Bill ‘Super Villain’ Gates does a Steve ‘Monkey Dancing’ Ballmer
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Business, Blog, Microsoft on
It certainly seems that way, at first glance, if the reports flooding Twitter and the Blogosphere are anything to go by.
As a speaker at the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference in California you might expect the former Microsoft head honcho to mention something about Windows 7 and how it will change the world, or maybe one of those Microsoft presents the future now type speeches.
You probably would not expect him to walk on stage, scream something about not only poor people should experience this, and then throw a whole swarm of live mosquitoes into the crowd!
OK, I guess he made his point. The point being that people in the developed world do not really understand just how bad the malaria thing is in developing countries. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is investing millions of dollars in an attempt to eradicate the problem.
However, if you happened to be sitting in the crowd at the conference, an innocent geek, then some uber-nerd chucking a bucket of mozzies over you is probably not going to make it a night to remember for the right reasons, and might even just put your off donating any money to the cause.
News of the incident quickly started spreading via Twitter courtesy of some very well known tech types, eBay founder, Twitter CEO and so on, being amongst the people in that audience.
The media has grabbed this as evidence that Gates has gone insane. However, I have another theory: he is just fed up with Steve Ballmer getting all the headlines and so decided to take a leaf out of the Monkey Dancer Marketing Manual. Either that of his money really has made him mental and Gates will next be seen wearing a spandex bodysuit, cape, mask and insisting on being known from now on as Mosquito Man the least scary super villain in history.
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Loading ...Comment by Thanks No - February 6, 2009 on 1:03 pm
How long until one of those rich fuckers sues Gates for Mental Anguish?
Comment by Jonico - February 7, 2009 on 6:22 am
You focus on the action, but ignore the issue that Gates was discussing. It leaves a dirty taste in my mouth defending Gates but I feel that his releasing of the mosquitoes should scare the people in the audience, scare them enough into action to stop the spread of Malaria.
Comment by - February 7, 2009 on 7:22 am
Guys, do you think Gates will be back?
Comment by seriouslycgi - February 7, 2009 on 12:37 pm
I would have thrown a shoe at his head, scratch that, i would have thrown two with my feet still in them and my leg and body attached. bill gates = next chuck norris.
Comment by kenholmz - February 7, 2009 on 7:29 pm
I don’t think the author or anyone here is ignoring the issue Bill Gates brings up. Disease, war, famine, broken bones and minds are all of consequence. How might Mr. Gates make so dramatic an impact on an audience if AIDS or land mines was his problem de jour. Bill Gates is still the same righteous ****** he always has been, at least as far back at the Home Brew club. I hope Mr. Gates does do some good in his philanthropic pursutes. He had a good head for business even if he never did create anything new. There is plenty to be concerned about in this world. Bill Gates has always enjoyed trying to tell everyone what to be concerned about. He can take his little blue pill, go find himself a nice dark corner and **** himself.
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