I think Bill Gates should give much of his money to charity- which he does. But I think he should save and spend a lot of it too. Is it selfish to keep the money for yourself? No! After all, who worked and earned it? He did! So get off the geniuses case about keeping his money because if not for him, half of you wouldn't even be able to use computers, much less have one!

    -- J. S. (thebewdotcom@yahoo.com), January 21, 2001.
    I think different. I really think that Bill Gates can suck my fuckin cock. And he would be pretty good at it, what do you say Bill fuckin HOMO.

    -- Bob Homosexual (homobob@home.com), January 24, 2001.
    I think you should do something that helps children. Most adults are where they are at, because they put themselves there. Children have no choice and cant help it if they are broke, sick, abused, uneducated, homeless, etc. I am sure you will do the right thing.

    Thanks, M.A.N.

    -- M.A.N. (rerat@internetcds.com), January 25, 2001.

    It is very sad reading the responses given by most people. They are selfishly asking for money that they do not deserve. If you live in the United States you should not complain. Even a bum in the streets of San Francisco has it better off than 75% of the worlds population. Money is money. It will not buy happiness. After all is said and done, Bill Gates will fade and never be remembered. If he was to give a substantial portion to help starving children/adults then he would be remembered BY THEM. Face it people, we won't remember him at all unless he gives us something. That is the selfish and greedy nature of our current society. We are focused on ourselves. ME ME ME. STUFF STUFF STUFF. Another thing, I don't think anybody mentioned anything about saving our environment. Heh, its been predicted that life on earth will radically decline sometime this century. The causes include over-population, deforestation, nuclear war, BIOLOGICAL warfare, and plain old IGNORANCE. Billy can't solve all the worlds problems, no one individual can. However, he can contribute a sizeable amount to making life better for Mother Earth and its inhabitants. If people as rich as Bill don't help us, then WHO WILL? Surely you can't be thinking of government? If you are, than you are the most ignorant person I have ever met. Government exists to control. Polititions exist to get re-elected and turn a profit. It is human nature to screw other humans. Bill Gates can be different.

    POLL RESULTS: 100% Bill gives "ALL" his wealth to helping the planet sustain life 0% Bill gives his money to greedy people who want to be succesful and be rich (many of the writers' above). 0% Bill gives his money to education ( We don't need any more intelligence. We can't even take care after our planet. I can't imagine getting much more technology than we already have. One just needs to enter a chat room and see all the pathetic people masturbating to their computers.) -100% Leave it to the worlds pathetic governments -100% Let Florida Vote on what Bill Should do for him Well there you have it. He must save our freakin planet. See you later Bill. You can either be a hero to mankind or an asshole with lots of "THINGS". BY the by, are you any happier than you were when Microsoft first started? Were you not happier as a nerdy programmer? Your money and items are meaningless. Help everyone out. I already know I am going to die, do you?

    -- Jeff Wilfong (JeffWilfong@hotmail.com), January 29, 2001.

    Whatever he wants to. It is, after all, his wealth.

    -- Mathew Moore (swampgift1@aol.com), January 29, 2001.
    I think that he should give Mississippi $60,000 a year, because we are the poorest state in the Nation.

    -- Alyse Harvison (Alyse410@aol.com), February 02, 2001.
    hello,bill i want 2 million only ,and if you cant give 2 give 0ne million please because i want to buy ahouse for me and my family,we need the money (asap). and other thing do what you wanna do its your money and you are freeeee,finally i advise you to thank the god for this,bye bye.

    -- hamad alnassar (hamad82@yahoo.com), February 05, 2001.
    Mr. Gates I would like to say that it is great you are very wealthy. I would also like to say could you give 5 million dollars to a man who cares for his family very much and made some bad decisions with finances before he got his head on straight. Now that I know how to be a man to my family my credit is in such bad shape I couldn't get a loan of 5 million from a bank if I wanted to. I really want to get my life back in order and take care of my wife and children like they are supposed to be taken care of. My family should not have to struggle because of my stupidity. My wife and me want to open our own business and the money would help do that and pay off old bills and get our credit back in good shape. Please help me Mr. Gates, this is coming from a man that just wants to do right by his wife and children and right most of the wrongs I have done by them. Please I ask again consider giving me the 5 million and it will go to very good use and you will be helping a family in dire need of this money. Please think about it and may God bless you and your family.

    -- Kovosky C.M. Windom (vosky@onebox.com), February 07, 2001.
    I too am very wealthy and have given back to many with worth needs.

    Bill Gates can accomplish many issues with the following suggestion.

    1. He can help the Republican Party.

    2. He may help Microsoft to solve its Law suits.

    3. The Nixon Liabrary would benifit.

    4. The Nixon Family would be pleased.

    5. The general public would be benifitted.

    6. Posterity would be preserved.

    7. A positive tax benifit would accrue to Bill Gates.

    8. And many other good things may happen to Bill Gates.

    There exists a collection of documents with original signatures dating back to the early 1900's of the Richard Nixon and his realatives including the Milhous's on his Mother side. There are 13 of them.

    Bill Gates could secure this rare one of a kind collection and could loan them out to Republican Party fund raisers, museums in this country and China and at a time convinent to him, donate them to the Nixon Library or any other charitabe institution of his choice.

    He would receive the credit for the discovery and control the use of them. An example attachment can be sent if you see the merit of this proposal. I have an additional e-mail address under rwelburn@pacbell.net

    -- Robert Allen (iconsult2@hotmail.com), February 07, 2001.

    I too am very wealthy and have given back to many with worthy needs.

    Bill Gates can accomplish many issues with the following suggestion.

    1. He can help the Republican Party.

    2. He may help Microsoft to solve its Law suits.

    3. The Nixon Liabrary would benifit.

    4. The Nixon Family would be pleased.

    5. The general public would be benefited.

    6. Posterity would be preserved.

    7. A positive tax benefit would accrue to Bill Gates.

    8. And many other good things may happen to Bill Gates.

    There exists a collection of documents with original signatures dating back to the early 1900's of the Richard Nixon and his relatives including the Milhous's on his Mother side. There are 13 of them.

    Bill Gates could secure this rare one of a kind collection and could loan them out to Republican Party fund raisers, museums in this country and China and at a time convinent to him, donate them to the Nixon Library or any other charitabe institution of his choice.

    He would receive the credit for the discovery and control the use of them. An example attachment can be sent if you see the merit of this proposal. I have an additional e-mail address under rwelburn@pacbell.net

    -- Robert Allen (iconsult2@hotmail.com), February 07, 2001.

    Well i belive that you should do whatever pleases you with the money you earned but one thing of advice it helps more to pay charities that taxes

    -- Juan Acosta (acostaj1@mediaone.net), February 07, 2001.
    Well i belive that you should do whatever pleases you with the money you earned but one thing of to pay charitadvice it helps more ies than taxes

    -- Juan Acosta (acostaj1@mediaone.net), February 07, 2001.
    I guess you could donate some of the large sum of cash you have stacked under your pillow... no...that fouldn't fit... anywayz, as I was saying, you could kindly donate some money to me. I'm currently in a financial problem and a mere few million dollars wouldn't do any harm.

    -- Syble (syble_tamayashi@hotmail.com), February 07, 2001.
    I think Mr.Bill Gates should share some of his wealth with me. For Example, PAY FOR MY COLLEGE EDUCATION. I know many college bound seniors are requesting the same thing, but if he pays for my college education I am well pursuaded that he won't regret it. I am a gymnast and having my education payed for at any college that has a gymnastics team will be a wonderful blessing. Whoever reads this response, do me a favor and tell Mr. Bill Gates to give to the MYCHELLE HORN COLLEGE FUND, please!!!

    -- Mychelle Horn (Horn1024@cs.com), February 07, 2001.
    You people are PATHETIC! Seriously! Do you people really think Bill Gates has nothing better to do than read this message board?! C'mon! I too am very poor and goto collage. But you will never catch me begging for cash, services, etc.. I can handle myself. I'm working myself up while you people are going lower and lower, begging and begging...

    Here is good advice for you ALL. GET A DAMN JOB! Make something of yourself! If you want money mr. Gates, EARN IT! Dont just sit on your fat asses begging for charity! It dont happen! Mr Gates may be very rich and run an evil company, but he worked himself up there. You can too.

    I've set my e-mail account up for the flames, So BRING IT ON! I love Flames. I'm a real pyro. :-)

    Beau Bellamy Poor Linux Programmer.

    -- Beau Bellamy (bb@beaunet.dhs.org), February 10, 2001.

    money money money!!! people who reckon that money doesnt make u happy just didnt know how to spend it...if u got heaps of cash go spend the dam stuff!am i poor u ask...hmmm NO!!

    -- paul-E harris (redheat@outback.com.au), February 13, 2001.
    I feel that you should donate money to those like myself are disabled and are trying to make a life for themselves like steve hawkins. because of past mistakes and not being told about other ways to pay for our college, except a stafford loan which cannot be forgiven, that people like myself should have the opportunity to excel in the computer sciences and research and developement like toute le monde.

    -- Sean D Mitchell (sean_1969@lycos.com), February 14, 2001.
    I think you should shove it up your ass!!!

    -- Bill Baldwin (bbal@hotmail.com), February 14, 2001.
    Purchase and fund NASA.

    -- DanDanTheBariMan (DanDanTheBariMan@aol.com), February 17, 2001.
    I'm only twelve years old, but what I think Mr. Gates should do with his money is this. I know that quite a few people have already sent you a note saying that you should give your money to the less fortunate, but just think about it. What if orphans and teens that need help, get money that is used in their education and in their proper up-coming?! I think you should give your money to organizations that can be trusted, not to use the money for themselves, but to give it to others that are in need. Child Care Plus and Teen Challenge are two examples of reliable organizations that make a difference in people's lives. Yes Mr. Gates, you did earn your money, but God was the one who gave you the wisdom, the health, and ability to become so successful. One day He will ask you to give an account of what you did with HIS money.

    -- Joelle Glombick (piglet523@hotmail.com), February 18, 2001.
    Hi there!

    Mr. Bill Gates, this is what I think you should do with your money. Sponsor hurting children that have very little, through reliable organizations such as Child Care Plus, Compassion Canada, and Teen Challenge. For me to just send them a 10 dollar Christmas present makes them smile the biggest smile, that you can't resist to smile back. The more you give to needy children, the happier you are. You earned your money fair and square... you have a right to do whatever you want with it. I'm only a twelve-year-old...but I'd like to say something very bold to you. Get into Jesus Christ. You probably hear this all the time...but...even though you may be the richest man in the world... He has the power over everything that happens in this universe.He brings hope, and an amazing amount of joy! Once you see Him move in a church that is on fire for the Lord, you never want to leave that place! I totally cannot express God to you over the interent, so you will just have to meet Him personally. It makes you feel secure to know that you can trust someone with your feelings, (even though it may seem soooooooo small to a big powerful God,) He directs your paths and when you do the right thing... it makes you feel so good inside! The world is full of stuff that just tricks you into thinking that it is reliable, (some creep could just come and steal your money and then what would happen to you? I know the chances are unlikely but just think about it.) God is someone that you can put your hope in. And best of all, when you die, you get to live forever with Him in heaven! He loves you NO MATTER what mistakes you make. (Even if you murder someone He still loves you!)Pretty amazing hey? I know people probably can think that since you have so much money everything is peachy-keen but we ALL have our struggles in life. I've put my trust in God... I hope you and your family make the same decision.

    From a 12-year-old on fire for God,

    Jolene Emma Glombick

    -- Jolene Glombick (oscarthegrouch123@hotmail.com), February 18, 2001.

    GIVE IT ALL TO ME SO I CAN BEGIN MY WORLD TAKEOVER!!! Actually, just give it all to me and I'll buy you a hamburger.

    -- jp (darkangel1@37.com), February 19, 2001.
    I don't really care Mr. Gates.. Give me few years and i will donate some money to paint that house of yours.

    --A guy whos a buck richer than u.

    -- Shadab F (shadbs@hotmail.com), February 20, 2001.

    dear bill would you consider contributing some funds toward life outreach international, achristain organization to drill wells for people in africa who despertly need clean water to survive. my husband and i give as well and they so badly need it. the address is life outreach international po box 982000 fort worth tx 76182-8000 in christain love bob and margaret woodworth. and i do praise the lord that you have done so well please consider our request thank you

    -- margaretwoodworth (woodworth@uniserve.com), February 22, 2001.
    he give muney no to realding sock crunch. You was wift aa heater to lanch tub in turhd toss.

    thenks for belded lock tree.

    Kameko

    -- Kameko smiff (jabefo@razzlin.net), February 23, 2001.

    sir, i think u should spend these 90% of ur said amount on education, because, "i see myself" i belong to a middle class family in india working in kuwait in a refinery. i did graduation in science, computer diploma cource, and i was writing a hypothesis on nuclear science, but ultimately due to financial problem i could not any thing nicely, can u imagine i have tried to take addmission in mcsc many times but i could not. and foremost thing what i have seen is that whenever there is less education there is a negative think, when there is a negative think there is a crime & so on even with less education people divert their mind towards bad habits, that may be anything. there fore sir ur money if utilised for education may also lead u to heaven(god better knows), but there is a thing that the money given for this purpose should reach the student & in an easy way. asfar imam kuwait.

    -- asfar imam (i_asfar@hotmail.com), February 23, 2001.
    After only recently seeing a movie based on the early years of Microsoft I have to say that what Mr. Gates has worked for and literally constructed from birth is a tremendous achievement. Few people will ever live to carry out such a task. This gentleman is a businessman and an amazing one at that. He has a family and of course they come first and whatever amount Mr. Gates decides to contribute to charity will help whatever cause(s) he decides to help. Well done Mr.Gates and continue to be the inspiration that you are.

    -- Will Liathain (Williboyo@yahoo.co.uk), February 25, 2001.
    Dear Mr. Gates,

    I'm writing you to say congratulations on all of your accomplishments in life and for all of the remarkable and successful businesses you own. I'm sure that you don't pay attention to those people that are probably angry, or jealous of your success. I think it's great that you have the mind and the motivation to do what you do. I see all negative remarks that you get on the web, however what the public doesn't know is that you are one of the chosen ones. I am also certain that you are a great human being. The reason why I know this, is because of your success. More people should consider you a positive role model because you had the desire and the self motivation to make something of yourself. You followed your dream, and from that dream God made you what you are today. "A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN" Keep doing what your doing Mr. Gates because I'm sure that you are making many charitable contributions in your community.

    -- Carla H. (carlacarlacarla@hotmail.com), February 27, 2001.

    Dear Mister Gates, I think any man that is smart enough to have the kind of money that you have is plenty smart enough to figure out the best way to use it. but if you could find it in your heart to help me and my family i would be oh so greatful to you for the rest of our lives here is my situation. I have 3 of my own natural children but i have helped to raise more. now i have remarried and have just took on my husbands 3 children our problem is he is not a well eduacated man nor am i an eduacated woman. this is not because we havent tried to get more eduacated it just that we have learning disabilities and are having trouble trying to get our GED. we cant even make it through the GED classses. this hurts us so much not to be able to give our children the things they need let alone want i am not asking for your money but sence you are so smart. would you help us figure a way for us to help our chidren? very truly your's lisa and raymond shirley.

    -- alesia jean shirley (lisa_raymond@wworld.com), February 28, 2001.
    I think Bill Gates Should give his wealth To Me before he gets a cap in his ass

    -- Pat Harris (tenchu40@hotmail.com), March 02, 2001.
    I think Bill Gates Should give his wealth To Me becuase I am poor as hell

    -- Pat Harris (tenchu40@hotmail.com), March 02, 2001.
    Mr. Bill Gates,

    My solution to your surplus of money, is very simple. Get involved in agriculture!! Buy say, 1,000 head of cows, some land to run them on and employees. You would lose money so fast trying to buy water becuase of a drought, find hay, buy bulls to keep the cows bred, build sheds to keep 60 m.p.h. winds from keeling your cows over and hundreds of other unimaginable problems. It would be fun if you had the right employees, so hire me as your C.E.O. and we will fix you up in agriculuture!!

    Best regards K.G.-Montana 7th grader

    -- K.G. (bovineaddict@hotmail.com), March 03, 2001.

    Hi Bill Gates, Mr. Bill Gates you are a very kind hearted person. I really apreciates your efforts which you have done for people in the field of computer world which no one can forget. Dear sir, I want to get training of MSCE windows 2000 from New Horizon (Dubai), so that I can get a good job in IT. If you can help me in this regard. I will be very thankful to you. my address is: Pakistan Education Academy P.O. Box 621, Dubai-U.A.E thanks

    -- Anjum Raza (anj1971@hotmail.com), March 04, 2001.
    Well i think that bill should consider really helping the smallest countries in the world. I am writing from the smallest country in the whole of southern Africa. My country is very poor except for the royal family and the gorvement. They do nothing with our tax money but spend it all on the royal family and do nothing for the old age and the poor people. It is my dream to see someone like bill gates make some of my dreams come true. to build a home for the old age, a home for opharns and a hospital for children because the hospital in my country is horrilbe. When a child goes in with a broken arm he leaves the place with so many othet diseases. It is a very dirty place and unsafe place to take any sick person. If you are taken there you just tell yourself that your time to die has come because it is a gaurantee that you will die before they even treat you.

    Any way i know that bill will not have time to act on this just like our king and gorvenment but i know my dreams and i swear i will work hard to achieve one of them and i will run these places like no man has run an organisation or a business. when i accomplish one it would be a great help to me if a successful man like bill can give advice. To bill, do what your heart says after all you have your own dreams too. All the luck Bill Amanda from Swaziland.

    -- Amanda Henwood (Clintmc@realnet.co.sz), March 08, 2001.

    Two things: 1) Provide a single online library that houses virtually all information whose copyrights have lapsed. Not just books, but periodicals, maps, music, charts... etc. Develop a file transfer format similar to PDF to allow all of this to be easily viewed on WinOS

    2) Provide a small business/education loan insurance fund. That is essentially become a cosigner for small businesses and college loans that would otherwise be denined. This gives the biggest bang for the buck because you would be allowing people to get an education or start a business who would not otherwise be able to do so but you would have to pay for only a small percentage of those businesses or educations.

    -- Karl W. Smith (kwsmith2@unity.ncsu.edu), March 11, 2001.

    I have two idea that are a general overview.A Governing Body will over see Foundation's By Laws. Then,there will be a group of top notch investers to keep the funding from dwindling. Then individual circle of groups that represent main catergories of society , such as instititional donations-all the way down to individual's needs. Each year, each group is given the same amount of funding to dispurse. Each group will acquire foot solders that go out among the highways and byways of society seeking out the truth of needs. This is done in secrecy. Each Foundation Helper must be approve to possess two qualities: Wisdom and Compassion.Second idea, take all u.s. citizens over the age of 40, have them register with Foundation. Divide that number into your giveaway. By 40 years of age, even without an education, most individuals acquire a certain among of love, loyality,compassion,and family, to do whats right with money.Exempt from fundation moneys, criminals.

    -- joel villanueva (jovixa@hotmail.com), March 14, 2001.
    its your money you earned it do what you want with it. i would like to know if you could make some kind of voice actifated computer to take in a car so if you are with a deaf person you can talk and it would go on the screen. My mom is deaf and she don't sign because she has athoritis in her hands and shes been compleatly deaf since November of 1996. I think it would be a nice investment. Thank you betty j case

    -- betty jean case(madien GATES) (boomboom_1958@yahoo.com), March 16, 2001.
    Bill Gates should enjoy his fortune and money. He should not share it with enybody, because he earnded it him self.

    If he wants he could give it to education, because then he creates for hem self well educated workers and users.

    -- Maarika Uusijoki (minu.arvamus@mail.ee), March 16, 2001.

    I HATE YOU A LOT!!!!!!!!!!

    -- John DOe (me@here.com), March 20, 2001.
    Bill Gates is a Staunch Capitalist and need's to fall in love so that he realizes that this is not what life is about~donate your money to Medicine, Reserch, Education, Public Libraries, Enviromental Organisations and the the idea of reducing everyones suffering~rather than eating up every part of the free market~walk in others shoues~money is not everything~In other words ---->GET A LIFE BILL GATES<------ do something selfless. stop all this crap~WTF~Who Really needs Billions of dollars~ It's Sick!

    -- Christopher David Stoltz Conroe (Unknowndeapth@hotmail.com), March 21, 2001.
    Bill Gates is a Staunch Capitalist and need's to fall in love so that he realizes that this is not what life is about~donate your money to Medicine, Reserch, Education, Public Libraries, Enviromental Organisations and the the idea of reducing everyones suffering~rather than eating up every part of the free market~walk in others shoues~money is not everything~In other words ---->GET A LIFE BILL GATES<------ do something selfless. stop all this crap~WTF~Who Really needs Billions of dollars~ It's Sick! Academic Freedom and The Idea of Utopia

    -- Christopher David Stoltz Conroe (Unknowndeapth@hotmail.com), March 21, 2001.
    ON THE ISSUES OF PHILLOSPHIC TRUTH< KNOWLEGE< TANGABILITY< LIFE< MIND< NATURE < SOCIETY< IDEAS AND REALITY!?

    I'm just waiting to see what happens when u pass away!~Absolutism vs Relativoism? Academic Freedom and The Idea of Utopia YOU ARE A SENTIENT CREATURE TOO~I KNOW YOU ARE HUMAN, ARE U? go back to shcool! Abstractions who are u again! Bill Gates is a Social Construct a Product of his environment the issue is not What to Do about his money, It is WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE FUCKING SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so what bill gates greatest acomplishment was makeing a lot of money~stupid it's not like he know's anything REAL~ HOW DOES THIS SOLVE ANY PROBLEMS.

    WHO ARE YOU AGAIN

    "KNOW THY SELF!!!!"

    I FEEL A LOT OF PIETY AND COMPASSION FOR THAT MAN! I"D PROBLLY CHANGE THE WORLD AND FAKE MY DEATH!

    -- Chris Conroe (Unknowndeapth@hotmail.com), March 22, 2001.

    WHO ARE YOU AGAIN!!!??!?!?!?!/*

    -- Chris Conroe (Unknowndeapth@hotmail.com), March 22, 2001.
    Please, if you can;t find help spending your money, I'm free, wouldn't be to much to ask for, and I could give you more if you would like!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    -- suz (nkvbdjhbvdf@doddodo.com), March 23, 2001.
    I hurt my back 5 years ago,doctors say i cant go back to work,still fighting wsib.Bill lend me some money and when i get paid,I will pay you back.

    -- paul hopkins (portofpauls28@hotmail.com), March 23, 2001.
    Donate computers to Pine Lake Elementary School, Miami, FL. 80% of students in this school are on free and reduced lunch, low socio- economic area, with a 38% mobility rate. This would assist the students in preparing for the future.

    -- Jacqueline R. Jackson (jacqueline.r.jackson@gte.net), March 25, 2001.
    I think that Bill GAtes should keep his money and just vuy some guy called Christan Drakos a jetski

    -- William Gates (chnstar_1@yahoo.com), March 27, 2001.
    GIVE IT TO ME!!

    -- James Ambrose (JAMESHA19@aol.com), March 27, 2001.
    Bill GATES , OBEY THE WORD OF GOD, WHO GAVE YOU THE WEALTH IN THE FIRST PLACE , FEED THE POOR AND NEEDY , CLOTHE AND HOUSE THE POOR , EDUCATE THE POOR SO THAT THEY MAY SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES. TRUST IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST . BUY CHICK BIBLE TRACTS TO GIVE TO YOUR FAMILY AND THE LOST. MATTHEW CHAPTER 16:26,27. KJV REMEMBER JOHN 3:3 PLEASE READ KJV BIBLE . LUKE chapter 12:13-21

    -- julie ann smith (JULIE_SMITH@webtv.net), March 27, 2001.
    BUY ME A TRUCK WHICH WOULD HAD TO BE A CADILLAC ESCALADE..

    -- Gino Reyes (g_rey2000@yahoo.com), March 28, 2001.
    i think i should bye all of you a life!

    -- Bill Gates (someone@somedomain.com), April 03, 2001.
    MAKE AFFORDABLE LAPTOPS

    -- Ron levine (rockbut@yahoo.com), April 05, 2001.
    hire a bunch of hackers to eradicate web sites such as this. Ps you selfish bastards go to work and make some money for yourselves. And to the obese women "put fork down".

    -- Trixen (yeahright@bonehead.com), April 09, 2001.
    If i was in your position i would help kids and give them money(not that you havent done that allready) i aint gonna lie to you but, im 17 and im in need of a new car and i dont have the money, i would appreciate it alot if you gave me like $30,000 so i can get a car and instead of saving up money for a car i could save up money for college and school stuff. Thanks

    -- Dennis yousif (denniz_123@altavista.com), April 10, 2001.
    Anybody, anywhere, who can still remain sitting on over 50 billion dollars (or is it 80 billion?) and watch events in the world, while there is so much suffering....I can't say an awful lot about any such a person. So if you're not gonna help out other people, just keep it all. I don't want it; I work for my living. I don't buy out other companies and other people's creations, and call it my work.

    -- bassica musicica (glr@sympatico.ca), April 11, 2001.
    Move to Denmark, where we do NOT have the Death Penalty

    -- Poul N. Rasmussen (stm@stm.dk), April 16, 2001.
    Ive got a great business idea,that would make millions and later on billions,so I wont mind an investment from the big guy!

    -- Afeera Bux (rose747@hotmail.com), April 16, 2001.
    find a more diverse expanded group of ideas with different thoughts of happenings through-out the globe. everybody has at least an idea they would have to better this time & place.

    -- r.s.j. (res065l2@gte.net), April 21, 2001.
    Contribute money to me, because I am a young father and am trying to go to school and work. My job is not money-making right now. I need help! PLEASE

    -- Connie Reilly (creilly@okemah.k12.ok.us), April 26, 2001.
    Your all crazy!!!

    -- ????? (OP@Hotmail.com), April 30, 2001.
    Why not to adopt me.Then i'll tell what he should do

    -- stupid bitch (sabeen_25@mail.com), April 30, 2001.
    we don't matter what he's going to do with his money but i know that somone or something (maybe Got) gave he the chance to work and build an empire, and there must be a reazon, and i'm certeanly that is for help unless luck people

    -- Pablo Rodrigo Ugalde Guevara (ugalde70@hotmail.com), May 01, 2001.
    I think dat Bill should invest in good cutlery so weez can kill all the white women.

    -- Orenthal Simpson (ipimpyourmotherforadollar@yahoo.com), May 02, 2001.
    I am a teanager in need of transportation and my dad won't let me buy a car and it really won't hurt him to help me out so why not it is pocket change for him I only wish he would though.

    -- andrew mulhorn (smulhorna@cvzoom.net), May 07, 2001.
    bill gates is rich for himself because he used his brain if only us poor people could use ours we would not complain

    -- sereika ramwathar (200278796@studs.unp.ac.za), May 08, 2001.
    I think you should do what you want to.

    -- Neven Vulic (neven_999@hotmail.com), May 09, 2001.
    i think you should give it to me. ;]

    -- Zack P (fathatrat66@aol.com), May 09, 2001.
    He should give it all to me HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH

    -- Hugh Jass (HOOPSplayer35@home.com), May 10, 2001.
    It's his money people. If you where in his shoes, you wouldnt bitch about asking for money....Everyone is greedy. He is just one of those who dont have to be beacuse he has all he needs. I do wish i had that much money but if ya cant make it on your own or still it...Then fuck it. Stop bitchen about it....

    -- Bill H. Gates (billGates@fuckU.com), May 21, 2001.
    i think he should not give it to charity but give it to santa so that he can evenly distribute it throughout the world

    -- Bill Gates Son (Charles) (mmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaateeeeeeeee@hotmail.com), May 25, 2001.
    Dear Bill I am a person that is struggling with my financial situation . I only earn around $US 8,500 dollars a year of which i have to look after my wife and myself on this amount of money . I wish to awnswer that the money that you are making , please remember you are not going to live forever and you are not going to take your hard earned wealth with you , Just give away without blowing any trumpets to all the needy people both in your great nation and in very poor nations of the world , for it is very very important to do so , because your father in heaven wills it so , has not our heavenly father sacrificed his only beloved son , to save you and me and all your loved ones such as your dear mother who passed away not so long ago . If you my dear bill want to contact me , please do not hesitate to do so . I want to to ponder all i have said , in your heart and mind . Because there is always one way for true happiness and that is through loving your neighbor as yourself . Well dear bill , please take care of yourself and your beloved family and please remember each day of your life , to have real lasting peace and Joy , put Jesus 1st , second others and lastly yourself and i can assure you , you will have really peace , joy and happiness .

    If you want to contact me by mail , here is my mail address :

    Joseph Bartolo Cescana Flats Flat 6 Tourist's Street , Bugibba SPB 06 Malta Europe

    Thank you for taking the time for reading my awnswer .God bless you

    -- Joseph Bartolo (Joseph_Bartolo@Hotmail.Com), May 26, 2001.

    Bill gates should give it all to me because i obsurve him and i want to take over microsoft when i am older

    -- Josh Gould (joshgould10@hotmail.com), May 28, 2001.
    Mr. Gates

    Hi my name is Kenny Riley, there are many things that you could do with your money. Like for one contribute to education I think would be the #1 thing. I admire you very much and would like to one day have a career in computers myself, but like many others cannot afford to go to college, and would like one day to be able to go to college and make a better career for myself. I have heard many good things about your program with education and giving grants to students and would be very appricative if you could give me a consideration for a grant. There are many thing that I am capable of doing, but cannot afford, so if you would give me some consideration.

    Thank you,

    Kenneth D. Riley

    -- Kenneth D. Riley (Cash18_@Hotmail.com), May 29, 2001.

    i think that he should put up a website and tell people the date he became a billionaire so that grls like me can finish their social studies project!:) that would be helpful. call it www.whenibecameabillionaire.com k? thanx alot billy boy! mickey

    -- mickey forest (cheergrl_44@hotmail.com), May 29, 2001.
    hi mr.gates congratulation for being the richest man of th eworld. u keep ur money with u but i have a contribution of us$279.386 which please send back to me.

    bye take care vj

    -- vijay harchandani (veeejaay@hotmail.com), May 30, 2001.

    I think that Bill Gates is a very admirable business man. He has worked very hard for the money that he has, and I give him two thumbs up...Way to go Bill!!!

    -- Jay Vandermeulen (jayroosterhead2@yahoo.com), May 30, 2001.
    I believe Mr. Gates is doing the right thing with his wealth.His heart and mind has got it togather.It is not the amount of money you have or you wish you had. What really matters is how you manage it. I am a poor American Native, who also work hard for my money.I may not have as much as Mr. Gates, but I also share my little wealth with people in need. God Bless Mr Gates and his family. You surely have a big heart.

    -- Abel Martinez (amtzsjc@worldnet.att.net), May 31, 2001.
    put more money into the x-box

    -- jamal (2078442@archwireless.net), June 04, 2001.
    There are many who dying in third world countries due to luck of treatment. It would be better if you extended some financial assistance to health projects so that treatment is offordable to many. God is to reward you in heaven for that becouse of treating His people.For example in my home village many people are dying becouse health facillities are very far. If God willing,BillGates funds the only small healty unit in the area, he will have saved the lives of many people. This ca olso be extended to many others who are suffuring in the same way as the community of my village which has to travel a very long distance to get treatment and as a result many lives are lost.

    Thanks.

    -- Makoba Machese Charles (makobamachese@hotmail.com), June 06, 2001.

    Don´t really care what Bill Gates does with his money. Just as long as he´s not doing anything ilegal or evil.

    -- juan sebastian peralta (juan_sebastian@yahoo.com), June 07, 2001.
    I'm sure he could tie together stacks of the multitude of 100 dollar bills lying around to restump his house, should the lake ever flood over and destroy his plush pile carpet. oh my! what a tragedy!

    -- sobriquet (sobriquet@disinfo.net), June 11, 2001.
    Create a foundation/organization that will surely beneficial for the youth/children of the third world countries like Philippines. Particularly, to their education-the foundation of economic stability of the nation. I am more than willing to participate with that project or even to take charge.

    -- Federick Martinez (eryq77@yahoo.com), June 18, 2001.
    Kill, kill, kill the white man. Kill him 'till he is dead!

    -- Mamma Licka BooBooDay (mammalika@aol.com), June 19, 2001.
    give it all to me u dobby bastard!!!!!!!!!!

    -- will s cock (frost_is_joe_daddy@yahoo.com), June 20, 2001.
    do something usefull with it like GIVING IT TO ME U FUCKING BASTARD

    -- grabum d balls (Zabro_2006@hotmail.com), June 20, 2001.
    Everyone always says he should give it away. Bill himself has said he's going to give away 90% of it. To Hell with that, I say. He should keep it or burn it before he gives it away. He worked hard for it. If he gives it away, he's only telling the people he gives it to that they can get something without really working for it. Take my sister.. she ALWAYS gets free hand-outs and NEVER works for what she gets. It perpetuates the group of people who think it's okay to leech off of society. Anyone who has read "Faith of the Fallen" by Terry Goodkind will probably understand what I'm talking about. In short, I'm basically saying that everyone in society needs to pull their own weight. No free hand-outs. You made your bed, now lay in it. If Bill wants to waste away 90% of his net worth, he should use it to develop a better car or faster internet or a toilet that actually flushes your shit. You know.. like an invention that people will still have to pay money for, but will make everyone's lives that much better.

    -- Joe Cocker (JoeC@nospam.com), June 21, 2001.
    Hire me and a shit load of circus clowns to be his personal entertainment.

    -- Jay Masciola (dzog@optonline.net), June 22, 2001.
    I think Mr. Gates should search his heart and God will provide him with an answer. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul.

    -- (KevDelMc@aol.com), June 23, 2001.
    Bill Gates should pay off my tuition to Pepperdine University!! Just kidding..well if he really wants to.thats fine! I honestly think that Bill and Melinda Gates have done an extraordinary job in with helping young people achieve their dreams through their scholarship programs!

    -- Eduardo Valladolid (Duardo15@aol.com), June 24, 2001.
    Me and my husband would like to start a small business in Urdaneta City, Philippines. Urdaneta City is a new City, center for agricultural products, spices, vegeatables, cattles, with lots of opportunities but we lack the finances to start with. I am a registered nurse and he on advertising agency. I wish to borrow a small amount from Mr. Gates and pay him back after 8-9 years. Mr. Gates you SHOULD NOT BE OBLIGED to share your money. I know you are under social, spiritual obligations and pressures. Give yourself time to relax, be simple, do the things you love to do. Be peaceful. Try to go to the church ALONE and sit there for a long time and feel HIS presence, and when you feel that unexplainable wonderful feeling all are beyond compare. It's lovely! Also make more children...

    -- Ma. Leonora Loreto Quero-Pabilic (loriecalifornia@yahoo.com), June 30, 2001.
    I think Bill Gates should ask the Lord. This is his world..

    -- Marcus S. Bell (bellms540@aol.com), June 30, 2001.
    How about helping the Armed Forces advance.

    -- SSgt Gram (USMC) (lovedacorps@hotmail.com), June 30, 2001.
    Only to him matters what to do with his money, he worked to get it, I think he has all material things he wants, but if he wants to contribute with mankind (besides of developing software, that have changed the mind of see this world) can cooperate with all kind of foundation (nature research and conservation, schoolarships, CARITAS, Salvation Army, American Idian heritage, Internet, schools, plants to clean water, etc.). The MS products can say, "..when you buy a MS product we give this to this foundation.....

    -- Rockdrigo (yaguare@usa.net), July 02, 2001.
    William Gates should, in my humble opinion, advance computing in general, and help the intelligent (sustainable, env-friendly, omni- compatible, etc.) proliferation of technology. His resources could literaly change the world. While he certainly could not feed humanity... nor could he sweep a placid hand and instill a lasting peace in people -- he could clearly define a period of change in our history, greater than that of the industrial revolution. He could invest in logic. He could design robust (not in the buzz-word sense, which he is already doing) tools for humanity. He could connect the world through software (syntactically "transcribed" logic) that would allow an even free-er and more lucid a sense of communication than would telepathy. Windows is so narrow in scope -- even though it has proven to be very conductive of this ideal -- but it is not enough. I do not want a grant from Mr. Gates. I do not want him to take my bills. I only ask that he face the gravity of his situation, and the fact that he CAN do ALOT to help humankind reach the elusive ideals we all hold, and to realize the beauty of a pure and peaceful existance full of triumph and sane comprehension: from the universe at large, to children and grandparents. Bill Gates, you could give the planet the gift of intelligence through "massively" (a token that you could make seem unfathomably innadiquate) *distributed thought*.... "powered" by logic that he could redefine.

    Maybe that was too vague... :fund the development of communication technologies directly and write "software"(whatever THAT means) that would ochestrate raw "communication." Most importantly, fund logic research... not formal logic, which only serves to "help humans comprehend meaning from written phrases," but LOGIC -- the roots of the difference engine. Inuire into the nature of meaning, and what constitutes a computer. Try to find sustainable ways to keep a state of memory and meaning, and play with entropy as simply a direction of a river; not a limiting factor in organized systems. Help turn this pale blue dot into an iris which, with matter and space no more complex than ourselves, could see *beyond* the stars.

    I'm obviously asking alot -- but certainly less than others. There are certain fundamental goals which we all seem to need -- and the only thing that helps us understand them is THINKING about them. The most valuable tools will allow for an unrestricted community of thinking (ie. lose the wires :).

    -- Jeffrey Cobale (ltée@bigfoot.com), July 03, 2001.

    queit simple, if mr gates wants to off load any, ime here waiting thanks

    -- phil stevenson (stevo417@msn.com), July 06, 2001.
    LISTEN US, BILL GATES IS EVIL! BECAUSE HE'S BLACKMAILER OF DOS AND GAMES! POOR IBM WHO SELL IBM'S DOS TO MICROSOFT! WHAT A STUPID GREEDY! IF YOU WANT HAVE OUR E-MAILS ADDRESSES, SCREWS YOU! IF YOU FOUND OUR E-MAILS, WE WILL PUT YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS TO BLOCK SENDER OR PLAYBOY.COM, SEX MAILS, LESBIAN/GAY SITES, ETC.

    FUCK OFF!

    -- Belgian Guys who hitted Bill Gates with cream pies! (Belgian@hater.com), July 06, 2001.

    LOL, yeah, that's funny! Everyone who has less than Bill Gates thinks he's evil and should give his money away... yet everyone deeply wishes awfully bad that THEY had that much money! and IF they had it, there wouldnt be ONE person who should tell them what to do with it!!!!

    It is HIS, not YOURS. Deal with it. LOL

    -- daffodyllady (daffodyllady@yahoo.com), July 07, 2001.

