2013/4/17-5/18 [Health/Disease/AIDS, Health/Disease/General] UID:54659 Activity:nil | 4/17 Just a thought. Say we select a small percentagle of the population
(e.g. 100000 people) with representations from all walks of life
(scientists, engineers, doctors, chefs, plumbers, nannies, ...) except
bad guys, transport them to a distant earth-like planet with abundant
natural resources, and take away all man-made objects (machines,
clothes, books, medicines, all tools, ...) How long will it take for
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2011/4/22-7/13 [Consumer/CellPhone, Health/Disease/AIDS] UID:54093 Activity:nil | 4/22 Costco is selling "Bluetooth Capable Premium Digital Hearing Aids" for
$1999.99 a pair. My Bluetooth cell phone headset is maybe $30 for one
ear. Why does hearing aid cost so much?
\_ Medical insurance?
\_ Does $2000-your medical deductible = $30?
\_ How come insurance companies allow such rip-offs?
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2009/1/15-22 [Health/Disease/General] UID:52389 Activity:nil | 1/15 Now that Steve Jobs and Patrick Swayze are sick with
pancreatic cancer, is pancreatic cancer going to become
a cause celebre and get lots of research funding,
far beyond what is actually justified by the magnitude
of the actual problem?
\_ they have Elton John doing benefits, not Jimmy Buffet.
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2008/10/14-15 [Health/Disease/AIDS] UID:51523 Activity:nil | 10/14 I don't understand this whole AIDS walk BS. Instead of saying
"I'm going to walk X miles, can you donate $1 per mile?" why
don't they just simplify it and say "Give me whatever $ you got"?
Why make it so complex? Sheesh
\_ Because charity events get more people involved in asking for
money. Duh. -tom
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2008/4/14-19 [Health/Disease/AIDS, Health/Men] UID:49747 Activity:kinda low | 4/14 Political correctness over science
http://csua.org/u/l9y
\_ I think you have it exactly backwards; the Red Cross' position is
\_ I think you have it exactly backwards; the FDA's position is
fear-mongering over science. -tom
\_ Oh, classification as high-risk isn't science?
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2010/2/22-3/30 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:53722 Activity:nil | 2/20 Ok serious question, NOT political. This is straight up procedural.
Has it been declared that we didn't find WMD in iraq? (think so).
So why did we go into iraq (what was the gain), and if nobody really
knows, why is nobody looking for the reason?
\_ Political stability, military strategy (Iran), and to prevent
Saddam from financing terrorism.
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2009/4/21-23 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Israel] UID:52884 Activity:kinda low | 4/20 Ok, I am not a Jew hater. In fact, most of my so-called "white"
friends turned out to be Jews. And I am fortunate to have
opportunity to work with whole bunch Israelis and working with them
has been an absolute pleasure. HOWEVER, I just failed to understand
why people got offended by the speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In my
relatively neutral point of view (I am an Asian), most of what he
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