Daily Tech News 19 January 2022

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Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. (PC Perspective)

In cash.

Activision has been around since 1980 and is the publisher of classic titles such as Build-A-Bear Workshop: Welcome to Hugsville and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare - Jackal Assault VR Experience. Blizzard was for years a license to print money with Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, and World of Warcraft, then they got woke and went broke.

I don't know if Microsoft can turn the beleaguered company around, but if anyone can do it, it's them, because they are still motivated by good old-fashioned greed - they don't even bother to pretend they are doing things for your own good.

Tech News

Intel is unveiling its own custom Bitcoin mining chip because I have no idea why. (Tom's Hardware)

Seriously, what the hell?
AMD, Intel, and Nvidia are all planning major price hikes this year. (Tom's Hardware)

Due in part to TSMC raising prices for silicon production and in part to money printer go brrrr.
In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing. (GitHub)

SQLite is about as good as it gets.
Facebook and Twitter have told Australian regulators that they shouldn't be regulated. (ZDNet)

Yeah, that'll work.
Apple and Google have told the US Senate that antitrust legislation will harm the privacy and security of users. (Bloomberg)

"We'll make sure of it", they said.
Open source developers have have a powerful new tool at their disposal: Blackmail. (Tech Crunch)

I mean, when you come right down to it...

Party Like It's 1980 Video of the Day

Did I mention that 1980s music videos were weird?

Disclaimer: Because they were.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 >>>Intel is unveiling its own custom Bitcoin mining chip because I have no idea why.

Ha!

Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 04:09 AM (a7mcp)

2 A good Wednesday morning to all from Da Swamp! Pixy, it's, what, 7 pm Wed. there?

Up early to work out a last time before the weather changes: rain tomorrow morning, temps dropping into what people here consider North Pole territory (highs in the 50s F. on Thursday, dropping to the 30s), and cold rain and chilly until Sunday. 'Bout time, says I. It's *winter* after all. The denizens here all want to go about dressed like Bart Simpson all year long, and wonder why they're cold in a T-shirt. I suppose that's why the Eddie Bauer store in the big mall here closed up a few years ago. Get a coat, people!

Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat is okay. I wonder if I have been giving him his injection in the wrong place. The vet office said subcutaneous, but vids I've consulted say it should be intramuscular. I've called his vet to check.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 04:15 AM (c6xtn)

3 I am not even sure getting woke is the problem with Blizzard. More like they got lazy, harassed some ladies (allegedly) then went woke as cover.

When I think about the great games I think of Diablo (of course) both the first and second one. Addictive fun with some cinematic movies that sold the experience (think Wrath of the Lich King opening movie for the same type of thing.) Diablo 3 with the real money auction house was one of the earliest versions of monetization and ripping out the soul and mechanics of the game (the constant gear churn hit) in the name of trying to force people to the real money auction house. Pretty much everything was downhill from there.

So greedy, lazy and stupid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 04:16 AM (dNqv+)

4
Double blind study on gluten and IBS. Cliff notes: Not much difference. Wife suggested "BRAT" diet which equals adding bananas, rice, apple sauce, and toast to diet. Better outcome for me than gluten reduction. Never had the issue before communist covid.

https://www.gutnews.com/
gluten-not-behind-ibs-fodmaps/

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 04:17 AM (dQvv7)

5 Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 19, 2022 04:20 AM (P/5V1)

6 Ha, Wolfus. Some people here are still wearing shorts!

*not me

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 19, 2022 04:20 AM (P/5V1)

7 Close to home and late start, trying to get in as much sleep as I can.

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2022 04:21 AM (2JoB8)

8
Today's 5G day in the USA, when they turn it on around airports. Not sure I'd want to live too close to one today. Joe O'Biden can explain it at a press conference later today, "The ~~police~~ planes all acted stupidly."

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 04:22 AM (dQvv7)

9 Ha, Wolfus. Some people here are still wearing shorts!

*not me
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

I look at the yutes that wear shorts and a hoodie in the 20 degree weather we are having now. Walking with their hands up into the sleeves and shoulders up around their ears trying to stay warm.

Wear a coat ya idjits!

Posted by: Bruce at January 19, 2022 04:23 AM (vd8XM)

10 Ate some seriously spicy food yesterday. It was called diablo chicken. Should've been my 1st clue!

Thinking about eating the leftovers for breakfast with an over easy egg on top

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 19, 2022 04:23 AM (P/5V1)

11 Thinking about eating the leftovers for breakfast with an over easy egg on top
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

Spicy, but a good pain?

Posted by: Bruce at January 19, 2022 04:24 AM (vd8XM)

12 Bruce, we have adults around here that wear shorts all year long.

How are you feeling? Saw a while back you abd your wife were recovering from the chinese flu?

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 19, 2022 04:25 AM (P/5V1)

13 >>>bananas, rice, apple sauce, and toast

I've been restricted short-time to that before, for something--I forget; upset stomach, maybe?--and my gosh it gets boring really fast.

Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 04:26 AM (a7mcp)

14 I was sooo hooked on Diablo I had to quit all video games cold turkey. It was consuming me. Hardcore all the way, baby.

Other than the occasional quarter dropped at the arcade, I don't videogame. Haven't for years and years. Makes buying cheap PCs a lot easier.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 19, 2022 04:28 AM (F0YaR)

15 4 Double blind study on gluten and IBS. Cliff notes: Not much difference. Wife suggested "BRAT" diet which equals adding bananas, rice, apple sauce, and toast to diet. Better outcome for me than gluten reduction. Never had the issue before communist covid.

Yeah, when I cut out gluten it was immediately obvious that was the problem, like finding the "constantly sick" button and flipping it to off.

Hope you can find something that works for you.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 19, 2022 04:28 AM (MqQvv)

16 13 >>>bananas, rice, apple sauce, and toast

I've been restricted short-time to that before, for something--I forget; upset stomach, maybe?--and my gosh it gets boring really fast.
Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 04:26 AM (a7mcp)

I think that's the point. It is like the doctor is sending your stomach to one of those resorts where you play croquet and do crossword puzzles and everyone whispers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 04:29 AM (dNqv+)

17 OMGosh it was awesome. From a little local mexican place i had never been to before. Place was empty when i got there and I was wondering if i had made a mistake, but the food was excellent. And, the guacamole was amazing.

The place had people standing outside waiting to be seated (in the cold and wind!) by the time I was leaving!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 19, 2022 04:29 AM (P/5V1)

18 How are you feeling? Saw a while back you abd your wife were recovering from the chinese flu?
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

I started feeling more like myself starting on Monday. So about 5 days of feeling really crappy and then the rest of the time feeling meh.

My wife is still feeling tired from it. We both got it about the same time, but she started it.

Posted by: Bruce at January 19, 2022 04:30 AM (vd8XM)

19
Pixy -

Honest question about the Y2K thing. From your experience in IT did any part of you think that there could be some slight sort of aviation issue at 12:00:01 2000?

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 04:30 AM (dQvv7)

20 Posted by: GnuBreed at January 19, 2022 04:28 AM (F0YaR)

Diablo was perhaps the best/worst game I have ever seen for that addictive style of constant new gear to get you to keep investing time in it. Only maybe Civilization is as bad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 04:31 AM (dNqv+)

21 18 We both got it about the same time, but she started it.
Posted by: Bruce at January 19, 2022 04:30 AM (vd8XM)

Hahahaha.

Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 04:32 AM (a7mcp)

22 We both got it about the same time, but she started it.
Posted by: Bruce at January 19, 2022 04:30 AM (vd8XM)

Hahahaha.
Posted by: m

And she's the vaxxed one.

