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now you've heard the wacky way Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates tried to illustrate his point about impoverished people from victim to victim.
Microsoft, of course, is no stranger to bugs and their effects on helpless, unsuspecting victims. Think Vista and you get my point.
For me personally, I have a mosquito phobia. I'll never forget, as an 8-year old boy, suffering a particularly awful, hot, humid summer when I was being eaten alive daily by mosquitoes. One night, I was laying in bed and one of the bloodaround the world trying to deal with the lethal problem of malaria, and what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is trying to do about it: Gates opened a jar filled with mosquitoes on stage at the TED2009 Conference in Long Beach, California last night and subjected the audience to instant infestation.And while the foundation itself declared that the insects were malaria-free (but no word on West Nile or encephalitis), that was little solace to the hundreds in the audience hearing that awful humming noise in their ears as the mosquitoes moved
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