CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk

[Captainant 27836]

10 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:

Dude what? It's going to change the clock speed of applications and connectivity. Empowering a lot of next-gen tech that is coming. Advancements in things like super computers and data processing and mining and quantum computing...all will be impacted bigly. I see your "Lol, 5g wut?" and raise you an "lol wut?".

dude you need to stop mindlessly repeating the shit your boomer friends are posting on facebook. This is just a stream of buzzwords. Tech and improved connectivity is undoubtedly going to continue to transmute our society in ways we could never have imagined, but that doesn't mean it has to be the worst possible case. Unless you and your buddies continue to make the concerted effort to make it so.

- a guy who does cloud computing with a specializations in automation, pipelining, and AI/ML.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33900]

7 minutes ago, Captainant said:

dude you need to stop mindlessly repeating the shit your boomer friends are posting on facebook. This is just a stream of buzzwords. Tech and improved connectivity is undoubtedly going to continue to transmute our society in ways we could never have imagined, but that doesn't mean it has to be the worst possible case. Unless you and your buddies continue to make the concerted effort to make it so.

- a guy who does cloud computing with a specializations in automation, pipelining, and AI/ML.

Q: as a casual nerd, doesn't clock speed refer to hardware? can applications have a clock speed?

[Sawbonz 27608]

36 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

have to basically blanket an area in transmitters to have any sort of reliable 5g service. 

What do you think the vaccinations were for?

[Guest Lobo]

16 minutes ago, elfenix said:

as always, facebook groups are the downfall of society (lots more in the thread):

 

 

For the insurance money?  That bullshit is still making the rounds?  There's nothing stopping you from hitting up Tractor Supply on your way to the ER.  

Sometimes I think Big Pharma is being outdone by Big Perm.  I mean, Big Worm.  

[Captainant 27836]

Just now, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Q: as a casual nerd, doesn't clock speed refer to hardware? can applications have a clock speed?

Typically, yeah. Or some sort of low-level processing and clock speed is specifying the number of cycles per second that the processor can process. Applications are typically focused on and instrumented for individual user experiences, so metrics like response time, replication lag between shards of an application, etc. 

[DonkeyCigars 143]

7 minutes ago, Captainant said:

dude you need to stop mindlessly repeating the shit your boomer friends are posting on facebook. This is just a stream of buzzwords. Tech and improved connectivity is undoubtedly going to continue to transmute our society in ways we could never have imagined, but that doesn't mean it has to be the worst possible case. Unless you and your buddies continue to make the concerted effort to make it so.

- a guy who does cloud computing with a specializations in automation, pipelining, and AI/ML.

What world are you living in? Please go back and see my post about being lazy or naive. My opinion of course.

As an interesting aside and tying back to your comment about lines of service and availability, did you know that McAllen and Laredo have the best/fastest 5G connectivity in Texas? Neither here nor there, just an interesting aside.

And this little tidbit should hit @jimmyjazz and his ilk in the "I resemble that remark" feels:

According to an April 2021 YouGov poll, one in five US adults (20%) have not heard of 5G coverage at all. Additionally, among those who have heard of 5G, 27% are unsure what it will be useful for, and 15% explicitly think it won’t be useful at all.

[DonkeyCigars 143]

5 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Q: as a casual nerd, doesn't clock speed refer to hardware? can applications have a clock speed?

That's the original reference, extrapolated to mean applications or even general business and culture. Consultant jargon out front shoulda told ya: https://www.oliverwyman.com/content/dam/oliver-wyman/global/en/2016/jan/A-new-paradigm-for-competition-clock-speed.pdf

[DonkeyCigars 143]

20 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

Yeah ok.  Negged.  However, you bring up a point that I think bears repeating.  If nothing else, China has provided the blueprint for how some malevolent actor could take out the US as a superpower.  Simply unleash a virus.  Everyone else will work their ass off to get vaccinated.  Americans will not.  You could kill off millions of us with a well designed virus that has a vaccine available for it.  And don't think that other countries haven't noticed that. 

I don't disagree. Again, China is the chola that threw the beer can at the drunken NFL fans of opposing teams that started the brawl and slinks away to avoid the mess.

[ROFL BOX 6649]

24 minutes ago, elfenix said:

as always, facebook groups are the downfall of society (lots more in the thread):

Hmmm... I wonder what the deductible is.

[C-Man 27285]

24 minutes ago, elfenix said:

as always, facebook groups are the downfall of society (lots more in the thread):

 

 

The more of them that stay home to die in this fashion, the better IMO. Takes up less hospital resources. Hell, let's send them ivermectin to the house if they ask for it so long as they sign a release forgoing any future hospital assistance in all COVID related matters.