Posted by: Bruce at January 19, 2022 04:34 AM (vd8XM)

23 Btw, the FTC is taking a somewhat dim view of MS buying Blizzard. So far. Until all bribes have been paid.

Big Guy wants his 10%.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 19, 2022 04:34 AM (F0YaR)

24 >>>bananas, rice, apple sauce, and toast

I've been restricted short-time to that before, for something--I forget; upset stomach, maybe?--and my gosh it gets boring really fast.
Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 04:26 AM (a7mcp)

I think it's just supposed to be a short term thing. I wonder if some sort of bacteria re-inhabits the gut from one or several of those items.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 04:34 AM (dQvv7)

25 >>We both got it about the same time, but she started it.
Posted by: Bruce

Oh sure, blame her!

Glad you're feeling better

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 19, 2022 04:34 AM (P/5V1)

26 Good morning morons

Local TV news assures me there absolutely no evidence at all there was anything racial about the black guy pushing the asian lady in front of a subway train.

Yes, race is everything and everywhere except right there. Just like an SUV kills wantonly in Waukesha, so too a murderous Q train takes another life in NYC.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 19, 2022 04:34 AM (EZebt)

27 19 Pixy -

Honest question about the Y2K thing. From your experience in IT did any part of you think that there could be some slight sort of aviation issue at 12:00:01 2000?

Planes falling out of the sky - probably not.

Booking systems collapsing in a screaming heap so that no-one could get to their flights? Without the massive remediation effort that happened, that was 100% guaranteed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 19, 2022 04:35 AM (MqQvv)

28 Yes, race is everything and everywhere except right there. Just like an SUV kills wantonly in Waukesha, so too a murderous Q train takes another life in NYC.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 19, 2022 04:34 AM (EZebt)

Honestly, in this particular case, he just looks like a fucking crazed nut.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 04:36 AM (dNqv+)

29 22 We both got it about the same time, but she started it.
Posted by: Bruce at January 19, 2022 04:30 AM (vd8XM)

Hahahaha.
Posted by: m

And she's the vaxxed one.
Posted by: Bruce at January 19, 2022 04:34 AM (vd8XM)

I laughed because suddenly you sounded like a kid being interrogated by a parent and it took me by surprise.

Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 04:36 AM (a7mcp)

30 I laughed because suddenly you sounded like a kid being interrogated by a parent and it took me by surprise.
Posted by: m

She's touching me!

Posted by: Bruce at January 19, 2022 04:37 AM (vd8XM)

31 Wolfus, i saw your comnent yesterday....

I took Lucky to the vet, she did bloodwork, etc.

Thyroid issues and dehydrated. She rehydrated him and prescribed a med for the thyroid.
He perked up and has been eating and acting like his old self since I brought him home.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 19, 2022 04:38 AM (P/5V1)

32 30 I laughed because suddenly you sounded like a kid being interrogated by a parent and it took me by surprise.
Posted by: m

She's touching me!
Posted by: Bruce at January 19, 2022 04:37 AM (vd8XM)

I remember, on road trips, "She's looking at me!"

Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 04:38 AM (a7mcp)

33 Don't make me stop this car!

*dad's favorite saying*

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 19, 2022 04:40 AM (P/5V1)

34 When Y2K came around the company I worked for had all the suppliers filling out a form showing they were Y2K ready. One of our oil suppliers showed they weren't and I had to check out why not.

Because they lied to their corporate HQ in Japan that some equipment wasn't so that they could get an upgrade added into the budget. The system they were using was timed to run X at a certain time of the day, but it didn't give a good rats patoot what year it was, or even what day it was.

More paper work

Posted by: Bruce at January 19, 2022 04:41 AM (vd8XM)

35
I guess I first started coding in the mid 70's and the very last thing on my mind was the year 2000. By 1998 I began fixing all the data bases.

In retrospect, there weren't too many people in the 70's thinking about it either. All of a sudden it was a realization that 'oh, shit' stuff is gonna stop moving forward and instead go back to the year 1900.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 04:42 AM (dQvv7)

36 31 I took Lucky to the vet, she did bloodwork, etc.

Thyroid issues and dehydrated. She rehydrated him and prescribed a med for the thyroid.
He perked up and has been eating and acting like his old self since I brought him home.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 19, 2022 04:38 AM (P/5V1)

Many yays!

Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 04:42 AM (a7mcp)

37
I'm sorry Mr IRS agent, we didn't have any revenue this year. But we had a banner year in the year 1900, before the current tax laws were enacted. Let me show you to the door.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 04:46 AM (dQvv7)

38 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 04:46 AM (arJlL)

39 Honestly, in this particular case, he just looks like a fucking crazed nut.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 04:36 AM (dNqv+)

===
So you are saying of the dozens of people on the platform, that she happened to be his victim was totally random and her race was not a factor?

That this is not yet another in a well documented and established pattern of black hate attacks against Asian people?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 19, 2022 04:48 AM (EZebt)

40 35
I guess I first started coding in the mid 70's and the very last thing on my mind was the year 2000. By 1998 I began fixing all the data bases.

In retrospect, there weren't too many people in the 70's thinking about it either. All of a sudden it was a realization that 'oh, shit' stuff is gonna stop moving forward and instead go back to the year 1900.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 04:42 AM (dQvv7)

Everything I worked on used epoch time. We had to test the crap out of everything to certify it wouldn't fail, but nothing needed fixing.

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 19, 2022 04:48 AM (wGeit)

41 Scotland to lift most remaining Covid restrictions

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-60042339

Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 04:49 AM (a7mcp)

42 I took Lucky to the vet, she did bloodwork, etc.

Thyroid issues and dehydrated. She rehydrated him and prescribed a med for the thyroid.
He perked up and has been eating and acting like his old self since I brought him home.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 19, 2022 04:38 AM (P/5V1)

Nice !

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 04:52 AM (arJlL)

43 Hiya MILLiiGram !

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 04:53 AM (arJlL)

44 https://tinyurl.com/2p9y6xmx
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Watch end Instant Justice

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2022 04:53 AM (2JoB8)

45 Ok, pill given to cat. 1st time he's had to take any medication, so not an easy feat!

Fingers intact and on my way out the door.

Have a good day, all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 19, 2022 04:54 AM (P/5V1)

46
Everything I worked on used epoch time. We had to test the crap out of everything to certify it wouldn't fail, but nothing needed fixing.

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 19, 2022 04:48 AM

Lemme guess, written in COBOL for a financial institution?

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 04:55 AM (dQvv7)

47 40 Everything I worked on used epoch time.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 19, 2022 04:48 AM (wGeit)

I had to look that up.
Very cool.

"The Unix epoch (or Unix time or POSIX time or Unix timestamp) is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT)."

Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 04:56 AM (a7mcp)

48
I guess a bank that was writing 30 year mortgages had to be concerned with the year 2000 as early as 1970. It just never occurred to me at the time.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 05:02 AM (dQvv7)

49 I just saw the News about OregonMuse passing away, My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and let us know if we can help with any expenses

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 05:04 AM (dKiJG)

50 Good, Microsoft destroys any game studio it picks up eventually and I hate Diablo's IP (sorry cake girl) so....

Posted by: sven at January 19, 2022 05:05 AM (Lzpvj)

51 I took Lucky to the vet, she did bloodwork, etc.

Thyroid issues and dehydrated. She rehydrated him and prescribed a med for the thyroid.
He perked up and has been eating and acting like his old self since I brought him home.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 19, 2022

***
I'm glad to hear that Lucky's issues could be resolved so easily!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 05:05 AM (c6xtn)

52 I just saw the News about OregonMuse passing away, My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and let us know if we can help with any expenses
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022

***
What????

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 05:07 AM (c6xtn)

53 Thanks Skip !

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 05:07 AM (arJlL)

54
Where's the mention of OM? Nothing on the front page?

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 05:08 AM (dQvv7)

55 I just saw the News about OregonMuse passing away, My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and let us know if we can help with any expenses
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

WHERE did you see THAT ?

