I didn't say the Hindus are heartless. Please think before you lash out. I merely rescued the AC's post from (-1 Trolldom because they are making a valid point here and somebody obviously didn't like it.
"I'm very sure that the budgeting issues between these two activities are so insanely far apart, that any sort of comparison would be impossible to make."
Laughter hits the hardest when you're not expecting it. Hilarious!
"Feed your children India! (Score:0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22, @09:16AM (#17709874) why dont these heartless hindus use some of their engineers to design sanitation systems, water purification plants, food preservation technologies etc? This sorry excuse of a nation has the world's largest concentration of hungry people without access to clean water or toilet facilities. Shame on them!"
He does have a point however. "The World's Largest Democracy" (tm) India spends a lot of effort on developing military capabilities. Feeding their people is obviously not a priority.
Who says extraterrestials limited to sublight speeds? They may well have the ability to teleport instantenously across the Galaxy. On top of that... who says they're from space light-years away? They could be maybe have evolved on this planet or in this solar system millions of years before we arrived on the scene. And then who says there is not an inhabitable why even earth-like planet orbiting a Star within 20 light years from here?
Just because we don't know how to do it, doesn't mean someone else in the universe didn't find out how to do.
The way I see it these scientists are humming a self-defeating mantra here.
No, most publically funded research is not available to the public, at least not for free. But it's not just the public money that is spent on research that is misappropiated, it is in fact the entire infrastructure that private corporations get use of for next to nothing.
Most university departments "cooperate" in research with private corporations in that those corporations put the professors in charge of the dept on their payrolls. They in turn "align their research" with what the corps want and put the university infrastructure (labs, equipment, students and employees) to work for them.
Pippatron, you're a jerk and that is the best compromise I could find weighing courtesy, respect and the fact that you are an utter moron recycling propaganda. Aside from their "special economic zones" 98% percent of China's population lives in abject poverty if they're lucky and in "Laogai" prison camps if they're a little less lucky than that.
The only really interesting thing is that a handful of people took on to my initial post here all in all expending their mod-points to hammer it all the way down to -1.
The question however still stands... and I'll just repeat it right away:
Why does China still have Most Favored Nation status?
The Weather Channel's most prominent man-made global warming evangelist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be excommunicated for heresy if they express skepticism about the gospel of man-made catastrophic global warming.
They're all sorts of religions on the planet and only few deal with spiritual matters.
After all, China is "our" Most Favored Trading-Partner.
See how ridiculous that is? Most of the cheap crap they sell us at Walmart is "Made in China" (and most of that by chinese prison labor working under the most deplorable conditions).
Honk when you see a Cosco (Chinese Overseas Trading Co.) truck on the highway.
Right. When you can't fight the arguments you shut people up.
We had quiet a lot of "Shutup!"-s in recent times didn't we?? As of now it is no longer safe to question or "badmouth" the government. So with such a favorable climate towards oppression of opinion and Free Speech all sorts of roaches are coming out of the woodwork.
Today we have "experts" like the Weather-Channel censor-du-jour calling to have Global Warming debunkers silenced. Tomorrow we'll get what?
Pat Robertson forcing his christian-flavored Teleevangelism down our throats by law? North Korean kind of forced parades where (starving!) people are made to march through the streets thanking their "Great Leader" for the "plenty"???
"It was developed by Gilead Sciences and is currently marketed by Hoffmann-La Roche (Roche) under the trade name Tamiflu. It is generally available by prescription only."
Then you can go back watching the "O'Reilly Factor" or listen to Rush Limbaugh while you color in the pages in your "War on Terror" crayon book.
You're right. Dichloroacetate is already used to treat lactic acidosis (buildup of lactic acid in the body. The day I find out I have cancer is the day I will be taking that drug no matter whether that cheats the industry out of a hundred thousand dollars and the Club of Rome out of another welcome premature death. There will be a doctor that will prescribe it, they're used to being bribed.
"Wikipedia makes them look like a sort of "wind back the clock" party. "
With anything remotely political, taboo or maybe just not in sync with world socialism when you look up stuff I recommend you read the discussion page too and look through the article's history to see what they have deleted. Reading just the article by itself is just as pointless as trying to lather up with soap but without water.
