player999   Brasil. Jan 29 2010 19:01. Posts 7978
or rebuilding Haiti ffs
but vaccines are stupid
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Zorglub   Denmark. Jan 29 2010 19:02. Posts 2870
If this goes on, it will end in a tragedy
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left
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SemPeR   Canada. Jan 29 2010 19:23. Posts 2288
I'll jump on the bandwagon.
saw this a long time ago. Basically convinced me that all of the world's problems could be solved by birth control. Or less fucking...but it's way harder to get support for that.
Call me a prick, but I'd have no problem giving up the "joys of parenthood" for a terraformed Mars/Moon in my lifetime. I can adopt.
Humanity's gotta get its shit in gear before the accidental nuclear holocaust / next 5mile wide comet. Just sayin'. =s
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Robinson47   United Kingdom. Jan 29 2010 19:43. Posts 992
this aint cool, will only lead to more poverty in ten years time due to overpopulation.
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Zorglub   Denmark. Jan 29 2010 20:40. Posts 2870
On January 29 2010 18:23 SemPeR wrote:
I'll jump on the bandwagon.
saw this a long time ago. Basically convinced me that all of the world's problems could be solved by birth control. Or less fucking...but it's way harder to get support for that.
Call me a prick, but I'd have no problem giving up the "joys of parenthood" for a terraformed Mars/Moon in my lifetime. I can adopt.
Humanity's gotta get its shit in gear before the accidental nuclear holocaust / next 5mile wide comet. Just sayin'. =s
Yes that is an interesting video, here is a quote from it:
"On July 7, 1986, the news reports indicated that the world population had reached five billion people, growing at a rate of 1.7 percent per year. Doubling time = 41 years. In 1999 we read that the world population had reached six billion people, growth 1.3 percent per year, doubling time 53 years.
In 1999 the world population was increasing by approx. 80 million people per year. If this modest 1.3% percent per year could continue, the world population would reach a density of one person per square meter on the dry-land surface of the earth in 780 years.
The mass of people would equal the mass of the earth in 2400 years"
It simply can not continue like this
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left
fucking makes me lol how u internet intellectuals spout pseudo science. a country without debilitating illnesses affecting its young workers can lift itself out of poverty more quickly.
clearly the foundation has not just donated to the first cause on TV such as the haitian earthquake like LPers
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milkman   United States. Jan 29 2010 21:21. Posts 5719
On January 29 2010 19:54 genjix wrote:
fucking makes me lol how u internet intellectuals spout pseudo science. a country without debilitating illnesses affecting its young workers can lift itself out of poverty more quickly.
clearly the foundation has not just donated to the first cause on TV such as the haitian earthquake like LPers
seems liek your calling us dumb for donating to a place that got hit by 2 hurricanes then a earthquake that killed a quarter million people.. if my family was buried alive id like a fuckin coke paid for by some white guys..
Its hard to make a easy buck legally, its impossible to make a easy buck morally.
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Funktion   Australia. Jan 29 2010 21:25. Posts 1638
On January 29 2010 17:58 Spitfiree wrote:
I dont feel like you have the knowledge about this donation to be able to make a meaningful comment about it.Bill Gates is the most successful man ever.Do you think he s retarded?Do you think he doesnt know of all the possible variety of donations he could make and what their effect would be ?There is not only one factor to concider here.If he s chosen this exact one then its probably one of the best possible.Your thought proccess is pretty naive
This. He has spent years looking at how to best use the money of the Bill and Linda Gates foundation. It's not like one day he woke up and said, "Fuck it i'll donate a lazy 10bill to some shit today". He is a thinking man and has the money and time to look at certain problems like this on a big picture scale as well as at an individual level. I doubt many people in the world can compare with his level of understanding of the situation least of all a singular pediatrician.
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Funktion   Australia. Jan 29 2010 21:28. Posts 1638
On January 29 2010 19:54 genjix wrote:
fucking makes me lol how u internet intellectuals spout pseudo science. a country without debilitating illnesses affecting its young workers can lift itself out of poverty more quickly.
clearly the foundation has not just donated to the first cause on TV such as the haitian earthquake like LPers
seems liek your calling us dumb for donating to a place that got hit by 2 hurricanes then a earthquake that killed a quarter million people.. if my family was buried alive id like a fuckin coke paid for by some white guys..
I don't think he meant it like that.
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Critterer   United Kingdom. Jan 29 2010 21:31. Posts 5337
i have to agree, gates is obv sick and if this is what he thinks is best to do with his money then go for it mate!!
On January 29 2010 16:45 Defrag wrote:
Mad respect for that guy.
Having money, and knowing how to behave when u have it - those are two completely different worlds.
At LP we only respect baller watches and BMWs not charity.
dont worry, like most money being pumped into developing nations im sure a few government officals will take their share for a few essentials like these.
lol true
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Baalim   Mexico. Jan 29 2010 21:52. Posts 34312
Wow people are really dumb... poorere because of overpopulation?, yo somehow think that if you were to kill half of the african population they would wake up richier tomorrow? lol no.
Less illness, more workforce, more technological advancement, less government spending etc, health = progress.
Every country whent hey reach a level of civilization they realize that having kids is EV- as we can actually see today, so the solution is not imposing birth control on the 3rd world, that wont solve shit, what must be done is to bring the 3rd world to the 1st world as soon as possible, and Bill gates just helped them take one big step towards it
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EvilSky   Czech Republic. Jan 29 2010 21:53. Posts 8918
Good job Billy, to be fair he has more money than he could ever spend so its not that spectacular from a logical view, but its also true a bunch of other people in similar situations wouldnt, so its nice.
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EvilSky   Czech Republic. Jan 29 2010 21:58. Posts 8918
On January 29 2010 20:52 Baal wrote:
Wow people are really dumb... poorere because of overpopulation?, yo somehow think that if you were to kill half of the african population they would wake up richier tomorrow? lol no.
Less illness, more workforce, more technological advancement, less government spending etc, health = progress.
Every country whent hey reach a level of civilization they realize that having kids is EV- as we can actually see today, so the solution is not imposing birth control on the 3rd world, that wont solve shit, what must be done is to bring the 3rd world to the 1st world as soon as possible, and Bill gates just helped them take one big step towards it
I dont know if you should take those post seriously because it was backed up by top 3 people you dont wanna take too seriously on the site, but I guess some people do think that way, which is very jaded and also retarded.
On January 29 2010 19:54 genjix wrote:
fucking makes me lol how u internet intellectuals spout pseudo science. a country without debilitating illnesses affecting its young workers can lift itself out of poverty more quickly.
clearly the foundation has not just donated to the first cause on TV such as the haitian earthquake like LPers
seems liek your calling us dumb for donating to a place that got hit by 2 hurricanes then a earthquake that killed a quarter million people.. if my family was buried alive id like a fuckin coke paid for by some white guys..
except they didnt. people were throwing the food back at the UN saying they dont like this shit and stamping on it. me and steal said it would happen and got called trolls.
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Funktion   Australia. Jan 29 2010 23:10. Posts 1638
On January 29 2010 20:59 RaiZ wrote:
If there's a word i hate, it's relativity.
If only such word didn't exist, the world would be either fucked up or be a paradise.