..: why does this make me want to barf?

[girl_tm]

"As Buffett drove them to Borsheim's, a jewelry emporium owned by Berkshire Hathaway, he kept ribbing: "Bill, there's a metric of love here. I spent 6% of my net worth on Susie's ring. I don't know how much you love Melinda, but 6% is the yardstick in Omaha." Bill, worth $7.3 billion by this time, inquired about sales per square foot while Melinda

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[thirdstreet]

Wow! Shallow! Creepy and Disturbing! Is there a metric to the crappiness of Microsoft products? Perhaps Bill should spend six percent of his net worth on creating software that works as advertised.

[girl_tm]

I know, icky all around. What makes me even more uncomfortable is the two richest men in America combined their wealth when Warren Buffet gave his billions to the Gates Foundation. Eek.

[thirdstreet]

Yeah. And Gates generosity comes at a very high price. He counterbalances every dollar he "gives" to African AIDS, for example, with ten dollars in profits from his investments in the oil companies that move into the regions where he provides assistance in order to exploit the healthy workforce.