GrokLaw was required reading for a true Penguin back then. Pamala "pj" Jones, a paralegal, and the crew which assisted her, which no doubt included others with legal training or background, thoroughly tested every claim SCO made and supplied overwhelming proof that they were bogus.

Xinuos has 15 employees and an annual revenue of $2.2M. I'm sure that IBM has more than 15 lawyers on its staff and probably pays several of them more that $2.2M per year. There is a HUGE legal precedent established in in SCO's losses of its lawsuits, and and it won't take long for a judge to review the claims and previous losses and toss Xinuos' claims. BTW, Xinuos didn't build OpenServer X and its other software out of SCO's old Xinux stuff, they started fresh with BSD and slapped their brand on it. They've spent their time trying to migrate the 32,000 customers SCO had sold the old software to the OpenServer software. Judging from their annual revenue it appears they were not successful with many migrations.

Could this be nothing more than an simple extortion ploy? "Give me (some amount less than the cost of the lawsuit) and I'll get out of your hair".

when he hired James Plamondon to run Microsoft's disinformation campaign as a "Technical Evangelist". Plamondon calls developers "pawns" and hired a bunch of "Linux Evangelists" to haunt the comments sections and attack Linux and Microsoft competitors with unbelievable lies. Not so unbelievable compared to what the mnm does today.

One journalist whose name was Joe Barr wrote an article called "Slime", in which he reveals what he discovered about Microsoft evangelists beginning with his time on the old IBM forum on Compuserv and later.

https://www.sealtd.net/quattro...

Microsoft was/is the single biggest impediment to Linux progress, and I believe deliberately so. It began with James Plamaondon, who created Microsoft's "Technical Evangelists". He formed his team after advertising for "Linux Evangelists". Their sole purpose was to invade comment sections on stories about Linux and plant anti-Linux posts. In response to the Combs vs Microsoft trial Plamondon himself gave a Mea Culpa, but that was after he took the money and ran to Australia. Prior to the DOJ vs Microsoft trial, in which they lost both the trial and the appeal, but stole the judgement using political chicanery to get the judge replaced. She promptly let MS "negotiate" their own punishment. It turned out to be three "monitors", residing on their campus in Redmond, two of whom were picked by Microsoft. Oh, they also got a free pass on ALL crimes committed prior to the trial. Before the trial, PC vendors were forced to sign secret deals with Microsoft which forced them to install or bundle Windows on EVERY PC they sold, even to folks who wanted only the hardware so they could install Linux. If a PC OEM tried to sell only the hardware MS would raise their unit costs on Windows to make them noncompetitive with other PC OEMs. Dell tried that twice but was forced back into line. Walmart put a laptop on their shelves featuring Linux and they sold like wildfire. MS sent a letter to Walmart's exec explaining how their supply of Windows computers would dry up (by raising unit prices on PC OEMs who supplied Walmart) and Walmart killed the offering. This is documented in the Combs vs Microsoft trial.

The OLPC initiative, designed to put a $100 laptop with wifi networking into the hands of kids in 3rd world countries, was introduced using Linux as kernel and running software on top of it. Microsoft killed that initiative, partly by subverting the man whose idea it was.

I could go on and on because the trail of Microsoft's skulduggery is long and vile, but I hope you get the point.

Dr Redfield, while head of the CDC, testified before Congress. While waving a surgical mask he exclaimed "These are better than a vaccine!" After he retired from the CDC he also stated that he believed that the covid virus came from the Wuhan Lab.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/arti...

In May of 2020 the CDC published a "Policy Paper" in which they examined all RCT papers from 1946 to July, 2018. They summarized the conclusions drawn from the best 10 of those many papers:

Face masks: "In our systematic review, we identified 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018. In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks...

Hand Hygiene: "Hand hygiene is a widely used intervention and has been shown to effectively reduce the transmission of gastrointestinal infections and respiratory infections (26). However, in our systematic review, updating the findings of Wong et al. (8), we did not find evidence of a major effect of hand hygiene on laboratory-confirmed influenza virus transmission (Figure 1). Nevertheless, hand hygiene might be included in influenza pandemic plans as part of general hygiene and infection prevention."

Danish RCT's agree: https://swprs.org/face-masks-e...

Interestingly, that aggregate shows daily new deaths graphs showing when mask mandates were imposed. The mask mandates had NO effect in "flattening the curve", regardless of when on the curve they were imposed. 35 US states mandated masks and their curves look no different from the 15 that did not have mask mandates.

John Hopkins has a similar set of graphs: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/da...

The CDC also reported that from Jan 1, 2020 to March 20, 2021 the total number of kids from 0-17 that died from Covid was 238. In a similar data table on another page they report that the total number of deaths in the age bracket from 5 to 24, occuring between Jan 1, 2020 and March 20, 2021, is under 700.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/...

