Exactly.

I don't want a web-based Outlook to replace my Mac Outlook. I like the fat clients. Replacing everything with a single web-based client sounds terrible.

> Which version of libertarian though - the original, the Ayn Randers, or the Modern Republican version?

I think we were all a bit younger, more idealistic, and less jaded back then.

Old habits die hard, I guess.

That's exactly what I want. I've got an old "Home Theatre Master" MX700, which is now owned by URC and it's a paperweight, because all I could get was Win3.1 software which no longer runs. Best remote I've owned. With you on the touchscreen thing too - totally useless.

Currently got two Harmony 650s, which are okay, but the way they don't know the current state and don't function in any useful way until you tell them which 5-step macro mode you want to be in *and wait for it to play that whole thing* just so you can turn down the stereo... yeah I'm still in the market for the ideal device. I know it'll never happen though.

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

So Bezos, the wealthiest American Oligarch, decided to fund a bunch of "environmental" groups, all of which are involved in political lobbying and all of which are chaired by other globalists and wealthy oligarchs.

This should be no surprise to anyone.

Linear Energy Transfer

It's not radioactive. When high-energy particles strike it, they break apart into lower-energy particles that are more harmful. So, you need enough shielding to catch the particles that break apart in the top layer of your shielding.

Fuck you, mods.

Whatever. I meant it escaped from a lab. That's where it was, that's where it was being studied. The point of the article was to prove the APPEAL TO AUTHORITY crap that you're still relying on was 100% wrong. This is what you refuse to acknowledge. THAT is your straw-man, which was NOT in the article. Okay, yes, I misstated. Not "generated", but existed, likely mutated, studied, and escaped from the lab. But you can't even acknowledge that.

My point, which you are pretending to not understand, is that the exalted "health care professionals and scientists" that you are even now claiming to be infallible were completely wrong about the origins of the virus, when they were claiming it originated from the wet markets. That's was wrong. Admit it.

HAHAHAHA! No, it's not. Not even close.

Sure, they are trying to EXPLAIN the low HIT of COVID-19 using the T-cell theory that similar viruses confer immunity. It might or might not be the proven. But they do not question that the evidence shows that HIT of COVID-19 is low, possibly lower than the 22% that Fauci claims can't establish herd immunity Scientists who understand that's the case are many. Fauci is wrong.

I posted a couple of other references to demonstrate that, which you ignored, because you're refusing to acknowledge that you're wrong.

And YOU are misrepresenting what I said. I didn't say anything about T-cells or anything: it's you changing the subject and creating strawmen. The point was about the HIT of COVID-19, and the latest science says Fauci is wrong, wrong, wrong

And so are you.

You're just a science denier. No lie.

You're creating a bunch of straw-men, and intentionally misreading the sources.

Meaning it was not genetically manipulated. BUT it was studied in a lab, mutated there, learned to adjust to human hosts, and then escaped.

Just a straw man. It was not man-made, but it likely DID escape from the Wuhan lab:

"Also recalled that samples (blood and thymus tissues) from the miners were sent to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for research purposes. As their labs were under construction at the time of sample collection, virologists may have begun experimentations in 2017 or 2018, Dr. Latham and Prof. Wilson said. Then the virus may have leaked from the lab by accident."

Straw man, again. It's clear from the evidence shown that transmissible is far below what is expected from the standard models, the one Fauci seems to think is unassailable fact, but doesn't work with COVID-19. One theory is pre-existing T-cells, but none are confirmed.

Why did you not address the salient parts of the article?

Sure, there are multiple theories as to why, but the fact is, it's happening.

Here are a few more references showing that Fauci's reliance on the 1970's model based on the HIT=11/R0 formula is wrong for COVID-19:

Individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 lowers the herd immunity threshold
Why herd immunity to COVID-19 is reached much earlier than thought

Then you'll have to do a wealth tax. Financial market tax might work for a year, but then things will get shifted around and revenues will drop.