"Following World War II the worlds public health community mounted two ambitious campaigns to eradicate microbes from the planet. One effort would succeed, becoming the greatest triumph of modern public health. The other would fail so miserably that the targeted microbes would increase both in number and in virulence, and the Homo sapiens death toll would soar. Humanity's great success story would be smallpox... On May 8, 1980, the World Health Assembly formally declared that "the World and all its peoples have won freedom from smallpox, which was a most devastating disease sweeping in epidemic form through many countries since earliest times, leaving death, blindness, and disfigurement in its wake and which only a decade ago was rampant in Africa, Asia, and South America.".
A very different outcome awaited those who fought to eradicate malaria worldwide. Between 1958 and 1963 alone, $430 million was spent on a series of failed attempts to eliminate malaria. In 1991 dollars that consituted an expenditure of over $1.914 billion. Between 1964 and 1981, the United States spent an additional $793 million."
"The Coming Plague" Laurie Garrett (page 30-47)
DDT was, at first, a very effective fight against the malaria carrying mosquitoes.
"In 1956, malarioligist Paul Russell, then at Harvard's University's School of Public Health, authored a report for the International Development Advisory Board recommending the immediate global eradication of malaria.
Generally, it takes four years of spraying and four years of surveillance to make sure of three consecutive years of no mosquito transmission in an area. After that, normal health department activities can be depended upon to deal with occasional introduced cases.... Eradication can be pushed through in a community in a period of eight to ten years, with not more than four to six years of actual spraying without much danger of resistance. But if countries, due to lack of funds, have to proceed slowly, resistance is almost certain to appear and eradication will become economically impossible. Time is of the essence[his emphasis] because DDT resistance has appeared in six or seven years."
"The Coming Plague" Laurie Garrett (page 48)
Unfortunately, around 1963, when malaria control efforts were just beginning to break down due to the sudden drop of funding from Congress, agricultural use of DDT and its sister compounds were soaring. Resistant mosquito populations appeared all over the world. At the same time Russel was worrying over his new resistant pest problem, two people who were taking chloroquine(the current very effective treatment to malaria) developed malaria in South America. Almost instantly chloroquine-resistant strains appeared all over the world. Soon resistances to all forms of quinine were appearing as well as other drugs introduced in the 1960's.
"In 1975 the worldwide incidence of malaria was about 2.5 times what it had been in 1961, midway through Paul Russell's campaign. In some countries the disease was claiming horrendous numbers of people. China, for example, had an estimated 9 million cases in 1975, compared to about 1 million in 1961. India jumped in that time period from 1 million to over 6 million cases... A new global iatrogenic form of malaria was emerging-"iatrogenic" meaning created as a result of medical treatment. In its well-meaning zeal to treat the world's malaria scourge, humanity had created a new epidemic."
"The Coming Plague" Laurie Garrett (page 52)
So at the same time while this is a huge opportunity to complete what we started in our original goal of eradicating malaria, it is also a huge risk, the problem we caused by trying to eradicate it in the first place will plague us for some time.
Well, ask any officer. Ask him if he notices a fellow officer going over the speed limit does he give him a ticket? In most cases, a Police Officer will not be fined or ticketed for most things. Now murder and other areas, are serious matter and you are supposed to act accordingly.
It am not sure it is meant to be ethical, in fact I don't rightly understand it, but it is also the reason I changed my major.
Instead of making a campaign to bring awareness of the face that your kid can surf for porn on the Wii, they are attacking the Wii and saying its a porn machine. You know, a content filter is probably built in.
All I am saying is someone should campaign against this religious group for first of all attacking the console, second of all not making the campaign about it being YOUR fault, it is YOUR fault you don't pay enough attention to your kid to notice the fact he can surf the web on his console, it is YOUR fault that you didn't use the content filter. It is your fault if you have a problem with pornography and you go out and buy something which allows you to view it.
You might as well encourage more journalist to use the term gay, and I don't mean Homosexual. I mean the gay as in happy, content, pleasant definition.
Evolve does include micro-evolution but what most religious people associate with the word is the "suddenly lizards sprouted feathers and started flying" theories. Remember Darwin was a Christian, a lot of Christians understand that plants and animals 'evolve' in situations where it is necessary, humans right now are 'evolving' their metabolism.
When you say Evolve people think of a lot more than adaptation to environment. They also think Macro-evolution.
When you say Gay people think of a lot more than... well there is no possible way of saying this without it sounding gay. Basically they also think of homosexuality. Its a moderately good comparison.
So what we really need is a tricky way to redirect light instantly in order to redirect it away from troops. Maybe something not necessarily a physical mirror as such. Or you could just place something on the battlefield to reduce the effectiveness of the laser.
