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What do you do with your money if you are the richest man in the world? Go to Africa and find a cure for a killer disease, Bill Gates decided yesterday. The founder of Microsoft travelled to rural Mozambique to announce the donation of £100m ($168m) to fight malaria, ushering in what some call a new era of philanthropy. He almost doubled what the rest of the world - governments, the UN and charities - spend on a disease that kills a million people every year, 90% of them in Africa. |
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finally, the man does something with all that cash. |
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Good on him. |
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I feel better having paid for some of his products over the year now. |
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Not that much seeing as he's worh £28.5 billion. If the world wasn't divided so starkly between rich and poor we wouldn't need such donations in the first place. Its like a mugger throwing you a penny after he's kicked the shit out of you and stolen your wallet. |
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well, I don't know - the world is kinda over populated anyway.. and it's not gonna get any better with this |
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but at least he has the decency to do that much. |
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I bet this is becuase he's infected with it. |
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he wants to create more microsoft drones. he might as well import them to his island in washington and actually USE THEM AS SLAVES. god, damn. |
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Don't be so critical. I'm sure you'd have a completely different attitude if you were a millionaire! :P |
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I am not the biggest fan of Microsoft or Bill Gates. But the fact is, when he started out, he was just some nerdy little guy who built computer programs in his garden shed. It's a decent gesture no matter how rich the guy is. Now if only more obscenely rich people would channel their money into worthy causes... |
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yeah, like funding NORML and shit |
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I would but that doesn't mean what I just said is untrue. Rich Westerners make a mint from exploiting the devloping world and that's why they have such poor healthcare provision. You can't just applaud Gates and not recognise what he and his ilk do to the world. |
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But to have rich you must have poor. He has so much because most people, and especially those in the poorest countries he's supposed to be helping, have so little. Fuck Gates and fuck his donation. We should be taking over the bakery not gratefully excepting the crumbs from the table of the rich. |
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*waves Microsoft flag....* YAY BILL!! |
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I know what your saying. The guy is a cunt. Microsoft are corporate fuckers, and aye, 3rd world countries get screwed over. But $150 million is better than a kick in the sac. Even if it is just a shameless PR exercise to show how "compassionate" he really is. To be honest I don`t fuckin know, and judging by the state this planet is in, I don`t fucking care. |
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i thought he was just a nerd |
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good for you |
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I just want to take this opportunity to thank Bill Gates for his wonderful contributions to personal computing. |
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The rich rely on people like you; the blind and deluded. |
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jonesy, Shut up you twerp. What a blinding observation, haven't heard that bull before. Lol. |
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Whatever his reasons it's still money they didn't previously have! |
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next stop cancer! wayyyyy! |
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jonesy, Talk about blind following the blind! Dickhead these countries are in such a fucking mess because they put themselves there, usually through years of tribal warfare, undevelopment and famine. |
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aw man, I thought it would be something more exciting... like he developed a craft that could shrink to the size of a white blood cell, and he'd personally enter into peoples bodies, equiped with laser guns, to destroy the malaria thats in the body. Then, just as time is running out before he becomes full size again, hed pull it off, and escape through a sneeze. |
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they made a film about that you know. |
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youve just blown my mind! :-D |
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Ever heard of the British Empire you fuckwit? Why would anyone underdevelop themselves? And the saying is, "the blind LEADING the blind". Moron. |
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jonesy, Put your foot in it now. Lol. The British Empire developed these countries prick, since we've left they're in rack and ruin. Not our doing chum. Oh dear another bad interpretation of history eh Jonesy. |
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bill's been doing charity work with his wife for quite a while. |
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No, we went in and plundered their resources leaving a legacy that causes untold suffering today. If you want a more recent example look at Iraq. I can only assume that you are a racist. But please prove me wrong and explain how Africans can not develop their own countries and why they need our help. |
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Er because these African states are constantly at war, Jonesy that is just not our doing. And you don't know anything about The British Empire. It was a subtle entity that worked with tribal leaders to create trade agreements and such. The British Empire was based on trade. |
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But why are they at war? Do you even know? Yes it was based on trade, trade which rested on slavery, violence and exploitation. Why do you think we had the world's biggest navy? Because we thought it looked good? I'll quote Churchill: "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum. It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gasses; gasses can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror." |
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promo: Don't argue with Jonesy lad. He knows his stuff. |
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seriously, all you cats got it way wrong. the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is worth around $5 billion. His main desire is to help stem the tide of AIDS and other diseases in third world contries. He bankrolls more projects, at such a generous level, than any government or foundation ever has. And yes, he's been doing this for years. |
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jonesy, No chum. The British Empire was based on rule of law, peace and security wherever British rule extended. Just take Ghana, formerly the British colony Gold Coast, peaceful, prosperous and a plum amongst the Colonies in Africa. Handed over at independence, reduced to penury by Nkrumah, and thereafter falling into ruination amongst war and strife. Britain recently returned to stabilise conditions and also recently the Queen was asked to visit which she did and was stupendously welcomed. Slavery violence and exploitation are the current conditions of your mind - you need escape from all that chum pronto! |
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Oh dear poor old Jonesy really got his knickers in a twist. Don't think we'll be hearing much from that socialist nut anymore. Lol. |
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ambsace, you are fucking stupid. he has donated more than most of you will ever come to realize. I swear that's all anyone talks about.. "he has so much money and doesnt help anyone out" maybe youve missed the countless donations he and his wife have made oh well, you all are stupid. you should go start picking on the 2nd richest guy in the world, and ask him why he's not donating all his money away. now go |
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och everybody shut up. bunch of twats. |
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Who fucking cares whether they donate it or not. They earned their money, THEY EARNED IT, not anyone else. SO ITS BLOODY WELL THEIRS. GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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*cough* publicity stunt *cough* :P |
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Well hell why shouldn't he get publicity for it. He is only human. Jesus you people sometimes really seem to operate in a vacuum. |
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*No chum. The British Empire was based on rule of law, peace and security wherever British rule extended.* Yeah, for the BRITISH, that is, but not the people already living there! Promo, my friend, read a textbook. I'm 16 and I've already learned about the exploitation and colonization of Africa by the British (along with France and some other countries). The British Empire didn't invade Africa to make peace; their main goal was making money and expanding their empire. Look up "apartheid" in any history book, and open your eyes. Maybe your British textbooks that you learned from are biased. |
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Doesn't Bill contribute a LOT to educational funds, stuff like that? |
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My main criticism when people slate rich people for not doing more is that to be honest, they have no idea how much they may actually do. Some celebrites will opt out of "charity work", refusing to take part as they realise it's a lose-lose situation. If they don't take part, they're seen to be at least spoilsports, at worst selfish gits. If they do take part, people say they should do more and that what they are doing is just for publicity. It shocks me that people do not consider that some may be abiding by the biblical teaching that it is better to give in private... I don't know Bill Gates' finances personally, for all I know, he gives over 50% of his income to worthy causes and simply has the decency to not make a song or dance about it. I know if I was in a position to make donations of that size, I'd probably not mention it (unless it was a cultural donation- I'd have no snags having a museum wing/whatever named after me) |
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Ah billy ! |
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ThisIsntMusic, Ok I'll do this in a couple of sentences; keep it nice and simple eh. When the British were there - peaceful and prosperous. When the British weren't: war and penury. You do the maths. |
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o good old bill gates, bill gates the saint. i don't mind paying farr too fucking much forr his prroducts now. |
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you have NO idea what you are talking about. |
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WHAT A LOAD OF FUCKING RUBBISH! promo you really crack me up lol. |
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