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 05:09 AM (arJlL)

56 52 Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 05:08 AM (dQvv7)

No mention in the ONT either, please God let it not be so.

Posted by: sven at January 19, 2022 05:09 AM (Lzpvj)

57
No mention in the ONT either, please God let it not be so.

Posted by: sven at January 19, 2022 05:09 AM

I checked there too. I think he mentioned that only recently did OM have to deal with Medicare so he was only in mid-60's or so. Shit. Hope it's erroneous.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 05:12 AM (dQvv7)

58 46
Everything I worked on used epoch time. We had to test the crap out of everything to certify it wouldn't fail, but nothing needed fixing.

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 19, 2022 04:48 AM

Lemme guess, written in COBOL for a financial institution?
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 04:55 AM (dQvv7)

No, it was all C and Java written on Unix systems. Software that broke, from what I can see, was either old mainframe stuff that stored time as separate fields, front end software that only asked for two digits for things like birth dates, or database applications that only stored the last two digits of the year to save space.

A buddy of mine got a gas bill for, like, two billion dollars, which was pretty amusing, but I don't know the details of that system.

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 19, 2022 05:13 AM (wGeit)

59 I just saw the News about OregonMuse passing away, My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and let us know if we can help with any expenses
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 05:04 AM (dKiJG)
===
This would be the first I heard such awful news
Praise Hashem the True Judge

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 19, 2022 05:15 AM (EZebt)

60 I want to see verification first

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2022 05:16 AM (2JoB8)

61
Nothing at OM's twitter page.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 05:16 AM (dQvv7)

62 47 40 Everything I worked on used epoch time.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 19, 2022 04:48 AM (wGeit)

I had to look that up.
Very cool.

"The Unix epoch (or Unix time or POSIX time or Unix timestamp) is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT)."
Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 04:56 AM (a7mcp)

After the Y2K stuff went bust all the contracting companies were trying to hype the "2034 problem" so they could find something for their Y2K teams to do. Because the older systems were 32 bit, you could conceivably have your Unix system roll back to January of 1970 in that year. I think it was that year, anyway.

Of course, all that stuff is already 64 bits, and by the time the 64 bit epoch rolls over I doubt there will be any humans around to care.

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 19, 2022 05:19 AM (wGeit)

63 RDBrewer4 just posted it on Twitter about OregonMuse passing away

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 05:21 AM (dKiJG)

64 Here's the link
https://tinyurl.com/4kwcx3tw

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 05:22 AM (dKiJG)

65 Here's the link
https://tinyurl.com/4kwcx3tw
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Well...crap.

Posted by: Bruce at January 19, 2022 05:25 AM (vd8XM)

66 I'm heartbroken now

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2022 05:26 AM (2JoB8)

67 Call of Duty: Vengeance has a Battle of Midway mission. A guy on YouTube has an hour take down on it. I only made it through 14 minutes.

He is right, Enterprise AA fit is post Midway. Why is there a guy in US Army uniform giving the strike briefing to VS-6? Yeah that is odd to see a poster saying Army Air Forces on a carrier. Plus a modern artificial horizon in the Dauntless.

Now things he didn't catch. He complained about the shape of the TBD on an aircraft recognition flyer; shouldn't there be the Zero, Val, and Kate there? Missed they swapped Dauntless models from the -3 to a -4, big tell is the propeller. Oil cooler on the TBDs is twice the size of the real thing. When did carriers get ATC, "tower to Sugar Seventeen cleared for take-off." And the scout planes in period records are called Sail, as in Sail Seventeen.

*gag*

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 19, 2022 05:26 AM (VVcfL)

68 Since its on the twats the 24 hour Rule shall apply.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 19, 2022 05:26 AM (EZebt)

69 "You can only live in one house. 1980s edition."

https://tinyurl.com/26x2e7s6

Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 05:26 AM (a7mcp)

70 I am not going to pieces re: OM until Ace or the Cobs post something. I will hope he is getting better.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 19, 2022 05:28 AM (VVcfL)

71 I am not going to pieces re: OM until Ace or the Cobs post something. I will hope he is getting better.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 05:33 AM (arJlL)

72
I was just looking at a covid map of the USA, and it's all hot as blazes, except coastal from texas to about NC. Salt air and sunshine.

If I remember my sisters experience as an 'inhalation therapist' the 'salt air' thing was part of her treatment regimen.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 05:34 AM (dQvv7)

73 Here's the link
https://tinyurl.com/4kwcx3tw
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Well...crap.
Posted by: Bruce at January 19, 2022

***
If it's true . . . son of a bitch.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 05:40 AM (c6xtn)

74
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 19, 2022 05:41 AM (DUIap)

75 Having sinus issues again think K need to really look into this cleansing

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2022 05:41 AM (2JoB8)

76 name field test

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, because it's impossible for you to get a negative result from the free at January 19, 2022 05:41 AM (K0X64)

77 again

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 19, 2022 05:42 AM (K0X64)

78 @TyTheFisch
Jan 14
Imagine getting a root canal, then a second root canal, then a booster root canal, and STILL getting a cavity in that tooth. Then forcing everyone to use your dentist or they lose their job & livelihood.

Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 05:42 AM (a7mcp)

79 I just hope OM is not in one of those killer hospitals where all they're interested in is getting the covid bounty from the FedGov.

But since he's still ill I have doubts he got treated right away with IVM or HCQ so that means he's at the mercy of the establishment medical community which is not amenable to those and anyway it's too late now.

Take your zinc, quercetin, vitamin c and d and toss in any others that are anti oxidant/anti inflammatory and that boosts the immune system. Take some ivermectin in what ever form you can get it immediately you have any symptoms that strike you as extraordinary and come after a potential event where you might have acquired the virus. I you have extra IVM then you can take a chance and take it without being sure. It's better taken daily as a preventive but because of the witch doctors we can't get that much unless you've planned ahead. Also be advised that the doses of the paste that was recommended a year ago may not be sufficient now. Take it more often just in case. The stuff has almost zero side effects unless you take an extremely large dose.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 19, 2022 05:44 AM (eQvlh)

80 Newsmax is running a retrospective on the events of 1969. I lived through that, but I paid no attention to "news," so until Bernadette Dohrn and Bill Ayers were mentioned here years ago in connection with Jugears, I'd never heard of them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 05:44 AM (c6xtn)

81 Oh no.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 19, 2022 05:44 AM (K0X64)

82 I didn't think you should take IVM daily as a preventative. Yes, it'd be hard to overdose. But isn't once a month, or even once a week, if you have no symptoms, enough?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 05:47 AM (c6xtn)

83 FLCCC is suggesting "0.2 mg/kg per dose (take with or after a meal) - twice a week for as long as disease risk is elevated in your community."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 19, 2022 05:49 AM (K0X64)

84 63 RDBrewer4 just posted it on Twitter about OregonMuse passing away
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 05:21 AM (dKiJG)

64 Here's the link
https://tinyurl.com/4kwcx3tw
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 05:22 AM (dKiJG)

Thank you, Patrick.

Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 05:49 AM (a7mcp)

85
Resveratrol, Quercetin, IVM, and HCQ all have the same mechanism of action which is assisting zinc to be absorbed into the cell.

I believe both Resveratrol and Quercetin are over-the-counter.

