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Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President
gerrysteele writes to point out a recent post to the Dilbert blog, in which Scott Adams discusses the atheist ascendancy in America and rationalizes the need for an atheist leader. From the article: "Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately. I think that in an election cycle or two you will see an atheist business leader emerge as a legitimate candidate for president. And his name will be Bill Gates."
So, will we see an http://atheistbuntu.com site shortly, where the Ubuntu is actually a Windows variant?
I for one welcome our new borg overlords
help us.
Where is that guy who'd die defending what I had to say when I need him?
Something tells me that government wouldn't switch over to free software too soon.
Swedish plasma phys. PhD student; MSc EE; knows maths, programming, electronics; finance interest; seeks opportunities
Think about it guys. If you vote for Gates, your country will stop working with the rest of us.
I believe him.
;-)
But as to timing, I think it will happen a short while after Microsoft wins the nationwide bid on supplying software for the next generation election machines...
I'm a dreamer, the world is my playpen. But hey, I'm a serious person, I can't dream all the time.
"Your country has performed an illegal operation."
Oh, wait............ it already has. Nevermind.
As if US politics hadn't enough *Gates in history.
But a Iraq SP2 might be useful anyway.
"Hannibal's plans never work right. They just work." Amy/A-Team
Thank God I'm an atheist!
My Oval Office
My Little Puppy British Prime Minister
My Electronic Voting Machine - press the button, the screen changes, but nothing else does.
UN.dll has caused a fatal error.
Foreign Country Explorer - where do you want to invade today?
Or
Colbert/Stewart
Hell, I've met several right-wingers that don't get Colbert's character and would probably even vote for him.
"It ain't a war against drugs.it's a war against personal freedom" --Bill Hicks
I can see this happening.
- Finland added to list of rogue states.
- Bin laden looses first place to Torvalds
- US army invades China in the War Against Piracy.
- European parliament get accidentaly carpet bombed. Suriving senator drops MS fines.
- Microsoft tax becomes official and mandatory for everyone.
- Making MS jokes becomes capital crime. Death sentence reintroduced in all states.
- Gate-ology becomes state religion. Defines witches as people who use different OS.
- enviromentalists complain on enviromental effects of witch burnings.
- Enviromentalists proven to be very flameble.
Is there a -1: Godwin moderation?
1/3 of jokes get modded OT. If you get the joke, mod 1 in 3 insightful/interesting/underrated to restore karma balance.
We have to prepare for a massive increase in immigration of Linux geeks.
> One could get in to a discussion about OT versus NT but a quick look at [...]
I think if you make a comparison, it would soon become obvious that the NT kernel has several advantages, mainly its support for Win32 applications but also environment subsystems compatibility with Posix and OS/2. Also, the way the drivers are handled are rather advantageous, since they're divided into three levels, the middle one also supporting WDM for compatibility with the previous generation of kernel.
You don't get that sort of technology in OT.
hehe, we have to prepare for a massive increase in immigration of Linux geeks.
If they were alive today their god would have access to Vi4gr4!
Yes, don't you just love it!
News about the Kettle Open Source project: on my blog
..."Microsoft Office" would take on a while new meaning. [ducks]
/me ducks)
(Or for the humor challenged:
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
""As a political candidate, I would advocate some sort of tax rebate to subsidize Internet porn and Kleenex for single men between the ages of 18 and 35. That way all the potential rapists can more easily afford to exhaust themselves at home. I'd have graphs and charts to make my argument that no other policy would be as effective. My slogan would be "Deal with the root cause." I would call it my Yankee Doodle plan."
He should change that to his Yankee Noodle plan.
Can't remember where I saw this so I'll paraphrase: Among highly intelligent people almost everyone is atheist. Not a single member of Congress is atheist. They are either liars or not highly intelligent.
Now, last I heard an athiest was someone who denies the existance of any god while an agnostic questions God's existance.
I prefer Stephen Colbert's take:
"Now, isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?"
Christians signed a contract for Salvationix 2.0 (built on the Jesus kernel) but God Inc is obligated to continue providing technical support to the Jews as long as they are using Salvationix 1.0 (Jaweh kernel) and trying to get the damned thing to run on Israel-generation hardware, which they are crazily overclocking. The Muslims have a contract with God Inc for Salvationix 3.0 (Mohammed kernel) but as long as they are running it on Kalashnikov-generation processors their networking is limited to LAN and sneaker-net.
SCO (Saintly Cross Organization) claims that Salvationix infringes their spiritual property and is suing International Bogomil Machines for allegedly slipping SCO code into Salvationix while handling some B2B projects for God Inc.
It's very complicated but I hope this helps.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
"there's been some talk about how a few base packages have different hash sums than what they should have. Don't know if that was done by accident, by design, what was added or what was removed."
They probably just replaced all instances of "daemon" with "angel".
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.