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Is this what democracy looks like?
Debra Thompson
Published November 4, 2020 Updated November 4, 2020
Debra Thompson is an associate professor of political science at McGill University.
"This is what democracy looks like!"
The chant is a common rendering at mass protests, especially over the past four years. Democracy took shape in the streets during the Women's Marches in 2017, 2018 and 2019, the March for Science in 2017 and 2018, and the March for Our Lives in 2018. The largest and most diverse mass protests in recent memory – possibly ever – occurred this past summer in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and rapidly spread across the United States. At the time, a question repeatedly posed by pundits and protestors alike was whether Democrats, the party that has positioned itself as the defender of civil rights, would be able to capitalize on the anger and energy of the protestors and transform it into electoral success at the polls.
Too often, the response of the Democratic Party to the tragedies and terror of the past four years has been a myopic focus on the formal institutions of democratic rule: "Just vote." Celebrities release a torrent of "Get Out The Vote" posts on every social-media platform. "Don't boo. Vote!" president Barack Obama once admonished. Even with claims that it was about More Than a Vote, the organization created by LeBron James and fellow athletes worked to increase the number of poll workers in Black electoral districts. Just vote.
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As certainty about the final tally from Tuesday's election in the United States slowly materializes, the question remains: Can voting be enough to restore the democratic norms that have been under a full-scale assault during the Trump presidency?
The calls to "just vote" ring hollow in many ways, given the administrative obstacle course that many voters must pass through in order to make their way to the polls, and the possibility of a melee of postelection legal battles between the two campaigns to decide which votes can be counted, and whose voices matter.
The blame for this mess lies predominantly at the feet of the Republican Party. It is fundamentally a party of minority rule, now forced to come to terms with the fact that it is unable to maintain power in free and fair elections. The GOP has proven unwilling to adapt itself to changing attitudes and demographics, so instead it has turned its attention to attacking the electoral process and manipulating the electorate itself. Its use of ostensibly democratic institutions for anti-democratic purposes, over the past several decades, is intended not just to win this presidential election, but to permanently secure a white-majority electorate.
Any observer of American elections, especially those of us in Canada, can see that these tactics have worked. It has now been several elections since the Supreme Court struck down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder. In response to this catastrophic decision (the premise of which was essentially that the VRA is no longer necessary because racism is over), states have spent the past seven years passing legislation intended to make voting more difficult and less accessible, including strict photo ID requirements, laws that make it harder to register to vote and stay registered, and laws that make it difficult to vote early or absentee. In addition, most states disenfranchise people convicted of felonies which, due to the notoriously racist nature of law enforcement and the criminal punishment system, disproportionately targets Black people. Estimates indicate that in 11 states, more than 10 per cent of the voting-age Black population has been legally disenfranchised.
This electoral season has been marred by attempts to sow confusion and misinformation, voter roll purges amid contrived concerns about "voter fraud," inaccessible and reduced poll stations, long lines and egregious wait times at polling locations, widespread gerrymandering, lawsuits to stop absentee and mail-in ballots from being counted, opposition to early voting, the intimidating presence of police and right-wing militias at polling stations and, in some cases, the literal destruction of ballots. This is not even to mention the 230,000 people that can't vote because they have been killed by the government's callous indifference to human life in the face of COVID-19, or the obstacles to voting that are amplified because of the pandemic.
For decades, white conservatives have been overcome with disbelief, resentment and outrage at the prospect of the country crossing the "majority-minority" threshold, which demographers predict is likely to happen in the 2040s. In an effort to maintain a white-majority electorate, Republicans at both the federal and state levels have pursued more restrictive and crueler immigration policies, supported more draconian "law and order" practices to incarcerate and disenfranchise, and attempted to obscure demographic changes by manipulating the questions and enumeration methods of the decennial census.
In every single one of these circumstances, Black, Indigenous and other communities of colour in the United States are disproportionately disenfranchised. These racialized outcomes are by design.
Even if Joe Biden ends up in the White House, even if Kamala Harris were to make history as the first Black woman to be the vice-president of the United States, the country will not magically transform into the democracy that we took to the streets to demand. Telling people to "just vote" every two to four years, and shaming those who don't, doesn't change the incredible obstacles to voting, nor does it absolve Democrats of the party's failure to protect minority voting rights against Republicans' open hostility to an inclusive democracy. The fanfare of "just vote" and the spectacle of election day disguise the deeply anti-democratic nature of this so-called "democratic republic."
Is it any wonder that a not insignificant part of the population doubts that either party is likely to bring about the conditions of racial justice? This shouldn't be what democracy looks like.
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package uk.co.techblue.docusign.client.dto.tabs;

import org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonProperty;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.annotate.JsonSerialize;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.annotate.JsonSerialize.Inclusion;