I would Buy a Wii and not a 360 or a PS3 the reason being, even if I sink 250 in it and it isn't 'out of this world', I still have a system which cost me half the competition and I can have tons of fun with my friends on the team games, personally I am waiting for the multi-player FPS games to come out in order to see if they can pull their own weight, if so I am buying.
In the Criminal Justice program one is taught that one should never tattle on a fellow police officer, except in the extreme cases.
And this is the reason I changed my major and my career plans, I don't want to become a police officer to protect fellow officers, I would become a cop to enforce justice, sadly that is a pipe dream in this day and age. There Are plenty of stories of police corruption and further protection of said police by courts. Of course what are we going to do about it, nothing because for now they are the in charge, and until things get really out of hand most of us are willing to sit back and watch TV, and play our computer games, most people are more willing to forget about what is going on around them then to actually sit up and pay attention to reality. To actually get up and go do something to change our system is against the way most of us were raised.
Don't get me wrong, I know plenty of straight officers. I know plenty of really good people in the justice system, and yet, those people don't do anything against those who are corrupt amongst them.
The bottom line is, in times like these and in a major city like Boston, you have to take everything seriously.
My father works in Iraq, he has been over there for about a good three years, and he has commented on the fact that very little actually happens. The news over here just pays attention to a very small select group of incidents, he says he hears gunfire occasionally, and every once in a while a bomb going off. But in general he says that is all something he doesn't have to worry about. The usual situation is, there is a problem the military deals with it, life goes on. It is us 'vain' Americans, to quote my father, who think the world is falling to pieces when one of our soldiers die.
Silly Slashdot poster, everyone knows that organized crime statutes are really meant for things like jailing peaceful abortion protesters for years.
Like the ones that shoot doctors?
No no, that would be the violent abortion protesters. It is easy to get violent protesters and peaceful protesters confused. Of course, in a dangerous situation, the easy way to learn who is who, is to start siding with the opposite side, if you are not maimed or killed, they are peaceful.
Mostly because the Bible was not meant to be edited. Look at the Mormons and it is obvious it wasn't meant to be edited. Yes, the bible in the English language does offer some contradictions of itself but the Greek does a better job of the Bible than English does. On top of all this the Bible actually supports micro evolution, which is the belief that small things change with species over time. What you will never get Christians to agree to though is the one thing that has not obviously been proven and that Darwinist just assume is right, which is macro evolution. Dinosaurs just didn't suddenly start growing feathers. You can't go from nothing to something. There are fossils of dinosaur like creatures with feathers sure, but those show completely feathered creatures, not a slow process from one to another.
So I was sitting in front of my computer despairing over the recent fact that I couldn't play high-end graphic games, when someone told me about something going on in WoW, I decide to check it out real quick, hoping I could log in and out before my graphics card fails on me. I start it up and get the familiar buzzing sound of my video card fan dying on me. Then two Kchunks, which is not a usual sound. My fan had fallen OUT of my Ati x600. Literally fallen out. That just really made me sad, I am thinking of switching to Nvidia because of it. =\
Even though it really wasn't meant to be open source, the Ragnarok Online free servers was where I ended up playing. A few in particular were very fun and I played for a long time on them. There were hundreds of variations but I loved the server I was on also because it was unique, I knew the GM's by name, and I would wave to them and stuff when I saw them. One of the big things I hate about WoW, is the fact I never see any GM's playing, different policy I know, but I would rather have someone I know watching out for everything rather then some nameless person on the other side of a line. These mini-servers end up doing something right. Like Dairy Queen setting up shops in small towns, it just works sometimes.
While others are Plugging above I might as well mention the Darkfall idea, beta is due to start in about a month. www.Darkfallonline.com
Anyway, I believe that it would be possible to regain a large portion of WoW's subscribers by purely starting a hardcore server. Now this wouldn't regain the content gripers, but it would make the anti-carebears happy. Also as above Ryzom Ring is there for the Content whores.
Oh and by and by, even though I personally did not like WoW in the end because it is such a social game, I will probably end up playing the next Blizzard game to be released, not including the Burning Crusade.
Slashdot Mirror
I work as a Night Stocker at HEB, I get two paid 15 minute breaks.
You fail to understand the controversy.
"Following World War II the worlds public health community mounted two ambitious campaigns to eradicate microbes from the planet. One effort would succeed, becoming the greatest triumph of modern public health. The other would fail so miserably that the targeted microbes would increase both in number and in virulence, and the Homo sapiens death toll would soar. Humanity's great success story would be smallpox... On May 8, 1980, the World Health Assembly formally declared that "the World and all its peoples have won freedom from smallpox, which was a most devastating disease sweeping in epidemic form through many countries since earliest times, leaving death, blindness, and disfigurement in its wake and which only a decade ago was rampant in Africa, Asia, and South America.".
