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- canuck0
Interesting fact: Centipedes sometimes live up to six years.
- canuck0
U.S. Dollar to Canadian Dollar Exchange Rate
- Jaline0
I was thinking about spam today. I'm always selecting "Delete all spam messages now" because I get hundreds of them (filtered nicely by Gmail). Then I was thinking...why don't I just change my settings so that all spam messages are automatically deleted forever, right away. Since I have only found something getting dumped their by mistake maybe once. But I just can't do it. I need to be able to have the spam folder intact in case something important DOES make its way into that folder, even though it's extremely rare. Maybe this is my OCD coming through.
Then I went into the Gmail settings and discovered that this option to automatically delete all spam right away is not even there anymore. Rather, you must wait 30 days for Gmail to automatically get rid of it.
So....I have a situation that doesn't even have the other solution I was thinking about.
- *their = thereJaline
- stay off the drugs?Jnr_Madison
- I'm right there with youcreative-
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up
- Jaline0
Almost time to go home.
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I'm about to go to work again.
Have some serious advertising business to take care of.
- airey0
after consideration i thought for some time that she was exactly like a candle in the wind... unreliable.
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- TaylorB0
wow. its late...
good night all... and to all the qbn late nighters... I dedicate this...
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hey, you
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Lowell came in looking like the Cheshire Cat,” Myhrvold recalled. “He said, ‘I have a question for everyone. You have a tumor, and the tumor becomes metastatic, and it sheds metastatic cancer cells. How long do those circulate in the bloodstream before they land?’ And we all said, ‘We don’t know. Ten times?’ ‘No,’ he said. ‘As many as a million times.’ Isn’t that amazing? If you had no time, you’d be screwed. But it turns out that these cells are in your blood for as long as a year before they land somewhere. What that says is that you’ve got a chance to intercept them.”
How did Wood come to this conclusion? He had run across a stray fact in a recent issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. “It was an article that talked about, at one point, the number of cancer cells per millilitre of blood,” he said. “And I looked at that figure and said, ‘Something’s wrong here. That can’t possibly be true.’ The number was incredibly high. Too high. It has to be one cell in a hundred litres, not what they were saying—one cell in a millilitre. Yet they spoke of it so confidently. I clicked through to the references. It was a commonplace. There really were that many cancer cells.”
Wood did some arithmetic. He knew that human beings have only about five litres of blood. He knew that the heart pumps close to a hundred millilitres of blood per beat, which means that all of our blood circulates through our bloodstream in a matter of minutes. The New England Journal article was about metastatic breast cancer, and it seemed to Wood that when women die of metastatic breast cancer they don’t die with thousands of tumors. The vast majority of circulating cancer cells don’t do anything.
“It turns out that some small per cent of tumor cells are actually the deadly ones,” he went on. “Tumor stem cells are what really initiate metastases. And isn’t it astonishing that they have to turn over at least ten thousand times before they can find a happy home? You naïvely think it’s once or twice or three times. Maybe five times at most. It isn’t. In other words, metastatic cancer—the brand of cancer that kills us—is an amazingly hard thing to initiate. Which strongly suggests that if you tip things just a little bit you essentially turn off the process.”
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I fly like paper, get high like planes
If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name
- 7point340
i'm not hedge.
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headaches, hazy vision, tingling, misplaced words
- time to relax maybe?********
- JENKEM? put the poo down!7point34
- time to relax maybe?
- 7point340
i don't think emu saw my birthday wishes....
- maybe he just hates you?Jnr_Madison
- well that goes without saying.
maybe if i print it on a t-shirt...7point34
- canuck0
I return from Detroit. No offense to those who live there but what a dirty city.
- maybe it's because of the playoffs and people partying all day?
(I'm stretching)Jaline - I bet Canada is more clean in general, though.Jaline
- where's flavorful?Jaline
- Sounds like my kind of city.Jnr_Madison
- I guess he didnt make it out alive. We had some pretty bad heckling going on.canuck
- I can't imagine...Jaline
- maybe it's because of the playoffs and people partying all day?
- 7point340
who has that gif of arnold looking at porn and and then he sees the goatse and frowns? i suspect jnr may know of its whereabouts... its hilarious
- I know the one, but I'm not at my main computer at the mo.Jnr_Madison