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Comment Re:When was the last time Windows was updated (Score 2) 53

When did Windows get virtual desktop support? Back when I migrated to Linux, about 20 years ago, I learned to use and love them. I showed friends using Windows what they were, using my laptop, but none of them were the slightest bit interested in them except as eye candy. I was once told, in fact, that Windows users "couldn't see the point" in having them. If it's taken this long for them to start to catch on, it's a clear indication of why Windows is concentrating on meaningless, useless changes: their target audience is mostly made up of people who can't adapt to change and wouldn't want to if they could.

Comment Re:Duplicate (Score 1) 19

Not always. Type I can be triggered by a serious childhood illness. As an example, I had a good friend who contracted rheumatic fever when he was three, and spent the best part of a year in bed. His parents ended up moving from the north east to southern California because he was too frail for the winter climate. It wasn't long before he was diagnosed with diabetes.

And, there's also LADA, which is just like Type I except it manifests in adults. That's what I have, and the root cause for it was exposure to Agent Orange, back in '72.

Comment Re:Just what I always expected. (Score 1) 64

I read TFA, and it specifically says that this is the matter that's causing the gravitational effects that were attributed to dark matter. To me, as a layman, that means that dark matter is no longer required to make things come out right. If you don't agree, please explain why, preferably with citations so that people like me can understand it.

Comment Just what I always expected. (Score 0) 64

I always expected that some day we'd find a way to detect the so-called dark matter, and that when we did, it would turn out to be ordinary matter rather than something incredibly exotic. The conventional description of dark matter as some weird particle that didn't interact with the rest of the universe in any way except the gravity produced by its mass just didn't sound plausible to me; rather than making me believe in it, that description pegged my BS meter. But I never argued against it because I had no evidence to support my position, just my gut feeling. Now, however, new evidence has been discovered that proves that I was right. I know that most people in my place would be gloating, but why? I'm just a layman with no detailed education in the subject who happened to get it right.

GLOAT!

Comment Re:smells like greenwashing (Score 1) 44

If those former coal mines can be cleaned by Mother Nature in only 200 years, that's not bad at all. The Zone Rouge in northern France and Belgium has been cordoned off for a little over 100 years, and it's estimated that parts of it may need another 300-700 years to become habitable again.

Comment Re:College?! (Score 1) 86

Interesting. Back when I started college, everybody had to take the Subject A Exam before their first semester. This consisted of writing a short essay that would be read by a stranger. If that stranger could understand it and found the grammar and syntax acceptable, you passed and were expected to take Freshman English in your first semester. If not, you had to take Bonehead English, which was a remedial class and gave you no college credit. I wonder when that stopped.

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