Bill Gates infects crowd with malaria | The Coffeehouse

corona_coder
Only Proprietary software vendors deal in absolutes.

Bill bought a jar full of misquitos to an event and let them roam around. Lawsuits will start pouring in soon.

Here are bills exact words " Malaria is spread by mosquitoes," Gates said while opening a jar on stage at a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars. "I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.""

JeremyJ
The pioneers would be appalled!

If you actually read the article it says that the mosquitoes DIDN'T have malaria.

intelman

Wow he got misquoted. And the mosquitos do not have malaria.

“I brought some mosquitoes - we’ll let them roam around the auditorium. There’s no reason only the poor should experience this…” Gates jokes. (Chris Anderson suggests the headline for this talk should be “Gates releases more bugs to the world”.) We’ve got some strategies for mitigating mosquitoes, notably bednets, which mothers and children should sleep under each night. Spraying the foundation of houses is also very effective. But if you use techniques like this only in a half-hearted fashion, you end up reducing death rates only modestly."

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/02/04/rebooting-bill-gates/

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

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jason818_253.33
Yippi skippy

The person who started this thread is misinformed...

about a lot of things.

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

corona_coder is a baby eater.

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

In reply to DCMonkey

#Feb 5th @ 10:20 AM

Could be worse. It could've been "Bill Gates infects crowd with syphilis"

Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

In reply to Minh

#Feb 5th @ 10:35 AM

I'm soooooo over this thread!

Move along! Nothing to see here!

stevo_
Human after all

In reply to JeremyJ

#Feb 5th @ 9:24 AM

But they could of had bad aids!

Bass
www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/

That's hardcore. +1 Bill Gates Smiley

jamie

In reply to Bass

#Feb 5th @ 1:34 PM

ditto

Bass
www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/

In reply to jamie

#Feb 5th @ 2:03 PM

Malaria is a kind of disease that the developed world doesn't give a rats ass about because we managed to basically eradicate it (from North America and Europe) a long time ago. It is probably a lot less expensive then trying to control AIDS, but it can save like a million people per year. If Bill Gates will do to Malaria that the WHO did to Smallpox, he will be doing a great thing for humanity. This is a disease that has been killing and disfiguring people for millennia, and it could be gone for good.

magicalclick

Thanks for sharing the news again. Hope more people will care more about malaria in poor regions. I still don't care though. If their government don't care about their people, I am not going to help.

Bill is healthier than Steve Jobs, so, I guess his donation helps a bit one the spiritual side.

jamie

In reply to magicalclick

#Feb 5th @ 6:30 PM

...not that i dont care... but i loved the fact that billg let a bunch of mosquitos loose on a ... well to do crowd...
cool.

..in other news... ballmer launched 58 versions of Windows7 insisting he would grow revenue by any means possible

magicalclick

In reply to jamie

#Feb 5th @ 6:34 PM

Haha, it is sure a bold move. But, hey, mosquitos are inter-galactic almost extinct specices. You gotta feed them.

rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure

In short, that was AWESOME!!!! It sounds like something I would have done. Good job Bill. I wonder how many people crapped their pants before he told them the mosquito's didn't have Malaria.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

In reply to rjdohnert

#Feb 5th @ 9:17 PM

Hopefully no one. I'd expect everyone to have enough common sense to realize that Bill Gates wouldn't really risk infecting a lot of people including himself with Malaria.

If I were him I would've released male mosquitos, considering only the females bite. Smiley

jujitsu_sickness

Bill Gates @ TED2009

As you can see from the talk, the FOX news article is a bit off.

It was hardly a swarm of mosquitoes, just a couple in a small glass box. He did not say "There is no reason only poor people should be infected," but rather he said: "There is no reason only poor people should have the experience."

Finally he did not wait "a minute or so" to tell the audience they weren't infected, but after the cheering and applause died down, and that was roughly 20 seconds after he released them, he said they weren't infected.

It's kinda sad that FOX reported something trivial like this, completely bypassing the whole message of the talk. Why not write an article about the deaths caused by mosquitoes that *are* infected?

Harlequin
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In reply to Sven Groot

#Feb 5th @ 11:05 PM

We also expect Beernutz to check facts, but we know that will never happen Smiley

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

In reply to Harlequin

#Feb 6th @ 12:29 PM

He's the Fox News of Linux Zealotry; Fairly Unbalanced.