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| 2006/10/24-25 [Uncategorized] UID:44937 Activity:nil |
10/24 The busty Lady McCartney (NSFW):
http://www.elreporterodelacomunidad.com/img/110606_mills.jpg
I guess Sir Paul really has a taste on busty women:
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/010209/167/5bfsd.html
(Who's she anyway?)
\_ The soon to be ex McCartney looks like every other web bimbo.
\_ Well, aside from she's an amputee, yeah.
\_ But this one is styled Lady. You don't see a nude noble often. |
| 2006/10/24-25 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/OS] UID:44938 Activity:nil |
10/25 any good open-source RTS or turn-based game? I play FreeCiv. I really
enjoy master of orient, comand and conquer, and starcraft. anything
good around that calibre? I am looking for single-player game.
\_ Not really. OS isn't very good at turning out great games. There
are very few OS games worth playing. Most of OS gaming effort is
spent on knock off clones or on the opened quake source.
\_ Even though it's sort of redundant, saying "OSS" helps
disambiguate quite a bit. "I tried that OS OS, but couldn't
install it, so I just put that OS Software on my Windows OS"
install it, so I just put that OS software on my Windows OS"
\_ Yeah I thought of doing that but since we're talking games,
not operation systems I thought it was clear.
\_ Give "Battle for Wesnoth" a whirl. It's sort of a cross between
Civ and Heroes of Might and Magic. Plenty of user created
campaigns you can download from within the game as a "plug-in."
http://www.wesnoth.org
\_ The floating eye hits you.
You are paralyzed.
The fox bites you!
The fox bites you!
The fox bites you!
The fox bites you!
You die...
\_ floating eyes do not attack. Their gaze is reflexive.
Shoot me now.
\_ there's something oddly disturbing about that.
\_ whatever happened to xconq, that was an awesome game (for its time) |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:44939 Activity:nil |
10/24 The Onion would have done so much better with this headline
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061024/ts_nm/environment_wwf_planet_dc
\_ "On current projections humanity, will be using two planets' worth
of natural resources by 2050 -- if those resources have not run out
by then," No wonder those hot WWF valets always walk around
by then," No wonder those hot sexy WWF valets always walk around
carrying two planets in front of them. I love WWF!
\_ "Leape said China, home to a fifth of the world's population and
whose economy is booming, was making the right move in pledging to
reduce its energy consumption by 20 percent over the next five years."
20% in 5 yrs! How do they plan to achieve that? And our goal is what,
single-digit percentage in double-digit number of years?
reduce its energy consumption by 20 percent over the next five
years." 20% in 5 yrs! How do they plan to achieve that? And our
goal is what, single-digit percentage in double-digit number of
years? |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:44940 Activity:low |
10/24 So why is Firefox at 2.0 now? Granted this revision is a bit bigger
than most minor revisions, but neither the program architecture or
plugin interface changed much.
\_ Marketing? Maybe even free software needs marketing?
\_ The marketing wants to be freeeeee!!1111
\_ http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/#whatsnew
\_ Sounds like it should be called 1.6.0.0 instead.
\_ Related question: Is anyone having a issue w/ the netflix queue
page under FF2.0? I get an error that some script is taking too
long to run and I should abort it. This didn't happen on FF1.5.x.
\_ Works for me with FF2.0 200+ movies in queue.
\_ Hmm, maybe it is b/c I have 400+ movies in my queue.
\_ They might have just tweaked the max time value; you can change
it yourself via about:config, look for dom.max_script_run_time
--dbushong |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:44941 Activity:nil |
10/24 Finally! The Truth Is Out There! http://www.uncoveror.com/index.html |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Recreation/Computer/Games, Recreation/Sports] UID:44942 Activity:nil |
10/24 oski crowd surfing from the game:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iChgCGa0ikg |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:44943 Activity:nil |
10/24 Why does hyperthreading slow things down? I can imagine why it may not
be faster than a one-thread CPU (maybe too many bottlenecks), but how
can it be even slower than a one-thread CPU?
\_ When two procs are doing the same thing, they'll gain no benefit
from HT and HT simply adds overhead. Two dissimilar procs will do
well.
\_ (Where pp says 'proc', read 'process', not 'processor')
\_ Useless overhead.
\_ Did Intel not test its own design before releasing it to the
market?