Resveratrol is in red wine.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 05:51 AM (dQvv7)

86
Funny thing is, UTC wasn't formally defined until 1972, but Unix epoch time is based on 0 being Jan 1, 1970. Now, they used a 32-bit integer to represent that originally. How about times before 1970? Interpret the time_t integer as *signed*. That leads to the Year 2038 problem.

If you intepret it as unsigned, you get another 68 years, but can't represent anything earlier than 1970.

Solution, go to a 64-bit signed representation, sign extended the negative numbers. You get 22x the age of the universe coverage. No problem there at all. That is what most systems are doing.

Also, if you want to see some monkey business, look at leap seconds and UNIX time. Lots of monkey business has to be done there. And none of it satisfactory.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 05:52 AM (Mzdiz)

87 And I should mention that Midway mission has a lot more problems.

You are treated to a cinematic of VT-6 TBDs taking off. Then you ride the center elevator up to see nothing but SBDs. The dive bombers take off before the torpedo planes because they need less deck to take off.

If the planes have engines running about to launch, I should not be seeing a guy pushing a trolley with a 500lb bomb on the flight deck.

So you the player finally reach your dive bomber, S17. As your radio-operator/gunner gets in, the pilot's seat is empty but the engine is already running. *ack*

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 19, 2022 05:53 AM (VVcfL)

88 I believe both Resveratrol and Quercetin are over-the-counter.

Resveratrol is in red wine.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022

***
You can get quercetin at LifeExtension.com. I'm taking it, but when the bottle is empty I don't know if I'll buy another.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 05:55 AM (c6xtn)

89
So you the player finally reach your dive bomber, S17. As your radio-operator/gunner gets in, the pilot's seat is empty but the engine is already running. *ack*

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 19, 2022 05:53 AM

Then for added realism you look over to another plane and John McCain is giving you the thumbs down?

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 05:57 AM (dQvv7)

90 FLCCC is suggesting "0.2 mg/kg per dose (take with or after a meal) - twice a week for as long as disease risk is elevated in your community."
Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 19, 2022

***
FLCCC is a reliable source. Well, maybe I'll go to once a week for now.

Also, MR, aren't you the one who wanted to know if that BMW 2002 I've been seeing on my commute is for sale? If so, I hate to tell you, but I haven't seen it parked or driving in that area for a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 05:57 AM (c6xtn)

91 Then for added realism you look over to another plane and John McCain is giving you the thumbs down?

No because during WWII, John McCain Sr and John McCain Jr, granddad and dad, were both a bit too old to go flying.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 19, 2022 06:00 AM (VVcfL)

92 Also, MR, aren't you the one who wanted to know if that BMW 2002 I've been seeing on my commute is for sale? If so, I hate to tell you, but I haven't seen it parked or driving in that area for a while.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

*

I am, thanks. They're few and far between, so a good example with a for-sale sign on it would be worth a call and a trip. I've got nothing but time, but I sure would like to find one while I can push a clutch in.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 19, 2022 06:01 AM (K0X64)

93 And yeah, the FLCCC site is well worth checking occasionally.

Ivermectin is an active anti-viral. IIRC zinc is a great preventative supplement and should definitely be in the kit with some quercertin, but it can't do it alone and it's my understanding that it's not healthy to take anti-COVID levels daily because it screws up the balance of other metals in your system, mainly copper. Read and inform yourself and then make the best decision for you and your family.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 19, 2022 06:05 AM (K0X64)

94
That's right McCain was Vietnam era. I remember in the final week before the election he was bragging about being off the coast of Cuba, fully armed, with a destination, during the Cuba missile crisis.

I didn't think sounding like he was eager to start WWIII was a great campaign move.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 06:05 AM (dQvv7)

95 also it's weird that the name field link wouldn't go through even though it would post.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 19, 2022 06:06 AM (K0X64)

96 I've lingering "sniffles" that seem to have co-incided with beginning an intermittent fasting regimine that I started almost 3 years ago. Or maybe allergy or ...something. I recall my mother had hay fever or something that caused trouble. But with all the paranoia it makes me wonder.

More troubling are "night sweats", that I'm told are common with low blood sugar. Fasting contributes to this, and I've no doubt this is the cause. Is this a cause for concern, anyone know? The "official" med sites are a bit unclear on this. I'm not on any medication or diabetic or anything like that. But I need to maintain a reduction in calories one way or another. Maybe change when I eat.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2022 06:09 AM (psL96)

97 Moron Robbie worked now, didn't earlier

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2022 06:09 AM (2JoB8)

98 I am convinced I have a head cold. Feel a little better today.
Hitting the road, very sad

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2022 06:12 AM (2JoB8)

99 Moron Robbie worked now, didn't earlier
**

In addition to the "you still have COVID" statement, I love the picture of the little black boy at the bottom wearing his mask wrong.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 19, 2022 06:13 AM (K0X64)

100 I need to toddle, this is going to be my first day back to work since coming down with the Wuhan Flu. Yay.

*thud*

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 19, 2022 06:13 AM (VVcfL)

101 Have a good one, Skip and stay safe !

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 06:14 AM (arJlL)

102 It's weird, but I just realized that apparently the Feds believe white people can't get COVID.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 19, 2022 06:14 AM (K0X64)

103
Stephane Bancel, CEO of Modern and psychopathic megalomaniac, gave a talk the the WEF:

https://tinyurl.com/mwpydu2e

They are gonna vaccinate the entire world against all the viruses.

Compliance is a problem, due to all the misinformation, so they're gonna combine flu, RSV, and corona into one annual shot. mRNA flu vaccines plus. If you wanna get a flu vaccine, you're gonna have to get a Coof+ combo.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 06:18 AM (Mzdiz)

104 So the flu vaccine only had a 30% or so chance of working, combined with a COVID shot that has a 0% chance of working, and an RSV shot that - let's be generous - has a 33% chance of working...

That's what, a 3% reduction in the possibility that you might not catch a cold over the course of the 30 days before you're no longer considered vaccinated?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 19, 2022 06:21 AM (K0X64)

105 I need to toddle, this is going to be my first day back to work since coming down with the Wuhan Flu. Yay.

*thud*
Posted by: Anna Puma

Have FUN (!) and stay safe !

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 06:22 AM (arJlL)

106 hahaha

"...developing an Omicron specific vaccine. That vaccine is being finished to be made, it should be in the clinic in the coming weeks, and we're hoping in a March time frame to be able to have data to share with regulators to figure the next step forward."

March. It's gone by March, and they'll just be presenting it to regulators. Their vaccine will defeat Omicron as a variant by waiting for it to evolve to some other mild cold.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 19, 2022 06:24 AM (K0X64)

107
I got my cold pressed hemp oil a couple of days ago. ICYMI - two studies indicate it retards corona from entering cells and replicating.
I used an eyedropper to put some on crackers with my cheese (maybe altogether a teaspoon full), and my wife put some on her salad. We both agreed it's not a bad taste but at 120 calories per teaspoon not exactly the best thing for weight control.

Hopefully, the Omicron is the final battle and will resolve in the next few weeks.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 06:25 AM (dQvv7)

108 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 19, 2022 06:27 AM (u82oZ)

109 I hope the news of OM is mistaken. This is very sad.

Can hospitals find out, from a Government list, you are not of the body, and act accordingly? Because I had one conservative, and very fit, cousin in KC. He did not make it. The rest are all OK.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 19, 2022 06:29 AM (u82oZ)

110 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

BOO ! (think that did it ?)

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 06:29 AM (arJlL)

111 Thank you, Patrick.
Posted by: m

Oof..that's tough news.

