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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Taristin on February 12, 2005, 06:13:35 pm
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http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/40395.htm
New aids Virus found in a NYC man. Resistant to three of the four drugs to trat AIDS, and will go from HIV to AIDS in 2-20 months. :shaking:
Scary.
But... could this be what is needed to stop it? If the virus was immediate, rather than having a 10 yr incubation period, could it be that more people would die from it, before they spread it to countless others? (I know that sounds morbid and unempathetic, but....could it be just what is needed to stop AIDS?)
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Mah.if you find a cure for AIDS another desease will pop up.
It's the nature's self-defense mechanism.
It's trying to thin us out, but we breed faster than we die.
You can't defeat nature anyway... Honestly, I really don't know why it bothers with AIDS since we're gonna kill ourselves anyway...
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that is scary. but yes, it would stop it from spreading, but it won't stop the original one.
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Two months to develop into AIDS? Oh, damn.
Maybe you're right though, Raa - I guess that's part of why HIV/AIDS has spread so far in its present form. I still shudder at the thought of how many deaths this will be responsible for, though.
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Actually, this is probably similar to what biologists have observed with other diseases.
If the disease has relatively few chances to spread, it will lie low and slow down its maturity cycle so that it can spread to as many people as possible before it does its damage. If it matures too fast it kills off all the hosts too quickly and won't be able to sustain itself.
However if the disease has relatively many chances to spread, it will mature as fast as possible so that it can make as many copies of itself as possible. It doesn't matter that the hosts die quickly, because it spreads fast enough to overcome that.
What this probably means is that there are so many instances of unprotected casual sex and sharing of drug needles that AIDS is getting more and more chances to spread. :sigh:
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and the people who engage in these activities will die soon.
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Yes, but you have huge freaking collateral damage in the mean time.
I don't want to be insensitive - but Bob has a point. It's an example of evolution in action - the smartest (safest) will survive.
However this is tragic, and I truly feel for the people who suffer from this condition - especially the children who become infected through no fault of their own.
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timespacecontinuum megaedit: Sorry Raa :(
Hopping onto "this is good" bandwagon, for the reasons already discussed. Plus it will put the people out of their "misery" faster. i am such a faggot
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Originally posted by Janos
i am such a faggot
I really wish that was one of the words in the filter. I hate that word.
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Beyond the time warp - faggot is not a swear word per se - it merely refers to a sexual orientation we all find repulsive due to male social preconceptions about intimacy.
What? I'm high on coffee.
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Originally posted by vyper
Beyond the time warp - faggot is not a swear word per se - it merely refers to a sexual orientation we all find repulsive due to male social preconceptions about intimacy.
What? I'm high on coffee.
Thats not why I hate the word. It just sounds repulsive.
Which sounds worse when you say it aloud, Faggot or B*tch?
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Holy crap indeed.
Nothing good can come from this...nothing good usually does when it comes to virii........
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Virii...anything like penii?
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Originally posted by Jetmech Jr.
Thats not why I hate the word. It just sounds repulsive.
Which sounds worse when you say it aloud, Faggot or B*tch?
It's used in the same hateful way that Nigger is used. That's why there's 'Gay', and there's 'faggot'. (But this is not the place for that)
It's really frakkin scary that this disease mutated as it did. And I truly feel for the people who unwittingly, and unwillingly are given this disease. (Yes, there are actually sick people out there who want to get, and give it)
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Originally posted by Raa
It's used in the same hateful way that Nigger is used. That's why there's 'Gay', and there's 'faggot'. (But this is not the place for that)
It's really frakkin scary that this disease mutated as it did. And I truly feel for the people who unwittingly, and unwillingly are given this disease. (Yes, there are actually sick people out there who want to get, and give it)
That too.
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I'm waiting for them to perfect nano-probes-- programmed to constantly screen our bodies and repair anything that isn't working properly. That would just flat-out rule.
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Until it was used to destroy those who opposed the establishment. :nervous:
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Originally posted by Ford Prefect
I'm waiting for them to perfect nano-probes-- programmed to constantly screen our bodies and repair anything that isn't working properly. That would just flat-out rule.
Like white blood cells? ;)
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No, he wants something that a group could try to take control of, and use as a bio-terror agent, like that episode of Atlantis. :p
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Much better than white blood cells. These things would be able to recognize any problem with any system of the body. They could eliminate cancerous cells, clear away arterial clogging, reverse organ trauma, and instantly recognize when a microbe is dangerous.
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Could you poop a few of them out and have them build you stuff too? The new and improved crap bots, able to repair your body AND give you an unlimited supply of beer.
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Yayyyyyyy condoms!!
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condoms don't work against aids.
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Originally posted by Carl
condoms don't work against aids.
what
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Well.... The chances of getting aids are a whole lot less if you use one during sex!
But yes, you can get Aids through flouid transfer. That includes kissing (ONLY if both happen to have cuts in the vicinity of their mouths and these cuts interlock to mix the blood. The HIV virus is a wimp outside its habitat. It dies in air and the mouth. But there's still a chance. ), touching a bleeding wound, and pritty much anything else blood related. Sex is the easiest way of transfer for obvious reasons.
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Microbeings in your blood killing bacteria and virii is all very well until the develop thier own agenda. You should read 'Blood Music' it's a short story with a message, here's a summary:
http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/bmu.htm
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce
Well.... The chances of getting aids are a whole lot less if you use one during sex!
But yes, you can get Aids through flouid transfer. That includes kissing (ONLY if both happen to have cuts in the vicinity of their mouths and these cuts interlock to mix the blood. The HIV virus is a wimp outside its habitat. It dies in air and the mouth. But there's still a chance. ), touching a bleeding wound, and pritty much anything else blood related. Sex is the easiest way of transfer for obvious reasons.
IIRC there's not actually any documented case of AIDs being caught through kissing, though.
NB:
(http://www.dazbert.co.uk/sites/rudefood/food/faggots.jpg)
Yum.
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:lol: There's so much wrong with that!
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There's so much RIGHT with that!
faggotfaggotfaggot
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2698507.stm
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Originally posted by Ford Prefect
Much better than white blood cells. These things would be able to recognize any problem with any system of the body. They could eliminate cancerous cells, clear away arterial clogging, reverse organ trauma, and instantly recognize when a microbe is dangerous.
Whilst I think this is the future of medecine, there's no ****ing way I'd have it done to me in this sort of political environment, you might as well just stamp a barcode on your head.
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I've been saying for years that someone needed to engineer something like this, but does anybody listen?
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:lol: @ TopAce!
Do a quick search on his posts and take a guess who that is... ;)
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
ROFL
hahahahahahaha
*dies of laughter*
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an0n?
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BING BING BING WE HAVE A WINNER!
Originally posted by Register
I'd help, but I'm banned.
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oooh... time warp.
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Leeets dooo the tiiime wa....r......What?
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Ha. It's worth wasting my honours project time just to see that. :p
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WTF is an 'honours project'?
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You know - 4th year of University, the part that gets you the "Hons" after the "BSc".
In other words, very soon I shall be : vyper BSc(Hons)
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I never did understand all that 'Bachelor of the Sciences' bull****.
And I'd rather have 'Do not approach' written after my name.