Real Man of (Evil) Genius
by Jonny Nero on Feb.04, 2009, under Rants
We all know that Bill Gates is and always has been an evil genius. Now we can be sure.
According to Gizmodo via ValleyWag, the Microsoft chairman was speaking today at the TED conference, on the topic of curing malaria. This specific disease is one that the charity run by Gates and his wife has been focusing on for sometime.
From what I can gather, the gist of the talk was that all the geniuses that were there were being lazy by not putting their minds on finding the cure. So how does he accent this point? Some fancy PowerPoint presentation? A colorful graph? No. I’ll end this paragraph here so that you are completely focused on the next sentence.
A swarm of live mosquitoes.
And I’m not talking about the fun kind that are trapped in a Plexiglas box. No, that’s bush league for Gates. He released them into the theater where the talk was being held. He even had a great evil genius line: “Not only poor people should experience this.”
I can’t tell if that’s more awesome than it is scary. Now granted, it was really a Diet Coke of evil plot, seeing as how they were not malarial, but still… This makes you look at the guy—the same guy that PC is based on in the Get a Mac commercials—in a new light. The kind of light that says, “Don’t fuck with him unless you want to get fucked up.”
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February 4th, 2009 on 11:19 pm
I was floored when I read this today. At first I thought it was some twitter joke I didn’t get and then it got posted on the Seattle Times.
People in Seattle are CRAZY MOTHER FUCKERS. Don’t mess with us and our unstoppable need to fix the world!
February 5th, 2009 on 1:50 pm
I would have been pissed if I were in the audience. I have an allergy to mosquitoes where I get flu-like symptoms if I’m bitten by one, so the entire conference would have likely been ruined for me. Even if I weren’t bitten then and there, the mosquitoes are going to hang around in the auditorium for a long time, so I wouldn’t be comfortable going to any of the other talks, either.