Posted by: lizabth at January 19, 2022 06:30 AM (L3Rsz)

112 JT

Boo is a start. More needs to be done.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 19, 2022 06:30 AM (u82oZ)

113 "Cold Pressed" Hemp Oil?

Heavenly daisies, do the hipsters have to ruin everything? Is it "Organic" and "Gluten Free" too? I smell some marketing wankery here...

Why can't people just take bong hits, or roll joints, as God intended?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2022 06:31 AM (psL96)

114 Reading that article on The Atlantic about the fear-mongering freaks that are the affluent urban left, it's easier to understand why every blue city is circling the drain.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 19, 2022 06:32 AM (ksj3z)

115 JT

Boo is a start. More needs to be done.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Can I finish my coffee and poop first ?

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 06:33 AM (arJlL)

116 JT

Sure. You are not the target.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 19, 2022 06:33 AM (u82oZ)

117 "Stephane Bancel, CEO of Modern and psychopathic megalomaniac, gave a talk the the WEF:

https://tinyurl.com/mwpydu2e

They are gonna vaccinate the entire world against all the viruses.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion "

The WEF has managed to make the most extreme tinfoil hat conspiracy theories respectable. I regret ever defended the pharmaceuticals from constant attacks. After reading that I wish we had let the left destroy them.

Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2022 06:34 AM (MxEKc)

118
Can hospitals find out, from a Government list, you are not of the body, and act accordingly?
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 19, 2022 06:29 AM

I'm sure I've been on a list for 20 years. Funny how covid got into my household in November 2019, certainly one of the earliest cases in Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 06:34 AM (dQvv7)

119 Ordinary American

No fathers. Toxic role models. No ability to gain real self-esteem. Schools that are golding pens for indoctrination, not learning.

And the leaders want slaves. That is Leftist cities, built up a decision at a time since 1964.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 19, 2022 06:36 AM (u82oZ)

120 Time for work preps. And a reflection on lives that matter.

Have a great day, everyone. Be that swan gliding serenely though choppy water. Never let them see the feet moving fast.

But hold those you care about close.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 19, 2022 06:41 AM (u82oZ)

121
"Cold Pressed" Hemp Oil?
Heavenly daisies, do the hipsters have to ruin everything? Is it "Organic" and "Gluten Free" too? I smell some marketing wankery here...
Why can't people just take bong hits, or roll joints, as God intended?
Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2022 06:31 AM

The experiments in both the UK and Oregon used unheated hemp oil. Heating it may destroy the mechanism of action per a SanFran Moron here one morning.

There have been no experiments that I've seen on the efficacy of smoking or vaping delta 9 as a preventative. In this country it's almost impossible to secure marijuana for official lab testing.

Hemp oil is kinda similar to maple syrup in that they both have hundreds of chemicals in them and it's virtually impossible to discern which one is causing some desired effect.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 06:42 AM (dQvv7)

122 Finding God

A devotional by Charles Spurgeon-who was a great 19th century pastor and preacher:

https://tinyurl.com/346k9kzd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2022 06:45 AM (33AyX)

123
While I'm pretty pissed at Berenson for his ridiculous attack on Robert Malone, see this about about our Pfizer Pfriends:

https://tinyurl.com/2s4xs2xw

They killed a lot of cows, calves born to cows, I should say, with a Pfizer cow vaccine. This belies all the claims that serious side effects all show up with 6 weeks of any vaccine. Took years and years before the truth about this cow vaccine was known. Pfizer killed a bunch of cows with their vaccines.

Guess who was the head of that Pfizer animal division at the time? Albert Bourla, now CEO of Pfizer. Pfizer is about the most criminal corporation in the world. They've got a Pfederal Pfelony rap sheet a mile long. No problem, just the cost of doing business.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 06:47 AM (Mzdiz)

124 In retrospect, there weren't too many people in the 70's thinking about it either. All of a sudden it was a realization that 'oh, shit' stuff is gonna stop moving forward and instead go back to the year 1900.

IIRC 32 bit versions of Unix will quit working in 14 years. Fortunately the 64 bit versions will outlast the Universe.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 19, 2022 06:47 AM (ZEHVO)

125 In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing. (GitHub)

I'm sure that is very meaningful to some of your readers.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 19, 2022 06:47 AM (byI+W)

126 An act of kindness by a company towards a little boy:

https://tinyurl.com/yc6z9hf5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2022 06:47 AM (33AyX)

127 FenelonSpoke

You have email from me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 19, 2022 06:51 AM (u82oZ)

128 'Bout time, says I. It's *winter* after all. The denizens here all want to go about dressed like Bart Simpson all year long, and wonder why they're cold in a T-shirt. I suppose that's why the Eddie Bauer store in the big mall here closed up a few years ago. Get a coat, people!

Have you considered the fact that many people don't care to buy clothes they can only wear once every couple of years?

There are people, affectionately called "Snowbirds" who deliberately leave cold areas to warm areas during *winter* to avoid cold.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 19, 2022 06:51 AM (iMXIi)

129 I hope all these corporations buy each other and jump off a cliff together.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at January 19, 2022 06:54 AM (hObqH)

130 There are people, affectionately called "Snowbirds" who deliberately leave cold areas

I think it's actually spelled "Damned Yankees".

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2022 06:56 AM (psL96)

131
Actually the chemical count in maple syrup is in the thousands. Half a century ago, before it became so costly, people enjoyed it all the time. Rates of depression were lower, as maple syrup is identified as a natural antidepressant. Now you buy high fructose corn syrup for your pancakes and wash it down with coffee and a Prozac.

Another win for the pharmaceutical industry.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 06:56 AM (dQvv7)

132 "There are people, affectionately called "Snowbirds" who deliberately leave cold areas

I think it's actually spelled "Damned Yankees"

I've heard it both ways.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 19, 2022 06:56 AM (3D/fK)

133
Remember that Kelo Supreme Court ruling on eminent domain. Where people can be thrown out of their home because a megacorporation wants their land? Pfizer, of course, was that megacorporation.

And they abandoned the whole thing when it became unprofitable.

See the latest from Project Veritas. FBI has been running interference for Pfizer.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 06:57 AM (Mzdiz)

134 O.K. Thanks Salty. I'll have to toddle out to get it. I don't get e-mail on the i-phone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2022 06:57 AM (33AyX)

135 And, good morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 19, 2022 06:57 AM (3D/fK)

136 49 I just saw the News about OregonMuse passing away, My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and let us know if we can help with any expenses
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 05:04 AM (dKiJG)
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Oh my, I didn't know.
Morons don't do that.
May God in heaven have mercy on his soul
and wrap him in his arms.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 19, 2022 06:58 AM (byI+W)

137 O.K. Thanks Salty. I'll have to toddle out to get it. I don't get e-mail on the i-phone.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Fen has a phone like Oliver on Green Acres.....

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 07:00 AM (arJlL)

138 Oh no! Terrible news!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 19, 2022 07:00 AM (Dc2NZ)

139 Yup.

"Eminent Domain" as a concept, is reasonable insofar as public good is concerned. Sort of, or at least can be rationalized that way.

They redefined the term to include private corporations evicting small fry private property owners just because they want your land. Total bullshit, and anyone in the legal profession should be ashamed at shit like that. No wonder everybody hates lawyers and politicians.

The land they confiscated as part of this atrocity sits empty to this day, by the way.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2022 07:01 AM (psL96)

140 Wait a minute

From the side bar

Oregon Muse is continuing his battle with Covid, and while we all fully expect a victory,

Where did this other NEWS come from?

