OT: I sure agree with this

Bill Gates" High School Address

To anyone with kids of any age, here"s some advice. 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 won"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.

If you can read this - Thank a teacher!
If you are reading it in English-Thank a soldier !!

Is that something Microsoft has in the works?

Is that a leak about what's to come?

It really doesn't matter who spoke it, or where it came from, the content is right on and appropriate.

As a side note, there are 2 years difference in my wife and I age wise. I learned phonics and she learned to spell with "word association". In her mid 50's she is having to learn to spell all over again just to get by in her job. Another grand experiment gone wrong.

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

Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome.

Advice columnist Ann Landers has printed the first ten items (uncredited) several times, and the list has been used by radio commentator Paul Harvey. The prize for misattribution, however, has to go to The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, which printed the list twice in three weeks in mid-2000, the first time crediting it to "Duluth state Rep. Brooks Coleman of Duluth," and the second time to Bill Gates.

Bill Gates has a lot to say since the goverment has tried to sue him out of business for being really sucessful.

Ray