You’re welcome to throw your parents into the grist mill. I’m not. Neither are their grandkids or great grandkids.  We ALL understand the odds and the stakes, and we’re willing to put up with a great deal of inconvenience.

...but they’ll get over it. Or they’ll die. One or the other. Some of their parents may die, too. But not many. That’s just the way it goes.

These aren’t ARM machines, they are machines that run on custom chips using the ARM instruction set, which has been licensed from ARM. Different beasts. (Lots of extraneous stuff built into a standard ARM chip just won’t be there.) As a result, the odds of being able to run anything simply written for ARM chips would…

Based upon the initial announcement, that’s not going to happen. Hospitals are FORBIDDEN from duplicating their data to the CDC, even if they had the time or resources to do so.

The Supreme Court just allowed Florida to become a debtor’s prison.  Their right to vote depends upon the money they pay to the state.

Always, always add “*Impeached President of the United States, elected by a minority of U.S. voters.”. That’s what annoys him.

Back this data up quickly. Comparing the last week of data here to the first week of new data (when and if it appears) is the only hint as to the accuracy of the new data.

Trump included the fact that their funding will be cut if the hospitals don’t provide data to the DHHS (controlled by the White House) OR if they copy that to the CDC.

It’s time to start cutting the President out of the loop. Call your Congresspeople, especially the GOP Senators. No online partitions - they are ignored. Phone calls and letters have to be logged and documented.

Now we’ll see if this becomes the Republicans’ new “Just Say No!” campaign.

Nowadays, when a company spokesperson chooses the term ‘tolerance’ regarding BLM, they’re being literal. They don’t aspire to fairness or equality, they’re implying that they are willing to “put up with” whatever the letter of the law ultimately forces them to do. Odds are they won’t go through with it…

While I agree that she has suffered, those were social repercussions, executed at the whim of an interested public community - not the judicial system. Even if you believe the social side-effects were harsh, those whims might not be adequate next time. The simple truth is that she broke a law, maliciously and…

He actually holds up Sweden as a good example? (See “Sweden has become the World’s Cautionary Tale” in the NYTimes)

While over-tipping a server might only directly benefit that one person that day, that person is working the front lines - and is probably putting up with the most directly personal, abusive crap that bad customers can dish out. I’m supporting the owner by buying a meal - usually a larger meal than I normally would,…

The worst sunburn I ever got was at the beginning of 8-day school trip via charter bus. A sponsor on the trip happened to be a pharmacist, and he provided me with a mixture of Vaseline & Rose Water. Didn’t cure it completely, but it was the most successful treatment I’ve ever found in a long history of sunburns.

One thing to keep in mind is that XCode loses the capability of building code that supports “obsolete” Macs. In most cases that’s minor - just keep using the old software. But in a few specific instances it’s a real pain in the ass - particularly when it comes to banking and tax software. These companies tend re-compil…

If you’re visiting a location, always take a picture of the entry sign. I know it seems touristy and stupid and the images are rarely attractive, but since digital photography makes each shot practically free, it will serve as a divider in your photo library that indicates when you changed locations, and provides you…

Were the police there as paid security for the Trump campaign or as officers of the law? If they were paid security, being in uniform certainly puts it back at the feet of the Police Department and the City.

300,000 sign ups for a 19,000 seat arena, don’t y’know.  All in all, they can’t count.

“We had legitimate 300k signups of Republicans who voted in the last four elections.”