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The on screen keyboards just suck (for anything useful)! Solve that problem!

It has been solved litteraly decades ago using after-market accessories. (The first Palm devices were planned to have pluggable after-market keyboards).
I'm still having the original one paired with my current smartphone.

Nowadays you can find either bluetooth or wired USB accessories. (Of various size, from the "fits in the flap of the phone's cover" all the way to "unfolds/unrolls into a full-blown desktop keyboard")

Manufacturer such as BlackBerry, F(x) Tec, Planet Computers, etc. also produce smartphone/PDAs with integrated keyboards.

But, it turns out, the market for such devices is rather small.
So you're stuck with either after market accessories (Bluetooth or wired USB) or small-scale manufacturer. But don't hope anything from Apple, Samsung, etc. - most users are happy with a "consume-only" device.

That data is a bastardization of many alternate sites cherry-picked and blended to achieve the desired result. Just check the graph at the end of the article to see the "golden CRU data" from 5 cherry-picked trees, versus that of 34 trees from a different researcher. The former has a big upturn - the latter shows a gentle cooling.

That data is a bastardization of many alternate sites cherry-picked and blended to achieve the desired result. Just check the graph at the end of the article to see the "golden CRU data" from 5 cherry-picked trees, versus that of 34 trees from a different researcher. The former has a big upturn - the latter shows a gentle cooling.

The hockey stick that didn't exist unless you cooked your data, and then did everything possible to prevent anyone from looking at your data and examining your methods. In other words, an illusion built to support a preconceived position and distributed in a such a way as to prevent peer review.

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You can also say things about the relative sizes of the wings but that's not an argument worth having. The clear observation that is beyond reproach is that the overwhelming majority are disaffected, disconnected, tired of the politics, tired of the stupid hyperbolic 24 hour hysteria, and just want to ignore it.

There is a lot of proxy data for this...

Another is younger women that identify as feminists:
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And "half" is generous for the feminists because what "feminist" means is often a misrepresentation. You'll get feminists that will ask "do you believe in equal rights" and basically everyone will agree with that. And then you'll get hysterical #MeToo stuff that most women don't want anything to do with.

Progressives make up a very small and loud minority that have confused people ironically by exploiting privileged access to media, educational, and governmental institutions to megaphone their ideas, silence opposition, shut down debate, and by fiat make whatever they want law.

And the thing is that they can get away with that mostly because lots of people are not paying a lot of attention. You have this sleeping giant of lots and lots of disinterested people. And so long as the progressives maintain a stranglehold on these powerful institutions whilst not waking the giant... they can win political fights and institutional fights even if outnumbered.

However, if they believe their own propoganda... then they'll over play their hand. They'll piss off the sleepers. They'll wake the giant. And their political alliance is far too small and fragile to survive that.

As it stands, many within the DNC are already trying to marginalize the progressives because they see this coming. Those elements within the DNC are not fairing well however. They're losing control. We can see examples of this every day. You wanted data... I gave you two sets of data and don't be surprised if I can back every last bit up.

The progressives made the error of getting religious about their politics. This gave them a political zealotry in certain conflicts that allowed them to overwhelm their opposition with ferocity. But it comes at a price... and that is that you can't turn it off. You can't control it. It is the mad berserker rage leaves many progressives spiraling into purity tests to attack their own whenever they don't have a clear external enemy.

We've seen many such movements recently self destruct when they didn't have a few target of the day to burn.

And the funniest bit is that they don't see that Trump is literally provoking them on purpose to bait the madness... because it isn't in the interest of the progressives to move "now".

They can't do anything right now. They're out of power nationally and now should be a time of quiet rebuilding and preparation.

Instead they're spazing out at tweets.

I don't think the progressives are aware that all their political opponents are watching how to control them and manipulate them. This isn't going to stop.

This is the new normal. Until the progressives develop an immunity to this kind of "trolling" and "baiting"... it won't stop. And whether they can even resist that is questionable. The very nature of their ideology makes it unlikely they can refuse provocation even when it is very very stupid to rise to it.

