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The situation of mad cow disease is similar to that of HIV, and although people in certain circles have varying degrees of knowledge about the existence and dangers of this new thing, for various reasons, the authorities want to keep it under control and not spread to the general public. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the UK, for example, once the BSE epidemic is confirmed, agriculture will be hit hard. And how bad the result will be, no one dares to say that they can assess it accurately.

Therefore, since the cover of mad cow disease was lifted after a banquet after the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, in the face of the concerns of the domestic public, as well as the most important beef exporters, the EU member states, the British government~ government has been using the necessary procedures such as investigation and evaluation as an excuse to delay and think of countermeasures, and in addition, it has not forgotten to angrily suppress the authority of the report issued by the richest man.

As for the excuse, it's so easy to find, Viagra's patent period hasn't expired yet, this little blue pill has not been made until now, and I don't know how much money it has made, and it is rumored that even the Central ~ Central Intelligence Bureau has used it as a bargaining chip for bribery, which can be described as well-known in the world, so it is natural to start with contempt - what kind of research institution did you start with aphrodisiac ~ medicine, is it worthy of discussing the serious topic of mad cow disease?

In the process of such an unclear delay, the British breeding industry, which had heard the news, privately accelerated the handling of suspected sick cattle, but the long-term irregular operation still detonated the powder keg -- the mad cow disease epidemic in Britain began to spread widely, and No. 10 Downing Street was completely panicked, to the point where it could no longer hold it back and refused to admit that it could not do it.

At this time, the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep, while causing a global sensation, is tantamount to further maintaining the authority of its own research institution - the previous mad cow disease-related report is really true!

The day after the cloned sheep Dolly was officially presented to the public, British Prime Minister John Major announced with a grim face that there was an outbreak of mad cow disease in the UK!

Suddenly, the world became a sensation again, and even overshadowed the "limelight" of cloned sheep Dolly.

It is already an indisputable scientific conclusion that humans can be infected with the mad cow disease virus. And the description of the danger of this terminal illness is also very vivid, that is, the brain tissue spongifies, and eventually dies of madness or stupidity -- the more you think about it, the more terrifying it becomes! The whole world is in a panic.

So it's not hard to imagine that as soon as British Prime Minister John Major finished speaking, the European Union reacted by formally banning British beef imports, and other countries and regions followed suit.

The British government ~ government is most afraid of the economic blow "catastrophe", but it has not been able to escape, first of all, it is facing hundreds of millions of pounds in losses.

Don't forget, a sick cow is so big that it is not as easy to deal with as the chickens and ducklings involved in bird flu.

Compared with the anxiety in the UK and the scramble of the relevant beef importers, the richest man is calm.

Although he deliberately kept a low profile, the praise from the British public, including the British public, was still overwhelming, and even British Prime Minister John Major, under the fierce crusade of the media, expressed regret that if the report had been heeded in the first place, the current BSE epidemic might not have been so serious.

Tang Huan's side continued to keep a low profile on this and did not comment -- who let us start by developing "aphrodisiac ~ medicine"! Who is who is not so important, anyway, when the time comes, the British people will vote and make a ruling.

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The global panic caused by the BSE outbreak in the UK has not been without its benefits. At the very least, to a certain extent, it moderates and obscures the controversy caused by the public's association of "human cloning", which in turn makes the praise more prominent.

It must be admitted that although the general principle of cloning is very simple, its specific operation process is much more complicated, and it is not something that anyone can do simply by piling up money and piling up people - and this difference is where the strength lies!

Dolly, a cloned sheep that has brought infinite possible breakthroughs to future medicine, has also attracted entertainment heat.

For example, "Dolly", which develops from breast cells, is named after American country music diva Dolly Barton - you know, this big-breasted sister is unusually plump. The size reached 40DDD.

As a result, the video of the life of the cloned sheep Dolly in the laboratory released online in the United States was deliberately studied frame by frame by gossip people to prove that what he said was true.

What's even more interesting is that Dolly Barton, who heard the news, happily went to the appointment and made a special trip to the laboratory to see Dolly the cloned sheep up close.

It is no exaggeration to say that Dolly the cloned sheep will definitely surpass the polar bear "Xiaoqiang" brought back from the Arctic by Mr. the richest man and be promoted to the new most famous animal in the world.

In his efforts to allay doubts about "cloning" technology, Mr. The richest man also contributed his influence.

He published a popular science article entitled "Science Talks About Human Nature" in Scientific American, the oldest continuous monthly magazine in the United States, to formally express his attitude towards "cloning" technology, that is, the ethics of human society must be respected and the relevant laws and regulations must be observed.

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Regardless of the global panic caused by the mad cow disease epidemic or the future imagination generated by the cloned sheep Dolly, in the process of transmission, they have received a boost from the Internet that cannot be ignored.

Not long ago, AOL launched the latest tariff policy - only $21.95 per month, you can freely ~ freely surf the Internet, which can be said to have completely changed the rules of the game for network access services.

Guy, this package is not a flash in the pan of the promotional nature, but a permanent way of doing business.

It must be pointed out that at this stage, search engines like Yahoo are still only showing their sharp corners in the degree of development, and online services represented by AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy are the ones who are just popular.

Over the past decade or so, the cost of Internet access has naturally fallen across the board – in the early 1980s, access to CompuServe, the oldest online service, often cost as much as $30 per hour, then fell to $10 and then to around $2 in the early 1990s.

