There is something distinctly fraudulent about buying a Windows PC and demanding a refund when you could have bought a Linux PC
With, and I quote you: "tons of crap-tastic hardware
As an aside, you repeatedly use "the" as an indefinite article. Is there a reason for this?
If the choices boil down to "wall them off and let them die" or "spread the epidemic far and wide" -- yeah, I know which one I'd choose.
So far it appears that the more treatment is attempted, the worse it gets, because the caregivers are at such risk, and some will need treatment in turn... rinse and repeat until there are no caregivers left.
Quarantine may not be kind to the victims, but spreading it around so everyone can share isn't kind to anyone.
I suggest sending Air Force One to Liberia, with Obama aboard. Wonder what tune he'd be whistling then...
Even if that worked, high doses of vitamin C can cause bleeding. Hmmm... maybe it was the gun after all.
And if an individual's immune response is slow or poor, there may not BE any antibodies until too late for the test to catch.
The obvious solution is a 4 week quarantine (to make sure every case is discovered -- a few may incubate beyond the usual) everyone who's been in West Africa.
This isn't "denying a citizen entry"; it's delaying it due to sheer common sense.
Better, tho, would be to quarantine the affected parts of West Africa as best we can; let people in, but don't let them back out. Because what we're doing now is pretty much guaranteeing ebola's spread.
You could also quickly and easily negate any sort of protest... including protests against using chemical restraint on the public.
Who are the "bad guys" is generally dependent on what laws you have and who enforces them. YOUR side won't always be in charge.
My first thought was -- what if it hits a kid or small adult? I'd guess their dosage assumes a roughly 150 pound adult, because that way it'll stop the "more dangerous" persons. I guess anyone under the presumed body mass had better not get hit, eh?
I am not impressed with ownCloud's heavy-handed approach to dictating what distros can provide in their repositories
"Please do not ship outdated buggy binaries."
I'd noticed that too -- that there's a broader range of physical types among Africans than everyone else combined. And as I once put it, turn everyone the same shade of green, and the African faces will retain the most individuality.
It's the same with other animals. Males beat each other up, settle their differences, then go have a beer together. But females never quit til the target is dead.
While I'd agree that some arguments are more or less valid than others -- how can you know, if you don't get to hear both sides? Maybe both sides are right, or both are bogus!
It shouldn't be up to the news media to decide which side the rest of us get to hear.
Let's be honest, SteamOS is done. Steam got exactly what they wanted from Microsoft and dropped it like a hot potato (so sorry, you'll never get to use that cool controller).
Consider that for decades Microsoft has not allowed anyone, anyone to touch the user experience. Even after Netscape's antitrust lawsuit over active desktop, even after BeOS withered and died hoping someone would sell a windows computer with dualboot, or hell just a windows computer with a "Setup BeOS" icon on the desktop. Steam is facing the Microsoft Store and a real threat that the Microsoft Store will become the way to buy programs (see also: iOS). Steam trots out SteamOS, and Microsoft snickers. The hype train builds up, and Microsoft sweats. Games start to port and Microsoft snaps.
Alienware ships a Windows 8 PC that boots to Steam instead of Metro.
Now, let's step back a second and look at the big picture here. At the time, windows 8 adoption is absolute total shit, swirling the drain of a public restroom that hasn't been washed for years. The last windows evangelists are all hanging on imploring people to just try it out, just give it a chance, and oh by the way install Start8 to fix metro. Think about that. PC vendors are on the verge of revolt, their customers refuse to buy their goods, and all for the want of installing a $5 program to fix the metro experience. Best Buy is probably screaming at Microsoft, begging them to allow them to remove the metro experience so they can move their inventory. Hell, they're probably begging them to let them advertise their Geek Squad services to "optimize" the experience and install that $5 program for $100. But no, the Microsoft Experience is inviolate, the holiest of holies, eternally immutable. No matter how much hatred it gets, it Must. Not. Be. Changed .
And then Alienware ships a Windows 8 PC that boots to Steam instead of Metro.
SteamOS's job is done. When no-one was looking, Steam took Microsoft and snapped it like a twig. We'll never know exactly what dark magicks were invoked here, but in the blink of an eye, Valve routed Microsoft in a war that nobody even realized was being fought. When Japan makes an anime out of this event, GabeN will point at Steve Ballmer, say omae wo shindeiru and Ballmer's head will implode, without GabeN throwing a single visible punch.
Steam OS will probably putter along, we'll probably see a few things be trotted out to keep the dream alive, after all the hype train did build up a lot of steam (pun not intended). Eventually a few of these AAA developers will say "it's really just not ready for the prime time" and we'll go back to getting a few wine ports and indie games from hardcore dedicated guys who just really love Linux.
But the masses will probably never get to hold that controller.
tl;dr: two years, later.
Well obviously you can, you just need to install this driver.
In fact that was my first thought -- they didn't discover a temple; they discovered Ugg's Rib Joint.
Or possibly a communal kitchen, which wasn't so uncommon way back when.
See also Digging the Weans, by Robert Nathan.
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs
