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Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google
Nerval's Lobster writes "In a new interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Bill Gates discussed his Foundation's work to eradicate polio and malaria, while suggesting that vaccine programs and similar initiatives to fight disease and poverty will ultimately do much more for the world than technology projects devoted to connecting everybody to the Internet. While Gates professes his belief in the so-called digital revolution, he doesn't think projects such as Google's Internet blimps (designed to transmit WiFi signals over hundreds of miles, bringing Internet to underserved areas in the process) will do the third world nearly as much as good as basic healthcare. "When you're dying of malaria, I suppose you'll look up and see that [Internet] balloon, and I'm not sure how it'll help you," he said. "When a kid gets diarrhea, no, there's no website that relieves that." Gates then sharpened his attack on the search-engine giant: "Google started out saying they were going to do a broad set of things. They hired Larry Brilliant, and they got fantastic publicity. And then they shut it all down." Google focusing on its core mission is fine, he added, "but the actors who just do their core thing are not going to uplift the poor." The Microsoft co-founder also has no intention of following Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other tech entrepreneurs into the realm of space exploration. "I guess it's fun, because you shoot rockets up in the air," he said. "But it's not an area that I'll be putting money into.""
A failure.. lol. Whats a success if MS is a failure? Certainly not whatever your mudder plopped out.
I personally have a hard time keeping track of all of the humanitarian efforts Microsoft engaged in while they abused their monopoly position to crush competitors without even the slightest regard for morality and decency. You know, because there were so many. I very much admire Mr. Gates and the work of his foundation - there is no question they have done and are doing wonderful things. But quite a lot of revisionism going on in his head, it seems. I wonder where he thinks his wealth came from?
Very funny....and very wrong.
The day BG comes up with any kind of vision (Road Ahead tanked)... Let's see anything he does that fails to involve and benefit from Google in some way. He's just a mouthpiece for Bing.
Successful man, bright man, ruthless man, and entirely correct.
Bill Gates grew up. Page and Brin may still have some growing up to do, but Bezos has no excuse. And Musk's work has always been overrated, though it's almost geek suicide to suggest so.
My god, how many times do I have to point it out. I know millionaires. They live in a world that is completely different from the one that most people live in. If you think the joke about "first world problems" is germane, just wait until we see which mother has the biggest diamond ring at the next social wedding. Then all hell breaks loose. Bill Gates did NOT grow up. A sociopath does NOT turn into a caring person as they grow older. However these pet projects have always been a bragging point in those circles. Back in Chicago it was Friends of the Chicago River verses Friends of the Parks. The bored rich ladies who started these foundations hated each other with a passion, and would do anything to sabotage the other. That's right, sociopaths with bragging rights.
So he runs an illegal monopoly rough shod over the competition, destroying companies and lives, and now he gives a few pennies to promote his image. Yawn. Do NOT fall for this. Why Malaria? Because no one was doing it yet. Bragging rights. I can think of a dozen better ways to spend that money, but other rich fucks have those already. If he wants to do good, how about paying taxes, reparations for the companies that he destroyed, jail time for the politicians that he bought, etc.
Now mod me to oblivion. For some reason Slashdot just can't not drink this cool-aid.
The only thing worse than a Democrat is a Republican.
If you're shelling out money, it's not free, is it?
Being forced to buy something you may not need or want just so the other guy doesn't have to take personal responsibility is not free.
The Soviets tried that process. Look how well it worked for them.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Very funny....and very wrong.
The day BG comes up with any kind of vision (Road Ahead tanked)... Let's see anything he does that fails to involve and benefit from Google in some way. He's just a mouthpiece for Bing.
Third World person - starving, sick, uneducated - goes to Google:
"How the fuck do I get out of this shit hole"
Then they go to Reddit and ask the same thing and get posts like this:
"Become white"
"Stop being a muslim"
"Get a job'
They then Ask Slashdot:
"Well, if you studied engineering or CS instead of humanities, you wouldn't be where you are!"
"Start a business! Worked for me! My las employer is my client and I couldn't be happier!'
Yep, the Internet and Google has all the solutions!
