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Rialtor Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.	Posted - 2007.10.21 01:33:00 - [1] 10 ways the world could suddenly end Look at number 3 at 20:00 MRSA So are you worried? ---- sig ---- He who pays the piper, picks the tune
Rialtor Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.	Posted - 2007.10.21 01:33:00 - [2] 10 ways the world could suddenly end Look at number 3 at 20:00 MRSA So are you worried? ---- sig ---- He who pays the piper, picks the tune
Akita T Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force	Posted - 2007.10.21 01:41:00 - [3] You do know that antibiotics research was all but practically halted many years ago, do you ? I don't think we'll be having problems coming up with new ones IF it becomes a MAJOR threat. _ 1\|2\|3
Akita T Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force	Posted - 2007.10.21 01:41:00 - [4] You do know that antibiotics research was all but practically halted many years ago, do you ? I don't think we'll be having problems coming up with new ones IF it becomes a MAJOR threat. _ 1\|2\|3
Rialtor Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.	Posted - 2007.10.21 01:44:00 - [5] Originally by: Akita T You do know that antibiotics research was all but practically halted many years ago, do you ? I don't think we'll be having problems coming up with new ones IF it becomes a MAJOR threat. Problem with that is that the epidemic has to hit 1st to get the political will to find a way to eliminate the strain. ---- sig ---- He who pays the piper, picks the tune
Rialtor Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.	Posted - 2007.10.21 01:44:00 - [6] Originally by: Akita T You do know that antibiotics research was all but practically halted many years ago, do you ? I don't think we'll be having problems coming up with new ones IF it becomes a MAJOR threat. Problem with that is that the epidemic has to hit 1st to get the political will to find a way to eliminate the strain. ---- sig ---- He who pays the piper, picks the tune
Akita T Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force	Posted - 2007.10.21 01:47:00 - [7] It won't kill everybody, and even a 99% casualty rate won't mean the extinction of human kind (60+ mil alive). But the "end of the world as we know it", well, that, yeah, pretty much _ 1\|2\|3
Akita T Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force	Posted - 2007.10.21 01:47:00 - [8] It won't kill everybody, and even a 99% casualty rate won't mean the extinction of human kind (60+ mil alive). But the "end of the world as we know it", well, that, yeah, pretty much _ 1\|2\|3
Rialtor Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.	Posted - 2007.10.21 01:48:00 - [9] Originally by: Akita T It won't kill everybody, and even a 99% casualty rate won't mean the extinction of human kind (60+ mil alive). But the "end of the world as we know it", well, that, yeah, pretty much Oh I'm not talking mass extinction, just that the epidemic might be very close to hitting us. ---- sig ---- He who pays the piper, picks the tune
Rialtor Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.	Posted - 2007.10.21 01:48:00 - [10] Edited by: Rialtor on 21/10/2007 01:51:12 Originally by: Akita T It won't kill everybody, and even a 99% casualty rate won't mean the extinction of human kind (60+ mil alive). But the "end of the world as we know it", well, that, yeah, pretty much Oh I'm not talking mass extinction, just that a major epidemic might be very close to hitting us. ---- sig ---- He who pays the piper, picks the tune

Caid Lemant Cunning Hats	Posted - 2007.10.21 01:54:00 - [11] Brings up so much truth about depression and its effect on our species. Especially how current anti-depressants aren't effective to a majority of those with the problem. -------- There is not enough love and goodness in the world for us to be permitted to give any of it away to imaginary things. Friedrich Nietzsche
Rialtor Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.	Posted - 2007.10.21 02:00:00 - [12] Originally by: Caid Lemant Brings up so much truth about depression and its effect on our species. Especially how current anti-depressants aren't effective to a majority of those with the problem. I dunno Depression is kind of a crock. I think the rise of depression has to do with our laziness. You'd be surprised to learn that exercise has the same if not better rate of curing depression than any medication availible. ---- sig ---- He who pays the piper, picks the tune
LUH 3471	Posted - 2007.10.21 02:01:00 - [13] Edited by: LUH 3471 on 21/10/2007 02:05:50 we have made so much progress outside but on the inside ... there needs to happen a change in consciousness and it will be painfull as evry birth no need to worry
Atama Cardel GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.10.21 02:08:00 - [14] I like the particle accelerator one, if I'm going to die unnaturally, then let it be being compacted in a black hole Originally by: Odda hey im a gonnie and i like to sue CCP to gett the game to my favor
