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- LiquidSpark, on 02/09/2009, -12/+157Like it or not... Gates' little stunt got a lot of coverage for his cause. You can't blame him for that. Also, Jim Goldman is a shill for Apple and shouldn't be allowed to cover MS for a legitimate news source..
- RobMackenzie, on 02/10/2009, -5/+126A letter to the author:
You sir, don't deserve to attend TED.
If you want to send me your ticket, I'll be glad to take your place.
Imagine, if you will, that the mosquitoes, instead of provoking some childhood fear, could actually hurt you. Imagine if they could kill you because you would get a disease. Then you might get the point Mr. Gates was trying to make. You also mention two other infections the bugs might have caused, West Nile and encephalitis. Let me remind you that you live in the USA, and probably have nice, expensive medical coverage. If you were infected with all three, you would have approximately a 93% chance of a full recovery (I'm not a doctor, I made that number up). You should be so lucky that all that he let loose were tiny bugs.
You then go on to make a comparison between the Gates foundation and the bugs in Vista. This is obviously for shock value, a sign of shoddy reporting.
Next, nobody cares about some bugs annoying you as a child. EVERYONE has had a childhood experience that was terrible. I almost fell off a cliff once and would have plummeted to my death, I still love heights, I nearly chocked to death playing with a rope, but I harbor no resentment towards twine. Your fears are, in my opinion, unwarranted and unimportant. I imagine there are some kids in malaria infected areas that are more (and rightfully so) afraid of the pests, but they do not have the luxury of living a sterilized life.
As I finish reading your article for the second time, I realize that you don't actually make any point. You take a few digs at Microsoft, and that's it. This is a report on CNBC?
You didn't mention the last 2/3 of Gates' talk, where he made some VERY interesting points on the education systems in the US. Instead, you insulted a company he started, but is no longer running, and in turn showed your own shallowness.
And so you don't think I'm a Microsoft fanboy, let me tell you about myself.
I am an active member of the FLOSS and open source community. I run Linux on main computer, I am on an apple laptop, and I do keep an XP install running, plus the option to boot my main computer into Vista. I work with many Linux computers and servers every day, and I believe that open source will dominate the computer world in a few short years. I do, however, support Mr. Gates and his wife in all their causes and charities. Bill is an extreamly smart man, and has a lot to offer the world. People like you just serve to be the sludge great people have to walk through.
-Rob MacKenzie - inactive, on 02/09/2009, -4/+93That may very well be one of the more awesome things a rich guy has done. I mean, gathering some of the world's brightest, richest and/or most influential people in one place, then unleashing mosquitos to attack them is pretty villianously awesome. Now, if they had malaria-infected mosquitos too...
- psaffrey, on 02/10/2009, -6/+94Heaven forbid that you should have to endure for 2 minutes what people in the third world have to live with all day every day. Stop being such a pussy. Buried.
- Gizza, on 02/10/2009, -7/+58"Microsoft, of course, is no stranger to bugs and their effects on helpless, unsuspecting victims. Think Vista and you get my point."
While there may be a lot of reasons to not like Vista. Being buggy certainly isn't one of them. - pnmoore, on 02/10/2009, -3/+51If you listened to his message his action made sense, at least int hat context. He definitely made a point and got publicity...pretty freaking brilliant if you ask me. But, to many he will always be the emperor to MS's empire of evil...
- NoozeHound, on 02/10/2009, -5/+50The journo is a tosser that has no place on Digg. What a piece of crap.
- rompom7, on 02/10/2009, -5/+41The man is helping fight diseases that kill and destroy millions of families. And you're sitting there whining about a silly harmless media stunt?
@CoreyTamas: "The stunt made him look like a less credible representative of the cause he is trying to educate people about and alienated those who might be willing to listen."
No, I'm pretty sure if Bill Gates wants to talk, people will listen.
"The cause is good and I'm even willing to concede that Gates' work is valuable, ..."
I don't know why you are conceding unless you've been against the charity in the past.
"... but what he did was make the stunt into the story... not the cause."
I'm not sure how he could have 'made the stunt the cause'.. In fact, that doesn't really make sense. What Bill Gates did was smart, he knew there would be positive and negative attention about this, and any attention is good attention. - dipidi, on 02/10/2009, -4/+35What a cry baby. somewhere, right now, there are people laying with their legs cut off, their families dying. Gates was trying to emphasize that - kudos for the performance. I can't even express how this article sound stupid and whiny to me, "mosquito phobia"... that guy is an *****.
- Snoods, on 02/10/2009, -1/+29I thought this article was a joke at first....
He has an opportunity to report on his attendance at TED and Bill Gates goals for the foundation. Yet he chooses to talk about ***** MOSQUITOES and then takes shots at Microsoft?!
Terrible and unprofessional reporting. - Jaydo, on 02/10/2009, -2/+29AND IT WOULD BE A PRIVILEGE, SIR.
- astorygirl, on 02/09/2009, -9/+33I had a soft spot for the Bill Gates - Jerry Seinfeld commercials. This was a bit less well-advised...
- Netflix, on 02/10/2009, -0/+20Are you serious!? This guy should try visiting Minnesota in the summer.
- inactive, on 02/10/2009, -1/+19The crowd laughed their ass off with enjoyment, clearly Gates did the right thing. You need to make your presentations interesting for people instead of whining to them about your cause.
- dygel, on 02/10/2009, -1/+18It's so tiresome in the articles I've read about the mosquito incident how someone inevitably drags up bugs in Vista. It's like the author is sitting around like a rotten commedian prompting the room with a few calls "Amirite?"
