Bill Gates leaving Microsoft

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Also, i think that the resentment of gates came more from M$ business practices, not from just his wealth

on the other hand, it's just funny to see him hanging out with fuckin' purple-shaded bono.

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Microsoft's predatory business practices are a separate issue from Gates' use of his personal wealth tho.

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Even as a MS hater, I really like a few MS products! Mostly SQL Server's admin tools and the snap in admin panel things

lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

jeezus... dude seriously needs his trademark since his face went all middle-aged lumpy

(and turnabout is fair play)

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

New Star Trex series:

http://enlaceaguascalientes.com/sitespecifics/imgs/articles/art_400.jpg

Commander Bono, beams down with Ensign O'neil:

http://www.mullings.com/bono-o

Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Even as a MS hater, I really like a few MS products! Mostly SQL Server's admin tools and the snap in admin panel things

I liked Word 5.1 and Excel 2(?) for Mac. And IE 5.1 was amazing when it came out, but then stagnated badly. Everything else, grrr.

stet (stet), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Yea, IEMAC 5.1 was amazing

lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Captain Gates gets gooped by mysterious alien life form:

http://www.c2000.com/gifs/billgates.jpg

Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

If hating the uber-rich is wrong, I don't want to be right.

milo z (mlp), Friday, 16 June 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Bill Gates was amusing in that Frasier episode.

JTS (JTS), Sunday, 18 June 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, who cares what someone does? What's IMPORTANT is whether they've got tons of money or not.

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 18 June 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

5.1?? WTF are you people talking about?

> uhh NO

common consensus is that a billion dollars will get you about 100 million a year (EACH YEAR) in interest if invested correctly (10%). is that not enough? i could happily live off the interest of the interest of the interest.

-- koogy wonderland (il...) (webmail), Friday 12:25 PM. (koogs) (later)

no, thats not enough. im a firm believer in the theory that you spend what you make ie you make 10,000 a year, you'll spend 10,000; you make 1 billion a year, you'll spend 1 billion.
well, i would anyway.

sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 19 June 2006 02:06 (seventeen years ago) link

You can't buy 1 billion dollars worth of drugs!...and not share.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 June 2006 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link

> you make 1 billion a year, you'll spend 1 billion.

but sooner or later you'll run out of countries to buy 8)

i have trouble spending what i'm paid (which is substantially less than $1bn). the yearly interest on $1m is about twice my current salary (but i'm sure i could stretch to it). bill's shares are currently worth about $50bn, 50,000 times as much.

koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 19 June 2006 07:59 (seventeen years ago) link

you arent trying hard enough.

You can't buy 1 billion dollars worth of drugs!...and not share.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...) (webmail), Yesterday 10:09 PM. (Ned) (later)

dude! what are you saying??

sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 19 June 2006 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i like this run down of events

and this frog putting on airs, linked to in that bit:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/_g/pulp.jpg

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

..except it's a barely informed opinion based on barely informed "research" on Microsoft culture that even the guy or gal at the front desk of any of MS's gazillions can disprove.

I'm not saying the next two years aren't critical for MS. They are. But the chances of the cards falling in the way the link above describes is about as accurate as me describing exactly how, where, and when the next major hurricane is going to affect the U.S...

..which is, um, it's going to strike just south of Brownsville TX as a Level 1, and create flooding issues in Monterrey, Mexico.

There. YOU HEARD IT FROM ME FIRST! I'M SAYING "I TOLD YOU SO" SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO...

San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

now you've gotten the frog putting on airs all upset. I hope you're happy.

kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a cane toad in disguise.

San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

LICK IT

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAkuJXGldrM

Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 27 March 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link


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