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Comment Re:Fail faster! (Score 2) 72

Fascism (/fæzm/ FASH-iz-m) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

Comment Re:Dry your eyes (Score 1) 60

From the wikipedia page on DCL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

DCL is available for other operating systems as well, including

        VCL and VX/DCL for Unix,
        VCL for MS-DOS, OS/2 and Windows,
        PC-DCL[4] and Open DCL for Windows/Linux
        and Accelr8 DCL Lite for Windows.[5]

DCL is the basis of the XLNT language, implemented on Windows by an interpreter-IDE-WSH engine combination with CGI capabilities distributed by Advanced System Concepts Inc. from 1997.

Comment Re: eh (Score 1) 168

LOL ... only for those that can afford private school. I will ultimately make the public schools with less money and only for the poor. So, yeah that is a great idea...

An educated populous is important for the US to retain it's tech industry. If the government were smart they would be making schooling cheap and easy to obtain.

Comment Re:A totalitarian move (Score 1) 85

Of course this is not a band of humor in other places like news papers, magazines, web sites, etc. This is on a road safety sign.

I personally think it is silly, but this particular step is not toward totalitarianism.

Not to suggest that we should not be concerned about current politics. The politics of hate lead to very bad outcomes.

Comment Re:Yeah, well... (Score 1) 70

I think your numbers must be off.

In the US for the 2017/2018 flu season, there were an estimated 45 million flu cases and around 61,000 people died. That is a mortality rate of about 0.14%

You are claiming the mortality rate in Germany was 1.19%. I suspect that you are a decimal place off.

The COVID-19 is reported to be more contagious than the flu and has a higher mortality rate (World wide about 3.9%). Even if it is of similar spread rate and the mortality rate is only 0.4% that would kill nearly 3 times as many people as the flu. So, we should probably be taking some precaution.

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

https://www.worldometers.info/...

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