On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 08:19 AM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Evolved diseases don't kill their hosts. Google is too useful to redirect. On the other hand, you can redirect an entire TLD (eg .mil), albeit on one machine at a time. Try doing that to one of The DNS Roots (pbut).
Many evolved diseases _DO_ kill their hosts. Look around. It is true that there are tradeoffs in lethality, time to death, and virulence, and that a disease which kills too quickly and too many won't spread adequately, but quite clearly all of the diseases of the past were evolved (until recently, none were created) and yet they often killed their hosts. --Tim May "In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -- Mark Twain