That's what sanitary pads are for, you know.

Titillating idea.

Actually, while reading/watching about innate HIV resistance in subsaharian Africa, there was some information about the bubonic plague resistance being useful against HIV, which has already been mentioned. The same source stated that the genes providing this resistance survived in about 10% of the European population.

So no, most people survived the bubonic plague by not getting infected. Either that or those genes aren't really that useful otherwise.

Yes, if they think they never will make a mistake.

In a democracy the elected member of the government are expandable.

They are usually quite inflated on their own, I don't think they are that expandable.

Because recognizing that some tasks can't be left to individual greed if you want to achieve the egalité in the "liberté, egalité, fraternité" ideal is anathema. Yes, sure.

Think about it the next time your insurance company doesn't cover your medical bills (it will come).

You use "socialist" as if it was an insult. Unfortunately for you it isn't. Go whine somewhere else.

I think the word you are looking for is eructos.

Adding more cryptosystems doesn't automatically translate into greater security, as double DES showed.

AFAIK there are no signs of cetacean (or even water-dwelling) past in human evolution.

You are right. My brain wasn't properly engaged.

Yes, that's an interesting aspect of evolution: since UV light was harmful the cornea changed to block it, but having those extra photorreceptors didn't harm so they didn't disappear :-)

Retinas _this_ way around are also damaged by UV light, specifically the longer wavelength UVA as UVB and UVC are stopped at the cornea. What's even more interesting: less than 1% of UV light reaches the retina because it is blocked at the cornea. I highly doubt that putting all that mess in from of the photorreceptors will have a noticeable effect on retinal degradation.

...the name you know.

And it's part of the job of musicians to know how their music is going to be published. OTOH, PCM is not as "universal" as the GP thinks. I have seen some problems with PCM because two computers had different bit-endianness.