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Anti-HIV Virus Developed
liam193 writes "Wired News is reporting that Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory may have developed a virus that fights the HIV virus. According to the article, 'It took Adam Arkin and David Schaffer just $200,000 and a grad student to develop a potential treatment for AIDS. And that scares them.'"
Where can I get signed up to be "infected" and singlehandedly propagate the cure to the world's population?
--Kevin
Who's going to develop a virus to kill the virus that kills the HIV virus?
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
a virus that can be spread by having sex, just like HIV
Dont worry guys... it will be available in tablet form soon...
It took Adam Arkin and David Schaffer just $200,000 and a grad student to develop a potential treatment for AIDS.
Did they USE $200,000 and a grad student, or did they EXPEND $200,000 and a grad student? An important distinction, especially from the grad student's perspective.
A legparnasom tele van angolnaval.
Hepatitis, schmepatits. I can't imagine what this world will be like when having unprotected sex with multiple partners may mean that you get a life-saving virus! Count me in!
[tin foil hat]While this case may be (almost certainly is) good, I think the day is coming when it will get out of hand and we will see the accidental release of some real nasty man made viral stuff into the environment.[/tin foil hat]
It's not like some kid in Germany released AIDS to help his mom's computer shop and is trying to fix the damage.
Score: -1, Unbelievably Cynical
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
Adjusted for inflation back to 100000 B.C., the wheel cost $750 billion to develop.
He was the Bill Ug of his day.
Since no animal testing was mentioned, I would like to extend my condolences to the grad student's family. It may seem like a great sacrifice, but just think of all the data gathered from the autopsy.
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Well, that settles it, you can fight fire with fire.
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Once you adjust for inflation, the committee that designed the original wheel for $47,000 Atlantean dollars cost a little over $73 Billion US dollars. Of course, they didn't even tip the waiter who read over their shoulder and suggested they use a circle instead of the original triangle shape.
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Evan "It's True!"
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
I neither want larger breasts or for my SO to devlop a penis of ANY size. Takes the romance out of it.
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
I neither want larger breasts or for my SO to devlop a penis of ANY size.
Yeah, a computer with a penis would be rather silly.
I'd reccommend against that one as a pickup line, though.
Scared, of what? A cure to a plague?
Do these people also soil themselves at every sunrise?
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Anyone interested in the original HIV genome (it's like sourcecode) can find it here.
Sweet- open source genomes! Do they accept patches? I really want to write a 1337 alpha-channel-transparency feature for HIV. HIV has a big install base, but I think it would be bigger if it was prettier to look at. Also, some videoconferencing support would rock.
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So then I says to her:
Babe. I figure with my enlarged genital region, and your enlarged breast region, we might be able to complement each others deficiencies quite nicely. So what do you say? Why not go out with me?
ummmm, can we say joystick?
It's GNU/HIV
Let's make a difference
"Did they USE $200,000 and a grad student, or did they EXPEND $200,000 and a grad student? An important distinction, especially from the grad student's perspective."
Speaking as a grad student, after 5-7 years of 60+ hour work weeks and dealing with all the crap that grad school entails while making next to nothing you're both "used" and "expended."
Being in grad school myself, I couldn't but help and notice how they kept the cost down.
"$200,000 and a grad student"
As a sign in the math department around here says, grad students are really just indentured servants.
Actually, the clitoris corresponds to the embryonic tissue that becomes the head of the penis on a man. The tissue destined to make up the labia minor, labia major, and vaginal canal on a woman becomes, on a man, the shaft of the penis.
On a side note, I told my wife last night, "honey, I can't have just one pussy for the rest of my life! I need more pussy than that," and she said, "Hey, if you were a little bigger, you'd have more pussy right here!"
So I looked into it, and the average pussy is eight inches deep, while the average penis is only six inches long. That means that two inches of pussy are wasted, on average, with every coital thrust. The average sex act lasts three minutes, with 30 thrusts per minute, adding up to 180 inches of wasted pussy per sex act, which happens on average three times per week. Multiply that by 52 weeks, and divide by the number of inches in a mile (63,360) and we find that there is nearly half a mile of wasted pussy per woman per year! Figuring approximately 100 million American women of legal age, that means, as a country, we are wasting around half a million miles of pussy every year, while some men here go without!
