Yes I have heard of it. And if you read what you cited you'll find out the symptoms are pretty much like the 'flu. Hands up who runs out to get tested for HIV 4, 12 and 24 weeks (this is the standard ELISA protocol to rule out false negatives which can be as high as 15% with just one HIV test) after and every time they get a cold? You are a pedant and your argument fails to disprove my point.
Where in the world did you get the idea that it's only a matter of time?
Math.
If you have a monogamous relationship with someone
That's the problem. Everyone claims to have a monogamous relationship, yet somehow this virus keeps spreading. Save belief for your religion. Reality is reality and there's no arguing: Most people cheat but don't admit it to anyone. Therefore we go back to my previous point: math.
Perhaps I don't understand the disease well enough
I do, since I'm a physician. If the virus is undetectable that means there is no free virus or viral particles detected in the bloodstream. However the virus still exists - as a retrovirus it splices itself to your DNA. You will never be rid of it. The medication prevents the production of viral sub units or their assembly. However this only happens while you take the medication. If you forget your medication and skip doses, you go right back to being infected again.
Now in theory if your disease is inactive then it's hard (but I won't say impossible) to infect someone else. However the people with inactive disease are the people who a) can afford the medication all the time, at $1000+/month; b) have the stamina to put up with the side effects all the time and c) have the willpower to never, ever forget a dose. This is not most people. This is a very select group of people we're talking about that fit in all of the above categories.
Bearing that in mind that you have HIV for life whether it's active or not, and bearing in mind that not everyone is rich enough and strong enough to maintain the optimal medical scheme for the rest of their natural life, then necessarily there will always be a pool of infected individuals out there ready to infect the unwary. Once you're in the HIV pool (no pun intended) the only way out is by dying. So as this pool grows its ability to infect others also grows, until eventually almost everyone has it because you are more likely to hit an infected partner than a non infected one. If the pool shrinks then the disease is no longer viewed as a threat and people fall back to irresponsible behavior, which causes it to grow again.
Hell there are many diseases that are far easier to cure than HIV (example gonorrhea - no one walks around for months with gonorrhea active because it hurts like hell and produces an obvious, embarrassing discharge (possibly not safe for work, gonorrhea infected penis) - people usually come running to see the doctor pretty quick. One shot or a couple pills later and you're cured. Yet we still have gonorrhea and we will always have gonorrhea. Now imagine HIV, where you can walk around with it for years without even knowing you have it.
It's normal flora on armadillos and some other critters, if I recall correctly. You have as much chance eradicating it as you do getting rid of "Staphylococcus epidermidis".
The real danger is in a strain of bacteria that can infect a host, cause relatively mild and temporary symptoms, then reinfect and spread after a period of time leading to a lethal toxicity in the effected patient and the people they have probably come into contact with.
You then went on to talk about Ebola, which is a virus - so fair game: The REAL danger is a virus that infects people and shows virtually no symptoms for many years, and then kills them. Oh wait, we already have one, it's called HIV. Do you have HIV? No? How do you know? When was your last series of tests? Better yet, there is no cure, only treatment. Which means you can go on and potentially infect people for the rest of your life-span provided you can afford the treatment. This way you get a mortal disease that is endemic within the population. It's only a matter of time before we are all infected. Conspiracy theories aside, "big pharma" must be excited as hell.
You mean the BSA will suddenly have great difficulties finding said amount of cash, and will scour all the beaches and 5 star hotels in the world in private jets in an attempt to find it.
Or think that somehow the Chinese government would assist them in doing this. The Chinese government would probably point out to the trillion-dollar stack of US Treasury notes and say "paid in advance"...
Tech support wasn't much better when it was done in the US, in the 1980's. You got the same morons but they cost ten times more. The problem is not India, it's the type of person who lands a job in tech support.
At what point will the People stop trying to kick Lucy's football?
Pretty much at the same time as they start kicking Lucy in the head instead. Funny you should choose a Peanuts example though. Schultz was a real bastard with copyright as well, to the point where he had to draw all the stuff himself. Or so I heard.
