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"Bill Gates: Internet connectivity doesn’t mean much of you’re dying of starvation"

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http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/03/bill-gates-internet-connectivity-doesnt-mean-much-of-youre-dying-of-starvation/

 

“I certainly love the IT thing,” he told the Financial Times in a rare interview, published Friday. “But when we want to improve lives, you’ve got to deal with more basic things like child survival, child nutrition.”

 

I'll have to agree with Gates on this one. While yes, we do need to improve global Internet speeds and get Internet to everybody, people's health should come first. A life is more important than the Internet. 

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I still want faster internet.

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What does one really have to do with the other?

He was asked about google's Project Loon, the initiative to put wifi ballons all over Africa. This was his response as to why he doesn't care much. 

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He was talking about internet in third world countries, not in devolved nations like the ones most people here are posting from.

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How many impoverished people in Africa have any device that's connects to the Internet?

I assume that is what google is trying do. 

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What does one really have to do with the other?

Well, In Australian for example, we are committing resources to the NBN project. Regardless of what our new government does with the project, the amount already spent could have reduced waiting times in hospital emergency rooms and improved ambulance turn out time which would have save at least 8 lives in Victoria alone in the last 8 months.

Grammar and spelling is not indicative of intelligence/knowledge.  Not having the same opinion does not always mean lack of understanding.  

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oh man!! how about that Bill Gates.....he truly turned out to be a stand up guy.  I totally agree with him.  Google needs to spend money to provide food and health for the children instead of the interwebz.  Poor kids can't eat binary data.

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Well it's not hard to see why he thinks this way, take a look at his FB page.

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Hmm.. Internet or health? I'll decide when I actually do have to choose between internet and health.

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oh man!! how about that Bill Gates.....he truly turned out to be a stand up guy.  I totally agree with him.  Google needs to spend money to provide food and health for the children instead of the interwebz.  Poor kids can't eat binary data.

 

Bill Gates has been a stand-up guy for the last decade or so.

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What if I told you more people die of obesity then starvation?

 

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9742960/Obesity-killing-three-times-as-many-as-malnutrition.html

he is talking about third world countires and yes not everyone can afford or has the  means to obtain food.

and yes he is right technology is great but we dont need it to live

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I dont think many people get the point of the interview or this post.

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I would take faster internet over my health any day

Well, I actually take faster internet over my health every day. Whenever I have a free morning, in the night before I think "tomorrow is the day I'll start running". Needless to say, I never do.

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I would take faster internet over my health any day

Off Topic:

 

Are you on Defend The House's BF4 video?

 

On Topic:

 

Bill gates is right, lives being healthy are more important than internet IMO. 

"You Can't Buy Happiness, But You Can Buy Horsepower, And That's Kind of The Same Thing."


 


 

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Off Topic:

 

Are you on Defend The House's BF4 video?

 

On Topic:

 

Bill gates is right, lives being healthy are more important than internet IMO.

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No

There was somebody named Cool Beans, just curious. 

"You Can't Buy Happiness, But You Can Buy Horsepower, And That's Kind of The Same Thing."


 


 

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Zuckerberg is an out of touch douche. I'm proud of Gates on this one.

 

 

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