AOL has always been sincere when it comes to the cost of Internet access. One of its signature packages has long been a $18 per month tariff plan, which includes a base fee of $9.95 per month for 5 hours, plus an additional $2.95 per hour.

Sometimes, in order to compete for users and embellished the data on the important metric of "new users", AOL will aggressively launch a real monthly package with a time limit.

As a result, network congestion, server downtime, and other signs of crash are often triggered.

Fortunately, the "herd effect", which is particularly obvious in the Internet ecosystem, has helped AOL not suffer much obvious impact.

Now, AOL has listed the monthly subscription of Internet access tariffs as official permanent business items, and it is clear that it is ready in terms of lines, servers and other hardware, while other competitors are a little caught off guard.

In terms of the difference between their respective back-ends, there is no doubt that there is Tang IT behind AOL, the main financier behind Prodigy is IBM, and the recent equity change of CompuServe is somewhat intriguing.

The oldest online service provider, which was formerly owned by H R_Block&, has just been replaced by Microsoft.

Just last December, on December 7, Gates did something famous. In an internal email, he declared that this day was not just an anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, but also a turning point in Microsoft's ability to survive in the face of the advent of the Internet age. From this point on, everything in the company is operating with the Internet as a priority.

As soon as Gates said what he said, Microsoft efficiently acquired a controlling stake in CompuServe from H&R_Block, which was already overwhelmed by competitive pressure, and like Tang Huan and IBM, it also stepped into the field of online services.

In the eyes of discerning people, Gates is largely a positive response to Wall Street's knock on Microsoft's stock from "buy" down one level last year.

In fact, this phenomenon also shows that in the current competition in the IT field, the influence of capital games is increasing.

In this way, CompuServe will fully embrace the Windows_-centric Microsoft solution, just as AOL uses Fangyuan and Zheru's technology solutions, and Prodigy uses IBM's technology solutions.

However, whether intentionally or unintentionally, it was such a coincidence that Microsoft was inevitably involved in the Internet tariff war launched by AOL.

At this time, AOL's management, led by Steve Case, chairman of the board of directors, and Robert Pittman, chief executive, was reporting to the richest man Tang on the company's operations - which is what it should mean before the annual report came out.

Looking at the high-spirited appearance of Steve Case, Robert Pittman and others, it is not difficult to imagine how proud AOL is at this stage.

The field of online services in the United States is basically the three-country drama of AOL, Prodigy, and CompuServe, and among them, AOL is the leader.

So far, AOL has nearly 15 million subscribers.

In other words, more than one-third of users in the U.S. have access to the Internet through services offered by AOL.

If these data still belong to the unique "virtual fire rise" of the company, then the operating income of more than 1 billion US dollars and the market capital valuation of more than 10 billion US dollars can definitely be regarded as real achievements.

The reason why AOL, which has been able to take the lead by burning money and fighting its way out, is mainly reflected in two aspects -- technically, it has benefited from the introduction of graphical user interface technology at the earliest, adopted the real public protocol TCP/IP on the Internet, and embraced the World Wide Web;

In contrast, competitors such as Prodigy and CompuServe have never been able to let go of their position - AOL has taken a step forward to lower tariffs, and they have no choice but to follow suit, appearing to be extremely passive.

As a result, the share of users that each now has, says it all.

Subsequently, investors led by the richest man Tang also saw the glittering gold in front of him more and more clearly.

AOL, which sits on the top spot in online services, launched a $21.95 monthly regular tariff package at this time, which is obviously still not satisfied with the current achievements.

Steve Case's work report revealed his ambitions, "AOL wants to increase the share of U.S. Internet users from more than one-third to at least one-half through this marketing strategy." ”

The richest man bowed his head slightly--although it is difficult to go further, AOL has no problem achieving this goal with the "Matthew effect" that the stronger the stronger.

"On the operational side of AOL, I really appreciate the current management team. Tang IT said slowly: "I just remind you that the development of the Internet is not an exaggeration to describe it as changing with each passing day, and the ensuing changes in the rules of the game in the industry competition are also dizzying - if you lose your original vigilance and fall into blind optimism, it is likely that you will not be far from being pushed down from the throne by the new talent." ”

Looking around at the people who were listening carefully, Mr. The richest man put his right hand on the armrest of the sofa, raised it and waved it, "Please think carefully about a problem - in the past ten years, the Internet has been a wilderness, and what you have done is equivalent to planting crops, harvesting food, providing high-quality content services to users, and getting their subscription fees for this." ”

"But now, the World Wide Web is exploding -- according to a rough estimate I get, all the pages add up to more than 100 million. The makers of these pages do not want users to read their content, and even do not hesitate to use all kinds of attractive value-added services. ”

"It can be said that from now on, the Internet will inevitably be full of vibrant green crops, and your traditional business model, content subscription, will lose its former 'seller's market' status. ”

Steve Case immediately replied: "The phenomenon of advertising becoming the absolute protagonist of revenue has reminded us that free content will be the general trend. ”

"This $21.95 per month tariff package is actually putting the subscription fee on the back burner, mainly considering the cost of hardware such as lines, and the development direction of AOL will also follow Tang's advice and become an Internet media portal. ”

Mr. The richest man laughed loudly, "Since you have such a clear idea, then I can rest assured." ”

When the packed debriefing was over and everyone else had left, Steve Keys added another story, "Don, AOL's status as an emerging media outlet has caught the attention of some people, including those who are actively approaching the possibility of acquisition. ”