Posted by: Braenyard at January 19, 2022 07:01 AM (byI+W)

141 Oh no. That's terrible news about Oregon Muse. What a lovely man and brother in Christ. That's heartbreaking. Prayers for his wife and family and I hope the devastated cobs will let us know where we can contribute a gift in memory of him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2022 07:02 AM (33AyX)

142 For me the dislike of regions is not north/south, it's east/west. I detest the east, for me the east coast starts at the mississippi river.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 19, 2022 07:03 AM (F4DJi)

143
I wonder how his wife is doing, as I seem to recall she was infected also?

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 07:04 AM (dQvv7)

144 63 RDBrewer4 just posted it on Twitter about OregonMuse passing away
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 05:21 AM (dKiJG)

64 Here's the link
https://tinyurl.com/4kwcx3tw
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 05:22 AM (dKiJG)

Posted by: m at January 19, 2022 07:05 AM (Pk5po)

145
Also, look up our Pfizer Pfriend and "Trovan, Nigeria". Trovan was an investigational anti-meningitis drug they were testing. Pfizer did clinical trials in Nigeria.

They took advantage of dirt-poor, pig-ignorant 3rd world parents to do experiments on their children they wouldn't get away with in 1st world countries. Did a trial of Trovan against the standard treatment, where they (allegedly) lowered the dose of the standard treatment in order to make Trovan look better.

Lawsuits followed. Now, Julian Assange and Wikileaks published some shit showing the US govt knew (and apparently approved) of Pfizer attempting to blackmail and bribe Nigerian officials into sweeping that under the rug.

This is the kind of shit that made Assange public enemy #1 to the oligarchy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 07:06 AM (Mzdiz)

146
Where did this other NEWS come from?

Posted by: Braenyard at January 19, 2022 07:01 AM

A twitter account of someone I recognize as a person who would know. Scroll way up.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 07:06 AM (dQvv7)

147 Could we please get this cleared up?!! Did you read something too quickly Patrick??!! Com'on!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2022 07:06 AM (33AyX)

148 Could we please get this cleared up?!! Did you read something too quickly Patrick??!! Com'on!!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Deep breath. RDBrewer posted it on twitter.

Posted by: lizabth at January 19, 2022 07:08 AM (L3Rsz)

149 It's morning. Or so they say.

Does anyone have the real news on OM?

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 19, 2022 07:09 AM (yEBFM)

150 Actually the chemical count in maple syrup is in the thousands. Half a century ago, before it became so costly, people enjoyed it all the time. Rates of depression were lower, as maple syrup is identified as a natural antidepressant.

Fasting is also known throughout the ages to help people deal with depression. Certain hormones and enzymes are activated during a fast that counters the Stinkin' Thinkin'.

So that is something we can look forward to as the supply chain and inflation storms merge into the backdrop of the Black Horse of The Apocalypse - we will be happier because of the BBB Fast many of us will be on!

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 19, 2022 07:10 AM (iMXIi)

151 Hiya Rosasharn !

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 07:11 AM (arJlL)

152 Hi JT.

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 19, 2022 07:12 AM (yEBFM)

153 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 19, 2022 07:14 AM (yrol0)

154 Does anyone have the real news on OM?
Posted by: Rosasharn

I imagine we'll know soon enough whether it's real or fake. Right now, in the dark of early morning, we simply must wait for the official word.

Posted by: lizabth at January 19, 2022 07:15 AM (L3Rsz)

155
Have you considered the fact that many people don't care to buy clothes they can only wear once every couple of years?

I have an overcoat I haven't worn in 13 years. It's only for when I wear a suit and the only time I need to wear a suit is going to Mass. But I'm going from a heated house to a heated car to a heated church. I figure I won't die of hypothermia and get eaten by wolves walking from one to another.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 19, 2022 07:16 AM (/U27+)

156 85
Resveratrol, Quercetin, IVM, and HCQ all have the same mechanism of action which is assisting zinc to be absorbed into the cell.

I believe both Resveratrol and Quercetin are over-the-counter.

Resveratrol is in red wine.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at
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At her press conference Dr. Mary Bowden, persucerd by Houston Methodist, said that the main treatment was ivermectin because she could not get monoclonal antibodies.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 19, 2022 07:16 AM (byI+W)

157 yo wut sup
Posted by: rhennigantx

It appears OM has gone to his Eternal Reward.

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 07:16 AM (arJlL)

158 Have you considered the fact that many people don't care to buy clothes they can only wear once every couple of years?

There are people, affectionately called "Snowbirds" who deliberately leave cold areas to warm areas during *winter* to avoid cold.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 19, 2022

***
I have considered that. I consider those people short-sighted. It isn't every couple of years; we usually have one cold spell in January, sometimes more than one and into February. If you know you'll be outdoors during those 2 months, it behooves you to *buy at least one warm coat*.

If they can't be bothered to do that, they have no right to complain that "It's cold."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 07:16 AM (txdEq)

159
RDBrewer4 just posted it on Twitter about OregonMuse passing away
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 05:21 AM (dKiJG)

Dear heavens, how awful. Prayers for him and his family.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 19, 2022 07:18 AM (/U27+)

160 Here is her presser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm0QA5myK-Q

Posted by: Braenyard at January 19, 2022 07:20 AM (byI+W)

161 The WEF has managed to make the most extreme tinfoil hat conspiracy theories respectable. I regret ever defended the pharmaceuticals from constant attacks. After reading that I wish we had let the left destroy them.
Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2022 06:34 AM (MxEKc)

It's strange that many of the things the Left was railing against, say, in the 70s are things that it turns out they were right about all along. Not all, of course. They were wrong about one huge thing, and still are; Communism. Kind of makes them not a side worth being on, but still. When they're right, they're right.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 19, 2022 07:20 AM (2DdD8)

162 Looks real, via twitter, RDBrewer. Cobs preparing a memorial post re: OM.

Posted by: lizabth at January 19, 2022 07:22 AM (L3Rsz)

163
The old left was worried about a corporatist oligarchial tyranny. The were sure it would come from the Right.

Now, it came from the left.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 07:22 AM (Mzdiz)

164 The were sure it would come from the Right.

Now, it came from the left.
Posted by: publius

Boy, did it ever. And with a vengeance.

Posted by: lizabth at January 19, 2022 07:24 AM (L3Rsz)

165 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at January 19, 2022 07:24 AM (UnQlg)

166 Could we please get this cleared up?!! Did you read something too quickly Patrick??!! Com'on!!

Drive-By Death Announcement.

Be Better

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 19, 2022 07:24 AM (w/5Ba)

167
Merriam-Webster tells me the adjective is "oligarchic". Oligarchal, or oligarchial are not words. My bad.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 07:25 AM (Mzdiz)

168 NYS is mailing everyone? a testing kit. People are asking do they work after being frozen in the mail box. I expect millions will test positive or think they are. So expect NY to skyrocket to the top of the list. Damn Omircon is going to kill us all. Gov. probably have every one locked in their homes to protect.

Posted by: Colin at January 19, 2022 07:26 AM (B+Lak)

169 Oligarchal, or oligarchial are not words. My bad.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

Hey, if people can use 'gifted' for gave, given, all bets are off.

Use/makeup words however. Anyone who sez differently is a racistssexisthomophobe.

Posted by: lizabth at January 19, 2022 07:28 AM (L3Rsz)

170
Merriam-Webster, however, has themselves become a tool of this oligarchic corporate, woke tyranny. So fuck them and their words.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 07:28 AM (Mzdiz)

171 Dark day. The lord bless you all, and yours.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 19, 2022 07:28 AM (RsS0g)

172 So fuck them and their words.
Posted by: publius

Ha. That's the spirit!

