> 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
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Dr. J. Christopher Krok
John Lucas Adaptive Wind Tunnel
Caltech MS 205-45, Pasadena, CA 91125