Caid Lemant Cunning Hats	Posted - 2007.10.21 02:09:00 - [15] Originally by: Rialtor Originally by: Caid Lemant Brings up so much truth about depression and its effect on our species. Especially how current anti-depressants aren't effective to a majority of those with the problem. I dunno Depression is kind of a crock. I think the rise of depression has to do with our laziness. You'd be surprised to learn that exercise has the same if not better rate of curing depression than any medication availible. You'd be surprised how many cases of actual depression will not change with exercise. I do agree that many cases of it are laziness, but actual depression for healthy people has been on the rise. -------- There is not enough love and goodness in the world for us to be permitted to give any of it away to imaginary things. Friedrich Nietzsche
LUH 3471	Posted - 2007.10.21 02:12:00 - [16] Edited by: LUH 3471 on 21/10/2007 02:14:36 depression is because we as a people are casting of our old habits its a natural process in the development of consciousness if one looks on what old principles society is build up on .... as fish in water it is not easy to see this problem .... its hard to think your own thoughs
James Swindle Caldari Caldari Provisions	Posted - 2007.10.21 03:20:00 - [17] Edited by: James Swindle on 21/10/2007 03:23:18 The ones that would have me worried the most are the 2 that involve black holes/strangelets....i mean if a blackhole does come across our path or we "accidently" create one there is nothing we can do about it at the moment really and that would be pretty much curtains on the human species as we know it. Also according to the Mayen calendar, the "world as we know it" will end in 2012... maybe they predicted the time that the earths magnetic field will switch round. Ahhhhh 5 years left to live.
Sharupak Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.10.21 05:22:00 - [18] Originally by: LUH 3471 Edited by: LUH 3471 on 21/10/2007 02:37:31 actually nvm Why, that was a good post! _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude.
Derovius Vaden	Posted - 2007.10.21 05:29:00 - [19] Technology doesn't save lives, it reduces the number of deaths normally attributed to the natural culling of the population. Know what happens when natural selection can no longer work its tricks against the stupid and unfit to live? Watch about 20 minutes of CNN, all will become clear.
Sharupak Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.10.21 05:54:00 - [20] Originally by: Rialtor 10 ways the world could suddenly end Look at number 3 at 20:00 MRSA So are you worried? The problem description in 10 is not a problem but actually kind a solution from a collective perspective (hence not an individual one). I once had this epiphany. Every every civilization that I can think of in history is almost soley built on one instinct...Survival. It has happened in small microcosms throughout history...Take for example the Romans. Their civilization becomes so wealthy and powerful and its people removed from the need to exercise the actions of thought that this one instinct creates. Its almost like conquering survival is the end of the game and thus the only thing anybody can think to do is create an environments of synthetic threats to fill a vacuum. This leads to the civilizations ultimate corruption and destruction. But the reason for the vacuum is that the mechanics of the civilization were built for the purposes of ensuring survival. Thus ideologies and systems are ill equiped to deal with "What do we do now?" However, today in so many Western cultures, I feel we are grappling with this issue without consciously realizing it. But we arent going to advance to the next level without serious change in our monetary and economic systems. We get buy in the short term by playing the money game. Schemeing to get more and more and justifying it to our selves subconciously that we NEED it for our survival. But this system evolves in us metaphorically eating each other alive. Ultimately, the solution to all of the human created problems in your post have to do with people effectively managing that instinct to see that...killing,stealing, slaving away,conning and all the methods we use to increase our share of material posessions are actually not benefiting us.....(I cant find a good word here so I am going to post a slew of them) spiritually, mentally, happiness. In fact all that we are realling doing is trading those things for our material share on an individual level and also as a society or culture. People as individuals need to figure this out as it is the only way we are going to do cool ** like "Terraform mars" or "Find that earthlike planet" and cull the impending doom of "Biotech disaster" and "Ecosystem collapse". We need to lose our will to survive! On a side note. Many people believe that tribal cultures were immune to this type of thing and that this is only a plague of western culture. I partially agree but also not. As those cultures also went to war with each other and were canabals and slaughtered their own people. However, they were never as bad as Western Civilization. If you are an Eastern civilization proponent...they did that ** to. _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude.