[jimmyjazz 46247]

8 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:

And this little tidbit should hit @jimmyjazz and his ilk in the "I resemble that remark" feels:

According to an April 2021 YouGov poll, one in five US adults (20%) have not heard of 5G coverage at all. Additionally, among those who have heard of 5G, 27% are unsure what it will be useful for, and 15% explicitly think it won’t be useful at all.

I didn't say 5G would not be useful, I just dispute whether it will lead to even faster dissemination of (sometimes false) information.  I think the argument hinges on how lazy the target audience is -- people can get information almost immediately right now, but sometimes that requires reading, so . . . you know.

I'm not at all disputing that faster speeds and higher bandwidths won't lead to profound technological improvements.  I just don't know if it will make any difference in the donkeys getting their misinformation.

Edited September 13, 2021 by jimmyjazz

[DDD Dad 14354]

Texas Football also causes major organ damage. Where’s the research? WHAT IS CDC HIDING

Jesus don’t bring Longhorn football into this. That’s a bridge too far.

[DDD Dad 14354]

How is that? 5G is going to connect us in ways faster than we already are, which is going to open up many other avenues of technological disruption. We've seen what atrocities we can do to ourselves with 4G. I'm scared of 5G.
Speaking as a technologist, of course, not as a 5G is a conspiracy theory or whatever camp. But I'd love to hear how that makes me an outed dummy, unless you outed yourself as one by not understanding the premise.

Ok Chrispy.

[Beau Vine 54468]

52 minutes ago, elfenix said:

as always, facebook groups are the downfall of society (lots more in the thread):

 

 

Naw, I think that's excellent advice.

[Hornius Emeritus 12491]

1 hour ago, DonkeyCigars said:

Dude what? It's going to change the clock speed of applications and connectivity.

LOL. What?  Signed, a guy who worked as a tech-support supervisor for Dell, Apple, Origin Systems and Power Computing and as a network administrator for 10 years after that.   HINT: You can't change the clock speed of an application or connectivity because clock speed is a measure of the number of processing cycles a CPU can perform per second. 



 

Edited September 13, 2021 by Hornius Emeritus

[Captainant 27836]

Just now, Hornius Emeritus said:

HINT: You can't change the clock speed of an application or connectivity.  

Not unless you...

[Hornius Emeritus 12491]

40 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:

That's the original reference, extrapolated to mean applications or even general business and culture. Consultant jargon out front shoulda told ya: https://www.oliverwyman.com/content/dam/oliver-wyman/global/en/2016/jan/A-new-paradigm-for-competition-clock-speed.pdf

Holy shit ... you're doubling down on stupid.  Even that guy is putting "clock speed"  in quotation marks because he realizes that he's using it in a way that is unique and special to his little essay.  NOBODY uses clock speed to describe applications. It's like talking about the speed your toaster makes toast in miles per hour. 

[Bama Chick 28596]

[Bookman 4642]

1 hour ago, elfenix said:

as always, facebook groups are the downfall of society (lots more in the thread):

 

 

Yeah I try not to make random nurses the beneficiaries of my life insurance policy.

[TwiceHorn 31576]

2 hours ago, C-Man said:

Allow me to vent for a second. My kids are in HPISD schools. My 10th grade daughter is vaxxed. My 8th grade son is not. Daughter was able to get it based on consistent badgering of her mother, who finally relented. She's adamant our son will be not be vaccinated any time soon, not even one shot. You might recall, I just took my daughter to get her second without informing her mother, who authorized the first shot and maybe a second many months down the road.

Anyway, a few Saturdays back the HPISD school board had an emergency Saturday meeting and invited the public to come and speak. It was expected the board would implement at least a temporary mask mandate. It was about 75/25 (maybe more) people vehemently arguing against masks. (The 75205 and 75225 zip codes have well above 75% vaccination rates, I believe). After the dog-and-pony show, the board announced there would be no changes to policy at this time. Some parents were directly saying if the board implemented a mandate, they would immediately cease all donations to the district. Due to Robin Hood, HPISD relies heavily on the "Mad for Plaid" program to help replace funds that go to help other school districts across Texas. Others threatened to immediately sue the district. In the end, the district caved and said counsel advised them to "follow the law" as in Abbott's law. Whatever. I've ceased to be amazed by some of the shit that goes on in the Park Cities.

In addition to not mandating masks, or vaccines, the school is doing the absolute bare minimum to do anything about cases that crop up at the schools. There is an ongoing dashboard counting the number of cases at the district's seven schools and administration. They send out emails letting you know that X number of confirmed cases are at whatever school you have a kid at. And you also get a notification if one of those cases is in one of your kids' classrooms. But they do not contact trace. They do not tell you if the kid that was in your kids' classroom sat next to them, or was a lab partner or whatever. Am I being overly sensitive here? My daughter told me the kid who sits next to her in Spanish is out with COVID. All I got was an EM saying there was a child in her class that tested positive. Fortunately, my daughter is vaxxed. Again, I'm certain my son will get infected at some point.

