The 11 rules below are rumored to be coming from Bill Gates who
supposedly dished them out at a recent high school speech. I think
this is very likely 'urban legend' but the item is fun and has a lot
to it so I'm including it as a bonus item this issue. [grin]

The comment that went with the rules was as follows. "He talks about
how feel-good, politically correct teaching has created a full
generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept
sets them up for failure in the real world. To give them a taste of
what it's really like out there, he allegedly came up with these rules.

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 50 thousand dollars 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. He
doesn't have tenure.
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 are. 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. ;-)

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