Caid Lemant Cunning Hats	Posted - 2007.10.21 05:59:00 - [21] Originally by: Derovius Vaden Technology doesn't save lives, it reduces the number of deaths normally attributed to the natural culling of the population. Know what happens when natural selection can no longer work its tricks against the stupid and unfit to live? Watch about 20 minutes of CNN, all will become clear. Stupid and 'unfit' to live are never the same thing. -------- There is not enough love and goodness in the world for us to be permitted to give any of it away to imaginary things. Friedrich Nietzsche
Sharupak Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.10.21 06:04:00 - [22] Originally by: Rialtor Originally by: Caid Lemant Brings up so much truth about depression and its effect on our species. Especially how current anti-depressants aren't effective to a majority of those with the problem. I dunno Depression is kind of a crock. I think the rise of depression has to do with our laziness. You'd be surprised to learn that exercise has the same if not better rate of curing depression than any medication availible. I cures it for the moment. I think that alot of people that are depressed are that way because they figured out that they spend 3/4 of their waking life doing a job that they dont like and even if they were doing one that they did like, they are pressed to do it all the time. There are probably a couple of other lockdowns in there, but the basic idea is they wake up one morning and realize that the social world they live in does not allow free creativity and expression in the manner that they would like to express it. The real killing you softly. _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude.
Sharupak Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.10.21 06:05:00 - [23] Originally by: Derovius Vaden Technology doesn't save lives, it reduces the number of deaths normally attributed to the natural culling of the population. Know what happens when natural selection can no longer work its tricks against the stupid and unfit to live? Watch about 20 minutes of CNN, all will become clear. Please prove that human technology is not natural. _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude.
Derovius Vaden	Posted - 2007.10.21 06:06:00 - [24] Originally by: Caid Lemant Originally by: Derovius Vaden Technology doesn't save lives, it reduces the number of deaths normally attributed to the natural culling of the population. Know what happens when natural selection can no longer work its tricks against the stupid and unfit to live? Watch about 20 minutes of CNN, all will become clear. Stupid and 'unfit' to live are never the same thing. I don't know where you stand, making this observation, but every stupid person I've met seemingly defies the very nature of survival of the fittest. People of value are dying routinely at the hands of people who should be locked in a dank hole for their numerous violations of even the most basic responsibilities as citizenry.
Sharupak Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.10.21 06:10:00 - [25] Edited by: Sharupak on 21/10/2007 06:10:31 Oh sorry for the triple post, but it was necessary. To answer your post rialtor. The real solution is to do what you can and also to live for the now. If the ** hits the fan, two things are going to happen...either there is nothing after this life and it..you had fun and you wont remember the bad times (or the good for that matter) or there is an afterlife to which you can say "Look at the ** I did" "That was a blast, whats next!" _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude.
Eval B'Stard Minmatar Republic Military School	Posted - 2007.10.21 07:01:00 - [26] Edited by: Eval B''Stard on 21/10/2007 07:02:33 Originally by: Sharupak Edited by: Sharupak on 21/10/2007 06:10:31 Oh sorry for the triple post, but it was necessary. To answer your post rialtor. The real solution is to do what you can and also to live for the now. If the ** hits the fan, two things are going to happen...either there is nothing after this life and it..you had fun and you wont remember the bad times (or the good for that matter) or there is an afterlife to which you can say "Look at the I did" "That was a blast, whats next!" I couldn't agree more, if the ** does hit the fan and it wipes us out as long as I can say "Yeah my life has been pretty good" I'll be happy. Not all of those 10 are what would be classed as ELE's (Extinction Level Events) anyway some people would survive to continue on. At the end of the day it's not worth worrying about UNLESS you are one of those people that is in a position to actively do something about it, if an asteroid struck the planet next week theres not a lot I myself could do about, but there are people that could, so I'm not gonna worry about it, if it happens it happens, I've got other more immediate problems to worry about at the moment. ------------------------------------------- When we gonna see the 40km and 80km tractor beams ?
Amarria Black Clan Anthraxx	Posted - 2007.10.21 08:16:00 - [27] Originally by: Sharupak Originally by: Rialtor Originally by: Caid Lemant Brings up so much truth about depression and its effect on our species. Especially how current anti-depressants aren't effective to a majority of those with the problem. I dunno Depression is kind of a crock. I think the rise of depression has to do with our laziness. You'd be surprised to learn that exercise has the same if not better rate of curing depression than any medication availible. I cures it for the moment. I think that alot of people that are depressed are that way because they figured out that they spend 3/4 of their waking life doing a job that they dont like and even if they were doing one that they did like, they are pressed to do it all the time. There are probably a couple of other lockdowns in there, but the basic idea is they wake up one morning and realize that the social world they live in does not allow free creativity and expression in the manner that they would like to express it. The real killing you softly. I'm sorry, sir, but I'm going to have to issue an order to cease and desist. You're going to have to take the video cameras out of my living room and the thought probe out of my brain. Seriously, you were spot-on with this one. I suffer a tiny bit from chemical depression, but the majority of my mental state can be directly attributed to the fact that the way we're doing things at the moment is complete and utter bull**. Your average joe has 10,000 times the computing power possessed by the US government sixty years ago, and what does he use it for? Video games and pron. We're richer than ever and are at the pinnacle of our technological power, but in many ways, we're worse off than we were 50, 100, 200 years ago. We just get stupider and more complacent, and the truly malevolent and evil people are left to run the show. So let me get this straight, modern society: you're essentially forcing me into a state of permanent indentured servitude to my choice of masters, spending the lion's share of my functional lifespan making said master rich at the expense of my health and happiness, and trying to entice me into embracing this stupidity with a never-ending torrent of worthless **, and you wonder why I'm depressed all the damn time? Sounds like I'm not the one that needs the crazy pills.
Rialtor Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.	Posted - 2007.10.21 08:17:00 - [28] Originally by: Eval B'Stard Edited by: Eval B''Stard on 21/10/2007 07:02:33 Originally by: Sharupak Edited by: Sharupak on 21/10/2007 06:10:31 Oh sorry for the triple post, but it was necessary. To answer your post rialtor. The real solution is to do what you can and also to live for the now. If the ** hits the fan, two things are going to happen...either there is nothing after this life and it..you had fun and you wont remember the bad times (or the good for that matter) or there is an afterlife to which you can say "Look at the I did" "That was a blast, whats next!" I couldn't agree more, if the ** does hit the fan and it wipes us out as long as I can say "Yeah my life has been pretty good" I'll be happy. Not all of those 10 are what would be classed as ELE's (Extinction Level Events) anyway some people would survive to continue on. At the end of the day it's not worth worrying about UNLESS you are one of those people that is in a position to actively do something about it, if an asteroid struck the planet next week theres not a lot I myself could do about, but there are people that could, so I'm not gonna worry about it, if it happens it happens, I've got other more immediate problems to worry about at the moment. I don't know, something like an asteriod plan wouldn't necessarily be top secret. The fact that we don't know about it would probably mean that we don't have a plan. Well, I think we have "plans" but just theoretical, nothing ready to be implemented. I've heard scientists talk about orbiting asteriods with satelites to change their path before. However, there's no sense of urgency here, because the public just isn't concerned about it. Sometimes it's on citizens to raise interest in a topic to get some political clout to get some of these programs rolling. This idea of not worrying might lead to our doom, we should worry, enough to spark interest to correct some of those issues. ---- sig ---- He who pays the piper, picks the tune
Rialtor Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.	Posted - 2007.10.21 08:31:00 - [29] Originally by: Sharupak I cures it for the moment. I think that alot of people that are depressed are that way because they figured out that they spend 3/4 of their waking life doing a job that they dont like and even if they were doing one that they did like, they are pressed to do it all the time. There are probably a couple of other lockdowns in there, but the basic idea is they wake up one morning and realize that the social world they live in does not allow free creativity and expression in the manner that they would like to express it. The real killing you softly. If you wind the clock way way back, like the middle ages. Are you saying we work more than those serfs working on the fields? I don't think so, Today we have an abundance of free time. More so than any other point in human history. We have so many of our needs taken care of us. Heat, Water, Food, Entertainment, etc. Technology has advanced us to a point where we don't need to leave your house ever. Today we can get away with doing so little work or activity it's not funny. Take me for example, technically for a day all I HAVE to do is go to work. I take the bus, but I could drive. All I would have to do is walk to a car drive to work, and sit in a chair for 8 hours. Go home, and sit in a chair for another 8-10 hours. Everything else is freetime to do whatever it is I want to do. It's that kind of lifestyle that causes this depression epidemic, because it's becoming the norm. Now I'm not saying depression doesn't exist but I would say this move towards laziness is the reason for the increase in depression in America. I would say the move towards laziness and bad nutrition is the sole reason for the increase in cases of depression in this country, and among kids in specific. Physical Education is optional now in some curriculum. If you notice it's not the poor that's depressed, it's the privileged, so it's not really a quality of life issue. Also the medical institutions have sold their soul to drug companies. Too many things are attributed to depression, and the 1st thing they do is prescribed some pills for it instead of just solving the root problem. Again, I'm not saying depression doesn't happen but this epidemic is kind of a hoax. People just need to change their lifestyle and be more active and the levels of depression will go back to normal levels. ---- sig ---- He who pays the piper, picks the tune