You realize that you will often find a Wendy's, a McDonalds and a Burger King on the same block, right? Yet somehow they manage to stay in business and sell burgers and french fries. Eventually Disney will be receiving so much bad press for pushing copyright extensions that they will implode. On the other hand I'm sure plenty of people will still buy authentic Disney products once the copyright expires, heck that could even be a marketing tool: buy genuine Disney products, look for the hard-to-forge label, etc.
In ancient Rome the plebs were not allowed to study or know the laws, but they of course were not allowed to break them and suffered punishment, even death when they did. We'll be at this point soon.
Who said there has to be a point? Look at my dog, curled up by my feet. She's happy, and she doesn't worry about her life having some sort of point. She lives for the moment and enjoys every day of her life. And one day she'll drop dead. We all will. And then what was the point, if you spent your whole life worrying about things you can't fix? Take care of the stuff you CAN fix. Just wishing the stars to be closer will not bring them closer. And I'm too old to believe in magic anymore. You would need magic to be able to 1) find and 2) reach a habitable world within the lifetime of the human race. And when you got there you would just fuck it up like we've fucked this one up.
Both alchemy and modern chemistry are rigidly bound by the laws of thermodynamics. Not understanding or having a formula for the law does not mean that it isn't there imposing itself on everything you try to do.
Actually you can. That's how you fix things. You have two bills to pay, a $5000 bill costing you 30% interest per year, or a $2000 bill costing you 2% interest per year. You have limited funds. Which bill do you pay off first...
While the above was an analogy, in the case of government (mis)spending, which program do you cancel/fix first?
Of course I have no idea about what we're talking about, neither do you. But hypothetically adding extra layers and making a chip thicker automatically creates heat issues, since that extra layer or two must act as a thermal insulator, trapping heat in the middle.
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Yes I have heard of it. And if you read what you cited you'll find out the symptoms are pretty much like the 'flu. Hands up who runs out to get tested for HIV 4, 12 and 24 weeks (this is the standard ELISA protocol to rule out false negatives which can be as high as 15% with just one HIV test) after and every time they get a cold? You are a pedant and your argument fails to disprove my point.
Where in the world did you get the idea that it's only a matter of time?
Math.
If you have a monogamous relationship with someone
That's the problem. Everyone claims to have a monogamous relationship, yet somehow this virus keeps spreading. Save belief for your religion. Reality is reality and there's no arguing: Most people cheat but don't admit it to anyone. Therefore we go back to my previous point: math.
Perhaps I don't understand the disease well enough
I do, since I'm a physician. If the virus is undetectable that means there is no free virus or viral particles detected in the bloodstream. However the virus still exists - as a retrovirus it splices itself to your DNA. You will never be rid of it. The medication prevents the production of viral sub units or their assembly. However this only happens while you take the medication. If you forget your medication and skip doses, you go right back to being infected again.
Now in theory if your disease is inactive then it's hard (but I won't say impossible) to infect someone else. However the people with inactive disease are the people who a) can afford the medication all the time, at $1000+/month; b) have the stamina to put up with the side effects all the time and c) have the willpower to never, ever forget a dose. This is not most people. This is a very select group of people we're talking about that fit in all of the above categories.
Bearing that in mind that you have HIV for life whether it's active or not, and bearing in mind that not everyone is rich enough and strong enough to maintain the optimal medical scheme for the rest of their natural life, then necessarily there will always be a pool of infected individuals out there ready to infect the unwary. Once you're in the HIV pool (no pun intended) the only way out is by dying. So as this pool grows its ability to infect others also grows, until eventually almost everyone has it because you are more likely to hit an infected partner than a non infected one. If the pool shrinks then the disease is no longer viewed as a threat and people fall back to irresponsible behavior, which causes it to grow again.
Hell there are many diseases that are far easier to cure than HIV (example gonorrhea - no one walks around for months with gonorrhea active because it hurts like hell and produces an obvious, embarrassing discharge (possibly not safe for work, gonorrhea infected penis) - people usually come running to see the doctor pretty quick. One shot or a couple pills later and you're cured. Yet we still have gonorrhea and we will always have gonorrhea. Now imagine HIV, where you can walk around with it for years without even knowing you have it.
It's normal flora on armadillos and some other critters, if I recall correctly. You have as much chance eradicating it as you do getting rid of "Staphylococcus epidermidis".
