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| Time: 18:01 EST/23:01 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Last week, the Sunday Times Rich List claimed that Wal-Mart Chairman Robson Walton had surpassed Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates as the most obscenely wealthy person in the known universe, but appears to have neglected to carry a two or somehow misplaced a decimal point in its calculations. Indeed, the Times overestimated Walton's fortune by a stunning $48 billion, Forbes Magazine reckons. The "1.7 billion Wal-Mart shares owned collectively by founder Sam Walton's widow and their four children are in fact split evenly amongst the five of them. With a total value of nearly $87 billion, that leaves them each only $17 billion," the magazine says. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (Unknown) at 4/28/2001 10:14:00 PM |
| Darn limeys. Don't they teach basic math over there? *grin* Just kidding. |
| #2 By 20 (Unknown) at 4/29/2001 12:54:00 AM |
| #6: Blasphemy! Facts and verification are completely irrelevant in modern journalism. Where have you been for the past 20 years? =) |
| #3 By 20 (Unknown) at 4/29/2001 12:56:00 AM |
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Oh yeah, one more comment... This just goes to show you what a piss-poor news regurgitation site The Register is. They are so desperate to post anything and everything negative about MS, they will put anything up there. You could probably send them an email and say "Bill Gates is going to buy Linux and crush it" (which is wrong on so many levels) and they'd probably run an exclusive on it. This is just one more reason why ActiveWin should stop reporting anything from the Register. It only serves to make ActiveWin look worse. |
| #4 By 2 (Unknown) at 4/29/2001 1:38:00 AM |
| Look BAD or WORSE... if the latter we must already look bad before posting the news, if that is true - do explain :-) |
| #5 By 233 (Unknown) at 4/29/2001 6:27:00 AM |
| Great news! I was planning to take a collection for Bill but now there's no need to do so anymore :) |
| #6 By 20 (Unknown) at 4/29/2001 12:03:00 PM |
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#9: I'm just giving you flack, don't worry.
Although, there was the "Microsoft hacked!" (which was actually just a typo on their download site) debacle, and then several posting of TheRegister articles which were blatantly false and defied good journalism practices, but in general you guys are doing ok. |
| #7 By 2 (Unknown) at 4/29/2001 3:36:00 PM |
| Daz, yea, I did jump the gun a tad on that one. However, that was reworded shortly thereafter. We post these Reg articles because even though such an opinion is held against them people DO read them :-) and like to complain afterwards... |
| #8 By 3 (Unknown) at 4/29/2001 5:25:00 PM |
| Yep - its good to see all the comments about their articles when we post them - and they are some of the most popular click-through links we post. |
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