But only now that the "bad orange man" says it could help (along with zinc) people are losing their shit.

Don't confuse the overall Disney corporate giant with their theme park operations. They are separate companies.

What about the millions of people who literally had their jobs taken away from them? Businesses that were forced to close that will never reopen? All for some bullshit public good nonsense. This isn't a natural recession or depression. These jobs were TAKEN away for no reason at all.

The long term effects will be devastating. 1/3 of the US didn't pay rent for April. That will have huge trickle down effects. Mortgages aren't being paid. That will have a trickle down effect. House sales will slump. Car sales will slump. People won't be able to afford food or health care.

We aren't talking about a gradual slump into a recession or depression. We are talking about a massive layoff country-wide that just happened within 2 weeks. The economy cannot be flipped back on like a light switch.

But we are worried about a government operation? Fuck that.

In the US we are being lied to. Deaths are being coded as Covid-19 regardless of the actual cause of death. Even if a person tested negative and died - their death counts as covid-19 just because they had the symptoms. Don't believe me? Ask your doctor or public health employee. Notice the massive drops of other deaths in the US? All of a sudden people stopped having heart attacks and strokes. Weird huh? We are being to lied. The books are being cooked. We have bad models because the data is more fucked up than Elizabeth Taylor's face. The numbers are now worthless.

We shouldn't be locked down. I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

Hardware monkeys are barely IT. IT != workstation support. The fact that Slashdot even posted this makes me wonder is this really news for nerds anymore.

TDS in full effect here. This man, love him or hate him, has: differed all of his POTUS salary, will leave the office with less wealth than when he entered, will lose status and power in his personal life.

Can you name any modern president where all of those are true?

"Continuation of the free database guaranteed"

They might want to update their webpage.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Some of the worst legislation and actions are done under the guise of doing something because of the children.

Oh, and a significant number of people who test positive for the virus never have a fever.

I think I'll wait for the real facts to come out on this before faking my outrage.

There's no way I would agree to only $3.50. Of course the problem is that in order to pay everyone they would need to raise revenues. Would anyone care to guess how they would raise those funds?

I'm born and raised in Iowa. The caucus is a different beast than the primaries than the vast majority of people attend. Specifically, the Democrats' process in Iowa is very unique. I'm not affiliated with the Ds, so I'll be speaking in generalities.

The Dem's caucus has a candidate "viability" where candidates must receive as least X percent of the total precinct's votes to be reported. I think the threshold was 15% this year. So obviously with over 10 candidates (or whatever the number is) that means that some candidates would meet the threshold. The point of the Caucus app was to track the voters as they moved from candidate to candidate in order to have enough of the percentage of the vote. My understanding is that the app choked in how this votes were tracked through the process. Sometimes the voting process lasts several rounds of voting until all of the criteria is met. I don't know why the IDP has these rules in the place. I've never asked anyone that knew the answer.

In Iowa, the GOP has a caucus. But the only rules there is that you must arrive by the start time for your vote to count. There are speeches by representatives of those running for President. From there we break out in the precincts and vote. That's it.

So, it's not that the app couldn't *count* votes. It's that it couldn't track the votes all the way the process and the report the numbers correctly.

The way I see it, the plane isn't allowed to fly anyway. So there are massive reviews going on. I'd rather them catch the errors now vs after the plane is back in production.

Or is it just noticing a pattern and reporting it? That logic has been around for decades.

I agree. 1/3 of a network is a substantial chunk of it.

I generally agree with everything stated. We could pass a minimum corporate tax rate and say that regardless of what tax breaks, losses, etc were in a given year that a company must pay at the very least a 1%, 5%, or 10% tax rate. Now I don't know what the results would be to the economy. And I don't know what company behavior would be a result. Maybe businesses move as a result? But I know that it has been discussed in the past.

In the end, corporations have a legal and financial obligation to their shareholders just like they have a legal obligation to follow the tax code.

Decide for yourself. Back up your position with facts.

You can't expect companies (or governments) to censor some speech and not censor other speech reliably or accurately.