Anti-HIV Virus Developed 750
liam193 writes "Wired News is reporting that Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory may have developed a virus that fights the HIV virus. According to the article, 'It took Adam Arkin and David Schaffer just $200,000 and a grad student to develop a potential treatment for AIDS. And that scares them.'"
I volunteer (Score:5, Funny)
Wait... (Score:5, Funny)
No good for slashdotters... (Score:5, Funny)
Dont worry guys... it will be available in tablet form soon...
Re:I volunteer (Score:5, Funny)
Here's a hint: you won't be using your hands.
...and I hope you swing both ways, because that's what it'll take.
Ambiguous language (Score:5, Funny)
Did they USE $200,000 and a grad student, or did they EXPEND $200,000 and a grad student? An important distinction, especially from the grad student's perspective.
Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I volunteer (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Tin Foil Hat (Score:5, Funny)
[tin foil hat]While this case may be (almost certainly is) good, I think the day is coming when it will get out of hand and we will see the accidental release of some real nasty man made viral stuff into the environment.[/tin foil hat]
It's not like some kid in Germany released AIDS to help his mom's computer shop and is trying to fix the damage.
Re:Wait... (Score:3, Funny)
You've gotta be kidding me (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wait... (Score:5, Funny)
Lisa: "But isn't that a bit shortsited? What happens when we're overrun by the anti-HIV virus?"
Skinner: "No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the the anti-HIV virus."
Lisa: "But aren't the snakes even worse?"
Skinner: "Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat."
Lisa: "But then we're stuck with gorillas!"
Skinner: "No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death."
Re:I volunteer (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No good for slashdotters... (Score:2, Funny)
TheMadRedHatter
Re:Shouldn't Scare (Score:5, Funny)
Adjusted for inflation back to 100000 B.C., the wheel cost $750 billion to develop.
He was the Bill Ug of his day.
Grad Student (Score:5, Funny)
Since no animal testing was mentioned, I would like to extend my condolences to the grad student's family. It may seem like a great sacrifice, but just think of all the data gathered from the autopsy.
Re:Awesome (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I volunteer (Score:5, Funny)
Too late, man. What do you think they needed the grad student for?
Re:Shouldn't Scare (Score:3, Funny)
Once you adjust for inflation, the committee that designed the original wheel for $47,000 Atlantean dollars cost a little over $73 Billion US dollars. Of course, they didn't even tip the waiter who read over their shoulder and suggested they use a circle instead of the original triangle shape.
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Evan "It's True!"
Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... (Score:5, Funny)
I neither want larger breasts or for my SO to devlop a penis of ANY size. Takes the romance out of it.
Re:No good for slashdotters... (Score:3, Funny)
"I can't fit that in my mouth"
"Good news, it's a sepository!"
Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, a computer with a penis would be rather silly.
Re:I volunteer (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory Family Guy Quote
[Peter] Ah Jeez, where am I gonna get $50000?
[Quagmire] Well, you could whore yourself out to 1000 fat chicks for $50 each - or 50 really fat chicks for $1000 a piece!
* Everyone looks a Quagmire
[Quagmire] Hey. Don't look at me like that. Fat chicks need love too. They just gotta pay for it.
[Sailor - All Peg arms and legs] (Talking about the $50000 reward to catch a fish named "Daggermouth") I saw Daggermouth. Sure. I may have been really tired, and my eyes were sore from rubbing them too much, and I was swimming in a pool with too much chlorine in it, and it was the hour my glasses were at lenscrafters, but I swear it was him...
Or of course, you could just whore yourself out to 1000 fat chicks...
[Quagmire] (Interrupting) No we covered that already.
Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... (Score:5, Funny)
And that scares them.' (Score:2, Funny)
Do these people also soil themselves at every sunrise?
LK
Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... (Score:5, Funny)
Sweet- open source genomes! Do they accept patches? I really want to write a 1337 alpha-channel-transparency feature for HIV. HIV has a big install base, but I think it would be bigger if it was prettier to look at. Also, some videoconferencing support would rock.
Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... (Score:5, Funny)
So then I says to her:
Babe. I figure with my enlarged genital region, and your enlarged breast region, we might be able to complement each others deficiencies quite nicely. So what do you say? Why not go out with me?
Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... (Score:2, Funny)
You spelled it wrong (Score:5, Funny)
Distinction what distinction? (Score:5, Funny)
Speaking as a grad student, after 5-7 years of 60+ hour work weeks and dealing with all the crap that grad school entails while making next to nothing you're both "used" and "expended."
couldn't help noticing... (Score:3, Funny)
"$200,000 and a grad student"
As a sign in the math department around here says, grad students are really just indentured servants.
