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28-Mar-20 4:26

I have to admit, I would like they were wrong... but I think they aren't Sigh | :sigh:

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Amarnath S28-Mar-20 6:07

Amarnath S

28-Mar-20 6:07

Looks like nature is in the process of a long-term cleansing activity.

Nelek28-Mar-20 8:20

28-Mar-20 8:20

Amarnath S wrote:
Looks like nature is in the process of a long-term cleansing activity.

If that is the case, she is making it too nicely.
It is going to be damned annoying and we are going to have a lot of (self made) problems, but we are still going to survive this.

And the worst... I think we won't learn anything for the long term.

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Mark_Wallace28-Mar-20 8:23

28-Mar-20 8:23

... Or until more effective treatment for it is found.

The guys in the labs aren't exactly sitting on their thumbs.

[edit] But do try to avoid eating caustic cleaning materials, no matter which certain-coloured moron says it's a miracle cure. [/edit]

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Nelek28-Mar-20 9:34

28-Mar-20 9:34

Mark_Wallace wrote:
... Or until more effective treatment for it is found.
The guys in the labs aren't exactly sitting on their thumbs.

Yes I know, known people involved in medical and laboratory areas. And that's exactly why I think it is going to need more time than desired.
At least to do it right.
The other possiblity is that someone comes shouting we have a(not throughfully tested) cure and the same morons that usually get excited with all other buzzwords and hypes start buying and distributing it (with probably more secondary effects / collateral damagesthan the virus itself).

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Mark_Wallace28-Mar-20 9:39

28-Mar-20 9:39

Nelek wrote:
The other possiblity is that someone comes shouting we have a(not throughfully tested) cure

You mean like this?[^]

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Nelek28-Mar-20 9:52

28-Mar-20 9:52

I didn't think it had already happened
what the Elephant | [mastadon]

was that moron thinking? (and I don't speak of the poor man that died)
Sigh | :sigh:

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Mark_Wallace28-Mar-20 20:58

28-Mar-20 20:58

Nelek wrote:
what the [mastadon] was that moron thinking?

He was thinking "I've got to say something that gives me attention and makes me look good NOW!"

Never mind ten minutes from "NOW!", he needs immediate and constant adulation.

He's lucky the man who died wasn't English, because we have laws about con-men touting fake coronavirus cures, where the responsibility for any ill done to the "suckers" is assigned appropriately.

i.e. We would have no choice but to apply to have him extradited on a charge of murder -- murder has no statute of limitations, and that certain-coloured house won't protect him forever.

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RossMW28-Mar-20 8:31

RossMW

28-Mar-20 8:31

I'm actually quite interested in seeing what the effect of all of the lockdowns and social distancing is going to do to the common cold and seasonal flu as well as covid

Here in New Zealand the whole country is locked down for 4 weeks (at this stage) and going into the winter season with all the usual winter bugs.

It may result in a bug free winter for everybody. (Wishful thinking)

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Nelek28-Mar-20 9:35

28-Mar-20 9:35

RossMW wrote:
It may result in a bug free winter for everybody. (Wishful thinking)

I really hope so for you Smile | :)

But I think you won't be that lucky Frown | :(

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Jörgen Andersson28-Mar-20 9:25

Jörgen Andersson

28-Mar-20 9:25

They got it quite right I believe, except the part about shutting things on or off. That will ruin the economy, society, tax systems and in the end therefore also our hospitals.

The solution is to find a balance that does ruin as little as possible, while keeping as few as possible sick, until we have a vaccine.
We're f***ed.

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Nelek28-Mar-20 9:37

28-Mar-20 9:37

Jörgen Andersson wrote:
The solution is to find a balance that does ruin as little as possible, while keeping as few as possible sick, until we have a vaccine.

Yes, but very difficult to do.
It would mean people act logically and following recommendations, and you already saw what happened just before the lockdowns D'Oh! | :doh:

Jörgen Andersson wrote:
But humanity has raised from the ashes many times before.

I know... And some elders in my family tell we should still consider us lucky, WW II was worse.
And I suppose they are right.

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RossMW28-Mar-20 9:57

RossMW

28-Mar-20 9:57

And it depends on the individual country. Some countries it may be the best solution, but for others it may not. Europe and the US is a collection of individually minded single identities with each identity having to deals with its own issues. Reinfection is a fact of life in those areas due to their openings. China looks like it's going to try and keep the numbers low and manageable until a vaccine is available due to the limited travel outside of china.

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Just noticed VS2019 has an update ...

ZurdoDev29-Mar-20 16:50

ZurdoDev

29-Mar-20 16:50

I have always practices social distancing. Nothing new for me. Big Grin | :-D

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OriginalGriff27-Mar-20 23:49

OriginalGriff

27-Mar-20 23:49

... and has for 2 days - I hate notifications, just send me an email - so I thought I'd let it do it's thang while I made an Espresso.

Downloading ... 10.84GB OMG | :OMG:

When did software get so silly that an update patch needs ten gig of data? Holy Elephant | [mastadon]

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Super Lloyd27-Mar-20 23:52

Super Lloyd

27-Mar-20 23:52

Oh.. you mean the old update?
For a moment I thought I had missed one, haha!
Strange though, mine updated in minutes... Blush | :O

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Nelek27-Mar-20 23:55

27-Mar-20 23:55

Selecting all in the installation shows over 100Gb of things to be downloaded and installed. So an update of 10Gb is a plausible size

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CPallini28-Mar-20 0:37

CPallini

28-Mar-20 0:37

Quote:
When did software get so silly that an update patch needs ten gig of data?

It really needs few megabytes, the remaining space is filled with garbage.

They said: "You know that guy Griff who backs up anything?"

Nelek28-Mar-20 1:15

28-Mar-20 1:15

CPallini wrote:
They said: "You know that guy Griff who backs up anything?"

You are evil Carlo Laugh | :laugh:

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CPallini28-Mar-20 4:17

CPallini

28-Mar-20 4:17

Beelzebub, you know. Wink | ;)

Jörgen Andersson28-Mar-20 4:55

Jörgen Andersson

28-Mar-20 4:55

They found out that he just cleaned out his harddrive.

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Mark_Wallace28-Mar-20 1:59

28-Mar-20 1:59

OriginalGriff wrote:
Downloading ... 10.84GB

That's because a lot of highly skilled people from different ms departments -- in fact, from ms offices all over the world -- have been involved in designing and crafting the updated files to the point where they are so perfect and complete that they will not need to be updated for, oh, at least three months.

If you unpack the installer and read the files in the appropriate application, you can see for yourself the level of perfectionism that has gone into delivering superb quality, and that the design is sheer genius.

The total content of the installer is eight icons and a 1.2kb text file describing them.

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pkfox28-Mar-20 2:00

pkfox

28-Mar-20 2:00

I know it's f***ing ridiculous

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