Even worse: he spends loads of money promoting male genital mutilation, explaining this with a long debunked myth that it somehow helps against AIDS. There was just a single major study that showed such a result (Farm Orange), and all it proven was that educating men about safe sex is more beneficial than male circumcision is harmful (at least with respect to short-term HIV infection rates). To add to scientific misconduct, the control group was immediately destroyed (ie, circumcised) after the study's end to ensure no extra data can be gathered about that group. Their results stand in contrast to those of actually peer-reviewed studies.
That's a single purported benefit. Downsides include a sizable risk of complications, reduction in feeling in a sexual organ, body modification without the child's consent, etc.
Gates is no better than a random Somali witch doctor/mullah who does the same to girls.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Hospitals should not be required to provide free health care to anyone who walks in with a sniffle. Hospitals should be required to provide health care to those with serious injuries or other life-threatening situations.
I have a relative who works in the health industry and by far the biggest leeches on the free hospital care are people who come in with colds or related afflictions (flu), those looking to score a hit and yes, illegal immigrants.
If you take all those away, and/or force those who come in with a cold to pay something, there would be tons of money left over to treat those who are truly sick and in need.
So there's your fix. Now let's implement it.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
As a circumsized male in his late 50's, whose absolutely wonderful Ex gave him a series of orgasms that lasted about 15 minutes in total just last week, by methods most of the basement dwelling slashdotters have never even heard of, I'm pretty "well adjusted" to it not getting any better than this. If those nerves mattered that much, I would have just passed out and missed the best parts.
Most adult men can easily improve their sexual stamina and prolong orgasm just by such simple methods as using a rubber ring or velcro strap to hold the testicles away from the body when they try to contract up close just prior to orgasm. That one little trick probably has 10 times the effect of circumcision on most males. (Note, don't go strapping parts down, up or sideways until you know what its supposed to accomplish, what it should feel like done right, and why you don't want to do it wrong, please - circulation is a good thing!).
Simple, painless methods, many involving just training in control, or using tools that may cost 5 dollars US or less, can preserve firm erections for many males in the 'Viagra years', give most males orgasms that last at least a minute each and are generally described as mind-blowing, and keep sex great at least into a man's sixties. And it goes way, way, far beyond that if people really want to bother to research it. (One reason I'm not going into details is there are real risks to proceeding without a firm understanding of underlying principles, and a little caution and 'common' sense, especially for the advanced stuff. That's also why the references I picked below are at least by PHDs in related fields, and I wish I could give more pointers to MDs). But, you have to learn at least a little about how sex works and how to make it work better, generally buried info in the US, at least, and you have to stay in at least half way decent shape. For that matter, one reason I run 5 miles twice a week is to keep the stamina to go through an hour of sex and waves of minute long multiples.
Most men who aren't experiencing what they hope to sexually, can make a much, much bigger change than those nerve endings you are so concerned about ever did, by methods such as exercise and training that, I am informed, are very good things even if you still have those nerves. I suspect most women can too, but as long as they make personal vibrators that double as industrial grade concrete agitators, getting the E.S.O.* up to 5 mile runs seems doubtful - it's simpler for women these days.
* Ex Significant Other or Ex Snooky-Ookems, a.ka. STILL the Most Wonderful Woman in the World to Me. Married 23 years, divorced 8 years now, dating again for 7 years 10 months or so.
E.S.O. also stands for Extended Sexual Orgasm. Try these books (verified available from Amazon) if you're interested:
"Extended Massive Orgasm" by Vera and Steve Bodansky (2000) (Good, but maybe focused more on helping women with basic orgasmic disfunctions and less on already multiorgasmic women and basically orgasmic men)
"The One Hour Orgasm" by Leah and Bob Schwartz (1988) (Men may need to look for just parts most relevant to their issues unless they are also reading it for a female partner).
"Anytime...for as Long as You Want: Strength, Genius, Libido & Erection by Integrative Sex Transmutation" by Charles Runels (It's male focused, it's by an MD, and its probably not going to get you injured, but he does aim to get people to the top of the whole mountain, and it goes up further than he thinks - this is more a beginners book than the author supposes).
Or talk to a few Tantrists.
Who is John Cabal?