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Bill Gates to be Knighted
gexen writes "According to an article in the Telegraph Bill Gates is going to be knighted by the Queen of England for "services to the global enterprise." She's just handing them out like candy these days!"
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Since all he has done is exploit a mixture of luck and technical ignorance by the mass population to make himself a global monopoly of questionable aims and to earn lots of cash, why exactly does he deserve a knighthood anyway? Was it the subtly forced upgrade paths? Perhaps the insecure webservers that keep getting infected. Maybe that out of billions in R&D they only manage to spend about $1million on any kind of superficial security in order to keep pushing said upgrade paths.
It seems the parent is right, they really are handing them out to anyone these days. Probably because 3/4 of them seem to be getting handed straight back at the moment unaccepted.
As a Brit all I can say is that this one should never have been handed out in the first place. Aren't knighthoods supposed to be about service to society and/or humanity? How does forcing our most advanced technologies into the dark ages so you can constantly skin us for another $200 on updates each year for the rest of eternity count as a service to humanity.
How cute, they still have a monarch. How very 18th century of them. :-)
Don't sell him short just because he's mostly evil...
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
KFG
As a Brit I am offended at Queenies recent knight-hoods. Silly old broad is probably bored lately, and likes swinging that sword around.
However Bill Gates has done wonders for the economy of Amamricania (Or whatever that country is called).
Beh.
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Dude, if you steal a million and give ten thousand to charity, that does not make you "noble". Robber barons and thieves like Gates have been giving money to charity for hundreds of years. This serves many purposes:
1) Confuse and cloud the issue in simple minds (like yours, apparantly).
2) Deflect criticism by re-directing it (insurance).
3) A way to "legitimize" your enterprise.
The money that Billy gives away is peanuts compared to what he would lose if the laws of the land were justly applied to his pack of thieves.
Magnus.
When you have BILLIONS of dollars, it is easy to give a hundred thousand dollars to something.
1,000,000,000 = 1 Billion.
100,000 = 100 thousand.
Now, if you have $50,000 then you could give $50 and still be giving the same PERCENTAGE.
In other words, if you go to church every Sunday and put $5 in the collection plate, you've given $60. Which would be MORE than someone with ONE billion dollars giving away one hundred thousand dollars.
Theres' going to be a massive stink about this in the UK:
1. he's not British (yes I know hes being given a KBE), but nonetheless I'm sure there are far more deserving Brits and not Septic's
2. Yes it is built on criminality, what the hell is M$ vs Burst all about then? I though it was theft.
This is Gordon Browns idea of making close ties with the US, I wagger Bill gave the Labour party a big "donation" in exchange for a knighthood and the sweeping asside of all the OSS trials that are going on the the NHS etc.
It says in my passport that you can lose your US citizenship by serving in the armed forces of another state. I know its not enforced often but if he is knighted can we stop him from coming back to the US...please?
He brought the internet to the masses and put us all in work, directly or indirectly. Sure there have been others since, but he set the ball rolling. He stated he would do something and did it. People like Steve Jobs, as cool as they were, didn't have any idea how the computer revolution would turn out..
I submitted this 24 hours before it got listed, before any of the news sites had it, I was finally going to get an interesting /. type story up before it had broke...
and it got rejected.
It was in neutral language and I kept it short and sweet. I want my glory. I want my 15 minutes? Who rejected me ? I want to know why dammit why [sniff] What do I have to do [bwah ha].
I resorted to posting it off-topic in another thread because I was so - ahem - excited.
PS. Please dont hurt my karma. Unless you really want to - you bad boy you...