\_ Of course they did. In most circumstances HT is worth using
but for some applications it is just overhead and should be
disabled. *In general* HT is good for applications where UI
responsiveness is more important than shaving over a few
microseconds or increasing FPS by 1.5. It is bad for a
situation where your single threaded application is cpu
bound and the only process running on a machine. There are
many other in between cases of course and YMMV but overall
HT is a good thing and should be turned on unless you know
it will hurt your use. Profile and test if you care.
\_ We found the opposite. We found that in most instances
HT hurt performance and so by default we turn it off.
YMMV.
\_ What was Intel thinking??? |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Computer/Domains] UID:44944 Activity:nil |
10/24 HTTP Cookies: is there a difference between specifying
"domain=.aol.com" and "domain=aol.com" ? I can't find this answer
on the web. Thanks.
\_ From RFC 2109: --dbushong
Host A's name domain-matches host B's if
* both host names are IP addresses and their host name strings match
exactly; or
* both host names are FQDN strings and their host name strings match
exactly; or
* A is a FQDN string and has the form NB, where N is a non-empty name
string, B has the form .B', and B' is a FQDN string. (So, http://x.y.com
domain-matches <DEAD>.y.com<DEAD> but not http://y.com.)
* A is a FQDN string and has the form NB, where N is a non-empty
name string, B has the form .B', and B' is a FQDN string. (So,
http://x.y.com domain-matches <DEAD>.y.com<DEAD> but not http://y.com.) |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Reference/Tax] UID:44945 Activity:nil |
10/24 How does property tax affect the value of homes? Is there a good
correlation between a state's property tax rate and its averaged
assessed home values? For example I've heard that Texas's proprety
tax is over 2X of CA but equivalent home values are approximately
less than 1/2.
\_ More expensive homes don't cost (significantly) more to provide
services for than cheaper ones. Therefore if two different areas
both need to collect $X in taxes to provide services, and the homes
in one area cost more on average, the area can afford to tax at a
lower rate and they'll still collect $X. Duh.
\_ No, there is not. IOW, California real estate is not expensive
simply because property taxes are on the lower side. For
example, Connecticut's property tax is just over 2% and yet
property values are higher than Texas.
\_ *IF* all else being equal, higher property tax rate will mean lower
home sale values because it increases the cost of ownership,
which (in Alameda county) will mean lower assessed values. But in
reality there are too many other varying factors which obscure the
picture. |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:44946 Activity:moderate |
10/24 Dear $200K man. Don't buy a home unless you are seriously prepared
for it. Sure there are countless good reasons for buying a home
but you need to ask yourself whether the purchase will fit your
lifestyle. It may be the right decision for many people out there
but you need to evaluate YOUR own needs. Data point: We purchased a
home last year when we were all hyped up by our friends, HGTV,
Extreme Makeover shows, etc. Things were great for a few months.
We were excited about our new home, new furnitures, and upgrades.
When the honeymoon period was over reality started to hit.
After paying property taxes, countless expensive trips to Home
Depot, HOA, Adjusted Supplemental Tax, reassessment fees, and many
unexpected and surprising $$$ maintenance work, we were basically
burning through our life long savings within one year. This year,
I'm totally stressed out because our entire savings account is
approaching $0 and unless I get a 15% raise or get a nice bonus this
year I may simply have to take out loans and find other means to
extend my current lifestyle, which already means not going out to
eat out, no vacations, no PS3, and no Christmas toys. Unless you buy
a cheap home AND make over 1/3 of the total loan AND enjoy going
to Home Depot every other weekend and pay unexpected costs associated
with homes, I don't recommend buying one as an investment. Good luck
and please tell us what you ended up doing!
\_ I think you are right about this being a "lifestyle" choice. I
hate it with the typical rent vs. buy debate. Most of the time
people are comparing apple to orange. It is like saying
leasing a Kia is cheaper than buying a Lexsus because both are
cars and get you from point A to B. Renting an apartment is
not the same as buying a house soley based on the fact that
they provide shelter. You buy a home because you want the
benefits associated with it such as not sharing a wall with
your loud and inconsiderate neighbor. Housing is one of the
\_ You can rent a home, you can buy a condo.
\_ Yes, but most "debate" about rent vs. buy is about
renting something smaller and buying something bigger.
