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Comment Tax Administration (Score 1) 548

The Dutch will probably vote for the Dutch taxes administration. They mess up big stuff (data loss), random stuff (you don't exist / you have no house / we don't like you), driving-you-insane-stuff (give us back all we ever paid you because of erased checkboxes) and they're not friendly about anything. Their slogan was literally "we can't make it more fun, but we can make it easier" for more than 2 decades, but since the accidents they just shut up and have no slogan at all anymore, offering a mea culpa every year or so and still not solving it. When you're not affected, it's a good laugh with all the clumsiness :)

Comment Mexican Flu (Score 1) 607

In The Netherlands, it's officially called "Mexican Flu / Mexicaanse Griep". The meat industry indeed made an official statement that eating pig's meat is still safe, and the government backed that statement by finding a new name.

Comment Why not ? (Score 1) 102

Maybe, in the far future, we can have ipv12 where all trees will be interconnected to combat infestations and maybe even our own imune system hooked to ipv2^n so we can finally deal with food poisoning.
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Submission + - DNA vaccine may treat multiple sclerosis (www.ctv.ca)

GSASoftware writes: "Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a serious, as-yet incurable neurological disease which causes blindness, paralysis and other serious symptoms. In a new development, a neuroimmunology researcher in Montreal has developed a therapeutic DNA vaccine. The cause of the disease is not fully understood, but it appears to be auto-immune. If a DNA vaccine can be an effective therapy for this auto-immune disease, is it possible that DNA vaccines could treat other auto-immune diseases like Crohn's, eczema, and others?"

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