I call on all true patriotic American men and women to do something about this travesty.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Sorry to hear about your radical humorectomy. I hear they have developed an artificial funny-bone to replace what you have apparently lost.
Oh wait, I'm sorry, was it the overuse of the word 'pussy?' Pussy pussy pussy! Which is more pussy than you'll ever see, with a sense of humor like that.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Yeah, it works wonders when you're trying to seduce an AIDS patient .
The average sex act lasts three minutes
Oh come on, that's just pathetic. It takes me more than three minutes when I'm by myself!
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Yeah, but he died poor, because he couldn't get a patent and everybody else ripped off his work.
Today's Sesame Street was brought to you by the number e.
how long until spammers steal the data from your honorable study for marketing purposes?
Soon I'll find messages in my inbox with the subject:
Tap in2 half a million miles of surplus p.u.s.s.y with our product!
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> Since "female" is the default sex, I would say
> that the penis is a variation on the clitoris.
> Using that logic, however, I'm still stumped
> on why the pee-hole goes through it
It's one of the arguments against Creationist "Intelligent Design". What f-ing engineer would run sewer lines through a recreational area?
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
"It took Adam Arkin and David Schaffer just $200,000 and a grad student..."
That poor grad student, science is full of sacrifices...
The homologous (i.e same) tissue as the labia majora of females becomes the scrotal sac in males. Remember back when you were a young kid and you had a big ridge going down the mid-line of your sac? That was the fusion line of the two "lips".
Really???! Holy Crap that's nuts!
You mean you do not consider this standard Highschool material?
Exactly.
For everyone looking at the latin virus explanation post and going "HOLY CRAP!!!1!", it's really not that bad. This is honestly 2nd year high school latin at best, and probably stuff that you'd hit in 1st semester latin at a university. I know when I took greek, first semester was all about declining nouns - the prof. wanted to get that down before we went to tenses, which are harder.
I hope this helps, if not to explain it, to at least show that what he's doing is not that bad.
In English, we conjugate verbs all the time - it's second nature. It allows us to understand that "are our children learning?" is correct, when "is our children learning?" is not, because in this case, "children" is plural, and "children" is also the subject (remember, to find the subject of a question, you have to turn it into a statement, i.e. "are our children learning? -> "our children are learning").
Well, in Latin and Greek, the same thing is done with nouns. You conjugate nouns. Except that it's called declining nouns. Verbs conjugate, nouns decline, and difficult students decline to conjugate.
So, in Latin, when you say,
"The boy built the tower" and
"The boy gave the tower a roof" and
"The tower fell down",
the word for tower is spelled differently, because of where it's used in the sentence.
In the first case, it's the direct object, receiving the action of the verb. In the second case, it's the indirect object, describing something about the direct object (which is roof). In both of these cases, you could say that the tower is in the objective case. Latin and Greek just call that accusative. In the third example, the tower is the subject of the sentence, which is just called the nominative case.
And there are other cases, which do get a little more in depth, like the genitive case. But, if you think about it, genitive is from the greek genesis, meaning a begining, and the genitive case is used with nouns "comming from" somewhere, whether it's actual travel, or an abstract idea like love comming from god (there's a lot of genitive in the greek new testament).
Keep in mind that this isn't as foreign as it sounds to English speakers. We do it on a limited basis with pronouns: He gave me the ball, vs. I gave the ball to him.
So that's really all there is to it. When the virus guy is posting about declinations, all he means is ways to decline nouns. We group them into first, second, thrid, etc, based on how they decline, much the way people group verbs when they study a foreign language. And the concept of gendered nouns is very much still in use - spanish and french still have masculine and feminine nouns, as do a host of other languages, and german has neuter nouns as well.
It's not that bad. Give those dead languages a fair chance.
~Will
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Send me and my wife a photo of yourself naked, with an erection, if you live in or around the SF Bay area. We'll look over the photos and decide who to invite over. Thanks!
P.S. If you have no experience with, or interest in double penetration scenarios or being a 'top' or 'Dom', don't bother. Also, you must be comfortable with big badonkadonk butts, light B&D, and know what a 'safe word' is.
P.P.S Or were you all just talk?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton