Objectively, is there really anything to do other than to strictly and conservatively quarantine every country (and sub-quarantine cities as necessary) with a positive case?
We need the MDT-MRPQ tool that we sent back to that field base for service last month, and we'll need them at the end of next month.
Are you going to pay the consequential costs of your "advice"?
(Bear in mind - the lead time to manufacture an MDT-MRPQ tool is around 8 months. Which is why we rent them from Franco-American corporations instead of owning our own. This reduces the price of the fuel in your petrol tank.)
That said, because I'll be back to work in Africa (to fuel your lifestyle) shortly, I'll be getting a booster on my typhoid jab tomorrow. Because... that disease didn't stop killing people with Mozart.
If that shit gets loose and starts infecting thousands or millions there might not be much of a choice
If that shit gets loose... you have already lost the Conacry choice. You'd probably be safer by turning every port of entry into the Continental US into radioactive dust, and a hundred kilometres around.
Let the Hawaiians die - they've got native fruit bats and must be considered suspect.
Errr, because it was caught in a cargo shipping container?
(It might be an idea to read my previous - last 15 minutes - posts in this thread.)
Do I sound unconcerned? Of course I am. It's the same risks that I am exposed to in searching for oil to fuel your lifestyle.
Do you sound concerned? [I shrug] It's the same risks (etc) but they strike at your home. [Shrug.]
Welcome to the globailsed economy, where any organism anywhere in the world, be they plutocrat or bacterium, can exploit a homogeneous global target audience.
So major cities throughout the world are under direct threat and likely acting early rather than latter in cutting off sources of infection would be far safer.
Shrug.
We were receiving cargo onto the boat less than 48 hours out of Guyana, less than 2 weeks ago. Since then 1/4 of the crew will have crew-changed to (mostly) Louisiana, another 1/4 to Europe, another 1/4 to various places in Africa (including Guyana and Liberia), and half of the Philippine labourers will be lining up for their crew change.
Stable door is open. Horse is over there [points at horizon].
Unless a Reston style variant decides to transfer to humans. Then we're pretty fucked.
Even then only for usages of the word "fucked" that include a mere 75% mortality.
We're humans ; we'd make that up in a couple of generations. 40 years. No, 50 years. No, maybe as little as 60 years.
Actually, stepping back the human population by (say) 75% might be one of the best moves a "Mad Scientist" (or "Rogue Government") could make for the species. Might be death for you, or for me (I was handling equipment 2 days out from from Liberia just 2 weeks ago), but on average, that's not likely to be a bad price.
Are you Ukranian, Russian, Afghanistani, Vietnamese, or Korean (either side)?
Speaking as a geologist, I realise that I have a slightly different meaning of "never" to most people. But I've never heard of "never" being a phrase for "not in the last week".
Public transit simply doesn't work in many cases in the US.
That is a problem that US citizens need to address. But it seems that they don't have the communal balls, and would prefer to keep car manufacturing and selling industries active.
As for Linux, the CDT430 only has 16MB RAM. Most remotely recent Linux distributions will not even install with less than 256MB RAM.
The first 5 or 6 years of my experimentation with Linux I did on a 386 with 4MB of memory ; I added an IDE card and doubled the hard drive space in about 1994, using money from my first job in the Middle East.
The biggest problem these days would be finding a SIMM (remember them?) as small as that.
Sounds like you've spent some time in Africa too, where they've been honing the fine arts of being human for longer than anywhere else.
The press card is powerful, but has risks and limitations. Do not attempt this magic, for example, at a Federale checkpoint in Mexico on a desolate road late at night. You will merely create additional, and unpleasant work for the person assigned to dig the hole where they intend to place you.
You wouldn't want to be all dusty and sweaty when they put a bullet through your head, would you?
Or someone on the track next door has a track cleaning machine with bad shielding around the motor.
More-or-less random noise from intermittent contacts in a motor doesn't normally produce comprehensible signals when picked up by a digital antenna and radio de-coding system. It's pretty unlikely for analogue systems too.
I get the joke. Being a normally-bearded person who recently had to de-beard because of poison gas at work, I was poking fun at the popular convention that men should shave off their public pubic hair. Which is a task that I've always hated.
What is the probability of them ever improving to the point of being worth interacting with (except at the level of "it's got a Sony badge - excluded from consideration"?
And, how many years of sustained non-evil behaviour would they require to come back into any degree of consideration?
(FWIW, I'd reckon the answers to be "near zero", and at least 5 years. Yes, I do hope this sort of public discussion adversely affects Sony's share price - it's the only language they understand.)
Except, by doing that, you've ruined the whole reason we barbecue things - Because we want that thin outer layer of charring.
You may well like barbecued food to taste like that. Some of your friends and associates may like barbecued food to taste like that. That doesn't mean that everyone likes barbecued food to taste like that, or even that everyone actually likes barbecues.
Which makes it annoying when the only meal provision for the evening is a sunset barbecue on the beach. Life can be a bitch sometimes, getting paid to put up with such inconveniences.
