Not entirely true, vaccination for other kinds of flu often imparts partial immunity. Remember that the very first vaccine was created after it was noticed that milk maids exposed to Cowpox never caught the killer Smallpox.
You guessed wrong. The 1918 pandemic was more lethal for healthy young fit adults because it was the strong response of their immune systems that killed them. Good luck!
A new strain of flu could kill many more than the 1918 pandemic. Viruses are changing every year just like they always have, the difference is that the transmission rate is exponentially faster today because of the global movement of people. The ability to manufacture new vaccines fast enough to stop a pandemic is not good enough to stop a it. A new global pandemic is certain, but when it will happen is unknown. Keep your fingers crossed and your thumbs held it will not happen in your lifetime, the odds of it happening are orders of magnitude higher than a meteor strike but probably less than that of freak weather killing you.
Looking at the US from the rest of the world it is clear that whatever the theoretical difference between the two parties that get into government they are both run by wealthy patronage. The hatred in the media between the two groups is highly amusing given that it is there to keep public attention away from the fact that the rich run America and the politicians are irrelevant. Fox news is full of blatant lies, that is statements that are factually untrue, CNN is full of complaints about violent acts by the powerful that the powerful don't like hearing. America is a global joke.
You forget that the Russian troll mission is merely to create discord in open societies like America. They do not care what the topic is so long as they can stimulate you to hate other Americans. Looks like they did a great job on you. Personally I am looking forward to watching the civil war on T.V. it should be entertaining.
YouTube university lectures, public talks and many specialist podcasts are also worth having along with the books. All of human knowledge is out there for the cost of a broadband connnection and a PC with a decent sized screen. A mobile is basically a social media and shopping device designed for moneytization of the user. Tablets are for binge watching TV and Netflix but good luck getting a mobile deal that is good value for tethering.
Still the go-to office suite after all these years. Very glad to see improvements in functionality rather than "me too" marketing bullshit. Great job management & implementors. As a heavy user of at least the spreadsheet I think it is brilliant.
Better yet, it should have a little icon of a man waving his willy around at the top of the scroll bar weeing on the slider way down below, to, you know, remind you of what a great experience you are having.
Also don't forget to change the user interface radically so that everybody else has to change theirs to match because you give away the software free to schools and the kids don't know how to use anything else. Howabout removing all those pesky menues full of informative words and replacing them with apparently random icons that race round and round the outside of the page around the ribbon track. Maybe colour code them by function e.g. Post to Facebook group in blood red, Post to twitter group in orange etc. Brand awareness is key these days so half the screen should show the new logo of a freshly severed pigs head still leaking blood. On the other hand you could just copy Chrome and rebrand it as "Chrome". Rebranding excercises remind me of the purchase of gigantic new head office buildings just before businesses go tits up.
The GP of course is a Troll seeking to make it look like there is a desire to close down free speech. Slashdot posting mechanisms and moderation seem to be working just fine. A concerted spam attack by a government agency could well be on its way if the GP is actually paving the way for it.
As has often been the case in the past our problems are mostly solved by advances in technology and not by politicians or the short term needs of company chairmen. It is arguable that science and technology has given the bulk of society all of the gains in the last 150 years and not our elected or business leaders. You can debate just how much freedom the academic world should have but you can be sure that our problems would be far worse if they did not have any.
Public health measures used to be debatable without crazy lies diverting attention. There is a problem with Western diet as shown by the epidemic of diabetes (approaching one in two people over the age of 50) whilst violent crime in London is comparatively low https://www.statista.com/chart...
The question is how do we tackle the crisis in public health? Do you have any suggestions other than repeating messages from Russian trolls who want to destroy our society? What is it with you people who have latched on an obsessive hatred to the extent that it supersedes the ability to talk about anything else?
Whether banning fast food advertisements is a useful move is debatable. I think that a great deal more attention needs to be paid to researching the causes of obesity and the Western diseases that are correlated with our diet. Research that must be done with government money and not food industry money as has often been done in the recent past. There is a lot of evidence coming to light that says that sugar and a lack of dietary fiber in our diet is much more of a problem than saturated fat or lack of exercise or overeating. The sugar causes metabolic disease and the lack of fiber damages our gut microbiome. Reducing fast food intake does not in itself address these two issues completely.
