As reported here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and elsewhere, the previously discussed rights to the ebola.com domain were offered for US$150,000.
Well, Russian owned Weed Growth Fund bought it for US$200,000. However, US$50,000 is in cash and US$150,000 is is the form of 19,192 shares in Cannabis Sativa, Inc..
The plan is to use ebola.com to publish inside information and coverups related to Ebola treatment. However, it may be a conspiracy theorist paradise given the stated belief that marijuana may aid Ebola treatment.
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There is a thriving market of Ebola tshirts, bumper stickers and plushies. With the success of various Cthulhu plushies and Dalmutations, it comes as little surprise that a line of microbe plushies (including a Lyme disease plushie, a chlamydia plushie and a bone cell oestocyte plushie) now includes an Ebola plushie.
In a slightly less tasteful matter, the steward of "disease domains" such as h1n1.com, birdflu.com, chikungunya.com, potassiumiodide.com, fukushima.com and terror.com bought the rights to ebola.com for US$13,000 in 2008 and is now selling them for US$150,000.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JNCF on Monday October 27 2014, @06:07PM
I'm not saying it would improve your chances of survival, but would you want to die of ebola while sober?
(Score: 1) by JNCF on Wednesday October 29 2014, @12:43AM
Wait, you guys modded me Insightful for that?
I guess you've been taking precautionary measures against ebola.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 27 2014, @06:12PM
I doubt that cannabis can cure anything at all. But - the experts say that all they can do for ebola victims is to offer "support". Grass may offer something of value to the support program. Even if it does nothing but make a person feel better for a little while, that is good.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday October 27 2014, @06:21PM
But - the experts say that all they can do for ebola victims is to offer "support".
No, the experts don't say that.
There is a lot that you can do with the right conditions, and even some antiviral drugs, which don't actually kill ebola but prevent other opportunistic viral infections from taking hold. Look at the ebola death rates in modern western hospitals compared to third world countries. Many, if not All current US ebola patients are getting transfusions and experimental drug treatment (usually under NDA).
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @06:48PM
Supportive care in the medical sense is different from supporting someone emotionally. For Ebola it is more about preventing the patient from going into shock by giving IV fluids and regulating blood pH.
(Score: 2, Informative) by curunir_wolf on Monday October 27 2014, @07:44PM
I doubt that cannabis can cure anything at all.
Well that may be true, but there are numerous very promising treatments coming out of the cannabis plant and derivatives. For instance, it seems to be very effective treating seizures in severe cases of brain seizure disorders [blogspot.com]. Some studies have linked a deficiency of cannabinoids to several disorders including Migraine, Fibromyalgia and Irritable Bowel Syndrome [prohealth.com]. Clearly, if those studies are confirmed, cannabis treatment would be the most effective path to a cure. And of course there have been many studies that show CBD (derived from cannabis) is effective at stopping the growth and metastasis of cancer cells. It may not be a cure, but if it continues to show promise, it could lead to a treatment that would allow cancer victims to avoid death by aggressive cancers.
I am a crackpot
(Score: 3, Informative) by Geotti on Monday October 27 2014, @07:53PM
is effective at stopping the growth and metastasis of cancer cells.
As well as a potent, natural antiemetic [lmddgtfy.net] and appetite stimulant [lmddgtfy.net] (very, very, very!!!11) useful e.g. while undergoing chemotherapy. (Yeah, not just CBD.)
(Score: 2) by tathra on Tuesday October 28 2014, @02:55AM
it may be an effective treatment for symptoms of PTSD [maps.org] too. the research is underway, or starting soon.
(Score: 1) by takyon on Monday October 27 2014, @06:14PM
now that's sourcing
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday October 27 2014, @06:22PM
Perhaps to excess, since most quote the same text, often word for word.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @07:05PM
He forgot here:
http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/10/27/1427240 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by cosurgi on Monday October 27 2014, @08:55PM
lol :)
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Buck Feta on Monday October 27 2014, @07:06PM
I just assumed that Ebola was the name of a potent new strain of reefer.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by dmc on Monday October 27 2014, @08:59PM
For those of us in the U.S., here is some key detail the summary could have used. As the summary is, I could have written it off as crazy Russians. From Time:
Talk about a slick libertarian. I think it's time to start shifting this debate to the trademarkability of the word "windows" or the number "486".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 28 2014, @06:38AM
lol, 420 TM, PP.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Common Joe on Tuesday October 28 2014, @06:02AM
cafebabe, I see what you did... and I think it's hysterically funny.
For those who didn't catch it, there's a Daily Mail link in the last "here" and I believe it's a subtle dig at my "no Daily Mail" rant I recently brought up again. Well, I'm ok with what you did because there are other links as well. And I had a good laugh. I have to admit, there are times I do like your humor. And you do say interesting things that are thought provoking.
Well played. Take a bow. You "win" this round. ;) And if you ever come to Hamburg, I'll buy you a round.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 28 2014, @09:26AM
A round of ... baseball bat?
(Score: 2) by Open4D on Tuesday October 28 2014, @03:15PM
I'm not convinced. Aren't you just trying to shoehorn that point in yet again? I've just replied to your rant [soylentnews.org].
If someone submits a Daily Mail story, or a Mirror or Express or Sun story for that matter, you could always find a story elsewhere on the same topic and post that in a reply. Or put in submissions yourself in which the only links are to stories from organizations that you perceive to be more accurate on average.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Wednesday October 29 2014, @12:32PM
I almost forgot the hyperlink to the Daily Mail but I'm glad that it was appreciated. People seem to be under the impression that I think the Daily Mail is a credible source of information. This is certainly not the case [soylentnews.org] although it has comic effect which must be self-parody [soylentnews.org].
Look, the conspiracy theorist Nexus Magazine [nexusmagazine.com] mutually cites the Other Place, this forum mutually cites the Other Place which mutually cites the Daily Mail which mutually cites Return Of Kings [returnofkings.com] which mutually cites Jezebel [jezebel.com]. You wouldn't do anything important with information from these sources without making further checks.
But the more general problem is that a large proportion of "news" comes from three newswires (Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg) and it often gets "reported" without change. So, when people complain that I'm hyperlinking to the Daily Mail URL-space, I may be hyperlinking to something absurd or I may be hyperlinking to the best source of newswire images [soylentnews.org]. Admittedly, this may not be clear given that I have an oblique sense of humor.
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