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gonorrhea "cures" population growth

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57448055-10391704/world-health-organization-warns-of-gonorrhea-strain-resistant-to-antibiotics/ world health organization says sexually transmitted disease is resistant to anti-biotics. hello population reduction. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57398949-10391704/who-antibiotic-overuse-so-prevalent-scraped-knee-could-be-deadly/ "We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units,"
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Scrooge

The Purpose of Spectacular Wealth, According to a Spectacularly Wealthy Guy http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/magazine/romneys-former-bain-partner-makes-a-case-for-inequality.html who knows more about the economy? bain's former new york manager that re portedly has made hundreds of millions or   nouriel roubini and other economists? for all that he is still scrooge - are there no work houses for the poor? as if there is no social contract.   The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the  true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. http://en.wikip...
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Dedication to Apollo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo_(Delphi)#Temple_of_Apollo Carved into the temple were three phrases: γνῶθι σεαυτόν (gnōthi seautón = "know thyself") and μηδέν άγαν (mēdén ágan = "nothing in excess"), and Ἑγγύα πάρα δ'ἄτη (engýa pára d'atē = "make a pledge and mischief is nigh"). The first two I had heard - but not the third. I have been told to make goals - targets - quotas. These are pledges. I have been told that I need goals in order to achieve and succeed, because if I didn't have goals I wouldn't do what it takes. What it takes is doing what you don't want to do. A goal is necessary to do what you don't want to do. Like quitting smoking - or selling $250,000 a year worth of widgets.
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1 cubic mile of oil

to create the energy we get from oil by least expensive means - wind - we would need to spend an extra $10 trillion and would require an area the size of three new zealands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_mile_of_oil The world consumes approximately 3 CMO annually from all sources. Source CMO/yr Oil 1.06 Coal 0.81 Natural gas 0.61 Biomass 0.19 Nuclear 0.15 Hydroelectric 0.17 Geothermal <0.01 Wind+Photovoltaic+Solar thermal <0.005 Installing capacity to produce 1 CMO per year requires long and significant development. Allowing fifty years to develop the requisite capacity, 1 CMO of energy per year could be produced by any one of these developments: 4  Three Gorges Dams , [14]  developed each year for 50 years,  or 52  nuclear power plants , [15]  developed each year for 50 years,  or 104  coal-fired power plants , [16]  developed each year for 50 years,  or 32,850  wind turbines , [17] [18]  deve...
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