Re:Wait... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... (Score:5, Funny)
On a side note, I told my wife last night, "honey, I can't have just one pussy for the rest of my life! I need more pussy than that," and she said, "Hey, if you were a little bigger, you'd have more pussy right here!"
So I looked into it, and the average pussy is eight inches deep, while the average penis is only six inches long. That means that two inches of pussy are wasted, on average, with every coital thrust. The average sex act lasts three minutes, with 30 thrusts per minute, adding up to 180 inches of wasted pussy per sex act, which happens on average three times per week. Multiply that by 52 weeks, and divide by the number of inches in a mile (63,360) and we find that there is nearly half a mile of wasted pussy per woman per year! Figuring approximately 100 million American women of legal age, that means, as a country, we are wasting around half a million miles of pussy every year, while some men here go without!
I call on all true patriotic American men and women to do something about this travesty.
Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh wait, I'm sorry, was it the overuse of the word 'pussy?' Pussy pussy pussy! Which is more pussy than you'll ever see, with a sense of humor like that.
Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh come on, that's just pathetic. It takes me more than three minutes when I'm by myself!
Re:Hepatitis cure may be here! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shouldn't Scare (Score:5, Funny)
Brav-o, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Soon I'll find messages in my inbox with the subject:
Tap in2 half a million miles of surplus p.u.s.s.y with our product!
Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... (Score:4, Funny)
> that the penis is a variation on the clitoris.
> Using that logic, however, I'm still stumped
> on why the pee-hole goes through it
It's one of the arguments against Creationist "Intelligent Design". What f-ing engineer would run sewer lines through a recreational area?
Re:Distinction what distinction? (Score:2, Funny)
Poor soul (Score:2, Funny)
That poor grad student, science is full of sacrifices...
Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... (Score:2, Funny)
Really???! Holy Crap that's nuts!
Re:Hepatitis cure may be here! (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly.
For everyone looking at the latin virus explanation post and going "HOLY CRAP!!!1!", it's really not that bad. This is honestly 2nd year high school latin at best, and probably stuff that you'd hit in 1st semester latin at a university. I know when I took greek, first semester was all about declining nouns - the prof. wanted to get that down before we went to tenses, which are harder.
I hope this helps, if not to explain it, to at least show that what he's doing is not that bad.
In English, we conjugate verbs all the time - it's second nature. It allows us to understand that "are our children learning?" is correct, when "is our children learning?" is not, because in this case, "children" is plural, and "children" is also the subject (remember, to find the subject of a question, you have to turn it into a statement, i.e. "are our children learning? -> "our children are learning").
Well, in Latin and Greek, the same thing is done with nouns. You conjugate nouns. Except that it's called declining nouns. Verbs conjugate, nouns decline, and difficult students decline to conjugate.
So, in Latin, when you say,
"The boy built the tower" and
"The boy gave the tower a roof" and
"The tower fell down",
the word for tower is spelled differently, because of where it's used in the sentence.
In the first case, it's the direct object, receiving the action of the verb. In the second case, it's the indirect object, describing something about the direct object (which is roof). In both of these cases, you could say that the tower is in the objective case. Latin and Greek just call that accusative. In the third example, the tower is the subject of the sentence, which is just called the nominative case.
And there are other cases, which do get a little more in depth, like the genitive case. But, if you think about it, genitive is from the greek genesis, meaning a begining, and the genitive case is used with nouns "comming from" somewhere, whether it's actual travel, or an abstract idea like love comming from god (there's a lot of genitive in the greek new testament).
Keep in mind that this isn't as foreign as it sounds to English speakers. We do it on a limited basis with pronouns: He gave me the ball, vs. I gave the ball to him.
So that's really all there is to it. When the virus guy is posting about declinations, all he means is ways to decline nouns. We group them into first, second, thrid, etc, based on how they decline, much the way people group verbs when they study a foreign language. And the concept of gendered nouns is very much still in use - spanish and french still have masculine and feminine nouns, as do a host of other languages, and german has neuter nouns as well.
It's not that bad. Give those dead languages a fair chance.
~Will
To all the guys offering to help with my situation (Score:3, Funny)
P.S. If you have no experience with, or interest in double penetration scenarios or being a 'top' or 'Dom', don't bother. Also, you must be comfortable with big badonkadonk butts, light B&D, and know what a 'safe word' is.
P.P.S Or were you all just talk?