Business does a crap job of providing utilities without regulation. All that happens is that the provider ensures that it becomes a monopoly and then sits back on its fat lazy ass and gouges customers.
And the rest of the world is beginning to wonder if being a client state of China might be a better long term option than putting up with the warlike Americans who are quick to invade and destroy countries but not so quick to repair the damage they have done.
I think the article refers to the hundreds of millions of appliance users who have a mobile phone or tablet. Not the traditional slashdot user who might be compiling their own software, tinkering with software defined radio or cranking up bleeding edge graphics for a first person shooter. There is a distinction between the two use cases which means that "edge" or personal computing has never gone away. It may also be the case that people may be reconsidering their trust in cloud services and want to keep their own data on their own network as well. I have about three terabytes of stuff that would also cost a lot to host in the cloud for example.
Political debate in the west has been pushed into a war between the supposedly right and left. The casualty is information because the right led by billionaire funded think tanks discovered that winning a propaganda war was a paychological question as illustrated initially by cancer and tobacco. It is no longer a debate between opposing political philosophies it has become a propaganda war fueled by lies and hatred. There is no place left for rational debate about the consequences of political choice. Effectively society is run by whoever pumps out the most frightening lies. Democracy has failed, the United States is becoming just as repressive a regime as China.
lol. Hello soulless communist. Your life is measured in experience and not by marketing specifications. There is more to life than efficiency and five year tractor production targets. Do not forget the ceremony of dropping the needle and the perusal of the gate-fold sleeve. P.S. Republicans are deluded children, scared of everything.
Offtopic but racism damages society so the comment needs a response. Trump is not racist because he frowns at black people. Trump is racist because he encourages racism in his voting base. "Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers" "there are faults on both sides" "Ban on all Muslims until we figure out what is going on" etc.
His administration goes all out to increase conflict just like a tooth and claw business does in the capitalist economy. Politics is not like business in the capitalist economy because crushing your enemy does not just inconvenience another bunch of shareholders - it kills people in genocides. Whatever good Trump does is undone by this pointless increase in fear and hatred.
Re the NTFS vulnerability, does anyone know if and when Microsoft can provide a bug fix for it?
I am not sure what planet you are from. On earth any large contract comes with significant oversight costs whether you are public or private sector. If the oversight costs are low you get sold the Brooklyn bridge or a death trap. Apparently in the real world an organization can be good or bad whether it is in the private or the public sector but your indoctrination fails to allow for that fact.
The reason they are wide in laptops is because idiot marketing droids decided that video on portable devices was the next big thing and all laptops became widescreen. The manufacturers stopped making the lower ratio displays because widescreen gave a higher production yield at the time. As numerous people are pointing out text is optimally read in A4 form as determined by at least two thousand years of empirical experience. It would probably benefit civilisation somewhat if we let the marketing department go and started using electronic devices suited to reading and writing again. It may be a moot point as humans are about to be superceeded by AI.
I think we understand what this appointment is all about. Trump thinks he is the right kind of 'stuff'. Agrees with Trump on billionaire opinion, screw climate change - it will never bother the rich. And he does have some space goals, probably building the first cathedral in space to be dedicated by the President of the United States. What we do know about him is that he says what Trump wants to hear and does not let any little annoyances like science or facts get in the way of his dedication to serving Trump. We all know what an ambitious yes man sounds like, business is full of them.
It turns out that appointing a moron like Trump to a political position gives you exactly what you would expect, a mediaeval lord surrounded by ass lickers. I don't know why you don't go all the way and have the guy crowned as king. Though it would look a bit silly seeing as America came out of a revolution getting rid of a king.
Trump thinks climate change is bolloks and his minions will see to it that science agencies like NOAA and NASA say the same thing. This is a crime against humanity.
"Pharma" has no interest in selling old people anything. Old people die and cease to be a revenue stream so screw them. Pharma wants young and middle aged people to sell wanky placebos to for the rest of their lives. Expensive medications which reduce death over 20 years by 0.5% and form the majority of the revenue stream of "Pharma".
Note. I do not think self made millionaire qualifies you for much more than the ability to take from others. Lions are not smarter than Zebra, they just have a different diet. Doctors do not earn more than Zuckerberg but I think a doctor has a better chance of keeping you alive than Zuckerberg does.
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Not entirely true, vaccination for other kinds of flu often imparts partial immunity. Remember that the very first vaccine was created after it was noticed that milk maids exposed to Cowpox never caught the killer Smallpox.
