Bill Gates' Y2K Island - Any Info?

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Sorry if this has already been discussed in this forum.

Any details on Gates' alleged island preparations? I'm considering doing a story on it if I can get some facts (or "pseudo-facts" if you don't believe in facts).

Please email me directly if you dare not post here.

Please direct me to any well-researched webpages as well.

Thanks,

Zach Anderson z@figure.8m.com

-- Zach Anderson (z@figure.8m.com), June 11, 1999

Answers

Hadn't heard about Bill's island. Paul Allen (Bill's Mircrosoft Buddy) bought an island here in Washington a few years back and kicked off a girls summer camp that had been there since the 1930's. He received a lot of negitive publicity until he bought the Seahawks...now everyone loves him. Anyway, his island getaway has not been covered since. I've often wondered about what he was building.... it's only money. ben

-- ben tolson (bent@premier1.net), June 11, 1999.

This Way to Bill Gates Pacific Paradise!

-- link fairy (lf@nevernever.land), June 11, 1999.

Bill Gates: Y2K Coward on the Run......

Oh, what a big surprise!

-- PJC (paulchri@msn.com), June 11, 1999.


We used to run into Paul Allen in the elevator. We had a patient in the KOIN tower condos; he had/has a pad (literally) right above hers ...

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), June 11, 1999.

He always reminded me a little of Gilligan (sp?). Somebody should tell him that's along the path the Chinese will probably take as they spread out from their forward staging area on the Spratley Islands.

-- (snowleopard6@webtv.net), June 12, 1999.


Palmyra Atoll? Wasn't that the location of a Melvin Belli book about some murders and piracy? (He managed to defend his client from being framed for participation in the murders by her husband by showing that a certain combination of evidence proved she was innocent.)

If so, I recall that the description of Palmyra was that it might look idyllic from a distance, but those who tried to actually live there found out the hard way why it was uninhabited. No fresh water except from rain. No native food except a limited supply of coconuts, threatened by cutting of the coconut palm trees for hut-building material. If one planted seeds for crops, the numerous land crabs ate all the young plants. Yucky bugs. Stuff like that.

-- No Spam Please (nos_pam_please@hotmail.com), June 12, 1999.


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