This ranks right up there with Microsoft Bob
Bill Gates has a wonderful idea: give Barack Obama more power. Because that’s the problem: Obama doesn’t have enough power.
Being able to kill you with a drone strike while you are sitting on your couch at home isn’t enough.
Being able to take all your money and give it to people who sit on their couch all day long, isn’t enough. (And, no, those aren’t the one’s Obama would send a drone after.)
Raising your taxes isn’t enough.
Taking your guns isn’t enough.
No, Obama needs more power. So says Bill Gates.
This is the same Bill Gates that released MS-DOS 4, by the way. And Windows ME. And Windows Vista.
Yes, that Bill Gates. He wants Obama to have more power.
Now you know why I have a Mac.
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March 15th, 2013 at 9:43 am
Mac from the company that said “if your hand interferes with the antenna on our phone when you’re making a call it’s because your hand was designed wrong, not the phone”?
March 15th, 2013 at 9:44 am
More bright ideas from the guy that brought us Clippy.
“It looks like you’re writing a snarky comment.”March 15th, 2013 at 9:58 am
Macs are for commies and hippies.
I’m not going to defend Bill Gates, because I have my own reservations about the guy. But what he said, in context, was that he thinks the president, whichever president, should have more power to do the things he wants to do so that people could see their policies in action and better decide whether to get rid of them or not in the next election cycle. He wasn’t really clear, but he might have been suggesting that had Obama had more power in the previous term, he would never have won a second one. I’m not sure though, as he backtracked on his statement a bit like 5 seconds later. Was a real confusing interview with a lot of rambling and incoherent half-finished thoughts. Kind of like Windows ME.
March 15th, 2013 at 9:59 am
@1 – The only reason I don’t like Apple products is that I made my choice back in the 90s when PC gaming was huge and when you went to the store, there were 6 racks of PC games & half a rack of Mac games.
Oh, and all my friends had PCs, so I wanted to be able to share their games.
Anyway, shut up, Bill Gates, you political Kardashian.
March 15th, 2013 at 9:59 am
blarg:
I have never had a problem with my iPhone 4.
Then, again, I’ve never had a problem with a Windows phone, but for an entirely different reason: I’ve never had a Windows phone.
March 15th, 2013 at 10:02 am
@3 – It’s really weird coming from a guy who got screwed over by a too-powerful Clinton administration with that BS anti-trust lawsuit that was based on including a free copy of IE 3 with Windows.
The notion that that would be a criminal act seems so quaint today, doesn’t it?
March 15th, 2013 at 10:07 am
Keln: i know about Windows. You don’t understand how big a deal it is that I own a Mac. Let me explain. No, there is no time. Let me sum up.
When the ex-wife found out I bought a Mac, she went out and bought one for herself. True story.
March 15th, 2013 at 10:16 am
I miss the days when billionaires were fat plutocrats, giving away libraries and getting things named after themselves and not trying to suck up to celebrity politicians and look cool.
Bill may be good, he may be bad, but no man who looks like he cuts his own hair can ever be cool.
March 15th, 2013 at 10:20 am
The reasons I use Windows based machines:
1. I hate Apple. They are the pop stars of computers. All show and no substance.
2. Steve Jobs was a hippie who cussed capitalism while making a lot of money from it.
3. All games are supported on Windows…not so much on Macs.
4. I build my own computers and customize them constantly. Can’t do that with a Mac.
5. You have more control over stuff in a Windows computer than you do a Mac.
6. Macs are “hip”. I hate “hip”.
7. On/Off button on the back. That is annoying and dumb.
8. You can’t get a Mac that is all black with a glass window in the side and glows red or blue and where you can see liquid cooling functioning to keep the silicon within from melting as you are stress testing and benchmarking. Which is awesome.
9. “Apple” and “Macintosh” are cutsie, fruity names. I don’t like them.
10. Macs cost twice as much for the same computing power…because they are Macs. No other reason. It’s like buying a Lexus. You’re just paying for the brand name.
March 15th, 2013 at 10:22 am
The only good game for Apple:
Taipan!
Which you can now play on the internet:
http://www.taipangame.com/
March 15th, 2013 at 10:30 am
Keln:
I thought I explained that there was no time.