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France and Sweden decarbonized electricity completely in less time. Nuclear, and hydro where available, produce results fast, even if individual projects are time consuming. If you are satisfied with promises and clowns like the parent, move to California.

Energy prices backing down from ridiculous highs isn't 'decreasing year by year'. There is been a steady increase in pricing and it shows no signs of retracting significantly;

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There's actually a really good reason to think it COULD happen before 2035. Autonomous vehicles and electric vehicles (EV) have a great synergy together (A-EV), which would drive the adoption of both far faster than one would expect. The short version is that autonomous vehicles allow the reduction of automobile stocks by about a factor of 10, due to primarily to heavier re-use as part of an autonomous transportation network, as well as more efficient use patterns (for instance, it'd make "carpooling" to work on an electric shuttle bus much easier and dirt cheap). In addition, it'll drastically drive down transportation prices at the same time, especially when EVs are used since they're much more efficient and deprecate very slowly due to their simplicity (few moving parts means low maintenance costs). We're seriously talking about costs so low that it'll probably end up being packaged as a monthly transport network use fee (ex. $50/month for "unlimited" on-demand in-city transport). Even if someone hates driving with people it'd still be only like $0.10/mile to go anywhere in a private vehicle. The prices will be so low that using your currently existing paid-off vehicle will lose you a LOT of money compared to just using the transportation network, driving people to abandon their current vehicles even if it's at the loss of the entire vehicle and their investment in said vehicle with no recompense (since just the insurance and maintenance costs are more than using the transport network an unlimited number of times, let alone the fuel costs).

Requiring 10% of today's vehicles to service the population and offering vastly lower costs means that the transition time may very well be 10x faster as well, and given that a present day car lasts around 10 years, a year or two's worth of present-day car production volume may be all that's needed to replace our current stocks of gasoline vehicles with A-EVs (once critical mass is reached).

The following report lays out the full case for this. This report suggests a slower but still shockingly fast transition period of 10-ish years with the main transition happening over approximately 4 years.
https://www.rethinkx.com/execu...
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I was skeptical of this at first, but after reading it I'm confident it'll play out this way if full autonomy can be worked out. The disadvantages of EVs are completely moot when they're used in this way (ex. the high up front expense doesn't matter when each car is worth 10 today and they have much lower long term costs and a much longer lifespan). Socially, most people will respond to the drastically lower cost and drastically higher convenience, since it'll basically take transportation costs down to a rounding error on their current costs ($10,000 today to $50-100) and be available 24/7 without needing to park or drive. I'm sure there'll be some holdouts that refuse to change, but they'll pay out the nose to keep the luxury of their own vehicle, and most will have to transition to EVs when the carbon bubble pops (which they detail in said report, basically you'll see a massive stock of abandoned fossil fuel vehicles due to the earlier mentioned incentives, and the gasoline infrastructure will collapse as soon as the transition gets serious because you can't easily stockpile gasoline as it's a volatile chemical, driving even more people to adopt EVs even if they aren't using them autonomously).

As for electrical needs, it won't be nearly as bad as you're thinking, since EVs use a LOT less energy than gasoline vehicles, and if we're only running a tenth of the vehicles (admittedly much more frequently), then the energy requirements will be substantially lower. EVs can also make better use of cheap baseload power in the middle of the night and intermittent renewables (th

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Must be a beta version - no visible interlocking mechanism.

Breaking Up Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook Could Save Capitalism, NYU Professor Says

Though I've met a few, I'm yet to encounter — or even hear about a professor, especially in New York, who would sincerely wish to "save Capitalism".

Most of the academics work for the government — either directly or via government-provided grants — and thus inevitably lean Left.

I strongly doubt, this professor's concern for Capitalism's well-being is genuine — especially, since he proposes authoritarian methods to "fix" it.

Well, this is who Google thinks I most resemble. Personally when I look in the mirror, I don't see the likeness.

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Here is what the regional cuisine looks like in the part of America that I live in: (this is the most popular restaurant in my neighborhood, though not the most expensive) https://s3-media1.fl.yelpcdn.c...