    Dear Bill, I think you are smart,making all that money and being so rich,so smart that you know how to spend it too...I'm a grand'mother,my husband and i still working hard till today just for our children and grand'children to have easier life.I buy a lotto ticket every week and all i have in mind,if i'm a big winner,to pay the mortgage of my church and help my children to achieve their goals.

    -- Nadia (nadia23joe@yahoo.com), July 08, 2001.
    TAKE ALL THE MICROSOFT USER AND PUT THEM ON MARS..

    TAKE THE MONEY AND SEE HOW MUCH YOU CAN STICK UP YOUR a$$.

    OR MAKE A WEB SITE SO PEOPLE CAN GET THERE HOPES UP SO YOU CAN SET BACK AND LAUGHT YOUR BUTT OFF.

    -- NEEDY (HAHA@AOL.COM), July 09, 2001.

    I believe Bill is already doing the right thing. He is giving back to the community from which his wealth was derived. He is giving it back in the form of providing opportunities for many individuals to be educated through donations allowing children to attend college, money to libraries, making the internet accessible in schools to name a few. Give someone a fish.....feed them for a day. Teach them to fish.....feed them for a lifetime. Keep up the good work Bill. I may not be able to contribute on the scale you do but I certainly make sure that this philosophy starts here in my home as I am sure it is in yours. Good example to set for your kids. Bravo!

    -- RJ (rjeter75@hotmail.com), July 09, 2001.
    Who is Bill Gats anyway. Should I know him?

    -- Otis Rinski (whois@billgates.com), July 11, 2001.
    I THINK HE SHOULD BORROW ME £4000 SO I CAN GET MY TINY BREASTS ENLARGED. NOBODY ELSE WILL GIVE ME A LOAN MAYBEE MR GATES WOULD?? I'D PAY HIM BACK I SWEAR!

    -- VICKI HARRISON (VIXEN_MAX@YAHOO.COM), July 15, 2001.
    VICKI HARRISON,

    YOU SHOULD NOT ASK THAT BILLIONAIRE BASTARD FOR LOAN. HE WILL MAKE MORE MONEY THAN AMOUNT OF YOU WANT BORROW MONEY. HE ALWAYS CHEAT! HE'S SHIT BASTARD! WE HAD HITTED HIM WITH OUR CREAM OF PIES. HE LOOKS CHICKEN! HA! HA! THAT'S PROBLEMS! HAVE YOU GOT YOUR BOYFRIEND (OR GIRLFRIEND, IF YOU'RE LESBIAN)? IS HE/SHE RICH? IF YES, YOU SHOULD LOAN MONEY FROM YOUR PARTNER, NOT BILL GATES!

    Belgian Guys who hitted Bill Gates with cream pies!

    -- Belgian Guys who hitted Bill Gates with cream pies! (Belgian@hater.com), July 15, 2001.

    Buy a fleet of bombers and nuke every jealous bastard who can't stand it because he worked hard,took a chance,and told the communist clinton government to fuck themselves.

    -- craig seeds (mowood57@aol.com), July 18, 2001.
    I have been read all letters on this site. I want you what do you:

    LEAVE BILL GATES ALONE!

    If you write mail as horribie him, I will report you to Microsoft. If you're hacker of Micrsoft, same report.

    -- Julian Quick (julianquick@yahoo.com), July 21, 2001.

    I understand Bill's situation. I wont refer to it as money..Because after a while it just turns into power. Shifting his power around and saving it, just to retain this title isnt very noble. Of course I could see how he would be confused. I think Bill should try to better the world before he leaves it. As everyone can see, the world isnt too pretty these days, and is getting worse. Fossil fuel shortage, violence, disease(big one), enviromental issues ex.(Global Warming) and other various issues that can be acted upon with power (money). I would like to live like Bill for a day to see what its like not to worry about money and whats going to happen next. I think Bill should try to think outside of the box, and do a massive search to find people to think outside of the box also. The computer was a great invention and in its time was outside of the "box". So I think theres another great thing to come to this planet that will take the people by storm just as the computer did. So in conclusion, I think Bill should put some of his power back into the people, so we can better ourselves and not just one person.

    -- Kyle Landry (hyperedge@angelfire.com), July 23, 2001.
    I Think, Mr.Gates should buy some good Clothes, Tooth-Brush and Yeah Better Under-Wears......... Seriously saying, He should Work hard and hard and hard and hard in order to go really Mad.

    -- Asif Adams (asifadams@hotmail.com), July 25, 2001.
    Bill Gates should start up The Microsoft Football League.

    -- Larry James (57james@gte.net), July 26, 2001.
    hi mr/ bill i hope that u r coz i am i just found this site by luck.. do u know what was i thinking befor reaching this site if one day i open my mail and i foud that u had sent me a MILLION only one million i don't think that it is a big deal only one million as if u drop a check carrying this amount or your child lost it ... ONE MILLION WILL NOT MAKE SO MUCH DIFFRINCE THERE BUT HERE IT"S A NEW LIFE ..but please can u make it 1 million and 5 dollars because i will ride a taxi to put the money in the bank :) and don't think that u will not have something in returen no u will have an e mail including ( thank u.. u have changed my life )

    -- amir taha habib (amir_taha@hotmail.com), July 28, 2001.
    you know mr bill Gates shoulProgram to help to the poor people and help or the poor country so God cane help hem to Gate more than this and also he will give hem good health to enjoy with what he have you know that with out God every ting is nothing so if you take my advise this is the on I gave so if you need to know me mail for me by my email this is Dawit Urgessa P.o.box 11058 Addis Ababa Ethiopia Email dawit_urgessa2000@yahoo.com

    -- Dawit Urgessa (dawit_urgessa2000@yahoo.com), July 31, 2001.
    i thing you should give me a x-box

    -- ben maki (benpass50@hotmail.com), August 02, 2001.
    Bankroll the first manned mission to Mars. Construct a self sufficient inhabited biosphere in solar orbit.

    -- Ebenezer Philpot (TestPilot7@excite.com), August 11, 2001.
    i think that he should donate it to animals in need (dogs,cats,horses,ect.)

    -- Allie Rose Sacher (paulsacher@paulfred.com), August 12, 2001.
    He should "Finish the Game". He starts MSN and now you have to find another search site to find something. {Anything}! Every now and then you have to turn around and see where you came from. Bill should send his money to Dell maybe they Remember!!!!

    -- Charles Webster (crtugboat @msn.com), August 13, 2001.
    I wish he could loan my family some!I would be willing to pay it ALL back!We have seven kids,ranging in age;from 19 on down to 4.Our 4 year old and our 7 year old are battling a bad case of impetigo.It has gotten worse because we thought it was poison ivy and treated it as such..We have a major insurance plan,but after paying the premium,and all of our other bills,there's no money left to pay to take them into a clinic,and we're just at a the line where we don't qualify for any other type of government help.Now,with school coming in three weeeks,in this part of the state,we don't even know where to come up with the money to clothe FIVE school age kids!Where all all the rich people to hear these kind of REAL stories.P.S:all these facts can be substanciated.Thanks,mother of seven,from the Red River Valley,Fergus Falls,Mn.

    -- Mary Hoeper (hoeper2000@22yahoo.com), August 13, 2001.
    forget the people, you work hard for your money bill. do whatever the hell you feel like doing.

    -- collin (collin@hotmail.com), August 15, 2001.
    forget the people, you work hard for your money Bill. do whatever the hell you feel like doing.

    -- collin (collin@hotmail.com), August 15, 2001.
    fuck you Bill you asshole you the one makin all the homless people homless you mother fucker. YOU the one taking all their money away fucking ass. you'd do any thing to get rich

    -- stephen (stephen@hotmail.com), August 15, 2001.
    He spent his whole life atttaining wealth that will never be fulfilling unless it is put to use for a purpose which has effects that will still be meaningful long after his death. He should just give it to me.

    -- rosalee (rosalee@yahoo.com), August 15, 2001.
    fuck you Bill you asshole you the one makin all the homless people homless you mother fucker. YOU the one taking all their money away fucking ass. you'd do any thing to get rich. you dont even come up with all this software shit you hire talented people to do it for you and i bet you dont even pay them enough to do so. you tight ass bitch. fuckin scroog. go to hell you fuck face. and look at your wife. unlyier then a mug . at least you can do is buy a better one. damn tight ass bitch. how do you shit when your asshole soo damn tight. you ain't rich. go study a histry book you fuckin hs drop out. rockerfeller was the richest man on earth. bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    -- stephen (stephen@hotmail.com), August 15, 2001.
    State of Florida Senator Carolyn Thurman Dear Senator Carolyn Thurman, Please help me! I am writing this letter in desperation. I am a 47- year-old widow with three children, 1 of whom suffers from cerebral palsy, grand mal seizures, and he's unable to verbalize and wheel chair bound. I thought it would be pertinent to explain my living condition before explaining the problems I am encountering with the local Social Security Administration and Medicare. I was informed that I am ineligible to receive any future social security or Medicare assistance for my 9-year-old son who's mentally and physically dependent upon me for care. As stated above, I am a widow and prior to that my husband abandoned me after the birth of my 9-year-old son who has cerebral palsy. I alone managed to care for 5 children without any type of assistance from their father or the government for over 14 years. The children's father recently passed in December and my 2 youngest children receive a stipend of $91.00 per month. Social Security and Medicare informed me that I would no longer be eligible to receive Rashad's social security stipend because of my income. I do not understand how this was calculated; I'm employed with the Marion County School Board and make less than $19,000 a year. Without Medicare assistance I will be responsible to purchase my son's medication, which amounts to at least $1,000 a month, and locate transportation to and from doctor visits (I do not drive and do not own a vehicle). The most detrimental issue is loosing nurse supervision, which will force me to quit my job to care for my son 24 hours a day. Senator Thurman, you are my last hope. I've attempted to explain my situation to Social Security Representative Mrs. Voz in Ocala, Florida on more than 1 occasion during the month of March. I recall my second visit with her when my 9-year-old son Rashad accompanied me. Mrs. Voz was quite rude and unwilling to hear me explain my situation, she stated the following " I do not know why you are here again, wasting my time and yours" "why did you bring him" (referring to my 9 year old son who's wheel chair bound). I felt belittled and conquered because no one was willing to listen to my case. Please take time out of your busy schedule to read this letter. I am so tired and frustrated at this point that I decided to write this letter to draw attention to problems in the Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid agencies. I look forward to hearing from you in the near future. Sincerely, Helpless 352-489-7371

    -- Carl Rawls Jr. (yreddick@mail.ucf.edu), August 15, 2001.
    ask ferrari and other makes to make cars just for you like the sultan of brunei!!!!

    -- unknown smith (frenens@brunei.com), August 21, 2001.
    Bill, do whatever you want with your money. I mean hell you worked soooo hard for it! No offense, but I bet you were the biggest loser in High School and you had to go to college for infinityh before you saw a dime!! So just enjoy it. Die with nothing, spend all the money now, on whatever you want, yourself or charitys. BLAH BLAH BLAH! It also would be pretty awesome if you bought the NFL or NBA or MLBA or started a whole new WATERPOLO LEAGUE for men and women, so many players would love you forever sooooo much for that!!! Think about it....Well, whatever you do with it, enjoy it! MUAH!

    Love Always~ Katie

    -- Katie (CaliGirl5654@aol.com), August 23, 2001.

    I'm sure that Mr. Gates doesn't even read this, as to there is probably thousands of websites about him, and mentioning his name, on top of all of his work, he couldn't possibly read all of these. But my idea still stands. Get a bum off of the streets, just find a bum begging for money and 'nurse' him/her back to health and to wealth. It could be done, and it should be done. Give him/her 15mill to live off of, that bum would surely be happy. And we all know that we all want Mr. Gates to give US money, so I'll be happy to contribute my wish: A lamborghini Countach or Diablo. Always wanted one, and always will want one. I could just imagine driving into the first day of grade 11 in my lamborghini, whilst everyone else is driving the family van... lol... anyways, that's my answer!

    -- Cody Watson (codyjwatson@home.com), August 26, 2001.
    I think Billy should give me some money just for reading some of the shit that people put on this. Id be happy with just $10K. Thats not asking for much from a man that is worth $50 Billion. That way, I could invest some of it in the Microsoft stock. And help him out more. On a serious note, I do think he should give some of it to inner city schools around the country. So the kids there have a means of resource to do research papers, or math homework, or something or that sort. Increasing GPA's and helping the youth get into colleges. I know that he will not read this, but, someone on his team will, maybe even relay some of the ideas to him.

    -- Jessica -- Houston, Tx (un_popular@hotmail.com), August 27, 2001.
    Use it anyway he fucking wants; fact of the matter is, it's his, he earned it; you don't have it. Get over it.

    -- aaa (a@anon.com), August 31, 2001.
    Billy G could buy a country such as Madagascar and send all these bloody refugees there and set up a fund for them to sponge from.

    -- broxy (broxybear@yahoo.com), September 06, 2001.
    This is a 14 year old boy who just wants to go to school. That's why I'm asking that you SEND ME 10,000 dollars to go back to school. Now Bill Gates you know that 10,000 dollars is not even worth a penny compared to you and the BILLIONS that you own, so please, please, please, send me this money. I go to a Catholic school that's why it is 10,000 dollars. One great Idea to do with all of this money is to buy ,Raw is War, and during ,Raw, donate money to the people who just look poor. You could also open up your own high school, college or your own hospitals across America. Help build up your own country before you take care of any other. Donate money to the cure for cancer and aids. Bill Gates I am asking this great favor of you please I just want to learn, that mis all. Please Bill Gates please.

    -- Albert Harris (lovelocked202@hotmail.com), September 08, 2001.
    This is a 14 year old boy who just wants to go to school. That's why I'm asking that you SEND ME 10,000 dollars to go back to school. Now Bill Gates you know that 10,000 dollars is not even worth a penny compared to you and the BILLIONS that you own, so please, please, please, send me this money. I go to a Catholic school that's why it is 10,000 dollars. One great Idea to do with all of this money is to buy ,Raw is War, and during ,Raw, donate money to the people who just look poor. You could also open up your own high school, college or your own hospitals across America. Help build up your own country before you take care of any other. Donate money to the cure for cancer and aids. Bill Gates I am asking this great favor of you please I just want to learn, that is all. Please, "Bill Gates" please.

    P.S. thanks for the Xbox and if you can please send me the money and a brand new computer if it is not asking for to much and I know it's not cmpared to the wealth of you.

    -- Albert Harris (lovelocked202@hotmail.com), September 08, 2001.

    You said you were going to give your money away while your still alive. Just thought I would let you know that I'm out here. I'm a vet, worked hard for over 35 years. And I'm tired!!!! You can give what ever you would like. I'm now 52 and still don't have enought to retire, and won't. Thanks Gary

    -- Gary Dahlheimer (GDahlheime@AOL.COM), September 16, 2001.
    Help all the people in New York from this attack.

    -- geordi (geoyakg@netscape.net), September 17, 2001.
    I think that Mr. Gates should use his money to create an economic system where millionaires and the poor become the middle class. I do not believe in God, so this is not for a god. I want a real change in the United States so that we can present an example to the world that we live by our Constitution. I believe that before people can gain billions of dollars the scales should be equalized between the two groups. Personnal gain does not come before the welfare of others. I back this up with the idea that no one wants to live on welfare, live without working, or feeling unproductive. I think that not everyone has the chance to become a billionaire like Bill Gates because this country does not have enough companies to elicit that idea. What should Bill Gates do with his money? He should use his money to have the poor parents obtain jobs, and he (with the help of everyone else) should find a way to bring the salary of each worker to an even figure. I say this for the simple reason that we all need to work together and need each other's services. I know this will take years, but I think that if Bill works with the system and facilitates a change in this system then his money will be well spent. That will help all workers to do quality work, allow students to receive quality educations, decrease crime and allow the United States by example to show true power-the power to take care of all citizens. I think he should start a movement towards freedom and prosperity for all, which can be added on to in the future.

    -- Mic (bradshm@netscape.net), September 21, 2001.
    donate some to me? :) drop me a mail if you agree. just need 1 million to start business to help to world if i am rich one day

    cheers anyway.

    -- kevin (kevintsh@hotmail.com), October 01, 2001.

    I think That you should at least give some of it to charity.

    -- Parker K. Martin (Parkman91@aol.com), October 01, 2001.
    i think that he should do what ever he wants to do with it...

    he and his wife have already given away billions to charity.

    as for people that ask him for money to start up a company....there was no one like "a bill gates" when bill gates started so you, without his help, should be worth about 36 billion by the time you 46ish. contact me if you are 'cos i need a loan to start up a company. you've only probably got about $35,999,999,990 to go.......

    -- Michael Daly (mick-l) (mick_daly1980@hotmail.com), October 03, 2001.

    i can do anything...ha ha ha ha ha hmmmmmm mmm yup

    sure is great having everything. *sniff* *sniff*

    but i can't buy love.....why god, why must i be a billionaire "geek"?

    William H. Gates

    -- William H. Gates (billhgates@hotmail.com), October 03, 2001.

    The answers, suggestions, the rehtoric....unbelievable....Good Luck Mr Gates.

    -- Craig (Cridgeman@aol.com), October 06, 2001.
    Hello Bill, Well i know that you are a really rich guy, and i know that people probably ask you this all the time but I figured I would give it a shot too. Well You see there is this old Menards store in the town that I live next to and well it is for lease right now. And well I was wondering if you would wanna buy this for me and my friends. We want to open a place where kids can just hang out and have a good time. Cause there really isn't just a place for that. Well that would be really cool if you did that. So let me know. Thank you a lot.

    Ben

    -- Ben Thompson (big_dork17@hotmail.com), October 12, 2001.

    I think Bill Gates should use his wealth for the enhancement of education throughout the world, helping those who are less priviledged to get qualitative and better education. Also, he should use his wealth for helping small scale businesses in the world to make progress because almost everybody,if not everybody is developing through his company,so also,he should help others to grow just like his. Thanks.

    -- SAmuel Anuma (sam_daze@yahoo.com), October 17, 2001.
    I think that maybe write this won't change him but in my opinion,everybody wants to know that the world is a little bit better because of him so mr Gates:Try to change the world,everything is moved by money!!!!

    -- aida (cbouzasb03@enfermundi.com), October 18, 2001.
    I think he should give his weath to the poor people.

    -- esther delgado (esther.yo@terra.es), October 19, 2001.
    Come on Bill, $65 billion, what are you doing?

    -- stuart wilson (pwys09836@cableinet.co.uk), October 20, 2001.
    I think he should buy me a mansion, a Porsche and a Ferrari or give me the money to buy them.

    -- Inma (inmalaguapa@mixmail.com), October 20, 2001.
    I think that Gates is worth every cent of his gigantic fortune. He has already donated enough money. If a person like Gates have worked his whole life to get rich, no one can blame him/her for there fortunes.

    -- Flames Forever. (Ante@suravision.se), October 20, 2001.
    I think that the uncle bill. gotta spend his money in charity but not to the usual kind of charity. he should help to the afganian childhood who doesn´t have the falt of the crazy acts of their leadership. that cause the americans strikes.

    -- Juan Ignacio Usin (nachousin@hotmail.com), October 21, 2001.
    I think Bill Gates should share his money with unfortunate people, helping the poorest countries to become developed, because there's lot of poverty and famine in this small world.

    -- Nuria (nurietage16@terra.es), October 21, 2001.
    I think he should build some companies for the poor people can work in there.Then he should pay my studies and my friend's studies and he should pay we a trip arround the world.

