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Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« on: 12 May 2005, 17:24 »
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #1 on: 12 May 2005, 18:53 »
no he isn't.

why isn't there a poll on this? this is the sort of dumb thing that people usually have a poll about.
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #2 on: 12 May 2005, 19:13 »
I can't even be bothered to reply to this.
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #3 on: 12 May 2005, 19:48 »
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I can't even be bothered to reply to this.


It seems you just did thanks.
By the way, I'm not forcing you to post here.
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #4 on: 12 May 2005, 20:00 »
No he's not, but he is a better american than me.
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #5 on: 12 May 2005, 20:29 »
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It seems you just did thanks.
By the way, I'm not forcing you to post here.

I wasn't dissing the theard I was expressing my distaste that people consider Bill Gates to be good. Oh well I've made my second reply afterall. :D
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #6 on: 12 May 2005, 20:53 »
Well as soon as i saw
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The top 100 is heavily weighted toward music and movie types, from Elvis and Madonna to Clint Eastwood and George Lucas.
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and also... Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison

wtf are these people smoking, see, this is why america is fucking crap now. All thses stupid fuckers care about now is entertainment, our culture is now complete fucking trash. Sure we may be free, but free to do what, act like fucking dumbasses who only like entertainment which is made up of others misfortunes. People like the trashy reality shows because they like to see others suffer because it makes them feel better. People need to fucking get some common sense. yea I can just see how madonna changed not just america but the world with her invention of electricity. These people need to be fucking shot for being so stupid.
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #7 on: 12 May 2005, 21:18 »
I think people associate and a very succesful bussiness with being a great person.

So this must make drug barrens great people. :D
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #8 on: 12 May 2005, 23:06 »
Hell yeah. This is the decline of the Western Civilisation!

And BTW, AG Bell was NOT American. He was born, grew up, and lived for most of his life in Scotland. And mind you, we at school here in Fredericton are being told that the telephone is a Canadian invention!!!

And speaking of Bell, may I mention that his company - now AT&T - are the ones who stole UNIX...
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #9 on: 13 May 2005, 03:15 »
You mean developed Unix, or is my history incorrect.
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #10 on: 13 May 2005, 04:18 »
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According to America Online and the Discovery Channel, those five, and 95 others, are in the running to be voted the "Greatest American" of all time.

That explains A LOT right there.
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #11 on: 13 May 2005, 08:15 »
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You mean developed Unix, or is my history incorrect.

http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #12 on: 13 May 2005, 08:34 »
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http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/

Wait, what's your point?
That UNIX is based on Multics?  So what?
That AT&T "stole" from Bell?  Tell me you didn't just draw a line between Lucent and BNL.

You might want to find a better source to back that up than one that's going to take the most pro-Bell (read: anti-impartialism) standpoint possible. :p
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #13 on: 13 May 2005, 09:12 »
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Wait, what's your point?
That UNIX is based on Multics?  So what?
That AT&T "stole" from Bell?  Tell me you didn't just draw a line between Lucent and BNL.

You might want to find a better source to back that up than one that's going to take the most pro-Bell (read: anti-impartialism) standpoint possible. :p
Hey, I'm not claming anything, lol, I just posted the link.
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Re: Is Bill Gates the greatest American ever?
« Reply #14 on: 13 May 2005, 11:01 »
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Hey, I'm not claming anything, lol, I just posted the link.

Ah, my bad, I thought you were taking Jenda's side with *that* link of all the ones out there (which would be very weak).  ;)

In layman's terms: I goofed.  Read too much into it.  Vops.  :D
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