Here is what American food looks like in a "red state": https://ncstatecommuters.files...

Germany has spent 100s of billions on renewables without much to show for it. Their electricity rates are among the highest in Europe, yet they still pollute 10x as much as France" If they spent that money on next generation nuclear their emissions would have dropped. As it currently stands nuclear power is the only viable option to mitigate climate change.

There is already an established scientific consensus that nuclear power paves the only viable path forward on climate change. Germany has spent 100 of billions on renewables and have not made a dent in their carbon carbon emissions. Germany pollutes 10x as much as France. The New York times recently posted an analysis of the cleanest countries in the world, and they all use a combination of hydro and nuclear.

I clicked your link. The guy in the yellow jacket in the image at the middle of the article scares the shit out of me.
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They're not talking about badges, they're talking about name tags - think fast food shift worker:
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These badges are usually worn on the shirt above the left or right breast pocket (if there is a pocket - in creimer's case, we KNOW there are some sweaty, hairy man-tits.)

link to actual report mentioned in news article: "Rethinking Transportation 2020-2030 The Disruption of Transportation and the Collapse of the Internal-Combustion Vehicle and Oil Industries"

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Really? You can't think of any situations where clear, concise communications are important?

There's not a great solution, only unperfection options.

They could use a managed website platform like SqureSpace.

Or if they need WordPress, a less than tech savvy user can hire a professional management service like WP Site Care or OnSiteWP.

Lets see... I can link this at least since its a PR shot that's on facebook and elsewhere... its still a shit picture though.

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Its from a workshop at the Vision by Design expo in 2016.

Almost definitely a surface pro in the lower right; and I think I can make out another one too. but not sure -- the aspect ratio looks right and i think i can make out the foldout stand. -shrug- its a random photo... not a product placement shot.

Each year I see a few more; they're being used in the booths... because they are 'tablets' that run the applications for the demo diagnostic equipment; so they make great demo systems -- you don't have to balance a laptop, or hunch over a table.

As for the size of the companies; who do you think is running booths at an event like that? Zeiss, Canon, Topcon, subsidiaries of Novartis (Alcon); subsidiaries of Valeant (Bausch & Lomb); etc... and yeah, I've seen some of their people carrying around surfaces.

can understand your other points, but this one doesn't make any sense. This is currently happening under a black President with a black Attorney General

Yes, as it has been happening my whole life (with 0 fanfare until a couple of years ago). Injustice wasn't just invented yesterday, and no magic vote will make it disappear today or tomorrow. It will actually require that mythical thing called "work". However, the two candidates we have now happen to have essentially diametrically opposite positions about what, if anything, needs to be done about police violence. If you happen to be a person who is personally invested in this kind of thing ceasing, it matters a great deal weather you can expect support, indifference, or vetoes from the top.

There is in fact a detailed plan for attacking this problem. One candidate has come out in support of every one of Campaign Zero's points an opinion has been expressed on, the other is actively against it on nearly all the points where he's expressed any opinion at all. If you're inclined toward extreme longshots, the other two semi-major party candidates have also been very supportive. See Campaign Zero's Candidate tracker

Granted, less microplastic per cubic metre does reduce its effect on fish (according to this study, which did use a control). But spreading it out affects correspondingly more fish.

And in the cited study, many of the effects were non-linear - testing with 1/8th the microplastic concentration still produced 1/2 the negative effects (compared to the control), which would indicate a wider distribution of debris may actually worsen the overall problem.

But my main point stands: oceanic plastic debris is getting into a very significant proportion of our fish, despite the lack of clumping. And the literature suggests that's a problem for us, as well as the fish.

Who knows what you were trying to communicate, since you couldn't be arsed to "say" anything but a copy-pasted link, but:
...sodium coco sulfate actually is a blend of sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium caprylic sulfate, sodium capric sulfate, sodium oleic sulfate, sodium stearyl sulfate etc, and instead of naming them all out with all of the fatty acids from the coconut oil, they just call it sodium coco sulfate.

