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- Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:12 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
- Replies: 313
- Views: 75655
Re: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
Right now in Michigan 120 people are dying each day from Covid (delta). The unvaccinated are 7 times more likely to be hospitalized and 16 times more likely to die than the vaccinated. Many hospitals are full. People are dying from health emergencies and accidents because there are no ICU beds avail...
- Sun Oct 17, 2021 6:39 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
- Replies: 313
- Views: 75655
Re: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
Well, 30% of the people hospitalized around here have been double-jabbed. Since 80% of the vulnerable age group (those over 50) are fully vaccinated, simple arithmetic shows that the unvaccinated are 10 times more likely to end up in hospital, in a agreement with the CDC figures. You do believe in ...
- Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:53 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
- Replies: 313
- Views: 75655
Re: Bill Gates discussion (split off covid-19 vaccine thread)
Why this thread? Because this is a misogynistic, white-supremacist, anti-democratic (small d), conspiracy-theorist, anti-vax site posing as a tech site. It allows Bill Morrow and others to peddle falsehoods, so odious that they would get them kicked off any respectable site.
- Sat May 08, 2021 12:39 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
- Replies: 313
- Views: 75655
Re: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
@ajkula66 What you write about the polio vaccines is wrong, and even it was right it would be irrelevant, since the science on vaccines has advanced so greatly in the intervening years. You are just one of the freeloaders, hoping that enough people get vaccinated so that you don't have to. Since you...
- Thu May 06, 2021 6:59 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
- Replies: 313
- Views: 75655
Re: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
The Hong Kong flu killed between 34,000 and 100,000 people in the U.S, mostly those over 65. It was not even close to C19. Perhaps you are old enough to remember polio. Back then enough people got vaccinated so that the disease completely disappeared from most countries. The same would be true of C1...
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 12:39 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: OK, now we descend into the STOLEN election
- Replies: 602
- Views: 127300
Re: OK, now we descend into the STOLEN election
Cor! you guys are still at it. The reason Trump's lawyers chose not present "evidence" to the courts is that lying to a judge is a felony. Lying to the American people isn't.
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 6:51 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: OK, now we descend into the STOLEN election
- Replies: 602
- Views: 127300
Re: OK, now we descend into the STOLEN election
Racist? Bill Morrow may be ignorant of this, but everyone else in the U.S. knows that "count every legal vote" means "count every white vote". When Trump rants that he won except for the illegal votes he means he won except for the black votes (in this, he may be correct). All Trump's shenanigans si...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 4:34 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: OK, now we descend into the STOLEN election
- Replies: 602
- Views: 127300
Re: OK, now we descend into the STOLEN election
A lot of the stuff in this, and other recent threads has been so ugly that I want no part of it, so I'm quitting the site for good. Please delete my registration.
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 6:50 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: OK, now we descend into the STOLEN election
- Replies: 602
- Views: 127300
Re: OK, now we descend into the STOLEN election
Calls are pouring into the Trump hotline: One person rang in to report that he had discovered an envelope marked, “INSIDE: 100,000 Trump ballots Pennsylvania. Very important do NOT lose!!!” Another: “So I saw a man, he walked into this building,” he said, on a recording of his call to the hotline. “...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 12:02 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: OK, now we descend into the STOLEN election
- Replies: 602
- Views: 127300
Re: OK, now we descend into the STOLEN election
Actually Bill, most of us live in the real world, and so don't really care about this stuff.
In the real world, Biden won with at least 279 electoral votes, and probably 306, and he won the popular vote by about 7,000,000. End of story. Bye Bye.
In the real world, Biden won with at least 279 electoral votes, and probably 306, and he won the popular vote by about 7,000,000. End of story. Bye Bye.
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:27 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: Couldn't go to a better person!
- Replies: 198
- Views: 49907
Re: Couldn't go to a better person!
The Roberts court has already: (a) Struck down a bipartisan campaign finance law, to the great benefit of the billionaires wishing to influence elections. (b) Part of the Voting Rights Act, to the great benefit of those wishing to suppress the (nonwhite) vote in the South. (c) Part of the ACA, and p...
