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The Real Damien
2007-06-28 9:44:37 PM  
Can I skip the procreate and just do the fornicate thing?
 
mediaho
2007-06-28 9:50:48 PM  
Figures. It starts when I start puberty and ends when I'm almost middle aged. Another reason to think that if there is a God, He really, really hates me.
 
PirateKing [OhFark]
2007-06-28 9:51:26 PM  
This is an interesting development not only for HIV, but for many viruses.

It will probably happen, because it's exactly the sort of treatment the pharmaceutical companies love. Expensive and chronic.

It took 3 months to get the virus out of a petri dish full of cells.

It will take 3 years and cost $50,000 a year for humans.

But you'll pay it, or you'll die.
 
Relatively Obscure [TotalFark]
2007-06-28 10:05:45 PM  
I'll wait for the "...Still no cure for Cancer" headline submission before I post in one of these threads.
 
Relatively Obscure [TotalFark]
2007-06-28 10:06:53 PM  
Oh, sure, I say that and NOW it goes green. Damn you all.
 
Regnad Kcin
2007-06-28 10:10:32 PM  
Put your fists in the air!
 
Action Replay Nick
2007-06-28 10:15:40 PM  
I honestly care more about a herpes cure than I do AIDS. I've turned down some easy lays before because of the herpes skank-o-meter.
 
borg
2007-06-28 10:17:25 PM  
There will never be a cure for AIDS, not now.. not in 10 years.. not in 100 years It is just not going to happen. There will never be a viable vaccine for AIDS thats not going to happen either.
 
Relatively Obscure [TotalFark]
2007-06-28 10:20:41 PM  
borg

Maybe not--that's certainly possible, but there's no legitimate way to make such a definitive claim in that regard, except as trying to get on that list of "640K ought to be enough for everybody" type quotes.
 
colovion
2007-06-28 10:24:18 PM  
We've always had a cure... but for some reason "death" isn't the preferred choice.
 
mediaho
2007-06-28 10:25:50 PM  
borg: There will never be a cure for AIDS, not now.. not in 10 years.. not in 100 years It is just not going to happen. There will never be a viable vaccine for AIDS thats not going to happen either.

Be careful with absolute predictions.

Hopelessly wrong predictions(p)
Famously Wrong Predictions(p)
 
AirForceVet [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2007-06-28 10:38:05 PM  
Great news if they can make it safe for humans.
 
neeners
2007-06-28 10:39:01 PM  
The day they found a cure for AIDS
Everybody took one little pill and was okay
The day they found a cure

The day they found a cure for AIDS
Everybody took one little pill and was okay
I slept with Cindy and Martha and Sue
i slept with Julie, Melissa and Kate

The day they found a cure for AIDS
Everybody took one little pill and was okay
The people who had plotted to get rid of all the gays
Admitted their guilt and then everything was fine
Everybody else said "I didn't know"
The day they found a cure

For six months
Noone went to work
They all had orgies
Morning after pills
Were sold in grocery stores
And gas stations

The day they found a cure for AIDS
Everybody took one little pill and was okay
We rented dirty movies
And ordered out for food
For three solid weeks
Everyone I met was nude
I slept with Julie, Melissa and Jake
Nobody was afraid

-Dan Bern
 
Guy Innagorillasuit
2007-06-28 10:43:45 PM  
I dunno how much AIDS scares y'all, but I got a theory: the day they come out with a cure for AIDS, a guaranteed one-shot cure, on that day there's gonna be farking in the streets, man.

-Bill Hicks
 
Canadian Canuck
2007-06-28 10:52:30 PM  
I'll believe it when I see it.
 
BearToy
2007-06-28 10:57:48 PM  
colovion: We've always had a cure... but for some reason "death" isn't the preferred choice.

Somehow I doubt that you would see death as a cure if your son contracted AIDS.
 
seventypercent [TotalFark]
2007-06-29 12:17:11 AM  
If this is true, it's just another example of modern science defying the will of God. It's like whacking the baby Jesus in the face with a two-by-four, right there in the manger, in front of Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, and the wise men. That's how bad it is. Now aren't you ashamed, modern science?
 
DeathValleyQueen83
2007-06-29 1:53:36 AM  
seventy percent, "If this is true, it's just another example of modern science defying the will of God. It's like whacking the baby Jesus in the face with a two-by-four, right there in the manger, in front of Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, and the wise men. That's how bad it is. Now aren't you ashamed, modern science?"

I'm not even going to touch that, other than to say that may be the most ridiculous statement I have ever read in my entire life.
 
TheGreatZarquon
2007-06-29 1:55:16 AM  
DeathValleyQueen83: I'm not even going to touch that, other than to say that may be the most ridiculous statement I have ever read in my entire life.

I'm pretty sure he was being facetious, dude.
 
PandaKnight
2007-06-29 1:55:49 AM  
Excellent... excellent... I'm going to be entering my 20s just in time...
 
CKBlack007
2007-06-29 1:55:55 AM  
there goes the latex futures market!
 
DeathValleyQueen83
2007-06-29 1:56:44 AM  
ThegreatZarquon:

I sure as shiat hope so.
 
FirstTimeFarkerLongTimeFapper
2007-06-29 1:58:02 AM  
Screw procreating. I'd rather fornicate!
 
Linguo Dead
2007-06-29 1:59:27 AM  
Still no cure for an imbalance of the humors.
 
Angel of Death
2007-06-29 2:00:14 AM  
What makes HIV so deadly, however, is its ability to insert itself into the body's cells and force those cells to produce new infection.

Isn't this true for every virus ever? Isn't this even part of the definition of a virus?
 
AstralRunner
2007-06-29 2:01:42 AM  
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

They seem to get a lot of flak for that statement. But the thing is, they were right, weren't they? Most computers today don't weigh more than 1.5 tons.
 