The real danger is in a strain of bacteria that can infect a host, cause relatively mild and temporary symptoms, then reinfect and spread after a period of time leading to a lethal toxicity in the effected patient and the people they have probably come into contact with.
You then went on to talk about Ebola, which is a virus - so fair game: The REAL danger is a virus that infects people and shows virtually no symptoms for many years, and then kills them. Oh wait, we already have one, it's called HIV. Do you have HIV? No? How do you know? When was your last series of tests? Better yet, there is no cure, only treatment. Which means you can go on and potentially infect people for the rest of your life-span provided you can afford the treatment. This way you get a mortal disease that is endemic within the population. It's only a matter of time before we are all infected. Conspiracy theories aside, "big pharma" must be excited as hell.
You mean the BSA will suddenly have great difficulties finding said amount of cash, and will scour all the beaches and 5 star hotels in the world in private jets in an attempt to find it.
If it's detected, make it so that you hold their computers and data hostage
Why not just shoot them in the head. I mean, fight fire with fire, right? Two wrongs make a right and all that.
Or think that somehow the Chinese government would assist them in doing this. The Chinese government would probably point out to the trillion-dollar stack of US Treasury notes and say "paid in advance"...
Tech support wasn't much better when it was done in the US, in the 1980's. You got the same morons but they cost ten times more. The problem is not India, it's the type of person who lands a job in tech support.
Or Dwayne Dibbley...
Ahh, Freud.
At what point will the People stop trying to kick Lucy's football?
Pretty much at the same time as they start kicking Lucy in the head instead. Funny you should choose a Peanuts example though. Schultz was a real bastard with copyright as well, to the point where he had to draw all the stuff himself. Or so I heard.
The speech contained a message that MLK (presumably) wanted to get out to everyone. Steamboat Willy, not so much.
Yeah I'm sure Disney went through all the trouble of making a movie so that absolutely no one would see it.
How retarded would they be not to
You realize that you will often find a Wendy's, a McDonalds and a Burger King on the same block, right? Yet somehow they manage to stay in business and sell burgers and french fries. Eventually Disney will be receiving so much bad press for pushing copyright extensions that they will implode. On the other hand I'm sure plenty of people will still buy authentic Disney products once the copyright expires, heck that could even be a marketing tool: buy genuine Disney products, look for the hard-to-forge label, etc.
In ancient Rome the plebs were not allowed to study or know the laws, but they of course were not allowed to break them and suffered punishment, even death when they did. We'll be at this point soon.
That's the theory. Now look at the practice, yeah? Reality is what we object to.
How about not opening your anus to the Internet?
Hey, you get your thrills your way, and let Mr. Goat Se get his thrills his way.
omg and I thought my password was weak, it's ********
I dare you to try to board an airplane while wearing one.
What's the point of our civilization then?
Who said there has to be a point? Look at my dog, curled up by my feet. She's happy, and she doesn't worry about her life having some sort of point. She lives for the moment and enjoys every day of her life. And one day she'll drop dead. We all will. And then what was the point, if you spent your whole life worrying about things you can't fix? Take care of the stuff you CAN fix. Just wishing the stars to be closer will not bring them closer. And I'm too old to believe in magic anymore. You would need magic to be able to 1) find and 2) reach a habitable world within the lifetime of the human race. And when you got there you would just fuck it up like we've fucked this one up.
Both alchemy and modern chemistry are rigidly bound by the laws of thermodynamics. Not understanding or having a formula for the law does not mean that it isn't there imposing itself on everything you try to do.
Actually you can. That's how you fix things. You have two bills to pay, a $5000 bill costing you 30% interest per year, or a $2000 bill costing you 2% interest per year. You have limited funds. Which bill do you pay off first...
While the above was an analogy, in the case of government (mis)spending, which program do you cancel/fix first?
Yeah, you're thinking about Microsoft...
You do know that iPhone apps can do quite a lot in the background...[]... right?
Yeah, like sending all your data to Apple without your consent, for example.
However there is more prior art - casinos have been stacking chips for many decades...
Of course I have no idea about what we're talking about, neither do you. But hypothetically adding extra layers and making a chip thicker automatically creates heat issues, since that extra layer or two must act as a thermal insulator, trapping heat in the middle.