Exhausted, but unable to sleep, I looked over my profile. Christ, none of the jokes in there translate to text. Gonna hafta redo it. Feeling lazy not, so I'll just crop the 3 worst ones. Wondering how may people I shooed off because my vicious sense of humor doens't translate well... Well, since the tone of my journal is a little too serious, is likely that people got the really wrong impression. *chuckle* Won't be the first time.
Why precisely does the Fed hold back a vaccine for the disease that causes most cervical cancer? Why have the women of the US not risen as one and slain all involved? Have people even heard of it? Well, if the answer to the last question is no, the story runs like this... Cervical cancer is apparently usually caused by an extremely common STD. Someone came out with a perfect vaccine for it. No side effects in lots of clinical trials, no problems in use in other countries. The treatment works and doesn't cause problems. The federal govt under Bush (insert obligatory Bush/vagina joke here) has blocked this treatment, as preventing this disease would increase the promiscuity of women, or something along those lines. It's a simple appeasement of the Jesus Freak wing of the party. I just don't see how killing women in a slow and nasty fashion would cause God Loving Folk (tm) to support you, but then I don't get people in general. So, the upshot is there's a treatment for a disease you should be fearing (for yourself or your loved ones or both, depending on your uterine status), but you won't get it if you live in the US. (Oh, and yes, the drug works on men as well, preventing them from being carriers.)
Fuck you mister Bush.
Why precisely does the Fed hold back a vaccine for the disease that causes most cervical cancer? Why have the women of the US not risen as one and slain all involved? Have people even heard of it? Well, if the answer to the last question is no, the story runs like this... Cervical cancer is apparently usually caused by an extremely common STD. Someone came out with a perfect vaccine for it. No side effects in lots of clinical trials, no problems in use in other countries. The treatment works and doesn't cause problems. The federal govt under Bush (insert obligatory Bush/vagina joke here) has blocked this treatment, as preventing this disease would increase the promiscuity of women, or something along those lines. It's a simple appeasement of the Jesus Freak wing of the party. I just don't see how killing women in a slow and nasty fashion would cause God Loving Folk (tm) to support you, but then I don't get people in general. So, the upshot is there's a treatment for a disease you should be fearing (for yourself or your loved ones or both, depending on your uterine status), but you won't get it if you live in the US. (Oh, and yes, the drug works on men as well, preventing them from being carriers.)
Fuck you mister Bush.
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So these days unless it's something relatively simple (I'll do my own RAM installation when I go up to 2 gigs, for example) I find it better to rely on my friend Eddy, who's more familiar with hardware, less likely to screw up catastrophically, has better tools, and smaller hands. In this case...I probably could have eventually figured out how to take the previous cooler off and put the new one on, but I didn't want to risk any damage at all to the video card that I had paid 400 dollars for back in the day. (Replacing it would of course be cheaper now, but not *cheap*.)