Comment Re:Gryphon? (Score 1) 19
Bad name for Twitter, a gryphon is a bird with a very fat ass.
Some say fat, some say THICC.
Bad name for Twitter, a gryphon is a bird with a very fat ass.
Some say fat, some say THICC.
I'm solidly in favor of criticising China for its abuses, but you do know that in the US military you take the medications you're given too, right? You give up even the right to know what they are.
Can confirm. Former soldier. I took lots of crazy pills and shots - they would sometimes not disclose other than 'it's gonna f*ing hurt, and it's for battle prep". Who knows what experiments were run on my body at the time - we all knew we were US Gov property for our enlistment.
Sounds like leadership to me.
They be responsible for making the very ventilators that keep GE workers (themselves and others) surviving this thing.
Time to mobilize for war against Coronavirus.
Link i mis-pasted: : https://www.gq.com/story/donal...
We got ourselves into the current situation because of complacency, submission to myopic pressure from the "business" to do nothing and the desire of the political elite to not disturb the inflated stock market.
You really go out of the way to not lay the blame where it rightfully lies - Trump. Trump has said it number of times, he didn't think addressing the virus would have been good for his image.
This is the same guy who ran screaming when someone died in his hotel - his first worry was the floor [1].
[1] We got ourselves into the current situation because of complacency, submission to myopic pressure from the "business" to do nothing and the desire of the political elite to not disturb the inflated stock market.
> But since there are 3 to 5 times as many latent asymptomatic carriers, we are buiding up that immunity.
All well and good for those lucky asymptomatic carriers or the uninfected. But what happens when you or a loved one needs to go to the hospital because of a dangerous but completely handleable medical issue, and there are no doctors or beds because of the coronavirus patients ?
Answer: you suffer as well. The "let everyone get it" thinking is going to get even the lucky ones killed due to the unavailability of medical care.
Not to mention the unlucky folks who get coronavirus and can't get treated, or folks who lose jobs because they can't go to work because they don't know if they have it or not. Or the medical staff who are the most likely to also get the virus (due to overwork), spread it, and bring hospitals to their knees.
The "everyone gets it plan" results in several times more suffering and deaths.
Maybe, just maybe we need more of these examples to show the world that a) it's a bad idea to actually plug this kind of shit in and b) see (a)
My company sends out fake phishing mails to train the workforce (some of them are really clever) so we don't get actually phished. We should see more of this so people aren't caught with their pants down when Russia/China/Facebook/etc actually do something (intentionally|unintentionally) malicious.
Let's get this straight, I am not a fan of ads nor am I a fan of Google, but WTF ads in your offline mail app? That's as ugly as the monstrosities in that Leaf "gas powered everything" ad (for those of you who don't want to YT it, imagine a gas-powered dentist drill)
There is literally no defense or reason for this nonsense except "just 'cause they can do it".
moving power from the desert or a power station to where it is needed causes a ton of inefficiencies (since we don't yet have a room-temperature superconductor).
The answer isn't some holy grail like room temp superconductors, but HDVC [1] - which is available and capable of transmission losses in the order of 3-4%. Compare to an ICE engine of 60% loss of energy or nat-gas plant where loss is more like 30%.
> from giving their customers increased capabilities?
You mean profiting further off their customers' data? You kind of got that backwards. Your same argument could have held for Microsoft and it's integration of the IE browser into the OS back in 1998. Guess where that went?
They would like their AI to power the socialization of medicine
LOL - as opposed to the current "privatization" of medicine and your health where you get treated only if it helps someone else's bottom line.
Google wants in on either outcome of course. But this demonization of government involvement in healthcare is BS. Governments are somewhat accountable to their constituency via voting. Corporations have no such requirement/weakness as long as the dollars flow - in fact, they're happy to kneecap you if it makes them more money - because that's all they care about.
It's a joke that went over your head, it's not HIPPA, it's HIPAA [1]. Lots of legislation in the US in the 2000s was named with an AA at the end.
> The original announcement of the Data Share Plan offerings [att.com] doesn't seem to state or imply that the offer would be "forever" or as long as the customer keeps the same plan.
The legality of their move and the PR blowback from doing something many would consider "underhanded" - they're 2 different things.
It's a free country and AT&T is free to do what they want, but they're not free from consequences.
In other news T-Mobile just announced a stellar low-cost plan. Gotta wonder if pissed off customers might want to jump ship (even if they're in different tiers).
Because a lot of this stuff isn't important to me for a browser. But then again, I use Firefox.
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." -- Karl, as he stepped behind the computer to reboot it, during a FAT
