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LiC
10/22/09

In reply to Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy
Malaria is most often found in the tropics where it's hot. Won't the chocolate melt?

I thought this was going to be about hard candies. That makes more sense. #billgates
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spannu
10/22/09

@LiC: Chocolate was invented in the tropics. #billgates
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goograwks000
10/22/09

In reply to Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy
I can't see anything on www.gatesfoundation.org
that doesn't extend M$ monopoly.

In fact, this is smoke and mirrors to divert attention away from www.bgc3.com which stands for Bill Gates Company 3. [shivers]
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spannu
10/22/09

@goograwks000: If you're upset that people who now have a slim chance of not dying are going to grow up loving Microsoft, maybe you should petition Apple's founders to drive similar programs? Oh wait, that would make sense. #billgates
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Clatu6
10/22/09

@goograwks000: Yeah right. It all about extending the windows Monopoly and diverting attention away from a different company.

Are you scared of your own shadow too?

Bill Gates has given away ~28 billion dollars so far. If he really wanted to extend the windows monoply wouldn't he just give out 28 billons dollars worth of windows licenses instead of funding Aids and malaria research.

Grow up. #billgates
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Chris Tomalty
10/22/09

In reply to Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy
As much as I dislike Microsoft, Gates certainly has his philanthropic heart in the right place. Whatever we can say about his business, he definitely spends his money well. #billgates
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senatormayer
10/22/09

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By the looks of that picture I just assumed this was an article about that 'Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians' site.
I kid, I kid. Mister Gates, you are a wonderful man, despite your lesbian appearances. #billgates
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ridgecity
10/22/09

In reply to Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy
Did he ever get Voldemort? #billgates
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Aaron Kravitz
10/22/09

In reply to Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy
Why not do it the way the british did? Gin and tonics all around, bill can afford it.

This is pretty excellent, though. #billgates
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Tyrunn
10/22/09

In reply to Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy
Truly a man who know's what his responsibilites are in life.

Why are so few millionaires (sorry, billionaires), like this in the C21st?

Go back a hundred years or so and self made people and those with old money would give all the time - seems we've become more materialistic or jaded perhaps? #billgates
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taniquetil
10/22/09

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Bill Gates: Being my hero since, well, forever.

I bet he even has a massive supercomputer in his basement contributing to Folding@home. That's why the [Default] usergroup has so many points.

The world thanks you, Mr. Gates. #billgates
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Hello Mister Walrus
05/01/09

In reply to Watch Bill Gates Unleash a Live Mosquito Swarm on a Room Full of Important People
Stay tuned for Bill Gates' next speech, when he unleashes a herd of Mexican swine on the crowd...
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Tim Reid
05/01/09

In reply to Watch Bill Gates Unleash a Live Mosquito Swarm on a Room Full of Important People
Old news is old?

It's still cool...but seriously? Is there something new here that I'm missing?
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relativeculture
05/01/09

@Tim Reid:

/b/ scum.
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Whytookay - Pro Skub
05/01/09

@moviscop: Calm down buddy. Time Reid is right, this isn't exactly new. In fact, Giz had an article on it back in February. Don't feel like looking it up? Here it is:

[gizmodo.com]

Admittedly, he is a facebooker*, and that puts him under suspicion, and he shouldn't have opened his comment (the first comment on the page, mind you) with "Old news is old?"

But that's irrelevant. Please, think through your comments before insulting people.

*I do not endorse facebookers
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Hello Mister Walrus
05/01/09

@Tim Reid: The news is not new but the video is new (at least on Gizmodo).
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Setharchy
05/01/09

@whytookay - Guiseppe is such a happy monkey!: I like how you felt the need to stick up for the guy and then put in the disclaimer that you don't support facebookers. For some reason it made me laugh
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Whytookay - Pro Skub
05/01/09

@tridtaei: Well, you see: Though I innately distrust facebookers, I also don't approve of arbitrary insulting. So though by principle I don't like what he represents, I am morally obligated to stand up for him.
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Hello Mister Walrus
05/01/09

@whytookay - Guiseppe is such a happy monkey!: It's not arbitrary insulting. I don't support Facebook account holders posting without auditions either. It's a philosophical thing, not to be taken personally.
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Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire
03/14/09

In reply to Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser
I love lasers and all but isn't it a bit of an overkill?

