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I did, but ... firstly nobody knows how long "natural immunity" as a result of infection lasts, but If I have the jab I should be "good for a year" maybe? I'm already approaching the anniversary of getting the nasty thing and I really, really, don't want it again!
And there is also the Official Government Mind which will only accept you are "safe" if you've had the jab. No jab, no Covid passport, and that's likely to become important in a few months when they open things up a bit. I can see many places opening on the basis of "no jab, no entry" and I'd be surprised if at least some places didn't. Certainly quite a few employers are saying "No jab - no job" which I can definitely understand!
"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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OriginalGriff wrote: "No jab - no job" which I can definitely understand!
I can understand it, but I also completely disagree here.
Getting vaccinated is not mandatory and, at least in the Netherlands, it's illegal to discriminate based on being vaccinated or not.
Yet, we're getting this passport and if you don't have one you're, well, being discriminated against.
Having a Covid passport and not discriminating are completely conflicting goals.
It double sucks because some people simply can't get vaccinated simply because it's not their turn yet.
Most youth here will get their vaccin somewhere late summer or even fall (although they're now also saying June, which I yet have to see)!
And that while this is the group of people that likely won't even know they'll have Covid to begin with.
Yet they'll miss out on summer because of this passport and "no discrimination" policy 
And it triple sucks because people are always allowed to get into their own garden meaning I still hear them screaming, barking, crying and having "fun"
Man, I can't wait until fall when everyone's cooped up inside their own house again and things will be nice and quiet again 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Man, I can't wait until fall when everyone's cooped up inside their own house again and things will be nice and quiet again
You're getting to be a curmudgeon at a very early age!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Guilty as charged 
Now get off my lawn before I call the lawn enforcement!
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Sander Rossel wrote: Now get off my lawn
Given that you live in a polder, wouldn't that be "What are you doing in my swamp"?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Except polders aren't swamps 
Quite the opposite I guess, since we don't have water (that's kind of the idea of a polder) and we don't have forests.
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Wasn't there a story a few weeks ago that antibodies were reduced by around half six months or so after infection. I may have both figures wrong but they were in that area.
Got my jab booked for a week today 
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Yes. Antibody levels fall off rapidly after an infection; but your longer term immunity is provided by other various cell types remembering the virus/etc. The difficulty is that while anti-body levels are easy to measure, testing the response of the various memory cells can only be done by exposing them to the infectious agent again in a test tube/etc and looking to see what happens.
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.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I've got an Eagle classic traffic light, and I want to get a controller on it so that I can make it do a proper light sequence as if it were on the street corner. I see a bunch of controller boards that somehow must allow for user input for the time parameters, and while that would be nice (and where would that board be installed?), I would also like the ability to be on a nearby computer and be able to control the lights manually.
And if this works out, I might try this with X-mas lights. I guess I am looking for ideas here.
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I see they're 120V but not familiar with them at all.
If the lights are lit separately from the controller I'd say get a 4 channel relay board, a micro controller and program the thing yourself. But that's just eh way I would do it.
I based a programmable xmas light controller on this a few years back and it worked pretty good.
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Back in the 80s did a similar thing with my mate to control lights for a disco in the school. We used triacs rather than mechanical switches and 8 channels of lights controlled by a port on a Vic20.
Worked great, until we connected it up to 500W stage lights (sometimes two at a time) and the triacs all melted!!! Add one huge aluminium heatsink and voila!
The super-duper improved version used a multiplexer to give a whopping 256 channels and used a chip that could turn on and off at specific points in the mains cycle (each cycle) to give dimming capabilities and the mighty C64 took over from its little brother.
Those were the days...
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Yeah had a lot of fun in those days, things were much simpler and so was I.
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Nope, but I was looking for something like that around 2007.
I wanted a simple display for the call center -- to indicate the health of the system I was working on at the time.
With essentially no user interface, there needed to be a way to indicate a problem to the supervisor.
Eventually, I wound up with a simple box with red, yellow, and green LEDs -- attached to the parallel port of the supervisor's PC.
Because I was writing the system for a taxi company, I would have preferred a "real" traffic light.
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Wanna confuse the lady in your life? Get her these Chocolate Shoes[^]
That's evil!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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disgruntled: a pig with laryngitis
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Very good.
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Bought a pair of shoes with memory sole insoles...no more forgetting why I walked into the kitchen.
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Don't ever take them off.
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Quote: no more forgetting
I need some of those for my whatchamacallit...whatchamacallit? Oh yes: My brain!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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What an interesting article, thanks.
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Soft and soothing music helps, like Memory Metal.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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cinematic dramatization with the lovely Nancy Webb (violin) playing Monti's 'Czardas:' [^]
brought to my mind Khayyam's ('Rubaiyat,' Fitzgerald translation) great line: "Thou, beside me, singing in the wilderness."
«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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Makes me think about "coal miner's daughter" 
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*Real* music. Something to hope you live forever so you can forever enjoy it!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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