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Comment Re:Horrible License Terms (Score 1) 60

Its license runs for a year, after which you will get a fresh copy. This means you won't be able to configure your own system and keep it alive -- you'll have to recreate it, from scratch, annually.

Annual license that is a complete pain-in-the-A$$

In other words How To Make Something Seriously Restricted Without Actually Saying So

Yeah, it sounds like they're intentionally driving away anyone but paying customers at this point.

Comment I wouldn't get too excited yet (Score 1) 143

Remember Munich, with much fanfare, adopted Linux in 2003 only to abandon it for Windows 10:

The plan was prompted by gripes about both the complexity of the current setup and compatibility headaches. According to Mayor Dieter Reiter, having two operating systems on municipal PCs is "completely uneconomic" -- it'd make more financial sense to simplify. And unfortunately for Linux advocates, Windows was more likely to win out in this case. Munich's council has had to keep a minority of Windows PCs around for apps and hardware that absolutely needed Microsoft's platform to run, and those were destined to stay.

Reiter also pointed to complaints about IT performance, although there are disputes as to whether or not reverting to Windows is the solution.

In addition to politics and cost, the issue of having to work in a Microsoft-centric world are likely to kill this.

Comment Re:I'm thankful for the ivermectin thing (Score 1) 350

It depends on why it works on parasites. A lot of these idiots think it works on covid due to the mechanism behind ivermectin being a proteinase (enzyme) inhibitor

Ivermectin is NOT a protease inhibitor. It's a neurotoxic poison that interferes with GABA signaling in parasites. At higher concentrations it first starts to interfere with human GABA receptors, and if you keep cranking it up, it eventually starts binding with nuclear proteins. At this stage, it also affects the COVID virus.

Comment Re:FDA was wrong on this (Score 1) 350

However, looking at the pubmed NIH site for papers on ivermectin, there's a lot of research using treating it for a lot of things.

That's because researchers routinely test already approved drugs (there are around 20000 of them) as experimental treatments for different diseases. That's exactly what happened with ivermectin - it has shown activity against COVID viruses in a Petri dish. However, that was at concentrations that also would kill the patient.

Researchers then tried lower concentrations of ivermectin, and they found zero effect on COVID.

Comment Re:But Why? (Score 1) 119

I just can't see why a parent would think that missing a day of school is acceptable.

Because COVID taught them that

A) their kids can learn anywhere, anytime, with a variety of methods
B) they saw just how much of their kids school days had been taken up by crap that had nothing to do with academics
C) it's not necessary to be stuck in a concrete box 9 hours a day to learn, or even study 5 days every week to learn

Most of us are beginning to see what the late Michel Foucaultt meant when he said that "schools resemble prisons because they serve a similar function".

Comment Re:How can he be prosecuted by the U.S.? (Score 1) 151

First world problems: we have all the guns, money, and influence but our country is "in decline" because the price of chicken nuggets is up this week and someone has purple hair.

In case you haven't been to a grocery store, car dealership, realtor, college bursar, etc lately, the price of pretty much everything is up. Maybe you're making so much money that you hadn't noticed.

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