“The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving a San Francisco nonprofit pharmaceutical company 46 million dollars to expand its research on new treatments for diarrheal disease,” The Associated Press reports. “The grant goes to the Institute for OneWorld Health.”
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Wow! So many people taking the moral high ground here. I’m sorry but 46 million is chump change to Gates so while I’m sure the donation will be gratefully received, in the grand scale of things, it’s the equivalent of putting a couple of pounds/dollars in a donation box.
Are you going to applaud everybody that does that too? Better get clapping, you’ve a lot to do!
Now back to the poop jokes please
i urge others to boycott this site. MDN is a bunch of ignorant sluts. this was a truly tasteless MDN take.
Cure for diarrhea: Bend over. Insert cork into apropriate orafice. Problem solved.
Give me my $46 mil.
Next problem?
Obviously any donation of any amount to any cause is to be lauded, however this still doesn’t get BG of the hook.
He’s a geek who got lucky (with IBM asking him to supply an OS for their PC), and he’s now a geek who’s got guilty (his wife is all behind this, it’s her that persuaded him to create this foundation in the first place).
I wouldn’t have so much of a problem with his ‘foundation’ if:
1) It didn’t have his name in the title,
2) he wasn’t doing all sorts of other ‘interesting’ things with his money, like buying out a lot of newspapers and media companies in order to make them pro-Microsoft.
Let’s not forget that his swiss cheese OS has allowed people (in terms of malware, spyware, keystroke loggers, spambots, zombies etc.) to fund terrorism, drug & people trafficking all over the world.
You betcha’ he feels guilty – because he’s directly responsible for a great deal of the world’s woes.
No amount of ‘creaming off the top 5% interest I get from my $48 billion dollar cash-pile’ will make up for this.
I’m sorry if this sounds negative but I hate the fact that this scummy little geek is being held up on a pedestal because he donates some of his money to good causes. If he really meant it, he’d do it anonymously.
I think we may also have a spelling error going on here. I was always taught it was spelled ‘diarrhoea’ and the way to remember that is: Dash In A Rush, Run Hard Or Else Accident.
Silly little point but it does seem to matter.
Shit, this means the brown Zune will come out as limited edition.
$46 million made off of crap donated in the fight to stop it
Typical Microstool.
In defense of this site, I was ROTFL with “what’s brown and squirts.” I mean if Bill and Balmer tee it up that well… c’mon. The rest of you need to lighten up. No children will be harmed if you laugh at MS’s colorful metaphors… =)
I guess this means Gates just had a bad case of diarrhea. Probably for has loosing company
just got back from Liberia, where I saw a few cases of cholera in hospitals and clinics… nothing to joke about.
good for Bill. I have MS but Gates really makes Steve look cheap when it comes to philanthropy.
just got back from Liberia, where I saw a few cases of cholera in hospitals and clinics… nothing to joke about.
good for Bill. I have MS but Gates really makes Steve look cheap when it comes to philanthropy.
just got back from Liberia, where I saw a few cases of cholera in hospitals and clinics… nothing to joke about.
good for Bill. I have MS but Gates really makes Steve look cheap when it comes to philanthropy.
i meant to write I HATE MS. Not HAVE MS.
i meant to write I HATE MS. Not HAVE MS.
i meant to write I HATE MS. Not HAVE MS.
Tasteless, MDN. I may become Peterson II, because I had a problem once.
Infectious disease is a major cause of morbidity, MDN’s childishness and foolishness is now the leading cause of callousness and ignorance. Way to go, MDN, your pathetic attempt at humor has only encouraged the cretins to imitate your thoughtless behavior.
Rabid Dog:
“Microstool”
That deserves applause, irrespective of how tastless I find this whole topic.
Watch this… it’s easy, everybody lighten up. There ain’t enough pity to go around and pretend you care about every worldwide epidemic. If you ignore any, your ignorance shines through and your feel-good phasade goes down the crapper with all of your credibility. Take a pill…
it is caused by a virus
mdn,
delete this whole story before it backfires.
Personally, I could NEVER get tired of hearing squirt jokes [insert your best Beevis and Butthead laugh]
Wow! A story like this isn’t what I expected to wake up and find on MDN this morning.
Knocking Bill Gates Foundation for donating money for a disease that kills so many people per year is hitting way below the belt. (Especially since this disease is often connected with another little disease called HIV.)
You all are surprisingly shameless.
If we keep giving money to save lives than one thing is sure to happen – OVER POPULATION!
How come noone realizes this? These diseases are natures crowd control. If we save everyone, pretty soon there will be no food, no housing and no nothing left for the noone but the strong.
I will never visit your site again.