Ya that sould have said flu is an RNA virus like HIV, you're right there is a subtle difference between "RNA virus" and "Retrovirus"
It was a while since I took that virology course.
Point is RNA viruses such as HIV do mutate much faster than others and can cause harm in people.
These alternative views should indeed be explored, and have been to the satisfaction of the majority of researchers
That is why the majority of AIDS research is done on HIV, it is the best theory so far.
If a new plausible and logical theory arises you can bet funding would go to that as well.
From what I've seen the lifestyle/drug use theories don't satisfy either condition, and so I dont believe in them. That simple.
1) First off Chicken pox and the Flu are retroviruses, hopefully you agree they do harm. The are many others.
2) Killing your host is suicide only if you don't find a new one first. From an evolutionary point of view its in HIV's best interest to maintain a high viral load to ensure it can be transmitted.
This has the side effect of being lethal to the host, but by that time its already been passed on so it doesn't matter.
In populations with many sexual partners HIV will evolve to become more lethal, not less.
(Luckily the converse is also true)
3) The virus is never really latent, most people just manage to keep it in check for 5 - 10 years. Since its a retrovirus HIV evolves very quickly in each and every host, The immune system eventually can't keep up.
If you ever wanted proof of evolution in action, HIV over the course of a single infection is it.
While this subscription model might look good to some businesses who always upgrade their software with each new release, I don't think individual users will go for it.
I will not pay a monthly fee to run software when the ability exists to install it once and have it run forever, free of additional charge.
If new software becomes available with new features, I and I alone will be the one to decide if I want it or not.
This subscription scheme just means you still pay for software "upgrades" every 6 or 12 months, only now the software might not have anything new in it, it could be exactly the same.
Why is it that everone bashes computer speakers so much? For example mine say
Frequency Response 70Hz - 20kHz +-3db
Signal to Noise 85db
They are made by Yamaha but were not that expensive.
When you include the Sub they cover the entire human hearing range with an error of less than 3db, the Signal-to-Noise Ratio ensures they never hiss.. basically what am I missing that I would get with a $1000+ set of speakers (apart from any THX/Surround Sound/etc.)?
You're right people can be fooled easily... Celerons were faster than PII's clock-for-clock in most tasks since their cache runs twice as fast. All PII's and early PIII's had this slow, off-die cache yet they cost atleast twice as much as the Celerons.
And thats before you overclock them..
(Now Celerons are just crippled PIII's, but that wasn't always the case)
It doesn't matter how much is reflected/absorbed by the skull.
Photons from powerlines, cell phones, radio towers etc are about 1 million times too weak to ionize DNA (UV or higher energy is needed, your light bulb gives off higher energy photons than a cell phone). Which means no mutations.
Which means no cancer, even if 100% of the radiation were absorbed by the brain. (The skull will absorb more than the brain though, for what its worth)
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RIM doesn't have the encryption keys to data traveling over individual BES servers, so they will not cave and couldn't even if they wanted too.
You still need a floppy to install SATA drviers on XP too.
That's actually legal? How could they ever lose with that kind of power?
Ya that sould have said flu is an RNA virus like HIV, you're right there is a subtle difference between "RNA virus" and "Retrovirus"
It was a while since I took that virology course.
Point is RNA viruses such as HIV do mutate much faster than others and can cause harm in people.
These alternative views should indeed be explored, and have been to the satisfaction of the majority of researchers
That is why the majority of AIDS research is done on HIV, it is the best theory so far.
If a new plausible and logical theory arises you can bet funding would go to that as well.
From what I've seen the lifestyle/drug use theories don't satisfy either condition, and so I dont believe in them. That simple.
So much mis-information.. where to begin..
1) First off Chicken pox and the Flu are retroviruses, hopefully you agree they do harm. The are many others.
2) Killing your host is suicide only if you don't find a new one first. From an evolutionary point of view its in HIV's best interest to maintain a high viral load to ensure it can be transmitted.
This has the side effect of being lethal to the host, but by that time its already been passed on so it doesn't matter.
In populations with many sexual partners HIV will evolve to become more lethal, not less.
(Luckily the converse is also true)
3) The virus is never really latent, most people just manage to keep it in check for 5 - 10 years. Since its a retrovirus HIV evolves very quickly in each and every host, The immune system eventually can't keep up.
If you ever wanted proof of evolution in action, HIV over the course of a single infection is it.
While this subscription model might look good to some businesses who always upgrade their software with each new release, I don't think individual users will go for it.
I will not pay a monthly fee to run software when the ability exists to install it once and have it run forever, free of additional charge.
If new software becomes available with new features, I and I alone will be the one to decide if I want it or not.
This subscription scheme just means you still pay for software "upgrades" every 6 or 12 months, only now the software might not have anything new in it, it could be exactly the same.
sweet deal, I don't blame them for trying
Why is it that everone bashes computer speakers so much? For example mine say
Frequency Response 70Hz - 20kHz +-3db
Signal to Noise 85db
They are made by Yamaha but were not that expensive.
When you include the Sub they cover the entire human hearing range with an error of less than 3db, the Signal-to-Noise Ratio ensures they never hiss.. basically what am I missing that I would get with a $1000+ set of speakers (apart from any THX/Surround Sound/etc.)?
You're right people can be fooled easily... Celerons were faster than PII's clock-for-clock in most tasks since their cache runs twice as fast. All PII's and early PIII's had this slow, off-die cache yet they cost atleast twice as much as the Celerons.
And thats before you overclock them..
(Now Celerons are just crippled PIII's, but that wasn't always the case)
ipchains can be configured to pass through napster requests with something like:
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L xx.xx.39.225 6699 -R 192.168.20.6 6699
It doesn't matter how much is reflected/absorbed by the skull.
Photons from powerlines, cell phones, radio towers etc are about 1 million times too weak to ionize DNA (UV or higher energy is needed, your light bulb gives off higher energy photons than a cell phone). Which means no mutations.
Which means no cancer, even if 100% of the radiation were absorbed by the brain. (The skull will absorb more than the brain though, for what its worth)
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