Rosa Rosette	Posted - 2007.10.21 09:22:00 - [30] staph aureus, also the resistant form, has been there for ages. usually it is no problem unless you wash too often and by that destroy your natural germ flora or you are immuno suppressed or suffering from any other illness. you also mostly find those germs in hospitals and they are not resistant to ethanol. so if you get really woried get some 70% ethanol in water and give your house/flat a good rub. personally i prefer the use of ethanol via my digestive system even though it might not help with germs

ReaperOfSly Gallente Lyrus Associates M. PIRE	Posted - 2007.10.21 12:11:00 - [31] There's an interesting website on this sort of stuff called ExitMundi. Well worth a read if you're like me and are fascinated by this stuff (does that make me a bad person?). I'm not terribly convinced by some of the points the TED guy mentionned. Creating a black hole in a particle accelerator is really not that big a deal. Cosmic particles hit the earth's atmosphere all the time with far more energy than can be achieved in CERN or the like. If it's possible to create a micro black hole in an accelerator, then black holes are forming all the time in the upper atmosphere anyway. As for strangelets, correct me if I'm wrong, but don't strangelets have a positive charge? That means it is almost impossible for it to strike the nucleus of another atom to convert it. So there'd just be a random strangelet bimbling around not really doing much. Not exactly scary. Besides, I'm pretty sure they're unstable, and would degenerate into even more harmless stuff within a few nanoseconds anyway. --------------------------------------------------------------------
Sharupak Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.10.21 15:59:00 - [32] Originally by: Rialtor Originally by: Sharupak I cures it for the moment. I think that alot of people that are depressed are that way because they figured out that they spend 3/4 of their waking life doing a job that they dont like and even if they were doing one that they did like, they are pressed to do it all the time. There are probably a couple of other lockdowns in there, but the basic idea is they wake up one morning and realize that the social world they live in does not allow free creativity and expression in the manner that they would like to express it. The real killing you softly. If you wind the clock way way back, like the middle ages. Are you saying we work more than those serfs working on the fields? I don't think so, Today we have an abundance of free time. More so than any other point in human history. We have so many of our needs taken care of us. Heat, Water, Food, Entertainment, etc. Technology has advanced us to a point where we don't need to leave your house ever. Today we can get away with doing so little work or activity it's not funny. Take me for example, technically for a day all I HAVE to do is go to work. I take the bus, but I could drive. All I would have to do is walk to a car drive to work, and sit in a chair for 8 hours. Go home, and sit in a chair for another 8-10 hours. Everything else is freetime to do whatever it is I want to do. It's that kind of lifestyle that causes this depression epidemic, because it's becoming the norm. Now I'm not saying depression doesn't exist but I would say this move towards laziness is the reason for the increase in depression in America. I would say the move towards laziness and bad nutrition is the sole reason for the increase in cases of depression in this country, and among kids in specific. Physical Education is optional now in some curriculum. If you notice it's not the poor that's depressed, it's the privileged, so it's not really a quality of life issue. Also the medical institutions have sold their soul to drug companies. Too many things are attributed to depression, and the 1st thing they do is prescribed some pills for it instead of just solving the root problem. Again, I'm not saying depression doesn't happen but this epidemic is kind of a hoax. People just need to change their lifestyle and be more active and the levels of depression will go back to normal levels. mmmmm....it would take 3 or 4 fullposts for me to exact my point. This I think does it more efficiently. Linkage I think that people with the run of the mill depression think in this manner. Weather you think its correct or not is irrelevant. Exercise temporarily alleviates focus on thoughts of disenfranchisement as would finding something constructive to do with your time. However, people that think like this usually aren't living satisfactory lifestyles unless they are pursuing a groundbreaking hobby that requires tons of time to pursue. But Western civilization controls this type of behavior with mass distraction and uses societal peer pressure to deal with them wasting time because said ground breaking hobby leads to "dangerous" ideas. For example...lets say I lived in Texas and I think mandatory cervical cancer injections for girls to go to school is insane. Maybe I think that if I were a ham radio operator, I could provide information to people on the history of the bill and the benefitted parties involved in its successfull push through the government and how they benefit. Now...so far so good in the U.S. in most all cases the government isnt going to care....But if I start using the radio to organize active protests and other methods to hinder girls getting the injections. Then I am kicked off of the air by the FCC, COPS and the whole bit because I didnt try to protest through the "proper" channels which to me are a waste of time and dont work. So it is never attempted because the end resu _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude.
