Stand Back!

[CP/M User]

Ooooooh!!!!! I'm about to explore (or implode).

London
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Yes, terrible - time to move on, okay it's only been 48 hrs - people still dying - shoot all the terrorists, bloody media still raving on about it, this is still going on. WE GET THE PICTURE!! :-x
Do terrorists pay the media or something?

I'd like to see a news service busting all other news services - opening the corrupt journist gates cause there's a few sickos out there.

Technology
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Why the bloody hell do I need a mobile phone? Pointless - send you sick along with your computers. I'm old enough to look after myself & 'am still being treated like a kid. Already got a funny head & I need a mobile phone to screw it up even more. I'll never use it - you just watch me!
'Ol Man seize I need it in an emerigency - if there's an emerigency - I'll be dead!


CP/M User.

[Terry Yager]

I usually carry a mobile with me, but I seldom use it. I've never been much of a phone person; always hated using the LL too. I'd much rather speak F2F with someone, even if it means driving 30 miles to do so (and I hate to drive also). Main reason we use portables now is that it's cheaper to hang phones on the whole family (3 of us) than it is to pay the LL bill each month.

--T

[CP/M User]

"Terry Yager" wrote:

> I usually carry a mobile with me, but I seldom use it. I've never been
> much of a phone person; always hated using the LL too. I'd much
> rather speak F2F with someone, even if it means driving 30 miles to do
> so (and I hate to drive also). Main reason we use portables now is that
> it's cheaper to hang phones on the whole family (3 of us) than it is to
> pay the LL bill each month.

Oh mate, these things are real bad. Once upon a time it was all about having it in case of an emergancy, but now it's like you need it. I won't turn it on & I won't carry it with me as far as I'm concerned - it doesn't exist. Next thing you know - I'll get a job & they'll want to know if I have a mobile phone - No.

I just have to put up with all the other mobile phones people have & simply not use mine - I won't give in to their little brain toy.

CP/M User.

[Terry Yager]

But your brain is still exposed to second-hand cell phone radiation. Train cars are the worst cos they trap the radiation and just bounce it around inside the car, no escape. I read somewhere on daNet that 30 people inside a train car using thier mobile phones at the same time will expose everyone inside to unacceptable levels of radiation. (A train car will usually carry about 150 passengers, so 30 simultaneous phone users is certainly possible).

--T

[CP/M User]

"Terry Yager" wrote:

> But your brain is still exposed to second-hand cell phone radiation.
> Train cars are the worst cos they trap the radiation and just bounce it
> around inside the car, no escape. I read somewhere on daNet that 30
> people inside a train car using thier mobile phones at the same time will
> expose everyone inside to unacceptable levels of radiation. (A train car
> will usually carry about 150 passengers, so 30 simultaneous phone
> users is certainly possible).

I guess it's possible - but I don't know anything about this, did they mention anything about tests done inside a Train Cars to determine this. daNet isn't always reliable when it comes to handing out reliable information - look at Passive Smocking, 20 years ago some guy died from what they believed to been from Cancer related disease (I believe it was Cancer) - now some study has said that it's happened from another condition. Looks to me that the Jury is still out on this one.

It could be true that a Train Carrage locks it in - which is in theory what we're doing to our Atmosphere (or Outersphere), locking in the heat from years of neglect.

Personally, though I don't travel by train all the time & whenever I take trips to the city (it's the only way!) - it's outside the peak carrage. I have managed to catch the odd one though! :-(

CP/M User.

[Terry Yager]

Here's the article, draw your own conclusion as to it's veracity:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2238

--T

[CP/M User]

"Terry Yager" wrote:

> Here's the article, draw your own conclusion as to it's veracity:

It is of some concern, unfortunatly, it doesn't really conclude what the effect are. Okay it's saying bouncing off walls as a microwave - so I'm guessing that we're cooking ourselves in some matter (like Radiation should). There's even the possible question about what Microwaves machines are doing for us. Many a time I've seen people open the door while it's beeping away - after it's counted down. I just assumed it did that as a safe guard to let the Radation disperse - but if people open the door early that too could be another form of exposure to it. And I guess we can see what the effects from Radation are, not necessarily poisioning - but could well be, but good ol' Cancer could be back on the rise. And the Mobile Phone was once the culprit for brain tumas.

So we now have to go further afield & try to avoid the public. Perhaps I'll have to give the train the flick, which is a pity - cause I'll have to go up that neck of the woods soon too - fortunately not into the city itself.

I'll pass the article around & see what others think. Interesting though it's 3 years old, there must be more recent developments into this study.

CP/M User.

[Terry Yager]

Of course, there are two sides to every argument, and it this case, the debate is still continuing. You could try googling "cell phone radiation" or "cellular radiation" or similar. There is a lot of discussion on the subject in webland. Meanwhile, you might check out this article:

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone-radiation.htm

--T

[carlsson]

Back to the first subject of this thread; everyone refer to 9/11 and now what happened in London. But you barely hear anything about the bomb on the train in Madrid (?) or the supposed terrorist attack in Indonesia a few years ago. They were big news when it happened, but have already diminished when media and people are looking back, trying to connect the history. Considering the Brits, in particular from constant terrorism threat from the IRA, have got back on their feet again, I wonder if what happened on Thursday will live longer in people's minds than the other two.

Without being too cynical, I think some news coverage are pleased to have something terrible to write or speak about for several days. The aftermath from the terrorism means new material, something people want to know about and some expert commentary. Otherwise they would have to dig deep into the news barrel and only find rather meager news items to tell about. It is known as "summer drought". However sometimes I wonder which news did not find their place into the broadcast, or what they would have reported about if this (terrorism, tsunami, civil war, you name it) had not happened.

[CP/M User]

"carlsson" wrote:

> Back to the first subject of this thread; everyone refer to 9/11 and now
> what happened in London. But you barely hear anything about the
> bomb on the train in Madrid (?) or the supposed terrorist attack in
> Indonesia a few years ago.

Bali is still something the Media talk about here, though only when another attack has occured - they seem to thrive on talking about all the another attacks committed - showing some footage. But 11/9 seems to be the one they only talk about & don't show any footage for!

I think that living in Australia in particular - Bali was aimed at Aussies since it's a hot spot for them to be, which is why it still talked about.

> They were big news when it happened, but have already diminished
> when media and people are looking back, trying to connect the history.
> Considering the Brits, in particular from constant terrorism threat from
> the IRA, have got back on their feet again, I wonder if what happened
> on Thursday will live longer in people's minds than the other two.

> Without being too cynical, I think some news coverage are pleased to
> have something terrible to write or speak about for several days. The
> aftermath from the terrorism means new material, something people
> want to know about and some expert commentary. Otherwise they
> would have to dig deep into the news barrel and only find rather
> meager news items to tell about. It is known as "summer drought".
> However sometimes I wonder which news did not find their place into
> the broadcast, or what they would have reported about if this
> (terrorism, tsunami, civil war, you name it) had not happened.

The media seem to have a big smile on their face when they talk about the acts of Terrorism - do they think it's a joke, or just brillant that they have something to report. Either way, I'm not impressed - perhaps someone should do a news report on them?!

CP/M User.

[vic user]

The media seem to have a big smile on their face when they talk about the acts of Terrorism - do they think it's a joke, or just brillant that they have something to report. Either way, I'm not impressed - perhaps someone should do a news report on them?!

CP/M User.

lord knows how much money has been made on all those special reports etc...

the only big news that i am following lately, is the hopefully successful launch of Discovery, this afternoon.

i am even wearing my space shuttle t-shirt today :wink:

chris

[Terry Yager]

Shuttle launch...ho-hum...old news. It only becomes interesting (news-wise) when one of 'em blows up. Successful launches get hardly any coverage.

--T

[vic user]

you know Terry that "news worthy" is in the eye of the beholder :)

it doesn't take much for me to get excited over space launches and such, and i still enjoy looking for the space station on clear nights, and all that jazz.

i could care less about all the anti-matter chitter chatter that tends to clog up most of the material found from conventional news.


chris

[Terry Yager]

you know Terry that "news worthy" is in the eye of the beholder :)

it doesn't take much for me to get excited over space launches and such, and i still enjoy looking for the space station on clear nights, and all that jazz.

i could care less about all the anti-matter chitter chatter that tends to clog up most of the material found from conventional news.


chris

I'm not quite as young as you are, so fortunately, I still remember the thrill and excitement of watching a Saturn IV blast away from Earth's gravity (of course, I was still a kid). It was always an event, heavily covered by the media. Nowadays, a shuttle event is barely noticed, unless it's a disaster.
I don't even bother with conventional news sources anymore, I get all my propaganda from the Net, where at least you can view more than one version of every lie.

--T

[CP/M User]

"vic user" wrote:

> it doesn't take much for me to get excited over space launches and
> such, and i still enjoy looking for the space station on clear nights, and
> all that jazz.

