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Is the Internet Your Source of Knowledge?
serutan asks: "How much do you rely on the Internet for information? Since getting online 7 or 8 years ago, I have gradually abandoned almost all other sources of news and information, to the point where they've pretty much disappeared from my life. I'm a geek, but at age 49 not exactly a child of the Information Age. I've been surrounded by dictionaries, encyclopedias and similar books for most of my life. I still read fiction in book form, but if I'm trying to look up something and can't find it online in a couple minutes I generally just blow it off, as if there's no other place to look. This realization seems sort of stunning. I'm very curious if other Slashdot readers have become dependent on the Internet to that level, and what their thoughts are on the subject."
We refer to it as "the source of all Truth and Knowledge."
I'm so glad I don't know you. I'd probably kick you in the balls if you said that within earshot of me.
It's just SOOOO FUCKING LAME.
I'm sure you also call the family dog "sex machine".
However, the NY Times is not news, it's propaganda. So if you choose to be spoon-fed your opinion on politics and world events, by all means read the Times.
Social Engineering Expert: Because there is no patch for stupidity.
As an andendum to my previous post...I also strongly advise in getting some sort of binding machine, if you can't exploit one from your work.
I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it. I don't buy software, I grow it.
Malaria? Chagas? River blindness? We can fight stomach acid, cholesterol buildups, and hair loss and we can't come up with something to effectively stop fucking worms from crawling into somebody's eyeballs?
If it's so 'fucking' easy, then why don't you go do it?
Just to give you a little clue, vaccines don't cure viral infections, they prevent you from getting infected. And they do that by training your immune system to fight off the disease itself. And that only works if there is something distinctive about the virus for the immune system to "remember" and the virus doesn't mutate in the meantime. That's why no one has cured the cold yet.
Anti-biotics work by exploiting the difference between (among many other things) cell division in bacteria (prokaryotes) and eukaryotes. A fucking worm is a eukaryote. Get a drug that kills the worm in the eye, and guess what, it'll probably kill the eye too. Or maybe the person with the eye.