When they built the panama canal they had the same problem so they just put lime into any large lakes to kill the larvae and destroyed the vegetation where the mosquitoes where hiding.

After so many years it's still the only place in latin america where there are no mosquitoes at all!
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IN THE FACE!
03/14/09

@Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire: Sorry, my BS-o-meter spiked really hard on that last line.
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CrashingOut
03/14/09

@bpapa9013: really? that pegged my retard meter too, especially since he suggested an extremely environmentally-unfriendly solution: kill everything with chemicals, let the environment sort it out.
Did this guy get us to use DDT too?!
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Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire
03/14/09

@CrashingOut:

Hey cos zapping things with lasers is an eco-friendly solution...

@bpapa9013:

I read the stuff while reading about John Frank Stevens a while back.

There is a short note about panama canal building in wiki... look at "later efforts"

[en.wikipedia.org]

Oh yeah and DDT doesn't work on Mosquitoes anymore... They are now immune. Not that I would use it of course.
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GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
03/14/09

@Je_suis_un_revolutionnaire: He's not doubting in the earlY 1900's, that they eliminated mosquitoes. But to say that the panama canal is the only place where there are "NO" mosquitoes, is a little far fetched. I can believe that there are a reduced amount due to possible wind conditions as well as the water being in constant motion and also large lakes w/ample wildlife to eat larve, but not the almost lack of.

And you're right about them lasers. Darn light is very eco-unfriendly. :)
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xanderbeedle
03/14/09

In reply to Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser
Genetically engineer better mosquitos that can't transmit malaria... They wipe out the old ones + malaria, then the ecosystem stays relatively normal.
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zweihander
03/14/09

@xanderbeedle: no way.. by genetically engineering a mosquito that doesn't transmit malaria, that leaves it open to transmit something worse. or better yet.. be MORE annoying. one thing i Do know is: when you take something out of the food chain it will be replaced.. adjusting the food chain all the way up to the top. nothing goood can come if this. nothing.
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IN THE FACE!
03/14/09

@xanderbeedle: Actually scientists have been working on just that for decades.

IIRC they have been struggling for funding basically since the inception of the research so they haven't gotten very far, so far as I last heard anyway.
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GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
03/14/09

@zweihander: The best thing I have heard is breeding a strain that has a shorter lifespan than the incubation period of a disease. So you wouldn't eliminate them, but they couldn't transmit disease as easily.
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Dylorian
03/14/09

In reply to Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser
Hope they don't frak up the food chain. Mosquitoes are a pain in the arse, but they feed A LOT of animals.
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IN THE FACE!
03/14/09

@Dylorian: most of the ecological consumption of mosquitoes takes place very close to where they hatch (standing water, wetlands, lakes, etc.). So as long as you aren't trying to eradicate them from that sort of environment you shouldn't be hindering the food chain too much.
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OMG! Chariot!
03/14/09

In reply to Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser
This is a really off-topic question, but where has the settings page gone? I believed there was a button called settings somewhere i just cant find it!

When you click "profile" in the right upper corner you just see the profile like anyone else would have seen it, no settings etc.
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GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
03/14/09

@Chariot: Make sure your address bar doesn't start w/ i.gizmodo.com. If it does, erase the "i." part, and press go. It should be there.
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frigg
03/14/09

In reply to Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser
So if they only eradicate the females, will that mean that the male population will learn how to cook, sew, and spread malaria all by themselves?

I think I saw something to that effect in Jurassic Park.
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Kanyamagufa
03/15/09

@frigg:

"You're implying that a group composed entirely of females will...breed?"
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frigg
03/15/09

@Kanyamagufa: No, I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way.
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BeautifulAgony
03/15/09

@frigg: That was pure gold. You've already got a star, and I've already "hearted" you.... I'm not sure what more I can do or say!
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