# I pit Bill Gates **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 8, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874 "2006-04-08T17:59:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/41 "2006-04-08T22:03:10Z")
[QUOTE=drmark2000] The truth, any truth, terrifies you, but it holds such sway over you only because you run from it. Turn and face the truth, as I do, and it will stop in its tracks and await to do your bidding. Become the master of truth, rather than just another fleeing from a bogey-man of your own creation. [/QUOTE] Your schtick is getting tedious. Piaffe, piaffe, one-trick pony! ---
**Author:** ![Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/42 "2006-04-08T22:04:57Z")
**drmark2000** , please tell me what OS you are currently running, as well as what word processor and internet browsing clients you use. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/43 "2006-04-08T22:14:13Z")
[QUOTE=drmark2000] More like what the White Man has done to native people the world over. Exterminate and/or enslave. [/QUOTE] You know, you make it sound like White Man isn’t native to the Earth. It’s like we’re from a different planet or something. Hello? White Man is ‘native’ too. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/44 "2006-04-08T22:16:52Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] Wow. Now if this wasn’t written by a retard it would actually be offensive. [/QUOTE] I actually score well above 150 on the most widely used IQ test, so you can go ahead and take offense. But I take offense to the regular use of the word “retard” around here! Don‘t you people realize that mentally retarded individuals are often very pleasant people and can be trained to bag groceries and unintentionally freak out your kids? And then you have to try to explain to your kids about something you’d just as soon not even think about? [QUOTE=hajario] Buy a Mac and fuck off already. [/QUOTE] I _have_ a Mac, nimrod. Always have. All the major Microsoft stuff can run on a Mac. That’s not the issue. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/45 "2006-04-08T22:17:04Z")
Oooooh, I get it. **drmark2000** is a parody of Jared Diamond! ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/46 "2006-04-08T22:35:45Z")
[QUOTE=drmark2000] The truth, any truth, terrifies you, but it holds such sway over you only because you run from it. Turn and face the truth, as I do, and it will stop in its tracks and await to do your bidding. Become the master of truth, rather than just another fleeing from a bogey-man of your own creation. [/QUOTE] Keanu Reeves IS **drmark2000** , a man trapped in a world gone mad… striking out against lies and oppression… with courage… heroism… and an internet message board… ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/47 "2006-04-08T22:45:03Z")
I haven’t really had any contact with **drmark2000** before. Is he always this whacky? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/48 "2006-04-08T22:46:29Z")
[QUOTE=Go You Big Red Fire Engine] **drmark2000** , please tell me what OS you are currently running, as well as what word processor and internet browsing clients you use. [/QUOTE] The tentacles of Microsoft are many and long. They have suction cups on them that grip and hold with startling speed and tenacity. They are virtually unavoidable and inescapable. The issue is not the use of products made or influenced by Microsoft. It is being practically unable to avoid this. You demonstrate again the attitude of the grateful prisoner toward his prisonkeeps: “Gosh, if they’re soooooooo big and powerful they must also be good, and have all of our best interests at heart, not just their own.” See the walls that are all around you? First, acknowledge that they are there, and then get to work. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/49 "2006-04-08T22:51:29Z")
If **drmark2000** is really a doctor, I will eat my own shoe. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/50 "2006-04-08T22:52:32Z")
Doctor or not, it’s obvious that he has access to all sorts of interesting pharmaceuticals. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/51 "2006-04-08T22:56:45Z")
[QUOTE=drmark2000] …You demonstrate again the attitude of the grateful prisoner toward his prisonkeeps: “Gosh, if they’re soooooooo big and powerful they must also be good, and have all of our best interests at heart, not just their own.”… [/QUOTE] How do you get any of that out of this, [QUOTE=Go You Big Red Fire Engine] **drmark2000** , please tell me what OS you are currently running, as well as what word processor and internet browsing clients you use. [/QUOTE] Oh, wait I know. Amazing what some people can pull out of their asses! CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/52 "2006-04-08T22:57:55Z")
[QUOTE=kambuckta] I haven’t really had any contact with **drmark2000** before. Is he always this whacky? 😃 [/QUOTE] Oh yeah. He seems to think he is some kind of intellectual. The nurses keep pretty good tabs on him. He definately has delusions of grandeur, and something of a christ complex. All in all he seems to be harmless though. He is getting ready to post his magnum opus. I predict batshit crazy, long and boring. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/53 "2006-04-08T22:58:51Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] If **drmark2000** is really a doctor, I will eat my own shoe. [/QUOTE] Well, I am, so there. That’s that. Now, to make good on your promise to myself and all, I’ll make life easy on you. Do like Chaplin and have a shoe made out of licorice. Then you can have a nice, big treat, and not dishonor yourself, either. That much licorice’ll run you through you like a Brillo pad, too. Ask Chaplin. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/54 "2006-04-08T22:59:40Z")
Crack kills, dude. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/55 "2006-04-08T23:01:43Z")
Well I’m the King of Denmark. I am, so there. That’s that. Of yeah, I’m SpartAcus too. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/56 "2006-04-08T23:04:55Z")
[QUOTE=drmark2000] Indeed I do possess a PhD in clinical psychology from an accredited institution. [/QUOTE] Which one? [Quote=Dumbass2000] But you wouldn’t know about any of the concerns about those with advanced degrees. [/QUOTE] Really? Why so you say that? What do you know about me that I do not know? [QUOTE=drmarkuswelby] Must I really say this again? DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH! Educate yourself, and then you can argue. [/QUOTE] I haven’t really argued anything. You have asserted nothing that can be argued with. [QUOTE=dr.IVEBY] More like what the White Man has done to native people the world over. Exterminate and/or enslave. [/QUOTE] Yeah that Bill Gates. Despoiler of the Third World. [QUOTE=dr.donothing] Snap out of it! [/QUOTE] Why do I imagine this in the voice of Cher? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/57 "2006-04-08T23:05:35Z")
No, _I’m_ Spartacus! ---
**Author:** ![VegemiteMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/df788c/32.png) [@VegemiteMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegemiteMoose)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/58 "2006-04-08T23:06:42Z")
Hello people of the internet worlds !! LOL!!111!! My mind is telling you to say “HELO EvERYONES”. Ha-Ha I kid you not. Right ? If you disown what im saying then **you** are the wrong one. Ha. ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/59 "2006-04-08T23:08:38Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] No, _I’m_ Spartacus! [/QUOTE] Wait a minute, I thought I was Spartacus. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/60 "2006-04-08T23:09:56Z")
[QUOTE=drmark2000] Well, I am, so there. That’s that. [/QUOTE] Well, see, the thing is, I think you’re lying. I mean, you keep lying about how smart you are, when that’s demonstrably untrue. Why should I take you at your word when you claim to have an advanced degree? No, I’m pretty sure you’re just a garden-variety compulsive liar with a massive inferiority complex. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874.md?page=4)