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Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference to make a point about the deadly sting of malaria.
'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.'" Say what you will about the guy, that is showmanship. Well done.
Releasing bugs into the wild while complaining about viruses.
Although this time around, I'm on his side.
My work here is dung.
Bill does this all the time at the office for target practice for Ballmer.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
Jeez, even his philanthropy has bugs!
If he ever gives a speech about rabies, I'm not going...
"...politicians, and Hollywood stars" Those types will suck the juices out of those poor helpless mosquitoes.
Dear god, won't somebody think of the mosquitoes?!
Sheldon
For his next trick, to highlight the need for stricter gun control laws, Bill Gates will fire a gun into a crowd while shouting "there is no reason why only poor people should suffer from gun crimes!"
I think Al Gore plans on having a volcano erupt in downtown Manhattan to emphasize that ecological disasters are not just some fringe pacific "ring of fire" problem, but I hear he's having trouble getting a permit from the city.
You should have been at the function where he released 100 screaming Rhesus monkeys into the audience to highlight the problems of Ebola virus. It was great fun watching the attendees trying to avoid being bitten.
wear one of those head covering mosquito nets, or like what Beekeepers wear. that would be pretty funny :)
this idea was invented by shampoo
You don't say that Bill has seen someone else's idea, thought "hey, that's neat" and copied it without referencing it, do you?
How dare you suggest something like this?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Kind of like taking a chainsaw to a horror/slasher flick, even though you removed the chain.
What part of
REM The IBM Personal Computer Donkey
REM Version 1.10 (C)Copyright IBM Corp 1981, 1982
REM Licensed Material - Program Property of IBM
don't you understand?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
What has Gates done PERSONALLY to make slashdotters so hateful of him?
OK, True story: Back in the early 1980s I was working for a small startup company in eastern Idaho... we did lots of vertical market stuff for home construction companies and lumber mills. All written in C, with Assembly language libraries and a smattering (*gasp*) of BASIC. So one day, I was working on debugging our B-Tree retrieval libraries using the new state-of-the art 80386 machine (all the other machines in our shop were '286) when suddenly Bill Gates bursts into the office. He does a couple of flips over the office partition walls and killed two of my co-workers with a karate chop to the neck....one was the HR person who, of course, has all our home addresses, so Bill grabs the sheet of paper with all of them and yells "I'll be back". Well, after the police interviews and crisis counselling and cleanup... I go home only to find my wife and four triplets all stabbed to death and my dog pregnant. On the kitchen table was a note from Bill Gates saying "I did this"
Man, I would hate to be the sucker who has to put all those mosquito in the jar.
Bill: Steve, Can you come in here. ......
Steve: Hey bill, hope you are happy with optimization I put in Windows 7 Kernel.
Bill: Yah that is pretty good, I have another project for you.
Steve: Sure Bill, anything for you.
Bill: I want you to
Steve: You want me to what?
I go home only to find my wife and four triplets ...
You are a computer programmer!
Always remembering to zero reference your kids.
My work here is dung.
Well, he freed us from spam three years ago, so he's probably our best hope against malaria.
"There is no reason only rich people should be infected."
I'll have a Gin and Tonic, extra Tonic Please
"It's because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything." -Homer Simpson
If you were a bird, I'd think you were being reasonable.
So you're saying the Fox article is outright LYING about having verified the incident with the Foundation's media office?
Fox may be slanted, but they don't make facts up out of whole cloth.
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Wtf are you doing here? I thought your ass was banned http://www.edf.org/article.cfm?ContentID=4407
Srsly u guys. U guys, srsly.
Bloodsucking parasite releases blood sucking parasites.