"the evidence strongly suggests that fraud is the likely explanation. These problems have been occurring since at least 2004, and are certainly present in the current 2016 presidential primaries.

The documentation consists of statistical graphs analyzing data from five presidential cycles, as well as off-year races from across the country. The data illustrates that there are unusually large discrepancies between small precinct and large precinct election returns, and noticeable differences between hand-counted and machine-counted precinct results. Even in isolation, the data gives cause for concern. Thestatistical evidence is reinforced by physical evidence and congressional hearings: manual recounts that do not match the totals of the machines being audited; and testimony under oath about direct knowledge of tampering with electronic voting equipment."

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"The article about fluoride emissions is short on information."

These are the chemicals Intel emits, listed on page 28 of the report linked below: Vinyl acetate, Ethyl benzene, Xylenes (mixed), Sulfuric acid, Nitric acid, Fluorides, Hydrogen Fluoride, Perchloroethylene {Tetrachloroethene}, and Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether.

The Portland metropolitan area doesn't have good news reporting. The Oregonian newspaper is poorly managed, in my opinion. The only Oregonian reporter for technology issues is Mike Rogoway. He apparently has almost no technical knowledge.

This Oregonian article gives some information: Intel secures air quality permit, two years after fluoride gaffe derailed it. Intel emitting poisonous compounds was not a "gaffe", it was extremely destructive dishonesty.

That article links to an Intel Health Risk Report (PDF file), but I don't see anything showing the amounts of the chemicals emitted.

It seems to me that Intel has handled its business in an extremely destructive and self-destructive manner. Intel's plants should not be allowed to emit poisons.

Apparently there is a continuing intention to avoid rather than resolve the many issues. Intel is by far the biggest employer in the area. Avoiding effective disclosure and avoiding actually fixing the emission problems seems to be helped by government incompetence and possibly government corruption.

One of the cleverest features of the rational expectations revolution was the appropriation of the term "rational." Thereby, the opponents of this approach were forced into the defensive position of either being irrational or of modeling others as irrational, neither of which are comfortable positions for most economists. (Barro 1984)
I suggest that critics instead adopt the attacking position of describing this concept (the capacity to foretell the whole future of the economy) as a dictionary would, as "Prophetic Expectations".

The Dodgy Dynamics of Economics

The rest of that paper focuses on demolishing the whole concept.

And the biggest cost to labor is capital, mostly land.

If people didn't have to borrow half a career's income just to have a place to even sit and starve to death in peace, they could work for much cheaper. I live quite luxuriously off a budget that a full-time minimum-wage job could fund if it weren't for rent, and savings to eventually escape from rent, and taxes on the money I have to earn to pay for those things, adding up to almost 300% of what I actually need to consume for that comfortable lifestyle.

Fix the problem of rent (and interest) and get us to a world where people actually own the places they live outright and don't have to pay to borrow them (or money to buy them), and then labor costs can plummet, and the cost of business can plummet with it.

and the cost of housing, whether rental or ownership, is a much larger fraction of people's overall expenses than in other countries. http://inflationdata.com/artic... . this has gotten worse over time. http://static1.squarespace.com...

If dying in a crevase is your idea of fun, then go right ahead ;)

Okay, to be fair, the flat-topped ice sheets are generally pretty safe. It's where the ice flows over contours and descends into the lowlands that they get dangerous, what we call a skriðjökull. They end up looking like this. And oftentimes these crevases form beneath before they become visible on the surface. The glaciers can also be (surprise surprise) very slippery at times.

Sometimes idiots actually try to drive passenger cars onto glaciers, if you can believe that.

That said, they are quite beautiful. But it's important to not forget, tourists actually do die here when they do stupid things.