Either way, the OP didn't do his homework before jumping
into property owership. Do you think his last landlord
only charged his PITI as rent and not included any
of the "unexpected" expense?
few necassity in life where you could potentially "make"
money from. It is not totally an investment.
money from. It is not totally an investment nor is it
just an expense. So, if you don't want the hassle associated
with ownership, by all means, go rent an apartment or a house.
Just realize that, at the end of the month, all the same
expense you have now, your landlord has it too. You will
ultimately pay the same thing thru rent.
\_ op is exhibit one for "dumbass", but that doesn't mean that buying
a home is necessarily a good investment. You can easily spend more
these days on the _non-principal_ parts of home ownership than you
would (total) on rent. Think about that. The home is only remotely
an investment when either:
a) it's increasing in value
b) you're putting money into the principal
(a)'s not really true right now and if you're spending more money
on not-(b) than you'd spend renting, you're better off renting and
putting the difference into a good investment that _is_ increasing
in value. (Yes, yes, of course count interest and property tax as
deductions before you come up with your final numbers.)
\_ Pray tell, what are you doing to spend that much money on
"non-principal parts of home ownership"?
\_ I think he means maintenance and repairs. I probably
spend more each year on that sort of stuff than I would
to rent a cheap studio apartment somewhere. An apartment
would cover trash and water, too.
\_ OP mentioned new furnitures. -- !PP
\_ Mortgage interest, points, PMI, Property Tax, Utilities that
might be otherwise included in rent, maintenance, repairs,
homeowners insurance... --pp
\_ If you didn't include intrest, points (one time fee that)
PMI (there's a reason you should always do 20% down)
property tax and insurance into account when you bought,
well, you were a moron. And I'm amazed your mortgage
broker didn't point those all out to you before you bought.
\_ I never said these were surprise fees; I was just listing
possible sources of non-principal expenditures related
to owning a home. Nice strawman, though.
\_ I never said these were surprise fees; I was just
listing possible sources of non-principal expenditures
related to owning a home. Nice strawman, though.
\_ sorry, I thought you were the person complaining
about unexpected costs.
\_ Plus homeowners association fees.
\_ I just want to point out that if I have to pay some
motherfucker money for the privelage of having them
tell my to cut my lawn, paint my house in a certain way,
and generally buy into their little cult, I don't really
consider that ownership. Paying taxes to the local
government which will put the fire out if your house
catches on fire is one thing, but once some fucking
corporation starts asking for money and enforcing rules,
you're taking one step backwards towards serfdom. I'd
rather own a little bunker outright in a piece of remote
swampland than be a fucking serf in your suburb no matter
how much square footage I get. Some day you bastards
realize you are on the path to slavery. Until then
good luck.
swampland than be a fucking serf in your suburb no
matter how much square footage I get. Some day you
bastards realize you are on the path to slavery. Until
then good luck.
\_ You're confused. My HOA fees are $80 month. That
covers them hiring people to take care of my front
lawn and a bunch of other stuff. You're thinking
condo associations. If you *really* want a purple
and orange house with a glowing green door I didn't
want you as a neighbor anyway. Short of that and
your pig farm, HOAs are reasonably harmless.
\_ Why would a purple and orange house bother
you to that extent? Shouldn't people be free
to paint heir houses other than the same
shade of beige as every other house in the
association?
\_ Because it's tasteless and drives down prices.
They should be free to do whatever they want
as long as it doesn't screw other people. It
isn't for everyone. Don't do it if you don't
want it just don't whine when your neighbor
sets up a pig farm or has chickens and there's
nothing you can do about it. Those roosters
get really loud at sun-up.
\_ Zoning laws address whether one can
raise chickens or hogs. As for whether
it's tasteless to paint your house some
color other than beige, that's just
your opinion. Lots of victorians look
\_ It is the opinion of most home
buyers which is what counts.
\_ It is the opinion of HOA
Nazis, not most home buyers.
great in purple. It also doesn't drive
\_ Seen a victorian in the bay area
recently?
\_ Yes, in this small little
town called San Francisco
for one.
down prices. Prices are determined
mostly by the size of the house and the
location (comparables). Color isn't an
issue, because it's easily changed. Why
\_ Sure it is. If my neighbor is
raising pigs and has 8 cars in
front on blocks in their purple,
orange and green house, then my
home price will drop. I can not
easily change their color.
\_ Again, zoning addresses the
issue of raising animals
and usually the number of
cars one can have. The color
of a house is not significant in
any way, because a new buyer
can change it. How much less
do you think a purple house
is going to fetch relative
to the beige one next to it?