    -- xxx (lara-1@terra.es), October 21, 2001.
    I think that Bill Gates should take a small part of his wealth and spend it in a good hairdresser - it's a joke. I also believe that he must finance investigation projects and give some of his computers to the poorest countries in the world. If we want to end with the poorness, we should help this countries to develope theirselves.

    -- Sisco Lloret Esteve (lazaro.bejar@terra.es), October 22, 2001.
    I think that Mr. Bill Gates should donate that 90 percent of his money in people that really need it and making projects that help to the development of our humanity.

    -- Er JaviEriNg Espin QNK (poyaves@terra.es), October 22, 2001.
    I need about 100,000 to pay for college where the tuition is about 22,000$ a year. The only way i can pay for it is to join the R.O.T.C. and join the army afterwards which i desperately do not want to do, thanks.

    -- Louie DeJibes (lvdogg@hotmail.com), October 25, 2001.
    I think Bill Gates should spend his wealth buying me a large house, an expensive car or an island in the Caribbean. Then, he should give the rest to de Third World. They should be able to build hospitals, schools... However, he should spend his wealth rebuilding the Twin Towers...

    -- Andrés Martínez (alucervantes@wanadoo.es), October 26, 2001.
    We think Billl Gates should give 50 per cent of his wealth at the third world and with the other half he should buy two very big houses, one in Ireland and the other in Australia, for our own.

    -- SARA&PEPA (krhyll@hotmail.com), October 26, 2001.
    I think he should spend his wealth building hospitals in the third world. People in the third world need this money more than him.

    -- Jorge Sanfeliu Serrano (sanmartinez33@terra.es), October 26, 2001.
    If I was Bill Gates I would do the same as him, althrough I also help the poor countries around the world, I'd build hospitals, schools, universities for them.

    -- Nati (nittayork@hotmail.com), October 26, 2001.
    IF I was Bii Gates I would do the same as him, although I also help the poor countries around the world, I'd build hospitals, schools, universities for them.

    -- Nati (nittayork@hotmail.com), October 26, 2001.
    Hello, dont ABUSE ME!

    -- Bill Gates (billgates@microsoft.com), October 26, 2001.
    This is pretty sad I wanted to borrow money from you too until I seen everybody's hand out wanting money now I fill bad...It's seems the more money you have the more peolpe want to be your friend...Maybe I shouldn't look for a hand out I should just get another job and not ask for chairity......

    -- shane and robin perry (busch_light_bottles@yahoo.com), October 27, 2001.
    I THINK THAT BILL SHOULD DONATE A PORTION OF HIS MONEY TO YOUNG UNWED MOTHERS(OR FATHERS)TO HELP THEM OBTAIN AN EDUCATONAL BACKGROUND TO SUPPORT THEIR CHILD(REN).ALSO DONATE $ TO HELP FEED THE LESS FORTUNATE IN THE U.S.A. INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON THE LESS FORTUNATE ALL OVER THE WORLD. REMEMBER THIS:TAKE CARE OF HOME FIRST!!!

    -- JANELL T. (janell_76@hotmail.com), October 27, 2001.
    If I was Bill Gates, I will live as I wasn't a millioner and I won't show and say to anyone that I have millions of dolars. That way people won't like to be friend of my because of the money. Wiht all the money I will help the people who relly needed,like sending medicines to the third world, but I won't show my name when I gave the money.

    -- Jorge L.A. (jgt1984@hotmail.com), October 28, 2001.
    well i think bill gates never going to spent all his money. he should help others who needs it. i make just enouth to pay my billls. i cant go to colege , no one to support me. there is alot like me. why dont BILL help me. i drive 500dollars car. theres alot he can do. help me out to start a small buisnes. ill pay him back ..........well 100,000dollars is enoutG for me to start. for him 100000dollars is just like for me 10dollars. i hope he can get this message. REMEMBER BILL ,WHAT GOD GIVES HE CAN TAKE BACK TO. YOU HELP ME AND ILL HELP OTHERS. IF NOT....... YOU CAN LOOSE EVERYTHING IN ONE DAY. HOPE YOU DONT GET TO UPSET.WELL ENJOY YOUR MONEY .DONT FORGET ABOUT ME IF YOU CAN HELP ME OUT. THANKS ALOT . HELP ME OUT. GOD BLESS

    -- vasily pshelensky (vasik2005@yahoo.com), October 28, 2001.
    I think that Bill Gates, should spend his money with poor people, because he doesn`t need all the money and there are a lot of people who need it.

    -- cristina (cris.aina@terra.es), October 29, 2001.
    I think that he should help to the poor people building schools, houses... ( and I think that he should pay me a salay during all my life!!! jajajajaja!!!)

    -- Maria Soler (gandula@gsmbox.es), October 29, 2001.
    I think he shouldn't waste his money and he should help the poor people.

    -- Rita Mª (Rita-1@terra.es), October 30, 2001.
    to help the youth everywhere to take better chance in education, more scholarships for postgraduates, especially in areas suffering from violance like my country palestine

    -- Mai Abumoghli (maioush@hotmail.com), October 31, 2001.
    Well, for one thing, people need to stop begging for money. Its his money, and the only reason people are asking for it is because they're too lazy to go out and make some of their own. Also You know who the anti christ is? Its Osama Bin Laden. It's not Bill Gates. Hes not killing people. He's just making money. Osama's the one that's killing people plus his followers around the world. He's the one thats trying to disrupt every day life in the US mainly. Also stop complaning that windows sucks. If you don't like it, use linux or something else. It's not like that's the only OS out there for your computer. Well I'm sure Bill Gates will spend his wisely and generously when the time comes. He didn't become one of the richest men in the world by being stupid.

    -- jp (goon@hotmail.com), November 07, 2001.
    He should give it all to me.

    -- Wally L. Wingnut (wally@wingnut.com), November 10, 2001.
    First of all in all things give thanks. Iam sure you have already performed finicial miricles for maNY PERSPON. The word clearly statesx it is better to give han recieve. I would deem it an honor if you would help me to start an educational supply store in Maryland. Also I would appreciate it if you could add an addition on to my church building to house after school program for latch key children . In JESUS name. Whatever you decide may his peace be with you.

    -- MARY ELLIOTT-STANLEY (mstan@goeaston.net), November 10, 2001.
    First of all in all things give thanks. Iam sure you have already performed finicial miricles for maNY PERSPON. The word clearly states it is better to give han recieve. I would deem it an honor if you would help me to start an educational supply store in Maryland. Also I would appreciate it if you could add an addition on to my church building to house after school programs for latch key children . In JESUS name. Whatever you decide may his peace be with you.

    -- MARY ELLIOTT-STANLEY (mstan@goeaston.net), November 10, 2001.
    I FEEL THAT YOU SHOULD GO TO ALL THE PROJECTS OF THE WORLD AND ALL THE GHETTO'S. AFTER YOU GIVE ME SOME. DONATE SOME TO THE TERRIORIST ATTACK IN NEW YORK.

    -- Eurahja McThune (cece4u2nv@yahoo.com), November 12, 2001.
    setup wireless networks accross america! get the whole united states broadband!

    -- Bob Nopenis (sauron@fidnet.com), November 15, 2001.
    setup wireless networks accross america! get the whole united states broadband!, but not free internet access.

    -- Bob Nopenis (sauron@fidnet.com), November 15, 2001.
    i know there is probably a 99.9% chance that bill gates will not be coming to this site but if he would only give my family atleast some money to buy a new house and car and enough to last for the lifetime it would be surely sweet considering my fathers back is all messed up and everything and i cant watch my uncle carry things on his back and riding that big truck to work waking up at 3 in the morning everyday. i know its not too much for bill gates now that xbox and windowsXP came out im sure his buisness is sky rocketting thru the roof.

    -- Zack P (zaur@aol.com), November 17, 2001.
    Bill Gates would utilise his wealth better if helped some African countries by offering computer scholarships or even construct computer colleges but then who is going to manage them with the height of corruption in our beloved continent. I would suggest to attain all this help may be through the church because all what goes through the government never reaches the intended recipients

    -- Fredrich Ellyking Wabwire, 00447956028510 (WWWABWIRE@YAHOO.CO.UK), November 19, 2001.
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    -- LIM (lsanglir@softhome.net), November 23, 2001.
    Dear mister Gates I think that you should give 1 000 000 US$ of your wealth to me. Because(end beleve me) I will spend the best time of my life and at least 100 people around me will be hapy.We (the pour people) know how to enjoj life (if only we had more money).You wouldnt notice that money is gone and somewere in your heart would now that you made somewone hapy(giving is beautiful).Thenk you in adwance, sencirly yours Zoran

    -- Zoran Pribièeviæ (andrea.repic@ka.hinet.hr), November 27, 2001.
    Dear mister Gates I think that you should give 1 000 000 US$ of your wealth to me. Because(end beleve me) I will spend the best time of my life and at least 100 people around me will be hapy.We (the pour people) know how to enjoj life (if only we had more money).You wouldnt notice that money is gone and somewere in your heart would now that you made somewone hapy(giving is beautiful).Thank you in adwance, sencirly yours Zoran

    -- Zoran Pribièeviæ (andrea.repic@ka.hinet.hr), November 27, 2001.
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    -- dicko dixon in adeliade (jajd@iprimus/AustMuscle.com), November 28, 2001.
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    -- GARY RUTHERFORD (THMSUCKER@AOL.COM), November 30, 2001.
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    -- Henrietta Taliman (h_taliman@yahoo.com), December 05, 2001.
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    -- stephen dickens (srddic@lexcominc.net), December 07, 2001.
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    -- lester malicaih (rupp@yahoo.com), December 11, 2001.
    Bill, keep all of your fucking money in your house.....I'm coming. Paranoid yet? I am coming. I'm funny that way and not in the HAHA sense. See ya Bill.

    -- Snake Ertz (SnakeErtz@aol.com), December 11, 2001.
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    -- Terri Ertz (Termin8re@aol.com), December 11, 2001.
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    -- H.S. Moorehead (Moor9300@BellSouth.net), December 12, 2001.
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    -- hell hole (devilspet@hotmail.com), December 18, 2001.
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    -- kermit r. dillon jr. (kermitdillon@aol.com), December 30, 2001.
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    I'm sure everyone else has some idea or use for your money. Yes you have alot of it but it's yours. No one else made one penny for you and i think you should do what ever you like with it. I'm at the bottom with the rest but, I to have dreams ,just like you had when you were in college. We have the ability to look far ahead. I'm living a poor mans life, day for day and check to check but all that counts is that I'm surviving. I guess that should be enough but, it's not. Money does make the world go around and those that don't have it, well we just never get to see the other side. My life isn't the best but if i could dream and make it come true it would be to go too a place I've never been and meet people I've never seen. I grew up in the same neighborhood in which i live now for the last 34yrs and everything is the same all the time. I sure Mr.Gates your money lets you see many wonderful things that only I can dream. For many years I've always said that if I ever became wealthy that I would help (people). I would just write down some numbers in social security format and locate the person to such a number and assist where needed and make their life alittle easier. Keep up with the numbers used and the people helped. Organizations get help from other organizations but, people we're always struggling.

    -- Samantha Dixon (yazzii11@hotmail.com), January 02, 2002.

    When my family was eating out of garbage cans, the utility companies and IRS couldn't care less. They took their share no matter what our plight. Gas prices kept rising regardless of how hard it was to get to work. At that time, I would have done anything for solar power, wind power, a pogue carburator or any other good idea that would keep the utlities, gas companies, and the the IRS out of my pockets.

    I could pay my bills, feed my family, and live a pretty good and philanthropic life myself if the government, gas and utility pirates weren't pillaging my every paycheck.

    Mr. Gates, I'd sure like to see you spend some money researching cheap sources of power and fuel for the masses. (And, if you can lobby to get rid of the IRS you'd be loved by all. If you actually get rid of them, we'd make you king).

    Thanks for your time and attention.

    -- Jeff Walker (jeff_lamar@hotmail.com), January 02, 2002.

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    -- J.COLE (LOCJOE@YAHOO.COM), January 02, 2002.
    I DON'T THINK IT IS ANYONE'S BUSINESS WHAT BILL GATES DOES WITH HIS MONEY.- WE SHOULD BE MORE WORRIED ABOUT OUR CORRUPT POLITICIANS AND OTHER GOVERNMENT OFFICALS, THOSE ARE THE REAL CROOKS.

    -- phillip laguna (ctn67406@centurytel.net), January 03, 2002.
    I pray that someone or any one can help me get into a good college with expenses payed for so i can become a lucrative person like yourself later own in life.If its Ms. Gates who helps me, i would be most honored and grateful. P.S. I want to become some type of engineer.

    -- joseph m. (ENVYJ@MSN.COM), January 06, 2002.
    I am sure that there is individuals out there as myself that is trying to get started farming to help feed our nation and other nations.Computers is a great tool but they can not plant and grow food or produce milk .I have been trying to get a loan to start a dairy farm but am just a little short on the capital that i need as a down payment to get it started out on the right foot. I believe that there needs to be a low interest low down payment loan systems set up to help people get started in the farming operations.Many farmers are selling there land to pay off high interest loans . Which they would not do if they had a low interest loan system .There is nothig that i have found to help first time individuals get started farming.

    -- Jack James Enloe (jenloe@altell.net), January 07, 2002.
    I find it quite revealing that Mr. William Gates plans to take a tithe of all his worldly wealth and plans to use the rest to benifit others. This is a man who has shown great wisdom and focus and stands as an example of the old cliche " we are only limited by our own capabilities " If anyone out there who has responded thinking the world or those more forntunate them , owe their monies to you , you are under a cloud of delusion . If someone has not made a contribution in their own right, would it not be a waste to give it to someone who would not know what to do with it? Better to intrust the wealth to those who have initiative forsight and courage enough to stand for something . Only William Gates and his significant others have full knowledge of what is meaningful enough to him to invest in and to decide where distribution would be deemed best . I think it is safe to assume money in the hands of a fool would not be best . I personally believe true wealth comes in the form of a satisfied person . Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, " Never will I leave you: never will I forsake ." A person who would desire consider ation for Mr. William Gates ' fortune should first of all have a plan that is fleshed out and believable .

    -- Kristi Lee Verhil (kvbelmont616@aol.com), January 11, 2002.
    I think Mr. Gates is worthy of figuring out where he can alocate his fortune. I, right now am going through the toughest fight in my life dealing with the tragic loss of my daughter in a car accident back in Colorado where I used to live. Along with raising my son and possibly losing my dream house to foreclosure, because of hardship in many ways Crazy thing is my faith is still strong that my bi-lingual abilities and skills will some day lead me to the fulfillment of my potentials. Bankruptcy for me now is next unless GOD, and someone like Bill Gates comes into my life out of good will, and assists me in regaining lifes purpose. May GOD bless us all with health, happines, and prosperity.

    -- Guillermo F. Argueta (billyargueta@aol.com), January 11, 2002.
    PLANETARY DEVASTATION

    Sydney Australia is burning – Venice Italy is snowing – in the same week. Glaciers centuries old are melting, forests burning and dying. Coral reefs worldwide are dying or being killed. America belches gas into the atmosphere, Mexico pollutes its waters so fish cant even swim where coral was once lived – I have seen these things and more.

    The roads of Moscow shudder to the sound of millions of cars, and it does not snow in St. Petersburg before end of December. There is a garbage problem in Antarctica, glaciers melt before our tourist eyes in Alaska – because no part of the planet is un visited now – regularly. We pump our effluent into pristine waters and never look to the effect below the surface. Global fish catch has dropped more than NASDAQ did at it worst – but who cares? That’s right 90%. And there are more people fishing more efficiently. And by using huge nets they kill all fish – then throw the dead babies bask into the water. Entire regions of ocean are DEAD. Did anyone remember when you could swim anywhere – today we don’t notice until humans are effected – the water is toxic. Then we move on ; but make sure the tourist brochures warn of the danger we left behind. Millions of acres of the earths lungs – the Amazon rainforest – are decimated every year. This is like a planetary smoker with cancer who wont quit. Then removes a lung and keeps smoking. On the labor day weekend in the USA there were expected to be 88 million cars on the road according to USA today – another proud record for PLANETARY ENVIROMENTAL DESTRUCTION. I was there and my soul shuddered.

    What is an “environment” that overused word bordering on cliché. It is the total surrounding in which any lifeform exists. It includes air, water,soil, plant animal and mineral components, and finally a sort of harmony or balance which is what creates the life in the first place. If an environment becomes sufficiently toxic in any one of these areas it may cease to support certain lifeforms. If it becomes hostile or disrupted it may not support others. If multiple components of an environment exhibit toxic, hostile and disrupted environment then it may cease to support ANY life at all.

    IMAGINE NO FROGS It isn’t hard to do – but why. Amphibians are the surely one of the most physically in touch with our planet – the water, air and the earth. They will die first. Fish will follow – the large ones will die because the hole in the zone layer will kill ALL plankton – their food . we will not notice the Japanese might as they kill so many. Will we just hunt the last one down and be done with it. Ever wonder why shark attacks are increasing in America? Try FOOD. What we do not fish out we kill with pollution.

    But the planet will die ugly. The last two years of the 20th century were the warmest in history, the next few will be warmer oh and it will accelerate. Our population has doubled in the last 30 years (or is it 50?)– after millenniums. It took thousands of years to reach 1 billion, three centuries to reach 3 billion, 30 years to reach 6 billion. The great plague nature finally developed to “cull” the numbers –AIDS – was not successful . global media and our massive sophisticated worldwide network of ourselves saved the millions – so what will reduce the numbers and the massive acceleration of population growth. If mankind were a locust this would be a global emergency. In nature they eat everything then all die of starvation. But they only cover part of the earth But now we feed and defend every persons right to live, there is no survival of the strongest , because the strong help the weak so we pound our planet. Oil wells run dry – clearly NOT an infinite resource – so we move them to the parts of the planet we can find untapped. Even the Great Barrier Reef, the last reef on earth that will die by this and the ozone layer hole

    So lets look into the future , as our planet dies UGLY.