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I'm still playing my original copy, in DOSBox. And for entertainment value, it sets a steep profile to match, let alone beat.
We need the MDT-MRPQ tool that we sent back to that field base for service last month, and we'll need them at the end of next month.
Are you going to pay the consequential costs of your "advice"?
(Bear in mind - the lead time to manufacture an MDT-MRPQ tool is around 8 months. Which is why we rent them from Franco-American corporations instead of owning our own. This reduces the price of the fuel in your petrol tank.)
That said, because I'll be back to work in Africa (to fuel your lifestyle) shortly, I'll be getting a booster on my typhoid jab tomorrow. Because ... that disease didn't stop killing people with Mozart.
Good luck with the latter. Unless you live in a bat- (and mosquito-) free country. Which is pretty unlikely.
If that shit gets loose ... you have already lost the Conacry choice. You'd probably be safer by turning every port of entry into the Continental US into radioactive dust, and a hundred kilometres around.
Let the Hawaiians die - they've got native fruit bats and must be considered suspect.
Sorry, "Guinea"
How would that explain the 1979 outbreak of Ebola in N.Kenya/ S.Sudan in 1979?
Errr, because it was caught in a cargo shipping container?
(It might be an idea to read my previous - last 15 minutes - posts in this thread.)
Do I sound unconcerned? Of course I am. It's the same risks that I am exposed to in searching for oil to fuel your lifestyle.
Do you sound concerned? [I shrug] It's the same risks (etc) but they strike at your home. [Shrug.]
Welcome to the globailsed economy, where any organism anywhere in the world, be they plutocrat or bacterium, can exploit a homogeneous global target audience.
Shrug.
We were receiving cargo onto the boat less than 48 hours out of Guyana, less than 2 weeks ago. Since then 1/4 of the crew will have crew-changed to (mostly) Louisiana, another 1/4 to Europe, another 1/4 to various places in Africa (including Guyana and Liberia), and half of the Philippine labourers will be lining up for their crew change.
Stable door is open. Horse is over there [points at horizon].
... for about 3 generations.
Even then only for usages of the word "fucked" that include a mere 75% mortality.
We're humans ; we'd make that up in a couple of generations. 40 years. No, 50 years. No, maybe as little as 60 years.
Actually, stepping back the human population by (say) 75% might be one of the best moves a "Mad Scientist" (or "Rogue Government") could make for the species. Might be death for you, or for me (I was handling equipment 2 days out from from Liberia just 2 weeks ago), but on average, that's not likely to be a bad price.
Prediction fulfilled - even including this reply to a (spit) AC.
And I work in the area. But I've been watching it for a couple of months now.
Are you Ukranian, Russian, Afghanistani, Vietnamese, or Korean (either side)?
Speaking as a geologist, I realise that I have a slightly different meaning of "never" to most people. But I've never heard of "never" being a phrase for "not in the last week".
Driverless, automated taxis are the future. Whether they fly or not.
Why is it unfortunate that an article about French employment practices should be un-American.
Oh wait - do you actually, like, live in that hell hole? Stop reading the internet and get back into the cotton fields!
It has a bit of "desert varnish" on the surface, by the looks of things.
That is a problem that US citizens need to address. But it seems that they don't have the communal balls, and would prefer to keep car manufacturing and selling industries active.
The first 5 or 6 years of my experimentation with Linux I did on a 386 with 4MB of memory ; I added an IDE card and doubled the hard drive space in about 1994, using money from my first job in the Middle East.
The biggest problem these days would be finding a SIMM (remember them?) as small as that.
Sounds like you've spent some time in Africa too, where they've been honing the fine arts of being human for longer than anywhere else.
You wouldn't want to be all dusty and sweaty when they put a bullet through your head, would you?
That is going into my fortune cookie file!
More-or-less random noise from intermittent contacts in a motor doesn't normally produce comprehensible signals when picked up by a digital antenna and radio de-coding system. It's pretty unlikely for analogue systems too.
I get the joke. Being a normally-bearded person who recently had to de-beard because of poison gas at work, I was poking fun at the popular convention that men should shave off their public pubic hair. Which is a task that I've always hated.
That was a waste of effort. Some people don't actually want rational debate.
Oh goody. I'll get the bonfire started.
Not quite enough said.
What is the probability of them ever improving to the point of being worth interacting with (except at the level of "it's got a Sony badge - excluded from consideration"?
And, how many years of sustained non-evil behaviour would they require to come back into any degree of consideration?
(FWIW, I'd reckon the answers to be "near zero", and at least 5 years. Yes, I do hope this sort of public discussion adversely affects Sony's share price - it's the only language they understand.)
You may well like barbecued food to taste like that. Some of your friends and associates may like barbecued food to taste like that. That doesn't mean that everyone likes barbecued food to taste like that, or even that everyone actually likes barbecues.
Which makes it annoying when the only meal provision for the evening is a sunset barbecue on the beach. Life can be a bitch sometimes, getting paid to put up with such inconveniences.