The man was up there talking about the global impact of malaria and if the best the attendees can come up with is "mosquitos = bugs, bugs are in Vista!" then they completely missed the point. What were these clowns even doing there? - inactive, on 02/10/2009, -0/+16The point was that he'd make sure they were *all* infected, so everyone there would get infected and thus donate their time and money to the search for a cure.
- crazlunatic, on 02/10/2009, -0/+16I swear I read on another blog that Gates actually opened an empty jar and that releasing the mosquitos was only a symbolic in what he meant...
Anyway, Gates has a bazillion dollars and he would know better than to not make sure the mosquitos didn't contain any diseases - aoctavio, on 02/10/2009, -2/+17Nobody was bitten. It was probably only male mosquitoes. No big deal. People are really *****...
- theirishman16, on 02/10/2009, -4/+19Dear god, what a whinger... He spent a summer living with mosquitos? poor bastard! try a lifetime. Gates little stunt although unpleasent for those exposed to it has undoubtedly done what he intended-well done!
- bratterscain, on 02/10/2009, -0/+15You got something against sociopaths?
- guyinjapan, on 02/10/2009, -0/+13"One of the hundreds of mosquitoes I just released is infected with malaria. Good luck, and I'll be waiting at the booth for your donation."
- EmperorChow, on 02/10/2009, -1/+14Why is this on the front page? I don't get it. There were no points to be made. Plus the actual conference and another article reporting on it were already front paged. Plus this kind of material comes from a goddamn bureau chief of a news division? wtf?
/hatin' - NoobHunter, on 02/10/2009, -1/+13Well said, good sir. Very eloquent.
I find that most of the people who bashed Bill on his talk all have the same point in common. Bill = Microsoft = Evil....therefore Bill = EVIL!!!! - j035u5, on 02/10/2009, -0/+12"instant infestation" it was 5 mosquitos. Also, quit bashing Vista, no-one cares anymore.
- Shadowgamers, on 02/10/2009, -2/+14This article is suspiciously full of bugs.
- snogye, on 02/10/2009, -4/+15Dugg for evil-genius-billionaire plotting the world's demise through bugs. Round II.
- inactive, on 02/10/2009, -0/+11Thankfully he's not trying to illustrate a point about AIDS!
- FaceCage, on 02/10/2009, -1/+11"For me personally, I have a mosquito phobia." That's just a glamorous way of saying "I'm a giant pussy."
- BooLag, on 04/23/2009, -6/+16By that logic Gates could rape anyone in his audience for 2 minutes...
- inactive, on 02/10/2009, -1/+10*applause*
- skilco, on 02/10/2009, -2/+11Jim Goldman you are a first class pussy
- NinjaGod, on 02/10/2009, -4/+13Bill Gates is a total badass.
- JunkBondKing, on 02/10/2009, -3/+12Harden the f\/ck up.
- norman619, on 02/10/2009, -0/+8No *****. Their hatred of Bill Gates is idiotic. You'd think Bill released malaria infected mosquitos. They fail to get that Bill left the "evil" MS and it's OK now to like him.
- techdever, on 02/10/2009, -1/+9sarcasm detector exploding
- DMRsweden, on 02/10/2009, -2/+10Bill Gates !== Microsoft
- kamisama, on 02/10/2009, -1/+8It reads more as piece about this guy's phobia than anything else. Waste of time.
- ajsmth, on 02/10/2009, -2/+9What a retarded f**king article,the guy who wrote it should be f**k....
- norman619, on 02/10/2009, -3/+10ummm... Did he release malaria infected mosquitos? No he did not. My god your stupidity is amazing. There was no danger in what he did. A few people get bitten by mosquitos. Oh no!
- norman619, on 02/10/2009, -2/+9mick:
I hope that was sarcasm.
If you are serious then I have to wonder how you survive through the day... - TheBuzzKill, on 02/10/2009, -3/+10http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bill_gates_unpl ...
watch this and then STFU. Bill gates is trying to save the lives of millions of people. Can you people stop being mac fanboys for one second and realize that this is beyond that. - gann, on 02/10/2009, -0/+7I login just to dig you up
you must send this to the author - fugazied, on 02/10/2009, -1/+8I'm not a huge Microsoft fan, but Gates' charity work is awesome, the guy is a legend. This author couldn't just post a decent article promoting this worthy cause, he had to put some useless jibes in there :-|
- icanrule, on 02/10/2009, -2/+8Another version of this article was released a few days ago. Bill Gates was declared innocent. His jar of mosquito's was nothing more then a illusion to raise awareness of various diseases. There were no mosquito's in the jar. Who would have guess he wanted from Computer tycoon, to philanthropist and then to illusionist.
- inactive, on 02/10/2009, -0/+6I'm going to kill your family for saying that.
- norman619, on 02/10/2009, -2/+8How? I hear this idiotic comment being made by lots of people w/o any explination.
- TheSkunkMonkey, on 02/10/2009, -0/+6This is proof that Bill Gates is an evil terrorist. He released WMD* on this crowd of people!
*Wild Mosquitoes of Death - inactive, on 02/10/2009, -2/+8Why would Bill Gates be your nightmare? Because he set loose a couple of mosquitoes? That probably makes you a whiny little *****.
- da_bradler, on 02/10/2009, -1/+7And by the way, who can't defend themselves from a jar full of mosquitos in a atrium.
It seems like all the people complaining are people who weren't even there and are most likely to scared to ever leave the house. - MisterMilo, on 02/10/2009, -1/+6Boo ***** hoo.
You aren't afraid of mosquitoes, you are just making an article. -
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