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:32 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: Couldn't go to a better person!
- Replies: 198
- Views: 49907
Re: Couldn't go to a better person!
Guns, like motor vehicles, can be dangerous, and need to be regulated for safety. The US has 10x the death rate from guns as other similar countries. No one took your guns.
- Fri Nov 06, 2020 12:30 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: Couldn't go to a better person!
- Replies: 198
- Views: 49907
Re: Couldn't go to a better person!
Over 33% of the US population voted for Biden, the most in modern history. Saint Ronnie never got more than about 30%. That makes Trump the biggest loser in history.
- Thu Nov 05, 2020 4:36 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: Couldn't go to a better person!
- Replies: 198
- Views: 49907
Re: Couldn't go to a better person!
Of course it is voter suppression --- one of an endless series of actions by Republicans that make no sense except as voter suppression.
- Thu Nov 05, 2020 10:31 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: Couldn't go to a better person!
- Replies: 198
- Views: 49907
Re: Couldn't go to a better person!
Trump lied that the PO would lose their ballots etc. etc.. So those believing Trump's lies voted in person. Trump and the Republicans spent a lot of effort discouraging/disparaging postal voting. They may have thought that if Trump was far enough ahead on election night, they could shut down the cou...
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 9:33 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: Couldn't go to a better person!
- Replies: 198
- Views: 49907
Re: Couldn't go to a better person!
Trump will lose in a landslide --- there simply aren't enough people still believing his lies to elect him even with all the Republican electoral shenanigans. The problem is that most of them will continue to believe him, and Trump will never admit he lost.
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 5:09 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: Couldn't go to a better person!
- Replies: 198
- Views: 49907
Re: Couldn't go to a better person!
According to a recent poll, 90% of Republicans believe Trump will win. When he loses in a landslide, many will not believe it, and some may feel it their "duty to protect the constitution". The recently foiled plot in Michigan was chilling in its details.
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 10:02 am
- Forum: GENERAL ThinkPad News/Comments & Questions
- Topic: 16:10 returns to ThinkPads: The X1 Nano
- Replies: 44
- Views: 15974
Re: 16:10 returns to ThinkPads: The X1 Nano
Thinkpad X1 Carbon to have 16:10 screen in February 2021 (maybe).
https://www.notebookcheck.net/ThinkPad- ... 791.0.html
https://www.notebookcheck.net/ThinkPad- ... 791.0.html
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:12 am
- Forum: GENERAL ThinkPad News/Comments & Questions
- Topic: 16:10 returns to ThinkPads: The X1 Nano
- Replies: 44
- Views: 15974
Re: 16:10 returns to ThinkPads: The X1 Nano
If you can live with 16:10, you can live with 16:9; if you can live with 16:9, you can live... How about 16:1?
Actually, I'd just about decided I could live with 16:10, when they went to 16:9, so I stocked up with Frankenpads.
Is the X1 Titanium 3:2? That would be very interesting.
Actually, I'd just about decided I could live with 16:10, when they went to 16:9, so I stocked up with Frankenpads.
Is the X1 Titanium 3:2? That would be very interesting.
- Sun Aug 02, 2020 12:41 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: COVID-19 and other medical conspiracies (split discussion)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13388
Re: Corona-COVID-19 virus statistics and HOW is it affecting you.. what are you doing..?
Doesn't work. Even Trump officials are saying that it's time to move on. The Wikipedia article on Hydroxychloroquine contains links to studies. What works is masks and physical distancing. (Thanks cadillacmike).
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 7:25 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: Corona-COVID-19 virus statistics and HOW is it affecting you.. what are you doing..?
- Replies: 154
- Views: 73162
Re: Corona-COVID-19 virus statistics and HOW is it affecting you.. what are you doing..?
For the last couple of months, I've been living in a world with no virus. Except for a handful of quarantined returnees, there has been no sign of the virus in New Zealand for 80 days. Unfortunately, I soon have to return to the U.S. Fortunately, "that woman from Michigan" has been doing quite well.
