Lottery winners buy olympic torch bearer new leg

Making one person's life easier can have a massive impact on said person. Give it to a charity e.g. Africa etc and still they will be asking for money on the T.V. ads, then you might think to yourself "What have I actually solved?", at least with this child it's making an impact you can see.

I'm not being pessimistic, it's just nice to visually see what you gave can have an impact no matter how small the gift.
 
robfosters said:
While I think a lot of what they did is fantastic and should be applauded, I don't know how they could find it to make their biggest donation of a staggering £1m to Alex Salmond's party to assist in the campaign for independence.
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Mr Weir was a former SNP candidate that is why, money well spent I say.

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Don't see why this kind of thing needs to be announced in the media. There are billion/millionaires giving away money like this every year and most of them aren't mentioned. Winning the lottery and giving away money is easy. Earning it and giving it away is something else.
 
Because the unionist MSM in UK don't like the SNP so have a agenda against the Weirs because they support the SNP and Independence even if the Weir's are being very kind giving money to good causes and individuals.
 
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T345 said:
Really? I am the opposite, but I don't hate steve jobs
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got to agree with this...Jobs was just smart at marketing on top of his skills. people worship jobs because he made people want everything apple created..good or bad...he is the consumerist nations perfect businessman, but Apple products are seriously ***p to anyone with half a brain, all there flashy gimmicks don't fool me in the end there product life is around 2 years, this is just bad for everyone except the business selling them.

Gates is a good rolemodel and has done great things with his status and money.
 
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MadMossy said:
Considering Bill Gates fortune was at 61 billion in March 2012 to give away 90% of that would go incredibly far.
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It's not just that he is giving away his own money - he is actively persuading some of the richest people in the world to DO THE SAME!

This is amazing stuff by the guy who was the richest man in the world for quite some time - a real lead by example kind of guy who made himself an incredible success and is now sharing that success with those who really need it. I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates, he's an amazing business leader and incredible human being.
 
Westyfield2 said:
The problem is that we only know about Bill Gates because he makes a massive song and dance about it. For all we know Steve Jobs might have been giving away silently for years.
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That's like saying the only reason we know about Oxfam's work is because they make a 'song and dance about it'. When you're running a charity (like Gates Foundation), promoting your cause is every bit as important as advertising is for commercial products. If people don't know you exist, how can you function?

Given his charity's remit to to try and get the World's billionaires to give up half their wealth, I don't see how you can do that secretly? You need the public focus so these other wealthy guys start having to answer "If Bill can do it, why not you?". If he'd tried to do this behind closed doors, just writing letters to people he wouldn't have a single reply probably.

The point is, running a charity requires some promotion. That is not 'making a song and dance' about your charity work and isn't the same as someone giving some of their personal wealth to an independent charity then holding a press conference to brag about it, as your post kind of implies.

Jobs may have given some of his money away silently for years, but even people who don't get their PR team to promote their giving still get investigated by Journalists and the likes of Forbes who will try and find this stuff out without your knowledge and thus far no one has found any evidence to suggest he was a big giver to charity. And giving the odd bit away here and there is still not comparable to what the Gates foundation are trying to achieve.
 
Richie said:
Your argument was dodgy at best to begin with. Bringing in the bible bashing did it no favours....
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It's not "bible bashing" if that's what he lives his life by :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Personally i see where he's coming from, but my interpretation of that passage is the intention of letting people know.

Giving to Charity then telling everybody about to all to your mates down the pub to make yourself feel all smug and important is what that passage is about.

Encouraging others to give to Charity and putting your money where your mouth is like what Bill Gates is actually doing is the way to go about it and it's encouraged in the Koran.
 
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robgmun said:
Giving to Charity then telling everybody about to all to your mates down the pub to make yourself feel all smug and important is what that passage is about.

Encouraging others to give to Charity and putting your money where your mouth is like what Bill Gates is actually doing is the way to go about it and it's encouraged in the Koran.
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Who cares, the Bible or any other holy book has never been the source of morality and anyone who does take ALL of the morals in the Bible literally would be in prison anyway seeing you can find passages that condone slavery, infanticide and rape.
 
StriderX said:
Why not help fund research into bettering prosthetics?
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I can imagine how that conversation would go...

Dr - "Hey Kieran, a couple of lottery winners are making a donation after seeing your cause"

KM - "Wow, that's great what are they doing?"

Dr - "They're putting money in prosthetic research so maybe 10 years in the future they'll be better legs that we still won't be able to give you"

KM - "Oh.......that's cool...I suppose"
 
estebanrey said:
I can imagine how that conversation would go...

Dr - "Hey Kieran, a couple of lottery winners are making a donation after seeing your cause"

KM - "Wow, that's great what are they doing?"

Dr - "They're putting money in prosthetic research so maybe 10 years in the future they'll be better legs that we still won't be able to give you"

KM - "Oh.......that's cool...I suppose"
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LOL, direct approach was better in my opinion, he needed legs they got em ... done
 
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