02.26.10
Posted in Bill Gates, Finance, Fraud, Humour, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer at 12:30 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: The relationship between Washington and Microsoft as shown more comically (see the original in the links below)
TAX dodger Microsoft Corporation [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] is receiving no love these days.
Jeff sez, “Inspired by Boing Boing post about Microsoft tax dodge, cartoonist RR Anderson takes on Washington’s $100 million tax cut and tax amnesty for Microsoft.”
This cartoon was also mentioned by a former Microsoft employee. There is this post/article of his about bias at the Seattle Times, which still seemingly refuses to cover Microsoft’s offences and instead glorifies rogue operations.
As the Seattle Weekly discussed earlier, the Seattle Times has yet to report on Representative Ross Hunter’s HB3176 and its proposed $100 million tax cut for Microsoft as well as $1.27 billion in amnesty. It may be that the paper is too busy running to the bank to cash Microsoft’s latest check for a full page ad on the controversial 20th century vision to add more car lanes highway 520.
We wrote about the bridge story just a couple of days ago. █
“Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don’t evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, ‘how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?’”
–Bill Gates, The Seattle Weekly, (April 30, 1998)
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02.04.10
Posted in Humour, Site News at 6:59 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Adding more humour and visuals with the help or readers/contributors
WALLCLIMBER, one of our big contributors, was kind enough to make that graphic from the previous post. She’s professional at that.
One reader who offered to hook us up with a cartoonist said that “if Boycott Novell wants to reach out to more individuals, it can use cartoons, because they can say a thousands words, without using words, or in the most simple terms…
“So, I have inserted a few on China, to help give you the idea, and what’s best, when individuals have fun seeing them, they will help spread the word too.
“Cartoons are very easy to understand, and should be encouraged more, especially on a blog, as lots of comments can generate higher volume o traffic, which is what you want, for more new readers to discover the website, right? Each day a new cartoon can be uploaded, making everyone want to go look and see the latest new developments and of course the cartoon!
“If attribution is preferred, we will add one too.”“Pictures are visual methods to share information…”
If anyone is willing to create a cartoon that advocates Free software, please send it to us for sharing (copyleft). We are always glad to receive and share funny or educational imagery, as we already did earlier this week. If attribution is preferred, we will add one too.
The same reader who suggested cartoons has also sent us material from the book “Barbarians Led by Bill Gates”. It was written by someone who is close to Gates and we can quote portions of the book (fair use). This ought to be interesting! █
“Stolen’s a strong word. it’s copyrighted content that the owner wasn’t paid for.”
–Bill Gates, June 2006
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01.14.10
Posted in Humour, Microsoft, Security, Windows at 5:52 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Poster about Windows, inspired by “1984″
“You might be amused by the attached picture,” said one of our readers, who sent us the following photo. “I found posted on a wall not too far from my desk,” he said and “it brings to mind the Brian Valentine quote that ‘Windows is just not designed for security.’”
Click the image for a larger size. Priceless. █
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12.15.09
Posted in FSF, Humour, Quote at 5:11 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
“No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.”
–Richard Stallman
[For the socially-deficient, it's called humour. Webster defines sat·ire as "a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn"]
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11.21.09
Posted in GNU/Linux, Humour, Novell at 10:03 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Humour about Novell as an acronym
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11.19.09
Posted in Google, Humour, Microsoft at 12:11 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Image from Wikipedia
Summary: A hypothetical exchange of ideas published for humour
AS a little bit of background, see:
One of our readers has produced this spoof ‘memo’, which reuses some phrases that can be seen in real memos. It goes like this:
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------- memo to billg -------
From: nathanm
To: billg
Date: 6 November 2009, 3:05 am
Subject: the threat from Google
It’s come to my attention that Google is making money out of Internet Search. This despite our best efforts, buying up Yahoo search patents, promoting litigation against the Google book deal and so on. I mean it’s not as if we went after Google to pay up royalties on our patented search patent technology, oh, wait, we did so just that… never mind.
I think our forward looking strategy is to tie up with some mega-media corporation offering them prime place on Bing and get them to criticise Google for stealing content. We’ll get them to enthuse the rest of the online media to move to paid content, despite the fact they are virtually cutting their own throat. Whatever we do we mustn’t ever let slip that content – paid or otherwise – is next to useless, if no one can find it, and we will of course control exactly that.
We’ll also plant… er… seed the media with suggestions as to paying people to move from Google to Bing. Make sure it looks like it isn’t coming from us. Once we’ve got ‘free’ content shutdown and most content on Bing, we effectively control the Internet toll road…
First thing in the morning:
From: billg
To: rupertm@wsj.com
Date: 6 November 2009, 9:05 am
Subject: lets be partners and make lots of money
Dear Rupert,
Those evil people at Google are stealing all your content, but I can help you. Lets be ‘partners’ and Microsoft will give your material exclusive priority on our upcoming Bing. All we ask in return is you remove your content from Google and trash them in the press and government. Of course once Google is defeated and Microsoft owns Internet search, we’ll effectively own both you and your content, but by then it’ll be too late. And it isn’t as if you are clever enough to notice you being used as a stalking horse in out battle against Google. It isn’t the first time we played one ‘partner’ off against another with empty sweet nothings.
Thanks to our anonymous reader who wrote these E-mails/memos. █
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10.23.09
Posted in Bill Gates, Deception, Humour at 2:49 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Self-serving ‘charitable’ foundations under gentle fire
“DILBERT is picking on Bill Gates and his foundation,” alerts us a reader. For those who have not followed this closely, we last wrote about it yesterday, adding to existing critique of the Gates Foundation.
A lot of people do not know that critics of the Gates Foundation include respectable figures such as the chief of malaria for the World Health Organisation. It’s all driven by facts, not irrational resentment or envy. Those who do their homework also understand the role of Bill's press in the mythology. █
“My background is finance and accounting. As a socially conscious venture capitalist and philanthropist, I have a very good understanding of wealth management and philanthropy. I started my career in 1967 with the IRS as a specialist in taxation covering many areas of the tax law including the so-called legal loopholes to charitable giving. […] However, the Gates Buffet foundation grant is nothing more than a shell game in which control of assets for both Gates and Buffet remain the same. […] The only difference is that the accumulation of wealth by these two will be much more massive because they will no longer have to pay any taxes.”
The Gates and Buffet Foundation Shell Game
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09.12.09
Posted in Humour, Patents at 4:49 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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