H&H's biggest decline in the last year wasn't from Chinese banning but from Covid lockdowns. Their stock has gone from a high of 350 Kr to 114 Kr and is currently around 205Kr. https://www.google.com/finance... Besides, the only people in China who can afford to shop at H&H (online or at a store) are members of the CCP, which is less than 3% of the population, or about 42 million people. The population in Europe alone is 835 million, of which probably 1/3rd have purchasing power. Add to that the potential buyers from America, Canada, South America, Australia, Japan, Russia, etc... and one can see why H&H's stock price didn't reflect the Chinese censorship.

Ok.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volum...

During March 1–December 31, 2020, state-issued mask mandates applied in 2,313 (73.6%) of the 3,142 U.S. counties. Mask mandates were associated with a 0.5 percentage point decrease in daily COVID-19 case growth rates 1–20 days after implementation and decreases of 1.1, 1.5, 1.7, and 1.8 percentage points 21–40, 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after implementation...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/...

In the entire country since Jan 4, 2020 until March 10,2021, only 216 children between the ages of 0 to 17 have died of Covid.

Have we flattened the curve?

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/da...

Notice that while the X axis for all states has the same date spread, the Y axis for each is notably different. California's peak is around 46,061 cases, while North Dakota, which looks worse, is only 1,408 cases. South Dakota's is only 1,458 cases, and neither enforced state wide mask mandates. All the curves look essentially the same in shape. Mask mandates were imposed when cases were flatlined at less than 100/day, when cases were rising exponentially, when cases peaked, and mask mandates were imposed while cases were falling. Regardless, the curves of states with mask mandates look essentially identical to states without mask mandates.

When I was a senior in high school in 1959 a flu pandemic hit. Over the next few months 116,000 died, equivalent to 232,000 today. There was no panic, no hysteria, no factory closings or job layoffs, no social distancing and folks were not forced to wear masks. If one felt sick they went to the Dr or the hospital. The rest went to work or school, which remained open, as did shops, sporting events, and social gathering places. There were no Karen's or Ken's to act as self-appointed hall monitors. People back then were a LOT more civil and polite than they are today.

an appropriate host file, like: https://github.com/Ultimate-Ho... for example. It sure speeds up browsing when all your bandwidth isn't stolen by bots trying to access servers unrelated to the site you are reading.

running again. I doubt that he will. If he does he'll be 78 when he starts campaigning, and 79 IF he actually won. He'd be in the same mental shape that Biden is in now, which is pretty bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and there are soooo many more examples. When Biden couldn't remember which EO's he was signing Harris told him to just sign them anyway. The Dems can't "25" Pres Biden now, or it would ruin Harris's chance to hold the office for 12 years. So, I predict that on Jan 24, 2024, Biden will be let out to pasture for being in the middle or late stages of dementia or Alzheimers, or he'll have an unfortunate stroke, and Harris will become President. She'll hold the office for 12 years. By then, the successful execution of the Cloward–Piven strategy to flood the country with illegal immigrants who will be given government assistance and voting priviledges, which will mean that only Marxists will win future presidential elections. Who's not going to vote for the free stuff? The real life lessons will come later. TINSTAAFL.

as a high energy density source is NH3. Ammonia has more hydrogen per unit volume than liquid Hydrogen, believe it or not. NH3 can be catalyzed to burn with O2 to form N2 and H2O. It takes far less to compress Ammonia to a liquid than it does Hydrogen gas. No need for insulated tanks that are constantly leaking H2.

Farming is nothing more than using land to convert oil into food.~ Dr. Alfred Bartlett

No oil, no food. Presently. However, farmers are already familiar with handling NH3 and the manufacturing and delivery infrastructure is already in place to service farmers. Ammonia as a fuel is explained here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y_2Z_VwFNc

In 1981 a car running on Ammonia was demonstrated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And today, Carbon free, 75 cents per gallon isn't a bad price:

https://www.greennh3.com/

But, CO2 is a plant food. As CO2 rises in the atmosphere the planet is greening up. Reduce it to per-industrial levels and the deserts will grow again. Take your pick. TINSTAAFL

From the CDC website:

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article

"Face Masks In our systematic review, we identified 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018. In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks

As far as masks are concerned, there is no difference between the mechanical behaviour of masks filtering flu viruses or covid viruses. Since the masks don't work against flu they won't work against covid. The N95 mask is rated at PM2.5, i.e., "Particulate Matter 2.5 microns or larger". Flu and covid are 0.06 to 1.4 microns.

In the face of 72 years of studies showing otherwise, there is a ridiculous letter claiming to show that the filtration of an N95 mask is 100% down to 2.5 microns, drops to 99.7% for 0.3 microns particles because Brownian motion interferes, and then climbs back to 100% efficiency below 0.1 microns. No where does the graph put the efficiency at 95% for 2.5 micron particles, which is all that the manufacturers claim, nor explain how anyone could breath through a masks that filtered 100% of all particles smaller than 0.1 microns.

Around the same time that the CDC published their "policy review", Dr Fauci also said that masks didn't help, no doubt referring to the same research that the CDC used to present their conclusions. Strangely, a couple weeks later, around June 1, both the CDC and Dr Fauci reversed themselves and claimed that masks did work, even ordinary cotton cloth masks made out of T-shirts, bandanas, and other random pieces of cloth. This is doubly sad because those same studies the CDC cited previously showed that cotton masks filtered less than 40% of virons, some less than 20%.