/**
 * Place this tag to have a recipient place their initials in the document. The
 * "optional" property sets if the initials are required or optional.
 *
 * @author Ajay
 */
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
@JsonSerialize(include = Inclusion.NON_NULL)
public class InitialHereTab extends AbstractRecipientTab {
	/** The conditional parent label. */
	@JsonProperty
	private String conditionalParentLabel;

	/** The conditional parent value. */
	@JsonProperty
	private String conditionalParentValue;

	/** The recipient id. */
	@JsonProperty
	private String recipientId;

	/** The template locked. */
	@JsonProperty
	private Boolean templateLocked;

	/** The template required. */
	@JsonProperty
	private Boolean templateRequired;

	/** The recipient id. */
	@JsonProperty
	private String name;

	/** The optional. */
	@JsonProperty
	private Boolean optional;

	/** The scale value. */
	@JsonProperty
	private Double scaleValue;

	/**
	 * Gets the conditional parent label.
	 *
	 * @return the conditional parent label
	 */
	public String getConditionalParentLabel() {
		return conditionalParentLabel;
	}

	/**
	 * Optional element.

	 * Sets the conditional parent label. For conditional fields this is the
	 * TabLabel of the parent tab that controls this tab's visibility.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param conditionalParentLabel
	 *            the new conditional parent label
	 */
	public void setConditionalParentLabel(String conditionalParentLabel) {
		this.conditionalParentLabel = conditionalParentLabel;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the conditional parent value.
	 *
	 * @return the conditional parent value
	 */
	public String getConditionalParentValue() {
		return conditionalParentValue;
	}

	/**
	 * Optional element.

	 * Sets the conditional parent value. For conditional fields this is the
	 * Value of the parent tab that controls this tab's visibility.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param conditionalParentValue
	 *            the new conditional parent value
	 */
	public void setConditionalParentValue(String conditionalParentValue) {
		this.conditionalParentValue = conditionalParentValue;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the recipient id.
	 *
	 * @return the recipient id
	 */
	public String getRecipientId() {
		return recipientId;
	}

	/**
	 * Sets the recipient id. This specifies the recipient associated with the
	 * tab. Must refer to an existing recipient's ID attribute.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param recipientId
	 *            the new recipient id
	 */
	public void setRecipientId(String recipientId) {
		this.recipientId = recipientId;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the template locked.
	 *
	 * @return the template locked
	 */
	public Boolean getTemplateLocked() {
		return templateLocked;
	}

	/**
	 * Optional element.

	 * Sets the template locked. Used only when working with template tabs. If
	 * true, the attributes of the tab cannot be changed by the sender.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param templateLocked
	 *            the new template locked
	 */
	public void setTemplateLocked(Boolean templateLocked) {
		this.templateLocked = templateLocked;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the template required.
	 *
	 * @return the template required
	 */
	public Boolean getTemplateRequired() {
		return templateRequired;
	}

	/**
	 * Optional element.

	 * Sets the template required. Used only when working with template tabs. If
	 * true, the tab cannot be removed by the sender.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param templateRequired
	 *            the new template required
	 */
	public void setTemplateRequired(Boolean templateRequired) {
		this.templateRequired = templateRequired;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the name.
	 *
	 * @return the name
	 */
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}

	/**
	 * Sets the names associated with the tab type.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param name
	 *            the new name
	 */
	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the optional.
	 *
	 * @return the optional
	 */
	public Boolean getOptional() {
		return optional;
	}

	/**
	 * Sets the optional. When true, the Initial Here tab is optional and the
	 * recipient is not required to add initials to complete an envelope.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param optional
	 *            the new optional
	 */
	public void setOptional(Boolean optional) {
		this.optional = optional;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the scale value.
	 *
	 * @return the scale value
	 */
	public Double getScaleValue() {
		return scaleValue;
	}

