uuuh...because that'd be stupid?

By "ours", you mean American, I assume.

That's all probably true, so I trust countries that have done the most testing per capita. I have found this pretty useful - just sort the column on the extreme right in descending order.

A hint: countries like Germany, Italy and Australia rate pretty highly on the list

it wasn't

well, sure - calling Trump and cohort "reliable and truthful" would certainly be an outlandish assertion, bordering on insane. My comments about the Chinese Government were, of course, not meant to be set in opposition to the executive branch of the US Government.

righto, well, if you actually believe that they have stopped the virus cold, because you take their published stats as gospel, then I have have an Eiffel Tower to sell you. I'm not lying, I just don't believe their stats: they pretty much run counter to the entire rest of the world, so I'm calling bullshit.

They are so irresponsible - Its the place where COVID-19 began, and so getting reliable stats out of the place is crucial, but no, instead they lie, lie, lie

awesome...

this is a great idea for an Axis & Allies like wargame

...wait... were you serious...

Different countries reacted in different ways during the Great Depression (started, I think, by the 1929 stock market crash). In the United States, things stayed really bad until the New Deal started to take effect in about 33. In Australia (where I'm from) there was no stimulus (because we were in a balance of payments crisis and the option wasn't available) until World War II (1935), and, well, the Depression lifted.

So, yes, lockdowns are bad and dangerous. However, so is unbridled virus spread: deaths, hospitals overrun, then the panic buying, the stockpile of guns, social panic and we start to head toward Mad Max territory. So let's not do that, ok?

However lockdowns with the right economic stimuli, and, well, maybe we have a way forward.

BTW: Sweden is not doing this either, they are partially locked down, just not as solid as many other European countries.

I'm sorry, but this is nonsense. You don't have to move off Java, you just cannot use Oracle's commercial offering without paying for it. Try any of the free alternatives your preference. There are also a range of guides on where the main projects are at with open implementations, of which this is an example.

...and shark repellant, something very large to shoot crocodiles with (anything less that 0.44 calibre will just annoy them), steel gaters (8 out of 10 of the world's most poisonous snakes live in Australia), and don't annoy any spiders either. But apparently, you can punch Kangaroos, then again, I don't recommend it.

This has nothing to do with numerology, astrolgy, i-ching or any other such thing, do you actually know anything about the Princeton University's Engineering Anomalies Research Lab and its work in the 80s, and therefore what this is based on?

I'm ready to move to phase 2 of my triffid experiments. "Igor, pass me Richard Dawkins' brain!"

aha! but we don't have Dr Buckeroo Banzai at the wheel!

It would seem that the PC market contained passive users (people who browse, view, send) as well as active users (people who create content including programming). Over the last few years smart phones and tablets have been taking all of the passive users away, so the market has shrunk in size. I think that process is now pretty much complete, so we're now seeing the gradual increase in active users in line with a gradually increasing population.

He probably thinks its a missprint - didn't they mean 80 hours a week?