Narrow bandwidth is exactly what you want from a display's color primary. The more pure the display is the more saturated it is and the wider the color gamut. If someone could really create an LCD with a perfect 630nm red, 550nm green and 450nm blue without any other frequencies it would be a fantastic display. The ultimate displays currently available today are lasers because they naturally produce extremely narrow frequency bands exclusively. The second best are probably though LCDs + Quantum dot. Which are already almost achieving the full Rec2020 gamut.
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But for those who'll need persuasion to get there, let's not pretend that bugs are like teeny chuck steaks or dot-sized lobster tails

Interesting analogy. Guess what kind of animal things like lobsters and shrimp are.

It's a suggestion that we eat whole bugs – shells, heads, eyes, guts, everything.

Yeah. Horrifying.

You want to know what the difference is between you enjoying or not enjoying eating whole bugs? A good recipe and chef. That's it.

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it turns out instead of "proving" that the hockey stick wasn't real, they proved that they couldn't follow the documented procedures.

Wahl & Amman's results were consistent with McIntyre & McKitrick's work and essentially confirmed a few of the M&M criticisms of the hockey stick. The story of how this played out is amusingly recounted by Bishop Hill in Caspar and the Jesus Paper.

Something like Steam's daisy wheel perhaps? It wouldn't be perfect since the only inputs would be cardinal directions instead of two separate input surfaces, but probably at least as fast as graffiti and probably more accurate.

What problem does this solve for Katrina Victims? Why would I want to live in this when I could live in a fema trailer instead?

Personally, I like the older Apple Pro Keyboard better then the current ones. And I'm still using a Sun Type 6 I replaced my old Apple keyboard with.

The same hard right that flips their shit when NBC refuses to air conservative ads. Save us, fairness doctrine! Force these companies to give us airtime!

4 out of 5 smartphones in the world bought by consumers is made by Google.

You need to lay off the kool-aid. Apple invented/created the design for iphone and iOS. Samsung copied the iphone and Google copied iOS. So you fandroids are just using Apple's (counterfeit) product, but are sore losers enough not to attribute your Android phone's design to Apple.

Without the iPhone, your android phone would look like a crappy blackberry clone.

It was cool in 1992.

I'll take balanced design and more testing... and driver TRAINING.

If you over design, we'd all still be running those Mercedes E class diesels with a cassette tape bluetooth jack to connect our iPhone.

Overdesign makes sense if you are building one-offs. Cheap designs you get what you paid for, crap. hence remember to choose 2... a balance/good design works best for innovation. All the German manufactures sell 'perfection', which doesn't scale if one thinks about it.

Tesla is doing the right thing, and they are innovating. Don't be quick to judgement as rich folks are smart in something (business?), but not everything (driving).

You are just dead wrong. Apple's ASP is $650, Samsung's is $300.

In terms of other niches the big niche is the USA. Samsung vs. Apple as a percentage of US smartphone sales (either by dollar or per unit). That's a critical market because of subsidies.

    And if you go global there are still problems on the high end, Samsung vs. Apple as percentage of profits for global handset industry: http://static.squarespace.com/static/50363cf324ac8e905e7df861/t/519e8e3ce4b0cc7b8379f6a3/1369345596655/Screen%20Shot%202013-05-23%20at%2010.46.17%20PM.png?format=1500w

More importantly, the existence of its own ecosystem. Samsung customers are incidental customers.
As a result when you look at numbers like total quarterly revenue, which include things like app store sales they are about even.

Spend on advertising (cost of sales and marketing) is a negative number it is part of "buying" marketshare. Samsung is at least 4:1 over Apple on this spend.

Churn is another very negative number for Samsung. A very larger percentage of Samsung high end customers become Apple customers, while a lot of people move up price point on Android.

I addressed worldwide as well, "In terms of worldwide share Apple has been steadily over 20% of smartphones. They never held that prior to 2012.". It is very simply if Apple is gaining share in group X than Apple's sales are growing faster than the industry as a whole in group X.So for example in the Europe Apple going from 20.3% Dec 2011 to 21.2% Dec 2012 is growing faster. Similarly in Brazil going from 0.4% to 1% is gaining.

