Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; So many private jets, the FAA reportedly had to delay arrivals to avoid overcrowding the local airspace.
Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos photographed at the Sun Valley ‘billionaire summer camp’
- Bill Gates was photographed at the Sun Valley conference on Thursday.
- Gates has faced numerous unflattering media reports since news of his divorce broke in May.
- Jeff Bezos was also spotted at the Sun Valley conference with his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos were both spotted at Sun Valley on Thursday.
Every year billionaires flock to Sun Valley, Idaho, for a conference thrown by private investment bank Allen & Co — the event is also known as the “summer camp for billionaires.” This year so many turned up in their private jets that the Federal Aviation Authority had to delay incoming planes.
Bill Gates is a regular attendee, but his appearance on Thursday marks the first time he’s come to the conference since he announced his divorce from Melinda French Gates in May.
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Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-sun-valley-jeff-bezos-lauren-sanchez-summer-camp-2021-7
Even funnier, it appears Bill Gates was there to give a lecture on “climate change”.
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Conference sources have stated that Gates was due to give a speech about climate change at the event on Friday, whether that speech is still happening remains to be seen.
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Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/07/09/bill-gates-visits-sun-valley-for-climate-change-lecture-to-jet-owning-billionaires/
What can I say – totally shameless. People who demand ordinary people cut back to save the planet, flaunting their utter contempt for the idea of practicing what they preach.
Bill Gates is an idiot. Next topic.
Greta…..
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… is an idiot. Next Topic.
Stand-up comedy routine?
They have their private jets, helicopters and private security armies to protect them if the world falls apart under their push to impose socialist climate policies on Western democracies. The plan is to destroy middle class affluence that competes with their whims to have beaches, resort venues , and ski vacations without the masses of unwashed (you and me) consuming those same resources.
When the SHTF, they’ll jump in their private jet, then heli transport to their waiting fully staffed and supplied megayacht, cruise the oceans in luxury, putting in at small island nation ports. Small nations where they can buy temporary refuge and get some high priced fuel and supplies bought with caseloads of gold bullion to the local political leadership as the middle class in the West gets decimated.
Bezos recently acquired Flying Fox megayacht, 136 meters long. The carbon footprint is of course enormous, but apparently justified since he supports and indulgences on the GCS (global climate scam).
Bezos’s new Flying Fox was built and designed in Norway in 2019, by no other than the well-known yacht builder Lurssen Yachts. Base cost was estimated at $400M, with almost another $100M spent to furnish it.
No wind mill or solar panels?
Long ago I have put him under my personal boycott: I have been using Linux in my computer for many years now. (As well, I refuse to see movies with Leonardo DiCaprio, etc.)
I can empathize with the general desire to boycott liars or hypocrites as such. However, it seems to me that you would have to be a real Linux expert to get nearly as much utility from a desktop Linux system as most of us get out of Windows 10 these days. Not so long ago, Windows XP was pretty reliable too, but even the relatively crappy earlier versions of Windows usually had an ease of use and support that would be hard to find in desktop Linux. Now, of course we do have Android, a rather unusual form of Linux, on *mobile* devices, but is there really anything at all out there with similar ‘user friendly’ qualities in the Linux desktop world?
If there is any doubt as to what I mean by user ‘friendly’ vs. ‘unfriendly’, imageine that you are surfing the internet, and you find a free software offering on a web page link or repository, and you would like to install that program, try it out. This could be almost anything, like a word processor, math software, a game, or a video editor, you name it. Whatever it is, if you are any kind of average user, even someone who knows something about Linux command lines, etc., you will likely be unable to install what you want, due to a little issue that is called “dependency hell”. What it amounts to is that while there is an international team of programmers to maintain the Linux “kernel” (the basic OS as such), there is apparently no effective team to maintain a more or less reliable and linear sequence of what your machine really needs to install something new? Windows has a team of people doing that, maintaining proper dependency standards so that most things install well enough to at least do *something* potentially useful. Now, maybe I’m behind the times, but the few Linux’s I’ve tried really choke on this point, and on more-or-less related user friendliness issues.
Now in mentioning this, I’m not at all saying that I’m expert enough to get into a critical discussion of Linux options. Maybe someone else knows which Linux ‘distro’, if any, would really resolve the dependency weakness from a regular user point of view? For those interested in such matters, one discussion link I’ve come across is here:
https://www.osnews.com/story/3431/if-i-had-my-own-distro/
Linux is worth it for one reason only: Microsoft required updates which destroy all the environment setup you have done and often cause your version of any apps to suddenly be inoperable. In some cases that app is no longer supported so you have to find and learn to use a replacement. I’ve never had that kind of trouble with Linux (I use MINT distro based on Ubuntu) despite your claims of “dependency hell”.
Ok, I might just find that particular distro to be worth trying someday, then! My own experience is limited to trying out Slackware install and use, for a class that I took, and also the Knoppix live disk (based on Debian), none of which really allowed me to install *anything* outside of whatever was on the latest distribution disk image available.
Meanwhile, MS updates don’t usually break anything that I use, unless you want to count certain things lost in the transition from XP to Windows 10 — print shop programs wentinoperable say, that much is true for that transition/upgrade.
Try kubuntu or any other form of ubuntu. Try Mint; or Fedora, or OpenSuse. All these are quite friendly for Windows fans. All of them have NO BSOD; all of then have NO screens telling you to wait long minutes, quarters of hour, hours sometimes, for the installation of an update of a few libraries: in Linux, you just carry on working while the system updates and if, ONLY IF, a reboot is needed, you will have a message telling you to do it at your earliest convenience: you never have to stop working so that the system mends itself. Even when you make a major upgrade of the system (say, equivalent of migrating from Win7 to Win10): you go on working while the system upgrades itself; only at the end you will be required to reboot, and that’s all.
I can understand your concern: back before 2010 I thought the same, I tried Linux and had a very bad experience. For several years I forgot about it; then I gave it a try (if memory serves, by 2008 or 2009): it was much better, easier, user-friendly; in a few weeks I migrated, a definitive divorce. A few weeks, because at that time I had to migrate a lot of data files and documents to formats usable by Linux: not anymore, nowadays Linux reads almost everything that is or was produced in Windows environments since the very old days of Win95 (compatibility with its own products that MSoft does not care to provide to its customers). This is my experience with kubuntu,
Yes, it destroys all your personalization and most often requires you to install all programs that you had in it. Bun in Linux, even after a major version upgrade you end up with THE VERY SAME environment that you had configured to your taste or needs.
Perhaps making plans to soak up more wealth at others expense.
Maybe one of his fellow billionaires will find Gates sufficiently annoying to have him removed.
If they were really concerned about CO2 emissions then they would have held the event over the Internet. Maybe Mr. Gates have never heard of the Internet or cannot afford the required hardware and software. Maybe Mr. Gates is not computer technology literate. I would think that Microsoft has at least a few people on their payroll with enough knowledge to help out.
If they all hiked there, I would listen to what they said. Since these elites wrap themselves in hypocrisy, they can prattle to themselves but I can ignore them.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – we are sliding into a form of feudalism.
but theyre all so “special”
frankly more the short bus sorta special!!
Griund there Jets.
It aint rocket science.
TAKE FROM THEM
Generally falls in the category of “evil and stupid”. These people must be ignored.
Saving the world … one glass of milk and cookies at a time. Truthfully, I don’t begrudge the man his wealth, or how he legally got it, good luck to him, I wish I was as wealthy. But he can shove his green advice, credentials and ‘plans’. We tolerate you, Bill, best if you shut-up.
Meanwhile, enviro-greenie Sir Richard Branson flew to space because he wanted to.