What do Bill Gates and Bill Clinton talk about?

[undeterred]

[undeterred]

1. Clinton certainly is a friendly guy.

[Sanity Claws]

2. Education, the role of computer, bridge

I could imagine them having substantive discussions on policy, like education, world health issues, and the role of computers in the third world. I could also imagine them having personal conversations about bridge and their respective families.

[undeterred]

3. and Bush couldn't keep up with either one of them,

much less the two of them

[Deja Q]

4. What's so great about computers?

8 hour days sitting at one getting fat, absorbing radiation, getting mental illness from program and operating system lockups... and my favorite, computers doing the work OF men and rendering men useless. (even the instructor of my data interpretation class told us "While I am telling you this formula, don't bother - just click a button and Access will do all the work for you".)

The third world is just being exploited. Cheap labor, guinea pigs for medicines that only the rich can afford, and being turned into the next generation American... before they too are called "fat, lazy, and stupid".

The folks of the 60s were right, about machines taking away what makes people special... and Gates is a businessman, what he does is for money first. Never forget that. (and Clinton is very chummy with Bush too... FWIW, but I lost respect for that Bill a long time ago too.)

[Sanity Claws]

5. Many Third World countries lack books

I have a friend who runs a non-profit for a small sub-Saharan country. She takes donations of books and computers to ship there. We have no idea of the level of poverty experienced in many third world countries. Through the internet and computers, third world residents have access to a world of knowledge that they otherwise would not have.
Also, let's not forget the role of computers and the internet in spreading knowledge of current events, without them being sanitized or censored by local authorities.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

6. Other; because

Clinton is bragging about Gore's big Mac. :9

[Dukkha]

7. plotting to take over the world

[jobycom]

10. More like reminiscing about having already taken over the world.

[Wilhelm Klink Reich]

8. poon

[undeterred]

9. what's poon?

[MiniMandaRuth]

11. I could SOOOO say something right now,

but I just won't. I just won't. My mind has been in weird mode today.

[jobycom]

12. Clinton is asking Gates what he thought of the kiss at the end of

Talladga Nights, and Gates is saying he didn't see that movie, but he loved Pirates of the Caribbean, and was planning to buy his own fleet of pirate ships.