Sir Bill Gates
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USA Join Date: 2004-03-04 Member: 27141Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
USA Join Date: 2004-03-04 Member: 27141Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
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(Really WTH? Copying other companie's ideas and getting loads of money makes you a knight?)
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XD
It takes away the cool factor from Engerland.
Terrorists kidnap Bill Gates and replace him with an identical robot that they force Bill Gates to build, but what they don't know is that Gates programmed the robot to run on Windows. Next they introduce the main character...some badass MI6 agent who doesn’t play by the rules. He catches wind of the plot and does all his badass MI6 police work to undercover the plot to assassinate the Queen. Car chase. Agent's partner is killed in a gun fight, but he manages to get all the information he needs, but he’s depressed and he doesn’t want to go on. Touching scene where older agent gives him a heart to heart, he vows to save the Queen and avenge his partner. Sex scene. Long drive in a fancy sports car to the ceremony with hip new song playing.
*Cut to the knighting ceremony*
The Bill Gates robot kneels down, our agent is the front row, a of couple terrorists are undercover watching from the balcony that’s there because it’s my story. Snipers. The Queen brings down the sword to his shoulder, real tense music starts to play. He grabs the sword and swings around holding it to the Queens throat. Bodyguards come out, but the snipers kill them. Our agent draws his pistol and takes out all the snipers. Dramatic slow motion reloading. He turns around and the Gates robot is running away with the Queen. They get into a mini-cooper and drive away towards Big Ben. Second car chase.
*Cut to the top of Big Ben*
The Gates Robot has a gun now; it’s an intentional plot-hole, keeps the people who look for these things happy. He has it at the Queens head, our agent has him at gun point...he’s backing up...he’s backing up...he’s going to jump...he says a really corny line like..."hasta la vista baby" and gets ready to jump. Sparks and the sound of a computer crashing. He drops the Queen to the ground safely and falls out of the clock onto the ground below.
The police find the real Bill Gates safely locked away in a dumpster downtown; he explains everything to the agent and the Queen. Our agent rides off into the sunset on his horse. The end.
Oh god...I would so see that movie.
My friend just said "I hope they slip and cut his head off", I'm perhaps not quite that extreme, but I don't think he deserves a Knighthood.
Terrorists kidnap Bill Gates and replace him with an identical robot that they force Bill Gates to build, but what they don't know is that Gates programmed the robot to run on Windows. Next they introduce the main character...some badass MI6 agent who doesn’t play by the rules. He catches wind of the plot and does all his badass MI6 police work to undercover the plot to assassinate the Queen. Car chase. Agent's partner is killed in a gun fight, but he manages to get all the information he needs, but he’s depressed and he doesn’t want to go on. Touching scene where older agent gives him a heart to heart, he vows to save the Queen and avenge his partner. Sex scene. Long drive in a fancy sports car to the ceremony with hip new song playing.
*Cut to the knighting ceremony*
The Bill Gates robot kneels down, our agent is the front row, a of couple terrorists are undercover watching from the balcony that’s there because it’s my story. Snipers. The Queen brings down the sword to his shoulder, real tense music starts to play. He grabs the sword and swings around holding it to the Queens throat. Bodyguards come out, but the snipers kill them. Our agent draws his pistol and takes out all the snipers. Dramatic slow motion reloading. He turns around and the Gates robot is running away with the Queen. They get into a mini-cooper and drive away towards Big Ben. Second car chase.
*Cut to the top of Big Ben*
The Gates Robot has a gun now; it’s an intentional plot-hole, keeps the people who look for these things happy. He has it at the Queens head, our agent has him at gun point...he’s backing up...he’s backing up...he’s going to jump...he says a really corny line like..."hasta la vista baby" and gets ready to jump. Sparks and the sound of a computer crashing. He drops the Queen to the ground safely and falls out of the clock onto the ground below.
The police find the real Bill Gates safely locked away in a dumpster downtown; he explains everything to the agent and the Queen. Our agent rides off into the sunset on his horse. The end.
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O_O.... maybe im tired.. or maybe that was THE BEST DAMN STORY IVE EVER READ!!..
i couldnt stop reading.. i was hooked.. and now.. i must reply... im not even supposed to be here, BUT NO.. i am here.. reading that.. and telling you how great you are... you should write a book, then make a movie based off the book, then a tv series...
Oh yes, and for those who didn't notice, this is an honorary knighthood. I don't know all the details, but there are at least 2 reasons for this. The first being that only british citizens (and some other counries citizens, don't know which ones) can be knighted. The second is that American citizens are not constitutionally allowed to accept a title of nobility granted by a foreign country. IIRC Part of the naturalization process involves renouncing any titles of nobility.
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No...Your just tired...and I have far too much damn time on my hands. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I bet they only have that as a tax break.
That answers one question.
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No...Your just tired...and I have far too much damn time on my hands. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Please make a sequel.
But like he said, he can't be called Sir Gates. But he can be called Bill Gates Knight Commander.
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Ignorance at it's finest...
He donates more money than he pays in taxes to begin with. You could NOT charge him taxes, and it would do very little.
I wish people would give the guy more credit. He built that company from the ground up with a group of small people--hell the guy didn't even go to college.
Whoever said I was looking for the princess?
Sorry, couldn't resist XD
But on the matter at hand....well, good for him he gets knighted. Looks like it's time for me to try something....if he can get knighted can I too?
*plotplotplot*
Brave Sir Gates ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Gates turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir Gates!
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Ignorance at it's finest...
He donates more money than he pays in taxes to begin with. You could NOT charge him taxes, and it would do very little.
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I didn't realize Harvard isn't a college.
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Riiiight.
Yes, he did build that company up - in the finest tradition of vicious, cut-through capitalism. The aim of Microsoft as a company is not to please their customers, nor to further the state of the art, nor to produce high quality products. It is to ensure absolute dominance of the market by any means presently legal. The approach taken towards competition is not to compete with them but to destroy them; Microsoft do not make better software than anyone else, they're simply the best at forcing out competition through making their stuff incompatible, bundling free software with their OSs (precluding most consumers from even <i>knowing</i> about alternative products), using good old fashioned FUD tactics, and basically anything else which will allow them to continue to lock customers into dependence on inferior software with a minimum of interference.
Monopolies are not healthy for consumers and nothing to be proud of.