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ElGranCabeza on 14 March 2011
naruball said:
ElGranCabeza said:

ALL donations are tax deductible. You can bet your sweet ass none of those companies would donate anything if that money wasn't tax deductible. Sorry, but that's the cold hard fact.

I don't think that everything in life is black or white. There's also grey. Bill Gates didn't have to donate billions of dollars just to avoid paying taxes. We don't know why he did it and I personally can only applaud him for doing so.


Bill Gates could donate 45 billion dollars and still live comfortably for the rest of his live. Of course he won't do that and I don't blame him. Most of the money he donates is tax deductible. Same thing with Warren Buffet.



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Capulous on 15 March 2011
Gilgamesh said:

Actually Micrsoft did donate some money, $100,000. But they also pissed everyone off by advertising there Bing website at the same time...

How you can #SupportJapan - http://binged.it/fEh7iT. For every retweet, @bing will give $1 to Japan quake victims, up to $100K.

Mentioned in this Tweet

Try Bing. A new way to search, explore, & decide

 

The reaction was predictable, or at least it should have been:   

If companies wanna help Japan victims, then just give money. Telling people to retweet is using a tragedy for marketing. @bing

Oh yes, of course. @Bing turn the largest earthquake on record to hit #Japan into a marketing opportunity. Nice work, Microsoft.

 

 

Microsoft got the message and seven hours after the first tweet sent this apology:

We apologize the tweet was negatively perceived. Intent was to provide an easy way for people to help Japan. We have donated $100K.

The tweet wasn't just negatively perceived, it was really dumb.

Actually it seems MS has donated over $2 million.  trasharmdsister12 posted about it on the first page.  Either way Japan recieved plenty of money from MS. If it is not illegal who cares how it is done. The guy who tweeted that could have just spent less time by retweeting to MS and helped toward the donation. Instead he posted something like that to get publicity. So basically he was bashing MS to get some attention himself. Hm, what do they call those people...

All the companies that donated and recieved acknowledgement from it is getting publicity (hence marketing). They are helping by donating more than (probably) anyone who complain about them do.



dany612 on 15 March 2011
RCTjunkie said:
dany612 said:

That's my Sony..

Makes me so proud. *tear*


You own Sony now? News to me....

OT: Glad companies are helping out. I just hope the rest of te world will have some sympathy. 

Yes! AND you better not question my authority!



 

        

ils411 on 15 March 2011
ElGranCabeza said:
naruball said:
ElGranCabeza said:

ALL donations are tax deductible. You can bet your sweet ass none of those companies would donate anything if that money wasn't tax deductible. Sorry, but that's the cold hard fact.

I don't think that everything in life is black or white. There's also grey. Bill Gates didn't have to donate billions of dollars just to avoid paying taxes. We don't know why he did it and I personally can only applaud him for doing so.


Bill Gates could donate 45 billion dollars and still live comfortably for the rest of his live. Of course he won't do that and I don't blame him. Most of the money he donates is tax deductible. Same thing with Warren Buffet.

yes, and how much would be reduced from tax?  would the reduction from tax be equal to the 300 million yen donated? coz thats how much tax has to be reduced for the 300m yen to be not felt by sony or any company donating. youn should just shut your yap as clearly you are just an asshole. of the many good people who died in that eartrhquake and the tsunami i wonder why assholes like you just dont drop dead already.



ils411 on 15 March 2011
buglebum said:
Chroniczaaa said:

So far for company donations

Nintendo - 300 million yen

Sega - 200 million yen

Namco - 100 million yen

Sony - 300 million yen


Pathetic donation from Sony relative to other companies who are worth exponentially less. Actually I'm just ticked off with the sony sucking...I haven't checked the source, but was that stupid sony logo there in it OP?

so, lets you fork out 300 million yen..you cant? then just shut the fuck up. like i said to the other guy, of all the good people who died in the earthquake and tsunami i wonder why assholes like you just dont drop dead already. two less assholes like you would make this world a better place to live in.