You guessed wrong. The 1918 pandemic was more lethal for healthy young fit adults because it was the strong response of their immune systems that killed them. Good luck!
A new strain of flu could kill many more than the 1918 pandemic. Viruses are changing every year just like they always have, the difference is that the transmission rate is exponentially faster today because of the global movement of people. The ability to manufacture new vaccines fast enough to stop a pandemic is not good enough to stop a it. A new global pandemic is certain, but when it will happen is unknown. Keep your fingers crossed and your thumbs held it will not happen in your lifetime, the odds of it happening are orders of magnitude higher than a meteor strike but probably less than that of freak weather killing you.
Looking at the US from the rest of the world it is clear that whatever the theoretical difference between the two parties that get into government they are both run by wealthy patronage. The hatred in the media between the two groups is highly amusing given that it is there to keep public attention away from the fact that the rich run America and the politicians are irrelevant. Fox news is full of blatant lies, that is statements that are factually untrue, CNN is full of complaints about violent acts by the powerful that the powerful don't like hearing. America is a global joke.
You forget that the Russian troll mission is merely to create discord in open societies like America. They do not care what the topic is so long as they can stimulate you to hate other Americans. Looks like they did a great job on you. Personally I am looking forward to watching the civil war on T.V. it should be entertaining.
YouTube university lectures, public talks and many specialist podcasts are also worth having along with the books. All of human knowledge is out there for the cost of a broadband connnection and a PC with a decent sized screen. A mobile is basically a social media and shopping device designed for moneytization of the user. Tablets are for binge watching TV and Netflix but good luck getting a mobile deal that is good value for tethering.
Or the caricatures of geeks presented by the sitcom do not resonate with actual geeks because they are fake.
Still the go-to office suite after all these years. Very glad to see improvements in functionality rather than "me too" marketing bullshit. Great job management & implementors. As a heavy user of at least the spreadsheet I think it is brilliant.
Better yet, it should have a little icon of a man waving his willy around at the top of the scroll bar weeing on the slider way down below, to, you know, remind you of what a great experience you are having.
Also don't forget to change the user interface radically so that everybody else has to change theirs to match because you give away the software free to schools and the kids don't know how to use anything else. Howabout removing all those pesky menues full of informative words and replacing them with apparently random icons that race round and round the outside of the page around the ribbon track. Maybe colour code them by function e.g. Post to Facebook group in blood red, Post to twitter group in orange etc. Brand awareness is key these days so half the screen should show the new logo of a freshly severed pigs head still leaking blood. On the other hand you could just copy Chrome and rebrand it as "Chrome". Rebranding excercises remind me of the purchase of gigantic new head office buildings just before businesses go tits up.
The GP of course is a Troll seeking to make it look like there is a desire to close down free speech. Slashdot posting mechanisms and moderation seem to be working just fine. A concerted spam attack by a government agency could well be on its way if the GP is actually paving the way for it.
As has often been the case in the past our problems are mostly solved by advances in technology and not by politicians or the short term needs of company chairmen. It is arguable that science and technology has given the bulk of society all of the gains in the last 150 years and not our elected or business leaders. You can debate just how much freedom the academic world should have but you can be sure that our problems would be far worse if they did not have any.
Public health measures used to be debatable without crazy lies diverting attention. There is a problem with Western diet as shown by the epidemic of diabetes (approaching one in two people over the age of 50) whilst violent crime in London is comparatively low https://www.statista.com/chart...
The question is how do we tackle the crisis in public health? Do you have any suggestions other than repeating messages from Russian trolls who want to destroy our society? What is it with you people who have latched on an obsessive hatred to the extent that it supersedes the ability to talk about anything else?
Whether banning fast food advertisements is a useful move is debatable. I think that a great deal more attention needs to be paid to researching the causes of obesity and the Western diseases that are correlated with our diet. Research that must be done with government money and not food industry money as has often been done in the recent past. There is a lot of evidence coming to light that says that sugar and a lack of dietary fiber in our diet is much more of a problem than saturated fat or lack of exercise or overeating. The sugar causes metabolic disease and the lack of fiber damages our gut microbiome. Reducing fast food intake does not in itself address these two issues completely.
