Guess who is coming to dinner....

Bill Gates
Guess who is coming to dinner....
Tue Apr 18, 2006 16:21

China's Hu leaves for US trip
Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:06 AM BST

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's President Hu Jintao left for the United States on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported, for a visit aimed at defusing tensions over trade, Taiwan and allaying U.S. fears about China's strategic ambitions.

The highlight of the four-day tour will be a summit on Thursday with President George W. Bush. But the Chinese president starts his first official U.S. visit in Seattle, where he will tour a production plant of Boeing Co. and dine with Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp. and the world's richest man.

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Chinese President Hu Jintao To Visit Bill Gates, Not George Bush
Legit Reviews - Apr 17, 2006
... dinner with President George W.Bush! Instead Jintao be goign to the home of the Mr. Bill Gates Seattle. I'm not sure how you feel ...
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'China has f*cked us' - Bill Gates
MS infighting tickled PRC Govt, alleges Google defector
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Published Wednesday 7th September 2005 22:50 GMT

Microsoft's internal politics - the slipping roadmaps, the meetings about meetings about meetings, and the lack of even a coherent medium-term strategy - are more than just a tech industry soap opera. They're a source of amusement for the Chinese Government, a departing Microsoft exec has alleged.

It's Dr Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Microsoft's Chinese Labs and now a Google employee, who's at the center of an employment dispute between the two companies. After Google recruited Lee, Microsoft sued, claiming Lee was breaching his contract. Google has countersued Microsoft, in a writ so theatrical it may have been written by Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Just as the Cold War Superpowers fought their wars by proxy, this court battle has been a sideshow. We've looked in vain for glimmers of strategy from either side. If Google plans to reduce Windows to a poorly debugged device driver layer, as Netscape once hoped, or if Microsoft plans an end-run 'round Google's advertising franchising, we're none the wiser. But at least the trivia has been entertaining.

Gates himself said Microsoft has been "...ed" by the Chinese government and the Chinese people, according to Lee, without elaborating how.

We can speculate. Not all CEOs realize that the PRC makes it almost impossible to repatriate capital from China. And China's determination to pursue Linux, for reasons of autonomy and the ability to control its own destiny, has provided an obstacle to Microsoft's continuing growth.

"I wasn't sure if it was a sign of ignorance or a sign of insult," said Lee yesterday. Lee says that "unethical" behavior drove him from Microsoft.

"People in the government joke about Microsoft's internal politics," the AP reports Lee writing in an internal Microsoft memo.

The former Microsoft executive did outline some specific problems. Microsoft had 20 autonomous business groups in China. Although in video testimony, Steve Ballmer insisted the company had a "secret sauce" for doing business in China.

According to another Google defector, Ballmer had broke a chair and vowed to "...ing kill Google".

It's all very silly. Microsoft has a PC operating system monopoly and Google has a lucrative advertising engine - and nothing on the horizon is going to change either fact. They look as snug as two bugs in a rug. Does anyone believe a word of this charade?®

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Tonight: Randi on CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight (6-7pm ET)
http://www.therandirhodesshow.com

"The Decider" (oh man) has made his decision...more unnecessary death and billions more to crony contractors.

Conventional or otherwise, pulling an Iraq on Iran means disaster. Richard Clarke and Steve Simon agree. And they see the same bogus run up to war now as we saw 4 years ago with Iraq.

As we’ve been telling you for some time, the Revolt of the Generals started a long time ago and really ramped up with John Murtha who has been speaking for officers still serving.

With oil at $72 a barrel and gas prices flirting with 3 bucks a gallon, Exxon’s creepy CEO walks away with 686 Million dollars for 12 years of raping the Earth and screwing the consumer. That’s over 144-thousand dollars a day...3,509 times more than a fulltime minimum wage employee earns daily.

And the Josh "You Need Hands" Bolten/WH Staff Shakeup BS has cable news enthralled to the point that we’re the only ones taking about Bush’s nuclear simulation tests and the psychos behind them.

The Randi Rhodes Show.
http://www.therandirhodesshow.com

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