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Comment Your mileage may vary, but I had COVID-19 (Score 1) 372

I had to get vaccinated because I wanted to see my brother in Canada while my father was terminally ill with cancer and radiation treatments. That was in August 2021, I never got boosted. February 1st I came down with a mild cold that gave me a sore throat, runny nose, light cough and I was on the pot with diarrhea. Those symptoms lasted 4 days and according to my work after I first pop a positive COVID-19 test I can come back to work in 5 days. Less than a month later I had my yearly physical and I had to pay $61 extra to get the COVID antibody blood test results. My doctor wrote me a letter saying I had the highest levels of antibodies he had ever seen. I think I got COVID from a workmate that had traveled to europe, gave it to the guy sitting behind me and then I got it. The poor guy that was behind me at work had COVID symptoms the last week of January and he still is not well. I was taking some of the tin foil hat vitamins and a multivitamin. I do recall sleeping a lot and going thru 2 cases of Gatorade.

Comment we want Apple to be like Linux??? (Score 1) 117

If apple devices could install apps from any store or web site it would be JUST like Windows or Linux. We need all platforms to be fragmented and have issues like the Windows DLL hell!

Bring it!

Just like some charging stations have 3+ cables to charge cars, that is awesome, I wish we could have 50!

Comment E85 and Ethanol blend was to save the day... (Score 1) 298

so tell me how did your government mandate for E85 and Ethanol blend work? Did you save the world or reduce greenhouse gasses in NYC? Did you construct your NYC containment bubble so no bad gas from the other state could SLIP into your state and cause greenhouse gasses? How are you dealing with Russia, India and China? Are you forcing them to use BEV transportation as well?

Comment Middle mile is Pure BS and a barrel of Pork! (Score 1) 101

All central offices in every town in the USA has DWDM and multiple fiber connections. This all sounds like Pork so that the political "friends" get a nice payback for going all in for some politician or political party.

The last mile is kinda done for rural america because Starlink is here and works.

If you want your cable TV company, Electric coppany or Telco to survive the onsalught of Starlink you better keep your customers happy and do what you said you were going to do 2 decades ago... Fiber to the home is very easy with PON networks.

Comment Re:I suspect covet is still hitting really hard (Score 1) 18

for 3 decades we knew it would be better to run fiber to the home and it still is not done. It took over 5 decades to get copper to every square mile in the USA so we could do morse code or an analog phone call.

The telephone oligarchs said you rural Americans mean nothing until you have a million customers for ISDN, DSL or whatever they want to deny rural America. This is how capitalism works when we feed the same companies with federal grants or loans.

The COVID stay at home pandemic was proof that ALL Americans and EVERY square mile needed fiber....

Comment Not sure I care about custom DOD devices (Score 3, Interesting) 65

What we should care about is the repair of farm tractors(John Deere) and cars(Tesla). "Rich Rebuilds" has been denied many parts to the Tesla cars he tries to repair. Even denied a repaired car from the super charngin network. Tesla says the repair of an electric car is WAY too dangerous for a mortal. Tesla thinks all tesla cars should be replaced when any repair is over $500 LOL

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