Interesting things I "learned" from BN today
Tim Smith
Reading BN is interesting. Some things learned there today:
1. Bill Gates was never a programmer.
2. Bill Gates is a convicted criminal. Got a cite for that, Roy?
3. If you are an expert on fixing bugs in a particular system, and a
company that uses that system is having a problem with bugs, it is wrong
to take a job with them fixing those bugs.
4. People will go out and buy Windows licenses in order to use Visual
Studio to develop Linux apps, now that Novell has a Visual Studio
plug-in that allows for such development.
5. Windows programs can't be open source.
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Ezekiel
"Tim Smith" <reply_i...@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
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After reading this tripe I feel the urge to vomit.
GreyCloud
> Reading BN is interesting. Some things learned there today:
>
> 1. Bill Gates was never a programmer.
>
Oh, he did that since his early days along with a lot of dumpster diving
then.
I suspect that when he created MicroSoft corp. he installed a lot of
paper shredders.
> 2. Bill Gates is a convicted criminal. Got a cite for that, Roy?
>
I thought he stole a bulldozer for a while and got caught and later had
a mug shot taken by the local police.
It is on the web somewhere.
> 3. If you are an expert on fixing bugs in a particular system, and a
> company that uses that system is having a problem with bugs, it is wrong
> to take a job with them fixing those bugs.
>
> 4. People will go out and buy Windows licenses in order to use Visual
> Studio to develop Linux apps, now that Novell has a Visual Studio
> plug-in that allows for such development.
>
> 5. Windows programs can't be open source.
>
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American Government official (1863-1941).
Hadron
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> Tim Smith wrote:
>
> > 2. Bill Gates is a convicted criminal. Got a cite for that, Roy?
>
> I thought he stole a bulldozer for a while and got caught and later had
> a mug shot taken by the local police.
> It is on the web somewhere.
>
Mug shot != convicted criminal. Plenty of innocent people have mug
shots.
Ezekiel
"GreyCloud" <cum...@mist.com> wrote in message
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> Tim Smith wrote:
>> Reading BN is interesting. Some things learned there today:
>>
>> 1. Bill Gates was never a programmer.
>>
>
> Oh, he did that since his early days along with a lot of dumpster diving
> then.
> I suspect that when he created MicroSoft corp. he installed a lot of paper
> shredders.
Which doesn't change the fact that he also wrote software.
>> 2. Bill Gates is a convicted criminal. Got a cite for that, Roy?
>>
>
> I thought he stole a bulldozer for a while and got caught and later had a
> mug shot taken by the local police.
> It is on the web somewhere.
"on the web somewhere" - Sounds like a lame cop-out.
He did get a speeding ticket in New Mexico (?) and that's the photo that's
out on the web. Unless you and Schestowitz are taking the position that
anyone who gets a speeding ticket is a "convicted criminal" then you're
spewing BS.
amicus_curious
"Ezekiel" <not-...@the-zeke.com> wrote in message
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>
> "GreyCloud" <cum...@mist.com> wrote in message
> news:CPWdnWB06aTiU2HX...@bresnan.com...
>> Tim Smith wrote:
>>> Reading BN is interesting. Some things learned there today:
>>>
>>> 1. Bill Gates was never a programmer.
>>>
>>
>> Oh, he did that since his early days along with a lot of dumpster diving
>> then.
>> I suspect that when he created MicroSoft corp. he installed a lot of
>> paper shredders.
>
> Which doesn't change the fact that he also wrote software.
>
>
>>> 2. Bill Gates is a convicted criminal. Got a cite for that, Roy?
>>>
>>
>> I thought he stole a bulldozer for a while and got caught and later had a
>> mug shot taken by the local police.
>> It is on the web somewhere.
>
> "on the web somewhere" - Sounds like a lame cop-out.
>
> He did get a speeding ticket in New Mexico (?) and that's the photo that's
> out on the web. Unless you and Schestowitz are taking the position that
> anyone who gets a speeding ticket is a "convicted criminal" then you're
> spewing BS.
>
The bulldozer story was in Gates' book, IIRC. They weren't stealing them,
they were joyriding around the parking lot, he said, but they were never
caught at it.
Ezekiel
"amicus_curious" <ac...@sti.net> wrote in message
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Why would he steal a bulldozer anyway? First he could afford one but what
in the world would he do with it - it's not like he's going to haul it home
by strapping a bulldozer to the roof of his 911.
From his book.
<quote>
In early days when Microsoft was located in Albuquerque, after long,
nighttime programming sessions, Gates would relax by speeding through the
foothills in his Porsche 911. On a few late nights Gates and a friend would
go to a road construction site and, after learning by trial and error to
operate the complex machinery, drive them around. One night they held a
bulldozer race (although neither could claim to be the winner) and another
time Gates nearly backed over his Porsche.
</quote>
Homer
Isn't that a criminal offence?
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Ezekiel
"Homer" <use...@slated.org> wrote in message
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> Still stalking Roy, Smith?
>
> Isn't that a criminal offence?
>
We already know that you're not very bright - even by "advocate" standards
like 7, chrisv and dumb-willy. But surely even someone with your incredibly
low IQ would realize that reading a public website is not "stalking."
John Fuhrer
If anyone could be accused of stalking it would be HPT who keeps a database
of certain people's posting history and maintains a blog devoted to
libeling these people.
And then of course there is Roy Schestowitz who harvests IP address on his
public site for the purpose of trying to track down where people live.
Those 2 clowns certainly fit the definition of a stalker.
Gregory Shearman
> Tim Smith wrote:
>> Reading BN is interesting. Some things learned there today:
>>
>> 1. Bill Gates was never a programmer.
>>
>
> Oh, he did that since his early days along with a lot of dumpster diving
> then.
> I suspect that when he created MicroSoft corp. he installed a lot of
> paper shredders.
>
>> 2. Bill Gates is a convicted criminal. Got a cite for that, Roy?
>>
>
> I thought he stole a bulldozer for a while and got caught and later had
> a mug shot taken by the local police.
> It is on the web somewhere.
Dunno about that. There are supposed mug shots supposedly taken by the
Albuquerque police, but there's no corroboration.
Microsoft is the criminal. I don't know about Gates.
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Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
Tim Smith
Gregory Shearman <ZekeG...@netscape.net> wrote:
> > I thought he stole a bulldozer for a while and got caught and later had
> > a mug shot taken by the local police.
> > It is on the web somewhere.
>
> Dunno about that. There are supposed mug shots supposedly taken by the
> Albuquerque police, but there's no corroboration.
That was for speeding. Gates liked to drive fast cars.
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--Tim Smith
Tim Smith
wrote:
> Still stalking Roy, Smith?
>
> Isn't that a criminal offence?
Have you ever considered, just for the novelty of it, actually learning
English? Going to someone's web site, reading the material he has placed
there for the general public to read (and has spammed links to that
material all over the web specifically to get people to read it), and
them commenting on said material is not "stalking".
If Roy does not want his opinions and claims discussed in public, he is
perfectly free to stop posting them in public.
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--Tim Smith
William Poaster
> Still stalking Roy, Smith?
>
> Isn't that a criminal offence?
Probably.
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