Interestingly enough, my teacher yesturday was talking about if you were so many kilometres in the sky looking back onto the earth, he was saying you wouldn't find signs of life if you were so far up in the sky (might of been 3 kilometres). Yet, you can, look from the earth & see the space station at night (if it just happens to be passing over).

We don't see space lanches here, occasionally when there's a problem they'll show it on the news, but that's it.

I tend to be a bit of a fan when it comes to movies which are incorrect to some extent. Space Cowboys for however wrong it is, I think it's worth watching for the funny side of things. "Flying Brick - I like that!", in reality it's merely a paper cup - like what happened on the last disaster & the poor ants were cooked (sadily)! :-(

CP/M User.

[carlsson]

Speaking about space, you know the saying that the Great Wall in China is one of the few human made things you can identify out there?

Well, when China sent their first taikonaut into space last year, he could unfortunately report to the party and his president that the Great Wall could NOT be seen from space. Whether there was bad weather on his day in space or if this is a Russian + US myth to keep the Chinese people happy, we don't know.

[CP/M User]

"carlsson" wrote:

> Speaking about space, you know the saying that the Great Wall in China
> is one of the few human made things you can identify out there?

> Well, when China sent their first 'taikonaut' into space last year, he
> could unfortunately report to the party and his president that the Great
> Wall could NOT be seen from space. Whether there was bad weather on
> his day in space or if this is a Russian + US myth to keep the Chinese
> people happy, we don't know.

Must of been some storm if he couldn't see it at all, not that I'm saying it's visible (how would I know?). The Great Wall of China would spread for thousands of Kilometres (or Miles) though - it's not very wide I believe (again, how would I know - I've only seen bits & pieces on telly, they just seem to look narrow!). If it's not wide, it wouldn't be possible to see from space - it would need the width & the length.

You know what I think?!? I think that the "Great Wall of China can be seen from Space" is the equivalent of saying that the "Titanic was industructable" & we all know what happened to the Titanic! Where do these idiots come from, they seem to emerge everytime their's a terrorist attack. The bloody media are throwing this onto the fire by actually reporting it - I mean they think their so smart at reporting - they actually look stupid by reporting absolute crap by twisting anything which sounds good. The truth? "You Can't handle the Truth!!".

CP/M User.

[Mad-Mike]

Mad-Mike on Cell Phones
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I personally don't mind them. It's just the idiots on our roadways trying to stir up accidents by not using a hands free that I have a problem with. That's part of the reason I'm a night owl, all those loony college chicks with cell phones yapping about utter baloney while not using turn signals, pulling out in front of people, and slamming on their brakes for something that is on the side of the road. It's enough to make me mandate we all drive stick shift cars! I'd love to see momma's little girl try to handle a 4000LB truck with a manual tranny while yacking on a phone (that's what I drive), she'd never make it out of the driveway. (note, I'm not biased against women, I just notice the majority of cell phone users are young girls about my age). Forget the radiation, it's dying because little miss angel can't get of her bloody Verizon wireless that I'm worried about.

Mad-Mike on The Media
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The media is not about giving us the news anymore, it's about the ratings. That's half the reason I never get on T.V. anymore, things that once had a REAL purpose now are being destroyed over worries over ratings. They want to give us big LIVE action packed news madness, instead of the bland old news, and want to focus on the bad stuff I find. We never hear about what they talk about unless it's a War, The President, some foreign country pissed at us, our kids killing themselves, or O.J. Simpson! That's the whole reason that in a house with cable, I almost never watch T.V. anymore. Nothing has any substance, it's all ratings driven drivel. Oh, we can't see the great wall from space, who cares, it's not China's fault, it's not hte US's fault, they did not have the technology to go to space until within the last 40 years, just quit making a big deal about it. Don't even get me into the crud people my age watch, we're all in our 20's and still worrying about being cool? When my sisters were in their 20's they were already taking care of a house, bills, and all!

The media is always a thorn in my rear as I am not just an IT person, but also a musician, and for some reason, if you play any style derivative of rock, you are expected to pick a "lifestyle", screw it, whatever happened to just being an artist and not giving a damn. I write and record music and pass some of it around, so what, that does not mean I should buy my clothes at Hot Topic, drive a Honda, refuse to eat meat, get drunk all the time, and do all kinds of wannabe rock star crap. I could'nt care less how so so died, I could'nt care less what's "in", and I could not care less if we can see a huge stone structure from space! I think I'll just buy a Tandy 1000 SX and plug that into the T.V., it's a lot more productive!

