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Apple Recognizes World AIDS Day Online and In-Store
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Uganda were definitely in an epidemic state in the early 80's. Unlike others, however, they seem to have done a somewhat good job in combatting it. But yes, they are definitely non-representative, root-cause being "something other than AIDS".
Addendum: dug up another graph, better showing the point just made. Uganda is clearly affected around the same time that the other countries are. However, their response is much faster (around a decade, really).
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Why not a billion while they're at it? Millions for a company the size of Apple is... cheap.
Unfortunately, Uganda's "somewhat good job" involves the death penalty for being gay, and severe prison sentences for objecting to the former. Note that this particular development is too recent to explain the historical data.
Anyway - on topic - kudos to Apple for helping to publicize the cause.
And lest anyone forget, remember
This was definitely done on Steve's watch....
What a great thing it is. A good donation isn't always monetary; Apple is giving a bullhorn to the movement by promoting it in such a way. One of the big part of the campaign, as Bono said today on CNN, is the importance of education as well ("the things money can't pay for," as the pundit who asked the question put it).
Nevertheless, my biweekly donation will definitely be heading in (RED)/One's direction. Calling it a great cause doesn't do it justice.
Nevertheless, my biweekly donation will definitely be heading in (RED)/One's direction. Calling it a great cause doesn't do it justice.
Thank you for a true LOL moment.
I would love to see a photo of one of the guys wearing an iPod nano.
So would I - since a photo of a guy wearing a Nano would essentially be a nude photo - the Nano is much too small to be a fig leaf.
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Just wanted to say how impressed I am generally with the majority of posts in this thread. It's nice to see that most people aren't coming out with awful, immature or just plain bigoted remarks whilst hiding behind the aononymity of the internet......Even a perceived bad comment had a fair explanation.
Nothing is ever all good. Also, not acting like i know a whole lot of Uganda (i don't) i truly fail to see the real connection here. Its not like their success in combatting AIDS were especially related to their way of dealing with homosexuality. Also, as you surely know, AIDS is not a "homosexual disease", especially not in Africa.
And yeah, I'm super tired and should be sleeping. I failed to read your cursive. Don't ask me why, but my mind blanked it out :- )
Fund raising for aids and breast cancer is such a political thing. Other ailments cause far more premature deaths, but don't get the publicity or the involvement of famous people, corporations or even countries.
Of course anyone suffering from aids or breast cancer would never want less funding for "their" disease.
And the hope is that the heavily funded research will "trickle down" to the other diseases in some ways.
In the end it is basic research that will provide the answers, but that isn't promoted by Hollywood, doesn't lead to immediate profits by Big Medicine, and is, shudder, funded by taxes.
Of course anyone suffering from aids or breast cancer would never want less funding for "their" disease.
And the hope is that the heavily funded research will "trickle down" to the other diseases in some ways.
In the end it is basic research that will provide the answers, but that isn't promoted by Hollywood, doesn't lead to immediate profits by Big Medicine, and is, shudder, funded by taxes.
I believe his comment made it clear that he wished for the benefit to extend to BOTH Africa and America. And since he himself presumably does not have AIDS, it still isn't a vested interest with which he makes his comment. So your analogy is actually quite flawed, since he is in no way asking for an improvement upon his own personal circumstance.
Nice try, though.
world AIDS day? So we are remembering a government created disease to control the population that has killed so many and is continuing to do so.
Ill put my tin foil hat back on....
Um. AIDS actually has a rather well-documented history... and it rather predates the global scientific community's ability to deliver the rather extraordinarily complicated genetic manipulation that would have been required to create the HIV/AIDS virus.
Actually, without a base virus with which to start, even today scientists would not be capable of putting together a genetic body capable of the devastation (actually, capable of anything) required to wreak havoc on the human immune system. So what was the original virus they used as a starting point?
Keep your tin foil hat on bro. And maybe sprinkle some coffee grounds in each corner of your dwelling. That ought to keep the aliens out.
once it was thought the earth was flat and any other thought of that was considered preposterous.
its just a thought.....and i wouldn't be shocked if it was true.
its just a thought.....and i wouldn't be shocked if it was true.
I don't really get it, but judging the the dislike count...
EDIT: Actually, a bunch of people misinterpreted what he said. Good thing this isn't politics; he'd get sued in an instant!
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Like the 10% statistic! This is why I'm glad I don't follow "entertainment" (celebrities). I would not want to be in that crowd.
They had a wonderful interview with Regan Hoffman from POZ on NPR today. Great to hear more about AIDS pending demise. Stay strong friends!
Um. AIDS actually has a rather well-documented history... and it rather predates the global scientific community's ability to deliver the rather extraordinarily complicated genetic manipulation that would have been required to create the HIV/AIDS virus.
Actually, without a base virus with which to start, even today scientists would not be capable of putting together a genetic body capable of the devastation (actually, capable of anything) required to wreak havoc on the human immune system. So what was the original virus they used as a starting point?
Keep your tin foil hat on bro. And maybe sprinkle some coffee grounds in each corner of your dwelling. That ought to keep the aliens out.
That is just what they want you to think. Governments have had alien technology ever since Roswell.
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They turned an apple...red. What were they thinking?! I don't think Apple's image will ever recover from this.
No, just a much higher risk of contracting it.
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Bono is a politician?
He likes to think he is.
Well I wish he'd think it more. He should just do this, one hundred percent of the time. Not music.