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Stylianos Polychroniadis wrote: Everybody has an opinion nowadays I'm afraid.
In this cause, in a uniquely recursive manner, you are giving yours.
The tone and context of your post brands your comment, as politely as prudence and good taste allow, as conceited arrogance.
There are a good number of people in the CP lounge with a very lot of education in various areas of specialization - and the good taste not to arbitrarily share blurt out arbitrary facts to try to prove something (what?) to the rest of us.
And at the same time - do I not prove your point?
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Yes you do! That is correct. It is this very tone that I would love to see eliminated in a place where highly-intellectual people exchange views. And yes, I owe to the rest of the community an apology. So I am sincerely sorry, but I'm fed up with shallow and rushed sterile judgement.
modified 3-Feb-20 6:25am.
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Even when we had the (now extinct) SoapBox and it's burly language and discussions, I had never observed a person so full of themselves as you appear to be.
I suppose you can feel proud that you excel in something !
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modified 3-Feb-20 13:22pm.
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Can I have 1/2 lb of Higgs Bosons, and 1.7 Kg of Tachyon particles, please - the pink ones, if you've got 'em.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Thanks for posting. But no model for the gravitational force?! 
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You are most welcome. As for gravity have patience. One step at a time. What really strikes me is the new perspective that the bizzare quanta are simply neutrinos in elliptical motion near the speed of light!
Could this new knowledge lead to new room-temperature superconducting materials?
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Interesting...
I'll reserve judgement until I've (a) read the article, and (b) seen how precise their results are, and (c) seen a prediction made by their theory which differs from what the Standard Model predicts. Note that many numerologists, playing with numbers, have matched physical data to good accuracy. This doesn't mean that their "explanations" are correct.
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I cannot agree more with you. Indeed one needs to be extremely careful with judgement especially for such ground-breaking news.
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Exactly. Makes any intelligent person wonder why.
My only thought would be that the Coronavirus has a chance to kill more than 36K in a year if not stopped or slowed down? not sure.
Oh, and the masks, worthless. CDC officials have gone on record as saying they are worthless. People still wear them, and officials still say to put them on. I don't understand that one either.
It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
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Slacker007 wrote: Oh, and the masks, worthless. CDC officials have gone on record as saying they are worthless.
It is spread by coughing, so no, it is not worthless. The mask is not there to protect you, but others. It provides a little protection for the one who wears it, as does washing your hands - but that is NOT the same as being worthless.
Even when going to surgery, there's this rigourous cleaning of everything entering the operating-room. It is not 100% effective. Doesn't mean that people should suddenly stop that and start doing surgery in a pig-pen.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Doesn't mean that people should suddenly stop that and start doing surgery in a pig-pen.
Although it might entice me to watch it for the first time if they did it on Survivor.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Although it might entice me to watch it for the first time if they did it on Survivor.
The teams should operate on the production staff, ensuring no more Survivor seasons. \O/
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Yes it is worthless. the droplets are so small they can pass through the masks. it also absorbs through the skin, does not need to be inhaled, so yes, they are worthless, just as the experts have said.
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No expert would ever say so. And while tiny "droplets" do exist, those have more chance to hit the fabric of the mask than the inside of your lungs.
A piece of cloth helps even with keeping smoke out if your house burns, as I recall. Of course it doesn't filter the air, but it does help.
You could wrap yourself in plastic and still get ebola. How come you insist that a proven tactic suddenly is "worthless"? Have you seen the price-increase of "worthless"?? 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Slacker007 wrote: People still wear them
They are fashionable.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Exactly.
Now people are putting plastic jugs over their heads. what idiots.
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The current nCov Corona virus is not a flu, and, unlike SARS, can be transmitted by people who are asymptomatic (in the incubation period).
Mutations can and will happen, which may affect infectiousness and mortality rates.
WHO has declared this epidemic an international emergency. The US has declared a national health emergency and has issued the first federal quarantine order in fifty years.
This is a big deal because it has the potential to become this: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: [^]
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: Mutations can and will happen
As was predicted for SARS, as was predicted for bird flu, as was predicted for Ross River, as was predicted for AIDS, as was ....
the only reason "over-hyped news" sells is because people buy it.
- is that a Philbiner, or is it a true 'viral' sickness that over half the world has contracted.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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lopatir wrote: the only reason "over-hyped news" sells is because people buy it.
And the only reason SARS, etc. halted was because correct actions were taken.
If the result of taking the correct actions is that you have a load of otherwise useless medicine left over, you don't say "What a waste!", you say "Thank f*** for that!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Probably should be in the [no-more] soapbox .. I didn't start it though
Cp-Coder wrote: About 36,000 people in the USA die every year from flu
more than that die on the roads, yet there's not even an inoculation for that being considered let alone developed.
but seriously it's all about "what's new," flu is old, corona is new. (it's also a flu variant)
SARS is still out there, but that's yesterdays "epidemic." Ebola too - still very real, still very deadly.
reminds me when corona beer came out Aus/NZ - [had to be served "authentic" - in the bottle with a small slice of lemon jammed in the neck] - not because it was a good beer, it was "new" ... it was a fad, it was stupid (and too is still available though requests are uncommon).
We've been polluting the sea, rivers, forests for how long?
- Back in the 70's was a big thing; Earth was at most a couple of decades away from point of non return.
Global warming: it's also becoming a cold case, (govts as usual years behind are still talking it up.)
- Early 00's we were given MAX 10 years to fix it or hit non-return.
- apparently now we've still ONLY got 12 years left to fix it
-- clearly climate scientists are not just lousy liars, they're crap mathematicians too
--- (apart from counting the good money idiots threw at them to find answers sell more doom stories).
Now it's all about data protection / privacy, govt's after us, even the other govts are after us too
...alternating with electronic election tampering hacking when in season.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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lopatir wrote: it's also a flu variant
It is not. I suggest you drink less conspiracy cola.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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OK, accepted it's not a flu. I accept I made a mistake (over simplification.)
as to conspiracy - not me - in fact that's my point: the "news" is way larger than the truth.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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