$2K? Oh my God! Your house
is now worth only $710K
instead of $712K. That's really
worth being a Nazi over. You
people who love HOAs
(instead of just tolerate
them) make me sick. I hope
a kid falls down on your HOA
sidewalk and sues the HOA
for millions and you get to
cough up your share. Then
you will appreciate HOAs more.
must you be a Nazi about what color
someone paints his/her house?
\_ See above.
\_ Plenty of condos are like 2-6 units, and the "HOA"
is really just a few people who meet every now and
to figure out how to handle what issues have popped
up. Not all condos are 200 unit monstorsities.
\_ I don't think he's upset about condo HOAs,
but did you realize that if the HOA gets sued
(e.g. someone hurts himself on a cracked
sidewalk) then all owners share in the pain?
\_funny you should mention that, as our HOA
got sued by one of the members, who was upset
that they couldn't get an expansion approved.
\_ Absolutely. Luckily, HOAs aren't all that common
is much of CA, since they tend to be associated
with new development.
\_ New development--in other words the problem is
getting worse. My problem with this is not that
I'm afraid I will have trouble buying a home
with no HOA, it's the value system represented
by people who think that's ok.
\_ I still think you don't know what HOAs are
about but whatever.
\_ HOAs are about people foreclosing on
your house because your grass is too
long.
\_ No, but ok. Whatever. Go find a cabin
in the woods. Just don't send people
bombs.
\_ Yes, they can. If the HOA fines
you because your lawn is too
long and you don't pay that fine
(or you dispute it) then after 12
months they can foreclose on you.
A new law made it such that they
can only foreclose if the amount
owed is > $1800, but before that
it could be any amount and $1800
isn't all that much to lose
one's house over. People have
lost their houses over $120 fines,
which spawned the legislation. I
don't think most HOA members
realize what deep sh*t they are in.
\_ Uh, cut your lawn. In my case,
my $80 covers that so if my lawn
isn't cut I am the one with the
complaint, not them. The sky is
falling!!!! People have been
hit by meteors but no one with a
tinfoil hat has ever been hit by
one. Fact.
\_ Go fuck yourself. I'll bet
anything you also supported
Bush's suspension of habeus
corpus, as well as torture.
Why? Because people like
you hate freedom. You want to
live as a corporate serf with
fucks like you for neigbors?
Fine. But if I catch you
and your fascist budies
trespassing on my swamp, I'll
shoot you right
between the eyes.
\_ I see. So it's perfectly
okay that if you are on
vacation in Europe for
a month and your lawn
gets long that the HOA
can foreclose on your
house? You don't see a
problem with that? Did you
ever read your CC&Rs? |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:44947 Activity:moderate |
10/24 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing "With the exception of a few rare 80486 systems, the x86 SMP market began with the Intel Pentium processor supporting up to two processors ....." Wasn't soda an 8-CPU 386SX machine more than a decade ago? \_ I think at peak it had 20 processors, and yes, they were 386. -tom \_ Yes, that would be the Sequent era (1992-1997). Soda Mark 2 had 8 386s, Soda Mark 3 had 16 386s and Soda Mark 4 had 20 386s. http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/computing/hardware/soda-mark-ii.html http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/computing/hardware/soda-mark-iii.html http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/computing/hardware/soda-mark-iv.html "[W]e must mustn't forget the days when the dry and cracked skin that we just shed were vigorous and bright with new colors. The next chance you have, hold a glass high to the past and drink to Soda MkIV, the last of the great Sequents." \_ I'm obviously too young. 22 386s in one machine? In 1995? Huh? I guess it was really good a multi-tasking. \_ Remember that it was *free* in 1995. The machine was built the late 80s, when the 386 was top-of-the-line. \_ and yes, those sequent systems were awesome at multitasking. Unfortunately the slow-ass cpu's were very slow at single tasks. However, it was ideal for its use as a multi-user, multi-purpose system. \_ Did the fastest Pentium-something CPU in 1995 perform twenty times as fast as a 386DX 20MHz (in terms of mips, I guess)? I don't remember which Pentium was top-of-the-line back then. \_ iirc, 1995 the fastest Pentium was 133 MHz. This was about as fast as a 486 running at 266 MHz or a 386 running at 533 MHz (ie nearly 25x faster than a 386 running at 20MHz). \_ I google'd for "8088 SMP", and I found "The SNC is an Intel 8088 based SMP system ..." in a non-free article. Can 8088 really support SMP??? \_ Why not? SMP is an old old old concept in CS. \_ I was just puzzled because Intel advertised one of the recent Pentium-whatever chip as the first x86 chip to support SMP. |
| 2006/10/24 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:44948 Activity:high |
10/24 War Crimes committed upon illegally held detainees.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1024b1talker1024.html
\_ The real title is "Arpaio starts 2-week mandatory English
classes for inmates". Inmates of a county jail, that is. |
| 2006/10/24 [Uncategorized] UID:44949 Activity:nil |
10/24 Stupid caption deleted. |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Health/Disease/General] UID:44950 Activity:nil |
10/24 Thanks illegal immigrants! I was missing Tuberculosis. Especially the
drug-resistant strains.
