Not sure if this email being forwarded is truly by BG, but it's still good:




Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world doesn't care about your
self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault , so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Nah, not Mr. Gates.

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.asp

Not that I disagree with the comments. All true.

I have a friend who framed it and has it hanging in his office.

I like the 60,000 dollar one and what flipping burgers was once considered

Short but sweet

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Experience : what you receive 3 seconds after you really needed it !!



86 300SDL 387,000? Motor committed suicide
81 300SD 214,000 "new" 132,000 motor
83 300SD 212,000 parts car
83 300SD 147,000

91 F700 5.9 cummins 5spd eaton 298,000
66 AMC rambler American 2dr auto 108,000
95 Chevy 3/4 ton auto 160,000
03 Toyota 4runner 180,000 wifes

Those are good rules to live by.

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For the Saved, this world is the worst it will ever get.
For the unSaved, this world is the best it will ever get.

Clk's Ebay Stuff BUY SOMETHING NOW!!!

Friend of mine bought his daughter a car for her 16th birthday. A brand new Mazda 3. She didn't like it, said she wanted a BMW. So he traded it in and wrote a check for a brand new BMW.

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

Kinda like this... what a great example for any community that includes PDiddy- I've got 6 kids with multiple women and I'm gonna give my kid $350K+ car- what are your driving life principles?

I know LOTS of stories like that...including a single mom I lived next to about a decade ago who collected enough change to get her son a very nice used Buick Riviera...only to hear him complain that he would have preferred an import like a Camry instead!

We live among folks who CAN afford to plunk down the $$$ to buy their brats whatever they want...which is frustrating for those of us who cannot, since the kids still expect it! So my daughter saw all of this "90210" opulence and assumed that we would match in kind when she turned 16 (said she didn't want much, just a new C-Class would do ).

I never felt that ANY teen's first car should be a new one...after all, what do you look forward to later in life?

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

I went to a private prep school, (the wealthiest kids in Minneapolis/St. Paul) and while most people were driving to school by the 12th grade, they were not expensive cars. iirc, one kid drove his Dad's 380SL from time to time, but most had Accords, 626's and the like. Nice cars indeed, but not over the top.

My buddy's daughter goes to the same school and according to him almost all of the kids legal to drive have BMW's, Range Rovers etc.

Maybe it's more a sign of the times.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

Run slaves to your jobs.
The tolling bell is your master.
And the Dollar Bill is your God.
Slave away your lives working for the master.
Grind your bones in the machine, to pay for the masters trifles.
Because Jesus says so !!

This is the most god awful piece of BS I have seen in a while.
It is depressing that anyone would believe this.
If you have children, and you tell them this sort of trash,
they should be taken from you.

This is aimed at the public education system.
I wonder who wants to close that down ?
So they can open corporate, Jesus incorporated ones ?

Wake up slaves...!

And it is one big fat lie.
Bill gates would never say anything like this.
In fact he is the best example we have that the opposite of a lot of these "rules" are true.

Good Grief !!!

The world has changed.
Its not the same as it was in the 40's when you could get a job and support
your wife and children.

Today the wife works, and the kids go to work as soon as possible.

This country is sunk, people believing this kind of corporate propaganda.
Thanks for helping to destroy a generation.

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

**** I can't even get an interview to get a burger flipping job right now.

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

Your school is full of little people compared to Edina.

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

Along a similar line:

Jock vs. Nerd

The answer to the eternal question "Is it better to be a jock or a nerd?"

Michael Jordan makes over $300,000 a game. With $40 million in endorsements, he makes $178,100 a day, working or not.

If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.

If he goes to see a movie, it'll cost him $7.00, but he'll make $18,550 while he's there.

If he wanted to save up for a new Mercedes S-Class ($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.

Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax deferred account (401k), he will hit the federal cap of $9500 at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st.

If you were given a penny for every 10 dollars he made, you'd be living comfortably at $65,000 a year.

Amazing isn't it?

However, if Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 250 years, he'll still have less than Bill Gates has today.

Game over. Nerd wins.

Why would anyone buy a mazda 3?

Why not? They're good alternatives to Hondas or Toyotas, about as reliable and far more fun to drive on a twisty road.

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

I was actually referring to ricers, in general. Mostly, I was just trying to make a joke.