Hey all…. I just want to support this cause…. PLEASE check it out… It’s really kinda cool. IBM has partnered with a few other major companies…(Gateway, Intel, Microsoft) and they do research for cancer cures… Here’s how it works. People across the world download this software that runs in the background of your computer. Whenever you’re not doing anything on your computer, it goes to work doing thousands of mathematical calculations a minute. The main company sends you information to process and then your computer acts as a part of a GIANT world-wide computer brain and processes the info then sends the results back to the company. There are litterally MILLIONS of computers working on this worldwide and we need all we can get!
Trust me… it’s safe. I’ve used it for nearly 2 years now and have seen it go through multiple stages. When it first started it was seeing what chemical compounds COULD work as potential cures… then it took a break during the anthrax scare and found a cure for later stages of anthrax in under THREE MONTHS! Then it started phase two of the cancer research where it further examines the positive results from phase one…
There are also other companies getting on board and conducting research… As I said before the US Dept. of Defense used it for finding 4-8 years worth of Anthrax research in just 80 days. They’ve also started using it for a Smallpox cure. Other companies use it for drug research to get cheaper costs for consumers, the ADA uses it for Diabetes research… As far as the Cancer cures go through IBM and the University of Oxford, there were over 80,000 computational YEARS of work done last year alone. HOW’S THAT for power?
Here’s how you can help: Download this software and then to humor me and let me know you are on-board, join a team I just created. (People make teams to compete… you get points and stuff for your results…. kinda fun….
) PLEASE consider this… it’s completely safe and a GREAT cause. It only runs when your computer is idle and you won’t notice any performance issues. There are NO pop-ups or ads… it’s solely for calculations and NOT marketing… Thanks everybody…. hope to see you there!
Mood: Feelin all good-samaritanish….. 
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Glad you’re helping the cause. Cancer’s a beast.
I’m a little leery of computer things I don’t understand, though… I’ll just donate to World Vision and Alpha Prison Ministries… k? ((wink!))
NOOOOOOOOooooooo You’re supposed to JOIN this…. else my whole public service announcement is a failure!
Seriously it’s not a big deal… you install it, create a name and password (for totalling points and stats) and then join a team… then you never have to touch it again if you don’t wanna… It’ll make itself your screen-saver (so you can see progress) but you can take it off of there if you want and it’ll still run in the background…
Interesting concept for sure…
Hey there… Hmm. I’m having trouble joining a team, but my comp is crack’n away with the screen saver thing. Way cool man.