	/**
	 * Sets the size for Initial Here tab. It can be value from 0.5 to 1.0,
	 * where 1.0 represents full size and 0.5 is 50% size.
	 *
	 *
	 * @param scaleValue
	 *            the new scale value
	 */
	public void setScaleValue(Double scaleValue) {
		this.scaleValue = scaleValue;
	}
}

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The Montessori Adolescent Program (M.A.P.) at Beechworth Secondary College is delivered in partnership with Montessori Australia. The programme is flexible, innovative and responsive to individual student needs. The program is guided by the Montessori National Curriculum and Aus VELS expectations in the interdisciplinary themes, study skills and strategies. Each student will have a personal learning plan the guides their mastery and exploratory activities as an individual, in small-group situations and in whole-group learning experiences.
Across the curriculum, real work that meets the adolescent need for social interaction is coupled with activities that foster independence. Some of these elemental studies include a micro-economy (running a business to participate in the adult economy), responsibility for the built and natural environments, expanded definition of physical education to include health, outdoor experiences, participation in sports, learning based in the care and respect of one's self, and activities of practical life.
Science and math are the foundation for discovery and invention, so competence and conceptual understanding of these subjects is necessary to express one's self in society and adult work.
The Montessori adolescent program is designed to be a real life experience of building community. Activities in academics and in the classroom environment call upon the adolescent's need to see that academics have a purpose. They work toward, and actively participate in, group endeavors that benefit both the whole school community and the people in it.
The end result is adolescents who become deeply invested in what they do; whether it is academic projects, day to day tasks and events in their school community, or the opportunities for outreach that take them from the classroom. All of these experiences help them to direct their developing skills toward a wider society where they feel they are valued and can make a worthwhile contribution. These experiences foster care for themselves, care for others, and care for the environment.
M.A.P. Is staffed by Laureen Barnard who completed the NAMTA AMI training in 2014 as well as other expert staff who will also be trained in-house and bought into the program to facilitate specialist areas of study and work.
The first step of the enrolment process is to submit a Registration of Interest Form to [email protected] and to attend a school tour. The Registration of Interest Form is attached below and school tours can be arranged by calling Laureen Barnard, MAP Coordinator on: 0432 289 449. The Principal, Patricia Broom is also happy to discuss student life in the wider school and can be contacted at: [email protected].


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describe("Ext.form.field.VTypes tests",function() {

    var vtype = Ext.form.field.VTypes;

    it("should allow undefined file extensions when testing with #fileExtension", function() {
        expect(vtype.fileExtension('',{validExtensions:['jpg']})).toBeTruthy();
    });
    it("should allow valid file extensions when testing with #fileExtension", function() {
        expect(vtype.fileExtension('user.jpg',{validExtensions:['jpg']})).toBeTruthy();
        expect(vtype.fileExtension('user.jpg',{validExtensions:['jpg','jpeg','gif']})).toBeTruthy();
        expect(vtype.fileExtension('user.with.points.jpg',{validExtensions:['jpeg','jpg','gif']})).toBeTruthy();
    });
    it("should pass #fileExtension validation if no validExtensions property is undefined", function() {
        expect(vtype.fileExtension('user.jpg',{})).toBeTruthy();
    });
    it("should not allow wrong file extensions when testing with #fileExtension", function() {
        expect(vtype.fileExtension('user.jpg',{validExtensions:[]})).toBeFalsy();
        expect(vtype.fileExtension('user.doc',{validExtensions:['jpg','jpeg','gif']})).toBeFalsy();
        expect(vtype.fileExtension('user.jpg.txt',{validExtensions:['jpeg','jpg','gif']})).toBeFalsy();
    });

});


Amazon Kindle – "iPod of reading" or digital kindling?
This is the Amazon Kindle. It's rumored to a be web-enabled digital reader with a 30 hour battery life. Amazon will make the officially announce the device tomorrow. CEO Jeff Bezos is calling it the "iPod of reading" in Newsweek. Follow the link for a creepy pic of Bezos plus the article.
Gizmodo has a good, succinct description of the digital reader plus pricing on available books. So I want repeat what they have stated so well.


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Q: Почтовая рассылка подтверждение регистрации Взял хостинг в аренду, купил рекламу сайта и тут сюрприз, узнаю что хостинг не позволяет отправить более 150 писем в час. То есть если более 150 юзеров за час зарегистрируются - хана. Еще не учел что могут восстанавливать пароль и тд. Там где взял хостинг, там же использую услуги колокейшена, стоит сервер на дебиане. Вопрос, никогда так не делал, если я, поднял бы почтовый клиент на своем сервере, как мне средствами php , с сайта на хостинге, отправить письмо именно с сервера на дебиане? Или это не возможно? Подскажите что делать?

