ok I get what you are saying, but your common use is most certainly not anywhere near "average" common usage.

The point is that history is irrelevant. It doesn't matter if he was the sole creator of Arduino and the one who sold it to Qualcom. The only thing that matters is that Qualcom owns it now which means the only people with insider knowledge of qhat happens next are Qualcom employees, all absolutely definitely under NDA.

That the main result of giving kids laptops was that it prepared them to be better consumers of Facebook? Lots of people called that early on.

Since when does the public health matter when there are corporate profits at stake?

Indeed. My thought was that CO2 levels could roughly correspond to the number of people in the specific room, offset by actual ventilation levels.

IE more CO2 = more risk because it means more people with inadequate ventilation.

Conference crud is really simple. Hacker or not. You bring in hundreds/thousands of people from around the country and world, exposing most of them to even more potential disease carriers on airplanes, trains, busses, and more, then disrupt people's sleep and disgestive tracts with unfamiliar locations, schedules and food and you have the perfect melting pot to get people sick.

What can be done to help prevent it? Mask wearing might help some, along with sanitary other stuff - improve the ventilation in such buildings, including good filters, UV lights and such helping to sterilize the air. At the same time, improve air quality otherwise, because harsh cleaning chemicals can also make people sick.

Baffling "defense here". None of what you knew or said matters: the point of the story is they have been bought by Qualcom, a company with a well earned reputation and history of what they do to acquisitions. Do you have some relevant and timely information to contribute or just irrelevant history?

They tried to include it but the number was statistically insignificant.

are you trying to help or just be contrary...

I dug into the sources a bit. Apparently they were excluding white neighborhoods from checks, then somebody else was removing non-asian names before forwarding it for further investigation.

source.

Looking into the sources and tracing a bit:

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If they actually did this, well, that's like how the NRA forced most "may issue" states to be effectively "shall issue" for various weapon permits.

When the police can't come up with a good reason for denying the black woman's permit request when she has letters from a ex-boyfriend stalker threatening to kill her, who is due to be released from prison soon, but the white doctor living in a gated community gets it first thing, there are questions to be asked. Especially when permits for black people have a 99% reject rate while whites get them 90% of the time.

Just to be clear, I believe that part of the problem was that the city government was broke and basically in receivership. Ergo, the politicians in Flint were not actually in control of the water contracts, it was an emergency manager appointed by Governor Rick Snyder(R).

I remembered the broke part and not in control, looked up the specifics.

Basically, to cut costs, the manager stopped the practice of piping water from Detroit and started using the historically very polluted and corrosive Flint River, without adequate testing and treatment (itself actually a violation of federal law).
Because many of the homes still had lead service pipes, going from basic to acidic caused the protective oxidization on the pipes to dissolve, putting excessive lead into the water.

It eventually made national news, but by all measures, this is still a far better situation than what Tehran is facing.

Switching back to the old water source or adding more controls like running the water through a filter of crushed limestone to correct the PH fixes the issues in Flint. No such easy solution is possible for Tehran.

Nice cerative writing exercise.

You might be correct. It has been a long time since I was in law enforcement. I gotta say though I think I listen to my kids and their feelings alot more than you were given credit for.

LOL. We made a choice to move out into the sticks for the future. It leaves me commuting a long ways but after I retire in a few years things will be much nicer out here, and the kids have the advantage of better schools and the outdoors to run about.

I commute about 150 miles to work. What I need is a car I can commute in and then after a short period use again to get around locally. I will have used my 300 or mile range by the time I am home. I'd like to be able to use the car again for an evening outing.I suppose a hybrid is mor the fit for me that a straight EV.

man your comment sure stirred upa nest of ^%$% :)
cheers and be well.