We will be dealing with this pandemic well into 2022 IMO. This. Is. Fucking. Lunacy.

I think for the district to tell you essentially which kid is sick would be a HIPAA and student privacy violation.  And with the aggressive lunatics around, you could be reasonably sure that would become an issue.

[Bookman 4642]

1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

I think for the district to tell you essentially which kid is sick would be a HIPAA and student privacy violation.  And with the aggressive lunatics around, you could be reasonably sure that would become an issue.

Does HIPAA apply to school districts?

[Gatorubet 30324]

Not unless you...

So -it goes deeper than we thought!

[Pescado_Rojo 19439]

58 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I didn't say 5G would not be useful, I just dispute whether it will lead to even faster dissemination of (sometimes false) information.  I think the argument hinges on how lazy the target audience is -- people can get information almost immediately right now, but sometimes that requires reading, so . . . you know.

I'm not at all disputing that faster speeds and higher bandwidths won't lead to profound technological improvements.  I just don't know if it will make any difference in the donkeys getting their misinformation.

You don't need 5G to watch youtube videos of some redneck ranting in his truck recorded on a Cricket phone. 5G will be great for Netflix, Prime, and PornHub. Also for industrial IOT use cases at the edge, but the rubes are getting plenty riled up with HughesNet Satellite DSL out in the sticks.  

[TwiceHorn 31576]

4 minutes ago, Bookman said:

Does HIPAA apply to school districts?

If it employs a school nurse, then pretty likely yes.  And FERPA in any event.

And given the types of parents that are threatening to sue schools over mask mandates, I think they're right to be ultra cautious.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

Some of this thread lately:

[TwiceHorn 31576]

5 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

You don't need 5G to watch youtube videos of some redneck ranting in his truck recorded on a Cricket phone. 5G will be great for Netflix, Prime, and PornHub. Also for industrial IOT use cases at the edge, but the rubes are getting plenty riled up with HughesNet Satellite DSL out in the sticks.  

I would tend to think that 5G internet, which is primarily a mobile technology, is less of a watershed internet event than the replacement of POTS with the various flavors of broadband.  56kbps to 300kpbs and up was far more of an event in enabling stupidity.

[Anastasis 23490]

3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

56kbps to 300kpbs and up was far more of an event in enabling stupidity.

[Pescado_Rojo 19439]

2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I would tend to think that 5G internet, which is primarily a mobile technology, is less of a watershed internet event than the replacement of POTS with the various flavors of broadband.  56kbps to 300kpbs and up was far more of an event in enabling stupidity.

Yea, I'm talking about people consuming multi-media on mobile devices. The Industrial IOT use case is what has the Verizons and AT&Ts of the world excited. Think of all the places it's problematic to run networking. IOT sensors all over a refinery on private 5G spectrum for monitoring pollution and also for things like predictive maintenance and analytics. Disney has a big contract with AT&T for private spectrum 5G in the theme parks for all kinds of data transmission. Think of the parks as small SMART cities. 

[Biff Tannen 45750]

1 hour ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Holy shit ... you're doubling down on stupid.  Even that guy is putting "clock speed"  in quotation marks because he realizes that he's using it in a way that is unique and special to his little essay.  NOBODY uses clock speed to describe applications. It's like talking about the speed your toaster makes toast in miles per hour. 

My toaster makes toast at 88mph, which when combined with a flux capacitor, is what makes time travel possible.

[DDD Dad 14354]

Holy shit ... you're doubling down on stupid.  Even that guy is putting "clock speed"  in quotation marks because he realizes that he's using it in a way that is unique and special to his little essay.  NOBODY uses clock speed to describe applications. It's like talking about the speed your toaster makes toast in miles per hour. 

Chrispy is letting his inner Swam shine.

[DDD Dad 14354]

If it employs a school nurse, then pretty likely yes.  And FERPA in any event.
And given the types of parents that are threatening to sue schools over mask mandates, I think they're right to be ultra cautious.

What about FUPA?

[Bama Chick 28596]

Five weeks??? Damn.

[Anastasis 23490]

5 hours ago, Macanudo said:

The 18 authors include Philip Krause and Marion Gruber, F.D.A. scientists who resigned from the agency, at least in part because they disagreed with the Biden administration’s push for boosters before federal scientists could review the evidence and make recommendations.

