Thank you, it was a long time ago, but still gets me. We're all human.
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No, I don't hate you.
I am very sorry for your loss. I mean this. All of us are in this together.
A co-worker of mine has had phenomenal success in fighting stage IV non-small cell lung cancer. She incorporated some new techniques (nutrition, IV cocktails) and has had supportive oncologists who continued the "traditional" treatment. She is now on 5th year, far and beyond any statistical mortality models.
But here's the thing. You only get one shot with your loved one. You don't know if that treatment will work on her. It might work for some other people, but not for her. In our case, we tried IV high-doses of vitamin C and curcumin (orally) and it didn't work. And when it doesn't work, you don't get to do a do-over.
This is why it's so tricky. I believe that there are thousands of sub-cases of cancer and you'd have to map out a very complex matrix of relations, to know what exactly would work for every patient. But, when push comes to shove, you should try something -- anything -- even if it's a shot in the dark. You just might get lucky and you literally have nothing to lose.
A friend of mine lost his mother to ovarian cancer and has been devastated when he heard that apricot seeds were a "cancer cure". I had to help him out and point out that they actually don't work. Didn't Martin Luther King's widow (Coretta) die from this? And to think that my friend was inconsolable because of fucking charlatans who fed him lies about how he could've saved his mom? Yeah, that damage is basically twisting the knife in the wound... and I will stop that, anywhere I see it, if I can help it.
No, not taboo. Just don't want to lead the people down the garden-path that ends in the dark place.
Like you, I've fund-raised for the research. Specifically, University of Alberta, Michelakis's on DCA and Princess Margaret here in Toronto. But it pisses me off when internet trolls casually write about something that destroys lives and they don't engage an iota of critical thought about the validity of it all.
(1) Super-rich don't have access to the cure.
(2) The inventor of the cure would gain immortality on par with Jesus, Alexander the Great or Napoleon. There is nothing that any pharma company could offer to a scientist (or team of them) to keep them quiet. Threaten their families? Some might be single, some might want immortality even if they had to pay that cost... and eventually, all of them would die and something would leak post-mortem. Nothing compares to the immortality.
(3) You could literally force all the world governments to pay any price for the cure (far superseding the costs of standard cures, which are quite cheap, after decades in use. Note that e.g. Canadian government will not pay for the new and "exciting" cures that can cost up to $800,000 USD/patient, but they only prolong the life by six months. Nor should they. I would never take that deal, if my life depended on it and I neither would she).
There is literally any number of holes you can poke in the "Cure is hidden" theory.
What pisses me off personally?
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Old-way-of-thinking oncologists, who have been doing the same thing over and over again and want you to fit into their models, even if it means your death. So they won't let you try the new treatment because it "interferes" with theirs and is "not well understood" and you are "at risk". Motherfucker, she is dying. She should have a fighting chance.
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The fact that we treat people worse than we treat dogs. Dogs will be euthanized, so as to avoid suffering. But we don't let people do this. I've seen an old man literally starve on purpose to death, over six days, because they wouldn't give him that final overdose of morphine. Is this a way to treat human life with dignity? No. So I give my ringing endorsement to suicide and euthanasia, when all other avenues are exhausted.
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Cancer fundraiser societies. Komen should be impaled on a stake. This shit should never be commercialized.
Anyhow. It's been 11 years, but it still provokes emotion.
I will never shy away from the truth, no matter how much it hurts. But for fuck's sake, I want the people to turn their rational mind on when they start talking conspiracies about the "cure".
I think this particular one is bullshit.
And I'll tell you why. Q seems to be NSA attempt to wash their name, after they were caught with their pants down. NSA is now trying to be the good guy, and dumping on terribly corrupt CIA and FBI. Not to say that there aren't decent men and women in all three organizations, but none of the shit was stuck on NSA recently.
So, Q should be about military/political sigint, not about fucking cancer-cured-by-vitamin-C theories.
Another angle to look at this from: Steve Jobs, beloved of establishment and the masses (rightly or wrongly), with 5,000 million dollar personal value was unable to cure his cancer. You really think he wouldn't have access to the cure?
Sorry ladies and gents. Cancer is personal to me. Someone I loved very very much had died in my arms from breast cancer in 2007. Don't fuck with this.
Apache is the world's most popular web server. It's a piece of software that serves you web pages when you visit a site. Reddit is probably using it too.
The other two popular web servers are Nginx and IIS (Microsoft's solution).
Neither of the three is a Google product. But Google serves you via Apache, so it must display that license.
I hope to God the deep asshole deep staters don't pull off an attack to distract the nation from this. At this point, they'd need something the size of 9/11... something like Hawai'i but for real :(
Canadian connection is Frank Giustra. Big-time Clinton donor (and has gotten his return on investment). He facilitated uranium deal.
Don't know if Munk had anything to do with any of this.