 05/07/2004 10:17 PM
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Fallen Phoenix Senior Member
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I've got 3 comps folding for me now My dad put me on his work comp running 24/7 albeit with the screensaver version. I've got another that's folding, just with no name or team that I have to fix someday. Kinda cool, I start with only 1 and adamant about staying that way, now I'll have 4
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05/07/2004 10:49 PM
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Backwoodz Senior Member
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Folding is an addiction. I have been folding proteins for 2 years now for the distributing folding client.
It feels good to climb the ranks while you know you helping better mankinds future.
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05/08/2004 02:34 PM
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Ardrid Heavy Wizardry
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Yes, it's good that they made a worthy cause into a competition because it keeps ppl interested.
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05/09/2004 11:14 PM
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Pilot Senior Member
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Meh, I'm all for finding a cure, but I think there are other ways.
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05/09/2004 11:19 PM
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Asylum Senior Member
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Being a test subject for the Disease control, or world wide cure research? No thanks i'd stick to folding AT home
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The Objective of war is not to die for your country but to make the other [content edited] die for his-General S. Patton
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05/10/2004 12:29 AM
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Pilot Senior Member
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Donating money to the American Cancer Association or whatever it is... It's better that they test the new anti-cancer meds on things rather than just look at what actually causes it. People are dying *now*, and by the time F@H gets used effectively with protein folding, it'll be too late. Make the experimental drugs and shoot them up.
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05/10/2004 12:48 AM
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Fallen Phoenix Senior Member
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that's the beauty of F@H, this costs you nothing. Definitly, donations keep the real heavy research going but you can do this at the same time.
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05/10/2004 08:35 AM
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Pilot Senior Member
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I'll stick with donations.
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05/10/2004 06:55 PM
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klrk1400 Senior Member
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The beauty of Folding@Home is it uses your spare cycles. My home computer runs 24/7 anyway. It might as well be folding instead of sitting there waiting for me to use it.
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05/10/2004 08:13 PM
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merlin371 Alpha Geek
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and how can you trust, who you're donating the money to??
most of the time 2% of them money go to the research
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05/10/2004 08:18 PM
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Pilot Senior Member
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Show me a type of cancer Folding cured and I'll start going again.
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05/10/2004 08:28 PM
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merlin371 Alpha Geek
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well is not like normal research cures cancer that much better then folding does there's still loads of people dying from cancer
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05/10/2004 08:45 PM
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Backwoodz Senior Member
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You can say the same thing about donating money to the American Cancer Society.
Show me where that money has actually done some good for mankind and I will give more.
All the folding projects I have been apart of are run through Universities of Science.
This thread was not ment to bash anyones way of contributing but, to give thanks.
I am very thankful to help as much as I can.
BTW......all my monetary contributions go for St Jude...........To me it is all about the KIDS.
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05/10/2004 11:08 PM
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Fallen Phoenix Senior Member
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QUOTE (Backwoodz @ May 10 2004, 04:45 PM)You can say the same thing about donating money to the American Cancer Society.
Show me where that money has actually done some good for mankind and I will give more.
All the folding projects I have been apart of are run through Universities of Science.
This thread was not ment to bash anyones way of contributing but, to give thanks.
I am very thankful to help as much as I can.
BTW......all my monetary contributions go for St Jude...........To me it is all about the KIDS.
actually the point of the thread was to reveal how clueless I can be, but anyway...
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05/11/2004 09:38 AM
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Pilot Senior Member
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el - oh - el
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