The tech-loving characters on "The Big Bang Theory" are about to find themselves severely star-struck. The comedy series has booked Microsoft founder Bill Gates to guest star as himself in an upcoming episode, CBS and Warner Bros. tell CNN.
In the episode, Penny (Kaley Cuoco) will find herself hosting Gates at work, and her friends go to great lengths in their effort to meet the billionaire innovator. The episode is set to air in late March.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/20/entertainment/bill-gates-big-bang-theory/index.html
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/21/17035236/bill-gates-the-big-bang-theory-appearance
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(Score: 5, Funny) by jimtheowl on Thursday February 22 2018, @08:25AM (3 children)
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @08:33AM (2 children)
Slam! Slam! Slam! This sound was heard repeatedly in the supermarket parking lot. Investigating further, one would find a man raping a woman whilst simultaneously rendering a vicious beating unto her. To the untrained, ignorant eye, this would appear to be a man oppressing a woman. However, to those in the know, it was actually a man fighting to reclaim men's rights from the woman; he was a brave and honorable freedom fighter battling against the true oppressor: The woman.
Slam! Slam! Slam! The man's fist continued to mercilessly collide with the woman's face. No matter how much the woman screamed, the vigorous beating continued until every last ounce of life was snuffed out of her. The man raised his fist into the air to signal his grand victory, and was met with a thunderous ovation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @08:42AM
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @12:52PM
Except the woman turned out to be one Sheldon Cooper because that is what happens in the real world to smug, self centered, faggy nerds. Especially when they correctly point out that "God" does not really exist.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @08:29AM (10 children)
Not to watch that stupid show.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @08:39AM (6 children)
It was funny for a bit...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @08:54AM (5 children)
No. This show has always been approximately as funny as F Troop [wikipedia.org].
Which is to say not at all.
You want funny? Watch Red Dwarf [wikipedia.org], smeghead!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @09:50AM (2 children)
Red dwarf is fucking brilliant. Found it on my hard drive a couple weeks ago. I have absolutely no idea how it got there, wish I could thank the person...
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday February 22 2018, @05:14PM
Warning: Shark jumpage occurs around series V.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday February 22 2018, @10:32PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @02:50AM (1 child)
You think people were tuning in for humor??
Everybody with a Y chromosome showed up to check out Wrangler Jane. [google.com]
...and while not very funny, it was instructive.
Before Corporal Agarn, it never occurred to me to whack somebody with my hat when they got loopy.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @07:56PM
Fair enough, but I'd argue that:
1. Barbara Eden [gettyimages.com] on I Dream of Jeannie was much hotter;
2. IIRC, Abbott and Costello had the hat-beating thing down long before F-Troop.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Translation Error on Thursday February 22 2018, @05:32PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @06:07PM
That is pretty much everyone standard sitcom. This clip with no laugh track [youtube.com] is definitely a bit disturbing though.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday February 23 2018, @02:05AM
My problem with it by far was the fact that it was a bunch of faggy men and one chubby Blond talking about jack shit the whole episode, literally duckspeak about nothing, and just because there were formulas scrawled on the whiteboards in the background that somehow made it "nerdy."
At least Jew Seinfeld could make talking about nothing somewhat entertaining.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by aim on Thursday February 22 2018, @09:32AM (9 children)
So, will they slam him as having thrown back the industry by a couple of decades? For having created an illegal monopoly?
As for the philantropy, Al Capone did some good too... but that doesn't change the fact he got his money by bad means.
(Score: 5, Informative) by jimtheowl on Thursday February 22 2018, @09:43AM (7 children)
As for the actors, they are mostly clueless about science and technology except for Mayim Bialik (Amy Farrah Fowler) who actually has her Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @09:52AM
Wow, I had no idea. What a horrible example of how bad scientists are treated.
So instead of a cure for cancer we get another episode of some lame sitcom.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Thursday February 22 2018, @03:40PM (3 children)
As for the actors, they are mostly clueless about science and technology except for Mayim Bialik (Amy Farrah Fowler) who actually has her Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
That's all well and good, but that's not really "tech". A neuroscientist doesn't know squat about computer software, Linux, FOSS, etc. unless it happens to be a hobby of hers, just like I as a software engineer don't know squat about the brain other than what I learned in high school or in layman-oriented articles online.
(Score: 2) by jimtheowl on Thursday February 22 2018, @05:35PM
Apologies; my use the verbal 'and' is slanted by boolean algebra. That said, what you state is obvious.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday February 23 2018, @02:07AM (1 child)
Aren't most neuroscientists basically glorified psychologists? Maybe some of them have a bit of superficial biochem training and experience conducting tedious experiments, but I think the population of M.D.s, especially neurologists, among neuroscientists is pretty damn small.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday February 23 2018, @03:33AM
I have no idea really, I was just throwing that in there as an example. Neurologists would be a better comparison I think.
