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pcernie
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Location: Belfast
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_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
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james016
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 5:52 pm
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Developing tasty new flavours.
Oh wait....
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veato
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:17 am
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Location: Nottingham
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Go on yer Bill. Is that tax deductable then?  _________________Twitter Blogflickr
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
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Location: Newcastle
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More than likely, it's from their foundation. Good to see that some billionaires still feel the need to help others with their money instead of hoarding it _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Blimey! That'll buy a shed load of vaccines.
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:10 pm
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Location: just behind you!
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but not a single NHS IT system!
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
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Location: Newcastle
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Well he wouldn't need to pay for one if the NHS kept their MS contract.....  _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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eddie543
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:53 pm
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Location: Manchester
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With the cheaper cost of labour in such countries and raw materials it might be more advisable to set up some long term preventon systems rather than vaccines.
Cholera could be halted by clean water investment and sewage infrastructure, it would probably do more good in the long run.
Provide jobs
Less disease
long term solution
provides a foothold to stability in some countries
sets an example for other bilionaires
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm
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Vaccination will help stabilise the population long enough to start the kind of municipal works you're looking at. First though we need to slow the death rate _________________Jim
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soddit112
Spends far too much time on here
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Location: Mute City
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*insert virus joke here*
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eddie543
Occasionally has a life
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Thing is that they are in poverty and though a lot are dying most are infant mortality and the birth rate is so high anyway that the population is often rapidly expanding. There are plenty of people over there that could be paid to help in municipal work providing money to get ahead in life aswell as helping these villages do somthing that is above subsitance farming. Alot of arfrican countries have famine because the farmers only make enough to feed themselves, if 10 billion goes at source for farming tools, irrigation, wells, sewage systems and roads you wouldn't need injections against dihoerea and vomiting viruses and means that when the next generation of children are born they don't either. Clean water is what is needed.
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