Re:A few interesting things about the bird flu
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Cod Enzyme Kills Bird Flu
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Nothing fundamental has changed that it will be the bird flu that will kill any sizeable portion of the world's population and still it is getting watts of media attention.
An asteroid impact by the way is just as likely and will prove probably far deadlier to all species on the planet.
A little less likely than the asteroid scenario but still a possibility would be a gamma ray burst caused by some calamity of sorts like a supernova in our nearer interstellar neighborhood. Mighty bird flu might survive that, though it would be a phyric victory without a host.
I'm sure that between us and the rest of slashdot we can come up with a couple of hundred likely doomsday scenarios before the discussion goes overboard with say "DRM enforcing land mines". As it stands, the flu issue is getting too much attention and I for one refuse to participate in what I perceive to be a Fear Uncertainty and Doubt campaign.
Re:A few interesting things about the bird flu
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Cod Enzyme Kills Bird Flu
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I picked rabies for the "Shock and Awe" effect (remember that slogan from somewhere?). I suppose Ebola virus or the lesser known Marburg virus would be better candidates. But then you might also note that Rabies has claimed to our knowledge more human lives than the bird flu.
Another fact is, virii and other pathogens have been out and about for a Very-Long-Time and the bird flu didn't just appear yesterday. In other words, it had plenty of opportunity for thousands of years to kill us - just like the thousands of virii we don't even know about and that could cull the human herd any day.
There are at least a dozen _known_ diseases that will just as gleefully sicken or even kill the human animal. Why we're so upset about the bird flu and what makes it special, I don't know, except of course that the entire subject is pushed into our faces and through our ears nonstop through the media. (Just to forestall some comments: The rabies virus could mutate too and become airborne for all we know. Gnade uns Gott should that ever happen).
One thing that is however noteworthy about the bird flu (wohoo!) is that "Tamiflu" the experimental drug that is supposed to alleviate its symptoms was developed by Gilead Sciences, the company Donald Rumsfeld was Chairman of the Board of during 1997 until being sworn in as Secretary of Defense in 2001. Another noteworthy thing is that the United States Government has purchased and stockpiled large amounts of this largely unproven medication and guess who still owns stock in Gilead? (La Rouche pharmaceuticals produces the drug but it pays royalties to Gilead).
This really depends on the perspective. Maybe spending all those hours building these Star-Treky props wasn't "productive" for him as you'd define productive but I can imagine it was most likely an immensely interesting and satisfying activity for him. Going from the "Vista" link you're plugging in your signature, I'd find the time better spent building myself an LCARS-kind-of-like display than wasting my time on that.
Microsoft started it with their "Vista" XP-successor where you can "upgrade" to "Premium" or "Ultimate" versions with your credit card, how long before Apple turns around and says
"I see you are trying to use your bluetooth adapter. For a one-time use feature please authorize a $2.99 charge to your credit card. If you want to use this feature for longer periods of time the following plans are available: 2 weeks of operation $8.99, 4 weeks of operation $14.99. Time limited options extend automatically with recurring charges to your credit card. Unlimited feature activation $49.99 one time charge."
Sorry to see this modded to +5 funny, but hey, keep going. You probably already know that the deck is stacked against people posting "unpopular" things but at least in my experience for every -1 TROLL I get there is someone to reverse that with a +1 insightful/interesting.
Two or three weeks ago "we found out" on slashdot that Exxon contributes to research debunking man-made global warming theories. Now we'd like to know from who is funding the proponents of these theories...
Right but on the other hand this woman did not get up one morning decide to drink canada dry. Obviously to her the prize was worth tremendous effort, exertion and possibly humiliation.
Should the DA decide to make a case out of it, he'll flesh it out along the lines of who put how much pressure on that woman to keep going.
Slashdot Mirror
When you look something up on Wikipedia I recommend that you also read
the discussion pages _and_ browse the article history for what gets
deleted.
Wikipedia is teeming with gatekeepers.
I didn't say the Hindus are heartless. Please think before you lash out.
I merely rescued the AC's post from (-1 Trolldom because they are making
a valid point here and somebody obviously didn't like it.