As far as Android having a larger share in the USA... There is no question that Android was growing much faster than Apple through late 2009, 2010, 2011 and early 2012. That process has stopped and reversed, Android is losing share in the USA. As far as Comscore go ahead and look at the series. Remember that Comscore measure installed base not sales so it is a lagging indicator. But what you'll see is that Android started to peak and is slowly gaining share while Apple's share started to skyrocket. That's the effect of the iPhone 4 on Verizon and then the huge surge in 4S sales. The 5 has repeated that process.

Android had a huge surge in the USA, it stopped. The quarter to quarter fluctuations don't end up mattering that much on things like installed base. They don't even matter that much on sales.

You can see that by looking at Postpay on the 3 carriers that have iPhone:
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" Is there evidence that immunized workers are less likely to transmit the virus."
yes.
Since it can't love in their bodies, it can't grow and be transmitted.
You can take my word for it, or go to the CDC, or study's virus or talk to practicing experts.

Dr. Mark Crislip does a pod cast called quackcast. He is an Infectious Disease specialist. What you would call an actual 'expert'.
Listen to his podcast about vaccine or the flu.

http://moremark.squarespace.com/quackcast-home/
he aslo does puscast.
http://moremark.squarespace.com/puscast-pacid-podcast/

" Is there evidence that immunized workers are less likely to transmit the virus."
yes.
Since it can't love in their bodies, it can't grow and be transmitted.
You can take my word for it, or go to the CDC, or study's virus or talk to practicing experts.

Dr. Mark Crislip does a pod cast called quackcast. He is an Infectious Disease specialist. What you would call an actual 'expert'.
Listen to his podcast about vaccine or the flu.

http://moremark.squarespace.com/quackcast-home/
he aslo does puscast.
http://moremark.squarespace.com/puscast-pacid-podcast/

-August 11-12, 2012. The incident that began this case occurred.

-August 14, 2012. The incident was reported to Steubenville Police.

-August 16, 2012. Electronic devices of people who potentially had knowledge of the incident were taken, pursuant to search warrants.

-August 17, 2012. Steubenville Police request technical and investigative support from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation "BCI" (a state agency supervised by the Ohio Attorney General). At the request of Steubenville Police, BCI expedited the evidence analysis. The analysis involved uncovering and reviewing tens of thousands of emails, texts, and photos from approximately a dozen electronic devices. The vast majority of such data was unrelated to the case. Investigators and forensic examiners never found any video of the alleged crime.

-August 22, 2012. Based on the investigation of the Steubenville Police, two juvenile males were arrested and charged. Their names are Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond. Suspects remained in juvenile detention until November 1, 2012 when the Visiting Judge (from outside the county) assigned to the case placed the suspects on home arrest.

-August 28, 2012. County Prosecuting Attorney delegates her authority to special prosecutors from the Ohio Attorney General's Office.

-August 30, 2012. Steubenville Police meet with the special prosecutors.

-The Juvenile Court trial in this case is scheduled for February 13, 2013. Circumstances surrounding media and public access to that trial are controlled by the Visiting Judge.

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I'm glad you are being frank. Do one better and do some investigation.
We are talking 10's of thousands of deaths to millions.
And it's a different immune response for each strain.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/disease.htm

". Over a period of 30 years, between 1976 and 2006, estimates of flu-associated deaths in the United States range from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people. "

You klive in a world with decent herd immunity, so you haven't been exposed to how nasty it can be without herd immunity.
Sadly, a generation or two of people haven't experiences the shit hitting the fan, so they don't think vaccines are a 'big deal'.

Non vaccinated people are a vector for mutation. No vaccinated people can get it and just be a carrier. SO you are infecting other people and not even know it.

Vaccines are not 100%, so herd immunity protects those people.

I used to think like your post, decades ago. When I actual got influenza* and it's hell. The I looked into it.

Anyways, I highly recommend the 'quackcast' podcast by Mark Crislip. He goes into details about a number of medical issues. At least listen to the ones regard influenza.
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he is snarky and sarcastic.

*many thing attributed to the 'flu' but the common person aren't influenza. For examples 'stomach flu' actually makes no sense.