Well, this isn’t strictly in the plot of The Stand, but since it’s happening a bit after the Emirates airliners had people down with ‘a cold-like illness’, I am willing to shoehorn it into the scenario.

I think they crossed that Rubicon long ago.

AAh, man! Finally!

I gotta say that there is no way I would follow and confront a man who is holding a gun, even holding it as that guy was. When the gun came out, that was the time to leave the building quietly, and call the police from another location.

You’re sadly close to the truth.

His “Democrats made it up” claim started me thinking that the InfoWars and Q-anon people will start saying that Democratic Party death squads went to Puerto Rico and drowned thousands of people to make Trump look bad.

Aah! But the plug itself is passive, so you can clip any new transducer onto it as the technology improves.

The GoFundMe makes no mention of insurance. Being Kansas, I am sure there was no Medicaid expansion, but I don’t know if the family had purchased health coverage. I cannot remember if the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is still in effect, or applicable here. I hesitate to guess on how the parents…

Back in the ‘80s, bone conduction headsets had to squeeze so tightly that they were really bulky. I’m glad the technology has improved so much!

The Washington Post had an article, when Bluetooth headsets were becoming common, called “A Tough Call: Invisible Phone Or Invisible Friend”

They should instead embed a ceramic plug directly into the skull. The plug itself would be a passive socket, to which the sonic transducer would be clipped. then sounds would be perceived by bone conduction.

Yeah. The older ones I bought years ago were nice, but eventually got some kind of sensor glitch, and did the “Roomba Dance of Death”. But I love the idea, and so when we came into a bit of money, we bought two more recently. They’re great.

Yeah, We actually have two older models that are still working fine. They wake up in the early morning and sweep the floors, and I don’t have to walk on dusty floors when I get up. But I haven’t looked into how much they’ve advanced, and we’ll save money to replace them when they finally die.

This:

True. And the physical media are themselves self-destructive. “Plastic” is a complex mixture of materials, some of which are reactive or volatile. Over time, plasticizers evaporate out of the material, or different components react with each other, even in the absence of oxygen, leading to degradation and decay. Those…

The video clip almost brought up an important point about paper: it does not require particular supportive technology to access the data encoded on it. Well, maybe it does, but uses the term “data security”, when a more appropriate term might be “access persistence”.

Thank you for your informative reply. Often, training in team management gets a bit ‘touchy-feely’, with an emphasis on communication and rapport, but industry-specific details are harder to come by, except by oral tradition.

I think his Spiderman looks too much like Darth Maul.

Is it legal to use electronic records as an engineering notebook? It is much too easy to alter an entry without evidence, unless your software is built to retain all changes with a timestamp.

Part of the problem of electronic records is that you’re kind of viewing a large document through a moving keyhole. It is still much easier to flip back through a book to the vicinity of a remembered page, navigating just by the thickness of the stack of pages you are turning, than to remember exactly where some entry…