"I'm very sure that the budgeting issues between these two activities are so insanely far apart, that any sort of comparison would be impossible to make."
Laughter hits the hardest when you're not expecting it. Hilarious!
"Feed your children India!
(Score:0, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22, @09:16AM (#17709874)
why dont these heartless hindus use some of their engineers to design sanitation systems, water purification plants, food preservation technologies etc? This sorry excuse of a nation has the world's largest concentration of hungry people without access to clean water or toilet facilities. Shame on them!"
He does have a point however. "The World's Largest Democracy" (tm)
India spends a lot of effort on developing military capabilities. Feeding their people is obviously not a priority.
A shame your faith doesn't reward such fervor.
Who says extraterrestials limited to sublight speeds? They may well have the ability to teleport
instantenously across the Galaxy. On top of that... who says they're from space light-years away?
They could be maybe have evolved on this planet or in this solar system millions of years before we
arrived on the scene. And then who says there is not an inhabitable why even earth-like planet
orbiting a Star within 20 light years from here?
Just because we don't know how to do it, doesn't mean someone else in the universe didn't find out
how to do.
The way I see it these scientists are humming a self-defeating mantra here.
No, most publically funded research is not available to the public, at least not for free.
But it's not just the public money that is spent on research that is misappropiated, it is
in fact the entire infrastructure that private corporations get use of for next to
nothing.
Most university departments "cooperate" in research with private corporations in that
those corporations put the professors in charge of the dept on their payrolls. They in turn
"align their research" with what the corps want and put the university infrastructure
(labs, equipment, students and employees) to work for them.
but I have karma to burn...
Why does China still have Most Favored Nation status with the US?
Pippatron, you're a jerk and that is the best compromise I could find weighing
courtesy, respect and the fact that you are an utter moron recycling
propaganda. Aside from their "special economic zones" 98% percent of China's population
lives in abject poverty if they're lucky and in "Laogai" prison camps if they're
a little less lucky than that.
The only really interesting thing is that a handful of people took on to my initial post here
all in all expending their mod-points to hammer it all the way down to -1.
The question however still stands... and I'll just repeat it right away:
Why does China still have Most Favored Nation status?
The Weather Channel's most prominent man-made global warming evangelist is
advocating that broadcast meteorologists be excommunicated for heresy if
they express skepticism about the gospel of man-made catastrophic global warming.
They're all sorts of religions on the planet and only few deal with spiritual matters.
After all, China is "our" Most Favored Trading-Partner.
See how ridiculous that is? Most of the cheap crap they sell us at Walmart is
"Made in China" (and most of that by chinese prison labor working under the most
deplorable conditions).
Honk when you see a Cosco (Chinese Overseas Trading Co.) truck on the highway.
Right. When you can't fight the arguments you shut people up.
We had quiet a lot of "Shutup!"-s in recent times didn't we??
As of now it is no longer safe to question or "badmouth" the government.
So with such a favorable climate towards oppression of opinion and
Free Speech all sorts of roaches are coming out of the woodwork.
Today we have "experts" like the Weather-Channel censor-du-jour
calling to have Global Warming debunkers silenced. Tomorrow we'll get
what?
Pat Robertson forcing his christian-flavored Teleevangelism
down our throats by law? North Korean kind of forced parades where
(starving!) people are made to march through the streets thanking their
"Great Leader" for the "plenty"???
Go and check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamiflu
"It was developed by Gilead Sciences and is currently marketed by Hoffmann-La Roche (Roche) under the trade name Tamiflu. It is generally available by prescription only."
Then you can go back watching the "O'Reilly Factor" or listen to Rush Limbaugh while you color in the pages in your
"War on Terror" crayon book.
You're right. Dichloroacetate is already used to treat lactic acidosis (buildup of lactic acid in the body.
The day I find out I have cancer is the day I will be taking that drug no matter whether that cheats
the industry out of a hundred thousand dollars and the Club of Rome out of another welcome premature death.
There will be a doctor that will prescribe it, they're used to being bribed.
"Wikipedia makes them look like a sort of "wind back the clock" party. "
With anything remotely political, taboo or maybe just not in sync with world socialism
when you look up stuff I recommend you read the discussion page too and look through
the article's history to see what they have deleted. Reading just the article by itself
is just as pointless as trying to lather up with soap but without water.
