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posted by martyb on Sunday May 07 2017, @01:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the disarm-the-terrorists dept.

Leprosy is bacterial. In addition to curing leprosy with antibiotics, we also have anti-biotic resistant leprosy. What prevents a terrorist from deliberately infecting themself with leprosy and then engaging in promiscuous activity? How would a city like San Francisco, Washington DC, Paris or Berlin react to leprosy? When leprosy has a long incubation period, are we certain that leprosy isn't spreading already?

martyb: I was debating whether or not to run this story; from the Wikipedia page, "Contrary to popular belief, it is not highly contagious." But, there is more to this than just antibiotic-resistant leprosy. It invites discussion as to other agents with delayed response that could be employed. In addition, given a terrorist's intention to affect some other group, what options do they have which would affect that group without also adversely affecting their own group? How many of their own group are people willing to "harm" in the pursuit of harm to another group?

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @04:54AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @04:54AM (#505722)

    Bill Gates is not a nobody. He has funded the eradication of major diseases. You are a nobody with a broke ass screen name fighting a war that ended decades ago.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @09:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @09:56AM (#505787)

    Bill Gates is not a nobody. He has funded the eradication of major diseases.

    Shut up, Bill, you are a nobody! And for Christ's sake, get a username and log in so we know it is you. You nobody.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- on Sunday May 07 2017, @09:41PM

    by a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) on Sunday May 07 2017, @09:41PM (#506001)

    That's just his attempts to whitewash his criminal legacy just as every other criminal (m|b)illionaire does, so they're not remembered for their misdeeds but their "philanthropy". This of course, is financed with all the money you and I spent on forced Windows/IE bundling with all that hardware we couldn't get otherwise. Crimesthat the Justice department convicted his company of. Fact.

    And last time I checked Bill Gates dropped out of his PhD program in biology and, oh wait, he wasn't in a PhD program, he dropped out of his undergraduate program in college, and it wasn't biology it was pre-law, and I guess that makes him a high school graduate. Am I wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates. [wikipedia.org] If so, not by much. Bill Gates is just another rich buffoon.

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