- Thu Jul 16, 2020 7:16 pm
- Forum: GENERAL ThinkPad News/Comments & Questions
- Topic: 16:10 returns to ThinkPads: The X1 Nano
- Replies: 44
- Views: 15974
Re: 16:10 returns to ThinkPads: The X1 Nano
A 17 inch 16:10 screen is the same height as a 15 inch 4:3 screen (9 inches). If Lenovo produces a 2kg such laptop, it may finally be time to retire my T601 laptops.
- Sat May 30, 2020 7:28 pm
- Forum: GENERAL ThinkPad News/Comments & Questions
- Topic: When (if ever) does Lenovo bring out 16:10 laptops again?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8023
Re: When (if ever) does Lenovo bring out 16:10 laptops again?
Replacing the bottom bezel with screen to go to 16:10 increases the screen size by 11% while leaving everything else on the laptop the same --- that is a significant improvement. Of course I would prefer 4:3 --- see my signature --- but this thread is about 16:10.
- Sun May 24, 2020 6:29 pm
- Forum: GENERAL ThinkPad News/Comments & Questions
- Topic: When (if ever) does Lenovo bring out 16:10 laptops again?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8023
Re: When (if ever) does Lenovo bring out 16:10 laptops again?
Replacing the bottom bezel with screen directly improves productivity. You may be right that Dell is doing it for fashion, not productivity, but that seems very odd to me.
- Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:15 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: Corona-COVID-19 virus statistics and HOW is it affecting you.. what are you doing..?
- Replies: 154
- Views: 73162
Re: Corona-COVID-19 virus statistics and HOW is it affecting you.. what are you doing..?
Agree with dr_st. Since early March there has been a consensus among the experts that the only reasonable approach to the virus is "hammer and dance", i.e., hit it hard to get the numbers down so that you can control it by contact tracing, testing, and isolation. See these articles https://medium.co...
- Tue Mar 17, 2020 6:09 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: Corona-COVID-19 virus statistics and HOW is it affecting you.. what are you doing..?
- Replies: 154
- Views: 73162
Re: Corona-COVID-19 virus statistics
In most countries, it's doubling every 3 days, so up by a factor of 1000 in a month.
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
- Mon Jan 20, 2020 6:08 pm
- Forum: Thinkpad - General HARDWARE/SOFTWARE questions
- Topic: What Disk Imaging Program Do You Use in the Windows 10 Era?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 24791
Re: What Disk Imaging Program Do You Use in the Windows 10 Era?
Another vote for Macrium Reflect (free edition).
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 6:15 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: Adobe Photoshop CS3 end of 30 days
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6754
Re: Adobe Photoshop CS3 end of 30 days
When they took down the activation servers for Acrobat 8, they gave owners a way of re-installing it without activation (I forget the details). I'd check to see whether Adobe did something similar for Photoshop CS3.
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 4:56 pm
- Forum: GENERAL ThinkPad News/Comments & Questions
- Topic: Lenovo has *FINALLY* returned to 16:10
- Replies: 39
- Views: 20904
Re: Lenovo has *FINALLY* returned to 16:10
Dell is switching its XPS 13 from 13.3in 16:9 to 13.4in 16:10. As a result, the laptop in 7mm narrower and the screen 7% bigger (in area) and 0.6in taller.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Reimagine ... 261.0.html
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Reimagine ... 261.0.html
- Fri Dec 27, 2019 5:22 pm
- Forum: GENERAL ThinkPad News/Comments & Questions
- Topic: Lenovo has *FINALLY* returned to 16:10
- Replies: 39
- Views: 20904
Re: Lenovo has *FINALLY* returned to 16:10
Three comments. Putting the task bar at left increases the vertical space only by a very small amount while decreasing the area. For people with 20/20 vision, going beyond about 140 dpi with the laptop at normal distance doesn't help. 20/20 is considered normal, but many, especially younger, people ...