Posts by Chris G

Re: Tabloid Hyperbole

Quite, Sark is no longer feudal, that was dismantled in 2008 and replaced with a 30 chamber of 28 elected members, 1 life member and one hereditary.

I like the bucket greens Jake. Last year we had 3 types of lettuce, rocket and cilantro in buckets, they did well but we thought we had flying snails as they kept getting eaten. Turns out it was grasshoppers and locusts so this year they are getting fruit net around them.

Next year when I get the space ready we are growing spuds, three harvests a year is common here and home grown tatties are hard to beat.

Re: it's going to be recourse to the chainsaw, liquidiser, and home made sieve tray

Where can I buy soft absorbent sea shells?

Banks are the worst examples, trying to minimise human contact while not investing enough in the systems they want you to use.

Re: Turns out to be used already for COVID 19

Benzalkonium chloride is one of the main ingredients used in the disinfectant sprays for beaches in busy tourist spots so it must be relatively cheap and manufactured in bulk. I know it usedto be in a lot of household cleaner too but I haven't read a label lately.

Re: Should have seen that coming

I think it would be naive to not assume that government agencies everywhere do not avail themselves of the data that is available from the likes of Google, FB et al.

All they have to do is pay for it and I am sure it works out cheaper than using their own staff.

Re: WHO guidance... regularly disinfect work surfaces, keyboards and telephones

Currently one of their duties ought to be 24Hr sanitation on ATMs, keyboard and screens.

Re: The NEUKlearer Option ..... in Derivative AI Futures Markets in Support of Quantum Leaping

Is the seven and a half trillion dollar US debt considered to be liquidity?

Asking for a friend.

Re: Banjo's action - illegal?

My bicycle, when I am out on it, is in full public view, anyone can see it.

However, if someone takes it and stores it, at minimum they are going to get a slap upside the head.

Re: The toilet paper and ramen Apocalypse...

Part of your problem in the states, is the fact that the health system is built around the numbers that have adequate health insurance. That leaves some 80 odd million people without any reasonable cover or possibility of any chance of testing and expectation of decent treatment in the event they contract the disease.

Add to that the effects of epidemic contagion overwhelming a system based on helping those that can best pay, the system is looking at a very large potential problem. If the government doesn't put the welfare of the people and the means ALL of the people equally as a priority, it is looking at the potential for serious political realignment.

Re: Lockdown won't work, as France and Italy will discover.

I see so many people talking about the lead time/s for developing a vaccine.

The common cold is caused by any of a group of four families of corona virus, research that extends back over decades has still not found a functional vaccine for even a fraction of common cold viruses so don't hold your breath while waiting for a covid-19 vaccine.

Re: Corona hits 2020 - for german speakers

My German is very sketchy but that was very funny and very German.

Re: Google Fu required

Thanks for that Rich 2 I'll try your suggestions.

Re: It is not just phones.

Do Bosch not use industry standard bearings? If there is no number on the bearing itself you can usually take the measurements; ID,OD, width and application details and talk to a bearing supplier who normally can match 99.9% of bearings, that's what I used to do with oddball grounds maintenance equipment from strange places.

Of course if they are deliberately using one off items designed for a particular machine they should be nuked from space because that would be walled garden territory, there's nothing on a washing machine that could need a bearing that would be non- standard.

Re: Prediction - America will suffer a shit storm

Well, at least your scenario will be the first step for the Billionaire's Club plan to reduce the world population to 500 million.

Re: Ugh

The latest extension and potential of more to come, is, I hate to say it, quite clever.

Huawei doesn't know from one minute to the next how stable it's sales and US parts purchasing is so forcing it to look for other suppliers while to some degree stalling their ability to bring new products to the table with predictable markets.

At the same time it is helping US companies to keep their heads above water with sales to Vhina or more time for others to renew infrastructure.

All part of OHSG's art of the deal.

I liked the State dept's quote ' Security or Foreign policy' The foreign policy bit should come first and be written in caps.

Re: Avast

They are just a sales outfit nowadays, trading on the fact that they used to be a top player.

Download any Avast/AVG software and you will have nagware al day long, trying to sell you more of their crap.

Salesmen and beancounters can't write security software.

Re: Says more about their CNN possibly

I wouldn't rely on any piece of kit doing a clinical job that is produced as a consumer item.

There is a conflict between producing a marketable item that makes a profit and something that produces highly accurate results and has guarantees on performance.

Are there any clinical standards written into law for smart wearables that can supposedly monitor your health?

Because if there aren't, there should be.

Re: What laws have they broken?

Hard to say what laws have been broken and by whom!

Malware manufacturer vs Malware.

Re: Zuck it

The result of this is likely to be some seriously and newly rich lawyers and a total audit od Oz's privacy laws.

Meanwhile the ginger nut will not be appearing in court and FBOz will be making loads of puerile, childish statements about how it's not their fault.

Re: Spy agencies

I think FB is just the money making wing of the NSA.

That would explain the Zuckerborg attitude to Congress and Parliament.

"Those that are panicking have failed to understand the issue."

FIFY

Right now, out of over 101000 cases, over 55000 have recovered and 3466 have died, that's about a 3% death rate on par with flu.

The CDC in the US reckon on between 20000-50000 deaths from flu for the year 2019-2020 in the US alone and that is with tested vaccinations and well known treatments, the same susceptible groups are at risk of death from normal flu.

Covid 19 is a variant of the same virus that caused SARS. Google the same details I have.