 

I really wonder how Krause and Gruber stood by last years while an Administration that handled this like monkey's flinging shit at each other was in charge but now take such umbrage with the current one being too aggressive?

 

If the Trump administration did wrt a vax EUA what the Biden administration did wrt vax boosters you would have seen similar departures. 

Edited September 13, 2021 by Anastasis

[staboner 4988]

9 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

Five weeks??? Damn.
 

 

Edited September 13, 2021 by staboner

[elfenix 34339]

1 hour ago, Bookman said:

Does HIPAA apply to school districts?

no.

Edited September 14, 2021 by elfenix

[SaucyJack 3504]

42 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

My toaster makes toast at 88mph, which when combined with a flux capacitor, is what makes time travel possible.

[Biff Tannen 45750]

1 hour ago, SaucyJack said:

Not sure how that's related, but it is green.

[Js1 85610]

39 minutes ago, elfenix said:

no.

How dare you, I know my hippo rights 

[brakeman 28455]

[brakeman 28455]

 

Both feel like he's faking it but I lol'd. 

[NWBuck 8588]

1 hour ago, Bama Chick said:

Five weeks??? Damn.
 

The Dude abides (in the hospital). 

Great to hear he's better... If the unwashed vax-es cost us Bridges, there'd be heck to pay. 

[HenryJames 66189]

[Celery Man 21004]

I told my wife she could only use my chef’s knife if she washed and dried it and put it back on the magnet as soon as she was done with it or done cooking. I saw it just hanging out on the drying rack and we had a fight in which I said that I had been very specific about what to do with the knife, and it wasn’t to just throw it on the drying rack. She said “I didn’t just THROW it on the drying rack! You think I just THREW it on the drying rack?” and the next thing I knew the argument had shifted from how she didn’t do the correct thing with the knife to how I had mischaracterized the way she had placed the knife on the drying rack. She changed the topic and it became impossible to keep the argument on track and I ended up just buying her her own fancy chefs knife that she can put in the dishwasher for all I care.

”CHYNA!”, especially early on but even still now because we are on the stupidest timeline, is the MAGA distraction to change the discussion from what we need to be doing to what we can talk about that no one is going to do anything about whatsoever. If you want to hold China accountable for whatever their culpability is, elect professional adults into office instead of clown rapists and the world’s most bottom feeding grifters. They’re just going to fuck their constituents’ ability to move soy. But in the mean time is that what we need to focus our attention on when the house is on fire and we could put it out if the right wing outrage machine would quit whipping half the country into a fervor about how the antidote to the pandemic is going to upload your thoughts into the cloud or whatever.
 

I care about mental health too but it’s the exact same shit whenever someone guns down a bunch of kindergarteners. “Mental health is the real problem”. Ok asshole, we’ll just mop that up while we’re eliminating rape as a crime instead of doing some version of the thing that works in every other country.

 Also it entirely does not work to tell your wife “I don’t care about that” when she shifts the argument to something that is more defensible for her. Major error.

[Pato del Muerto 52621]

8 hours ago, DonkeyCigars said:

I agree that we ("Americans") have been one of our own worst enemies once the fire was started, but I'll never not be confused with how quick and easy some of you people want to let CCP off the hook and eat all the culpability. While hyperbolic, the intent was to "never forget" the bull crap CCP and how they brought this to our doorstep.

Maybe this has been covered in the past 2 pages, I’m skipping ahead. 
 

but to take your China amendment to its conclusion, here’s what’s going on. 
 

China created a bio weapon and let it out.  It is infecting and killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. But not to worry, our scientists mapped it and created a vaccine that renders it almost completely impotent. And hundreds of thousands of “patriots” are refusing to take it in the name of freedom against the communism of the Democratic Party. 

[Bullneck 19217]

 

 

[Bullneck 19217]

5 hours ago, DonkeyCigars said:

All true. We are all parts of a sphere depending on our lived experiences and it's our job to continue to expand that sphere as lifelong learners/growth mindset people. I'm not making excuses, I agree with you.

Just dropping in to say you got 44 rep points.  You probably have 44 posts on the last two pages.  Do the math, troll.

When your numbers turn red it becomes sport.  

[Guest Lobo]

2 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

Five weeks??? Damn.
 

5 weeks in the hospital?  I can only assume after several days, the charge nurse told him, "Yeah, they got us working in shifts."  

[tx 3 putt 77551]

4 hours ago, C-Man said:

The more of them that stay home to die in this fashion, the better IMO. Takes up less hospital resources. Hell, let's send them ivermectin to the house if they ask for it so long as they sign a release forgoing any future hospital assistance in all COVID related matters.

 

die at home with your family, a much better way to go 

[Radical Larry 28664]

[Gap03 3339]

50 minutes ago, HenryJames said: