Bill Gates Gives Money to Malaria-fighting Candy

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bgd73

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wow. that is quite odd. I do not have malaria, bit I am a skinny guy who hoards fatty meats like a cannibal, and eats chocolate randomly all day...I know it is fixing something... The point? what one may call malaria, could be just another form of it. Science is always good, especially with a sure donation.
 

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As someone who was born in Nigeria where malaria is still prevalent due to the banning of DDT (insert your own opinions here, I know I have mine...), this sounds absolutely great to me.

Psh, and who says money makes you evil?

+1 for Bill Gates!
 

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Great now the food Industry has a new market to tap. Fight malaria and get fat at the same time. Because Americans aren't obese enough for the rest of the world we need to get kids addicted to sweets while telling them it's good for themselves
 

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[citation][nom]sciggy[/nom]Great now the food Industry has a new market to tap. Fight malaria and get fat at the same time. Because Americans aren't obese enough for the rest of the world we need to get kids addicted to sweets while telling them it's good for themselves[/citation]Wow, just wow... This is to be used in places like Africa and South America where medicine and the doctors to administer them are scarce. With the gum, some joe blow with 5 min of training will be able to administer a test and treat a devastating virus for children and adults.
 

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Gotta love the Gates Foundation; they give away more money in a year then most countries GDP. Gates specificly left MS because he wanted to focus on the foundation. Many believe that if he continues on this path, in the future he will be more known for his philanthropy then for founding MS.

In the future people may actually say, " Ohh that guy founded Microsoft".
 
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Bill Gates has to live with the fact that he agreed to let the NSA collaborate with him to make Windows into the ultimate "Big Brother-ware", in exchange for being allowed to continue the monopoly and avoid any real consequences from that congressional antitrust inquiry. Having to forever live with the guilt of selling out humanity, he now tries to repent by helping those who are worst off.
 

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[citation][nom]Jesus_uses_Linux[/nom]Bill Gates has to live with the fact that he agreed to let the NSA collaborate with him to make Windows into the ultimate "Big Brother-ware", in exchange for being allowed to continue the monopoly and avoid any real consequences from that congressional antitrust inquiry. Having to forever live with the guilt of selling out humanity, he now tries to repent by helping those who are worst off.[/citation]
Ur just jealous of Bill.

Bill has done more in sharing his wealth than probably most big companies' founders will ever do, combined.
 

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See, this is brilliant for Microsoft as well, because people automatically associate Bill Gates with Microsoft, and will see this as Microsoft doing something good.

This is the kind of advertising I really like though, because this actually benefits someone who actually needs it.

(Cue someone whining about how Microsoft are just doing this to exploit Africans in the future...)

 

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It's really fun to see people think that Bill Gates is generous.
How can a person who has more than 50 billion can be generous?

In addition it does absolutely nothing.
It pays no taxes and lots of money hidden in tax havens.

Bill Gates is one of the most miserly on this planet.
 

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[citation][nom]Thor[/nom]It's really fun to see people think that Bill Gates is generous. How can a person who has more than 50 billion can be generous? In addition it does absolutely nothing. It pays no taxes and lots of money hidden in tax havens. Bill Gates is one of the most miserly on this planet.[/citation]

/facepalm

-Bill Gates is/was in the Guiness book of Records for the largest single donation to charity ($6billion. Not million, billion).

-Why would you want donations to go to taxes? That's the best way to dissuade people from donating money.

-...You know what, I've spent too much energy on this post already.

 

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put the cure in the water, Bill. put it in the water. kids in malaria ridden countries also need clean water. you'd be killing two birds with one stone. (where do i pick up my hundred grand, btw?)
 

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I appreciate the efforts, we all really I do. But isn't giving one of those kids chocolate a bit like giving them a pony? Why do you want rice and water when you can have a pony! Its a pony!!

Oh and Tandersky you will receive your hundred grand in the form of 557 copies of Vista SP1. As soon as you pay the $17,030 in shipping and handling fees. Will that be Visa or Mastercard?
 
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