Wilsons Sandbox

> From: "supernielsen" > Subject: NKLR: Why Exactly? > > Not sure why we've suddenly begun a discussion of terrorism, > racism, whatever. This is a group for KLR related discussion, is > it not? Am I missing something here? > > And posting a NKLR related doesn't make it OK, in my book.

Suddenly? The NKLR posts go way back, and are the reason many people are here. The purpose of the NKLR in subject lines of off-topic posts is that you can set your mail program's filter to direct those to trash. Not as easy if you're reading on the web, but you can still visually scan over the subjects and skip the NKLRs.

> I > believe that the oil companies and Detroit probably had a hand > in discouraging the development of transit, particularly in L.A., > and encouraging the growth of a society dependent on the > automobile.

Actually, it was General Motors. There used to be an extensive trolley/rail system in the LA basin, known as the Red Cars. GM convinced the county to buy buses, and the rail system was scrapped. Now that the county is trying to redevelop light rail, the old Red Car right-of-ways are long gone or too expensive to buy back. But hey, at least the buses were a form of mass transit. I think society (in LA, anyway) is dependent on the automobile by its own choice.

> >From what very little I know about cancer, I don't think there will > be a single cure for all types. Any cure would be so profitable on > its own that it would too difficult for the health care industry to > keep it off the market, nor do I think I would hurt them; there are > plenty of other ways for us to fall into their clutches.

The profit margins might even be higher for the cure... I mean, after the initial cost of development, they just manufacture and sell it, like software. The total income of continued patient care (i.e., no cure) might be higher, but a lot of that goes to doctors, staff, hospital infrastructure costs, etc. There are probably a lot of ailments that drug companies, etc. could have "witheld" the cure for but didn't, so I tend to doubt a conspiracy for just one disease. Krokko -- Dr. J. Christopher Krok John Lucas Adaptive Wind Tunnel Caltech MS 205-45, Pasadena, CA 91125

But only after they came up with a newer, more expensive illness?! millerized (Firm believer in Silver as my wonder drug: wondering why I never get sick)

> "There are probably a lot of ailments that drug companies, etc.

could

> have "witheld" the cure for but didn't, so I tend to doubt a

conspiracy

> for just one disease. > > Krokko > >