# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/81 "2006-04-09T00:21:59Z")
[QUOTE=drmark2000] Spartacus is _dead_, you dumbfuck. [/QUOTE] Dumbass. If I am dead, how could I call you a dumbass? You’re so smart, answer that. I AM TO SPARTACUS!!! SO THERE! And I have a Super Ph.D. Thats higher than your mere Ph.D. Now shut up you stupid doodoo head. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/82 "2006-04-09T00:22:41Z")
[QUOTE=Go You Big Red Fire Engine] It’s quite easy to avoid Microsoft products. There’s an entire world of Open Source. I ran linux exclusively for 9 months, didn’t need ANY Microsoft programs. [/QUOTE] I truly appreciate this information, and thank you. However, I use the Mac. Jobs and Gates got into bed together a long time ago. Gates tied his string around Apple’s scrotum right then, and there will never be any escaping. We are led by our balls, or by our fear of losing them. [QUOTE=Go You Big Red Fire Engine] Please enlighten us, what institution is your PhD from? I think I understand now why in my country the use of “Doctor” is generally a faux pas unless you have a medical degree. [/QUOTE] Now, you know I’m not going to tell you that. If you want to bait me, then you have to figure out something that I don’t immediately see as bait, a lure, as it were. Work harder on your subtlety. As for the title of Doctor, God, how I hate it. I have always been uncomfortable with it. When you use the title, everyone expects that you’re an MD, and it just seems pretentious. I like being referred to as “Doc”, at best. I chose my user name on the spur of the moment without regard to how much attention it would attract. Still, for those upon whom it grates, it serves them right. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/83 "2006-04-09T00:25:05Z")
[QUOTE=Paranoid Randroid] Now I _know_ he’s not a clinical psychologist. [/QUOTE] As I have said so many times before, and will undoubtedly say many times again, the truth remains the truth regardless of what one decides to believe. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/84 "2006-04-09T00:28:14Z")
[QUOTE=drmark2000] As I have said so many times before, and will undoubtedly say many times again, the truth remains the truth regardless of what one decides to believe. [/QUOTE] WHOOOOOSH! ---
**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 9, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/85 "2006-04-09T00:29:52Z")
[QUOTE=drmark2000] I truly appreciate this information, and thank you. However, I use the Mac. Jobs and Gates got into bed together a long time ago. Gates tied his string around Apple’s scrotum right then, and there will never be any escaping. We are led by our balls, or by our fear of losing them. [/QUOTE] I use “the mac” also. Believe it or not, Open Source is made for ppc also. You obviously aren’t that pissed off about M$ft, otherwise you would know this. > [@](#): > > Now, you know I’m not going to tell you that. If you want to bait me, then you have to figure out something that I don’t immediately see as bait, a lure, as it were. Work harder on your subtlety. If you got your degree from a respected institution, then how is this baiting? Is your institution that embarrassing that you dar not mention its name? > [@](#): > > As for the title of Doctor, God, how I hate it. I have always been uncomfortable with it. When you use the title, everyone expects that you’re an MD, and it just seems pretentious. I like being referred to as “Doc”, at best. I chose my user name on the spur of the moment without regard to how much attention it would attract. Still, for those upon whom it grates, it serves them right. **drmark2000** , you’re a liar. ---
**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 9, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/86 "2006-04-09T00:29:58Z")
:dubious: Is anyone else getting the feeling his heart isn’t in it this time? He’s just going through the motions? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/87 "2006-04-09T00:30:41Z")
[QUOTE=askeptic] WHOOOOOSH! [/QUOTE] Damned right. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/88 "2006-04-09T00:34:11Z")
[QUOTE=drmark2000] You rationalizers of Gates’ practices make me sick. Truly, you are comparable to the prisoners in concentration camps who come to identify with and even worship their prisonkeeps. That’s easier than confronting the cruel truth, eh? [/QUOTE] So us fans of Redmond are equivalent to the starving, beaten Jews in concentrations camps? Then back the fuck off with the hateful, hurtful things you’re saying to us! Would you have travelled to Auschwitz to spit in the faces of those souls? A clinical psychologist? No wonder people don’t trust you people. If you’re any indication of the lot. I hate to think of some of your therapies. Psycho. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/89 "2006-04-09T00:39:11Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Is anyone else getting the feeling his heart isn’t in it this time? He’s just going through the motions? [/QUOTE] No, but I _do_ get the feeling his brain isn’t in it. That’s hardly newsworthy, of course. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/90 "2006-04-09T00:44:55Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Hey, I bet she was one hot babe in her day. [/QUOTE] If this is the same person, [indeed she was.](http://worldroots.com/brigitte/gifs2/margarethe2denmark40.jpg) Oh, and I’m sure **drmark2000** has his doctorate…in something like Mongolian basket weaving. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/91 "2006-04-09T00:45:11Z")
[QUOTE=Go You Big Red Fire Engine] I use “the mac” also. Believe it or not, Open Source is made for ppc also. You obviously aren’t that pissed off about M$ft, otherwise you would know this. [/QUOTE] PPC is dead, bud. The future is Intel. Sound familiar? [QUOTE=Go You Big Red Fire Engine] If you got your degree from a respected institution, then how is this baiting? Is your institution that embarrassing that you dar not mention its name? [/QUOTE] The institution from which which I graduated is not so embarrassing that I “dar not mention its name”. It’s not embarrassing at all. You from Kentucky, by the way? I decline to specify for obvious reasons of my own privacy, correctly informed by the rules of these boards. You should reread them, if you ever read them at all. [QUOTE=Go You Big Red Fire Engine] **drmark2000** , you’re a liar. [/QUOTE] No I’m not. Not at all. Not one bit. I have never spoken anything but the truth, but this is infuriating to those who lie compulsively. Like yer average, normal person. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/92 "2006-04-09T00:46:18Z")
Ahve you noticed that **whatssup’s** call to educate outselves are exactly the same as the CTs in the 9/11 conspiracy thread? Is this a standard tactic of conspiracy theorists when they don’t have any cites to back up their arguments? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/93 "2006-04-09T00:49:06Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] :dubious: Is anyone else getting the feeling his heart isn’t in it this time? He’s just going through the motions? :dubious: [/QUOTE] Thorazine is kicking in. We can only hope. ---
**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 9, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/94 "2006-04-09T00:50:57Z")
[QUOTE=drmark2000] PPC is dead, bud. The future is Intel. Sound familiar? [/QUOTE] So you’ve sold into the “you must UPDATE NOW” myth? Then you are part of the problem. > [@](#): > > The institution from which which I graduated is not so embarrassing that I “dar not mention its name”. It’s not embarrassing at all. You from Kentucky, by the way? I decline to specify for obvious reasons of my own privacy, correctly informed by the rules of these boards. You should reread them, if you ever read them at all. If I was from Kentucky, would my location say Australia, numbnuts? I bet your institution is so damned exclusive it’s only had one PhD, you. Your institution does not reveal shit. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/95 "2006-04-09T01:00:19Z")
Gee, what a suprise. Another rambling **drmark** thread that ends up being all-about- **drmark**. You were warned about this, remember **drmark** , even after your last enforced vacation from the board. The entertainment value you give by offering yourself as a target isn’t balanced by any appreciable substance. Your posting privs are under discussion. This is locked. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874/96 "2006-04-09T01:00:32Z")
[QUOTE=Rune] Spartacus is king of my nation? [btw. Here’s your wife.](http://kongehuset.dk/artikel.php?dogtag=k_dk_familien_dronningen) [/QUOTE] That language even dots its a’s with circles! Was it invented by a teenage girl? 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bill-gates/351874.md?page=4)