Nothing fundamental has changed that it will be the bird flu that will kill any sizeable
portion of the world's population and still it is getting watts of media attention.
An asteroid impact by the way is just as likely and will prove probably far deadlier to
all species on the planet.
A little less likely than the asteroid scenario but still a possibility would be a
gamma ray burst caused by some calamity of sorts like a supernova in our nearer
interstellar neighborhood. Mighty bird flu might survive that, though it would be a
phyric victory without a host.
I'm sure that between us and the rest of slashdot we can come up with a couple of
hundred likely doomsday scenarios before the discussion goes overboard with say "DRM enforcing
land mines". As it stands, the flu issue is getting too much attention and I for one
refuse to participate in what I perceive to be a Fear Uncertainty and Doubt campaign.
I picked rabies for the "Shock and Awe" effect (remember that slogan from somewhere?). I suppose
Ebola virus or the lesser known Marburg virus would be better candidates. But then you might
also note that Rabies has claimed to our knowledge more human lives than the bird flu.
Another fact is, virii and other pathogens have been out and about for a Very-Long-Time and the bird
flu didn't just appear yesterday. In other words, it had plenty of opportunity for
thousands of years to kill us - just like the thousands of virii we don't even know about and
that could cull the human herd any day.
and why I am sick and tired of the subject...
There are at least a dozen _known_ diseases that will just as gleefully sicken or even kill the human animal.
Why we're so upset about the bird flu and what makes it special, I don't know, except of course that the entire
subject is pushed into our faces and through our ears nonstop through the media. (Just to forestall some
comments: The rabies virus could mutate too and become airborne for all we know. Gnade uns Gott should that ever
happen).
One thing that is however noteworthy about the bird flu (wohoo!) is that "Tamiflu" the experimental drug that is
supposed to alleviate its symptoms was developed by Gilead Sciences, the company Donald Rumsfeld was Chairman
of the Board of during 1997 until being sworn in as Secretary of Defense in 2001. Another noteworthy thing is
that the United States Government has purchased and stockpiled large amounts of this largely unproven medication
and guess who still owns stock in Gilead? (La Rouche pharmaceuticals produces the drug but it pays royalties to
Gilead).
In the same vein, photocopiers and printing presses had to be registered and licensed
in the eastern bloc.
Tell you what, these people are the scum of the earth.
"http:/www.vistahelpforum.com/"
This really depends on the perspective. Maybe spending all those hours building these Star-Treky props
wasn't "productive" for him as you'd define productive but I can imagine it was most likely an immensely
interesting and satisfying activity for him. Going from the "Vista" link you're plugging in your signature,
I'd find the time better spent building myself an LCARS-kind-of-like display than wasting my time on that.
Microsoft started it with their "Vista" XP-successor where you can
"upgrade" to "Premium" or "Ultimate" versions with your credit card,
how long before Apple turns around and says
"I see you are trying to use your bluetooth adapter. For a one-time use
feature please authorize a $2.99 charge to your credit card. If you want to
use this feature for longer periods of time the following plans are
available: 2 weeks of operation $8.99, 4 weeks of operation $14.99.
Time limited options extend automatically with recurring charges to your
credit card. Unlimited feature activation $49.99 one time charge."
Sorry to see this modded to +5 funny, but hey, keep going. You probably already know that the deck is stacked against
people posting "unpopular" things but at least in my experience for every -1 TROLL I get there is someone to reverse
that with a +1 insightful/interesting.
Two or three weeks ago "we found out" on slashdot that Exxon contributes ...
to research debunking man-made global warming theories. Now we'd like to
know from who is funding the proponents of these theories
Indulge us.
Right but on the other hand this woman did not get up one morning decide to drink
canada dry. Obviously to her the prize was worth tremendous effort, exertion and
possibly humiliation.
Should the DA decide to make a case out of it, he'll flesh it out along the lines of
who put how much pressure on that woman to keep going.
"This is not open to discussion... He's wasting his time and the court's time, he can't win."
Your sir, Are Most Obviously Not A Lawyer.