If Bill Gates ran for president, he would win

POSTED BY: Succatash
UPDATED: Saturday, January 6, 2007 01:36
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BAGHEERA

Monday, January 1, 2007 8:26 PM

Why would someone waste the time, money, and energy running for an office they already own ?

RUE

Monday, January 1, 2007 8:27 PM

Billy boy got where he did by having rich parents and having no scruples. Please note that Billy's programming 'talent' was in taking PUBLIC DOMAIN products (invented by others) and turning them into private u-soft property. His 'business acumen' lay in his contacts (his mommy got him the IBM contract - which he never fulfilled), lack of ethics and illegal methods.

"BASIC was first developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College in the mid-1960s. Basic had been around for many years before Bill implemented a version of it . ... it is not that impressive technically to take public domain code from one machine and port it to another. It was also very questionable (ethically) to sell a language who's definition was in public domain, and develop it on computer time borrowed from a school."

Age 20 1975 - "Gates & Allen, in a pattern that was to repeat time and time again, see an opportunity to rework an existing product (BASIC) for a new market."

"Age 25 1980 - Mary Gates (Bill's Mom) and a high level Executive at IBM (Akers) were chatting, and ... Well one thing lead to another, and Bill got a visit from IBM. This is another big secret to success -- be born into the right family, and get the right contacts."

"Bill Gates didn't even have a DOS, but he convinced IBM he was almost finished with one. (Another element of business Genius seems to be being a pathological liar). Perhaps (IBM's u-soft favorable contract) had something to do with the President of IBM telling the small team creating the PC to "see Mary Gates son Bill" that influenced them ..."

"Microsoft then bought DOS off someone else ... (which) was actually a cheap rip-off (clone) product of a friend of Gates ... - but therein lies another part of Genius; the lack of integrity/scruples."

And so on.

Come to think of it, yes, I think with his background he'd make a great politician. He's got all the right qualifications.

http://www.jmusheneaux.com/9000ff.htm

EMBERS

Monday, January 1, 2007 8:47 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Succatash:
Well, my general thoughts on Bill Gates: He's shrewd, super smart. How can anyone say he's an idiot? He's great at hiring the right people and he actually listens to them. He doesn't need to be a decorated war veteran - he would listen to his generals.

If his administration announced they were going to look at revamping social security, it would finally be time to sit up and pay attention, because of all people he could actually do it.

He's also so rich that he would not get corrupted by bribes from lobbyists.

I look at all the candidates for '08, and I'm not that impressed. Bill Gates would do much better than anyone currently on the list. And he's so successfull and famous, if he launched a campaign I bet he'd win

not saying he couldn't govern...
just saying he could NEVER win;
everyone who loves technology, hates microsoft
everyone who hates technology would also vote against him...
plus he cannot speak publicly to save his life.

So not an idiot, just not electable.

RUE

Monday, January 1, 2007 9:00 PM

"So not an idiot, just not electable."

Unless he controls the voting machines ....

SUCCATASH

Monday, January 1, 2007 9:16 PM

This link sums it up nicely, LOL.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/11/bill_gates_for
_.html

The man took one look at capitalism and beat it like a 14-year old boy with unrestricted Internet access. Bill Gates is a winner. Wouldn’t you prefer having him on your side for a change, beating the crap out of North Korea instead of Netscape?

Forget about whatever Bill Gates did in the past that made you curl up with your free copy of Linux and cry. In his first week in office he’d probably link Microsoft Virtual Earth to the government’s spy satellites so you can look for Osama yourself.

"Gott kann dich nicht vor mir beschuetzen, weil ich nicht boese bin."

RUE

Monday, January 1, 2007 10:55 PM

"In his first week in office he’d probably link Microsoft Virtual Earth to the government’s spy satellites so you can look for Osama yourself."

Bill would have lots of computing power, as he has back-door access to u-soft systems around the globe. But his vulnerable and still buggy systems could send those same spy satellites crashing to earth, while locking-up computers everywhere. And do you really think he'd care about bin Laden ?? What with all authority at his back, he'd probably be looking into your computer trying to figure out a way to convert you, finally, totally, and irrevocably to u-soft. Goodbye google. The u-soft jihad is at hand !

Convert, or die !

(PS I think Melinda is the humanitarian. Billy never seemed that much interested until she twisted his - whatever. And even that took a while. And as Dr Phil says, the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Billy boy's past? Uh, lying, cheating, stealing and breaking the law for his own benefit and power. Which still qualifies him as a politician, just not the way one might prefer.)

SOUPCATCHER

Tuesday, January 2, 2007 6:38 AM

Thanks, Rue! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year right back atchya .

PIRATECAT

Tuesday, January 2, 2007 11:44 AM

I would sleep with Bill for a million. Not that I flush corpses. I'm not crazy like that. We are talking Bill G not Bill C. Ok maybe less it only paid be a grand for Perot.

"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".

OPPYH

Tuesday, January 2, 2007 8:01 PM

If Bill Gates ran for president he would win, and deservingly so. He's a good guy, I'd vote for him.

I hear Schwarzenagger is trying to get some laws overturned to run in 2012. If it works out for him, he may have a chance.

RUE

Tuesday, January 2, 2007 8:44 PM

Billy's a good guy? Did you not read how his main accomplishment was having his mom get him a sweet deal from the president of IBM? Did you not read how he stole, cheated, lied and stabbed his friends in the back for personal gain?

Unless, of course, you think those are good things ...

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