Bill Gates Speaks Out

neoform writes "The Seattle PI is running an interesting interview with Bill Gates." In the article Gates comments on Vista, Google, and a few other pertinent topics. In an amusing bit of related news, an anonymous reader let us know that CNET is also running an interview with Gates. In the CNET interview Gates gives a very interesting response to one of the interview questions. "CNET: So that would be the philosophical difference between Microsoft and what Google is up to at this point? Gates: Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that."

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BUSH DESTROYED NEW ORLEANS!!!11

[Anonymous Coward]

bush prayed to jesus and dick cheney and his master satan,

"dear god, please purge us from teh aweful black negros!!! they are poor and we hate them. plz smite them ded. k thx. amen"

and god sayed back to him,

"dear george, summon fleets of suv's and I will bring globle warming to swoop down and cary away the black plague in hugemungus floods."

and so bush went, bringing on teribbal global warning.

it was awfull. people were dyeing in the streets. than in new orleans were the terrabul playgue destroyed a town. mayor raye nagir cryed out "help!1!1 our peoples is dying!11 help us man!!!!!!!11 bush u cauze us 2 dye and now look at what u did!!1" it was horribal.

look at this countrie in shambles. unemployement worse than under clinton. blaime bush. no health caire. blaime bush. no protecsion from terrorist attacks liek hurricane katrinna. blaime bush. poor peopol. blaim bush. huge taxes. bush did it. dont blaim me i voted 4 kerry. shrub shoud apologize 4 his stupidity!!!1

NEVAR 4GET HURICANE KATRINA!!!1

Re:BUSH DESTROYED NEW ORLEANS!!!11

[Anonymous Coward]

WTF is globule warming?

I think it's what happens right before a Spinal Tap drummer explodes.

Re:BUSH DESTROYED NEW ORLEANS!!!11

[SnarfQuest]

it was awfull. people were dyeing in the streets.

Messy. I hope it wasn't tie-dye.

pf

[Anonymous Coward]

RISTF POTS ... .

I hope you'll understand...

[inode_buddha]

" Friends, in the Clintonian tradition of getting the bad news out first before your enemies do, I have something truly sordid to admit to all of you.

My hope is that you won't lose all respect for me, though I will understand if you think less of me after I reveal this.

It's funny, it all seemed so innocent and fun back in those heady days of youth, but knowing what I know now, it is painful to even think of the depths to which I sunk. It's not even like I can say that I started off on the wrong foot but so many others were doing it that, eventually, I succumbed to temptation. Worse, even to this day, I am still forced to do things I'm too embarrassed to admit--all because of youthful indiscretion.

To show that I didn't start off wrong, I will say that the first computer I owned was an Apple IIe. I moved on to various Mac incarnations and processor families, but eventually . . .

I programmed in VB. A lot. Too much. I try to tell myself that the C classes as an undergrad kept it from turning my brain into complete mush--I even railed at the memory footprint and consciously tried to write code that wouldn't be Atul-like, but I'm certain that the years have had a deletorious effect.

I'll hang my head in shame and perhaps even stay away for a bit, but I thought it would be better if you heard from me instead of the someone on the other side.

May as well get it all out, xxx-xxxx wrote in message xxxxxx:

>

Any who know how to use our secret weapon already may be aware of this because I've revealed it before, but my undergrad and grad degrees are in English.

I don't expect anyone to agree with the ugly choices I made in my youth, but I hope you understand that I am trying to atone--and the VB I'm forced to touch now is only occasional and I no longer take joy in it. "

(kudos to heimdal31 for the original)

Re:Is it an eeevil slogan?

[ngr8]

Its most likely #9. You can be serious without a suit. What bilge!

Who is this "Bill Gates" of whom you speak?

[caluml]

Why should we listen to this "Bill Gates" person? Who is he, anyway?

Re:In other words

[Anonymous Coward]

Hehe, I got a chuckle out of that.

Re:Is it an eeevil slogan?

[Anonymous Coward]

Deep in the article, buried in its folds, was this quote by Bill Gates:
"We are admiting it. We produced software for TripMasterMonkey to get all the first posts, and then mod himself up for silly, inane comments, that are neither interesting nor insightful. We did this because it was discovered that TripMasterMonkey is the GOATSEMAN!!!!11!!!1!!111111!!!!.
In related news:
Slap my ass and call me susan!!!

Re:George Bush does not care about Slashdot.

[luna69]

Mod parent funny, for crying out loud!

Yes!

[Sir_Eptishous]

This was blocked from the West Coast Feed.

Re:Yes!

[Anonymous Coward]

You can't blame George Bush for the failure of states to respond to the needs of both Slashdotters and regular citizens. Now, had the Slashdotters been singled out, that would have been a different story. But the fact remains that they singled themselves out. Even if Slashdotters were looting for food and shooting people at hospitals from rooftops, you can't descriminate against anyone based on what web sites people like to visit. It's just not acceptable. That said, since this is a Republican administration, it is currently against the law to assume they have any sort of accountability. You can only blame the other side. For example, it's not acceptable to blame George Bush, Karl Rove, or Dick Cheney, but blaming the mayor (also a Slashdotter) is perectly acceptable. Pointing out the shortcomings of the Department of Homeland security is a no no, but mentioning that there were plenty of buses to take Slashdotters to be a burden on other states is fine. It's especially good if you have pictures of the busses under water. That really brings it home. I hope this clears up any misunderstanding on the issue.

Re:George Bush does not care about Slashdot.

[thrillseeker]

Well - your posting oughta be modded insightful - the flamebait is simply evidence of the correctness.