A very different outcome awaited those who fought to eradicate malaria worldwide. Between 1958 and 1963 alone, $430 million was spent on a series of failed attempts to eliminate malaria. In 1991 dollars that consituted an expenditure of over $1.914 billion. Between 1964 and 1981, the United States spent an additional $793 million."
"The Coming Plague" Laurie Garrett (page 30-47)
DDT was, at first, a very effective fight against the malaria carrying mosquitoes.
"In 1956, malarioligist Paul Russell, then at Harvard's University's School of Public Health, authored a report for the International Development Advisory Board recommending the immediate global eradication of malaria.
Generally, it takes four years of spraying and four years of surveillance to make sure of three consecutive years of no mosquito transmission in an area. After that, normal health department activities can be depended upon to deal with occasional introduced cases.... Eradication can be pushed through in a community in a period of eight to ten years, with not more than four to six years of actual spraying without much danger of resistance. But if countries, due to lack of funds, have to proceed slowly, resistance is almost certain to appear and eradication will become economically impossible. Time is of the essence[his emphasis] because DDT resistance has appeared in six or seven years."
"The Coming Plague" Laurie Garrett (page 48)
Unfortunately, around 1963, when malaria control efforts were just beginning to break down due to the sudden drop of funding from Congress, agricultural use of DDT and its sister compounds were soaring. Resistant mosquito populations appeared all over the world. At the same time Russel was worrying over his new resistant pest problem, two people who were taking chloroquine(the current very effective treatment to malaria) developed malaria in South America. Almost instantly chloroquine-resistant strains appeared all over the world. Soon resistances to all forms of quinine were appearing as well as other drugs introduced in the 1960's.
"In 1975 the worldwide incidence of malaria was about 2.5 times what it had been in 1961, midway through Paul Russell's campaign. In some countries the disease was claiming horrendous numbers of people. China, for example, had an estimated 9 million cases in 1975, compared to about 1 million in 1961. India jumped in that time period from 1 million to over 6 million cases...
A new global iatrogenic form of malaria was emerging-"iatrogenic" meaning created as a result of medical treatment. In its well-meaning zeal to treat the world's malaria scourge, humanity had created a new epidemic."
"The Coming Plague" Laurie Garrett (page 52)
So at the same time while this is a huge opportunity to complete what we started in our original goal of eradicating malaria, it is also a huge risk, the problem we caused by trying to eradicate it in the first place will plague us for some time.
"I'm neither left or right/I'm just staying home tonight/getting lost in that hopeless little screen." -Leonard Cohen
Well, ask any officer. Ask him if he notices a fellow officer going over the speed limit does he give him a ticket? In most cases, a Police Officer will not be fined or ticketed for most things. Now murder and other areas, are serious matter and you are supposed to act accordingly. It am not sure it is meant to be ethical, in fact I don't rightly understand it, but it is also the reason I changed my major.
Again, in Criminal Justice classes they teach you, backup fellow officers before upholding the law.
IHOP sells some basic Chorizo and they are located everywhere in the US.
Windows is my video game console for life.
Instead of making a campaign to bring awareness of the face that your kid can surf for porn on the Wii, they are attacking the Wii and saying its a porn machine. You know, a content filter is probably built in. All I am saying is someone should campaign against this religious group for first of all attacking the console, second of all not making the campaign about it being YOUR fault, it is YOUR fault you don't pay enough attention to your kid to notice the fact he can surf the web on his console, it is YOUR fault that you didn't use the content filter. It is your fault if you have a problem with pornography and you go out and buy something which allows you to view it.
You might as well encourage more journalist to use the term gay, and I don't mean Homosexual. I mean the gay as in happy, content, pleasant definition.
Evolve does include micro-evolution but what most religious people associate with the word is the "suddenly lizards sprouted feathers and started flying" theories. Remember Darwin was a Christian, a lot of Christians understand that plants and animals 'evolve' in situations where it is necessary, humans right now are 'evolving' their metabolism.
When you say Evolve people think of a lot more than adaptation to environment. They also think Macro-evolution. When you say Gay people think of a lot more than... well there is no possible way of saying this without it sounding gay. Basically they also think of homosexuality. Its a moderately good comparison.
So what we really need is a tricky way to redirect light instantly in order to redirect it away from troops. Maybe something not necessarily a physical mirror as such. Or you could just place something on the battlefield to reduce the effectiveness of the laser.
