From your link:
"MSM [gay males] accounted for 52% of all people living with HIV infection in 2009, the most recent year these data are available"[snip]"and 63% of all new infections"

So it isn't hard to extrapolate and guess that some date before 2009, the "gay male" segment was below half (as now, it's almost exactly half), but the gay male segment grew faster than others recently to overtake it.

The last time I had looked, straight people still lead the gay-male category, but it has been a few years. And its still more non-Black than Black, but it was more white than non-white when I last paid attention.

I don't check the statistics on an annual basis to see what the trends are. None of those results affect my behavior.

Since then, they changed the rules to throw out pregnant tourists. The TB test may have started out as prevention at one point, but at this point in time, it's about costs only.

GAAP requires private companies to respond to FOI requests?

No, it's properly documented for the annual report, but listed as "one time write-off", often as part of an acquisition cost, with insufficient details to determine the actual cause. And when the company turns a multi-billion dollar profit, you can lose $300M on a single project without bankrupting the company.

I normally run around 75 orienteering competitions every year, 15-20 of them during late fall/winter/early spring when we have very little daylight here in Norway.

This means that those races are all at night, using a LED headlamp to read the map and to the see the ground in front of me. Since I got old enough for presbyopia I have been forced to use either bifocal glasses or a single contact lens: The glasses work OK under dry daytime conditions, but with any kind of moisture in the air they quickly become useless. The single contact means that I can only see the map with my right eye and the terrain only with the left, while distance perception suffers.

When I asked about lasik I was told that with my need for maximum night vision I would probably be very bothered by halos/diffraction spikes, the alternative is to do a multi-focal lens replacement surgery:

This uses a lens with two or three focal points, i.e. distance/reading. Most people can learn to disregard the out of focus image and only "see" the sharp version, but since more than half the light is lost night vision suffers significantly.

I'm still hoping they will be able to develop a real elastic replacement lens, i.e. something that allows me to regain the childhood capability to focus anywhere from the tip of my nose to infinity, in the meantime I'll try to make do without surgery.

Terje

Statistically, AIDS is mostly a disease of straight white people.

They don't want to keep the disease out. They want to keep people with TB out of the health care system. If you were diagnosed as a tourist, they'd throw you out. If you are diagnosed as a prospective migrant, they throw you out. If you are diagnosed as a resident, they treat you. It isn't about the disease, but the treatment costs.

When you only talk in sarcasm, you say nothing. Your opinion is only as valid as the justifications you can make for it. Apparently, that's nothing. So we'll treat your opinion with all the respect you deserve.

One common technique for people who are close to or have age-induced presbyopia is to perform the surgery on only one eye, or, depending on the prescription, to apply it in different amounts. The idea is to get one eye which is good for near vision and one that is good for far vision. Sort of the same notion as bifocals, but applied directly to the eyes. Apparently the brain adjusts quickly and effectively to this and you end up feeling as though you have good vision at all ranges as long as both eyes are open.

I'm considering doing that. I'm 45 and my eyes have just begun to change. I'm still generally myopic, but so far the change just requires me to take my glasses off when doing close work. I'm going to give it a couple more years to be sure my eyes have more or less settled, then get surgery on one or both, in whatever degrees will give me the best overall visual acuity and flexibility.

If your eyes haven't actually changed yet, then it's something of a crapshoot. The idea is to adjust your vision based on guesses as to how they're going to change. That said, my optometrist says that they can make very good guesses. The only reason he's recommended that I wait is because I'm not far from the point where guessing won't be required, based on my history of general visual stability and current rate of change.

If it can be spread by infected fluids flung, then the next biological war will be fought by soldiers throwing infected water balloons at each other.

Fill water balloons with infected water. Throw it at riot police.

There are piles of ways to deliver things that aren't "traditional".

Ebola isn't airborne, but there could be an airborne delivery mechanism created. Cook up 3 gallons of Jello. Spread lots of Ebola in it in the final cooling stages. Put that Jello in w warhead. Launch it somewhere. When it explodes, the Jello will act as a protection for the more delicate virus, and the infected Jello "dust" could be airborne transmission of Ebola.

I'm not saying it would work. I'm saying that unusual low-tech solutions can have unexpected results, and I wouldn't want to bet everyone's safety on the musings of some nay-sayer on the Internet.

For every advance made, there were always people who claimed it was impossible. Even after the commercial Tesla S release, people were still insisting it was "impossible" to make a car with the released specifications and price. I wonder how many would die from EVD while claiming it was impossible.

Delays and mismanagement is standard for any large enterprise. The only difference is that corporations have more legal room to hide their mistakes.

3. British car: It's not running again

Why didn't the British invent Mac OS? Because they couldn't figure out how to get it to leak oil.

There are ways to express the clickability of a region without 3Ds, it's just Apple's approach (on iOS) at the moment is somewhat lackluster. Mac OS X NSButtons still have a eency bit of bezel.

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