Sharupak Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.10.21 16:09:00 - [33] Originally by: Amarria Black Originally by: Sharupak Originally by: Rialtor Originally by: Caid Lemant Brings up so much truth about depression and its effect on our species. Especially how current anti-depressants aren't effective to a majority of those with the problem. I dunno Depression is kind of a crock. I think the rise of depression has to do with our laziness. You'd be surprised to learn that exercise has the same if not better rate of curing depression than any medication availible. I cures it for the moment. I think that alot of people that are depressed are that way because they figured out that they spend 3/4 of their waking life doing a job that they dont like and even if they were doing one that they did like, they are pressed to do it all the time. There are probably a couple of other lockdowns in there, but the basic idea is they wake up one morning and realize that the social world they live in does not allow free creativity and expression in the manner that they would like to express it. The real killing you softly. I'm sorry, sir, but I'm going to have to issue an order to cease and desist. You're going to have to take the video cameras out of my living room and the thought probe out of my brain. Seriously, you were spot-on with this one. I suffer a tiny bit from chemical depression, but the majority of my mental state can be directly attributed to the fact that the way we're doing things at the moment is complete and utter bull**. Your average joe has 10,000 times the computing power possessed by the US government sixty years ago, and what does he use it for? Video games and pron. We're richer than ever and are at the pinnacle of our technological power, but in many ways, we're worse off than we were 50, 100, 200 years ago. We just get stupider and more complacent, and the truly malevolent and evil people are left to run the show. So let me get this straight, modern society: you're essentially forcing me into a state of permanent indentured servitude to my choice of masters, spending the lion's share of my functional lifespan making said master rich at the expense of my health and happiness, and trying to entice me into embracing this stupidity with a never-ending torrent of worthless *, and you wonder why I'm depressed all the damn time? Sounds like I'm not the one that needs the crazy pills. sound of background sitcom audience laughing hysterically* Narrator voice that sounds like a stuck up psychology proffessor Ha ha ha... Thats absurd, your thought patterns are well known in the scientific community. We call this type of behavior "Depression". Dont worry, lots of people have it. All we need to do is change the chemical composition of your brain matter by heavy medication so that you think like everyone else. And make sure you dont get ahold of Aldous Huxleys brave new world! voice off Sure, your crazy...I am crazy...in fact, I havent met a normal person...ever. The world could probably do with many more acts of craziness! _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude.
ReaperOfSly Gallente Lyrus Associates M. PIRE	Posted - 2007.10.21 16:29:00 - [34] Originally by: Amarria Black and the truly malevolent and evil people are left to run the show. Never blame on malice what you can attribute to incompetance --------------------------------------------------------------------
Sharupak Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.10.21 18:06:00 - [35] Probably out of all of the scenarios Rialtor is the Biotech disaster. I mean that would suck if I ate some corn and 4 months later, I have a third arm or something. Then again that might be a good thing LOL!. The idea though that a couple of out of hand experiments and BLAM something is way off with ecosystems because some species is now OMGWTFPWN. Your only solution is to geneticaly modify a counter and we are then off to the races. I would be very ugly indeed. _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude.
Wrayeth Shiva Morsus Mihi	Posted - 2007.10.21 18:08:00 - [36] Originally by: Caid Lemant Brings up so much truth about depression and its effect on our species. Especially how current anti-depressants aren't effective to a majority of those with the problem. This is why I stopped taking antidepressants and going to psychiatrists years ago. Life's been pretty bleak, but the antidepressants never helped with that, anyway. -Wrayeth n00b Extraordinaire "Look, pa! I just contributed absolutely nothing to this thread!"
