Bill Gates Using his Billions to Eradicate Polio - Polidicks

[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/bill-gates/9812672/Bill-Gates-interview-I-have-no-use-for-money.-This-is-Gods-work.html[/url] If only other rich folk would follow his ways.

that's fucking awesome

Polio ain't a bad disease to go after. Little avenues of transmission, easily vaccined... Hopefully it'll go the way of smallpox.

[quote]65  billion measured in US dollars, equals the annual GDP of Ecuador, and maybe a bit more than that of Croatia. By this rather crude criterion, the founder of Microsoft is worth two Kenyas, three Trinidads and a dozen or so Montenegros. Not bad for a university dropout.[/quote] :suicide:

[QUOTE=areolop;39335698]:suicide:[/QUOTE] I hope I become as successful as Bill Gates, I will seriously try to fix the world up.

It's good he's actually using his money to try to help the world rather than just bask in it he should also donate to NASA and SpaceX

[QUOTE=Iago;39335787]I hope I become as successful as Bill Gates, I will seriously try to fix the world up.[/QUOTE] buy a couple countries?

[QUOTE=areolop;39335796]buy a couple countries?[/QUOTE] Buy africa one section at a time.

[QUOTE=areolop;39335796]buy a couple countries?[/QUOTE] First I start with Africa, it will take a lot of work but one day it will be modernized. My dream is to make the world happy, human rights for everybody!

[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;39335808]Buy africa one section at a time.[/QUOTE] He should start with madagascar

[QUOTE=koeniginator;39335846]He should start with madagascar[/QUOTE] I seriously hope that would mean they wouldn't shut down 5 seconds after someone coughed.

[QUOTE=Iago;39335839]First I start with Africa, it will take a lot of work but one day it will be modernized. My dream is to make the world happy, human rights for everybody![/QUOTE] Statistically African countries as well as tons of the Asian countries that no one knows about are quickly modernizing. Check out change in GDP statistics.

[QUOTE=Pie108;39335924]Statistically African countries as well as tons of the Asian countries that no one knows about are quickly modernizing. Check out change in GDP statistics.[/QUOTE] They'll increase really fast, than it'll slow down once they get up to being a first-world country

there are only 12 countries that have more money than bill gates

[QUOTE=Blazyd;39335795] he should also donate to NASA and SpaceX[/QUOTE] What would that accomplish?

Bill Gates is such a good person.

[QUOTE=Blazyd;39335795] he should also donate to NASA and SpaceX[/QUOTE] As much as I love outer space and shit, we should get our shit in check here on Earth first.

We've landed a probe on Titan, but yet we still go to war. I agree humans dont exactly have there act together and don't get along 100% of the time but that doesn't mean we can't strive for understanding the universe around us.

[QUOTE=Blazyd;39336056]We've landed a probe on Titan, but yet we still go to war. I agree humans dont exactly have there act together and don't get along 100% of the time but that doesn't mean we can't strive for understanding the universe around us.[/QUOTE] Yes, if and when we stop going to war over oil and other interests I'm all for funding space exploration, until said time I think we should focus on getting the fuck out of dept.

[QUOTE=cani;39336213]Yes, if and when we stop going to war over oil and other interests I'm all for funding space exploration, until said time I think we should focus on getting the fuck out if dept.[/QUOTE] What is this "if dept." you are speaking of? Besides, I feel as though the world is pretty split. On one side, you have the progressive thinkers who want to better the world and realize that space is the best way to continue the human race. On the other, you have people who want to fight over who owns what piece of land and who's oil is who's. I fully back people who want to go to space, because, just maybe, if we can make space accessible, people will forget about their trivial and petty differences to focus more on the great future we have laid out.

That's not how real life works, going to big empty rocks in space won't stop human rights abuse or help our economy. I love space exploration too but the way you saying it is as if it'll magically fix the world by exploring a bunch of empty floating rocks. That's not gonna stop human trafficking in Mexico or genocides in Africa dude.

[QUOTE=scout1;39335611]Polio ain't a bad disease to go after. Little avenues of transmission, easily vaccined... Hopefully it'll go the way of smallpox.[/QUOTE] There are only two or three countries left that have Polio. Polio should be gone before the decade is out. I know this because I'm a member of Rotary International and their pet project has been the eradication of Polio. [editline]23rd January 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Iago;39335998]As much as I love outer space and shit, we should get our shit in check here on Earth first.[/QUOTE] An old myth goes that when Michael Faraday showcased his electromagnetic experiment to the prime minister, and the prime minister asked what good this invention could be. Faraday answered: "Why, Prime Minister, someday you can tax it." This isn't true, but I think it holds up. The technological advances discovered along the way to deep space exploration will benefit humanity immensely in the long run. And it's not like we're spending much on them anyway. "'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I’d prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar." - Neil deGrass Tyson One final quote: "Meanwhile, in collaboration with Hubble scientists, medical researchers at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC, recognized that the challenge faced by astrophysicists was similar to that faced by doctors in their visual search for tumors in mammograms. With the help of funding from the National Science Foundation, the medical community adopted these new techniques to assist in the early detection of breast cancer. [B]That means countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.[/B]" [editline]23rd January 2013[/editline] More stats on polio. [url]http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx[/url] Polio might even be gone in a matter of years. Like two or three years. Maybe even one.

I don't see fuckerberg doing this.

[QUOTE=FrankOfArabia;39337633]I don't see fuckerberg doing this.[/QUOTE] you made zuckerburg's name fuckerburg ur so funi original dood xDDDD No.

He is so charitable. What a good person.

[QUOTE=areolop;39335698]:suicide:[/QUOTE] why doesn't he simply BUY ecuador and do it up so i can live there

I think it's safe to say Bill Gates is , and will forever be, one of the greatest men ever to have existed.

[QUOTE=FrankOfArabia;39337633]I don't see fuckerberg doing this.[/QUOTE] No need to disrespect the guy, didn't your mother teach you any manners?

[QUOTE=FrankOfArabia;39337633]I don't see fuckerberg doing this.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/18/3782446/zuckerberg-donates-half-a-billion-dollars-to-charity[/url] $500 million more than you have

[QUOTE=11am;39340511][url]http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/18/3782446/zuckerberg-donates-half-a-billion-dollars-to-charity[/url] $500 million more than you have[/QUOTE] Not even close to the amount of money Bill and his Wife have donated in their life.