This article looks like something that came out of the way back machine.

The DOS advantage is the same as it ever was. The perception that it the monopoly product. That drives 3rd party support for devices and applications.

Nobody has ever really cared about the "quality" of Microsoft's direct contribution. Regular people are far more concerned if "random app" is supported or not.

There was nearly a mass revolt of rubes over Ribbon.

The idea that "professional" implies good or suitable is too laughable for any real computer expert to take seriously. Computing in particular is an engineering domain where the self trained regularly make "professionals" look like trained chimps.

Says the crowd who is too busy engaging in partisan sniping to suggest this obvious alternative.

The only tyranny comes from idiots that think that everything needs to be run from Washington. You are free to solve your own problems the way you see fit.

You're free to shove your own elderly together with covid patients and destroy doctors who are pragmatic about covid vaccinations.

I have a compromised immune system. I'm not sure 70% is good enough to even bother with.

I wish the submitter had read the NEJM article before posting this. If he had, he'd realize that AIER has no idea what they're talking about. Hey, that's what happens when you trust a politically biased site that is willing to misinterpret results of a study just so they can politicize life and death. The study says nothing that the AIER claims it says.

Even more, they are working with a very small group, so a larger study would be needed for confirmation. Interestingly enough, all the larger studies say that lockdowns and masks make a difference.

Democrats did that when they didn't run the last VP and instead had someone's wife run.

All of Trump's nepotism can't match that.

You can access all sorts of corporate media on YouTube.

It's not just random people making casual observations that blow apart NPRs media narrative.

I would take it in a heartbeat. Compared to the other shit I have to take to stay alive it's fucking candy.

That's a really retarded comparison.

HCQ has been safely used as a maintenance drug for DECADES.

Plenty of us take drugs with far more interesting side effects.

It's all a matter of what you fear more: taking the drug or not taking it.

Meanwhile nimrods like you want to hide in your homes and trash the economy because you are afraid of this thing.

This seems like a situation where an imperfect solution should be considered better than doing nothing.

You have no fucking sense of perspective.

Veganism was a growing fad for awhile and then it got attached to climate change. The whole thing seems designed to snooker people into believing that this is something that they can easily adopt without any adjustments or pitfalls.

Mock meats seem to be a very big part of selling vegetarianism to aren't really into the idea.

It seems odd to me that the only food processing plants having trouble are slaughterhouses. It seems like ANY factory would have similar problems for similar reasons.

Mock meats are as processed as it gets.

No they aren't. Nurses need to go to food banks. Interns strike for better pay and working conditions. The poorer parts of the EU are harvested for cheap labor.

This is a classic case of "damned lies". The numbers clearly show that the magnitude of the "epidemic" in those other states is far lower than what occurred in New York.

NYC accounts for about half the cases and deaths all by itself.

Remove those and the rest of the country so far has just had a bad flu season.

I've had millions in claims and have never been denied. I have had drugs and procedures that are rationed or age restricted in other countries. Even if I had to give up all of my money for those things, I would still be ahead compared to how I likely would have fared in your country.

If you fear debt more than death then you have a perversely distorted sense of values.

I don't see the big deal. MAME and other emulators have been able to emulate old arcade and console games for years. I have a system running on a Raspberry Pi, under RetroPie, that can run ROMs and binary files from cartridges for arcade machines, Atari consoles, Nintendo consoles, and many more. I think it comes with something like 30 emulators installed by default. (Or maybe it's over 35 and at least 30 are under RetroArch and can be easily configured through RetroArch.)