Are you concerned about bird flu?
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From a poll on the BBC news website:
Are you concerned about bird flu?
Yes
25.63%
No
68.74%
Don't know
5.62%
3823 Votes Cast
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion5.62% (215) people taking part in the poll "don't know" if they are concerned about bird flu! Do these people not even know thier own minds! What is this world coming to?
Upcoming events: * Glasgow Geek Dinner (5th March) * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
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From a poll on the BBC news website:
Are you concerned about bird flu?
Yes
25.63%
No
68.74%
Don't know
5.62%
3823 Votes Cast
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion5.62% (215) people taking part in the poll "don't know" if they are concerned about bird flu! Do these people not even know thier own minds! What is this world coming to?
Upcoming events: * Glasgow Geek Dinner (5th March) * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Do these people not even know thier own minds!
Don't know.
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From a poll on the BBC news website:
Are you concerned about bird flu?
Yes
25.63%
No
68.74%
Don't know
5.62%
3823 Votes Cast
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion5.62% (215) people taking part in the poll "don't know" if they are concerned about bird flu! Do these people not even know thier own minds! What is this world coming to?
Upcoming events: * Glasgow Geek Dinner (5th March) * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
The bird what?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Do these people not even know thier own minds!
Don't know.
Smart Ass [EDIT] Humour is just lost on some people! [/EDIT] -- modified at 9:48 Monday 5th February, 2007
Upcoming events: * Glasgow Geek Dinner (5th March) * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
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From a poll on the BBC news website:
Are you concerned about bird flu?
Yes
25.63%
No
68.74%
Don't know
5.62%
3823 Votes Cast
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion5.62% (215) people taking part in the poll "don't know" if they are concerned about bird flu! Do these people not even know thier own minds! What is this world coming to?
Upcoming events: * Glasgow Geek Dinner (5th March) * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
This makes me think that cats are going to have a tough time soon. Imagine the scene. A bunch of sparrows surrounding a terrified cat with the birds sneezing at the cat.
the last thing I want to see is some pasty-faced geek with skin so pale that it's almost translucent trying to bump parts with a partner - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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From a poll on the BBC news website:
Are you concerned about bird flu?
Yes
25.63%
No
68.74%
Don't know
5.62%
3823 Votes Cast
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion5.62% (215) people taking part in the poll "don't know" if they are concerned about bird flu! Do these people not even know thier own minds! What is this world coming to?
Upcoming events: * Glasgow Geek Dinner (5th March) * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
Its the fact that people actually make the effort to respond to a poll with the response 'I don't know' that bemuses me - d'ya reckon they've nothing much to do by any chance?
Rhys
ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by the spirits of the good. This ridiculous and mischievous fable was swept off the face of the earth by the early Christians -- may their souls be happy in Heaven!
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
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From a poll on the BBC news website:
Are you concerned about bird flu?
Yes
25.63%
No
68.74%
Don't know
5.62%
3823 Votes Cast
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion5.62% (215) people taking part in the poll "don't know" if they are concerned about bird flu! Do these people not even know thier own minds! What is this world coming to?
Upcoming events: * Glasgow Geek Dinner (5th March) * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
What is this world coming to?
The Birds.
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From a poll on the BBC news website:
Are you concerned about bird flu?
Yes
25.63%
No
68.74%
Don't know
5.62%
3823 Votes Cast
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion5.62% (215) people taking part in the poll "don't know" if they are concerned about bird flu! Do these people not even know thier own minds! What is this world coming to?
Upcoming events: * Glasgow Geek Dinner (5th March) * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
Actually yes, IF it hits the United States. There have not been reported cases of the bird flu in pet birds, but it could happen. I eat only free-range chicken which conditions are much better than in the big poultry farms that seem to get hit the most often so the chance of getting bird flu via food source for me is low.
_________________________________________________________________ Hey! I don't parallel park big brown Econoline vans on the left side of the road!
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From a poll on the BBC news website:
Are you concerned about bird flu?
Yes
25.63%
No
68.74%
Don't know
5.62%
3823 Votes Cast
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion5.62% (215) people taking part in the poll "don't know" if they are concerned about bird flu! Do these people not even know thier own minds! What is this world coming to?
Upcoming events: * Glasgow Geek Dinner (5th March) * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
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Actually yes, IF it hits the United States. There have not been reported cases of the bird flu in pet birds, but it could happen. I eat only free-range chicken which conditions are much better than in the big poultry farms that seem to get hit the most often so the chance of getting bird flu via food source for me is low.
_________________________________________________________________ Hey! I don't parallel park big brown Econoline vans on the left side of the road!
don't worry cause scientist showed that u wont be affected unless you touched the bird when it is alive. meaning if you eat the bird after cooking it there wont be any danger to you life
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Actually yes, IF it hits the United States. There have not been reported cases of the bird flu in pet birds, but it could happen. I eat only free-range chicken which conditions are much better than in the big poultry farms that seem to get hit the most often so the chance of getting bird flu via food source for me is low.