Twoguns Executive Mindframe	Posted - 2007.10.21 19:39:00 - [37] GET OFF THE INTERNETS AND ENJOY LIFE WHILST YOU STILL HAVE IT
Tortun Nahme Minmatar Heimatar Services Conglomerate	Posted - 2007.10.21 19:42:00 - [38] how come they left ME off the list? I want to destroy the human race tooooo... I'm currently involved in medical research, concerning the therapuetic aspects of a swift kick in the rear What do zombies and forum posters have in common? They like to sit about and moan!
Rialtor Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.	Posted - 2007.10.21 20:37:00 - [39] Edited by: Rialtor on 21/10/2007 20:40:19 Originally by: Rosa Rosette staph aureus, also the resistant form, has been there for ages. usually it is no problem unless you wash too often and by that destroy your natural germ flora or you are immuno suppressed or suffering from any other illness. you also mostly find those germs in hospitals and they are not resistant to ethanol. so if you get really woried get some 70% ethanol in water and give your house/flat a good rub. personally i prefer the use of ethanol via my digestive system even though it might not help with germs It's not necessarily the Staph I'm worried about. It's that staph then mutates into something way worse and we have no way to fight it. The MASS panic that would cause would be catastrophic to society. Mass containment zones etc. And it's scary to think that it may not be that far away. We may have painted ourselves in a corner with our liberal use of antibiotics. I mean, I've never taken one in my life. And that should probably be the case for most people, but it's not. Doctors provide them for the silliest things that would have gotten better on it's own. ---- sig ---- He who pays the piper, picks the tune
Wild Rho Amarr Endgame.	Posted - 2007.10.21 20:54:00 - [40] It was actually a fairly good video. He managed to approach some of subjects people would normally regard as silly (alien contact mainly) in a fairly sensible manner.

Amarria Black Clan Anthraxx	Posted - 2007.10.22 02:59:00 - [41] Originally by: ReaperOfSly Originally by: Amarria Black and the truly malevolent and evil people are left to run the show. Never blame on malice what you can attribute to incompetance Don't you dare pull Occam's Razor on me, son. That's my signature argument. (I'm joking; not sure it'll show through context. Stupid internets. >.<) I'd like to attribute the current round of humanity's utter stupidity to nothing but incompetence, but there's just too much of it that looks designed and directed. All Occam's Razor really says is that it's more probable that the end result is due to the originating person or persons being stupid or deluded, not that all end results stem from ignorance. Remember, Occam never met Rube Goldberg. ^_^
spurious signal Caldari Brainiacs	Posted - 2007.10.22 12:51:00 - [42] Quick chip in here - I used to do research into certain molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, specifically MRSA strains - I was actually working on using multiple drugs in combination in an effort to supress the emergence of antibiotic resistance. The main problem with developing new antibiotics is profit, or lack of it. It takes about 10 years to develop a new antibiotic and get it to market. It costs billions to do this. Then as soon as your wonderful new antibiotic starts being put to widespread use resistance develops. So there's pretty much zero incentive for the big drug companies to spend time and money developing antibiotics. Willy drugs is where all the money is nowadays. Every single major drug company is currently spending the vast majority of their R&D budget on alternatives to Viagra. Why? Because of the MASSIVE profits that promises. Mankind may be doomed to die rotting from a vast collection of untreatable bacteria and fungi but we'll be able to get a stiffy while our flesh falls from our bones and our lungs liquify. You want new antibiotics? Gotta remove profit from the equation. Governments aren't going to do it, they operate for short-term benefit only - whatever makes them and their class the most money before the next election. Drug companies aren't going to do it. Too busy with willy drugs. I used to think nuclear war was the most likely way capitalism was going to fall apart, but after actually working in the field I now think that multiple drug resistant bacteria are more likely to wipe us out - if strains become epidemic that are virulent enough and resistant enough to be a serious problem then it'll be too late for drug development, it just takes too long. Sorry if that's depressing....
