Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes 841
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.
Just Like When He Led Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
Although this time around, I'm on his side.
Been done (Score:5, Funny)
Bill does this all the time at the office for target practice for Ballmer.
Consistent (Score:5, Funny)
Jeez, even his philanthropy has bugs!
And next up... (Score:5, Funny)
Not a good Crown for Mosquitos (Score:5, Funny)
"...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
Re:Just Like When He Led Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
Next week's trick (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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If anyone gets the chance to go to see Gates (Score:3, Funny)
plagiarism (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Just Like When He Led Microsoft (Score:1, Funny)
More like "brilliant idea, poor implementation".
He forgot to poke air-holes in the jar.
Re:Lamer (Score:3, Funny)
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?
Re:That's nothing (Score:1, Funny)
So the one that came out on top is now leading Microsoft?
Re:Next week's trick (Score:5, Funny)
Bill Gates will fire a gun into a crowd while shouting "there is no reason why only poor people should suffer from gun crimes!"
Cheney has him covered [wikipedia.org] on that. Beat him to it, actually.
Re:Assault ! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why do we have a problem with Gates? (Score:3, Funny)
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?
Re:Been done (Score:1, Funny)
Target practice? More like to show him the competition. "Any one of these guys could have you job in a week"
Re:That's nothing (Score:5, Funny)
There's more than one way to eat a rhesus
Re:And next up... (Score:2, Funny)
I'm not worried. I have all that Left 4 Dead training to put to good use.
Re:Why do we have a problem with Gates? (Score:5, Funny)
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"
Re:Been done (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Been done (Score:2, Funny)
Bill does this all the time at the office for target practice for Ballmer.
Aaaah....That explains about monkey dance too :)
Re:And next up... (Score:5, Funny)
Collecting Mosquitos (Score:5, Funny)
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?
Re:Just Like When He Led Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just Like When He Led Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And next up... (Score:3, Funny)
Richard Stallman making a point against software patents [stopsoftwarepatents.org]: Everybody has cancer - why not you?
Re:Just Like When He Led Microsoft (Score:3, Funny)
So when your computer is part of a botnet you can say "my computer got bit by a Microsquito and now it has a protozoa"?
This new good guy image of Gates is puzzling to me. I read his dad, a lawyer, had to shame him into starting his philanthropic organization. Did the three hhosts of Christmas visit Ebeneezer Gates last year?
Re:Why do we have a problem with Gates? (Score:5, Funny)
I go home only to find my wife and four triplets ...
You are a computer programmer!
Always remembering to zero reference your kids.
I seem to remember another promise. (Score:4, Funny)
Well, he freed us from spam three years ago, so he's probably our best hope against malaria.
...and WinXP for OLPC was... (Score:1, Funny)
"There is no reason only rich people should be infected."
Re:Just Like When He Led Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm, not a bad idea, trading HIV for the experience of sex. Not everyday a geek will get such a tempting opportunity.
And it's not even guaranteed you'll get HIV!
Re:And next up... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And next up... (Score:5, Funny)
But how awesome would it be if he gave a speech about unicorns? That would be sweet!
Go into the Candy Mountain Cave, Bill !
Re:Collecting Mosquitos (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just Like When He Led Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
Theoretically, it's not guaranteed that he'll actually get sex, either.
Is it in yet?
Re:And next up... (Score:5, Funny)
Meh, I'm still hurting from his speech on herpes...
I figure such a talk must suck...
Re:Just Like When He Led Microsoft (Score:2, Funny)
However, while it is easy to hit the man on his tech, have to admire his marketing.
I know, right? Those ads with Seinfeld rocked my socks off.
Re:Just Like When He Led Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
Really? You have to be infected in order to appreciate the horror of malaria?! Wait'll the HIV folks get a hold of this idea.
I'm eagerly waiting for that conference...
"Sorry Mr president, can I take your pants off ?, so as I was saying, HIV propagation, oh, and your underwear too... Yes, um, right, HIV propagation can take many forms from blood sharing... Would you please bend over a bit Mr president ? Yes, um, from blood sharing to sexual... ah, wait, I need to stimulate myself a bit, just a second... Let me show you some slides in the meantime..."
I probably won't see in in the theatre but count me in for the DVD release, It sounds like a great investment.
(wait, did I say that out loud ?)
Re:Just Like When He Led Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just Like When He Led Microsoft (Score:1, Funny)
And they were probably just harmless, non-disease carrying mosquitos...
I guess that you didn't attend the bubonic plague seminar. It was a bad scene, man.
Quick! Head to the bar. (Score:3, Funny)
I'll have a Gin and Tonic, extra Tonic Please
Re:Memento Mori (Score:5, Funny)
If you were a bird, I'd think you were being reasonable.
Re:Bill Gates did NOT release mosquitos. (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Memento Mori (Score:5, Funny)
Wtf are you doing here? I thought your ass was banned http://www.edf.org/article.cfm?ContentID=4407 [edf.org]
Oh the irony (Score:1, Funny)
Bloodsucking parasite releases blood sucking parasites.
Re:Just Like When He Led Microsoft (Score:4, Funny)
What are you smoking and why aren't you sharing?
Aren't you paying attention? He's not sharing because he's a republican.
Re:Just Like When He Led Microsoft (Score:3, Funny)
My boss.
=P
Re:Collecting Mosquitos (Score:3, Funny)
..And I am a PC.