Posts by Someone Else

Re: Follow

+1 for the ob Peter Gabriel reference.

Re: Precisely

Maybe, instead of spewing horse exhaust, you should perhaps look up and see exactly what a strawman argument is, exactly. Then perhaps you might measure your remarks so as not to come of like a complete ass/arse. Or not.

Re: The most important statement in the whole article.

I'm never sure if he's clever enough to make these sort of statements with embedded plausible deniability or if that's just a "happy circumstance" (from his point of view).

He's not (clever enough), in spite of his claims to the contrary. How to be sure? Just remember that everything he says is a lie, so when he claims to be the "smartest" or "a genius" or "stable", or ..., it's a lie. Simples.

Re: Ventilators: "You need millions of them, tens of millions..."

You like numbers, but got some of them wrong, and missed others.

As stated earlier, folks in ICUs are requiring on the order of 14 days, not 6 (or 4). So for the sake of thumbnailing, your worst-case scenario would require twice the number of beds, or roughly 5.2 million beds (and about 2.2 million for your best case estimate).

Now a large percentage of those patients need ventilators to stay alive. I do not have those numbers (maybe you do?), but if 80% of them did, that would be up to roughly 4 million ventilators needed in your worst-case scenario. Not the "tens of millions" that the original poster hyperbolically stated, but millions (plural) nonetheless.

Not sure I get the point of your post. Was it to shoot down the "tens of millions" point? OK, point taken; "tens of millions" is likely overstating the point. But your own numbers seem to indicate that millions is not overstating the point, and when our Douchebag-in Chief is squabbling over "40,000 or 30,000 ventilators", it is clear from your numbers that His Royal Hinie's concern is off by several orders of magnitude.

@raving angry loony -- Re: 1984

What are you getting all huffy about? Your rant accurately describes the foolish babblings of Tejano Lt. Governor Dan Patrick. And also seems to accurately describe the motivations behind the Douchebag-In-Chief himself. (Although I do believe Cheetolini's motivation stems more from his portfolio. Still, his xenophobia does indicate eugenicist tendencies.)

_{You chose your handle well, Grasshopper}

Re: Academics

What? Do you think tRump is going to magically lead our way out of this?!? Puh-LEEEZE!

Do these machines have to be Windows machines? I have spare cores available that are usually OFF, but they ore on a machine that runs Linux. Can they play?

Actually, I was reading El Reg, and ... what? That's not working? You sure???

_{Look, they say the average German male gets 25% of his daily nourishment from beer (the good German kind, the stuff that follows Reinheitsgebot). So, whose to say that I can't get 25% of my daily IT information needed to do my job from El Reg?}

Re: iLLinois

Don't forget FIB. (Those of you south of, say, Peoria may not know that one; if not, simply ask your Friendly Neighborhood Wisconsinite.)

Re: @ I ain't Sparticus -- Green card holders and the immediate family of US citizens get a pass.

At least I'm not old enough to remember Raquel Welch wearing even less, and battling dinosaurs in One Million Years BC...

Sorry to hear. That's why there are streaming services....

Re: the "EU failed to take the same precautions" as the US

The scary thing is people some mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging brain-dead MAGATs in the US will believe that, rather than that the USA has probably been the worst-prepared civilised nation.

There, FTFY.

Re: So has the fat idiot not heard of Heathrow or other UK airports?

In other words, Trump is using us as a quarantine area for the rest of Europe...

Well, while they are there, perhaps they can shoot a round at one of tRump's fine golf establishments....

Well, it's a well-known fact that tRump takes his lead from Putin....

@ I ain't Sparticus -- Re: Green card holders and the immediate family of US citizens get a pass.

You're showing your age, mate.

This all looks like an incompetent government trying to pretend the problem isn't there. If you don't test then you don't have cases to report, problem solved.

And that is all that matters to His Royal Hinie. He said so himself last Friday at the CDC photo-op tour; he likes the "numbers" where they are. So, if you don't test, you don't find more cases, and the "numbers" stay artificially low.

Re: Someone needs to notify the Home Office

That is true capitalism.

That's true American capitalism. I thought you guys were better than us that.

@ AC -- Re: Were the Met Police so 'highly accurate and well-informed' in the past?

From the song:

Business as usual in Police Room 619

Re: more than ignorance

That's not ignorance - that's something that someone at the very least should have lost their jobs over they learned from the folks in St. Petersburg.

There. FTFY. (Although you were not wrong in your initial posting.)