A: Создайте почтовый ящик на стороннем сервисе, например Яндекс. Отправку сообщений с своего сайта делайте через SMTP сервер Яндекса, например, при помощи PHPMailer или подобных.

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Robert Anthony Brown, Jr. (born September 29, 1980) is a former American football defensive tackle. He was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2003. He played college football at Memphis.

Brown was also member of the Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers, and Tennessee Titans.

The Titans released Brown on July 28, 2011.

References

External links
Tennessee Titans bio

1980 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Chattanooga, Tennessee
American football defensive tackles
American football defensive ends
Memphis Tigers football players
Carolina Panthers players
Miami Dolphins players
San Francisco 49ers players
Amsterdam Admirals players
Tennessee Titans players

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Salt Lake City (October 1, 2012) – Allen Communication Learning Services is pleased to be included in the 2012 Learning Portal Companies Watch List by TrainingIndustry.com. This list recognizes the top content development companies in the training industry and is designed to help organizations in their search for the right training partner.
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Allen has been honored with more than 16 awards and accolades in 2012 alone. To learn more about Allen Communication Learning Services and how its services can help improve the performance of your business through custom training and development, visit www.allencomm.com.


It's being scared, nervous, excited, and foolish too.
Take a moment each day to quiet your mind and center into your heart.
On Day One of heartache, I wrap my swollen eyes with a t-shirt you left behind, waiting for the smell of you to fade into the smell of me.


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Margaret Sullivan, Softball and George Dubyah Bush
Ms. Sullivan posed a long-winded policy suggestion concerning the establishment of a new process to determine whether or not the release of certain information would constitute a threat to national security, rather than asking for an explanation from George Bush about his well-documented attacks on Freedom of Information laws. .
Huh? The Bush Administration certainly has its weaknesses but staying on message is not one of them. Staying on message means not taking policy suggestions from journalists, okay? Other Presidents (again, Bill Clinton comes to mind) just loved to discuss new policy ideas and suggestions. Not this one. As the editor of a major daily newspaper, we'd like to respectfully suggest that perhaps Ms. Sullivan should have known this. .
We share Ms. Sullivan's embarrassment at being blown off by the President of the United States, because her suggestion, which in any other time would have been considered safe, non-partisan and completely reasonable, did merit at least a modicum of respectful comment from the President, but again - it was off message! .
We'll probably have a long wait for the next Presidential press conference attended by actual journalists. Given how obsequious many of these newspaper editors, were being, we're generous by suggesting that they are in fact, "actual journalists." Now that Presidential press conferences have become scarcer than solar eclipses, we can only hope that if Ms. Sullivan again has the opportunity to ask Dubyah a question, she will be a little more prepared for her close-up. .
Underhanded Underwriting: Nancy Naples, James Harris and "The Bonds That Tie." .
Speaking of the WWRR (Wealthy White Radical Republicans), Erie County Comptroller Nancy Naples has come under fire for steering County business to a certain politically connected bond underwriter. We must be having a slow news week because, this just in: the practice of manipulating bond underwriting is a cornerstone of political corruption in New York State! It's part of the time-honored tradition of patronage, for crying out loud. But, now that it's been brought up, does anybody remember the billion-dollar bond that was funneled to Bob Wilmers' pals at Salomon Smith Barney? Recall that former Buffalo School Board Superintendent was leading toward an offer from a competing term. What was the first thing his replacement Marion Canedo did? Funnel the bond to SSB. Arthur Leavitt sits on the board of Wilmers' bank M&T and SSB. Mere coincidence? We think not. .