    Where do I begin The quest? Okay the future The year : 2050 ? Temperatures are so hot and UV radiation so high we carry umbrellas ALWAYS – it rarely rains anywhere. when it does it is front page news because it rains so hard people drown by the hundreds– in the 17 newspapers legally allowed to be printed. There are only about 500 species of animals outside zoos. And few people go to them because it is illegal to own a car. The global pollution police ensure that we cant burn anything, and food is restricted for everyone. The world population is 11 million, the rest died in the 10 years of planetary upheaval of weather or from sun exposure or skin cancer or starvation or poison water. Of course the bushfire used to be a natural and effective way of nature controlling the forest. Man fixed that. They raged beyond imagination, and killed off most of the remaining forests in 3 years. But it was the tidal waves that really did it . they killed millions immediately , and finally America RECOGNISED a problem. It was Florida. When that was completely irradiated by a 200+ foot tidal wave driven by a hurricane that killed everyone who survived the waves. oh yeah there were five in 35 days – of course the hurricanes had already made the Caribbean uninhabitable bar a few hardy souls a few years earlier. In Europe disease and famine ravaged, and China was poisoned 350 million died in the 3rd year of the great toxic flow. It was like the earth “threw up’ and what they had pumped into it pursuing the American dream became a plume that infected the water. Of course the frogs died first! The frozen storms into England one day delivered bolder sized toxic pellets that had been accumulating over the Artic. Frozen pollution in front of massive storms that blacked out the sky for 59 days – most died of cold or hunger – who will ever know. Asia starved and died horribly in storms. No food could get in for 3 years – then they stopped asking . there are no people there at all now . The island created by the great quake off America used to be California. The quake shook the earth – they had been getting worse for years. Once the oil wells dried up the first one was triggered when a Saudi/ Russian drilling team dropped a nuclear device into a 7000 meter hole in a last ditch attempt to find oil . it triggered a Planet Quake, which we now call “The Death Rattle”, partly because 52 million died in Russia, and central Europe along with 23 million in America. And part because it was marked as the beginning of the final death rattle of the planet. Who Knows how that connection was made, inside the earth, but science had long since surrendered from research into ANYTHING other than saving the planet – and water. The water wars were our last really dark years as a race – the human race. Water became so scarce governments took over the water supplies , bottled water from Australia was the last to stop shipping, but the first wars had already broken out. Of course the toxins became harder to remove as the water dried up , and most sources were polluted or had toxic plume syndrome. The great plume of India wiped out more than half the country in 4 weeks . Now water is more important than gold. Population EXISTANCE is governed by it. It seems that sucking oil out of the planet opened up underground water in most parts of the planet and polluted it with sulpher, cyanide and various lethal toxins. Many died of course, but a few unpolluted sources in about a dozen countries are now known to sustain life. Of course the internet survives , mans greatest invention? Given that most of the 9 BILLION PEOPLE who inhabited the planet in A.D.2035 were killed, in the most slow ,painful or horrendous manner I guess that science invented mans version of the natures cockroach. Without it we may never know how the bulk of humanity perished

    Back to today. Dawn in Russia, January 1st 2002 Ask yourself if you can believe this? Look at the FACTS you know today and tell me , honestly if you cannot picture Armageddon on a global self imposed scale. Ever seen or felt pollution that you just know – JUST KNOW – is absolutely fucking up our environment or air? Let me list a couple I have seen or felt

    Year 2001 The sky gets BLACK in the afternoon as the “marine layer” moves in over southern California, your skin gets DIRTY just walking around (Katerina said she had to wash herself like she was washing the car ; and she had jeans on/!) , your car is black within a week like you had been in a dark desert. I have seen the freeways from the air at dusk over L.A. – a ribbon of traffic 3 to 6 lanes, bumper to bumper in every direction on every freeway. The earths lungs are heaving. Year 2001 – London M25 traffic jams that stretch unmoving for over 20 miles. The Brits proudly say that this and the Great wall of chian are the only two man made objects visible from space. The city decide to build another airline terminal to take 25 million more people per year. There is no space left so property prices are increasing by 50% per year. Year 2001 – Australia – the Great Barrier Reef . reeling from years of tourism gets to have its first ??? oil/gas rig approved. A death sentence! Year 2001 Phuket Thailand – in the early morning the beach is so littered with rubbish it was actually difficult to run along it. A drain spilling into the main beach was so putrid I had to hold my breath for minutes as I went by. Year 2001 Moscow – the traffic , so dense and cars old , un- roadworthy in most countries belch so much carbon monoxide that sitting in the front seat gives you a sore throat and massive sinus. A traffic jam lasts for six hours days before Xmas. The streets are so filthy under the snow and suddenly it goes to +3’ only just on New years eve. Year 2001 lake Tahoe , the snow is BLACK. When it melts it is black dust Year 2001 Koh Somui Thailand. The most secluded beach on the planet spews up rubbish Year 2001 Jamaica . the land pollution is horrid. Everything outside of 5 star resorts is filthy, littered with refuse and putrid. Water undrinkable. Year 2001 Northern Russia, we set out to clear a lake of snow to go ice-skating – and there is no ice. They have never seen this before – the earth is too warm that there is slush in -15’C temperature Okay I will shorten and go for highlights. Year 1999 mexico- porta villata – the “famous tour” to the tropical reef and waterfall. A brochure shows pristine water , fish & coral. The reality . I snorkeled in oil slick water, there was NO live coral. The place was a toxic graveyard. Over 20 boats belched crap into the already polluted water. I saw one fish bravely swim through the zone in 15 minutes. The waterfall , where you can only get to by boat was so polluted and worse there was almost no water. Only humans.

    this list . It’s endless, from Melbourne to Bangkok, from Paris to London / from Chicago to St Petersburg. From the most remote to the most populated . Form New York to Fiji. From Mexico City to Tasmania. I have traveled the globe for business and pleasure and ….. Reeled in horror at the destruction we are dishing out to this planet. Oh wait – there is one . 1976 – San Diego , California. Our ship ties up and as usual hooks up to the town water supply – I was in the navy. In 2 or 3 days most of the crew were sick, and everyone’s skin was cracking like sun baked mud. Even the captain. They called in the doctors etc, and we were advised NOT to drink the water, and to only shower briefly once a day preferably less. The water.! I spoke to a local and asked about it – “ we all have water coolers at home “she said . what about showers ? oh once every couple of days or you have skin problems. This entire experience was a revelation to Australian sailors as in every port in Australia and NZ we just used the local water and showered 2 or 3 times a day. These people ACCEPTED that their water was “hard” – not polluted – just “heavily chlorinated”. There is no rest , no time out. The pace accelerates and the planet begs for mercy And no one listens And the frogs are dying.

    It began with the frogs. 200 species died in a decade. Maybe more. How many could there be?. will our children’s children make movies about mythical frogs? Like dinosaurs. Well I digress because I doubt it. Most will die – or never be born.

    So who will save the planet

    Throughout the ages there myths and legends of great feats, of things wondrous and amazing and men – and women ( but in this I will use “men” generically) – who have faced immeasurable odds and made a change. Some were great and good for mankind and the world, some were horrible , but they changed the world. Some of these myths are undoubtedly true. They may be exaggerated from the truth, but hey – even out tabloids of today do that. What makes great men? Being born into greatness ? or being born FOR greatness? Well someone has to try and inspire some greatness in this world today so we can save this planet . I have chosen myself for this role. Or maybe it was chosen for me over centuries of lives. Who cares – it will be an excellent adventure, and the greatest quest in the history of mankind. There will be a team of at least 10 men and 10 women who will embark with me on this quest. Some may falter, others will come forward. They will be great people, GREAT MEN. There will be riches – as there should, but more than anything this group of people will know , in their heart bodies and soles that they led humanity toward a future and averted Planetary Devastation.

    I will write a plan. I will need people to support me. We will attack the problem from both ends. The causes: We need to reduce and work towards eradicating fossil fuels use and greenhouse gas emission. Really reduce – the 5% over a few years wont do it. We need to control the population. We need to restrict travel and economic growth . We need to hunt and destroy anyone who destroys forests – including governments . We need to impose rigid global pollution controls, and limit then irradiate disposable ,environmentally unbreakable plastics. Did you know plastic bags have washed up in the Antarctic and the middle of the pacific ocean . can you believe on the island where they filmed Jurasic park is polluted with shipboard disposable refuse and plastic bags?. I shake my head and my heart. We need to control farming and methods in developed countries and reduce urban sprawl into remote areas, particularly America. We need to reduce the number of cars to one per family – you heard right 0 yeah ONE. WE NEED TO LIMIT CYLINDER CAPACITY in cars. We need to outlaw diesel trucks and so much more

    The Symptoms – planet killer number 1: And we will invent a method of repairing the ozone layer. I had a dream that if emissions could destroy it maybe we can reconstruct it , IF we can reduce its destruction We all seen the documentaries that show how small parts of ruined planet have been repaired in this manner. Cut the strain, clean the problem, then maintain and control and we have a chance. Slim but good. I figure we have 5 years before the point of no return,

    Okay the ozone layer; seemingly less of concern than the greenhouse gas issue. Is it. Astronauts are taught to fear radiation as much as any loss of air. we have the tools, aircraft to drift into the stratosphere, the space SHUTTLE , shit we can refuel a fighter in the air or drop bombs down a chimney. We have the people. The planets scientists – if we collate all know data into a central source, build a small team of scientists who produce the planet saver. Maybe we attack from earth and space. Sort of like seeding the clouds – but we seed the planets atmosphere. It might just work . Something will./ Earthbound defenses need to be established – but plant construction may take 3 years ? what do I know – we haven’t invented it yet. Ha An excellent adventure.! Budget is easy – the planet will be dead in 50 years so spend up – okay seriously Defense budget is the key. We divert the planets domestic defense budgets into Planetary defense against human activity.. It is not possible to ignore the planets impending doom and watch it clutch for life and gasp for breath. We have and do rape it daily . how much more can it take . I tell you its is almost done in. The first shudders of the death rattle have begun. Sydney burning. An inferno. Imagine this in temperatures 10’+ hotter – maybe the concrete would burn in the very city.

    So where do I begin

    I cry with sadness over the earths death throws and how we are so many of us blind. I cry with joy for the love I will have and the quest I undertake. I may fail – but I will try. THE BIG QUESTION IS WILL THE POPULATIOM OF THE PLANET TRY It is not possible to do it alone, to quote Michael Jackson. There mat be a gourp who leads but we need an immeasurable amount of support . The world must change. It has happened before. Man has changed because he is in intelligent. You must ask if he can , AS A RACE, ANALYZE THE SITUATION AND CHANGE TO ENSURE HIS SURVIVIAL AS A SPECIES.. Or are we just locusts? A plague on earth consuming it s resources until they expire and we starve slowly and die ugly in the abyss that is the Planetary Devastation We 20 – or more - will share passion, commitment and an unshakeable belief the world can be saved and we can do it. But we wil be leaders , and the global intelligent population must follow. I need resources – I need money – I need power and credibility. Correction – WE need these things as a group. We will be the worlds greatest salesmen , scientists, analysts, engineers, politicians, writers, marketers and business people. After all we are starting a new business Stop Trashing Our Planet – STOP 25% of the greenhouse gasses in the world today – new years eve 2001/2002 – are produced by only 3% of the planets population – America….. in the planetary destruction stakes this is the darth vader led evil empire . but I have seen the enemy. I lived there .They don’t know. They don’t understand that consuming 8 times more gasoline/petrol/fuel per person than the rest of the plant is not good. They are media phobic of everything in America (outside the middle east and afgan stuff) and believe that the consumerism they strive to maintain is good , that growth is good , more is good, that America is right and just and mighty – and it may be all those things. But talk pollution and they stare blankly. Talk global warming and they stare blankly I hereby announce that there is NO GLOBAL WARMING This is PLANETARY DEVASTATION, all species terminal This is PLANETARY DEVASTATION, all species terminal This is PLANETARY DEVASTATION, all species terminal

    Back to America. The rest of the world cant combat that toxic output. And they have to /WANT to change. We have to psychologically manipulate a change in the entire country , including media, so politicians HAVE to be elected on the STOP platform. We need leaders who can say STOP.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

    So who do you think will be up for some serious dragon slaying kick arse save the world kind of excellent adventure. So I come with my sword and my love and my belief and global knowledge and the thirst to learn more. I am young , but old, I am not powerful but I have power.inside My mother said to me two years ago “Reach not for the stars – Aim higher” and someone has to do it. I do not aspire to greatness but in my quest for something in life invariably found it thrust upon me. I have fought all my life, physically , emotionally and mentally striving to be my best – not that I did always acheive it; love has made me strive every day in every way to be a better man. and now I must commence , the first step is trod. This is not a story – this ladies and gentlemen of the planet – is REALITY It does not get any more real than this. We will still have fun, for laughter is the best medicine of all We will love, we will travel for the future and do all the things we must do to have balance so our quest is life, not our life is a quest. We will face fear, rejection and pain, we will see the beautiful sunrises knowing that we do it all so they are still seen by human eyes in 100 years.

    The inspirations are all around you if you listen – the songs, the books the movies all to inspire someone – 20 someone’s – to get off their arses/buttes and save the planet. Some people already have the greatness of global achievement – these people are my first recruits. Maybe we will find the true leader amongst them. If my destiny is to be a part and not to lead – so be it. But I have never drawn a breath not knowing that I was destined to do something great. I hope we are not too late. But the man who waits for the bus does not control the timetable. In 1991 when I started my company I wrote a small saying that got me over some incredible hurdles and challenges “ The mountains we climb today are only foothills compared to the mountains we have yet to climb.” . well I say lets climb this one while there is still some snow on top. now ask me what Mr. Gates should do with his money? same thing i plan to do with mine. wayne sharpe

    -- wayne sharpe (wayne@bartercard.com), January 15, 2002.

    Just about all my life I have wanted to start my own wrestling club to teach others this great sport. But I dont have the means but I try to make good and still mentor every year God willing and my body to hold up to do so. He should help those who are helping our young to stay fit healthly because its all up to them from hear on out. I wish Bill Gates the best and to his children and family. God Bless him for he never knows lifes struggles one has to deal with.

    -- Nicholas Hidalgo (nhidalgo@cardinalpps.com), January 16, 2002.
    I don't think that Bill should listen to all of those SOB stories that people e-mail. People, poor or rich, are money hungry; and the poor people out there are just trying to find an easy dollar...don't give them any. They didn't earn his money, he did. And so what if he wasn't the first one to think of this whole Microsoft thing. He was the only one with enough balls to get it done. I think that he should keep it all to himself, and if he chooses to give it someone, then it's his choice, not ours to make. Who gives a shit if he said he was going to give some of it away, the press should not pressure him to donate his money. His work, his money.

    -- Natalie (narieberry@hotmail.com), January 19, 2002.
    Hi Reading most answers made me sad. cars houses material things jealousy insults greed I havent got much and the only thing i`d really like to do is to help animals. People mock me for caring, laugh at me for not eating meat,laugh when i give donations to animal charities.. Out of all those messages i probably only saw two or so animal lovers. i wish we could educate children and adults into realising that animals matter too, and that they`ve got just as much right to be here as us. i sometimes feel that im surrounded by a world of monsters..... In my lifetime i hope i see some changes, i hope i can help things that matter to me. Id open an animal rescue shelter ,and id help my friend the chicken man.He has recently opened a Chicken Rescue Centre ,where he rehabilitates hens and chickens rescued from horrible battery farms . Thats all i1d really love to do.. thanks for reading x

    -- REBECCA GILMAN (beckydarlin@bigfat69.freeserve.co.uk), January 24, 2002.
    I think he should give money to whoever he choses to give it to and people should understand that just because he is rich doesn't mean he has enough to give it to you. I know I know he's up there and I know everyone would take it if it were given but I think if everyone should at least try to make a differ

    -- Adam(kinda obvious) (Adam3345@aol.com), January 26, 2002.
    i believe that he should place money into reaserchign cures and money into charity that help send surgeon to third world countries and to charitys like comic relief and also to set up charitys to help the. less fortunite in the US.He has worked hard for his money i do not ask him to give it all away but all this could be doen and not even dent hi small change

    -- Kathryn Anne Ritchie (geniusrichie@hotmail.com), January 31, 2002.
    I BELIVE YOU SOULD ALL STOP BEGGING THIS MAN FOR WHAT WAS HIS IDEA...... YOU SHOULD ALL USE THE BRIAN GOD GAVE YOU AND FIND YOUR OWN INTREST. THIS IS NOT A HATE LETTER,I THINK HE SHOULD DO GREAT THINGS. THAT'S MY ANSWER..."MR.GATES,DO GREAT THINGS!"

    -- SARAH KATHLEEN WIDON (SARAHKATHLEEN@AOL.COM), February 02, 2002.
    I BELIVE YOU SOULD ALL STOP BEGGING THIS MAN FOR WHAT WAS HIS IDEA...... YOU SHOULD ALL USE THE BRAIN GOD GAVE YOU AND FIND YOUR OWN INTEREST. THIS IS NOT A HATE LETTER,I THINK HE SHOULD DO GREAT THINGS. THAT'S MY ANSWER..."MR.GATES,DO GREAT THINGS!"

    -- SARAH KATHLEEN WIDON (SARAHKATHLEEN@AOL.COM), February 02, 2002.
    Redistribute most of the so called "his wealth" to the customers of MS as partial payment for the exhorbitant overcharges for Windows updates. The entrepeneure is entitled to a reaconable return on his investment which is to double the investment in ten years. This was the "govenor" estabkished with the rule of "chargeing whateve the "law allows".

    -- Donald A. Burrill (dallenburrill@aol.com), February 02, 2002.
    I believe Bill (and his wife for sure) is the most generous person on earth. He is very knowledgeable about where his money should go to help people around the world. I've seen most of his money went the poor and ill, not like those who spend money to build stadiums or buying basketball teams. And disregarding how much he gives, he is the one who gives and will give the most. And do you know who much Microsoft has contributed to the US economy?

    -- Kevin (uw_kevin@hotmail.com), February 04, 2002.
    I believe that Bill Gates should carry out the 'Gospel of Weath' which is a pamplet written by Andrew Carnigie in which he states ' a man who dies rich dies disgraced'

    -- Malissa August (alll_malissa@hotmail.com), February 05, 2002.
    Dear Mr. Gates,

    If in fact you plan on giving money away, then why not support the individuals that could benefit from knowledgable people such as yourself in developing thier PATENTS. I myself am in the middle of trying to fill out patent forms. Do you realise how hard these forms are? I am married and the mother of three beautiful children. We live in Indio, CA (my husband has seen you several times he is or was the manager of a Cheveron Extramile in Palm Desert) Anyway, I have been working so hard...staying up till the early hours of the morning working and researching patent databases in order to FILL OUT MY USPTO FORMS THE CORRECT WAY! I never thought that putting my idea to work would be so difficult. Yes, I have requested information from Patent Attourneys', which do me no good as I cannot afford them. So back to square one I go "Doing it myself".

    I wonder how many wonderful ideas "DREAMS" never come to pass... People like myself who struggle from pay check to pay check in order to support thier families ever really make it to the top of the Public Chain? My Patent one dealing in the areas of: ECOMMERCE AND NETWORK DESIGN APPLICATION FOR USE OF ARTICLE FOR MANUFACTURING/MARKETING. I believe my patent "once" it comes in to form will be an incredable money maker as well as help those of us less fortunate people. So now that I have given you my opinion I hope you will consider my message as food for thought!!! The benefits could come full circle- FROM BILL GATES TO THE CREATIVE MINDS BACK TO BILL GATES CREATING MORE DOLLARS TO BE USED FOR THIS SAME PURPOSE.

    Thank You for your time, Sincerely Seeking Some advise,

    LouAnn A. Kirsch

    -- LouAnn Kirsch (Ladybleau126@yahoo.com), February 06, 2002.

    I think it's his money he worked for it. It would be nice to have new school programs to educate childern on how to use computers to educate themselve. Have a real fair contest to win comuters or money. and support your local christain churchs. God bless you in this.

    -- GARY A. DEROCHE (AIRMAN4242@AOL.COM), February 06, 2002.
    i've never seen so many greedy people in my life.. almost all the answers here were for self satisfaction whether for themselves or their chairties. gates reached for the rainbow and found the pot of gold. and most are just reaching out for a hand out. it doesnt matter what we think he should do with it.. i'm sure he will do the right thing and i bet you a dime to a dollar it will be rightous in content and will affect millions of lives.. i'm not a rich guy neither but i work for what i get and expect no hand outs.. i am displeased that this country has fallen so far as to expect everyone just to give you what you dont work for.. there i said my piece.. thank-you

    -- kevin crowl (sspewmaster5@aol.com), February 07, 2002.
    fuck off

    -- ibrahim musa (ibrahimmusasnr@onebox.com), February 12, 2002.
    I think Bill should use his money to ensure that everyone has a fast broadband internet connection then everyone can make full use of the new xp and the internet.

    -- michael eugene millison (m.millis@btinternet.com), February 14, 2002.
    How would I go about asking Mr. gates for A cash grant to help me start a small farm business.

