Re: Make antibiotic resistant pathogens at home! (Re: Policing Bioterror Research)

2002-12-24 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 09:38  AM, Morlock Elloi wrote:


Expect to hear not of a hausfrau being busted, but of the roundup (so
to speak) of Mohammed Sayeed, Hariq Azaz, and other thought criminals
for buying two many gallons of Roundup at the local Walmart.


I'd guess that the credit card usage among People With Wrong Sounding 
Names is
falling sharply. Will cash survive ?


A fun hack might be for folks to throw away their Random J. Cipher 
and A. Hacker supermarket courtesy cards and get new ones, ones 
with names like Abdul Ibn Aziz and Sharif Bin Laden.

Thank you for shopping at Safeway, Mr...uh...MrBin Laden...uh...is 
that your real name?


--Sharif Bin Laden



Re: Make antibiotic resistant pathogens at home! (Re: Policing Bioterror Research)

2002-12-24 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 7:42 PM +0100 on 12/24/02, Anonymous wrote:


 create a
 dioxin bomb

Of course, the efficacy of which as a substance of any serious human
toxicity has always been under serious scientific debate, hysterical
government pandering and enviro-socialism to the contrary.

Of course, I wouldn't drink DDT either, mind you...

Cheers,
RAH

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Re: Make antibiotic resistant pathogens at home! (Re: Policing Bioterror Research)

2002-12-23 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 02:27  PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:


At 07:07 PM 12/21/02 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2002/1217/1
Moreover, prior approval from the Department of Health
and Human Services will be needed for experiments that might make a

select

agent more toxic or more resistant to known drugs, as well as similar
studies that could be added to a restricted list.


So are all the housefrau who ask for antibiotics whenever
they get the sniffles going to be tracked?  The indiscriminate
use of antibios leads to drug-resistant bugs.  See Darwin et al.

And how about them ag antibios (which increase feed:meat ratio)?


As with all of Brother's many confusing and self-contradictory laws, he 
will use the laws against Oceania, which we have always been at war 
with.

Expect to hear not of a hausfrau being busted, but of the roundup (so 
to speak) of Mohammed Sayeed, Hariq Azaz, and other thought criminals 
for buying two many gallons of Roundup at the local Walmart.



--Tim May
Ben Franklin warned us that those who would trade liberty for a little 
bit of temporary security deserve neither. This is the path we are now 
racing down, with American flags fluttering.-- Tim May, on events 
following 9/11/2001



Make antibiotic resistant pathogens at home! (Re: Policing Bioterror Research)

2002-12-22 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:07 PM 12/21/02 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2002/1217/1
 Moreover, prior approval from the Department of Health
and Human Services will be needed for experiments that might make a
select
agent more toxic or more resistant to known drugs, as well as similar
studies that could be added to a restricted list.

So are all the housefrau who ask for antibiotics whenever
they get the sniffles going to be tracked?  The indiscriminate
use of antibios leads to drug-resistant bugs.  See Darwin et al.

And how about them ag antibios (which increase feed:meat ratio)?




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