The word demagogue can also be applied to this author. He is characterizing a sitting president in a way that appeals to his opponents. It has nothing to do with the current situation. So far, I have only seen two effective mechanisms for fighting this virus in the short term. Massive testing and isolation. The first one depends on how prepared the health system is and has very little to do with how the health system is financed. Very few countries are set up to do random testing on a significant slice of their population. Also, most jurisdictions didn't have enough test kits to do this sampling. Manufacturing them takes time. The second is very hard to implement in a democracy. Dictatorships can actually do better here. Imagine the reaction if the president tried to enforce a country wide lockdown in the early stages, before it was declared a pandemic. And keep in mind that the WHO was initially against massive quarantines.

Interesting premise. The Trump administration wants revenge for Wikileaks tanking Hillary's election.

Almost true. Although there is undoubtedly many members who joined for the status symbol, there are probably a large percentage of members who actually enjoy the interaction of like minded people. The statistics would be more meaningful if they were broken down for the two groups separately.

It is not unusual for kids to be totally bored by how easy school work is and therefore not put any effort in to learning how to learn. I never needed to take notes, so I never learned how to. Now I need an ability that I should have developed many years ago.

And certainly not replying to Slashdot comments. Whoops

So new that he hasn't learned that knowledge is to his detriment when posting here.

I find the hype on this very misleading. Once I install an operating system modification that exists in the address space of an application, I can fairly well do whatever I want. This one happens to target Skype. Similar ones could just as easily have targeted browser login's and passwords, or ssh.

For the record, you can read the original post in firehose. The spelling there is definitely wrong.

From the summary,

Hey, I am ten pounds overweight. Does that mean that I have a chance to live forever?

Your "rambling" is all correct but not appropriate to the parent comment. He is lamenting that the phrase "explain that to the average person" means "he'll never understand that" Where it is true that you don't need to know the details of how comodities work, you should be receptive to people who try to explain things to you because they think that you need to know the details.

As far as I know, various religions restrict the terms of a sexual relationship (they require some sort of institution of marriage) but not the age. In fact, religions recognize the drive for sexual relations and would advise younger marriages. In reality, the concept of underage sex is a tool to stop (or limit) premarital sex. In other words, it is a compromise between the religious stance that all sex outside of marriage is wrong and the current social expectation that adults should be free to enjoy themselves when it doesn't injure others. I'd be more likely to classify the tendency of parents to stop teenage sex as a sense of insecurity than as a dictate of religion (current mass marketers of religion not-withstanding).

What was that again? I suppose that you also expect people to read the articles before responding.