Fred_Smith wrote:

No, Red, it doesn't work like that. Drugs are tested on whatever snimals they decide to use, or are available. Most are not tested on higher primates. And besides, even with chimps - just because a chimp has a similar physiology to man, in many ways, testing drugs on them still does not tell you anything useful about how they will react in man.

It doesn't tell you 100%, but it certainly says a lot. But as I said, they don't strictly test on animals. They progress onto human volunteers once their safety has been reasonably proven, and those human tests need to demonstrate a certain amount of efficacy and safety prior to approval. And I think I'll pass on the old race car driver's book.

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Al Beback wrote:

Not at all. My point is that she went through a very rough and shameful period in her life, which she was able to overcome to save her marriage. That's a good thing to Catholics, isn't it?

That depends. Given that she ignored past indiscretions, I'm forced to wonder if it was an open marriage to begin with. I mean, she does wear pantsuits...

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Al Beback wrote:

Not so fast, pig. How's the contrast when your room is fully lit?

I use it strictly for movies (and the occasional video game) pretty much only at night. The picture is washed out quite a bit with the lights on, but is still far superior to my last projector (which, being 5 years old, only had a contrast ratio of 1000:1 compared to 11,000:1 for this one). But for my intended purpose, it's like looking through a window into a mystical land of computer effect and joy. I originally had it in 480p mode (the default for the XBox) and the difference between 1080p is quite stark.

Al Beback wrote:

Congratulations, BTW.

Thanks! (Stupid hippies)

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VonHagNDaz wrote:

you and Cartman would get along so well...

I wonder if they have that episode where Cartman exterminated Southpark of hippies on HD DVD...

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Richard A. Abbott wrote:

Where did you say you live

Deep in the heart of Rwanda.

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Al Beback wrote:

She could have maintained that position had she divorced him too. In fact, she may have come out looking even stronger from a feminist stand-point.

What's your point? That women being cheated on is a positive thing?

Anybody rape your wife yet? -IAmChrisMcCall

Last night I hooked up my brand new Panasonic[^] home theater projector (which was completely free, courtesy of those hippy burglars and my excellent insurance company) with a brand new HD DVD drive for my brand new XBox 360 (also both completely free) and I must say that it makes me 1080p my pants. The HD DVD drive came with a King Kong HD DVD disc and it looks nothing short of absolutely amazing. The picture is 10 feet diagonal (OK, actually 9'11") and even at that size exceeds any LCD or Plasma I've seen in terms of picture quality. Halo 3, though not in 1080p, is also amazing. Yes I'm totally bragging for no reason, but there is a moral to this story and that moral is: I win, hippies...I win.

Anybody rape your wife yet? -IAmChrisMcCall

Richard A. Abbott wrote:

there is another problem here insofar that this report reports the use of lab mice in experiments that will no doubt offend Fred Smith

I consider that a plus.

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He's a pothead. He gets confused easily.

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I always figured he would be eating wascally wabbits.

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Fred_Smith wrote:

Just in case you really haven't thought it through (or really are that stupid!) just stop for a minute and think: what difference does it make how many millions of tests are done on how many different types of animals, if none of them is going to give you any reliable information? The point is that the effect of any drug on one type of animal will tell you nothing about how that same drug will affect another type of animal (including the human animal).

My understanding is that animal testing progresses from simpler animals that may have chemistry dissimilar to that of humans (like rodents) and progresses up to animals that have more similar chemistry to humans (like chimps). Ultimately once adequate safety is demonstrated in those higher animals, testing begins with a limited number of human volunteers. Testing is then expanded until FDA approval comes in. I'm sure you could see the problems in testing experimental drugs on humans before conducting any animal testing...

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Henize is packing his bags as we speak.

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Marc Clifton wrote:

It must be posts from you that caused my brain to distored that word, as I read it as "tampon". I guess I had certain expectations.

Then it should have read "What in a tampon is a string, boy"?

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Matthew Faithfull wrote:

As I'm not being and have not been, thank God, persecuted it would appear that it is you who has a delusion that I am deluded

Fortunately for my sake (and unfortunately for yours) there is no such documented delusion. Delusions of persecution (something you obviously suffer from), however, are fairly common. I suggest that you seek professional help, but I doubt that you will.

Anybody rape your wife yet? -IAmChrisMcCall

Chris-Kaiser wrote:

The Princess Bride?

Yup! :-D

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Matthew Faithfull wrote:

I see that's it's not just reading you have a problem with but writing as well.

Well at least you recognize that my blatantly obvious satirical immitation of your writing style is problematic. Now if only you could recognize that you suffer from severe delusions of persecution (which is admittedly something you won't be able to recognize without professional help)....What with the president of Italy calling you a terrorist and whatnot.

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Matthew Faithfull wrote:

I certainly wouldn't take any eloquence lessons from someone who can barely read.

I admit that I have great trouble understanding what you write because for wherever reason your writing style involves long run-on sentences that chain together disparate (and unsubstantiated) and seemingly random claims when obviously Guantanamo is the anti-Christ's throne in order to try and make a "point" which eludes not only me despite my aluminum foil helmet and also ignores the previous post in entirety such that the reader is left with a spaghetti-like mess of words much like George Bush's speeches which are controlled by Illuminati satellites in order to protect us from the truth that Ed Brown is being tortured in secret public torture prisons in Vermont's underground maple syrup factories and which occasionally use commas, instead of periods to separate thoughts that are probably co-mingled in your head which explains why you're so nuts and which renders me incapable of discerning what you are actually attempting but failing to say and thus making it look like I don't know how to read when in actuality I just don't know how to read "crazy".

Anybody rape your wife yet? -IAmChrisMcCall

Dude...You need a much better grasp of the English language if you're going to properly express your points. This is all just rubbish. An actually coherent idea every now and again might help too.

Anybody rape your wife yet? -IAmChrisMcCall

I'll bet they deprived him of his aluminum helmet, too.

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Matthew Faithfull wrote:

I'd ask where

In your typical long-winded, nonsensical tirade designed to defend the idea that America's War on Terrorism is in fact terrorism by virtue of the fact that you believe in various unsubstantiated claims of torture[^]. For the sake of convenience, you're willing to define anything you see fit as "terrorism".

Anybody rape your wife yet? -IAmChrisMcCall