Lalalala
2007-06-29 2:03:47 AM  
[image from i18.tinypic.com too old to be available]

LET'S fark SOME WHORES!
 
PandaKnight
2007-06-29 2:04:36 AM  
What makes HIV so deadly, however, is its ability to insert itself into the body's cells and force those cells to produce new infection.

Isn't this true for every virus ever? Isn't this even part of the definition of a virus?

Exactly. What actually makes HIV so deadly is it's targeting the triggers for your immune system, causing the whole thing to fail because it won't start up.
 
robolobo
2007-06-29 2:04:56 AM  
um, herpes and the other stuff that make the peener ooze would still be out there, right?


/dont through away the condoms yet
 
marylander
2007-06-29 2:04:56 AM  
PirateKing: This is an interesting development not only for HIV, but for many viruses.

It will probably happen, because it's exactly the sort of treatment the pharmaceutical companies love. Expensive and chronic.

It took 3 months to get the virus out of a petri dish full of cells.

It will take 3 years and cost $50,000 a year for humans.

But you'll pay it, or you'll die.

umm how is this a breakthrough for treating any other sort of virus? unless it shares the same dna as hiv it wont do shiat for other viruses unless this enzyme is not that selective and if so then it is useless for fighting hiv as it would damage the patients actual dna too

i might be wrong though
 
Wild Bluebonnet
2007-06-29 2:04:58 AM  
Mikey Adams WEEI:

It Hurts When I Pee Is that Bad ? NSFW


How many times is this porn site going to be spammed on Fark before someone catches on?
 
PandaKnight
2007-06-29 2:06:37 AM  
Wild Bluebonnet: A lot?
 
bostonowns
2007-06-29 2:08:00 AM  
the germans are behind it. probably a hoax. if its not, im going to rio, brazil as fast as you can say BOOTY
 
Solon Isonomia
2007-06-29 2:09:27 AM  
Even if AIDS and HIV is cured it doesn't mean we've cured herpes...

Yep, still using rubbers.

/married, doesn't need to use a rubber
//or condom
 
Jean Claude
2007-06-29 2:10:55 AM  
Angel of Death
What makes HIV so deadly, however, is its ability to insert itself into the body's cells and force those cells to produce new infection.

Isn't this true for every virus ever? Isn't this even part of the definition of a virus?

Yeah. What makes HIV deadly isn't that it can hijack the body's cells (even cold germs can do that). What makes it deadly is that the particular type of cells it hijacks are a critical part of our immune system.
 
Extra Virgin Palm Oil
2007-06-29 2:11:05 AM  
I spilled a little on the curb, for all my homies what dint make it here today.
 
JSAN618
2007-06-29 2:11:10 AM  
mediaho
starts when I start puberty and ends when I'm almost middle aged. Another reason to think that if there is a God, He really, really hates me.

No Shiat!!!

Relatively Obscure
Oh, sure, I say that and NOW it goes green. Damn you all.

I hope you are talking about TFA going green not something else?
 
Unreconconfederate
2007-06-29 2:11:16 AM  
Should this be effective and a cure at some point.
Wouldn't this be the first virus that medical science has overcome and defeated?
 
PandaKnight
2007-06-29 2:12:34 AM  
You're late, Jean Claude. But yeah. High five for basic biology.
 
Solon Isonomia
2007-06-29 2:13:10 AM  
Unreconconfederate
Wouldn't this be the first virus that medical science has overcome and defeated?

I think smallpox holds claim to that title.
 
illicit
2007-06-29 2:14:47 AM  
Potential cure for HIV discovered. Still no cure for Herpes
 
Smed
2007-06-29 2:14:59 AM  
Unreconconfederate: Wouldn't this be the first virus that medical science has overcome and defeated?

Smallpox.
 
kidsizedcoffin
2007-06-29 2:15:07 AM  
But it is still safe to get a handjob in the back of a movie theater, right?
 
rackrent
2007-06-29 2:15:58 AM  
FTFA:

"The scientists engineered an enzyme which attacks the DNA of the HIV virus and cuts it out of the infected cell..."

Reminds me of the ATM thread.

/still a cool discovery
 
Egon Spengler
2007-06-29 2:15:58 AM  
DOPE guns and farking in the streets...

/Get off my lawn.
//hijacking term from the grizzlebees.
 
nucular bum
2007-06-29 2:19:41 AM  
Linguo Dead
Still no cure for an imbalance of the humors.

Leave it to the Good Humours Man! He's got icy treats on a stick designed to balance the 4 essential humours! In four outrageous flavors: Blood Red Cherry Berry, Black Bile Chocolate, Yellow Bile Mango Vanilla, and Phlegm-on! So remember to wave the Good Humours Man down when he rides down your street!
 
Unreconconfederate
2007-06-29 2:19:49 AM  
Smed and Salon

Thanks I forgot about that.
 
jdcproskater3
2007-06-29 2:19:51 AM  
Still no cure for child support.
 
Heroin For Peace
2007-06-29 2:20:09 AM  
PandaKnight: What actually makes HIV so deadly is it's targeting the triggers for your immune system

well, it's attack of CD4 certainly isn't helping anything, but a major difference between HIV and "normal" virus is that it's a . Getting the virus code into the host cell's own DNA is particularly nasty.

Also... the reverse transcriptase needed to make this happen is particularly buggy, so you are getting an abnormally-high mutation rate, that makes the disease somewhat of a moving target.
 
Heroin For Peace
2007-06-29 2:22:30 AM  
Oh, and this theoretical enzyme-treatment sounds pretty clever, though I wonder how it deals with the fact that your host cells still have a copy of the virus in their DNA - that's the nasty part to remove...

/still an interesting idea, though
 
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