Gates $10B Donation

On January 30 2010 08:58 Zorglub wrote: You dissapoint me Donald, I thought you would be able to argue as an adult

sry buvt if u read the Haiti thread u'll know why i'm pissed. + i can't argue if you don't pose and argument

Btw i also wonder if a part of him did this coz Steve Jobs just released his new product so he can take media's attention off him

bill gates doesnt work for microsoft anymore

On January 30 2010 13:11 genjix wrote: bill gates doesnt work for microsoft anymore

but hes still on the board of directors and i assume he owns a pretty big chunk of shares still

The problem with "overpopulation" isn't that 'zomg we're going to run out of natural resources' or 'zomg we're going to crowd the earth until we all have 1 square meter to live on.' The problem is that when you start having 5+ children to one family, that's a lot of mouths to feed and that's a lot of work to be done which means the children are going to have to start working instead of going to school. Also the more children you have, the less resources you can spare for each one's education so maybe only 1-2 if any of the kids will be able to go to school. Typically it's the role of the children to care for the parents when they become elderly since there's no retirement homes to do so. It definitely contributes to the cycle of poverty but I think it's common sense that they have that many children because they are poor. They aren't poor because they have that many children.

$10 billion? Why not make it $20 billion ya bastid?

wtf so europe is expected to lose 5-10% of its population in the next 50 years?

On January 30 2010 01:07 Steal City wrote: I'm sorry but LP is full of retards today I guess. Over population was more of a problem when we had 100 million people on the earth instead of our current 6.8 billion why because of our knowledge of agriculture. There are still many places in south east asia where if farmers read a book they would learn how to get their crops to grow 3 times as much produce by calorie but they don't... why, because there is no pressure to. There is no need, they don't care. Pressure leads to innovation. Starving people are not a result of over population or the inability to supply people. It is the result of the poorest people not having the means. If you put everyone in the world together. They would fit in the grand canyon. If you put everyone in texas and put them in 4 person families they would all have 100 square meters. Imagine if u create a 2nd floor, then u get 200sq meters, if u have 10 story apartments ... now we're living in luxury... and only in texas. It's disgusting to see people on LP pontificate and have crap running out their mouths... i mean faeces , defecation spewing out ur mouths. Posting silly graphs ... saying "look at this number" and extrapolating wild theories thinking your are still talking rationally. Are you guys deliberately doing this? I mean how can you be so retarded??? I'm seriously having trouble with this. LP is a fucking disgrace. I used to think that generally people here would be smarter but you remind me of the class retard. Also and again, the more developed a country gets, yes the lower the population growth will be but these people aren't dying because of over population... we are far far far from that. (even farther considering the extra produce we could cultivate, those farmers will eventually face economic pressures to start cultivating their land better). I am not certain what the Bill Gate's organization plans to do with the money. We don't have a well detailed guide do we? And if we did, we should use discretion and realize that things aren't always how they appear (for instance Haiti and historically at least most other emergency relief funds). Anyone quick to judge and anyone who doles out spiteful comments are or spin arguments in a judgemental manner when they haven't even taken 10 minutes to do some research about the validity of what they are saying... but they keep talking like they have conviction... these people, should be ashamed of themselves. The are the ignorant people who are keeping back progress. The world isn't black and white but in my mind people like them are the bad guys, not people unfortunate enough to be living with psychoses

I'm gonna have to agree with everything you said.

On January 30 2010 14:48 TalentedTom wrote: wtf so europe is expected to lose 5-10% of its population in the next 50 years?

yes, and the entire worlds population is predicted to start decreasing in about a hundred years. Australia pays its citizens $5000+extra bonuses for each baby they have. Same payments like this are made in a few european countries.

On January 30 2010 01:07 Steal City wrote: If you put everyone in the world together. They would fit in the grand canyon. If you put everyone in texas and put them in 4 person families they would all have 100 square meters. Imagine if u create a 2nd floor, then u get 200sq meters, if u have 10 story apartments ... now we're living in luxury... and only in texas.

Yeah, thats great...but I don't think anyone's talking about the literally how much space people take up on the planet.

On January 29 2010 18:02 Zorglub wrote: If this goes on, it will end in a tragedy

But it will not go on. You might as well state that if decreasing of production experienced during the last year due to recession goes on for 50 years, it will end in a tragedy.

On February 01 2010 03:00 byrnesam wrote: Show nested quote + On January 30 2010 01:07 Steal City wrote: If you put everyone in the world together. They would fit in the grand canyon. If you put everyone in texas and put them in 4 person families they would all have 100 square meters. Imagine if u create a 2nd floor, then u get 200sq meters, if u have 10 story apartments ... now we're living in luxury... and only in texas. Yeah, thats great...but I don't think anyone's talking about the literally how much space people take up on the planet.

i think you'd be surprised by how many people a tiny rice farm can feed

I think the main problem with overpopulation is this: If everyone on earth does the "american dream", having a car, spending like crazy, etc, there is no doubt that the earth cannot handle 10 billions people like (we would have big environnements problems).

Bill Gates has probably thought about this stuff before doing this, but i'm one of the people who doesn't see why this is the best way to spend 10 billions of charities money. I think the most important thing at the moment is fixing environnement problems. no matter how many life we save by various charities, if everyones dies in 70 years because of pollution....

On February 01 2010 10:36 Floofy wrote: I think the main problem with overpopulation is this: If everyone on earth does the "american dream", having a car, spending like crazy, etc, there is no doubt that the earth cannot handle 10 billions people like (we would have big environnements problems). Bill Gates has probably thought about this stuff before doing this, but i'm one of the people who doesn't see why this is the best way to spend 10 billions of charities money. I think the most important thing at the moment is fixing environnement problems. no matter how many life we save by various charities, if everyones dies in 70 years because of pollution....

the future of the planet is pretty much a gamble, in order to solve sustainability for the increasing population and growing economies(chinese being the major one), we need technological advancements. If we help out the shit countries in africa, cure diseases ect. we increase the speed of technological advancement but we also increase the amount of global consumption.

all the motherfockers talking about over population are racist at heart

ya i said it!

On February 02 2010 00:07 SebAstiANo wrote: all the motherfockers talking about over population are racist at heart

words of wisdom.

On February 02 2010 00:07 SebAstiANo wrote: all the motherfockers talking about over population are racist at heart

again for emphasis

hope he doesnt play pokre b/c this is horrible spew

Good stuff.

Don't get the complains about this.