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On 23-4-2010 20:38, Tim Cook wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmail com> wrote:
>>> "It has killed nearly one out of four known affected people..."
>>
>>> Wait...what?
>>
>> "One out of four" means 25%.
>
> Yeah, but the 'known affected' threw me a bit. Implied (to me) that
> *only* four were known to be affected. lol
Yours is a valid interpretation of what was written. Most probably not
what was meant, but I might remember that you tend to misinterpret more
often for comical effect.
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"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
news:4bd1e929$1@news.povray.org...
>
> Yeah, but the 'known affected' threw me a bit. Implied (to me) that
> *only* four were known to be affected. lol
>
Yeah, I had to re-read that a couple of times. It sounded like "nearly one
person died". lol
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"andrel" <byt### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
news:4BD### [at] gmailcom...
> On 23-4-2010 15:05, UncleHoot wrote:
>> In the movie "The Happening" the trees start attacking people (more or
>> less). They released some sort of toxin. Kind of a goofy concept in the
>> way that it worked in the movie, but this article is quite troubling.
>> Perhaps "The Environment" is fighting back.
>>
>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36722426/ns/health-infectious_diseases/
>
> It seems to me that the most easy way to solve this problem is... er burn
> down all the forests. I think you'll agree that's a sensible move under
> the circumstances.
>
AWESOME! Now it's the "Toxic Forest" of _Nausicaa of the Valley of the
Wind_. Then we'll construct the Giant Warriors to defend against the
insects who live there, and...
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On 23-4-2010 21:30, UncleHoot wrote:
> "andrel" <byt### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
> news:4BD### [at] gmailcom...
>> On 23-4-2010 15:05, UncleHoot wrote:
>>> In the movie "The Happening" the trees start attacking people (more or
>>> less). They released some sort of toxin. Kind of a goofy concept in the
>>> way that it worked in the movie, but this article is quite troubling.
>>> Perhaps "The Environment" is fighting back.
>>>
>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36722426/ns/health-infectious_diseases/
>> It seems to me that the most easy way to solve this problem is... er burn
>> down all the forests. I think you'll agree that's a sensible move under
>> the circumstances.
>>
>
> AWESOME! Now it's the "Toxic Forest" of _Nausicaa of the Valley of the
> Wind_. Then we'll construct the Giant Warriors to defend against the
> insects who live there, and...
It was a quote, but not from that place.
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Orchid XP v8 escreveu:
> Tim Cook wrote:
>
>> (In other news, there's a bunch of acacia trees in South Africa that
>> got pissed off at the deer/elk eating them and *as a group* turned
>> poisonous and killed a whole herd.)
>
> Plants actually do that.
>
> Well OK, no they don't. But apparently (IIRC) Oak trees communicate with
> each other.
ents
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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Perhaps M. Night Shyamalan was onto something
Date: 23 Apr 2010 15:49:25
Message: <4bd1f9c5@news.povray.org>
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andrel escreveu:
> On 23-4-2010 15:05, UncleHoot wrote:
>> In the movie "The Happening" the trees start attacking people (more or
>> less). They released some sort of toxin. Kind of a goofy concept in
>> the way that it worked in the movie, but this article is quite
>> troubling. Perhaps "The Environment" is fighting back.
>>
>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36722426/ns/health-infectious_diseases/
>
> It seems to me that the most easy way to solve this problem is... er
> burn down all the forests. I think you'll agree that's a sensible move
> under the circumstances.
yeah, then after all forests are down, it's only a matter of feeding all
the mosquitos who lived there praying from the local now dead fauna with
our own cityfolks blood and coping with yet less oxygen and more global
warming and the end of the world. Sure nature strikes back the greedy
virus...
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"Fredrik Eriksson" <fe79}--at--{yahoo}--dot--{com> wrote in message
news:op.### [at] toadbredbandsbolagetse...
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:35:27 +0200, Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> >
> > "It has killed nearly one out of four known affected people..."
> >
> > Wait...what?
> >
> > Four known affected people, but only *nearly* one dead. So either
> > someone is mostly dead, or one person is dead and another is an
> > itty-witty bit dead.
>
> "So far it has killed five out of 21 patients analyzed in the United
> States, a nearly 25 percent mortality rate."
>
> One out of four known, not one out of *the* four known.
Goes to show you the quality of news editors nowadays... They then mean:
"It has killed nearly one out of four among known affected people..."
not
"It has killed nearly one out of four known affected people..."
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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: Perhaps M. Night Shyamalan was onto something
Date: 24 Apr 2010 14:27:34
Message: <4bd33816$1@news.povray.org>
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somebody wrote:
> Goes to show you the quality of news editors nowadays...
http://tinyurl.com/2dcpryg
http://tinyurl.com/25xu7jy
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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Perhaps M. Night Shyamalan was onto something
Date: 24 Apr 2010 14:29:12
Message: <4bd33878@news.povray.org>
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> http://tinyurl.com/2dcpryg
> http://tinyurl.com/25xu7jy
Yeah, that looks about right...
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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Perhaps M. Night Shyamalan was onto something
Date: 24 Apr 2010 14:42:44
Message: <4bd33ba4$1@news.povray.org>
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> somebody wrote:
>> Goes to show you the quality of news editors nowadays...
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2dcpryg
> http://tinyurl.com/25xu7jy
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