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willis77··on Bill Gates has donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime
Microsoft clippy? Windows XP update auto-restarts? The Microsoft Genuine Premium Plus Advantage Home Starter Business Pro Certified Product Activator? The Zune?

Are these not some of the greatest atrocities afflicted on mankind?

willis77··on 447 Days Ago, I Found Out I Had Cancer
Not only are they most often right, but doctors know to under promise and over deliver. Which is better: "You'll never have use of that leg again" followed by a success story due to hard work and PT, or "Don't worry brah, that'll be healed in like two weeks" followed by a long slog of missed goals, unmet promises, and malpractice lawsuits? "You said I'd be walking in two weeks, and it's been two months!" Enjoy your new lawsuit!
willis77··on Coke Engineers Its Orange Juice—With an Algorithm
"That stuff is infinitely better than the bland crap you guys have over there."

Ohh, don't stop. Tell us more sweeping generalizations about our entire country, with its thousands of different orange juice producers (all of which you've sampled) and its vastly different terrains, climates and farming practices that all lead to the same bland crap. What do you have to say of German Engineering? Belgian Chocolate? French Wine? Italian lovers? Asians are smart and the US is fat and the Russians are alcoholics, amirite!?

Anyways, thanks for chiming in on the entirety of OJ produced in the US.

willis77··on Docracy Terms of Service Tracker
"We need to ditch this short, easily typed, prescriptive domain name into something that sounds like a combo move in Street Fighter."
willis77··on Someone got the natural gas report 400 ms early
Wingdings is suddenly relevant again.
willis77··on Elon Musk: Boeing 787 battery fundamentally unsafe
Furthermore, hindsight is 20/20. It's easy to rush in after the fact and make up reasons (even if those reasons are legit) to explain what is retrospectively obvious. Where was this warning before the incidents? As you stated, it's completely opportunistic and out of line to make this kind of claim without the due diligence.
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