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52555
\- "The states with the highest numbers of multi-drug
resistant cases in the last decade were New York,
California, Texas and Florida, according to the
CDC -- states with the highest populations of new
immigrants." ... gee, by coincidence, those 4 stats
immigrants." ... gee, by coincidence, those 4 states
also have the most Americans! ... http://csua.org/u/hak
\_ Nevertheless, it is a fact that illegals bring
this disease into the country.
\- What about American fastfood causingg obesity-related
problems in China, France etc?. What about Coca Cola
casuingMr Tooth Decay to arrive?
\_ What about them? Those are lifestyle diseases,
not contageous killers of millions who never made
the choice to eat crappy food.
\_ Yeah and so? You can't tell the difference between
someone choosing to drink Tooth Rot(c) and someone
getting resistent staph by walking into a hospital for
something else? |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Uncategorized] UID:44951 Activity:nil |
10/24 I am a stupid troll.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1024b1talker1024.html
\_ The real title is "Arpaio starts 2-week mandatory English
classes for inmates". Inmates of a county jail, that is. |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Health/Disease/AIDS] UID:44952 Activity:high |
10/24 Is this the end of antibiotics?
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/the-scourge-of-skid-row/14810
(Warning, some of the pictures are really nasty.)
\_ In short, yes. And this plague of staph is starting exactly
like AIDS. First, it gets the drug-users and other societal
rejects. Then, it comes for everyone else. When it's an
expensive killer of "normal" people, it's seen as a crisis,
and it is, rather than being nipped in the bud. Like all our
other infrastructure, public health is in a state of near-total
neglect. Drug-resistant staph, tuberculosis, malaria, and a
host of others are coming at us, spread in part by insecticide
resistant bugs. Idiots in Washington spend trillions combating
threats to thousands of us and ignore the threats which will
kill millions of us. Write your congressman, please. --PeterM
\_ How do you figure AIDS could have been "nipped in the bud" in
this country? I recall at the time some were advocating enforced
\_ That was just Lyndon LaRouche
\_ No, it was a lot of people. Either way, the question
remains: what would you have done at the time to "nip
AIDS in the bud"?
\_ Um, mounted effective research and prevention efforts
early on instead of not worrying about the "gay plague",
for starters?
early on instead of not worrying about the "gay
plague", for starters?
\_ So with billions of dollars of research and
education efforts since then, what has happened?
People who wanted to engage in risky activity
continued to do so despite knowing the dangers
and still get AIDS today. There was no magic
bullet that would have done anything of note.
After 20+ years of public education there are
still new cases even though the number of new
cases *should* be near zero. People are dumb.
\_ HIV isn't easy to transmit. If we'd had
clean needle and condom campaigns early we could
have lowered transmissability to the point
where the infection might have died out in
the US, especially with very focussed targeting
on the initial high risk groups. Further,
there WAS NO CURE at the time and a campaign
of persuasion, "do this or die" might have
been more effective. To this day, dirty
needles are responsible for much spread of
HIV and hepatitis because politicians would
rather moralize than take effective action
(needle exchange) for public health.
Convinced now? --PeterM
\_ Convinced? Of what? No. I'll repeat my
main point: to this today everyone *should*
be aware that certain activity will get you
HIV/AIDS yet they still choose not to use
condoms or use clean needles even in places
where they are given free. People are dumb.
And btw, there is still no cure, so I'm not
sure why you mention there wasn't one then
either but thats not the point.
