Well good for you. I know quite a few people too who have tested positive ... in the extended family no less. I used to know two my age (young). Used to know. They're dead.

Find new friends. :)

Back To The Future - because I wish I could.

> I guess the harder one fails, the louder one has to believe one succceeds.

Oh, so you've heard of Trump then?

> So if some third party site says, "Hey! Put our button on your page." the smart person will think very carefully.

And that's where the problem starts...

Thank goodness I was doing my own home work last year -- hate drywalling. Happen to have a stash of N95 masks because of it. Who knew?

I've kept enough for my wife and myself -- donated the other boxes I don't need to local hospital...

Whoever tries to patent a vaccine should be shot. They will be ransoming millions of lives.

You forgot the space.
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I have a strong feeling you're not going to agree with me but I'm going to give it a shot: this is politics.

If they were actually trying to convince Microsoft to open source their older operating systems, there are good, reasonable arguments available: "Why not open source the win9x/winME codebase since no businesses use it anymore? Look how the doom and quake source codes have flourished! Look at VS code! Why would you keep archivists on staff to prevent this stuff from getting lost when you could upload it to the internet and it would live forever?"

However, they're not trying to convince Microsoft of anything, they're trying to score political points. "Oh that operating system you're retiring? It sure would be a shame if you open sourced it and let the public maintain it."

So the dig they are talking about is near the end of the article FSF says "by the way microsoft are pieces of shit" - it's not a plea to Microsoft, it's them preaching to the choir.

With the amount of lawyers involved in this case I gotta imagine that will be one of the arguments they put forward.

Journalists: "Nobody wants to pay for real journalism anymore!" Also journalists:"We will vigorously defend our right to publish a news story without any verification that is also a hoax"

I can use a light switch. Unfortunately it would be prohibitively expensive and/or WAY TOO time consuming to make that happen myself (I do my own electrical work).

Let me explain -- in our new house there were banks of light switches. Drove me nuts the first week there. For example the fireplace has eight lights around it (it's a monster :) -- on three switches all in different locations. I just wanted the "fireplace" light(s) to go on.

And then outside lights... Marker / spotlights in all the eves. Motion activated all around the house (once I replaced the fixtures). Another sixteen lights in the "pit" area outside. NONE of those lights are on a light switch anywhere (except a few of the motions). Sometimes I want the yard to go black. The only way to do this was at the main electrical panel.

So, yeah, I'm too fucking busy to re-wire the whole damn property the way I want and way too fucking lazy to flip a switch ON/OFF. I push a button now. Thank goodness for HUE on this property. My only complaint w/ HUE is the limit of 63 bulbs per hub; so I have a indoor and outdoor hub now, but I digress.

First world problems. :)

There are so many problems when it comes to people thinking irrationally. Let's focus on the flat-earthers.

I've read their ideas - I'm always open to new ideas and gave this a honest try. So many times their arguments just started to sound bat-shit crazy.

The one thing that I kept coming back to was, "what means to an end?". WHY the "conspiracy" to fool the people? The best / only real argument was some super rich group of people live in / on the ice wall and NEED to fool us into thinking it's round. What!? Why?

So let me get this straight -- ALL the governments of the world are in on this??! We can barely get along and help each other around the world, but THIS ONE THING they all agreed to try and "fool" the people because of really rich people living on the edge really controlling us all?

Bullshit.

We keep finding problems with all these instruction sets -- it's almost like we need a Reduced Instruction Set Computer or something. Just sayin'...

This is a little unsettling... I watched the movie "Life" (2017) last night. The similarities between this and the movie are a bit scary. It didn't end well (for us humans) in the movie...

It acts like an animal? They think it's a billion years old. It prefers oatmeal (of all things)? It can learn. I say KILL IT now. While you still can. :\