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11-18-2015 , 11:28 PM

#501

zikzak

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You just rendition everybody whose email you can't read. EZ game.

11-19-2015 , 01:30 AM

#502

Videopro

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A Utah county prosecutor said Wednesday he is investigating U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada in connection with a pay-to-play scheme involving two former Utah attorneys general.

11-19-2015 , 01:40 AM

#503

simplicitus

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"Rawlings renewed his criticism of the U.S. Department of Justice for limiting what information he has access to and what he can investigate.

Justice officials closed their investigation in 2013 without filing charges. FBI investigators stayed on the case to help state attorneys who took it over.

"It is not up to the DOJ to tell me who can and who cannot be investigated and what evidence is relevant and material to a state case," Rawlings said.

Justice officials declined comment."

Sounds like Reid...is just fine.

11-19-2015 , 09:08 AM

#504

DudeImBetter

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Antibiotic resistant bacteria spreading rapidly, apocalypse looming!

Quote:

The world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", scientists have warned after finding bacteria resistant to drugs used when all other treatments have failed.
They identified bacteria able to shrug off the drug of last resort - colistin - in patients and livestock in China.
They said that resistance would spread around the world and raised the spectre of untreatable infections.
It is likely resistance emerged after colistin was overused in farm animals.
Bacteria becoming completely resistant to treatment - also known as the antibiotic apocalypse - could plunge medicine back into the dark ages.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34857015

11-19-2015 , 09:15 AM

#505

Huehuecoyotl

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I don't know what I had to drink or eat before bed that would cause this, but I had a dream I heckled and got in an argument with Ted Cruz over healthcare at a candy convention.

11-19-2015 , 10:20 AM

#506

Roonil Wazlib

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I dreamed I was hired as a hit man to kill off GWB's primary challengers and then steal an unhatched raptor egg.

Bonus: got to shoot macully culkin in the face at close range with a desert eagle for disguising the egg as a candle and hiding it

11-19-2015 , 11:00 AM

#507

seattlelou

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Cool a weird dream thread and I just had one. I created a perpetual motion machine last night as part of a homework assignment. I woke up as the world's top minds were amazed at my graphs. No machine to share just graphs of the output.
I ate cherry chocolate cheesecake popcorn before bed. Pretty sure it is the delicious treat that will solve the world's scarcity problem.

11-19-2015 , 11:02 AM

#508

zikzak

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I woke up in a puddle of drool and don't remember any dreams at all.

11-19-2015 , 11:37 AM

#509

[Phill]

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At least you hope it was drool.

11-19-2015 , 12:44 PM

#510

Jbrochu

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DudeImBetter

Antibiotic resistant bacteria spreading rapidly, apocalypse looming!

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34857015

Absolutely horrible news.

Are you really that excited about it, or do you think that the scientists are exaggerating the seriousness of the threat?

11-19-2015 , 12:52 PM

#511

tomdemaine

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Quote:

Originally Posted by seattlelou

When I was a kid I thought why can't we just put a giant magnet in orbit going one way around the Earth and have a giant copper coil going the other way boom infinite free electricity. I think every slightly nerdy guy invented a perpetual motion machine at some point it's like gamblers inventing martingale everyone does it eventually and thinks they've solved life.

11-19-2015 , 12:54 PM

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mutigers

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doesn't surprise me

we have known about this for a while yet in every school/building/everywhere there are anti-bacterial soap dispensers

11-19-2015 , 01:13 PM

#513

ikestoys

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mutigers

doesn't surprise me

we have known about this for a while yet in every school/building/everywhere there are anti-bacterial soap dispensers

yeah that's not why bacteria are becoming resistant, and there's a huge advantage to encouraging hand hygiene.

11-19-2015 , 01:40 PM

#514

microbet

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Originally Posted by tomdemaine

I had a design with floats attached by a rope that went in a circle through a tub of water (a seal at the bottom) with buoyancy providing the power. A friend and I tried to build it in Jr. High.

11-19-2015 , 01:48 PM

#515

zikzak

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We're probably doomed to some sort of bacterial or viral extinction if something else doesn't get us first. Being a big mammal that only has 2 or 3 offspring and lives for decades doesn't seem like a winning long-term evolutionary plan.

11-19-2015 , 01:58 PM

#516

[Phill]

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It'll just thin the herd. Arguably something humanity needs anyway.

11-19-2015 , 02:02 PM

#517

ikestoys

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Originally Posted by [Phill]

It'll just thin the herd. Arguably something humanity needs anyway.

Consistent talk from the only non banned 2+2er to call for genocide

11-19-2015 , 02:23 PM

#518

chezlaw

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Has to get us before we start moving off-planet.

Barring some super-weapon humanity is a massive favorite vs pretty much everything now.

11-19-2015 , 02:49 PM

#519

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by chezlaw

There's no threat to humanity. The longer term result will be good for humanity as it accelerates scientific progress.

We will see lots of new antibiotics emerging but in the meantime a lot of people, mostly elderly, suffering from other medical problems, or in poorer countries are going to die. Many already have.

Has to get us before we start moving off-planet.

Barring some super-weapon humanity is a massive favorite vs pretty much everything now.

We're not a favorite over lots of small animals. Definitely not over many insects or worms and such, or probably a lot of small mammals like rats.

We are a big favorite over the animals we are driving to extinction for sure.

11-19-2015 , 02:52 PM

#520

Money2Burn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mutigers

doesn't surprise me

we have known about this for a while yet in every school/building/everywhere there are anti-bacterial soap dispensers

Commercial animal production *probably* bears a much greater portion of the blame for the advance of antibiotic resistance. I forgot the exact figure, but some absurd portion of antibiotics used in the US, like 60-80%, are used in animal production. And that's basically to allow CAFO production.

11-19-2015 , 02:53 PM

#521

Huehuecoyotl

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Just don't get sick, problem solved.

11-19-2015 , 02:59 PM

#522

chezlaw

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

I meant a favorite to survive rather than be made extinct by bacteria/virus/etc. Even some super WMD wont be enough once we have sufficiently moved off planet.

11-19-2015 , 03:07 PM

#523

ikestoys

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Money2Burn

It's not probably. It's definitely. Most soaps work on osmotic action. Tricolsan based soaps work in completely different ways than antibiotics commonly put in the body. Anyone worrying about soap dispensers causing stuff like VRE or MRSA are just ignorant. The main mechanisms are: using antibiotics, using them too much, and using them improperly.

11-19-2015 , 03:18 PM

#524

DudeImBetter

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jbrochu

Absolutely horrible news.

Are you really that excited about it, or do you think that the scientists are exaggerating the seriousness of the threat?

Not excited, ! was to accentuate my alarm.

11-19-2015 , 05:07 PM

#525

zikzak

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Quote:

Originally Posted by chezlaw

I meant a favorite to survive rather than be made extinct by bacteria/virus/etc. Even some super WMD wont be enough once we have sufficiently moved off planet.

People who are super excited about our future amongst the stars should read this:

http://www.amazon.com/Aurora-Kim-Sta...dp/0316098108/

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