Bill Gates to Receive Honorary UK Knighthood

[Legendary]

Originally posted by: Slaimus

Originally posted by: Buickbeast

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Which we never hear about...

Yeah, he's only given away more money than anyone in history, what else does it need to do?

How about taking less of our money? 🙂

<cue "Windows is worth the money" flamewar>

 

[isasir]

Gates philanthropy helps pay my salary, so I give a :thumbsup: to the guy.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Originally posted by: Baked
He didn't get a freaking sir 'cause he's not

1) gay
2) semi-gay
3) british

:thumbsup:

 

[Regs]

This thread makes me want to go out and actually buy windows.

 

[GMElias]

wow...what a travesty🙂
I liked the quote, "for his outstanding contributions to enterprise"

That's like giving England an award for Her Great Conquests in Colonialization and Repression!!!

-Elias

 

[Spikesoldier]

Among the pomp and grandeur of the formal state rooms at the palace, Gates will kneel in front of the sovereign, who will gently tap him on the shoulder with a sword.

ITS A TRAP!!!!

 

[quizzelsnatch]

Originally posted by: Regs
This thread makes me want to go out and actually buy windows.

agreed.

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: Regs
This thread makes me want to go out and actually buy windows.

bwahahahaha...wait was that a joke? 😉

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: AMDZen
This after all the lawsuits the UK issued against MS? That certainly makes sense.

EU lawsuits you mean?
The MS anti-trust case

The software giant is still faced with possible sanctions by the European Commission over alleged abuse of market power.

And they don't target MS
iTunes under investigation for pricing

And what difference does it make?


Also, instead of thinking of MS as a money grabbing company, view it as a charity. When you pirate Windows, you take away money from charities. So if you do pirate, make sure to donate some money to charity 🙂 😉

 

[Forsythe]

Originally posted by: NFS4
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050301/us_nm/people_gates_dc

He must've slept with the queen or something. (Everytime i read/write queen i think "STARCRAFT", i think i'm addicted)

 

[MrNutz]

Originally posted by: Buickbeast

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Which we never hear about...

Yeah, he's only given away more money than anyone in history, what else does it need to do?

You're kidding right... 😕

He owns a multi-billion dollar monopoly. No question about that. So he donates "millions" to schools for huge tax write-offs.

Well the "millions" he donates are mostly in the form of software... microsoft software to be specific. So he gives away overpriced monopolized software that he produces for pennies and gets huge tax cuts. Sounds like quite the philanthropist... :roll:

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: MrNutz

Originally posted by: Buickbeast

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Which we never hear about...

Yeah, he's only given away more money than anyone in history, what else does it need to do?

You're kidding right... 😕

He owns a multi-billion dollar monopoly. No question about that. So he donates "millions" to schools for huge tax write-offs.

Well the "millions" he donates are mostly in the form of software... microsoft software to be specific. So he gives away overpriced monopolized software that he produces for pennies and gets huge tax cuts. Sounds like quite the philanthropist... :roll:

Yeah, he can't POSSIBLY be doing a good thing by providing a great product for free or absurdly-cheap to educational environments so people have a chance to learn without the hinderance of prohibitively expensive software, now can he. :roll:

Seriously? People who believe like you do need to get their heads out of their asses!

 

[z0mb13]

good, he deserves it

 

[SSP]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: MrNutz

Originally posted by: Buickbeast

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Which we never hear about...

Yeah, he's only given away more money than anyone in history, what else does it need to do?

You're kidding right... 😕

He owns a multi-billion dollar monopoly. No question about that. So he donates "millions" to schools for huge tax write-offs.

Well the "millions" he donates are mostly in the form of software... microsoft software to be specific. So he gives away overpriced monopolized software that he produces for pennies and gets huge tax cuts. Sounds like quite the philanthropist... :roll:

Yeah, he can't POSSIBLY be doing a good thing by providing a great product for free or absurdly-cheap to educational environments so people have a chance to learn without the hinderance of prohibitively expensive software, now can he. :roll:

Seriously? People who believe like you do need to get their heads out of their asses!

Opinions are like assholes.... 😀

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: SSP

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: MrNutz

Originally posted by: Buickbeast

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Which we never hear about...

Yeah, he's only given away more money than anyone in history, what else does it need to do?

You're kidding right... 😕

He owns a multi-billion dollar monopoly. No question about that. So he donates "millions" to schools for huge tax write-offs.

Well the "millions" he donates are mostly in the form of software... microsoft software to be specific. So he gives away overpriced monopolized software that he produces for pennies and gets huge tax cuts. Sounds like quite the philanthropist... :roll:

Yeah, he can't POSSIBLY be doing a good thing by providing a great product for free or absurdly-cheap to educational environments so people have a chance to learn without the hinderance of prohibitively expensive software, now can he. :roll:

Seriously? People who believe like you do need to get their heads out of their asses!

Opinions are like assholes.... 😀

Everyone who doesn't agree with me is an opinion? That doesn't quite sound right, but hey I'll go with it 😉