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Comment Re:Only invested in 2 out of 8 (Score 3, Informative) 111

Bill Gates owns barely any of the farmland. It's FAR below 1%. He owns around 270,000 acres. If that's "like all the farmland" in the US, then we're really screwed. If you check some Ag web sites, you'll discover the total farmland in the US is around 893 Million acres. And Bill Gates owns about 1/4 of 1 Million acres. Do the math. https://www.popularmechanics.c...

Comment Did someone tell Drobo this news? (Score 1) 56

I've got a client who has a Drobo NAS. I have actually liked their system quite a bit over the years. Along comes 2020 and the supply chain disruptions. They have had a "sold out" on their web site for well over 2 years now blaming the chip shortage. In the meantime I've had no trouble getting hard drives, flash storage drives, Synology NAS, computers and others stuff. Sure sometimes the wait is a little longer, but 2 years and no inventory at Drobo??? Now we see this news that there is a swelling glut of chips. I figured maybe Drobo is out of business but not willing to actually die.

Comment Re:Don't Trust Him (Score 2) 113

He has spoken widely about population control, not depopulation. BIG DIFFERENCE. Where do you get your facts that he owns the patent on Coronavirus? That is a generic term. SARS and MERS are caused by a coronavirus. This specific one is known as Covid-Sars-2. Are you saying Bill Gates own the patent on this specific iteration of a coronavirus? That's absurd. Every operating sytem on the planet can get viruses. What's new? Some are more prone to infection than others. Microsoft currently has one of the highest rated antivirus programs on the market and it comes free with Windows 10. It's called Windows Defender. Look it up.

Comment Getting endless health care enrollment robocalls (Score 1) 161

I've been getting HAMMERED, every single day, with robocalls about health care enrollment. I had been getting tons of "This is your Google listings expert", blah, blah, blah. Now it's health insurance every single damn time. And they are calling from local numbers now in my area code and even in prefixes local to me. Something needs to be done.

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