March 15th, 2013 at 11:47 am
Basil, your graphical accompaniment suggests that giving Obama more power is equivalent to the “blue screen of death.” While you are correct, sir, I have no time to discuss it further.
March 15th, 2013 at 11:55 am
Wow, that reads like the anti-Dayenu. reference for the gentile
March 15th, 2013 at 12:18 pm
This is the same Bill Gates that released MS-DOS 4, by the way. And Windows ME. And Windows Vista.
Steve Ballmer, not Bill Gates, has been CEO of Microsoft since 2000, which means that he, not Bill Gates, released Vista.
I’d use a Mac, but, as far as I can tell, having a Mac afflicts the owner with a disease that causes him to talk endlessly about how wonderful his computer is, rather than doing any actual work.
March 15th, 2013 at 12:30 pm
Iowa Jim:
Gates retained the position of Chairman and appointed himself as Chief Software Architect when Ballmer became CEO. Even though Gates stepped down from those positions in summer 2006, Vista was far enough along to be his baby.
March 15th, 2013 at 12:33 pm
By the way, how did this go from “Bill Gates is an idiot” to “Basil is a commie and a hippie?” Focus, people!
March 15th, 2013 at 12:42 pm
I would never own an Apple. Way too proprietary for my tastes.
After Windows 8, I’m pretty sure my use of Microsoft operating systems is over.
LINUX is looking better all the time (yes, I AM that geeky)…
March 15th, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Too bad all the major OS makers, and the small ones too, are all liberal. Windows, Mac, Linux not one created by a conservative. Maybe Frank J. can start working on one.
March 15th, 2013 at 2:14 pm
Although there is no time, I will summarize for you.
bill gates good — His company turns out crap, so thousands of geeks have jobs.
Apple bad — run by hippies, their os is almost functional and stable, therefore they employ very few geeks.
Linux good — Stable, supportable and used by engineers, thus requiring thousand of geeks for support.
Occupant bad — useless marxist who would destroy the earth if only he weren’t allergic to cats. More power would just cause his helmet to break.
March 15th, 2013 at 3:02 pm
I wish that windows 8 and Internet explorer 10 had the power to not suck.
March 15th, 2013 at 5:48 pm
“By the way, how did this go from “Bill Gates is an idiot” to Basil is a commie and a hippie?”
Because it was easy and cheap?
March 15th, 2013 at 6:21 pm
Apple the company that banned the app publishing info on drone strikes because telling people the truth was ‘offensive’
March 15th, 2013 at 7:56 pm
I think that Basil has an orchard – in his garage.
March 17th, 2013 at 2:01 am
My dad (84 years old) who only got into computers as a job requirement at 59 years of age is still telling me about the superiority of his Macs. this after several hard drive crashes that cost him all of his data. Not recoverable. This after countless 120 mile round trips to the apple tore (intentional misspell) to have his superior computer worked on by the trusted apple folk. At extorsionary pirces. I have never lost data to a computer malf running windows. BTW the entire world uses Windows based computers. Hollywood uses Macs.
I will admit that Windows ME was the suck. I hate windows for that. XP is a pretty good OS. Oooh. I almost forgot. Macs has one button mouses. WTF?
March 17th, 2013 at 8:29 am
Where can you get a one-button mouse for a Mac? I’ve own two Apple Mice since I got my first Mac in 2007 and neither had any buttons. They’re touch-sensitive. If you click where a button would be, it acts like you clicked a button. If I click where the right button would be, I get a right-click. If I click where the left button would be, I get a standard left-click.
Oh, and the newer mouse also works as a trackpad. That is, I can scroll up or down by dragging my finger across the top of the mouse.
You must be using a really old mouse if it has a button.
Oh, and I never really cared what others did. Most of American voters cast votes for Obama, but that doesn’t mean it was a good thing. So, the fact that most people use Windows doesn’t bother me in the least. At least, when they use Windows computers, my taxes don’t go up.
March 17th, 2013 at 10:01 am
@25 – Yes, but when Macs crash, you don’t get that ugly blue screen of death, you get the pretty pretty rainbow whirligig of death.
March 17th, 2013 at 10:11 am
Yeah, I’ve seen the SBBOD quite a few times myself.