Microsoft Commercials...

[pasithea]

Tired, so I'm watching a little TV and being bombarded by advertisements. Always likely to put me in a mood.

Anyhow. I'm really being struck by the Microsoft "I'm a PC" advertisements.

Let me see if I understand the premise... So... Microsoft finds some inbred rube and says, "We'll buy you a computer if you jabber inanely for a few minutes on camera"

... And somehow, bribing someone with a free computer equates to their OS not being a flaming pile of dog shit?

... I'm kinda confused. I mean... If you have to bribe someone to do your advertising, it seems like your product is full of fail.

But perhaps I'm merely basing my opinion on having used Windows. C'mon Microsoft, give me two grand to buy a computer. I'll get something way better than a stinking piece of crap Dell Boat Anchor and it won't even be a single-purpose machine. I'll be able to use it for just about anything.

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[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. The richest man in the world can hire tax consultants to tell him that 'charitable donations' will let him keep the greatest portion of his wealth and push more of his tax burden onto people like me. How noble. Maybe next, he'll take on the mantle or eradicating a disease that's already in severe decline so that he can have a place in history as a great healer or something. ... Oh wait...


Bill Gates is the master of Oxyclean. In a better world, he's selling ShamWow and various plastic kitchen implements. He's a flimflam man. He's never been good at anything other than scamming people.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Malaria was already on the decline anyway, DV? Malaria? The most common infectious disease on Earth? And what about Warren Buffet willing his estate to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation? He do that for tax purposes, so he wouldn't have to pay annual taxes... when he is dead?