_________________________________________________________________ Hey! I don't parallel park big brown Econoline vans on the left side of the road!
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Normaly I would agree. But in relationship with birh flu it's the wrong decission. An infection with birth flu happens after contact with wild birds. With us, when there was the danger of birth flu, it was forbidden to let chickens autside for month.
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From a poll on the BBC news website:
Are you concerned about bird flu?
Yes
25.63%
No
68.74%
Don't know
5.62%
3823 Votes Cast
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion5.62% (215) people taking part in the poll "don't know" if they are concerned about bird flu! Do these people not even know thier own minds! What is this world coming to?
Upcoming events: * Glasgow Geek Dinner (5th March) * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
5.62% (215) people taking part in the poll "don't know" if they are concerned about bird flu! Do these people not even know thier own minds!
They probably meant that they are not particularly concerned, but don't know if they should be. If you asked my grandma if she thought Vista was good or if it was bad, her reply would be don't-know. Something like that here I guess.
Regards, Nish
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don't worry cause scientist showed that u wont be affected unless you touched the bird when it is alive. meaning if you eat the bird after cooking it there wont be any danger to you life
At the moment it doesn't readily cross the species barrier, but that's subject to change in the future. The great flu pandemic of 1918-1919 was probably a bird flu. We still can't cure a virus, and while modern supportive medicine is much better than the situation ~90 years ago it won't do any good against a disease where you goto bed healthy, and die overnight without ever waking up.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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At the moment it doesn't readily cross the species barrier, but that's subject to change in the future. The great flu pandemic of 1918-1919 was probably a bird flu. We still can't cure a virus, and while modern supportive medicine is much better than the situation ~90 years ago it won't do any good against a disease where you goto bed healthy, and die overnight without ever waking up.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
:doh::doh::doh:
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From a poll on the BBC news website:
Are you concerned about bird flu?
Yes
25.63%
No
68.74%
Don't know
5.62%
3823 Votes Cast
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion5.62% (215) people taking part in the poll "don't know" if they are concerned about bird flu! Do these people not even know thier own minds! What is this world coming to?
Upcoming events: * Glasgow Geek Dinner (5th March) * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
They need to conduct a blue ribbon panel to decide how they really feel about the issue and see if it will be a deciding issue in the next election. Also, they need to see how their opponent feels about the issue and do some pre opinion dirt digging. Only then can they come out and see, "I have no recollection of the events leading up to and after the bird flu pandemic" and secure their reelection.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
5.62% (215) people taking part in the poll "don't know" if they are concerned about bird flu! Do these people not even know thier own minds!
They probably meant that they are not particularly concerned, but don't know if they should be. If you asked my grandma if she thought Vista was good or if it was bad, her reply would be don't-know. Something like that here I guess.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)I don't think the questions are the same thing: Do you think Vista is good or bad? (1) It's good; (2) It's bad; (3) I don't know if it is good or bad. Are you concerned about bird flu? (1) I am concerned; (2) I am not concerned (3) I don't know if I am concerned. Your question is about what you think of the state of another object. The question I highlighted was about the state of oneself.
Upcoming events: * Glasgow Geek Dinner (5th March) * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
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I don't think the questions are the same thing: Do you think Vista is good or bad? (1) It's good; (2) It's bad; (3) I don't know if it is good or bad. Are you concerned about bird flu? (1) I am concerned; (2) I am not concerned (3) I don't know if I am concerned. Your question is about what you think of the state of another object. The question I highlighted was about the state of oneself.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
(3) I don't know if I am concerned.
I believe that a lot of people misinterpreted option (3) as : (3) I don't know if I need to be concerned ...indicating that they do not know enough about bird blue. Note that I am not defending them, I am trying to see how they came to that answer.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*) -
From a poll on the BBC news website:
Are you concerned about bird flu?
Yes
25.63%
No
68.74%
Don't know
5.62%
3823 Votes Cast
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion5.62% (215) people taking part in the poll "don't know" if they are concerned about bird flu! Do these people not even know thier own minds! What is this world coming to?
Upcoming events: * Glasgow Geek Dinner (5th March) * Glasgow: Tell us what you want to see in 2007 My: Website | Blog | Photos
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Actually yes, IF it hits the United States. There have not been reported cases of the bird flu in pet birds, but it could happen. I eat only free-range chicken which conditions are much better than in the big poultry farms that seem to get hit the most often so the chance of getting bird flu via food source for me is low.
_________________________________________________________________ Hey! I don't parallel park big brown Econoline vans on the left side of the road!
You can't get bird flu through eating birds. Even if you eat an infected bird. Cooking kills the flu. Freezing kills the flu. You pretty much have to find an infected, live bird and start sucking on its rear end to get infected. Or do some strange Satanic ritual involving bird blood.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
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