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Getting our S**T together

Bill Gates is doing what money should be doing. Using it to solve some serious problems - things that are wrong with the planet. 1. He used some of his cash to tackle malaria - vaccinations in poor nations and access to the medicines 2. Mosquito nets - provide cheap nets to impoverished areas to avoid the anopheles attack in the first place 3. Other important medicines and vaccines including AIDS medications - tackle the multiplier effect by hitting at the source of viral spread 4. Low cost computing resources with partenrships like Cisco etc in parts of the world where its hard to survive let alone go to school 5. Now with his latest effort to reinvent the TOILET. I think this takes the CAKE - literally might do that one day and convert it to fuel or some such. Low cost 'To go' solutions for the billions still without access to clean water and a place to relieve themselves. I don't particularly care whether Windows is a good software and what imagination went...