My state locked down just a few days ago. Georgia just now locked down after their governor realized it could be spread asymptomatic (funny since guess where CDC is headquartered). Florida, just locked down. Multiple states in the midwest STILL not locked down. Ask anyone in the medical profession what they're thinking. I know someone on a response team and he's had nothing but bad news increasing by the damn day and we are about 3 weeks from peaking. Prepare for a rude fucking awakening.

You've nailed it and me without mod points - thank you for laying it out so clearly. I missed the latest press rally and his comment about the exchanges, how does this man live with himself? We are so badly fucked and his sycophants haven't even realized it yet. This virus isn't going to check their party before infecting them and this man's legacy is going to be pretty terrible - for all of us. Be safe my friend...

Full attention?! The man was out holding rallies and playing GOLF! You know, that thing he claimed he wouldn't have time for if elected. He was being told declare a health emergency as far back as January but preferred to ignore the situation and cry hoax. Can this man not do two things at once? You've admitted he blew the response to this and the public officials who were dedicated to this task were all disbanded to boot. He'd gotten lucky to this point bullying any problem that came along but it turns out you cannot bully or payoff a damn virus, his luck has run out and so has ours.

There's a stack of bodies at this man's feet and it's disgusting you'd try to give him a pass. Don't be surprised if one of those bodies isn't a loved one of yours, you can pretty much bet most of us will know of someone who's died from this when it's all said and done.

Didn't he say he "knew it was a Pandemic" all along? History will NOT be kind to this man, nor should we.
https://nypost.com/2020/01/26/...

No, it's not a service but some asshats have built plug-ins that allow you to stream from torrent servers rather than watching from local resources. Kodi developers have been super pissed about this and don't allow discussion of it but that hasn't stopped people from developing them and even selling hardware with Kodi and this crap installed. But sure, the media people think it's Kodi who's at fault - morons every one of them...

So you mean the exact thing that Plex facilitates? Seems to me this has been done already so I'm not sure where you're going with this. JellyFin and Emby also manage to do this without issue.

You didn't actually buy it according to them though - you just got a license and paid for the media. To add insult to injury there's been whining about not allowing secondary sales although with streaming services that seems to have died down as they prefer streaming to physical media from a DRM perspective.

and that is VERY good advice indeed. I haven't heard of phones being stolen but you can pretty much bet it will be hacked and it will almost certainly be used to track you. I only know one person who travels over there these days and she takes a burner phone just for those trips. Why take a chance? End of the day it's often not just the Govt doing the attacking either, if they think you have something valuable that can be sold or you're somehow a target that could be damaged to help improve their competitiveness you're a target. Apparently companies over there DOS and attack one another all the time, it's just apparently part of doing business

https://www.popularmechanics.c...

Make sure you note the date on that article. This has been going on a long time! Another anecdote, company I knew manufactured DVD and CD, one of the contracts they bid on was to do the service manuals for the DOD but they kept getting underbid. They knew damn well there were VERY few US companies left that could do this and couldn't figure out how they were being underbid. They finally figured it out - a Chinese company was being used to make the media with a front company setup in the US. It took them ages to get the DOD to wake up and figure out they were sending the repair manuals for a ton of our shit over to China to have the damn DVD made. Good grief, why not have them produce our missiles too? Sheesh! Obviously years ago but man we've done some stupid stuff

Chances are the Chinese build the watches so the actual assembly is something they could get more easily at home but some of the specialized sensors are going to be much more difficult for them to figure out.

Anyone having anything built over there has to be damn careful! A friend has some automotive parts built over there. He intentionally designed the parts so it's not obvious what they will be used in and he designed them to fit more than one application with just some machining needed to fit one car or another. He told me that he bet it wouldn't be more than 3 months before they would be trying to sell his stuff. Sure enough parts showed up on Ali-Baba within 2 months! Jokes on them, they don't know about the needed machining he only did in-house and those parts aren't going to fit jack shit! :-) He had a good laugh over it but it was really surprising to see how fast they figured out what this was for and tried to sell it. There's a saying, their manufacturing plants run three shifts, two for you and one for them and it doesn't seem to be far from the truth...

I won't say what they manufacture but it's not electronics. Chinese company contacts them, says they want to buy some of their uber expensive stuff but could they come inspect it first? Sure thing! Several of the intended visitors unable to get visas... finally the TEAM of people shows up to inspect the product but want a TOUR of the factory. No sir, not allowed. Brings them to a room that's been walled off just for the inspection but members of this team keep trying to wander off and have to be corralled. Light no good, can't we do this somewhere else? Nope, here's more light! Table not flat enough for measurements don't you have someplace else we could do this? Nope, her'e s apiece of float glass deal. Finally they get frustrated and leave. Weeks later State Dept calls all freaked out by the team of scientists that visited - hmm! They explain the measures they took to the great relief of State Dept dude but he warns other folks might call and to just explain WTF. I ask friend about their network security - umm not good :( He tells me stories of employees plugging "music players" into production equipment USB ports to "charge them" and bringing the line to a halt as they got "infected". I swear sometimes we are our own worst enemy They did at least stop the direct physical inspection! I'm betting their network is owned up one side and down the other though...

I'm aware they can't be trusted and I don't think Trump's current efforts will lead to success but if it does somehow do so I'll be thrilled. Placating them in any way isn't likely to work and that's exactly what he's doing - giving him standing in his own country and the world stage. My point was your thinking they can't attack us is flawed if the only barrier you see is inability to loft a warhead on a missile. They have what's needed to attack us should they decide to be foolish...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ma...

Yeah, the accumulation at the tippy top is pretty disgusting...

Yes, it would be nice if financial planners could be trusted and we didn't have to educate ourselves as much. That's just a pipe dream though with laws no longer requiring planners to reveal their interests...

Do you truly believe that a rocket is the only way to deliver ordinance? North Korea has become more than adept at smuggling and they likely have at least two large countries assisting them that aren't friendly to the US. I wouldn't put too much faith in them being unable to attack us if they really truly wanted to. Lets hope it doesn't come to that!

Undo? Fire up those smoke stacks and get back to the mines - we need to roll back the clock!