This is how to survive bio-terrorism?
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Okay, I live in South Dakota, a few miles from the Iowa border and get their local channels. I just saw an ad encouraging people to come up with a plan in case of bio-terrorism. They showed a family stocking batteries and bottled water. The ad ended with the voiceover saying, "Be a hero." Then it showed a pamphlet you can call to get. As if that is going to save me from anthrax. Batteries and bottled water. My plan? Scream like hell, open up the most expensive bottle of wine I can find and tell a few people what I really think of them.
This akin to the Survive Nuclear attack ads in the 1950's ,where you see families being told to put blankets over their heads etc. Who was funding the ad ? Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
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Okay, I live in South Dakota, a few miles from the Iowa border and get their local channels. I just saw an ad encouraging people to come up with a plan in case of bio-terrorism. They showed a family stocking batteries and bottled water. The ad ended with the voiceover saying, "Be a hero." Then it showed a pamphlet you can call to get. As if that is going to save me from anthrax. Batteries and bottled water. My plan? Scream like hell, open up the most expensive bottle of wine I can find and tell a few people what I really think of them.
Contrary to popular doomsbelief, this things are survivable. Atomic blast: If you survive the initial blast, can shield yourself from the direct radiation, can avoid to inhale and wash off the radioactive dust, can avoid the fallout (which is, again, radioactive dust that moves with the wind), and have access to uncontamined water + food, you have a fair chance to survive. Chemical / Biological weapons: distribution is they key. The problem with an anthrax attack is not the anthrax, but getting it distributed. If you know what's coming at you, and you can avoid it, and you have access to uncontamined water and food, you have a fair chance.
Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole
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Contrary to popular doomsbelief, this things are survivable. Atomic blast: If you survive the initial blast, can shield yourself from the direct radiation, can avoid to inhale and wash off the radioactive dust, can avoid the fallout (which is, again, radioactive dust that moves with the wind), and have access to uncontamined water + food, you have a fair chance to survive. Chemical / Biological weapons: distribution is they key. The problem with an anthrax attack is not the anthrax, but getting it distributed. If you know what's coming at you, and you can avoid it, and you have access to uncontamined water and food, you have a fair chance.
Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole
Tree in C# || Fold With Us! || sighistMmm. and what a fun life that would be. I prefer the wine and shouting plan.
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Hi Joshette, How do you do? ;P
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leckey wrote:
As if that is going to save me from anthrax
Not a heavy metal fan then? :laugh: Elaine (head banging fluffy tigress) The tigress is here :-D
Never would have suspected you of being a skater/boarder girl.
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Mmm. and what a fun life that would be. I prefer the wine and shouting plan.
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Okay, I live in South Dakota, a few miles from the Iowa border and get their local channels. I just saw an ad encouraging people to come up with a plan in case of bio-terrorism. They showed a family stocking batteries and bottled water. The ad ended with the voiceover saying, "Be a hero." Then it showed a pamphlet you can call to get. As if that is going to save me from anthrax. Batteries and bottled water. My plan? Scream like hell, open up the most expensive bottle of wine I can find and tell a few people what I really think of them.
FWIW, there have already been small anthrax attacks in the USA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cases_of_anthrax[^] Far as I know, inhalation anthrax is survivable if treated in time. The problem is that it generally isn't caught before it's too late.
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Contrary to popular doomsbelief, this things are survivable. Atomic blast: If you survive the initial blast, can shield yourself from the direct radiation, can avoid to inhale and wash off the radioactive dust, can avoid the fallout (which is, again, radioactive dust that moves with the wind), and have access to uncontamined water + food, you have a fair chance to survive. Chemical / Biological weapons: distribution is they key. The problem with an anthrax attack is not the anthrax, but getting it distributed. If you know what's coming at you, and you can avoid it, and you have access to uncontamined water and food, you have a fair chance.
Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole
Tree in C# || Fold With Us! || sighist -
Okay, I live in South Dakota, a few miles from the Iowa border and get their local channels. I just saw an ad encouraging people to come up with a plan in case of bio-terrorism. They showed a family stocking batteries and bottled water. The ad ended with the voiceover saying, "Be a hero." Then it showed a pamphlet you can call to get. As if that is going to save me from anthrax. Batteries and bottled water. My plan? Scream like hell, open up the most expensive bottle of wine I can find and tell a few people what I really think of them.
Not only will you survive a nuclear blast and rivers of lava but I assume bio-terror as well. "Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage" -- Jean Anouilh
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> you have a fair chance to survive. But would you want to? The blast itself is just the start...
Hell fucking yes!
Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole
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Hey Leckey, You'd probably get much faster response time on questions posted to the forums if your screenname had a feminine ring to it. Most of the developers I know are guys, and many of those guys are single. Single guys are much more likely to be responsive to females than males. In fact, I think I'll change my screenname to Joshette Smith... Joshette
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Never would have suspected you of being a skater/boarder girl.