[mbbrutman]

I don't know what is going on in other countries, but sadly the US is turning into a cesspool of the lowest common denominator.

People are stupid and ignorant:

- How many times have you witnessed somebody using a rest room and not using soap on their hands?

- How many people realize that driving like a fool (cellphone optional) might not save any time at all, but dramatically increases the accident rate, insurance, the cost of healthcare, etc.

- How many people really think that 60 days of coverage on a missing teenager in Aruba is fair and balanced? What about the other of hundreds of children who disappear right here in the US?

- How many people really think that global warming isn't real?


The list goes on ...

[CP/M User]

"Mad-Mike" wrote:

> Mad-Mike on Cell Phones
> ----------------------------------------------------
> I personally don't mind them. It's just the idiots on our roadways trying
> to stir up accidents by not using a hands free that I have a problem
> with. That's part of the reason I'm a night owl, all those loony college
> chicks with cell phones yapping about utter baloney while not using turn
> signals, pulling out in front of people, and slamming on their brakes for
> something that is on the side of the road. It's enough to make me
> mandate we all drive stick shift cars! I'd love to see momma's little girl
> try to handle a 4000LB truck with a manual tranny while yacking on a
> phone (that's what I drive), she'd never make it out of the driveway.
> (note, I'm not biased against women, I just notice the majority of cell
> phone users are young girls about my age). Forget the radiation, it's
> dying because little miss angel can't get of her !3l00dy Verizon wireless
> that I'm worried about.

And now their saying that a hand piece is a distraction & is classed as banned here in the Oz, I mean why not ban the radio - it encourages you to sing, which is virtually the same as talking on a phone. Worse with Singing - some people actually close their eyes while singing! Closing eye's - Driving - Hello?!?

Personally, I don't care about for them, I have to get one due to societies choice - they should go & get stuffed. They don't even work while you down along bleedin' coast. I just got one to shut people up, but I never use it. It's handy telling people it's only designed to ring out - not in!

Their somthing called the public view which states that phones are a necessity - Bull Crap I say. I know people who don't even have a phone at home & get by!

> Mad-Mike on The Media
> -------------------------------------------------------
> The media is not about giving us the news anymore, it's about the
> ratings. That's half the reason I never get on T.V. anymore, things that
> once had a REAL purpose now are being destroyed over worries over
> ratings. They want to give us big LIVE action packed news madness,
> instead of the bland old news, and want to focus on the bad stuff I find.
> We never hear about what they talk about unless it's a War, The
> President, some foreign country p!$$£d at us, our kids killing
> themselves, or O.J. Simpson! That's the whole reason that in a house
> with cable, I almost never watch T.V. anymore. Nothing has any
> substance, it's all ratings driven drivel. Oh, we can't see the great wall
> from space, who cares, it's not China's fault, it's not hte US's fault, they
> did not have the technology to go to space until within the last 40 years,
> just quit making a big deal about it. Don't even get me into the crud
> people my age watch, we're all in our 20's and still worrying about being
> cool? When my sisters were in their 20's they were already taking care
> of a house, bills, and all!

But not only is it the media which is problem, but the people they get in. They think they know something about something, but don't know Jack. This relates to the GWOC, some smuck reckons this is the case, it's all crap. They air this & it gets discussed at school & is everywhere man. They should start shooting all those people which take this crap in or lock them up or something. The terrorist things are the cream of the crop with telly & media, because it's all blah blah, they get some people in which suggest it was this group again & around & around the merry-go-round it goes. Sure, it's a matter of who cares? But this is intorrable & is everywhere.

Personally, I'd rather see someone get paid professionally to say you can't see the Great Wall from Space. Thanks for at least their are some programs which have some interesting theories, at least they do proper research, unlike some farmer from Kanzas the media put some suit & tie on & want his opinion.

CP/M User.

[carlsson]

The Great Wall of China would spread for thousands of Kilometres (or Miles) though
Yes, a bit over 7000 km, if I remember correctly. Actually, I've seen some documentaries on Discovery Channel recently about the Great Wall, and how they from space can use a radar camera or such to identify parts of the wall not previously known. I think it may have been a misunderstanding; from space you probably can identify where the wall is, but not see it clearly with your eyes.

When it comes to news reporting; last week there was a terrorist bombing in Egypt. Most of the casualities seem to have been Egyptian people, and also a lot of locals will be out of jobs when the hotels are damaged and tourists flee away. There were a few Swedes on vacation. Neither were killed or seriously injured, but four of them got a shock of what happened. The media reported intensively - for days - about four frightened, but otherwise unharmed tourists trying to catch a flight back home.