Another conspiracy theory? What do you do once you float a bond to rebuild public schools? Simple, force an inundation of charter schools on the community, because then suddenly you don't have to spend so much of that bond money on what it was intended for, do you? .
Keep in mind that James Harris was blasted for playing the race card, when he in fact admitted that critical paperwork had failed to make through the maze in Albany. Mr. Williams on the other hand claimed that a state audit of the Dayton School District was "racially motivated." Unfortunately for Mr. Williams, one of the targets of the audit pled guilty to some of the charges and went to prison. Being an ally of the WWRR means never having to say you're sorry. Nor did he apologize for failing to inform the Dayton school board that the district was hiding twelve million dollars in red ink. So Mr. Williams really seems to be an African American incarnation of Joel Giambra. Fantastic! Let's sign him up, before some other lucky community snatches him up! You know you've got a WWRR-friendly "aggressive CEO-type" if you've got resume headings for "Divisiveness," "Financial Incompetence," and "Penchant For Secrecy." .
In the meantime, after Dayton floated a bond for a school reconstruction project, Mr. Williams and his WWRR friends at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation were able to midwife the birth of a staggering brood of some forty poorly run, ineffective charter schools. Excellent, Smithers! .
Yes Donn, It is Wilmers! But Who Are You Calling Stupid? .
We had to chuckle at a recent column by our colleague at The Buffalo News, the man, the myth, the legend – Donn Esmonde. .
In a rant entitled, "It's Wilmers, Stupid!" Donn revealed to his readers, for the first time in our recollection, that if our community were to have one person who could be called "a Don," it would be M&T Bank CEO and Control Board Commissar, Bob Wilmers and not, as many have suggested, the beleaguered Erie County Executive Joel Giambra. .
In iterating a list of community issues upon which Wilmers had a huge influence, Esmonde neglected to mention that on most of these initiatives, Wilmers enjoyed full editorial support from The Buffalo News. As often as not, the writer editorialized on Wilmers' behalf was Esmonde, himself. Interestingly, he also neglected to mention that the parent company of The Buffalo News, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway once owned as much as a quarter of M&T Bank. Uhmmmm, Methinks the Lady doth protest too much. .
Who is Esmonde calling stupid? Himself, for being a schill? The community, for not reading enough articles in the Alt Press castigating Wilmers? His editors, for not protesting Wilmers' latest corrupt leadership choice in the person of James Williams as the next Buffalo School Board Superintendent? .
Stupid is as stupid does, Donn. By John McMahon
President George Bush has gotten into the habit of taking questions from the White House press Corps a couple of times a year – whether he needs to or not. For some reason, Jeff Gannon wasn't on hand for the recent press conference at the American Society of Newspaper Editors, although judging by some of the softball questions served up to Dubyah, you could make the argument that the GOP's favorite gay interlocutor was definitely there in spirit.
On hand for the press conference was Buffalo News editor Margaret Sullivan. Would she be ready for her moment in the national spotlight? Despite appearing a bit nervous, Ms. Sullivan definitely had a question thought out and rehearsed, but there was a slight problem. Note to Ms. Sullivan: Bill Clinton is no longer President! .