Business does a crap job of providing utilities without regulation. All that happens is that the provider ensures that it becomes a monopoly and then sits back on its fat lazy ass and gouges customers.
And the rest of the world is beginning to wonder if being a client state of China might be a better long term option than putting up with the warlike Americans who are quick to invade and destroy countries but not so quick to repair the damage they have done.
I think the article refers to the hundreds of millions of appliance users who have a mobile phone or tablet. Not the traditional slashdot user who might be compiling their own software, tinkering with software defined radio or cranking up bleeding edge graphics for a first person shooter. There is a distinction between the two use cases which means that "edge" or personal computing has never gone away. It may also be the case that people may be reconsidering their trust in cloud services and want to keep their own data on their own network as well. I have about three terabytes of stuff that would also cost a lot to host in the cloud for example.
Political debate in the west has been pushed into a war between the supposedly right and left. The casualty is information because the right led by billionaire funded think tanks discovered that winning a propaganda war was a paychological question as illustrated initially by cancer and tobacco. It is no longer a debate between opposing political philosophies it has become a propaganda war fueled by lies and hatred. There is no place left for rational debate about the consequences of political choice. Effectively society is run by whoever pumps out the most frightening lies. Democracy has failed, the United States is becoming just as repressive a regime as China.
Bioscience. We had digital technology in the 20th Century and we will have Biotechnology in the 21st. You can thank me later.
lol. Hello soulless communist. Your life is measured in experience and not by marketing specifications. There is more to life than efficiency and five year tractor production targets. Do not forget the ceremony of dropping the needle and the perusal of the gate-fold sleeve.
P.S. Republicans are deluded children, scared of everything.
Offtopic but racism damages society so the comment needs a response. Trump is not racist because he frowns at black people. Trump is racist because he encourages racism in his voting base. "Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers" "there are faults on both sides" "Ban on all Muslims until we figure out what is going on" etc.
His administration goes all out to increase conflict just like a tooth and claw business does in the capitalist economy. Politics is not like business in the capitalist economy because crushing your enemy does not just inconvenience another bunch of shareholders - it kills people in genocides. Whatever good Trump does is undone by this pointless increase in fear and hatred.
Re the NTFS vulnerability, does anyone know if and when Microsoft can provide a bug fix for it?
I am not sure what planet you are from. On earth any large contract comes with significant oversight costs whether you are public or private sector. If the oversight costs are low you get sold the Brooklyn bridge or a death trap. Apparently in the real world an organization can be good or bad whether it is in the private or the public sector but your indoctrination fails to allow for that fact.
The reason they are wide in laptops is because idiot marketing droids decided that video on portable devices was the next big thing and all laptops became widescreen. The manufacturers stopped making the lower ratio displays because widescreen gave a higher production yield at the time. As numerous people are pointing out text is optimally read in A4 form as determined by at least two thousand years of empirical experience. It would probably benefit civilisation somewhat if we let the marketing department go and started using electronic devices suited to reading and writing again. It may be a moot point as humans are about to be superceeded by AI.
I think we understand what this appointment is all about. Trump thinks he is the right kind of 'stuff'. Agrees with Trump on billionaire opinion, screw climate change - it will never bother the rich. And he does have some space goals, probably building the first cathedral in space to be dedicated by the President of the United States. What we do know about him is that he says what Trump wants to hear and does not let any little annoyances like science or facts get in the way of his dedication to serving Trump. We all know what an ambitious yes man sounds like, business is full of them.
It turns out that appointing a moron like Trump to a political position gives you exactly what you would expect, a mediaeval lord surrounded by ass lickers. I don't know why you don't go all the way and have the guy crowned as king. Though it would look a bit silly seeing as America came out of a revolution getting rid of a king.
Trump thinks climate change is bolloks and his minions will see to it that science agencies like NOAA and NASA say the same thing. This is a crime against humanity.
"Pharma" has no interest in selling old people anything. Old people die and cease to be a revenue stream so screw them. Pharma wants young and middle aged people to sell wanky placebos to for the rest of their lives. Expensive medications which reduce death over 20 years by 0.5% and form the majority of the revenue stream of "Pharma".
Note. I do not think self made millionaire qualifies you for much more than the ability to take from others. Lions are not smarter than Zebra, they just have a different diet. Doctors do not earn more than Zuckerberg but I think a doctor has a better chance of keeping you alive than Zuckerberg does.