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ils411 on 15 March 2011

before i get banned or permaband or whatever, all those assholess taking a shot at this should all drop dead. this is a very serious matter. tens of thousands of people died in that disaster. women, children, the elderly...all dead. then there are those millions of people with no food, no water no nothing just trying to survive.

show some sympathy you son of a bitches!

if you cant say anything nice or see the good that is being done by other people and these companies then just shut the fuck up and dont post.

that is all i have to say to you bastards

now, for those of you how believe in God, no matter what religion. let us pray that to the Lord that he gives his grace to the victimes and that he accepts into his arms those who perished.



LivingMetal on 15 March 2011
Grimes said:
LivingMetal said:
Grimes said:

Bill Gates is one of the biggest philanthropists in the world and has given over $28 billion to charity. You can say what you want about Microsoft, but there is no denying that his share went to do some good. I wouldn't be shocked to see Gates make huge donations if needed.


A person's heart is more important than his actions.  After reading Gilgamesh's last post, this sound rather typical, and I wouldn't doubt that the intentions were for personal gain and not for the good of humankind.  Never sell out.

Yeah, I'm sure the evil mastermind is tweeting for bing in between donating $10 billion for giving vaccines that will eliminate the suffereing of millions.

 

I'm not ignoring the physical positive results of one's action.  But let's put it like this.  Let's say I volunteered to help paint your house with no strings attached.  I committed my time and efforts as a sacrifice in assistance to you, doing a very fine paint job.  But let's say I did the same, but my intentions were to get closer to your mother.  Even though the outside of the house looks great, you'd probably have less respect for me for doing things for the wrong self-serving reasons.  That's all I'm saying before we start blindly putting people on a pedestal.



Grimes on 15 March 2011
LivingMetal said:
Grimes said:
LivingMetal said:
Grimes said:

Bill Gates is one of the biggest philanthropists in the world and has given over $28 billion to charity. You can say what you want about Microsoft, but there is no denying that his share went to do some good. I wouldn't be shocked to see Gates make huge donations if needed.


A person's heart is more important than his actions.  After reading Gilgamesh's last post, this sound rather typical, and I wouldn't doubt that the intentions were for personal gain and not for the good of humankind.  Never sell out.

Yeah, I'm sure the evil mastermind is tweeting for bing in between donating $10 billion for giving vaccines that will eliminate the suffereing of millions.

 

I'm not ignoring the physical positive results of one's action.  But let's put it like this.  Let's say I volunteered to help paint your house with no strings attached.  I committed my time and efforts as a sacrifice in assistance to you, doing a very fine paint job.  But let's say I did the same, but my intentions were to get closer to your mother.  Even though the outside of the house looks great, you'd probably have less respect for me for doing things for the wrong self-serving reasons.  That's all I'm saying before we start blindly putting people on a pedestal.

Worst analogy ever.



Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.

tendoronie67 on 15 March 2011

good stuff



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Capulous on 15 March 2011
LivingMetal said:
Grimes said:
LivingMetal said:
Grimes said:

Bill Gates is one of the biggest philanthropists in the world and has given over $28 billion to charity. You can say what you want about Microsoft, but there is no denying that his share went to do some good. I wouldn't be shocked to see Gates make huge donations if needed.


A person's heart is more important than his actions.  After reading Gilgamesh's last post, this sound rather typical, and I wouldn't doubt that the intentions were for personal gain and not for the good of humankind.  Never sell out.

Yeah, I'm sure the evil mastermind is tweeting for bing in between donating $10 billion for giving vaccines that will eliminate the suffereing of millions.

 

I'm not ignoring the physical positive results of one's action.  But let's put it like this.  Let's say I volunteered to help paint your house with no strings attached.  I committed my time and efforts as a sacrifice in assistance to you, doing a very fine paint job.  But let's say I did the same, but my intentions were to get closer to your mother.  Even though the outside of the house looks great, you'd probably have less respect for me for doing things for the wrong self-serving reasons.  That's all I'm saying before we start blindly putting people on a pedestal.

Or maybe we can keep our bias out of this and see it for what it is. Perhaps you should stop blindly attacking and slandering him with nothing to back it up. I mean, where are you getting this stuff from?  No one is calling him a saint, but you can't deny what he has done. What have you done in comparsion to help others?