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Gates Nose-Dives at CES

Posted by michael on from the look-out-below dept.

Lots of submissions this morning about Bill Gates' performance at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show. His Media Center PC presentation crashed. (The presentation is online.) He also gave an interview to CNET, where he described anyone who doesn't support ever-increasing intellectual property laws as "communists". Boingboing has some commentary on that interview as well.

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  1. I spy a new meme by beeglebug · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fly the flag with pride comrades!
    boingboing.net/images/copyleftcommie.gif

    1. Re:I spy a new meme by Benanov · · Score: 5, Funny

      That should be a patent-unencumbered PNG! Where is your sense of decency, comrade? :)

  2. Lesson for Gates by bitswapper · · Score: 5, Funny

    Never show up at an event hosted by a comedian.
    Using Windows.

  3. You see, this just proves it. by millennial · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always knew Gates was a robot. Now they installed SP2 on him, and LOOK WHAT HAPPENS! Increased security, my foot!

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    I am scientifically inaccurate.
  4. Is this a metaphor? by PDXNerd · · Score: 5, Funny

    It sounds like Bill Gates may be infested with SpyWare, a typical memetic programming that took place in the 1950's in which everyone who was not a right-wing-christian-gun-loving-American was a communist. It sounds like it's causing his PR ability to crash. Should we help him out and format him and put linux on him? (Wait.. Put linux on him, linux is Tux, the mental image that is coming to mind is... DISTURBING!!!! ACK REBOOT REBOOT!)

  5. also... by millennial · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I read that he nose-dived, I was hoping for a video of him tripping and flying off a stage or something. I am sorely disappointed!

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    I am scientifically inaccurate.
  6. Obligatory Dr. Strangelove Quote by nudnikmeow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gen. Jack D. Ripper: I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

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    free ipods
  7. Anything like this by JohnHegarty · · Score: 5, Funny

    Worlds largest blue screen of death here

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    Cruise TT
  8. Dennis Miller called it years ago ... by Titusdot+Groan · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in a James Bond movie."
    -- Dennis Miller
  9. We're "software terrorists", Bill by nysus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Communists? Come on, Bill, you can do better than that! Who cares about Communists anymore? Just look at all the business we're doing with Communist China these days. The word "Communism" has definitely lost its cache.

    Here's some advice for your public relations folks: We're not communists, we're "software terrorists", Bill, and we're out to kill little babies and children in the name of FOSS. We hate freedom and the American way of life and we're out to destroy it.

    Now, if you can get that message across and paint that picture to the American public, you'd kill FOSS forever. Hell, you could probably get the FBI to start raiding the homes of Linux users.

    Good luck in your future endeavors, you Capitalist Pig.

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    ---Technology will liberate us if it doesn't enslave us first.

  10. Not the red scare by MoronGames · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're not having the Red Scare anymore. Why didn't he label them terrorists? That's today's thing.

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    hey!
  11. Favorite quote by TheMediaWrangler · · Score: 5, Funny

    About 33 minutes in and just after the second crash, Conan provides some filler and gives my favorite quote in the presentation:

    "Last night ... I got so drunk, I woke up with a hooker. Bill got so drunk, he woke up with an Apple computer."

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    People should not fear what they do not understand; people should fear because they do not understand.