Rialtor Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.	Posted - 2007.10.22 14:54:00 - [43] Originally by: Sharupak Probably out of all of the scenarios Rialtor is the Biotech disaster. I mean that would suck if I ate some corn and 4 months later, I have a third arm or something. Then again that might be a good thing LOL!. The idea though that a couple of out of hand experiments and BLAM something is way off with ecosystems because some species is now OMGWTFPWN. Your only solution is to geneticaly modify a counter and we are then off to the races. I would be very ugly indeed. I think there's several things that are quite likely to devastate human kind if not eliminate it. I think a super strain is very likely to hit made more dangerous overuse of antibiotics allowing resistant strains to become more dominant. At this point, I don't think it's a matter of if, it's a matter of when and how soon. Some sort of man-made disaster, be it nuclear weapons, a black hole, man-made genetic imbalance of an ecosystem, some sort of self replicating nanobot gone haywire. You may laugh about the nanobots, but there's alot of self replication algorithms under works as well as nanobots already in testing. It may not to be too far over the horizon. A large Asteriod may be headed our way. That pole shift kind of freaked me out. In all my studying I've never heard that the pole shifts and that it would mean the end of everything. And we're overdue, wth? ---- sig ---- He who pays the piper, picks the tune
Rialtor Amarr Yarrrateers Mass Destruction.	Posted - 2007.10.22 14:57:00 - [44] Originally by: spurious signal Quick chip in here - I used to do research into certain molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, specifically MRSA strains - I was actually working on using multiple drugs in combination in an effort to supress the emergence of antibiotic resistance. The main problem with developing new antibiotics is profit, or lack of it. It takes about 10 years to develop a new antibiotic and get it to market. It costs billions to do this. Then as soon as your wonderful new antibiotic starts being put to widespread use resistance develops. So there's pretty much zero incentive for the big drug companies to spend time and money developing antibiotics. Willy drugs is where all the money is nowadays. Every single major drug company is currently spending the vast majority of their R&D budget on alternatives to Viagra. Why? Because of the MASSIVE profits that promises. Mankind may be doomed to die rotting from a vast collection of untreatable bacteria and fungi but we'll be able to get a stiffy while our flesh falls from our bones and our lungs liquify. You want new antibiotics? Gotta remove profit from the equation. Governments aren't going to do it, they operate for short-term benefit only - whatever makes them and their class the most money before the next election. Drug companies aren't going to do it. Too busy with willy drugs. I used to think nuclear war was the most likely way capitalism was going to fall apart, but after actually working in the field I now think that multiple drug resistant bacteria are more likely to wipe us out - if strains become epidemic that are virulent enough and resistant enough to be a serious problem then it'll be too late for drug development, it just takes too long. Sorry if that's depressing.... That doesn't really sound like an issue with capitalism to be honest. As when the antibiotics start to become less and less effective, the profit margins or newer antibiotics will be bigger and bigger. As long as medical companies have some sort of foresight they should keep their R&D open to other things that viagra :), being that the market is getting more saturated with that stupidity anyway. ---- sig ---- He who pays the piper, picks the tune
Sharupak Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.10.22 17:10:00 - [45] Originally by: Rialtor Originally by: Sharupak Probably out of all of the scenarios Rialtor is the Biotech disaster. I mean that would suck if I ate some corn and 4 months later, I have a third arm or something. Then again that might be a good thing LOL!. The idea though that a couple of out of hand experiments and BLAM something is way off with ecosystems because some species is now OMGWTFPWN. Your only solution is to geneticaly modify a counter and we are then off to the races. I would be very ugly indeed. I think there's several things that are quite likely to devastate human kind if not eliminate it. I think a super strain is very likely to hit made more dangerous overuse of antibiotics allowing resistant strains to become more dominant. At this point, I don't think it's a matter of if, it's a matter of when and how soon. Some sort of man-made disaster, be it nuclear weapons, a black hole, man-made genetic imbalance of an ecosystem, some sort of self replicating nanobot gone haywire. You may laugh about the nanobots, but there's alot of self replication algorithms under works as well as nanobots already in testing. It may not to be too far over the horizon. A large Asteriod may be headed our way. That pole shift kind of freaked me out. In all my studying I've never heard that the pole shifts and that it would mean the end of everything. And we're overdue, wth? Definately not laughing about nanobots...a Technology far beyond our maturity to use properly. Something that possess unbelievable power to do good, expand humanities collective consciousness, and greatly increase our ability to explore the world around us. However, we will use it as another form of slavery. Not to mention the fact that this technology could accidentally evolve the human race into something awful. To survive a plague, you just need to see it on the news a pack your **** up and head to the woods for 6 months to a year. _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude.


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