Posted by: lizabth at January 19, 2022 07:28 AM (L3Rsz)

173 Also, if you want to see some monkey business, look at leap seconds and UNIX time. Lots of monkey business has to be done there. And none of it satisfactory.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 05:52 AM

Leap seconds do not introduce any weirdness into "UNIX time." "UNIX time" is no more and no less than a count of the number of seconds since some specified time or "epoch" traditionally midnight on 1 January 1970. Adding a second to a day here and there does not change the number of seconds that have elapsed since that time.

It does change how the date and time are displayed, but that's a display issue not a time issue.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 19, 2022 07:29 AM (ezpv1)

174 163
The old left was worried about a corporatist oligarchial tyranny. The were sure it would come from the Right.

Now, it came from the left.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 07:22 AM (Mzdiz)

Very well stated.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 19, 2022 07:29 AM (2DdD8)

175 Is today the day our beloved President gives a real news conference? Or will it be another one where he just picks names from a list and gets asked friendly questions.

Posted by: Colin at January 19, 2022 07:29 AM (B+Lak)

176 Oh no that's terrible news. Never forget that it was the Chinese that brought this plague upon us.

Posted by: f'd at January 19, 2022 07:29 AM (vrz2I)

177 Never forget that it was the Chinese that brought this plague upon us.
Posted by: f'd

With helpers like Fauci and crew. So it seems.

Posted by: lizabth at January 19, 2022 07:30 AM (L3Rsz)

178 Miriam Webster don't know everything

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 07:31 AM (arJlL)

179
Newsmax is talking about Fauci's net worth that seems to be well north of 10 million dollars. The left sure does pick some strange heroes.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 07:32 AM (dQvv7)

180 178 Miriam Webster don't know everything
Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 07:31 AM (arJlL)
------------

It was the standard
now it's a POS

Posted by: Braenyard at January 19, 2022 07:34 AM (byI+W)

181 Does anyone leave govt without becoming a multi millionair? Party of the common man indeed

Posted by: A dude in MI at January 19, 2022 07:35 AM (/6GbT)

182 Fauci is an evil little toad.

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 19, 2022 07:35 AM (yEBFM)

183 >>Leap seconds do not introduce any weirdness into "UNIX time."

Au contrarie. A postive leap second required a second be repeated. That is, a given Unix time during that leap second period in no longer unique. A negative leap second, which has never been needed, would render a whole second's worth of UNIX time to be invalid.

Also, leap seconds are defined as occurring in the day before. That is a day with 86,401 seconds, not 86,400. The UNIX time handling of leap seconds places that extra day in the next day.

See the NIST critique of UNIC leap-second handling. Now, since software running, expecting time to advance monotonically and never be discontinuous and jump, many UNIX systems handle the leap second by slewing the clock rate, slowing it down so that extra second gets stretched out over some acceptable period.

Yes, it is monkey business. Big Time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 07:35 AM (Mzdiz)

184 What terrible news about Oregon Muse. Prayers for his family.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 19, 2022 07:35 AM (VB3UB)

185 49 I just saw the News about OregonMuse passing away, My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and let us know if we can help with any expenses
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

:-(

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 19, 2022 07:37 AM (sAmhv)

186 How old was OM?

Posted by: A dude in MI at January 19, 2022 07:37 AM (/6GbT)

187 I was really hoping that 2022 would be an improvement over 2021.

Yeh....

Prayers for OM, and his family.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 19, 2022 07:38 AM (3D/fK)

188 pssst.
*opens overcoat to display leap seconds*

wanna buy a knockoff unix leap second?

good morning. aweful twitter news about OM. prayers up for his family and hoping for that to be a bad tasteless joke.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 19, 2022 07:38 AM (IJES/)

189
How old was OM?

Posted by: A dude in MI at January 19, 2022 07:37 AM

Old enough to mention recent issues with signing up for Medicare, so my guess would be mid 60's.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 07:39 AM (dQvv7)

190 178 Miriam Webster don't know everything
Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 07:31 AM (arJlL)
------------

It was the standard
now it's a POS

Posted by: Braenyard

Ya hear that Miriam ?

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 07:39 AM (arJlL)

191 expect millions will test positive or think they are.

*

See the link in my name field above. It goes directly to covid tests.gov, and read the "negative" field at the very bottom.

It's impossible to get a negative result.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - no significant difference in ability to spread or catch regardless of vax status at January 19, 2022 07:40 AM (wklve)

192 Tragic news about OM. Prayers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2022 07:40 AM (BFigT)

193 I just hope this news about Oregon Muse is wrong.

Though I'll wait for confirmation on the AoSHQ itself.

Sad day if so.

OM was a integral part of the slowly evolving AoS site. Ten years ago this was a different site and OM played a huge part in that.

I hope he'll continue too.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 19, 2022 07:41 AM (5NkmN)

194 Ever the optimist, I will hold off on mourning OM until I see something posted by one of the cobs. If true, I reckon that all his pain is gone, to be replaced by the purest joy Man can know.

Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader at January 19, 2022 07:41 AM (Bg96i)

195 Au contrarie. A postive leap second required a second be repeated. That is, a given Unix time during that leap second period in no longer unique.

Time is just a count of seconds since a particular time. Adding one to a number makes...the next bigger number. And the second after that is...just one more.

A negative leap second, which has never been needed, would render a whole second's worth of UNIX time to be invalid.

Removing a second from a minute doesn't change the count of seconds since a particular time.

You really don't understand how this works. All you're doing is adding 1 to a count every second. Changing the mapping of seconds to days doesn't change that fact.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 19, 2022 07:41 AM (ezpv1)

196 The poll, commissioned by Americans for Citizen Voting, surveyed 1,011 likely General Election Michigan voters. Among results, it found more than 75% of participants supported a requirement to show a government-issued photo ID in order to vote, while support among Black residents was even higher at 79%.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 19, 2022 07:41 AM (yrol0)

197 JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 19, 2022 07:43 AM (yrol0)

198 support among Black residents was even higher at 79%.
Posted by: rhennigantx

They're tired of being used by the communists. Both in theory and in practice (propaganda and fraud).

Posted by: lizabth at January 19, 2022 07:43 AM (L3Rsz)

199 Ugh, waking up to news Oregon Muse has passed away. Praying for his family and friends, what a loss.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at January 19, 2022 07:44 AM (GZ/yK)

200 Village Idiot's Apprentice.

On your SS be sure and sign up for part B.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 19, 2022 07:47 AM (byI+W)

201 >> You really don't understand how this works.

I understand very well how this works. You don't. You show a naive understanding. You need to understand the need for leap seconds, which is a compromise between UT1, astronomical time, and atomic time, best notion of constant definition of second we have, known at TAI. Your notion would be okay if you were using TAI, which is now about 37 seconds ahead of UT1, and thus UTC.

UNIX handles leap seconds by repeating the second after midnight, UTC when a leap second is inserted. During a leap second insertion, UNIX time repeats the first second after midnight. Thus there are two seconds worth of time with the same UNIX time stamp.

For those systems that slew the clock rate to avoid the discontinuity, the extra second is just stretched out over time over the next day.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 07:53 AM (Mzdiz)

202 See the NIST critique of UNIC leap-second handling. Now, since software running, expecting time to advance monotonically and never be discontinuous and jump, many UNIX systems handle the leap second by slewing the clock rate, slowing it down so that extra second gets stretched out over some acceptable period.

Leap seconds don't make time discontinuous or make time jump around. Look, suppose the second before a leap second has the count of a million, then the leap second has the count of a million plus one, and the first second of the following minute has the count of a million plus two. When looking at the count, which is all the time is, then you have no idea that there was a leap second there.