    -- Michael Shaffer (thecrew@emcs.net), February 22, 2002.
    ********Look I'm not giving any money to you buttheads. I just wipe my butt with a 100 dollar bill. I will die with my money. The only reason i give me to the foundation is for a tax write-off. But, i make profit of of that. I paid my daughter 30 million to have sex with me. my microsoft product has a bug in and will be corrupted upon death. So the whole world can fall apart when i depart this world. Stop asking me for money because you freak aren't getting any. I enjoy watching you'll getting your hopes up think i will give you a dam dime. Hell i dont give money to my own church on sundays. I plan to save a trillion dollar then burn it just to mess up the economy. My house has a atomic bomb in it that will self detruct when i die. Wait a mintue let me go by lake washington............... Ok i'm back...But, as i was saying beg beg beg you dumb common people.

    -- BILL GATES (BILLGATES@MICROSOFT.COM), February 25, 2002.
    I think bill should take all the microsoft user and put them on pluto

    -- ibm (hatemicrosoft@mars.com), February 25, 2002.
    I think bill should take all the microsoft user and put them on mars

    -- ibm (hatemicrosoft@mars.com), February 25, 2002.
    I will make you beg

    -- bill gates aka satin (BILLGATES@MICROSOFT.COM), February 25, 2002.
    stop asking my cousin for money.......

    -- bin laden (bendoverrover@micosuck.com), February 25, 2002.
    Well Mr. Gates I think that it would be nice that you would give so much of your money away while you are still alive. For one reason that your family won't be fighting over it when ever you die. I would ask you for about 600,000 just to get me out of debt and help my children get a better start on life. I also would like to start a business in fashion then maybe I could become almost as wealthy as you. So I will give just as you have given. P.S. If not could you please have one of your friends in the modeling business. Yolanda Spears

    -- yolanda spears (yolandaspears@hotmail.com), February 27, 2002.
    Hello Mr. Gates, I have a grandson (little Rodney Mann, Jr.)six (6) years old who cannot walk or talk like a normal six year old. Rodney is wheelchair bouned. Rodney at birth was classified as "trauma at birth". My daughter, Charlotte (Rodney's mother) had a normal pregnancy. However, it seems that no one from the hospital(s), (to include Emory) can give us a clear understanding as to why my grandson is the way he is. Our goal, one day is to send Charlotte and her son Rodney, Jr. to the John-Hopkins Hospital for an operation. (monies we don't have) My daughter Charlotte,(a single mom) just recently loss her job of 14 years with Coca Cola due to cut-backs. We need your financial assistance in helping us reach this goal and the possibility of one day seeming my grandson walk, talk, laugh, jump and play like a normal kid. I realize that this is just another "help me please", but.....can you help me PLEASE???!!!!!!!!!!!

    It hurts to see Little Rodney this way. Just another caring Grandmother.

    -- Sylvia Andrews (sandrews@gwcc.com), March 01, 2002.

    WHY WAITE UNTIL MR. GATES IS GONE, THERE ARE ALOT OF NEEDY FAMILYS WHO NEED HELP BUYING A HOME. MAYBE HE SHOULD CHOOSE FAMILYS AFTER HEARING THERE STORIES LIKE MR ROSS DID.

    -- MICHELE MOCK (WWW.COUNTRYINN@HOME.COM), March 06, 2002.
    Thank you very much.

    First of all It seem that mr Bill Gates doesnt know THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT.The fruit of the spirit is love,to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction,and caring for the needy.Mr Bill Gates put your labour and your riches to the poor instead of pouring your wealth in building microsoft.Because good deeds are the fruit that Jesus Christ requires us to bear.Deeds of benevolence,of tender regard for the poor,the needy,the afflicted.Remember the richesed man in the Bible and poorest ful of smelling wounds by the name Lazolo,who sit near the table of the rich desiring to eat the small food particals from his table.but as time went on the poor man died and rich also die.The poor Lazalo went to abrahm and Isacc,and the rich guy ended into the lake of fire. You should know that every act of justice,and merciful act to the needy and benevolence makes melody in Heaven.

    In Uganda we ve got alot of children who are suffering,who want to go school but they have no sponsor.Forinstance I have 15 girls and boys of their families eatten up by Aids. They are under my care and I am also helpless. Therefore Iam writting kindly request you to financially extend a hand of least $50,000.00 (FiFTY THOUSAND)dollars to enable me help the needy of younger girls and boys.Paying schoolfees for them and build for them.They need EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE AND ACOMMODATION.Their parents died of Aids and they dont have any help at all. My postal address is: Henry Guanja P.O.Box 3458 Kampala, Uganda. East Africa.

    I shall be grateful if my request is considered favourably with a contnued parental support.

    I wish you many more years of life.Repent,help the needy,take care of the fatherless and you will find your wealth kept safly with Jesus Christ.

    Yours in Need Henry Guanja.

    -- Henry Guanja (guanjahenry@yahoo.com), March 11, 2002.

    I have a disable daughter who requires care. She is in and out of the hospital constanly which I miss work for. I have not had a full week work in almost a year now. It would really be nice not to have bill collectors calling all the time or wondering if you can pay rent or electric bill. It would really be nice to have a decent house to live in.This money would be put to great use, I could promise you that. It is very hard when you try to do this alone.I would pay off all my bills, buy a house and a good car to take her to Dr. appoinments and to hospital. Sometime life just dont seem fair to have a child go through what she has been through and still going through.

    -- Lisa Lotts (llotts@ntelos.net), March 11, 2002.
    anything he wants to since he got off his butt and made it he could leave it all to his family it is his business not ours

    -- a. Bertrand (bertranda@hotmail.com), March 14, 2002.
    It is said that everything has a price. How much is world peace?

    -- Ryan Whiteside (greenside02@aol.com), March 14, 2002.
    if Bill Gates is reading this i just want him to know that i am very poor and i need 28,000 dollars to start a business. i would like to start a wheelchair transportation van business but do not have the money. if you ever decide to help out please email me. ps: my son really is one of your greatest fans and he would like you to come to Dallas sometime.

    -- Eliot Lee McDonald (shelby215@aol.com), March 19, 2002.
    The system in the United States and elsewhere is corrupt, to help make this world a better place you can distribute to organizations with good intentions along with pray to God to get more answers. I am 28 years old I just got diagnosed with a vision problem last year by a dr. who had a friend that had similar problems, I insisted I had difficulties reading an such my entire life, I am thankful if you are considering this because I am in need of money for purposes to find a great attourney the perverted corrupt judge and cops where I was placed in Thurston County harmed me I still don't know why they kept me in jail I don't have a criminal record and I need help it was an awful experience and the attourney they appointed me never writes or answers my call they say she is to busy and also other stuff it is severe and I got a GED 10th grade finished and even my 9th grade teacher wanted me to get help with reading with out knowing I had a very bad eyesight problem I seem normal I have been raped and don't even trust our system to tall them if you want to give advise to me or financial contributions for my need to get some far chance to say what happened write po box 1746 and thank you for trying to do good sincerly aka AZZIZZA

    -- Christina Lynne D'Angelo (ciar @home.com), March 20, 2002.
    If he's really serious, spend it for something truly good...and on one thing, dont spread it out. Then it would have minimal impact. Examples would be Raising the Minimal standard of living. For those who have nothing or next to it. Build them homes with running water, and MAYBE electricity. Provide them with jobs to support themselves. THIS WONT BE FREE!!! THEY MUST WORK AND BE WILLING TO!!! Nothing for the lazy hobos who dont try, and prefer begging for things... Or, Cleaning and Rebuilding the World Trade Center! That would be excellent. Or, providing aid and development to Europe, Asia, and Africa. Those that need it. Or, give it to the U.S. government SPECIFICALLY to help pay off the NATIONAL DEBT. That would really help the U.S. He can spend 5% of his remaining 10% on himself(Living,food,etc.) and save/invest the remaining 5% for his future generation...well, thats my suggestion...and that's worth about 2 CENTS!! for now...

    -- Mr Bob (mr_bob_jf@yahoo.com), March 22, 2002.
    Yes, he did actually put some effort into what he did, and he damn well deserves it. he can spend it however he chooses. You all are asking the wrong person for help. You need to find real help.

    -- Mr Bob (mr_bob_jf@yahoo.com), March 22, 2002.
    what do i think? i think mr gates should help those less fortunate then he. the mere thought of a $100+ exam to get certified is insane. he should offer these exams free of charge (with all the money that company makes) to those students that meet a minimum gpa of 3.0 or whatever gpa is set forth by the man himself and then an entry level job with his company. for those that make it thru the entire mcse track; pay for their complete tuition!

    -- daisy (angelus_girl101@hotmail.com), March 24, 2002.
    Dear Mr.Gates: I was amazed at the response that people gave to this question. I am sure if they were the ones that had been able to accomplish the things in their lives as you have that they would not be acting so ignorant. They do not seem to realize that what you have acheived took hard work, time and skill. All I would to ask you is for suggestions on how to find donations and fund raising ideas for a Boy Scout Troop. We are a troop that just split away from another due to verbal abuse and yes one boy was slapped. We have many boys with disorders and disabilites. I am not the brightest light bulb in the lamp, but I do have a lot of heart and the one want to help these boys. We are starting out from scratch and need everything as far as equipment. So please any advice to put us in the right direction would be most helpful. Continued success to you.

    -- Theresa Ungvare (justme2@optonline.net), March 25, 2002.
    Dear Mr. Gates,

    I think like all good buiness men, you should invest your money for the future. One way to do this would be to invest in the educations of many childern who have fallen thru the cracks. I like mircosoft...and windows...it had been one of the good things educationally for my child. But instead of helping on a global scale maybe you could start small and help elementary childern like my son.

    My son has dyslexia and dysgraphia...only educational oppertunity he has had is via the computer...He desperatly needs someone to invest in his future...He is willing to pay you back later If you could invest in his education now. He Needs a orton-gillinham based educational program...the lowest cost of this type instruction is 3000.00. That Money would send one teacher to training and get the program we so desperatly need. NOT one teacher in our district is trained in dyslexia. In fact I am willing to go myself...then work as a tutor with dyslexics. He has a college account he can not touch till he is 18. Then We can pay you back! So Mr. Gates we are not asking for a handout...Just a investment. Not only in my sons future...but for many.

    Thank you.

    -- (D2070@aol.com), March 25, 2002.

    as one of the very less privileged in the world around us i'd like mr bill gates to use his wealth to help us as regards our education by giving us scholarship so thaty his name can live forever on oue hearts and in our mouth for "GOD LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER" Thank you sir as you put me into consideration for a brighter future

    -- opeyemi macaulay (yemmac@yahoo.com), March 27, 2002.
    I think Mr.Gates B.should have the opportunity to visit my web and others and dicides from there www.abandonedorphaned.org

    -- Nucklass R.Jasmin (nucklass@bellsouth.net), March 27, 2002.
    I think Bill should invest it in America's future stock; NIN.

    ....."and the greatest is LOVE"

    -- darla starr (oh punnybones@aol.com), April 01, 2002.

    have as much fun as you can sir.By the way thanks for creating microsoft.You've brought much joy for millions of peaple.It must be that you have a mind of a genious,it takes alot of knowledge to create something so big.As i said,buy as much as you desire,because you do deserve it.If you feel uncomfortable with that,do as God says,"give to the NEEDY".I'M NOT SAYING THAT YOU HAVE TO,its just an opinion among millions. the x-box is awsome!here's an idea for creating something better.."the ray cube",a device used to put more information and better contrasts in computers,games,microchips,elctronics,ect. take a shot at it!!

    -- michael wayne case (Spike14MCase@aol.com), April 01, 2002.
    Dear Bill I am writing to you in concern for a family. The husband and wife are asking for your finacial assistance. They have been a low income for many years(around $400 a week after tax)and experienced difficulty raising two boys which are now in their teens. The husband has not had good health since he was born. The wife does ironing to help their income. They don't have a car and they would love to get one and also buy their own house. PLEASE help them if you can!

    -- Robert Hendry (robert_o777@hotmail.com), April 01, 2002.
    Hi, My name is Robert. I have dream of reaching out to Street/Homless kids. I wish to start up a shelter in every state of Australia for homless and Street kids. I being an ex former Street kid myself, I know where these kids are coming from. I am now a christian and have been one for 15 years. I have been off all my addictions of drugs and alcohol since September 1987. I plan on helping these kids by giving them a home, a place to learn etc. I will educate them in what they would like to do. ALOT OF THESE KIDS JUST NEED LOVE. I Robert would love to see this dream come to pass as I deeply care and love these kids, after all there are not many people that don't care. In Brazil their Street kids are called rubbish, They are getting killed because there are to many homless people, REMEBER THESE ARE JUST KIDS,8-14 YEAR OLDS ARE BEING KILLED BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST RUBBISH TO THEM,THERE UNLOVED!! Australia is becoming just like this, and I pray it will never become as bad as Brazil. I will do anything and go out of my way to put life back into these homless children. In Australia alone there is about half a million kids on the Street.I know that I am only one person and I can't do it alone. It would be greatly appreciated if you could be a partner in helping me and the homless Children. Please contact me about any questions or enquiry you may have. Yours faithfully and Respectively Robert Hendry.

    -- Robert Hendry (robert_o777@hotmail.com), April 02, 2002.
    Dear Mr Gates, I would just like to firstly say you are an inspiration to me. I will be jioning a bussiness called IDA as soon as I turn 18. It will allow me to become rich like you, but I have 2 years to and I can't wait. I am working at Woothworths (Safeway) but working for people I believe will never get me rich, I need the money to work for me so I can become rich, IDA will allow me to fullfill my dream of being rich like you. I do not receive enough income from Safeway!! I am currently Playing the Bass Guitar for the Church I go to and 4 other places a week, But The Amplifier I am using is too small and I am pushing it to hard and it may blow up, It is Only a 15 WATT Amp. I aim to get a 100 WATT Amp but I will never get it with the wages I earn at Safeway! It would cost around $1000. It would be very appreciative if you could donate a small amount to go towards it. I Thank you for your inspiration and taking the time to read this. Please Contact me on your decision what ever it may be. Sincererly yours Stephen.

    -- Stephen Hickman (Agreentiger@hotmail.com), April 02, 2002.
    BILL GATES,IF YOU READ THIS,GIVE YO MONEY TO ME SUCKA! HERE CHECK THIS OUT.I NEED ABOUT 100% OF IT.IS THAT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU I HOPE IT DOESNT BOTHER YO HOUSE OR ANYTHANG.YOU CAN EVEN GIVE ME A SCHOLARSHIP.OOPS MY BAD,TOOK ALL OF IT! NOW,CAN YOU DIG THAT!

    -- ludacris & lita (jackrabbit08@aol.com), April 03, 2002.
    HEY,BILL,HEY BILL.BUY YO ASS RUSSIA & TURN IT INTO YO HEADKWARTAZ OF MICROSOF DOGGS.AW YEAH,I STILL WONT CHO MONEY

    -- ludacris & lita (jackrabbit08@aol.com), April 03, 2002.
    I'm a person who ran away from an abusive home life who is now living with my boyfriend trying to fight my way through college, we live with his mother in a tiny house and can barley afford to buy food. I think bill gates should help the poor in America that are trying to go to school if he wants to give his money away. I've lived on both sides of the fence, I know what its like not to struggle, to have everything you need or want and now I know what it is like to struggle and barley get buy and have to go with out food to keep a roof over my head and struggle to get back and forth to school its not easy, and sometimes i feel like giving up but i don't because i want to make something of myself. And things might get bad enough that i have to give school up and get a full time job but if there were more grants advalible for college that were acessable to people struggling through school the future would be alot brighter for many people.

    -- (numberzero2@hotmail.com), April 05, 2002.
    Mr Gates, On this past Thursday a friend of the family was killed. He was only 29 years old and just started worknig with General Electric. His wife is 26 and is three months pregnant and riasing a 7 year old daughter. The family comes fro, a poor back ground, they thought with his new job the they would get out of debt. They had no insurance since he just changed jobs, and totaled their only car. They can't affored to have a service for him. I've been helping the family by trying to raise money to get him a headstone. If you can help it would be greatly appreciated.

    -- Melanie Elliott (cheyenneelliott@yaho.com), April 07, 2002.
    bill, your money is your money nobody can speak on you can spend it but if you are straight all times like you have always been God will continue to shower his abundant blessing on you. 'Give the riches to the for God has anointed you'

    -- bombo camara (bcama2002@yahoo.com), April 16, 2002.
    Sponsor a VERY MOVING bronze sculpture by a neighbor of mine who has designed "THE FALLEN TWINS" - a powerful design that I would like to send to Bill Gate for him to judge and consider.

    I am an old fart - 70 years old - and a successful advertising executive for twenty-five years and now have twenty years very successful years in Real Estate - a Century 21 Centurion and a former RE/MAX International Hall of Fame member, so I know whereof I speak (write!).

    This design for a memorial to the NY Trade Towers 9/11 is POWERFUL!

    Bill should SEE what I have in a photograph of it. Where do I send it?

    Dane Hooper

    -- Dane Hooper (Dane@DaneHooper.com), May 01, 2002.

    While this cite was being made...

    -children where starving in Peru -agent Orange victims were suffering in Cambodia -field workers were slaving in Columbia -children were working in China -factory workers were being exploited in Argentina -womans rights in Afghanistan were deteriorating -100,000s were living homeless amongst North America -African families were living poverty stricken lives -terrorit acts are being practiced -prostitution and homlessness was occuring throughout the world

    and you are asking what should become of your wealth...

    Be grateful you have the opportunity to ponder over the thought, do somthing of great use, help those who can not help themselves.

    -- erika schade (erikaschade@brentwood.bc.ca), May 03, 2002.

    Bill Gates i think you should do whatever you want with the money you earned it through hard work and dedication no one and i mean no one should tell you what to do with the money hell if most of us were in your shoes wed say bury it with us

    -- tony harris (whodamanmee@aol.com), May 12, 2002.
    THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. I BELIEVE THE REASON ANYBODY'S BLESSED WITH WEALTH IS TO IN TURN BLESS THOSE LESS FORTUNATE. BUT IT SHOULD BE DONE CONSTRUCTIVELY, IN A WAY TO BETTER THEIR LIVES. IF MR GATES WOULD TRUST ME WITH $3 MILLION I WOULD DO MY PART TO MAKE SURE THAT HAPPENS. THE REASON FOR 3 MILLION IS FIRST OF ALL TEN PERCENT WOULD BE GIVEN TO THE CHURCH, ONE THIRD WOULD BE TAXED, ONE THIRD TO HELP TRAINED SOME PEOPLE IN A FIELD TO HELP THEM BECOME PRODUCTIVE MEMBER OF SOCIETY, THE LAST THIRD WOULD BE SPLIT TO FEED THE HUNGRY WHICH OUR CHURCH DO NOW, AND START A BUSINESS. I COULDN'T JUST SPEND THE MONEY AND IT DISAPPEARED. TO BE A FAITHFUL RECEPIENT I NEED TO INVEST SOME OF THE MONEY TO KEEP IT GROWING. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO VOICE MY CONVICTION.

