Some of those are candidates: I might take Darwin, in particular. Let me
rephrase my statement to "...has done more for the people /of his time/
than anyone in history."
> } > absolutely anything one does to
> } > cajole as many people as possible to give you money--voluntarily--
> } > is, by definition, providing a benefit to them.
> } What benefit are con artists to their victims?
Perhaps your dictionary doesn't include "voluntarily"? I said
cajole, not defraud.
> } > When I awake from my suspension, I'd much rather see a world with
> } > Bill Gates than some worthless whiner like Marc Andreesen.
> } Pardon my ignorance... who's Marc Andreesen?
>
> Backer of Netscape. I'm not sure why he's a whiner; he may have asked
> for an antitrust judgement against Microsoft.
Yes, the founder of Netscape. I call him a whiner because the moment
he found Microsoft making money doing exactly the same thing he did--
breaking the standard to lock people in--instead of fighting it out
in the free market like a man, he ran running to daddy government to
make the bully go away, and he continues to fight his battle in the
courts instead of the free market. Netscape is also a much more
blatant liar about their support of open standards than MS is.
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