What makes time jump around and speed up and slow down is time synchronization with external clocks. That's why you should not use "wall clock time" for your timeout values, but that has nothing to do with leap seconds. We eventually switched to "uptime counts" for our timeouts for that reason.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 19, 2022 07:53 AM (ezpv1)

203 "On your SS be sure and sign up for part B.
"

I saw nothing specific for part B in the application, other than a question of if I had another healthcare plan, which besides Tricare, we don't.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 19, 2022 07:54 AM (3D/fK)

204 Village Idiot's Apprentice, call them and ask them.

Part B is important and SS is chickenshit about you signing up later on.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 19, 2022 07:56 AM (byI+W)

205 Changing the mapping of seconds to days doesn't change that fact.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 19, 2022 07:41 AM (ezpv1)

Leap seconds, or leap anythings, doesn't change the Julian time (microseconds since the most recent defined epoch of 1/1/2000 12:00:00.000 AM), right? It just changes what that the time is in regular calendar time? So there's a discontinuity in the mapping between Julian time and standard time.

Or do i have that wrong?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 07:58 AM (6FeV1)

206 Wait a minute.

You did sign up for Medicare, right?
Sign up for Medicare, it will take you places Tricare never will.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 19, 2022 07:58 AM (byI+W)

207 >> Or do i have that wrong?

No, you've got it just right.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 08:01 AM (Mzdiz)

208 I understand very well how this works.

No, you don't. Adding a leap second doesn't change the count of seconds that have elapsed. It changes the mapping of seconds to days. That's a totally different thing and quite easily handled.

You don't. You show a naive understanding.

You haven't explained why changing the number of seconds in a particular minute changes the count of the number of seconds since a particular time. You cannot explain that because it does not.

I understand the why of leap seconds, it is to make the sun appear on a particular meridian at noon on average, but adding a second to a particular day to make that work doesn't change the count of the number of seconds since epoch. The whole point of doing time this way, as a count of seconds, is to avoid all of the horsing around with daylight saving time and leap seconds and all the stuff like that, and it works quite well. However, it seems the message got lost somewhere.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 19, 2022 08:03 AM (ezpv1)

209 No, you've got it just right.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 08:01 AM (Mzdiz)

That's good.

The stuff i work with is usually plus or minus a couple three hours a far as anybody really cares, so it's never made any difference to me anyway...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 08:04 AM (6FeV1)

210 Wonder what's going to happen to Diablo Immortal. You remember? The April Fools joke that wasn't?

Also curious whether there'll be any anti-trust lawsuits put into play to kibosh this.

Posted by: Another Anon at January 19, 2022 08:05 AM (bW28E)

211 Ugh, waking up to news Oregon Muse has passed away. Praying for his family and friends, what a loss.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at January 19, 2022 07:44 AM (GZ/yK)

On no.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at January 19, 2022 08:10 AM (SH2Zi)

212
Read the NIST on the leap second, and problems here:
https://tinyurl.com/yv3ww2m9

See this Wiki, explaining how UNIX system handle leap seconds:

https://tinyurl.com/urze9b2t

Quote:
When a leap second occurs, the UTC day is not exactly 86400 seconds long and the Unix time number (which always increases by exactly 86400 each day) experiences a discontinuity. Leap seconds may be positive or negative. No negative leap second has ever been declared, but if one were to be, then at the end of a day with a negative leap second, the Unix time number would jump up by 1 to the start of the next day. During a positive leap second at the end of a day, which occurs about every year and a half on average, the Unix time number increases continuously into the next day during the leap second and then at the end of the leap second jumps back by 1 (returning to the start of the next day).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 08:11 AM (Mzdiz)

213
You see, the notion of UNIX time, and converting to day, like Jan 20th, 2022, all depends on a day being exactly 86,400 seconds long. The formula has leap years built in.

Problem is, with adding an extra second, one day thus as 86, 401 seconds. This fucks everything up.

The standard definition is that the first second after a leap second event is to be repeated. That is in the second, the UNIX time is not unique, but could represent two distinct times.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 08:16 AM (Mzdiz)

214 ...but could represent two distinct times.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 08:16 AM (Mzdiz)

SELECT timestamp, AVG(value)
FROM table
WHERE timestamp='a pain in the dink'
GROUP BY timestamp

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 08:20 AM (6FeV1)

215 The old left was worried about a corporatist oligarchial tyranny.

No, they were only "worried" because they weren't in charge of the corporatist oligarchy. They are singing a completely different tune now.

If you hadn't noticed.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2022 08:21 AM (psL96)

216 Jesus no, Oregon Muse was awesome.

I am crestfallen.

Posted by: sven at January 19, 2022 08:23 AM (Lzpvj)

217 Dang. RIP OregonMuse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 08:24 AM (6FeV1)

218 >> That's a totally different thing and quite easily handled.

No, it's not, and that's what the leap second has to be represented as a repeat of the UNIX time number.

The leap second, in UTC notation is 61st second in the last minute before midnight. 11:59:60.

Unix system behavior for that is to for from 11:59.59 to 12:00:00 as normal, then jump back to 12:00:00 when the clock ticks to 12:00:01.

And again, most systems just slew the clock rate during the time to stretch that extra second out over a long period.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 08:35 AM (Mzdiz)

219 >> You haven't explained why changing the number of seconds in a particular minute changes the count of the number of seconds since a particular time. You cannot explain that because it does not.

You're right, but it depends on what definition of second you are using. The formula for converting UNIX seconds elapsed since the epoch of Jan 1, 1960 depends on every day being exactly 86, 400 seconds long.

If you use the UTI definition of second, which varies according the hiccups of the earth's rotation, you're good.

If you depend on the atomic time, definition of a second, you're not so good. When the second was last defined, the earth's mean solar day was 86,400.003 atomic time seconds.

But they demanded that UTC tick at atomic rate, but never be more the +/- .08 sec out of sync with UT1. Than requires leap seconds be added every so often.

But Unix time requires exactly 86,400 s per day. Hence the "monkey business" as I called it with the UNIX handling of a leap second.

As of 2020, the earth's rotation period has speed up (due to mass re distributions) to around 86.399.999 atomic time seconds per day. This has delayed the need for a leap second.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 08:54 AM (Mzdiz)

220
You see, the "horsing around" as you call it, is all necessary to make UTC be within .08 seconds of UT1, as represented by UNIX time.

You want to keep time with TIA, you're right. Want to keep time with UTC, then you've got do UNIX time monkey business with leap seconds.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2022 08:57 AM (Mzdiz)

221 JJ_is_up

Posted by: CiceroSkip at January 19, 2022 08:57 AM (FIrEF)

222 To me, Activision will always be best known for Pitfall on the Atari 2600.

Posted by: Eric at January 19, 2022 09:45 AM (Tzt/5)

223 Thank you, PM, for the link to main.c in the SQLite library. The blessing was lovely. And the code is textbook example of how to construct a module. In its use of white space to enhance legibility, and its well-crafted comments, this module demonstrates the truth that source code is, above all else, a document to guide the people who will maintain that code. My hat is off to its author(s).

Posted by: Nemo at January 19, 2022 11:39 AM (S6ArX)

224 >I don't know if Microsoft can turn the beleaguered company around

I don't think that's their goal. MS wants gaming to be a subscription service like Netflix. That's why they tried to make game sharing/selling impossible with the XB1 launch, why they're releasing consoles with no disc drive, why they've been buying up publishers. It's to get the rights so they can control what's in their Ultimate Game Pass subscription.

If they never release another Blizzardesque title the acquisition is still solid because it drives people to the subscription service.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at January 19, 2022 11:59 AM (ArYuy)

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