I Hate You, Bill Gates [And here's why]

I'm plotting elaborate revenge against Bill Gates, if anyone wants to join in- and why wouldn't you?

So far he is:
-being sent to prison in Siberia.
-where he will be allowed internet, but only AOL dialup.
-forced to endure my crappy cable company (where you have to have 3 neighbors report an outage with you before it's fixed, which will be difficult as his guards get a nice sattalite dish, and he has no neighbors)
-having all of his millions and billions put into the fund for People Who Really Deserve It More Anyway (including starving college students such as myself, my friends, and anyone else who feels they deserve it more than he does- which again, is probably just about everyone.)
-not allowed to IM his wife, though the rest of the world is free to taunt him as they wish. [This suggestion submitted by my Mom, who is very much of teh cool.]
-forced to download the bloody SP2 thing for XP over and over and over again...

I have had it. I'm totally fed up with Windows, Bill Gates, ect. I tried to download the stupid patch much earlier yesterday, when I wasn't keen on doing much online anyway. Of course they disabled the download button as "too many users" were trying it. Well, hello! How many copies of XP did you morons sell? Grr, argh. I already wanted to kill Gates by that point- and I was only getting started.

I started my download at around 3:45AM or so. It was still rolling merrily along when I finally crashed at around 6:00AM, and I swear it just finished downloading when some annoying computer noise woke me up at 9:00AM. That's a lot farther from the "4 hours 20 minutes" I was promised and a hell of a lot closer to the six hours g_shadowslayer had to endure. Based on her experience, I'm pretty sure I did not, alas, hallucinate the six hours.

And then it has the nerve to take for-fucking-ever to install, scrolling through a nice list of "now installing [gibberishfilename-dot-whatever]" which for all I know could have been randomly generated nonsense. That took another hour and a half at least. And then the bloody thing tries to turn on Automatic Update- as if. Yes, I'm really in the mood to let Windows hijack my system whenever it feels like it to update crap that takes this long, and never mind what I might be doing at the time, or where I might have to dash off to. And I never feel really comfortable leaving my computer running DLing stuff when I'm not around, because with Windows, who the hell knows what it's going to do? I didn't even like to leave it running while I was asleep in the same room, but there was no way I could keep my eyes open anymore.

You know what the most obnoxious part of all this is, though? That this isn't the end of it. Oh, no. Because you give them a month, maybe two, and there'll be another huge-ass totally urgant update that we've all just got to get right this minute now, or eles- that will supposedly plug all the holes in the SP2.

*facepalms, headdesks, facepalms, ect*

This rant brought to you by the letters "F U XP", not enough sleep, and a very annoyed, rather vindictive writer who spent half the morning scribbling Moody/Penny drabble into a notebook and glaring at her laptop.

I'm much better now. Really.

(And off to run Norton, I suppose, as Gods only know what crawled its way onto my system while it was awake all friggin' night... *rolls eyes*)