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Over the past 30 to 40 years, when we had an economic "slowdown," there were layoffs, and "firings" until the economy recovered. It's different this time! Why? About half of the auto industry, the world's largest industry, their jobs and suppliers, had been sent out of the country. Then, the industry changed: wages have been cut almost in half, efficiency had improved, and our car's quality has improved. At the same time, our unrealistic housing bubble that caused this fall to a realistic zero housing starts, due to: "flipping;" phony mortgages; and financial mis-truths. Most of these jobs are still gone!
Today, America is the place of "choice" to build cars and SUVs, with Korean, Japanese, German, Italian and others opening plants here.
We are not seeing the employment here expanding like it used to — even with the auto manufacturing expansion, we will still import 7,000,000 plus cars this year (2012), out of the 14,000,000 plus cars to be sold here, plus all the pieces and parts from abroad! The expanding market is requiring additional parts, but the supplier companies have to get new plants, equipment, trained employees, source approvals, customer approvals and schedules before the new jobs get started. It's not just calling laid-off employees back, like we used to do.
By the way, those foreign made cars (7,000,000 plus) means that there are 1.3 million jobs still missing to the foreign companies that used to be here in the U.S.A. and Canada!


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Daily Debrief: Gates says good-bye
^B00:00:00 [ Music ] >> Welcome to the Daily Debrief. I'm Kara Tsuboi, CNET News.com. Ina Fried, senior writer for News.com is here to discuss Bill Gate's departure from Microsoft. Thanks for joining us, Ina. >> Thanks, Kara. >> And you just wrapped up a good one-on-one interview with Bill Gates last week up in Renton, Washington. Great interview. What was the most interesting comment that you got out of that interview? >> There were a couple of really interesting tidbits. One was he told the story of how Microsoft got invited to the launch of the PC by IBM, and then uninvited. Another one where they had talks with Lotus about some sort of business combination. But I thought the most interesting thing was I asked Bill what his 21-year old self would think if they saw Microsoft today. And he said two things that were really interesting. One, that the 21-year old Gates would be disappointed to learn that Bill's not still reading every line of code. >> Uh huh. >> And that he'd also be overwhelmed by the offices that they have. >> And the excess that they have there. >> You know, and it's funny because Microsoft, for all its wealth, is still thought of as a company that is pretty thrifty with a dollar. So clearly things have changed from when he was a 21-year old. But still, kind of has a reputation of being a little tight with the dollar. >> Now Gates is leaving Microsoft full-time to focus more energies on the philanthropic involvements he has. But how much is really going to be leaving Microsoft. I imagine he's still gonna have a hand in a lot of their products, a lot of their initiatives. Which ones in particular? >> Well, in some ways, he's leaving a lot, and in some ways only a little. He will still be chairman of the board, so he'll still be the companies biggest shareholder, you know, a key voice in its overall big plans. He'll be a part-time employee. He'll only be working on a few specific projects. I know he's very interested in tablet computing. >> Mm-hmm. >> He's the biggest champion for it. It hasn't yet been a commercial success. So I think you're gonna see him involved in two areas. One are the types of things like "Search," where Microsoft really wants him involved, and they need all the help they can get. And the other are some of his pet projects, like a new file system. He's been pushing for that for years, and again, the tablet. Things that he really believes in that have yet to catch on. I think you'll see him continue to try and make them into reality. >> As long as Microsoft has been a household name, it's pretty much been associated with Bill Gates. What is the feeling you get from other Microsoft employees about their figurehead leaving? What is the state of Microsoft gonna be after he is running the ship? >> You know, they make the point that, you know, it really hasn't been Bill and Steve for a long time. That, you know, a company that big has to be run by lots of people. And I think that's certainly true. I think what Microsoft is definitely losing, in addition to Bill's business and engineering talent is, also, the face that everyone can relate to. >> Absolutely. >> You know, even Steve Ballmer, who's very well known in tech circles, when you get outside of technology isn't as well known. I mean Bill Gates is a household name, and when he speaks, people cover it just because it's Bill Gates speaking. And I think Microsoft may find some of its product launches, some of its other things become tougher draws without having Gates there. >> And speaking of when Bill Gates speaks, we all listen; you've had several - maybe a dozen or so one-on-one interviews with him. How would you say his tone has changed over the years, especially since he announced his retirement? Do you detect, like, any sort of nostalgia to him, or any sort of sadness about his departure? >> Well, in the last couple of interviews, he has been more willing to talk about the early days and reminisce a little bit, but I think what I - what struck me was in talking with all kinds of different industry leaders for a package of stories was just how his optimism and passion have continued. And how remarkably similar talking to him today is from talking to him a while ago. You know, some people, when they get wealthy or they have lots of power, it changes who they are. You know, Bill's kind of Bill. I mean he's still the engineer. He's still got his social quirks. And he still is optimistic and passionate as when he was much younger. I think it's broadened - his field has broadened from just software to global issues, like health and education. But he still has that same drive. >> Right. And it's that optimism and passion that he's now transferring over to his philanthropic work in Africa. Do you want to describe briefly what he's going to be doing full time now? >> Sure. So his full-time gig is going to be with the foundation. He's not gonna be running the foundation. Jeff Rakes, another former Microsoft person, is coming over to be CEO. You know, he's gonna work on what are the big problems? The foundation has taken on an interesting task, which is to look at what are society's big problems that can't be solved through existing means. So what types of problems go beyond the free market and go beyond government? So things like getting vaccines out there. We were talking about that in the interview. And he was talking about how one of the big challenges is there's this cold chain. Basically, vaccines have to stay cold throughout their entire process, many vaccines. And that's a real challenge where you have regions where power is a challenge. >> Sure. >> Keeping them cold. And it turns out that the answer is probably some sort of super thermos. So I think you're gonna see Bill working to bring people together that aren't necessarily talking. I think you're gonna see him looking for what are the areas where there really is a need for new technology -- and not necessarily just software, but other types of new technology. I think that's where we'll see him spending a lot of his time. >> Thank you very much, Ina, for your time. I'm Kara Tsuboi with Ina Fried, CNET News.com. We'll see you next time on the Daily Debrief. ^M00:05:45 [ Music ]
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