Bill Gates dissed on TV! His reaction: priceless!!

lukexcom · Post by **lukexcom** » 2004-01-29 12:32am

Ctrl-Alt-Delete. How did it start? IBM's David Bradley, a part of a group of people being interviewed, explains to the audience here.

He takes credit for inventing it, but he doesn't take credit for making it a famous cultural icon. And there he takes a big jab at Bill Gates!!!

More info in the form of a news article about here.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-01-29 01:50am

How might I go about saving that video to my computer? I want to hang on to that one.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2004-01-29 02:17am

bwuahahahahaha. That fucker can't take a joke. Truth hurts don't it.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2004-01-29 02:22am

Uraniun235 wrote:How might I go about saving that video to my computer? I want to hang on to that one.

Ye Right Clicke, Save As be ye friend.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-01-29 02:34am

Uh, where should I be right-clicking to save as? There's no hyperlink to the video... it's a checkbox which takes you to streaming video.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-01-29 04:58am

You could save it if you had Streambox VCR, but that program's getting old and not all streams work with it any more. Plus, it's technically illegal here in the United States, and I can't really use it now because it's a Windows program and I run Linux...

Oh well.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-01-29 05:39am

What a fucking dork. You would think with those billions he could get a decent haircut.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2004-01-29 09:06am

It's funny. Gates is one of the most reviled men in the world - the target of online rants and endless stand up comedy routines and comics. He's had pie thrown in his face.

You would THINK he'd have learned that people will make fun of him and learned to roll with it, especially when on TV or in public.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-01-29 10:51am

Can we have a summary of what happened?

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2004-01-29 11:17am

Slartibartfast wrote:Can we have a summary of what happened?

IBM Tech: Well, yeah, I created the CTRL-ALT-DEL command, but it was never intended for public use, so I really have to give credit where credit is due for making it so famous, that was Bill's job *motions to Bill Gates, sitting to his right*
Bill Gates: ... *making an "oh, you fucknut" face*
IBM Tech: ...when you used it for the NT logon!
Bill Gates: *thinking* Too late, I've already deleted your records and put a bounty on your head, fucker.
Moderator: Well, now that we've set the tone for tonight....

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-01-29 01:39pm

Apparently, Gates is utterly devoid of a sense of humor.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-01-29 01:55pm

BURN!

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-01-29 01:57pm

He don't need humor. He probebly buy people that laughs at his lame jokes at the party he throws and stuff.

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2004-01-29 03:30pm

Is there a picture of Gates face when he heard what the guy said?

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2004-01-29 03:44pm

One
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Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-01-29 05:07pm

If he'd the richest man on the world, I'm sure he could use some of it to buy a sense of humor.

And if that's his reaction to a little joke, I'm sure there wouldn't have been any survivors at that thing if every rant ever written against him was read to him.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-01-29 06:32pm

Oh yeah. He looks SO pissed. The smile and jolly expression is a dead giveaway.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-01-29 08:29pm

Doesn't exactly seem to be fuming to me...

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-01-29 09:36pm

The expression is frozen to his unblinking face, he also was dead silent for the next moment which is not usually a sign that someone's taken the joke well. What were you expecting him to do, start snarling and barking?

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-01-30 12:51am

Well one can always hope

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-01-30 05:39am

Does this mean that Gates is part of the IRS Auditor/secret service captive breeding program....

you wouldn't beleive how hard it is to get them to reproduce....

Silver Paladin · Post by **Silver Paladin** » 2004-01-30 08:36am

I don't think you can associate the socio-economic situation of a person to their sense of humor.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-01-30 04:15pm

The expression is frozen to his unblinking face, he also was dead silent for the next moment which is not usually a sign that someone's taken the joke well.

... Because it couldn't POSSIBLY be because he'd rather remain polite, would it? Oh yeah, because this "news conference" was REALLY just a buncha guys hangin' out.

What were YOU expecting him to do? Ask Bradley to pass the doobie?

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-01-30 11:26pm

SPOOFE wrote: ... Because it couldn't POSSIBLY be because he'd rather remain polite, would it? Oh yeah, because this "news conference" was REALLY just a buncha guys hangin' out.

What were YOU expecting him to do? Ask Bradley to pass the doobie?

Ok, can you honestly say that you've never been in a situation where someone's said something funny about you and you just stare at them? I'm not making the claim that he's thinking of putting a bounty on their heads for all I know he's probably just hard pressed for a good comback. Either way if you watch the video you'll see that it's not an overly positive response.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-01-31 12:19am

Durandal wrote:Apparently, Gates is utterly devoid of a sense of humor.

You know, Gates reminds me of that company CEO asshole from that movie where he would hire peeps to write code for him, and then off-them when they "didn't serve a purpose". He'd steal code from other people and do the same thing. I can't remember the name of the movie to safe my life though. ...