    -- EMMANUEL FEQUIERE (EMEM4040@YAHOO.COM), May 14, 2002.
    GOD IS GOOD.I BELIEVED THAT GOD IS TOUCHING MR. BILL'S HEART TO HELP THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED.THE BIBLE SAYS THAT BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL,FOR THE THEY WILL SHOWN MERCY.I BELIEVED THAT GOD BLESSED HIM MORE THAN HE IMAGINED BECAUSE HE HAS THE PURPOSE FOR MR.BILL.THE PURPOSE IS TO BLESSED OTHER PEOPLE TOO.IF GOD WILLING THAT MR.BILL WILL TOUCH WITH THIS MESSAGE AND GIVE ME 5 MILLION DOLLARS WHICH IS A VERY LITTLE PORTION OF HIS WEALTH, WILL SHARE THE MONEY TO THE POOR, CLOTHE THEM,TEN PERCENT IN CHURCH,PUT UP A COMPUTER BUSINESS THAT WOULD REMIND PEOPLE AND ALWAYS REMEMBER HIM.LASTLY,THE MONEY WILL HELP SUPPORT THE ORPHANAGE,BECAUSE CHILDREN ARE AFTER GODS HEART.MR.BILL, YOU ARE GODS BLESSING TO US.MAY THE LORD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU AND YOUR WHOLE FAMILY AS GOD WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS.GOD BLESS YOU AND HE LOVES YOU SO MUCH.

    -- Melissa Fequiere (psalmist24@yahoo.com), May 14, 2002.
    I think Mr. Gates should give jayde745@aol.com 12.5 million.Two million would put computers in the inner city churches & community centers. Nine million would be used to open special centers for people (battered/abused) with an area being focused on building self esteem, and offer new job training programs, with a focus on beleaving in ones self and their inner as well as mental strengths to make their dreams a reality. The remaining 1.5 million would be used for.....

    -- Shannon Maria Carpenter (jayde745@aol.com), May 15, 2002.
    While you're supposedly giving away all this money(90%),I'll take 1,000,167,001.00: 55,000.00 to pay off my home, 30,000.00 to pay off my debts, 72,000.00 to buy a bmw, 10,000.00 to pay off my student loans, and lastly 1,000,000,000.00 so i'll be a billionaire like you considering our b-days are less than 24 hrs. apart. Although the years are somewhat different. When you're ready to cut the check, e- mail me and we'll do the address thing! PEACE OUT.

    -- jayde (jayde745@aol.com), May 15, 2002.
    Hello, Mr. Gates, You must be very proud of your achievements,despite what people think those dollars didn't come easy.You have struggled,no sleep,risk decision e.t.c,So i don't think it is fair telling you how to spend what you have earned.My advice is choose a project in every developing country and lift the lifes of us people,and you willbe forever be remembered,if no ideas please contact this kenyan lady and I will be happy to help. good luck and God bless you. thank you

    -- Naumi kariuki (mbeneka@yahoo.com), May 17, 2002.
    Im looking for a loan i cant get because i have bad credit.I have a family size of 8 and live in a single wide mobile home on family owned property. I would like to just get enough to buy ground,and put a home on it for myself and my family. I dont really have a answer,But i hope some day i will have enough money to do that.

    -- Timothy Kurtz (Timnmee@aol.com), May 18, 2002.
    I think that half of- No more than half of everyone that has answered here is just greedy.. All any one ever thinks about any more is ME, ME, ME. What can I do for me. I think that if he really wants to help people, try and help all the people who were hurt in affect from the bombing. All the people who lost there jobs and in effect lost there homes and family. And there are alot of people out there who do not have a home who are living out on the streets trying to make a life. But no one will give them a break. All they really need is someplace to call home for awhile while they clean up enough to get there lives started.. Sure there are alot of things in this world that everyone wants. But there are alot of people who do not have anything at all. Everyone stop asking for a change and start giving.

    -- Tonya Pederson (cyblle@msn.com), May 26, 2002.
    i think he should give some money to my husband.hes been trying to start a computer business to help people educate themselves by using our computers.we cant get funding,it would help thousands,help and educate themselves.please help.

    -- rita ortiz (liddle_mouse@msn.com), May 31, 2002.
    I THINK YOU SHOULD SETUP A FOUNDATION TO HELP OTHERS WITH BOTH MEDICAL NEEDS AS WELL AS BUSINESS , AND EDUCATIONALL NEEDS. HOW EVER YOU EARNED IT SO THE MAJORITY SHOULD BE FOR YOU LIKE ANY ONE ELSE THAT MAKES THEIR MONEY.

    -- KATHY CLINE (MCKATHY52002@HOTMAIL.COM), June 02, 2002.
    Well now hum 2 percent of the people with wealth control the destiny of others or the resoruces of the planet, well a afro- american guy like me could use some chunk change to do right thing to assist my quailty of life. How bout contributing to the " conflict resolver fund" that's what you call getting down to the grass root of it all. "peace from a forty sumthin buppie"

    -- Lewis B. Champion III (big_ideals@lvcm.com), June 02, 2002.
    Well, what I think Bill Gates should do with all his well is help those who are less fortunate. I come from a low income family and I'm struggling in school. In order to make it in this world you should be in school studying and working to make a better life for yourselves.

    But, some people are doing both and stil is struggling. I'm working and going school my dream is to finish school and open up my own Talk Show and the only problem I'm having is lack of funding. Bill Gates is very wealthy, and was hoping if he is willingly to help those who are less fortunate he can help me sponsor me for my Talk Show that be a dream come true for me........and help me out through some funding for my college education fee's thats all I asked of him.

    That would be a big help for me. If he decided on helping me out through sponsoring me for my own Talk Show and helping me pay some of my funding for college. It would be greatly appreciated, and after I finish my education and have my own Talk Show I will be very happy to pay him back for his good deed....Thats just my input on his wealth.....and also would help others out who are struggling and is in my same situation.

    P.S. I hope Bill Gates read this some day soon be a dream come true if he could help me!!

    Thanks Again

    Mary

    -- MARY E. (shortcake_girl2002@yahoo.com), June 06, 2002.

    Well Bill gates does have alot of money,and I think he should give me some to reserch a project I am working on,I need some money to build a prototype of my Invention that will solve the gas crises we have in cars Gordon

    -- gordon acton (dragon4272001@mchsi.com), June 10, 2002.
    Dear Bill Gates,

    You have been blessed so much and the bible principles are:'give and it shall be given'.We cant store up more than we can keep and I believe you can assist the misfortunate of West Papuan people who are struggling for their independence from Indonesia. Today the refugees are flooding the country of Papua New Guinea and for on behalf of the West Papuan Welfare Association...how can you help? Cheers..looking for an answer???

    -- Felix Meraudje (tobati@hotmail.com), July 03, 2002.

    Hello, My name is Srinivas. I live in India, am 25 year old young guy, single. I'm Christian.

    My Postal address:

    Pilla Naga Srinivasa Rao, Jillellamudi Vari Lane, Eastern Street, Eluru-534001, Andhra Pradesh-India.

    -- Pilla Srinivas ( Pilla Naga Srinivasa Rao ) (hawaii_boy_21@hotmail.com), July 04, 2002.

    I THINK BILL GATES NEEDS TO GIVE SOME OF THAT MONEY. I JUSTED HAD TWINS THREE MONTHS AGO AND ITS HARD , I ALSO HAVE A TWO YEAR OLD AND THINGS ARE REALLY ROUGH. IT'S HARD TO GET A JOB AND HELP THE FAMILY OUT, BUT BILL NEEDS TO COME TO HIS SENSES AND HELP THE LESS FORTUNATE OUT. I WOULD DO THE SAME IF I WERE IN HIS POSTION.

    -- SP (SP@MSN.COM), July 06, 2002.
    I need one million and i could then make a million and pass it on to another. you have to have money to make money. Its the only way. thanks!

    -- kenneth L massie Jr, (kmassie3@cs.com), July 18, 2002.
    well Mr. Gates i think that you have earned your money fare and square you are a very fortunate man and you have built a great company that we all use in our daily lives but have to ever thought that you have so much money that you could ever hope to spend in one life time well i think that if you would contribute atleast one percent of your wealth to diffrent organizations throuought the world i think you would save so many lives and you would really be a public hero one percent of hmm 50 billion is alot just one percent of that is 500 Million thats alot of money and alot of lives you could be saving but you know what its your money and you can sit on it or pass it on or do whatever you want with it well i am only 14 and i hope i am successful in life so that my family wont have to struggle and we can live comfortably well have fun playing video games all day or driving 1 million dollar cars or whatever you do all day and remember momey is just momey...

    -- Aaron Taylor (TigerShark103@hotmail.com), July 20, 2002.
    Dear Bill Gates,

    OMFG I'm going to have nightmares just from visiting this thread.

    Love, Aaron

    -- Aaron (ultratemporary@aol.com), July 20, 2002.

    I think Bill Gates should give some money to the small men or women who is trying to help themselves by starting a little business that may become a big business becsuse of his help. the little man cannot get a business loan i have been trying for days i am disable and starting a business on my own but do not have enough money to keep it going with Bill Gates helping out a little bit I can carry on with my business.

    -- Mary Henton (NEWJERUSALEM01@HOME.COM), July 21, 2002.
    Give at least 30% percent to us poor Africans so as to skip one step ahead in development. Thanks.

    -- Joseph Gichuhi (gichuhi_ndungu2002@yahoo.com), July 22, 2002.
    MR.GATES I HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE OF HEARING ABOUT YOU THROUGH ONE OF MY EMPLOYERS. I WORKED FOR KIRBY FOR SOME TIME IN PITTSBURGH AND HEARD NOTHING BUT THE BEST ABOUT YOU. WELL TO ANSWER THE QUESTION I AM GOING THROUGH A TOUGH TIME TIME RIGHT NOW. MY TWIN SONS FATHER WAS MURDER. AND THINGS ARE KIND OF HARD TO TO DEAL WITH RIGHT NOW.THEY ARE ONLY TWO AND I AM DOING ALL I CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE A GOOD LIFE. SO I THINK YOU SHOULD OPEN UP A FUND FOR CHILDREN THAT A PARENT WAS MURDERED. THAT WOULD REALLY HELP TO HAVE SOME PLACE AND SOMEONE TO TURN TO.

    -- TONYA GOOSBY (LAYCIE1217@HOTMAIL.COM), July 23, 2002.
    Alright usually I would stand up and say that Bill Gates is just another multi-billionaire who runs our worlds economy with his oh so powerful thumb- but hey I never met the guy so where would my reasoning for that come from? Granted the guys pretty loaded I doubt hes got as much as they say- its takes money to make money and the money he has made he bought his luxeries (is that spelled right?). I wish I could write this powerful letter to Mr.Gates saying how I have such a great idea for a buisness please would he sponser me and help with expenses- more like a loan with no intrest- but where would that leave all the people asking Mr.Gates the same thing? If he granted everyone their wish, passed them 500,000 and said your troubles are over- poor Bill would be poor. So just take what BG gives ya- you work hard it pays off and you get to sit back and let it all come to you.

    -- Christina (punkshmnokey@hotmail.com), July 25, 2002.
    Dear Sir,You so famous to the world.A lot of people waiting for your help.Please think twice before you give some people is being parasites and lazy.For me is anything will be great appreaciated.God create and loves you.God loves a cheerful giver.Remember All thing that you see is not your But anything that you give is always yours. Iam mother of three children and jobless because of luck education,my parent cannot afford support our education.Thank YOU. To see you is unforgetable experience in my life.

    -- ELIZABETH (laceronaelizabeth@hotmail.com laceronaelizabeth@hotmail.com), July 26, 2002.
    Dear Sir: You could give me enough money to repair my kitchen roof. I am sitting here typing this and have buckets in kitchen catching the water that is coming in. I would not need much, probably around $6000.00 to have a pitched roof put on.

    -- danny lynn russell (wuvit@yahoo.com), July 27, 2002.
    I think you should help finance my son through Computer since at univesaity And also please prety please with sugar on it also help me build my dream house and you could come stay were no one could find you and meet my very great son. Rosemary

    -- Rosemary Hotchkiss (thehotrose@hotmail.com), July 29, 2002.
    i think that he should give the money to me cause i would give it back to the people of oz.yeah mate.

    -- emmaliy poo (queen_justine@hotmail.com/), July 31, 2002.
    I'm a wife of a police officer with 4 children the oldest 2 are working and trying to find grants to go to college My husband works hard for a small southern town who doesn't pay well I don't work because I'm a diabetic and was also in a bad car accident I like to help but we are in debt so bad it's hard to pay bills and get my medication i sometimes don't take it so i can make it last longer I have no health insurance on me I don't want to ask but if you could pay off some of my bills with the high interest Maybe I could help my girls with their college bills I've never did any thing like this before but I though I could ask for my kids

    -- karen overstreet (mad1mim2u@hotmail.com), July 31, 2002.
    What I think Mr. Gates should do with his money is really non of my business. But I think you all should stop hating on the man and let him be his on baller. He after all did this on his own. I think that if he can do so can anybody with the right motivation. And Mr.Gates if you get a chance what you should do is go to Pattaya beach,Thailand and go to the club girls-a-go-go. Its phat. Well later homeboy.

    -- J.B. Bravo (shijas1@ata.attmil.ne.jp), July 31, 2002.
    Hello to mr gates,

    I am collecting money for the Arthridous Foundation and was wondering if i could get a Donation from him. My team mate suszan and myself are training for a Marathon. We are part of the Joints In Moation Team and would like it if you could send any info on how to contact him. IT WOULD BE A GREAT HELP.

    Thank you.

    any help at all e mail me .

    -- A. Benjamin P brock (animetoreallife@hotmail.com), August 10, 2002.

    Hello Sir, My name is Nasri. I am 24 Yrs old from Brunei in Asia. I am working and earning about $2,000 Brunei Dollars and i'm very keen in seting up business all over the world but my main obstacle is money. Therefore i am looking forward for a helping hand from u,Sir.If u could provide me any sort of help, I am willing to do business for u in my own country or abroad. I've got a 2 acres of land and still nothing being done coz of my financial difficulties and plssss help me Sir... Naspele@yahoo.co.uk

    -- Nasri Razali (Naspele@yahoo.co.uk), August 16, 2002.
    i thinks coz he is great he should do something great like him, look on the world today and do something on HIV/AIDS COZ its gonna end the world if people are not carefull,if bill will get a chance to read this just let him know that he may be the hope of the world coz he is great ,if he have a scholarship i may requist him to do something to the africa child including me coz if i have fund i world love to do my ITT&IMIS ,bill gate look on the that and let's know what this world great man can do , anne nduta ,kenya ,africa

    -- anne nduta wanjiku (nduta_anne@yahoo.com), August 21, 2002.
    I think his wealth could have a long term multiplier effects if spent on the poor and needy.I will thus suggest that he sponsors all students from poor countries who are attending university studies without financial assistance from any other funding agecies.Such students have a true interest to return home and contribute to economic developement which will not only benefit their country but the world at large. Ngoasong. Cameroonian Student in Sweden

    -- Ngoasong Michael Zisuh (is02zinm@ihh.hj.se), September 03, 2002.
    Here is a thought for all of you lazy ass beggers, put the energy you put towards begging towards work and you could one day be as wealthy as Bill himself. He earned his money and he can spend it however he wants. I'm out-al

    -- al (dragonwagon69@hotmail.com), September 06, 2002.
    Why would a man who dropped out of Harvard only to achieve the greatest sucesses any man in our time give money for children to attend college? Not that that's not a justifable cause.. Myself paying for college but the man definately has issues against college if he dropped out, so why give to a cause he doesn't believe wholeheartedly in?? Give the money to grammer education.. make sure that the whole US is equal in elementary schools to give everyone an equal chance in life.. weather or not they wish to attend college

    -- Kyle Struble (jstruble@stny.rr.com), September 08, 2002.
    Dear Mr Gates, Any one who help others to live a good life is an Angel and god will give him more than he has and a castel in heavens.I am 30 years old has 2 children and working as anurse the nurse dosent take much money to live in a good way I need to buy a house for my children so if some thing happened to me there will be a place for them I saved 3000 dollars in 10 years work days and nights the cheapest house her cost almost 10,000 $ Please Please Please if you can help me in this thing if you can send me any amount which help me to be close from the aim of having a house one day Please help me I will pray to God that you will response to me.Thanks alot for readind my email Om Hammada

    -- Om Hammada (omhammadaa@hotmail.com), September 09, 2002.
    I suppose Billy is a christian,therefore my advice shall on two sides: 1.Eternal value :Pay 10% to your local church. 2.Charity organisations in your name with special focus on less priviledge and developing countries. The world will forever thanking God for you and generation after you shall be bless and you shall be rewarded eternally.Your memory shall be bless forever.

    -- Samuel O.Thomas (samuelizabeth2002@yahoo.com), September 20, 2002.
    Mr.GateS, I have a very large deposit of rare earths and trace minerals. I have tried for over fifteen years to get this on the market. I don't have the money to get to get it on the market. If I did I have several Farmers and other teople that would buy our product. I have been so impressed with the prosuct that I have written a book about it. I would be glad to send you a sample and a book. There are millions of tons of material,and it is all formed organicily and can be used for many things soil additive, animal feed suppliment and human trace minerals. I am willing to work har and do anything I can to get this into the market place. Please give me a hand up, not a hand out. Just let me know if you want a sample and a book to review. Thank you for giving me this chance to tell you about my product.

    very sincerly,

    Nadean Bedford

    -- NadeanBedford (mininggirl36@aol.com), September 23, 2002.

    Mr. Gates, I have two large gold mines that I thought you maybe interested in buying or investing in. They are both in the state of Nevada, and part of them are patened. If you are inyerested in them please call me at 209-984-3694, or write to me at 5950 greensprings road Jamestown, california 95327. I have alot of information on them, maps, core drills, and samples. Thank you for your time. Sincerly, Nadean Bedford

    -- Nadean Bedford (mining girl@aol.com), September 25, 2002.
    Solve pollution & overpopulation problems! I hate to see Bill Gates giving money to improve health or extend life UNLESS he also equally funds birth control. Face it, Bill, the world does not need more surviving human beings!! Buy up the Amazon rain forest to preserve it from the swarming hordes! Buy up every available acre in the USA and donate them as conservation preserves for all of our endangered wildlife! How about FREE vasectomies and tubal ligations for all applicants, here and abroad? YES - YES - YES, that's the way!! Cut back to 1/4 (or less) the world population = more resources for everyone!

    -- Zip McKenzie (dmckenz@yahoo.com), September 29, 2002.
    Bill gates if you should ever read this site please e-mail me.

    -- scheila newton (scheila88keys@aol.com), October 02, 2002.
    Look at the number of listings from women geographically in prison: America's toal: 7,910.97 Africa: 2,368.10

    It would take serious time to investigate and research what is being said from these sites, however, you have given the Million Woman March organizers in Michigan a quantum leap in this area.

    Imagine the sites for our MEN in prisons across the GLOBE.

    -- LaChanda Bartell (MIMWM@aol.com), October 14, 2002.

    i think he should shove the money up his ass

    -- Christopher Gilboe (pavelbure08@attbi.com), October 17, 2002.
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    -- marcus peterson (marcus6408@yahoo.com), October 17, 2002.
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    -- marcus peterson (marcus6408@yahoo.com), October 17, 2002.
    To whom it may concern. I think that Mr.gates should donate some money to a Miss. Rabiah Seminole who is the owner of Blue Horse Ranch. Miss. Seminole takes in horse's that have been neglected or abused by others. She curently has 14 horse's. Just because she has a big heart doesn't mean that she has a big wallet. We would deeply appreaciate it if you could make a contribution towards the horse's.

    -- Rosalie C. Yarborough (gypsy@exis.net), October 26, 2002.
    You'd think with all the money he has, the cocksucker could afford a decent haircut and he should by himself a new wife cause that bitch he's got is hella ugly.