If there is a silver lining in this covid mess it is that between the ages of 5 to 24, over the LAST 11 MONTHS, only 583 children, teens and young adults have died of covid, out of 83 million, and they had existing medical conditions.

You're right. I was able to teach sciences and math at a small mid-West college only because my wife held a job which paid more than what I made. We kept it up for 3 years and then bailed. A few years later I was asked to come back and I agreed only if I could continue my consulting business on my terms. That episode lasted 5 years and then I resigned and continued my consulting business.

Most teachers, especially in public schools, can only teach IF their spouse works full time as well.

Asymptomatic means "showing NO symptoms", i.e., the only way you'd know you have covid is if your covid test shows positive. That may be trickly because the PCR tests usually use only 15 or so cycles but the cycle count for covid testing has gone as high as 35, some higher. With that many cycles you can find anything in anything. Regardless, Dr. Fauci has stated that asymptomatic carriers of Covid are NOT transmitters of the virus.

The CDC recorded that between Jan 1, 2020 and Jan 13, 2021, a total of 565 children and young adults between the ages of 5 and 24 have died of Covid-19. That's out of a total of 83,681,673 children and young adults in those two age groups.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/...

That same site also shows that out of the 329,593 recorded deaths through Jan 13, 2021, a total of 266,647 between the ages of 64 to 85+ have died due to Covid-19. That's 81% of the deaths. Thousands of those deaths can be attributed to the governors who sent the elderly being treated for Covid-19 in hospitals back to their nursing homes. Out of a total population of 54,058,263 in those age brackets, that is about 0.5%. So, Covid-19 was only deadly to the elderly IF they had pre-existing medical conditions. Cancers, diabetes, heart conditions, hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, and other illness of the aged. And, of the 105,673 who were 85 and older, how many would have lasted out the year even if they never had Covid?

Of the total population of 328,239,523 only 0.1% died of Covid.

The site linked to above, is based on death certificates.

An amazing thing occurred during this Pandemic: the flu which, on average, kills 20K to 60K people every year, seems to be "unusually low". The 2020 Cares Act commits the government to paying an additional 10% of a covid patient's hospital bill. If the patient were billed $10,000 the gov will give the hospital $1,000. If the patient is put on a ventilator then 39% is added. Are the hospitals padding the covid death certificates using folks who died of the flu? Or of an accident? Or of a heart attack? Or of cancer or other non-covid causes?

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly...

"Rich scientist? Healthcare worker?" Sure, there are plenty of them.

https://www.wealthygenius.com/...

The rich scientists get richer. The poor scientists get poorer.

Dr Fauci is both a scientist and researcher. According to a database maintained by fedsdatacenter.com, Dr. Anthony Fauci's salary in 2019 was $417,608, and he's been working for the government since he finished his intership. About double what it was in 2000.

There are even billionaire scientists, newly minted because of covid.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/g...

Your association of Ferrengi with Capitalists was expropriated from Star Trek movies, and many TV movies and sitcoms which made the association for political reasons. Ergo, not based on facts, it fails at several levels,

"And if NBB had properly informed their employees beforehand, and allowed them to opt out without repercussions"

I'm curious ... how does one "opt out" of a video monitoring setup? Demand a separate work area that doesn't have cameras? "Without reprocussions" meaning they won't lose their job for making such demands?

And, how does video monitoring differ from having a supervisor standing near by observing performance and behavior, besides costing less because one person can watch several monitors at once, but cannot physically be in more than one place at once.

Employees are paid according to the skill set they bring to the job. If they don't feel that they are being paid according to their worth they are always free to seek employment elsewhere. If an employee demands a say in how the business should be run then they should invest some of their own money into the business and thus assume part of the risk, which is possible failure and the resulting loss of their investment. Otherwise, they are just looking for a free ride at someone else's expense. Even Marxist know that TINSTAAFL.

Not to keep people out as much as to keep them in Google's "Garden" by making certain features only available via pristine Chromium.

ZDNet had an article, from two years ago, listing the browsers based on Chromium: https://www.zdnet.com/pictures... "While initially we thought we'd find 15-20 browsers, the number of Chromium-based browsers was far larger than we expected."

There are "some" browsers NOT based on Chromium, but the pickings are slime.

https://www.slant.co/topics/23...

I'm currently running Waterfox.

https://www.waterfox.net/

worked in an IT department which was headed by a suit, many times a political appointee (gov shop) or the owner's son (private firm), who didn't have a clue about how computers, much less programming, worked. And, how many times did that suit consult with you or anyone on your team of coders about software purchasing decisions affecting everyone, especially taxpayers. I've seen millions go down the drain after a suit purchased a do-all app that supposedly would allow clerks to write their own software. One such app was called OneWorld. Another is called Apex. Clerks code? They can't even keep their keyboards and monitors clean.