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No it proves that a lot of people are of a mind that its all about them. That everything and everyone are there but to serve their needs and above all that they somehow deserve it.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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There was an article I read, yesterday, basically ripping a new one for those who just had to have gatherings for Thanksgiving (and for that matter, the giant party goers, &etc.). It's content is most definitely in violation of the Lounge policy - I wouldn't pretend otherwise.
Pretty much, but in many more words, it is in agreement with your post.
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The few things we've learned so far :
Our healthcare system was not prepared for that; for decades we focused on different kind of illnesses (I assume mostly cancer and other non or low infectious diseases)
Our dependence on 3rd party (countries) for our chain of supply for critical products (PPE, apparatus, vaccines, medications...)
The Old Folks Residences are way too easily infected, and because of close care needs, it is hard to keep them infection free, especially for people who need close physical contact for cares.
No one and everyone is to blame.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: for decades we focused on different kind of illnesses
A a pandemeic response group had been set up (in the US) and it was disbanded (May 2018).
I'll stop here lest I make this soapbox fodder.
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OriginalGriff wrote: And what have we learned from this pandemic? Sod all, it looks like ... 
The most realistic part of zombie movies was all the ![Sunshine | [little ray of sunshine]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/sunshine.gif) s hiding bite wounds.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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What are you hoping that a bunch of software developers, scattered around the world in different countries, will do based on your post?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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In case you've been spending all your time gaming.
I hope it helps someone realize there is a problem. Just like the misconceptions about "rags" or a proper N95 mask.
What's your point?
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Do you think it would be an unfair criticism of your posts to say that you seem to be looking for some sort of argument and you are provoking people into an argument?
As others have mentioned I think posts I have seen from you are really more soapbox material than lounge material.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Is an undead cheese a Zombrie?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Are you Stilton that old question? I thought we knew each Cheddar.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
modified 1-Dec-20 11:27am.
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Do they edam and smile?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If true you would need to tread Caerphilly.
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I heard they the undead eat moenster cheese and carrion horribly if they don't get it.
Which brings up a question I've had burning in my mind for several seconds, already:
Is mozzarella a Passover umbrella ?
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I just got an issue report for my Midi Library (at github bit it's also here)
It contained the problem, clear steps to reproduce the problem and was very specific.
It was also in chinese.
Google translated it to near perfect English. I had no trouble understanding any of it. It could have been written by an English speaker. Holy socks batman!
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It's pretty damn good these days - getting to the point where you don't need to learn another language at all!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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A user sent me this error message, from a language which I can't even recognize, for my article - DICOM Image Viewer[^], and Google Translation could enable me to pinpoint the error.
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What I meant was that Google Translate auto-detected the language.
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I know, it can recognise most languages in their native scripts, even telling the difference between Arabic, Persian and Urdu.
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Wow. Then it should also be able to differentiate between Sanskrit, Hindi and Marathi, which use the same script (Devanagari script).
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It works the same way it can tell English, Spanish, and German apart even though we all use the same alphabet. Only one language has all the input words being in the dictionary.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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In my experience it works well to and from English. But not as well between two other languages.
I've got the impression that the translation goes via English.
For certain cases, especially animals and plants, I find that using Wikipedia Translation is superior.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Fair enough. I've always translated to English. 
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Last Christmas, as a quiz round, I used Google Translate to take lines from Christmas songs, translate them into Chinese then back again and asked the quizzers to guess the song.
Such gems as
"Oh, what's the fun of cycling? A horse drives a sled."
which was originally ...
"Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh"
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My husband is an interpreter and translator for Mixtec, a language spoken by certain indigenous people from Mexico. He often has to translate government documents to Mixtec, which is not a "western language" in the linguistic sense of it despite being from the western hemisphere.
"The town elder called 'county commissioner' must..."
And that's one of the easier ones. It's just silly. The way you have to refer to government officials is "town elders"
And furthermore, the language is really verb heavy and noun sparse. For example, they do not have a word for a duffle bag vs a backpack vs a purse. It's all in how you carry something that determines what it is.
Also they have pronouns for fruit and round things, and for some reason dishwashing detergent is a "round thing"
Google does not have a mixtec translator. My husband is one of a handful of non-native speakers in the entire world so it's not likely to have one soon either, but if it did I would totally try Mixtec and back
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