About at the same time, another bomb went off in Iraq, killing 20 people. These days, it seems there is one bomb per day in Iraq, reducing the population by some 15-20 persons, not counting armed fire losses. Needless to say, these attacks and suicide bombers barely get a mention, maybe because it happens too often?

Or is it so that one frightened Westerner is more important than five dead Arabs?

[CP/M User]

>> The Great Wall of China would spread for thousands of Kilometres (or
>> Miles) though

> Yes, a bit over 7000 km, if I remember correctly. Actually, I've seen
> some documentaries on Discovery Channel recently about the Great
> Wall, and how they from space can use a radar camera or such to
> identify parts of the wall not previously known. I think it may have been
> a misunderstanding; from space you probably can identify where the
> wall is, but not see it clearly with your eyes.

It's more or less saying that with the aid of something you can see it. Somebody came up out with a story about how a camera from a satellite can take a shot of someone at ground level, I know nothing about photography, but wouldn't that require some telescopic lense or something to be able to do that?

Maybe the Russians did something like that?

The more I think about it, I start to think about something Microscopic & the need of a microscope to see it. Sure it's small (by our standards), but so are we from a great distance.

> When it comes to news reporting; last week there was a terrorist
> bombing in Egypt. Most of the casualities seem to have been Egyptian
> people, and also a lot of locals will be out of jobs when the hotels are
> damaged and tourists flee away. There were a few Swedes on vacation.

Sadily, I heard nothing about this. Egypt I think is another place Aussies like going to as well - my Cousin was a tourist guide there!

> Neither were killed or seriously injured, but four of them got a "shock"
> of what happened. The media reported intensively - for days - about
> four frightened, but otherwise unharmed tourists trying to catch a flight
> back home.

Strange I never heard anything about this, but I've had a belly full of the media - so I could of missed that story, they probably decided to do a small story on it. Anything to do with Aussies & Terrorists & it's in for the next couple of weeks.

> About at the same time, another bomb went off in Iraq, killing 20
> people. These days, it seems there is one bomb per day in Iraq,
> reducing the population by some 15-20 persons, not counting armed fire
> losses. Needless to say, these attacks and suicide bombers barely get a
> mention, maybe because it happens too often?

> Or is it so that one frightened Westerner is more important than five
> dead Arabs?

Man it's cultural values gone insane - IMO it's given religion a bad name all thanks to government conspericies, coverups & plain rubbish that they've been twisted with.

CP/M User.

[Terry Yager]

I must assume we're talking about seeing with the naked eye, not thru a lens. Sheila showed me a picture the other day, of our house, shot from a satelite. It showed enough detail that you could tell the color of the cars in the driveway, but not enough to identify make or model, and certainly not read the licence plates, although I've heard that even that is possible from some satelites.
As for the great wall, if that were visible, then why not other man-made objects, like railroad tracks, or even interstate highways, which are about the same width as the wall, and also cover thousands of miles?

--T

[Terry Yager]

I've just sat thru at least 3 hours of news coverage of a (Toronto) plane crash in which no one was killed! Mebbe the news folk ain't such ghouls after all, they are capable of reporting good news too.


They also managed to squeeze in the news that the latest version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has just been banned in Oz!

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2140652/australia-jumps-grand-theft

(Apparently, portrayed violence and crime is ok, but they don't want thier children exposed to cartoon characters having virtual sex). What's up with that? I thought Austrailia was a pretty open, tolerant society. State-sponsored censorship? CP/M U, are you folk gonna take that sh!t from your govt?


--T

[CP/M User]

"Terry Yager" wrote:

> I've just sat thru at least 3 hours of news coverage of a (Toronto) plane
> crash in which "no one was killed!" Mebbe the news folk ain't such
> ghouls after all, they are capable of reporting good news too.

> They also managed to squeeze in the news that the latest version of
> =Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas= has just been banned in Oz!

> (Apparently, portrayed violence and crime is ok, but they don't want
> thier children exposed to cartoon characters having virtual sex).
> What's up with that? I thought Austrailia was a pretty open, tolerant
> society. State-sponsored censorship? CP/M U, are you folk gonna take
> that sh!t from your govt?

