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Bill Gates Donates $258 Million to Fight Malaria
klubar writes to tell us that Bill Gates has donated approximately $258 million to fight malaria. From the article: "Malaria research accounts for about one-third of 1 percent of the total amount of money spent on medical research and development, even though it accounts for 3 percent of all the productive years of life lost to diseases, according to a report released Sunday." Gates was quoted saying "The report confirms what has been clear, and that is that the world isn't investing nearly enough in malaria R&D."
People receiving the vaccine agreed to only use Microsoft vaccines for the next ten years.
Malaria causes more deaths in children under 5 years old than even AIDS. (http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/impact/) Bill is certainly doing the right thing and I'll feel a bit less dirty writing this post on a WinXP machine because of it.
I still think it is wrong for Microsoft to get into the anti virus market.
Talk about witholding sex in exchange of "helping"! Shheeeesh.
there's no place like ~
...but he already took an arm and a leg...
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
A mosquito was heard to complain
That a chemist had poisoned his brain
The cause of his sorrow
Was paradichloro
Diphenyltrichloroethane
Heh heh... from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT
but it does give a little insight into Gates...many people have a skewed opinion of him, and this may change that.
This just in, Gates dropped some spare change and couldn't be bothered to pick it up, so he donated it to a charity in a desperate attempt to get some good publicity. When it failed, Balmer threw a chair through a window.
Actually he has to do it if he wants to get any.
// ville
"When you support Free software, you support malaria!"
-me
What the hell's your problem? Do you like dead babies? Do you???
No, save the precious infants!
or
Yes, let's kill some babies!
Its the first thing he has ever done to _stop_ the spread of viruses.
only in your fantasy world would $258,000,000 US be considered chump change.
I'm currently in a country where Malaria prophylaxis is required... recently we switched from daily Malarone tablets to weekly Mefloquine HCL tablets. "Malaria Mondays" are also known as "movie night" because of the really bizarre dreams this shit induces.
One of my co-workers woke up in the middle of the night, standing in the middle of his B-Hut (basically a wooden tent, sleeps 8-10 with about 9'x7x per man), screaming his head off at nothing.
Last night, I dreamed I was accosted by a giant rooster wearing a shaggy fur coat, a wide brimmed velvet hat, gold chains, and big gold rings. He was giving me shit for eating eggs, and was really pissed off at me. He forced me to sit on this egg until it hatched. When the egg hatched, it was a miniature version of myself, dressed like the rooster, and carrying a pizza!
Non tam praeclarum est scire Latine, quam turpe nescire
-- Cicero
Pray for the guy instead.
geez, I don't hate him that much. You really are a cruel SOB
I was with you right up to the part where Bill Gates robbed the poor African children in Ethiopia, probably becuase he didn't allow them to install Linux instead of Windows XP on their dual core AMD Athlon64 systems.
I'd rather the government taxed the rich so that this sort of obscene wealth could be spent in a way that is democratically accountable. If the people want it spent on malaria then it'll get spent on malaria. The poor shouldn't depend on the whims of the ultra-rich for this kind of thing.
"There is a cheap cure for the malaria problem, it's called DDT."
Yes, you can also cure a headache with cranial amputation, try it next time you feel one coming on.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.