    -- Bill Gate's dog (fukmicrosoft@monopoly.com), November 01, 2002.


    -- Bill Gates (billgates@microsoft.com), November 01, 2002.
    I think he should fukin man up and give thanks where its due. He uses someone's ideas to start a company and then still trys to strongarm everyone else out of the game like hes king shit cause he started it or something. the only thing gates was (not anymore cause he hires people to do it for him) is a good salesman. No I'm not saying he stole the idea from apple....although thats where some ideas came from, but that he bought it from a company that stuggled to get it off the ground but couldnt. What most people dont know is since the program was legally purchased the original owner cant do anything about it but I'm sure AT&T (original owner of DOS) is kicking themselves in the ass right now thinking damn we could have all that money. there were also quite a few jser interface operating systems out long before windows, so that dumbass cant even begin to say it was his idea. ya know like that company IGIA that takes different shit makes it and sells it for cheap? thats kind of what Gates did he just got lucky and like I said was a better salesman. Pretty much what I'm saying is pay respect where its due Bill, cause you know damn well the ideas didnt all come from your head. oh yeah and please make an OS in the NEAR future that doesnt crash all the fucking time cause as much as I like win XP it still SUCKS. Mac OS X has it beat hands down.

    -- Jay (JDogg00016@aol.com), November 01, 2002.
    oh yeah and to everyone out there DON'T DOWNLOAD WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 1 CAUSE ALL IT DOES IS GIVE MICROSOFT SO CHECK YOUR SYSTEM FOR THINGS LIKE PIRATED SOFTWARE OR ILLEGAL DOWNLOADS. AND THE SAME WITH THE NEW WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER. YOULL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO PLAY DOWNLOADED SONGS.

    -- Jay (JDogg00016@aol.com), November 01, 2002.
    Mr Gates you a kind of person who is respectable.A person who has got alot of wealthy.I would think that gate's wealthy could be some how delivered to poor people in developing countries.Of course alot of poor people need to helped somehow somewhere.

    -- Ndaula Ahmed (andaula@yahoo.co.uk), November 04, 2002.
    Respected Gates, its God's Gift that you r served with so much of wealth, but if a very minute portion of your wealth goes to people (middle class) who sruggle a lot to Study in UNiversity and built their career- People who have no Family background, Then i think you would be provided more wealth from the AllMighty and in case you are not then you wouldn't mind losing them since they are just a fraction of your one portion out of hundreds of wealth. I wouldn't mind if very minute of it is contributed to meince i'm struggling very hard to retain my college fees.

    -- Abubakr Ahmed Dinarzei (abubakr_dinari@hotmail.com), November 05, 2002.
    Get loads of postertutes and fuk em out!!!!!!!!

    -- Beng Maff (masha786@aol.com), November 13, 2002.
    respected sir as far urs wealth its about 3 laks million us $. well i think sir being a human being u have also being facing problem when u were poor i think beside given that money to that country or so .you must see that is that money is really been given to them or its just go to the pockets off politicians.In asia there is a vast resources out there you must help out all the person out here to utilize them properly so that i would help mankind for longer period.Beside this u must help up coming scientist to open new world for our earth which is benificial to upcoming genration.you can help out poor by making free hospital & help refugees who just lost there life in travelling u can open some wildlife sanctuary so that animals can live out there i hope u will like my suggestion

    -- mohitchawla (mohit_apj@rediffmail.com), November 20, 2002.
    I think he should take it and shove it up his big fat ass!!

    -- Qwerty Man (qwertyman@hotmail.com), December 15, 2002.
    I think he should take it and shove it up his big fat ass!!!

    -- Qwerty Man (qwertyman@hotmail.com), December 15, 2002.
    I think he should take it and shove it up his big fat ass!!!!

    -- Qwerty Man (qwertyman@hotmail.com), December 15, 2002.
    I think he should take it and shove it up his big fat ass!!!!!

    -- Qwerty Man (qwertyman@hotmail.com), December 15, 2002.
    I think he should take it and shove it up his big fat ass!!!!!!

    -- Qwerty Man (qwertyman@hotmail.com), December 15, 2002.
    I think he should take it and shove it up his big fat ass!!!!!!!

    -- Qwerty Man (qwertyman@hotmail.com), December 15, 2002.
    I think he should take it and shove it up his big fat ass!!!!!!!!

    -- Qwerty Man (qwertyman@hotmail.com), December 15, 2002.
    You know its nice to be able to do what you want and he has been able to do that and thats grate i am sure what i want to know is how can a person who has Cirrhosis of the liver and Hepatitis C can get some help Bill Gates i would like if your staff can get me some information on how and where he can get some help. He has no money and is going fast he weights 117 pounds and is 51 years old. I am talking about my brother who is living with my mother who is 73 years old he has a wife and my mother is on social security. He needs a liver transplant and he cant get even on the list because he has no money i know there is somewhere in this country of ours that can help him i just need to know where and how i can get him there. thanks and i dont think its bad you having all that money i am asking your staff to use there computers to look this up for me because i am not very smart on this and need there help thanks for anything or any information you can give me From a Sister who is looking for some help for a brother you can email me at Minnieruth@southernlink.net god bless bye

    -- Minnie Horne (minnieruth@southernlink.net), December 20, 2002.
    Has anyone gotten their request on this webpage. I mean has Mr Gates acually donated to any of these causes. Has he even looked at this site? It is obvious that he should give lots to poor, needy, starving, and good causes. And here it comes the part about me....but this goes to anyone who can spare a little. Me and my fiance have been trying to get married for two years now. We are both 20 and our jobs don't pay us enough to live. I'm still in college and want to be a teacher and he has been working at his job for 3 years and only makes $1000 a month. I'm working part time and making $200 a month. Both of our parents are poor. He is living with his and I have still college loans to pay off. We can't get a loan because we have no credit. I few dollars from many people would add up. We might could pay for our wedding and a home to live in. Please help us.

    -- Katherine Jones (kejones2@liberty.edu), January 04, 2003.
    I see all these people being disrespectful to Bill Gates, and i have to wonder, does anyone know how Bill Gates got rich? Well i do he worked really hard and started the company microsoft, and then you the people bought his computers, so really why would he spend millions of dollars creating computers, and then you expect him to give it all back. What it sounds like to me is some Bullshit.

    -- Not going to say (Texansarethebest@yahoo.com), January 15, 2003.
    I think it's sad mr.Gates got bad press if it's true he's ready to give away most of what he earned.My opinion is that they(him,and his wife)should use their fundation to change the "World" spirit about rich people.Ordinary people need to know that the richest man on earth is ready to share his fortune with poor people.

    Not necesserly for his own image,but to give people hope,by let them know on what,and how his fundation spend the money(ex.:open a small hospital with good surgeon where the poor kids,who don't have the money,can be treated for cancer .Even if it helps only 100 kids a year,it will give a spirit of hope for them,and that's the big think,change morosity,and defetism,in hope and joy).Do not hesitate to publicise the good moves(do it with humility)and everybody will win(the Gates the reconnition they deserve,poor people the rebirth of their hope).

    I know I gave a simplist example,but it's the whole idea behind,that is important.My dream in life is to get rich enough,to have the possibility to influence the way we see the difference between rich, and poor people.I would like to act like a good person,and show that money is a tool,not an acomplishememt,and that tool when usefully used can change the "spirit of a nation"(and more)and give back hope to the ones who have abandon,and think that only "bad luck" happen to them.

    Mr.Gates is in the position to change thinks,and according to what I've read,he has the willing of doing it,so please act now,and act responsibly sir.For the best of humanity,YOU,AND YOUR WIFE can do it.

    Thank you all for your time,and please forgive my mistakes,I'm a trilingual(I like to think :-))) frenchman from Montréal.

    Alan

    -- Alain Ouellette (touraine@total.net), January 18, 2003.

    Hi Billy, I've read all the good and bad answers written by those who like you and those that hate you but this is simply because them haters dont realise how hard u worked to own this.Since I'm a student who very much wants to study computer engeneering from the USA but is cutshort cuz of money,I think U should help people like me achieve their dreams cuz with your help it only takes your word for me to achieve wat I want.GOD BLESS YOU

    -- Timothy Dale (timtac911@yahoo.com), January 25, 2003.
    I think it is appropiate that Mr.Gates is helping low-income students that need money for college. Cause, of the reason everyone isn't as fortune as the other. So, he is doing a very good thing and God will bless him even more cause of his charity which he has contributed to the students. God is well please with those who give from their heart for to help one another. As of myself I am one of those unfortune ones but, with the grace of God I will prosper in the Computer Engineering as my Master(GOD) sees fit.

    -- Daniel Lorenzo Boone (Db2003trenow@yahoo.com), February 01, 2003.
    Respected Sir, I am 18years old. my family is struggling a lot with financial matters specially debts. sir my father is unemployed. we donot have any income from our side unless someone gives us a lift. sir please if u help us, my family would survive. please help us and with ur kind help please save the life of a family. one day when we earn we promise to help the very same poor indian families which is suffering from problems.please do help us sir.

    -- A V Deepa (deepa1482003@yahoo.com), February 05, 2003.
    buy Iraq and build a parking lot.

    -- Anthony Bower (mewwem1234@aol.com), February 13, 2003.
    To begin with, it would be difficult to suggest what Mr. Gates should do."Afer all it is his fortune" I am sure Mr. Gates has lots of places to put his fortune, and I'm sure he is a very giving person. But, if he were to ask me face to face what I think would be a great thing to do with some of his money, I would ask him to help out families who have disabled children at home. The world has lots of needs, this one is close to my heart. I praise God for Mr. Gates abilities.

    -- Sherry Shoemaker (cajun1234@frontiernet.net), February 17, 2003.
    mmmmh money money must be funny in a rich mans world!

    I say have one huge and i mean huge party then become director of portsmouth footbal club. He could then buy us peeps like Owen Beckham Figo etc... After this i would then give him permission to take over the world.

    -- Doc (adrianaar86@hotmail.com), February 19, 2003.

    Dear Mr. Gates, You have more money than any other normal person in the U.S, I don't like to tell people what to do but you should donate money to needy organazations, and not just for tax write offs eather, donate me some of your billion dollar fortion, Ellan you aunt in Anadarko Oklahoma says you a good person, Well show it

    Jericho D. Humphries

    -- Jericho D. Humphries (chink@roo.com), February 19, 2003.

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    Original question Subject: What do you think Bill Gates should do with his wealth?

    Gates has said he intends to give 90 percent of his wealth away while he is still alive, but right now he is busy building Microsoft. -- Washington Post, November 16, 1997 What do you think Bill Gates should do with his wealth?

    Here are some ideas 

    pay for the creation of great educational content on the Internet. Put something of value (i.e. Beckman Archives?) into the public domain for non commercial use. Start a "Gates Fellows" program to pay for scholarship (good press for little cost).

    I feel that he should thank God if he has not done so. Also, I think that he should enjoy his life. So many people have money and are not happy and are lonely because, the money becomes the most important thing to them. I watch all the Holly Wood stars with all that money and are some of the most unhappy people. If I had the chance to be wealthy. I'd never forger my family and friends that were always there for me. Ont thing about money when you die you leave it all behind. Your true family and friends will always remember you rich or poor.

    -- chermita Payton-Francis (chermitaf@hotmail.com), March 21, 2003.

    I think he should help the drowning small businesses.

    -- Jim Richards (vinerich@aol.com), April 08, 2003.
    i think he should help students like me pay their university fees.

    -- hussein (hmamin2001@yahoo.com), April 13, 2003.
    What should Mr. Bill Gates do with his money you ask? I'd like to heard of him hand out a few more dollars than what he does but I can also understand why. Just like a person with an average income that hands out a few dollars, someone wants more aomewhere and if never ends. So no matter how much money you have with people always asking for it, it really it's old. Right now I am trying to get help with getting my family so money help because we are at our lowest. But we are trying to find help with getting a grant that is if I can find help without having to send alot of money to get a grant. But anyways My hat is off to Mr. Gates for his hard work. April 16, 2003

    -- Jo Morrison (jam4jrm@yahoo.com), April 16, 2003.
    I don't know for sure if this is the place to do this, but may be someone will see it and help me. I am 52 years old, a Viet Nam veteran, and I have run upon a problem I can't seem to do anything about. I work very hard, started out in the cotton fields in Missouri when I was ten years old, and continued to work the rest of my life at various jobs. I was raised by good parents who taught all of us to earn our own way and not be a burden to soceity. Which I have done, I have not until this disease came on me depended on anyone else, the government etc. all these years. In 1999 I was diagnosed with a rare disease called CIDP. It is not one of those dieases that are comunicable in any way, and since it is so rare, no government dollars have gone to research to find a cure, like AIDS or other contageous disease. I cannot work now, and all those things I planned on doing with my wife and children when I retired are not going to be done. Since I have to have a treatment every week, I am tied to the V.A. Hospital in Memphis Tenn. It is not that I am completly destitute or anything like that, disability gives us enough money to get by on, if we squeeze ever penny for all it will buy. It is just that because the company I worked for went belly up and canceled everybody's insurance and didn't let us know until it was too late, had we had a warning we could have secured other insurance, but now I am dumped on the market so to speak with a pre- existant disease, and no insurance co. will touch me. I have top depend on the V.A. Hospital for my treatment. I do appreciate it, don't get me wrong they are doing the best they can I believe on the money appropiated by the gouvernment, but because of the way they do things I never keep the same doctor for more than a couple of months at a time, they have what is called "rotaters" they are called, who flow thru the system. I don't know why they do it this way but they do. Since I never have the same Dr. for any length of time, no Dr. can really get intimate with me and the desease. I have to tell each doctor all the details of the disease. So far, I am the first patient all the doctors have ever had with the disease. Because of this I suffer various symptoms that take forever to get addressed, and have been in pain for months at a time before they get me the correct medicine or treatment. I need some way, to have one doctor, that can concentrate on me, and hopefully treat the symptoms as they occur. Because the one treatment that I receive every week is so expensive, there is no way that I can pay for proper medical care. The IVIG alone is nearly four thousand dollars a week. The trip alone to the hospital, which is 92 miles from where I live is expensive just in gas prices and when our 1994 Ford Explorer lays down, and it will someday, I don't know what we will do for transportation alone. We don't have enough left over after the regular bills to make a car payment. I have to have help, they have a gas mileage plan at the V.A. but we make too much money to get it, ironic isn't it. Make too much money for the help, and not enough to keep up with it ourself. My son draws some help from his real fathers S.S. because he is dead, and my wife draws a little on him, because he is my dependant. When he turns 16 for some reason we will loose that, I don't understand, when a child turns 16 they really start costing a lot of money, and the government for some reason cuts out the help when just when you really start needing it. All together, as I see it, soon we are going to be very close to what they call destitute. I really don't like the idea that I can barely provide the basic needs now and it is unfair, if I can use the word unfair that I won't get the expected satifaction of being the provider I should be because I am one of the lucky ones who is blessed with this rare disease. I feel like I have been handed a raw deal. I ain't really asking for much, just enough to help me do this. Mr. Gates would not even have to give me the money, he could just let me borrow interest free enough to put into the bank to draw enough interest to live a little better than we now are, it is like holding ones breath when every month the funds we have are so difficult to spread around to all those creditors so to speak. Just a loan, I know If I had a lot of money in the bank that the programs that I am now count on to survive would be cut, but if there was enough in the bank the interest would cover it. A loan, that is all, when I die from this disease, he could have the money back if he wanted but it would be nice to know he would leave it there until my wife no longer need the support due her. Again, I don't know if this is the right place to post this request for help, but never the less, I have done it. If it is in the wrong place, will you e-mail me back with the correct place? With the greatest hopes and respect Earl Wayne Fisher

    -- Earl Wayne Fisher (Apostal51@aol.com), May 02, 2003.
    1. Fix Windows and give people who have bought windows over the years a good rebate on MS products. Don't over charge people for a problem program give them a rebate or re-call and replace it. Offer those who are really upset a free copy of Windows (Those who have bought your products over the years not newcomers or at least offer them a much better discount).

    2.Put the prices down on products for struggling developers that are trying to make a living or give better discounts. The costs will be a lot higher in other countries.

    3. Create Programs that will help those on the streets who are hungry and want to get off the street in every country.

    4. Create programs where they are needed for those who don't have computers in other countries to give others opportunities that they don't have.

    5. Help create better programs for those who are unemployed and are struggling to find work. Help start up programs that have the necessary tools for people who want to start a business themselves (All countries).

    6. Donate money to people who are struggling with health care and don't have the funds to pay for a much needed operation (All countries).

    7. Set up trust funds for needed charities who will spend the money wisely and not waste it on stupid things (All countries).

    If you bless others it will come back to you......believe me this is true! You get back in other ways and sometimes it even comes in the form of money when you really need it.

    People who are asking for themselves are selfish because there a lot of people out there worse off then you are. If you own a computer chances are you are not so bad off unless you fit the descriptions of what is truly needed. You should be ashamed of yourselves for being greedy yourself.

    -- J.B. (love_and_company@hotmail.com), May 11, 2003.

    I think that Mr. Gates should create a fund for single-women that are mothers that are in debt, and with this fund he should give money to those women that need to pay-off debt to regain their credit status. First, he should do a credit check to make sure the women are telling the truth. Second, he should set-up up credit counseling classes to educate these women on how to budget their money. Lastly, i think that he should donate school supplies and computers to mothers that are trying to get their first degree or get a second like mysef. I fit this category, because I really need to rebuild my credit. I would love if Bill Gates himself could respond to my answer. Thank you so much. I think that it is great that he does donate to different charities,because most wealthy people disregard poor people. I think that he is a great philantropist. Please resopnd to my answer.

    P.S. I think that it would be great if their was a Scholarship set-up in your name for children of single-mothers that can not afford day- care. This will allow the child to go to day acre for free, with requirements of acourse. Again, thank you.

    Molly Jones 418 Manassas Drive Thomson, GA 30824 Leo8772002@yahoo.com

    -- Molly Jones (Leo8772002@yahoo.com), May 23, 2003.

    I agree with Molly on the single mother thing, I am a struggeling single working mom raising 2 honor roll students. I work at starbucks and have a real hard time making ends meet with my tiny income. I would love a way to pay off my debts and start fresh. As far as all these people being rude and negative to Mr. Gates, I say phooey!!! He earned his money, my hats off to you Mr.Gates, I am sure you will decide what is best for you and what is true to your heart. Have a nice dday, C.Nay

    -- cynthia nay (sin264@hotmail.com), May 25, 2003.
    Respect to you Mr Gates, I fully respect you for what you are and where you are. I can't say spend spend spend because you already do that. All I want is 50 grand because me wish is to own a porsche boxter. May god forgive and bless you..........Respect Don!!

    -- Saleem Afsar (saleem.afsar@jobcentreplus.gov.uk), June 06, 2003.
    there is no reason for him to have all that money. if he spent $10,000 a day it would take him 273 years to spend just $1 billion. this means that right now it would take 16438 years to spen all his money. thats not taking into accout his continuing income. these numbers are only if he were to stop making money right now. but even still this means that his decendants for the next 822 generations would be set for life. he could fix the national debt and probably wipe out world hunger forever and stil be the richest son-of-a-bitch on the planet!

    -- unknown (big_pimp_daddy03@yahoo.com), July 03, 2003.
    dear mr gates i like yourself have a greate invention yet thus far i stand in need of someone to invest in getting my concept into motion im sure you can relate.would appreciate any assistance and or advice. thank you dwight

    -- dwight battle (batt2008@bellsouth.net), August 14, 2003.
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