I would Buy a Wii and not a 360 or a PS3 the reason being, even if I sink 250 in it and it isn't 'out of this world', I still have a system which cost me half the competition and I can have tons of fun with my friends on the team games, personally I am waiting for the multi-player FPS games to come out in order to see if they can pull their own weight, if so I am buying.
In the Criminal Justice program one is taught that one should never tattle on a fellow police officer, except in the extreme cases.
And this is the reason I changed my major and my career plans, I don't want to become a police officer to protect fellow officers, I would become a cop to enforce justice, sadly that is a pipe dream in this day and age. There Are plenty of stories of police corruption and further protection of said police by courts. Of course what are we going to do about it, nothing because for now they are the in charge, and until things get really out of hand most of us are willing to sit back and watch TV, and play our computer games, most people are more willing to forget about what is going on around them then to actually sit up and pay attention to reality. To actually get up and go do something to change our system is against the way most of us were raised.
Don't get me wrong, I know plenty of straight officers. I know plenty of really good people in the justice system, and yet, those people don't do anything against those who are corrupt amongst them.
Do you mean 2 dollar increase in gas tax?
Or do you mean instead of the 1 dollar we pay now, we pay 2 dollars?
Kinky Friedman would never stand for it. =)
The bottom line is, in times like these and in a major city like Boston, you have to take everything seriously.
My father works in Iraq, he has been over there for about a good three years, and he has commented on the fact that very little actually happens. The news over here just pays attention to a very small select group of incidents, he says he hears gunfire occasionally, and every once in a while a bomb going off. But in general he says that is all something he doesn't have to worry about. The usual situation is, there is a problem the military deals with it, life goes on. It is us 'vain' Americans, to quote my father, who think the world is falling to pieces when one of our soldiers die.
Bah, there goes what little karma I had.
No no, that would be the violent abortion protesters. It is easy to get violent protesters and peaceful protesters confused. Of course, in a dangerous situation, the easy way to learn who is who, is to start siding with the opposite side, if you are not maimed or killed, they are peaceful.
Google Internet Cafe chain, coming soon to your neighborhood.
Mostly because the Bible was not meant to be edited. Look at the Mormons and it is obvious it wasn't meant to be edited. Yes, the bible in the English language does offer some contradictions of itself but the Greek does a better job of the Bible than English does. On top of all this the Bible actually supports micro evolution, which is the belief that small things change with species over time. What you will never get Christians to agree to though is the one thing that has not obviously been proven and that Darwinist just assume is right, which is macro evolution. Dinosaurs just didn't suddenly start growing feathers. You can't go from nothing to something. There are fossils of dinosaur like creatures with feathers sure, but those show completely feathered creatures, not a slow process from one to another.
I can't wait till 2000+ years from now people are saying the same thing about our scientific text books.
Rise up my fellow nerds for this is the day we always waited for, when we will be hailed as the new cool!
Seriously though, as the tech industry companies already depend on us, why not get a little fun in the music industry.
Seems more like the mice died off due to the large bird population killing them off.
Forget competition they were just food.
So I was sitting in front of my computer despairing over the recent fact that I couldn't play high-end graphic games, when someone told me about something going on in WoW, I decide to check it out real quick, hoping I could log in and out before my graphics card fails on me. I start it up and get the familiar buzzing sound of my video card fan dying on me. Then two Kchunks, which is not a usual sound. My fan had fallen OUT of my Ati x600. Literally fallen out. That just really made me sad, I am thinking of switching to Nvidia because of it. =\
Even though it really wasn't meant to be open source, the Ragnarok Online free servers was where I ended up playing. A few in particular were very fun and I played for a long time on them. There were hundreds of variations but I loved the server I was on also because it was unique, I knew the GM's by name, and I would wave to them and stuff when I saw them. One of the big things I hate about WoW, is the fact I never see any GM's playing, different policy I know, but I would rather have someone I know watching out for everything rather then some nameless person on the other side of a line. These mini-servers end up doing something right. Like Dairy Queen setting up shops in small towns, it just works sometimes.
We are the Borg, resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.
While others are Plugging above I might as well mention the Darkfall idea, beta is due to start in about a month. www.Darkfallonline.com
Anyway, I believe that it would be possible to regain a large portion of WoW's subscribers by purely starting a hardcore server. Now this wouldn't regain the content gripers, but it would make the anti-carebears happy. Also as above Ryzom Ring is there for the Content whores. Oh and by and by, even though I personally did not like WoW in the end because it is such a social game, I will probably end up playing the next Blizzard game to be released, not including the Burning Crusade.