User:Mr. Billion

File:Switzerland flag large.pngThis alleged user can be said to maintain a policy or other custom of neutrality or other ambiguity-related quality on some or all issues that may be potentially controversial to some alleged people.

The user name originates from a certain Calvin & Hobbes strip taking place in the classroom in which Calvin attempts to solve a math problem and slips into his Tracer Bullet fantasy world, concluding that the only possible "culprit" is "Mr. Billion."

As long as you're here, clicking here gives people food. Go there, click the little yellow button. It provides a small benefit, but it also requires next to no effort, so hey, it couldn't hurt.

It would be good to think about this, too, though. According to a joint Action Aid/Oxfam report, only about a fifth of international aid makes it to where it's intended to go. (I'd be interested in reading the report itself.) Some wealthy countries have actually reduced their international aid budgets since the 1970s. Perhaps a better way to help the less fortunate would be to petition your representatives in your respective Congress or Parliament to address these issues.

Here is a very lucid piece about poverty and what is "normal" on a global scale. On the same subject: "One in five people in the world—more than 1 billion people—still survive on less than $1 a day, a level of poverty so abject that it threatens survival. Another 1.5 billion people live on $1–$2 a day. More than 40% of the world’s population [living at or below $2 a day] constitutes, in effect, a global underclass."

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• http://www.keo.org -- Orbiting time capsule to be launched in 2007 or 2008. Anyone in the world can send his or her own message forward in time 50,000 years. Kick ass. You can send a message until the end of 2006.
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• Orisinal is a collection of delightfully innocent, whimsical games. This one I find particularly beautiful. Peace.