Bulletin! Bulletin!

SurferJoe46

11-03-2006, 06:19 PM

Bill Gates is still wealthier than you....by another 3.5 billion dollars US currency.....

#1 William Gates III
Age: 50
Fortune: self made
Source: Microsoft

Net Worth: $50,000,000,000 (US) [+/- $300.00]

Country Of Citizenship: United States
Residence: Medina, Washington, United States, North America
Industry: Software
Marital Status: married, 3 children

Harvard University, Drop Out

Microsoft's chief visionary moving further away from day-to-day corporate work. For the first time did not offer a strategy outlook at last year's financial analyst meeting. Instead, prefers to dive into innovative projects, foster collaboration among Microsoft's many divisions. Microsoft aims to be omnipotent, selling software for PCs, servers, cell phones, television set-top boxes, gaming consoles, the Web. At the ripe (tech sector) age of 30, Gates' company impressively beats rivals in profit margins, market capitalization and R&D budget, but its sales growth is slowing to a (recently) single-digit percentage pace. Like elder statesman of computing, IBM, has been investing heavily in its own stock. Diversifies methodically, selling 20 million shares every quarter, reinvesting through Cascade Investment. Big stakes in Canadian National Railway, Republic Services, Berkshire Hathaway. Philanthropy, via $29 billion Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at fighting infectious disease (hepatitis B, AIDS, malaria) and improving high schools.

Speedy Gonzales

11-03-2006, 06:21 PM

Yer its been on sites here for the last few days.. So, :illogical

SurferJoe46

11-03-2006, 06:28 PM

Funny...Mr Bill lives here in the US, and the Forbes Report just came out this afternoon, and NZ scoops us on the news!

Speedy Gonzales

11-03-2006, 06:32 PM

Info here (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=000B3452-3426-1411-8F4F83027AF1010E)

And here (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=00057360-BBCF-1410-88B583027AF10190)

lazydog

12-03-2006, 01:47 AM

Funny...Mr Bill lives here in the US, and the Forbes Report just came out this afternoon, and NZ scoops us on the news!

If i remember right it happened with the assination of JFK too. NZ had the scoop on it before it was in the us papers.

Laura

12-03-2006, 04:46 AM

Comparing newspapers on opposite sides of the world rarely makes sense when talking about scoops.
Well, not for breaking international news, anyway.It's simply a matter of timing.

Major news arrives everywhere via international wire services pretty much simultaneously, but obviously it's night time in one hemisphere, And in the other, morning & evening dailies have different deadlines.
Only radio, television & internet news can compete for true immediacy nowadays.

Didn't the Kennedy asassination news come out first here on Saturday morning radio - taken from American radio reports?
Our evening papers (Yes, we actually had several then) may have had it sooner than some US dailies, as I don't know what time the shooting was in Dallas. Hardly a scoop, though.
And I don't think our morning papers got a chance to print the story until their Monday editions.

(I'm open to correction on this from anyone with the trad:"I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news" syndrome - although it needs to be a when)

SurferJoe46

12-03-2006, 05:50 AM

That makes sense, Laura......the "scoops" aren't really the news though.

I remember watching the motorcade in Texas on live TV that same moment that JFK got shot...a scoop wasn't necessary...we actually got to see it live...same thing with the Bobby Kennedy assasination too with Sirhan Sirhan and Rosie Greer and the whole unfolding event live.

Seeing things in print any more is kinda archaic and middle-ages...what with the electronics and internet nowadays. In times past, news that was only 6 months old or so were hot items...especially if the news had to arrive via neighbors telling neighbors until the news got all the way across the continent. :2cents:

Graham L

12-03-2006, 04:30 PM

I got in an argument about the Kennedy assasination (probably in 1988) . One guy said he was at school. I remember it being Saturday. However, wasn't it in the afternoon of Friday November 23 in Dallas? So it would have been Sat Nov 24 here. :D

"Where was I when I heard" is one of the worst examples of just how unreliable "memories" are.

There were a lot of studies done when the first Shuttle blew up after launch. Psychology lecturers got their captive subjects (classes) to fill in questionnaires. Then asked them again a few years later. There was a curious inverse relationship between the degree of certainty and degree of consistency. ;)

SurferJoe46

12-03-2006, 05:12 PM

Friday, November 22nd, 1963...a Friday here in the US

SurferJoe46

12-03-2006, 05:16 PM

Friday, November 22nd, 1963...a Friday here in the US

...and Robert Kennedy on June 6, 1968, a Thursday

Laura

12-03-2006, 08:31 PM

Hmmm... so I was correct about it being on Saturday morning radio news first here.

World time/date differences were specially notable in this street on a more recent occasion.
My friend/neighbour has a birthday on September 11th.
We'd celebrated it in good style, and I was watching BBC World when breaking news of a New York accident came on soon after 1am. The date was September 12th in NZ, but is always referred to here in the American way.
I told her I was waiting to see how long it took before someone first quoted her birthday date as " a day of infamy."
It took about 4 hours..