\_ Convinced that early vigorous action
could have greatly reduced the impact
of HIV on the US. HIV isn't very
transmissible: maybe 1.1 new cases
per existing case, or even less thanks
to public health campaigns. Even if
early vigorous action reduced transmission
by 20%, there would be .9 new cases of
HIV per existing case and the infection
would die out. I'm saying that if we'd
had vigorous prevention and needle
campaigns early on, HIV would have had
negligible impact on the US and we would
not have needed the *billions* now
required for treatment and research. --PM
\_ So now that we have spent billions in
research and the public is as educated
as possible, is the rate .9 or 1.1?
If you can show me something that says
.9 then I'm fully convinced. Of course
there would still be people coming from
outside the country but I'm not going
to push that as I'm sure it's a small
number. Either way, people are still
dumb. ;-)
\_ http://csua.org/u/hb7 (Entrez PubMed)
This is an NIH site. The number
today isn't .9, it seems, but lower,
.05/yr. That is, for every existing
case, there is 1 new case in 20 yrs.
That is actually more successful than
I had thought. Just under 1M in USA
have HIV. Oh, and yes, people are
dumb, I fully agree on *that*. But
remember, those *billions* spent have
mostly been spent treating the sick,
not on prevention/education. Early
prevention efforts would have yielded
a huge ROI, especially since at that
time AIDS victims were dying
relatively fast. --PeterM
\_ Ok, I'll buy that. Just one
last thing to keep in mind is
that by the time HIV/AIDS was
recognised and diagnosable there
were already a lot of people who
already had it since it has such
a long infection -> symptoms
period. It may be the case that
after the initial death toll, the
level of education was
appropriate since new cases are
determined based on test date,
not the unknowable infection
date. So the high initial rates
were unstoppable and then people
who were uninfected then more or
less did do the right things to
stay safe(r). It also may be the
case that since H/A transmission
is more likely with certain
activity that the virus was
already mostly isolated to those
populations, thus without *any*
education it might have had low
rates after the initial deaths.
No one can say with certainty
how many more, if any, might have
remained uninfected if there had
been earlier education (IIRC it
was about 2 years that it was
believed to be a 'gay disease').
isolation a la Typhoid Mary. What do you figure 'they' should
be doing about all these other diseases right now?
\_ Spend money on better public health and research. This
isn't exactly rocket science. -ausman
\_ And how would that have done anything at the time when
AIDS first became known in the US to stop it from
spreading? Billions of dollars of research have gone into
AIDS, medical science has advanced, and there was a lot of
money going into public education, but no one really knew
what AIDS was, some *still* dispute what it is and we
are still are the very early stages of being able to deal
with viruses of any sort. What was going to happen in the
80's to stop AIDS?
\_ Politicians and public health officials ignored AIDS
because most initial victims were gays and drug users.
If it had been, say, children or middle-aged white males
there would have been a much more effective prevention
campaign. Similarly with this new drug-resistant staph
in LA. Right *now* it's afflicting homeless, prisoners,
and drug users. Very soon, like AIDS, it's going to
be mainstream, and dealing with it is going to cost
a lot more in lives and in money. Tuberculosis is back
in many countries with a drug-resistant vengeance.
Malaria's returning, too, also in drug-resistant glory.
Remember when life expectancy was 50 years or less?
Continued neglect of public health and medical research
will bring those days back. --PeterM
\_ On a related note, all those anti-bacterial soaps may not be
so good for us after all:
http://tinyurl.com/yxa9cw (motherearthliving.com) |
| 2006/10/24-25 [Uncategorized] UID:44953 Activity:nil |
10/24 I vunt tu du a veb pruject boot dun't knoo hoo tu du it. Dues unyune-a
knoo hoo tu vreete-a a ploogeen fur Ixplurer oor Fureffux? |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:44954 Activity:nil |
10/24 I want to do a web project but don't know how to do it. Does anyone
know how to write a plugin for Explorer or Firefox?
\_ No, no one. |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:44955 Activity:nil |
10/24 just want to say .. I started using google reader. and I found
a decent motd rss feed ... its awesome. I'm back to motd
reading after a few months of not -- been getting more into
various blogs. maybe I'm just writing this to see my own
name in the google reader. no but really, fyi, its cool.
\_ Which motd feed are you using?
\_ I'm hesitant to say ... is having a motd feed w/in
the rules of the politburo? I dont want to get it
shut down ... and I dont know if the creator wants
the notoriety. |
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