As a user currently caught up in the Purge, I'm very disappointed. Google+ promised they would have a different approach to Privacy than the nosy and intrusive FaceBook. And now a month later Google+ is requiring users to mail in copies of their Government ID in order to be allowed to continue using the service? And even then they won't let users keep their government name private. And what'll it be next month? Maybe a pay stub? At this rate, by wintertime Google will want blood samples and fingerprints. Just so we can look at and share pics of LOL Cats? Who do they think they are?
Ah, so what you could do is create a 3rd Life game inside Second Life for people to play, sell that money for 2nd Life money, and that money for In Real Life money.
This is all unconvincing, and seems to say little for natually occuring mutations versus ones forced in the laboratory.
How are they doing the mutating? Virus? Gene slicing/splicing? Is there an unmmutated gene sitting out there in the pool after the process. Some little bugger that can undo some surgically malicious damage wouldn't be too surprising then.
Said the same dang thing, passing by the kiosk set up in the Undergrad library, the forms in hand to change my major from CS to English, as I figured nothing new was coming down the pike in programming. Doh!
So that's how you steal a car! I have the half a tennis ball thing down pat, I just needed a bic pen. That BMW is all mine! Thank you/.ers. Write me in prison, won't you?
The CNN article linked to in the Wiki suggests a starting date of "around, or just after, the Second World War", which discredits the Cold War conspiracy theories. We all know there were no mad scientists running around back then who'd plant a virus in the heart of Africa in order to cause genocide against an entire dark-skinned race of people....
So really the long term cure for AIDS from an evolutionary stand point is for everyone to have unsafe sex, and for the price of pharmaceuticals to enhance the infected's longentivity to go through the roof.
Well, for the most part I guess everything is going according to plan....
>Are there any known negative >effects from this mutation?
Well, unless you mean by "negative" that you can't die of the Black Death.
People forget that aside from killing a third of Europe's population, it also wiped out two thirds of all Mongolians (where some suggest the plague began), and a whole lot of their southern Chinese neighbors as well.
So, if the proposed link between genetic immunity to the bubonic plague -- which 5% of European descended stock still possess, supposedly -- and full or partial (carrier only) immunity to HIV is scientifically valid, it would be of little surprise there would be similar immunities in the Far East -- especially near a port city where the plague was mosy prevalent.
Take my Karma, please!
What they need to do next is a plagerism bot which will just rip and recombine the news stories in the links. I believe that's 99% of the journalism business anyway, right?
Slashdot Mirror
Who gives their real zip code out? I'm in 90210 whenever anyone asks.
As a user currently caught up in the Purge, I'm very disappointed. Google+ promised they would have a different approach to Privacy than the nosy and intrusive FaceBook. And now a month later Google+ is requiring users to mail in copies of their Government ID in order to be allowed to continue using the service? And even then they won't let users keep their government name private. And what'll it be next month? Maybe a pay stub? At this rate, by wintertime Google will want blood samples and fingerprints. Just so we can look at and share pics of LOL Cats? Who do they think they are?
Not all missions can be solved with chess Deep Blue. Someday you'll understand that.
Ain't you Charlie?
In capitalist America, photocopiers lockup you!
Ah, so what you could do is create a 3rd Life game inside Second Life for people to play, sell that money for 2nd Life money, and that money for In Real Life money.
Brundle-Rex?
(just asking)
> if this particular gene (HTH) is mutated
This is all unconvincing, and seems to say little for natually occuring mutations versus ones forced in the laboratory.
How are they doing the mutating? Virus? Gene slicing/splicing? Is there an unmmutated gene sitting out there in the pool after the process. Some little bugger that can undo some surgically malicious damage wouldn't be too surprising then.
Said the same dang thing, passing by the kiosk set up in the Undergrad library, the forms in hand to change my major from CS to English, as I figured nothing new was coming down the pike in programming. Doh!
Still, MS has a lot of lusers.
God sieve us from these bad puns....
Wait, we're they originally used as Air Force aerial tankers??
Yo, dude, chill. Just cause other people don't spell as well as us is no reason to go nukular.
You must not be Irish. Because everytime I shave, I bleed, to quote "The Untouchables", like a stuck Irish pig"
All that MSG -- you'll only be hungry an hour later.
So that's how you steal a car! I have the half a tennis ball thing down pat, I just needed a bic pen. That BMW is all mine! Thank you /.ers. Write me in prison, won't you?
Hmmm... if you rearrange "MSN IE DSL AOL" you get
"ALL IS DEMONS"
"SOLD ME SNAIL"
"ON MS DIES ALL"
Obligatory link to Sean Baby's Superfriend's Page.
If you recall that show, click that link and prepare to crack up.
The CNN article linked to in the Wiki suggests a starting date of "around, or just after, the Second World War", which discredits the Cold War conspiracy theories. We all know there were no mad scientists running around back then who'd plant a virus in the heart of Africa in order to cause genocide against an entire dark-skinned race of people....
So really the long term cure for AIDS from an evolutionary stand point is for everyone to have unsafe sex, and for the price of pharmaceuticals to enhance the infected's longentivity to go through the roof.
Well, for the most part I guess everything is going according to plan....
>Are there any known negative
>effects from this mutation?
Well, unless you mean by "negative" that you can't die of the Black Death.
People forget that aside from killing a third of Europe's population, it also wiped out two thirds of all Mongolians (where some suggest the plague began), and a whole lot of their southern Chinese neighbors as well.
So, if the proposed link between genetic immunity to the bubonic plague -- which 5% of European descended stock still possess, supposedly -- and full or partial (carrier only) immunity to HIV is scientifically valid, it would be of little surprise there would be similar immunities in the Far East -- especially near a port city where the plague was mosy prevalent.
Yes, but I want only of those special ones on late night TV that have Amazing Pulses of Light
>We did? Who's "we"?
I for one quit doing whip-its. Ah, what the heck, what's one more....
mmmm... whip-it real good....
C'mon -- you don't think that Ig Nobel prize was just a coincidence, do you?
Take my Karma, please! What they need to do next is a plagerism bot which will just rip and recombine the news stories in the links. I believe that's 99% of the journalism business anyway, right?