Microsoft CEO egged
greed and death
20-05-2008, 15:31
http://www.nwcn.com/business/stories/NW_051908BUB_ballmer_gets_egged_in_hungary_TP.c724a70.html
I am just curious. Why?
reference to a issue with Microsoft stealing money from Hungarian government ??? though not familiar with that or even if it is valid. Just seems like poor form to treat a CEO giving a free lecture at a university.
Rambhutan
20-05-2008, 15:35
Surely being CEO of Microsoft is justification enough...
greed and death
20-05-2008, 15:38
Surely being CEO of Microsoft is justification enough...
more like
justification enough to bomb Hungry if they don't execute the egg thrower.
Lunatic Goofballs
20-05-2008, 15:38
He looked hungry. :)
Surely being CEO of Microsoft is justification enough...
When you are that wealthy the prospect of having an egg thrown at you should be easy to ignore. He would have turned and said, "I could toss my wallet at you but I'm afraid I'll be charged with attempted murder.
Lunatic Goofballs
20-05-2008, 15:42
more like
justification enough to bomb Hungry if they don't execute the egg thrower.
Bomb them with eggs.
Farflorin
20-05-2008, 15:42
It's not a two-bit politician, so there's no reason to egg the poor guy.
Yootopia
20-05-2008, 15:43
Maybe it was to cover the sweat?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE
Eugh :p
Rambhutan
20-05-2008, 15:43
Bomb them with eggs.
The planes are being scrambled this very moment.
Why would you egg a company head? I mean if he were dumping toxic waste sure, but a software company?
greed and death
20-05-2008, 15:45
Bomb them with eggs.
I like the way you think.
Call to power
20-05-2008, 15:47
Why would you egg a company head? I mean if he were dumping toxic waste sure, but a software company?
don't have vista I see
Lunatic Goofballs
20-05-2008, 15:48
The planes are being scrambled this very moment.
Ooh. Ow. Ow. Pain. Ow.
Damn you. :p
HotRodia
20-05-2008, 15:49
The eggheads were probably just Linux users.
Evil Turnips
20-05-2008, 15:50
more like
justification enough to bomb Hungry if they don't execute the egg thrower.
Weren't you in Lord of the Rings?!?!
greed and death
20-05-2008, 15:50
I haven't paid for software in years. pretty easy to get it for free.
so no need to be mad at the CEO.
Microsoft products are just a Charge of stupidity.
don't have vista I see
Yeah well I'm not that stupid, and I laugh at those who are.
Sdaeriji
20-05-2008, 16:02
Guy probably had one of the very first copies of Vista.
EachAmericas
20-05-2008, 16:06
why start or stop with the Hungarians? Microsoft should continue stealing from all, including corporation and consumers. Wow the American dream is attainable
South Lorenya
20-05-2008, 16:07
First pie.
Now eggs.
Are they siuggesting that Microsoft should be run by chubby people?
Yeah well I'm not that stupid, and I laugh at those who are.
open office kicks ass.
Lunatic Goofballs
20-05-2008, 16:11
First pie.
Now eggs.
Are they siuggesting that Microsoft should be run by chubby people?
They'd make for easier targets. :)
HotRodia
20-05-2008, 16:11
First pie.
Now eggs.
Are they siuggesting that Microsoft should be run by chubby people?
No, they are proposing a food drive.
Yootopia
20-05-2008, 16:12
why start or stop with the Hungarians? Microsoft should continue stealing from all, including corporation and consumers. Wow the American dream is attainable
They steal from the customers as much as EA or any other large company which people hate because they're well-run and profitable. By that I mean "not at all".
They produce a very high-quality product. And people buy it. Or don't, and pirate it, which is actual theft.
Bah, the wimp ducked behind a counter; he should have caught the eggs and thrown them back.
Farflorin
20-05-2008, 16:17
Bah, the wimp ducked behind a counter; he should have caught the eggs and thrown them back.
Not raw ones. They break like a politician trying to cover his tracks faster than a three legged dog trying to bury shit on a frozen pond. Now if the eggs were soft or hard boiled....
They steal from the customers as much as EA or any other large company which people hate because they're well-run and profitable. By that I mean "not at all".Yeah, stealing isn't the right word; rather it's 'milking their market position for all it's worth with no concerns for the customers seeing as they don't have any obligation to do so'.
And people buy it.No, they buy a license, you never actually own the product.
And for as much as you pay for it, you're allowed to do remarkably little with it.
Or don't, which is actual theft.I don't think it is; it's an infringement of intellectual property right. You don't steal something when you make a copy of something, a new entity is created rather than an existing one changing hands illegitimately.
Not raw ones. They break like a politician trying to cover his tracks faster than a three legged dog trying to bury shit on a frozen pond. Now if the eggs were soft or hard boiled....You can catch raw ones; it just takes a bit more skill, because you need to decelerate them slowly.
If it can be thrown without breaking, it can be caught without breaking, by doing the opposite in terms of forces acting on the egg.