Sex is everywhere! Everyone should know about - for protection. Apparently the Aussie Govt. doesn't want Family's because they just dismissed anybody having any rights in regards to work - so you can now be dismissed for any reason they wish to stick to people. It all co-insides with the environment exactly how many people they want to see in Australia, because there are concerns that there will be too many people in the future to maintain a sustainable environment. Which is fair enough.
But what's not fair is the way they are attacking it. They want to see more people spending less family time, less family time mean's less time to make a family - I suspected this as early as a month ago when they were looking at making it harder for families.

The whole Grand Theft Saga maybe part of this plot of trying to rid of this, but it's actually more open now than what it's ever been - which is probably the bigger threat. Violence while it's not generally accepted, it's in all the video games kids play & it doesn't matter how they get it - they'll get it in some shape or form. Maybe the Govt. wants more bloody crimes to reduce population - it just makes we wonder how far their prepared to go - really you can have too much power & be an evil deviant, but to wipe them out mean's you're just as bad.

As far as taking it from the Government, people here just protest as long as it takes, but it doesn't stop anything unfortunately - it's all a transision of money changing change which stops nothing (even the gang of protesters) - another example of how the Govt is corrupt.

CP/M User.

[Terry Yager]

I was just boning-up on the African country Malawi last night, and I was struck by te fact that thier birth rate is double that of thier death rate. That could mean big trouble for them in a few years, especially since thier median age is already only 16 years. At the rate they're going, they won't have any adults left. (Apparently, AIDS has pretty much decimated the adult population).

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mi.html#Intro

--T

[CP/M User]

"Terry Yager" wrote:

> I was just boning-up on the African country Malawi last night, and I was
> struck by te fact that thier birth rate is double that of thier death rate.
> That could mean big trouble for them in a few years, especially since
> thier median age is already only 16 years. At the rate they're going,
> they won't have any adults left. (Apparently, AIDS has pretty much
> decimated the adult population).

Surely the whole community would be pumped up on AIDs? Otherwise they'll be all gone. Unfortunately, it's the Baby's which are comming from people infected with AIDs are as well infected with the virus. Could it work like it worked for the Mozzie for example where 1% had the gene to be imune to DDT & found another Mozzie imune that created this swarm of Mozzies imune to the spray?
DDT might be the thing which does Humans in - the next great extinction perhaps? Simply because it doesn't break down & has been found in places where it hasn't been used! Some Third-World countries are still using it (even though it's illegal).

CP/M User.

[Terry Yager]

Mozzie, that's a new one on me, never heard that p'ticular Aussie-ism before. Over here, we usually call 'em "skeeters," but I usually say "musk-eaters."
I dunno about DDT being the end of mankind, but possibly indirectly so. There could be a great malaria pan-demic carried by those resistant bugs. The skeeter is considered the most dangerous creature on the planet by some scientists. More deaths world-wide can be attributed to them than any other (from malaria, yellow fever, whatever). Wasn't it fleas that were the carriers of bubonic plague that wiped out most of Europe in the dark ages? I've always wondered about AIDS, and if the govt is telling the whole truth about how in may be spread. I mean, if a skeeter bites someone with AIDS, then bites me, how come I don't get it too? How's that any different from two junkies sharing a 'fit?

--T

[CP/M User]

"Terry Yager" wrote:

> Mozzie, that's a new one on me, never heard that p'ticular Aussie-ism
> before. Over here, we usually call 'em "skeeters," but I usually
> say "musk-eaters."

Really? The 'Mozzie' term is quite old - well it's being going on for as long as I remember. Don't know when it came in or from whom - some of those terms came from the Brits.

> I dunno about DDT being the end of mankind, but possibly indirectly so.
> There could be a great malaria pan-demic carried by those resistant
> bugs. The skeeter is considered the most dangerous creature on the
> planet by some scientists. More deaths world-wide can be attributed to
> them than any other (from malaria, yellow fever, whatever). Wasn't it
> fleas that were the carriers of bubonic plague that wiped out most of
> Europe in the dark ages? I've always wondered about AIDS, and if the
> govt is telling the whole truth about how in may be spread. I mean, if a
> skeeter bites someone with AIDS, then bites me, how come I don't get
> it too? How's that any different from two junkies sharing a 'fit?

Not sure why the AIDs thing isn't connected - may have something to do with how the blood is used - the mosquito wouldn't eject the blood into another person. We're lucky - we don't have Malaria here because it's found in a particular mozzie which hasn't been found here, though with Global Warming & Australia moving North a few Centimetres (or couple of Inches) it maybe a question of time before we do see Malaria arive.

CP/M User.