According to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], there's a whole raft of different branches within neuroscience, some looking like glorified psychology as you said, but others very hard-science and looking at the biological or molecular levels, and some doing computational modeling. None of these really need someone to be an M.D.; biological researchers for instance have no real reason to be an M.D. M.D.s are people who practice medicine on actual patients; researchers in labs aren't like this, though they probably work with M.D.s who work with patients with related problems. But surely a lot of research is on animals.
(Score: 2) by PocketSizeSUn on Friday February 23 2018, @07:59PM (1 child)
And an Anti-Vaxxer? ...
https://www.timesofisrael.com/is-mayim-bialik-an-anti-vaxxer-its-complicated/ [timesofisrael.com]
Later she publicly 'retracted' by saying that she did have her kids vaccinated.
Personally having a PhD and even acknowledging the anti-vax community as has having any legitimacy publicly is extremely disturbing.
(Score: 2) by jimtheowl on Friday February 23 2018, @08:38PM
I find her comment quite reasonable. Yours are mostly innuendos.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @06:05PM
He must be paying for the ad time for his foundation. Penny is a medical rep and Gates Foundation is footing medical treatments.
Gates maybe a geek. Hitler brought us the Volkswagen Bug. The Good does not out-weight the Bad.
Now the WOZ episode is great. James Earl Jones' episode was wonderful. Even Nimoy's son episode was fun.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @09:46AM (6 children)
The whole show is an interesting study on how normalfags view science, technology, nerds and geeks.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @11:19AM (1 child)
I'd say it's attempt at getting midway, or of nerdxploitation, sort of dilbert-like.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @01:16PM
The most apt description I've seen for the show is "nerd black-face".
(Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday February 22 2018, @01:26PM
I skimmed thru a few episodes illegally uploaded to youtube (youtube wants lots of money to watch it legally) and its pretty weird, as if "that 70s show" consumed megatons of soy products and skated thru a STEM diploma and got STEM jobs. Or alternatively its "The Good Doctor" which is another weird show to skim thru, but with a sitcom laugh track. Its an old show almost Simpsons-age and old episode highlights on youtube are weird to watch because there's a lot of ancient pop culture comedy I vaguely remember from years ago, ah the laugh track is making fun of some Republican politician or whatever but I don't remember enough details to understand the joke. Then again, Hollywood thinks "the middle" is a documentary of every household not located in LA or NYC, which is also pretty funny.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @02:12PM
normalfags - it's both spelt and pronounced 'neuro-typical'.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @06:20PM (1 child)
And due to asshats like you who use terms like "normalfags" said normies view techies as bigoted basement baters.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @03:37AM
said normies view techies as bigoted basement baters.
But that's exactly what most of us are. There's tons of evidence proving it, not just his post.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @11:06AM
Can't they have Travis Kalanick on? Or Palmer Luckey?
That lift shaft has been sitting there for the whole show... never been used.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by stormreaver on Thursday February 22 2018, @12:50PM (4 children)
I have never seen the show, though it seems to have generated a lot of respect in the Press for how it treats science.
They have thrown it all out the window in one fell swoop.
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Thursday February 22 2018, @01:12PM (3 children)
The whole damning with faint praise thing
http://news.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx [gallup.com]
Ouch
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 22 2018, @07:04PM (2 children)
Turns out having a pathological liar in the Whitehouse has restored some of that confidence. [gallup.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @10:53PM (1 child)
Turns out one of CNNs plants asked the wrong senator the wrong questions. Then called him a liar for it because the doufas pushed the wrong buttons on his phone. Trump has been pretty clear. They lie all the time.
Our news is a complete dumpster fire. Yet we want to pretend it is all lolly pops, unicorns and hearts.
Gallup. As my friends from highschool that worked there put it 'questions made up by someone to push some agenda but it pays 15 bucks an hour'.
It is all in the way you put it. Care to comment on that?
(Score: 2) by jimtheowl on Friday February 23 2018, @03:07AM
Sure, mostly a waste of time, but I'll bite.
1).. " asked the wrong senator the wrong questions. Then called him a liar for it because the doufas pushed the wrong buttons on his phone.."
What? It might help if you we not, possibly intentionally, being so vague.
Perhaps this is obvious to someone glued to the TV?
Is that how you get people to make up shit? Make half of it and let them do the rest after getting their prejudices and anger flared up?
2) Trump has been pretty clear. They lie all the time.
Hmm.. A compulsive liar is clear about saying other people lie all the time..
It sounds like accusing your opponent of exactly what you are doing; otherwise known as "Blame shifting".
3) Yet we want to pretend it is all lolly pops, unicorns and hearts.
No we do not.
4) As my friends from highschool that worked there put it..
Sure, I can see that being possible.
5) It is all in the way you put it
No. It is how it is. Further, something isn't true because you like hearing it or like the person saying it. You need to be rational, not make assumptions out of convenience and try to be truthful to yourself first.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday February 22 2018, @10:38PM (1 child)
Bill Gates????
Elon Musk I could understand, but fucking ass Billy? Why?
Elon is involved in things involving physics, engineering, science, aerospace....
Bill? [crickets]
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(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday February 23 2018, @03:37PM
The correct term is "marketing."
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P