Software Zen:
delete this;Nooooooooo! Those yappies have only just discovered Anthrax! Elaine (head banging fluffy tigress) The tigress is here :-D
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Josh Smith wrote:
In fact, I think I'll change my screenname to Joshette Smith...
You do realize that this *will* come back to byte you... :laugh: Mike Poz
I send people to rape and kill the families of those who offend me. Bring it on... :rose:
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Hey Leckey, You'd probably get much faster response time on questions posted to the forums if your screenname had a feminine ring to it. Most of the developers I know are guys, and many of those guys are single. Single guys are much more likely to be responsive to females than males. In fact, I think I'll change my screenname to Joshette Smith... Joshette
Wel ... um ... that might only imply you are a LITTLE Josh Much as a cigarette is alittle cigar and a toilet is a little toil ... LOL I've seen better runs in my shorts! - Patches O'Houlihan
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Hell fucking yes!
Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole
Tree in C# || Fold With Us! || sighistI mean, what with all those VB.NET and C# coders out of the way ... :rolleyes: I've seen better runs in my shorts! - Patches O'Houlihan
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I mean, what with all those VB.NET and C# coders out of the way ... :rolleyes: I've seen better runs in my shorts! - Patches O'Houlihan
heh :)
Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole
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Wel ... um ... that might only imply you are a LITTLE Josh Much as a cigarette is alittle cigar and a toilet is a little toil ... LOL I've seen better runs in my shorts! - Patches O'Houlihan
Juliette is what I had in mind when appending 'ette' to my name for a feminine effect. If it's good enough for Billy Shakespeare, it works for me too.
Blake Miller wrote:
a toilet is a little toil
Good one! :-D
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Not only will you survive a nuclear blast and rivers of lava but I assume bio-terror as well. "Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage" -- Jean Anouilh
We tend to look at things "bass-akwards". Death isn't the enemy. We're all going to succumb. The real enemy is the way we (everybody) views the world. Obviously, that battle begins inside of each one of us. What's most important is how we live. If terrorists force us into our bomb shelters, they don't have to bomb us to win. The American Spirit (in my opinion) isn't based on "duck and cover"; it's based on the courage to live freely. I know, easier said than done. Unfortunately, in the name of domestic security, we are becoming less American. Under pressure from their constituency, lawmakers are pecking away at freedom. Some Irish-american once said, "Give me liberty or give me death." We have to decide how much freedom we want to yield to be protected from the possibility of a terrorist attack. As for surviving the atomic blast, I would much prefer ground zero to the prison fear would build. Besides, at ground zero it's painless. ;) There. Was that dramatic enough? Back to hacking. :rolleyes:
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We tend to look at things "bass-akwards". Death isn't the enemy. We're all going to succumb. The real enemy is the way we (everybody) views the world. Obviously, that battle begins inside of each one of us. What's most important is how we live. If terrorists force us into our bomb shelters, they don't have to bomb us to win. The American Spirit (in my opinion) isn't based on "duck and cover"; it's based on the courage to live freely. I know, easier said than done. Unfortunately, in the name of domestic security, we are becoming less American. Under pressure from their constituency, lawmakers are pecking away at freedom. Some Irish-american once said, "Give me liberty or give me death." We have to decide how much freedom we want to yield to be protected from the possibility of a terrorist attack. As for surviving the atomic blast, I would much prefer ground zero to the prison fear would build. Besides, at ground zero it's painless. ;) There. Was that dramatic enough? Back to hacking. :rolleyes:
Those that would give up essential liberty for freedom deserve neither. -- Ben Franklin "Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage" -- Jean Anouilh
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Do you actually think that terrorists are going to target South Dakota or Iowa?! If so, stop doing LSD. Put yourself in their shoes, what gets more bang for the buck...blowing up Chicago with nuke, or destroying a farm (with the lovely Leckey "manning" a combine) in Iowa? Hmmm....ummmm...well...I guess....yeah, Chicago.
leckey wrote:
My plan? Scream like hell, open up the most expensive bottle of wine I can find and tell a few people what I really think of them.
Sounds like something that should be done regardless of whether terrorists are about to kill you or not! josh
Terrorists won't but unfriendly foreigners will. The value of north american real estate would be so much higher were it fully furnished and untenanted. Dams, roads, electricity and water distribution systems, factories (presumably there are some left in the US) and all that sort of thing, but free of inconvenient americans. Just a little judicious bioengineering and all you have to do is go there on holidays and sniffle at them! You can even rationalise that if God objects he will send a sign in the form of a Great White Hanky. PeterW -------------------- If you can spell and use correct grammar for your compiler, what makes you think I will tolerate less?