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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Coronavirus Vaccine and You
« on: September 11, 2021, 12:08:38 PM »
I think people should get vaccinated but I’m finding this “two tier society” which is being created unsettling. I don’t think that is part of some “government plot”. People can, after all, choose to get vaccinated. But I don’t like the idea of those who choose not to being treated like second class citizens who can’t get certain jobs or travel or go to certain venues

I think that globally, we are seeing a second tier of nations that don't have access to vaccine resources versus nations that have plenty of vaccine.

In America, this 'tiering' is being promulgated politically. The right wing is driving the anti-vax/anti-mask movement because it helps their cause (holding power.) These Republicans screaming about wearing a mask are all vaccinated, their families are vaccinated and if they get sick, they have access to the finest health care in the country. Do you really think that the governor of Texas would let his children romp and play with a contagious person not wearing a mask. The Republicans know that by creating antivaxxers, they are actually creating 'antiDemocrats.' The Republican sales pitch is that they are protecting our liberties from the terrifying homosexual, liberal, socialists. They don't care about the people they brainwashed ending up in the ICU. These antivaxxers think that the general public is being manipulated by some government/media cabal but the joke's on them.

There is one, straightforward question we all have to ask ourselves.
How bad would a public health crisis have to be before we mandate public measures to curtail its spread?
Whenever I ask an antimasker, a conservative or conspiracy theorist this question, all I ever get is a lot of hot air about personal liberty, the rise of socialism and a lot of bullshit but no answer. I have yet to hear a Republican politician take a stand with a real answer.

I have asked lot of people this question and posted it on forums. The only actual answer I've ever gotten came from Thork, whose benchmark would be a global mortality percentage (millions of dead people.) If a politician is going to ask for my vote, my support, they will answer this straight forward question in a straight forward way or they can go fuck themselves.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Coronavirus Vaccine and You
« on: September 10, 2021, 04:09:11 PM »

LMMFAO.

They can give me the shot of my choice when it comes time.

Some have suggested that those who refuse to get vaccinated should be refused medical treatment for covid.
At first it seemed like a pretty shitty viewpoint to me but now I'm starting to get it.  Why should we waste hospital beds on people like this?




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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Coronavirus Vaccine and You
« on: September 10, 2021, 12:07:05 PM »
ok, so the four anti-vaxxers in our west coast facility all got sick at the same time and crippled their warehouse. It's not a large operation and they have been struggling for the last two weeks to keep the business going while half their shipping crew is out.

Two are still too sick to work, one should be back tomorrow and one is in ICU. His wife and child are in the same hospital on a different floor. The absolute saddest part is that he was in the hospital bed posting anti vax propaganda from his phone right up until he was moved to ICU. Meanwhile, all the right wing media mouth holes that convinced him not to wear a mask, not to get the vaccine are all vaccinated. Their families are all vaccinated. Even King of All Dumbasses, Trump is vaccinated.

In America, many employers offer health insurance as part of compensation. Anyone without health insurance who faces a major medical incident could be in debt the rest of their life. Even with health insurance, you could spend years paying off medical expenses that aren't covered by your policy. When we hire someone who smokes cigarettes, the cost to insure them is much higher. As the cost of insurance is going up, the company has to decide whether to reduce benefits with cheaper policies or make employees pay part of the premium. This guy is consuming thousands of dollars of medical resources a day which is going to impact our already crushing insurance costs. If you think the vaccine is some financial scam, you need to look at how the insurance companies and health care industry have been collaborating to plunder the American economy for decades.

Of course, just like the guy in ICU. The anti vax crowd is going to call me a liar. They will say this family was hospitalized in a motorcycle wreck or they have been hired as 'crisis actors'.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Taliban Won
« on: August 23, 2021, 01:49:00 PM »
I am anti-narcotics of all sorts and believe that if anyone does use narcotics, minimally they are running the risk of typing stupid shit on the internet, just like you are doing here. Eventually, they will hasten their death.

Dude, I was doing drugs and alcohol decades before you were born. I have typed literally millions of words, in the form of novels, articles and postings. Nothing I've never written compares with the anger, nastiness and idiocy in your posts.

Maybe you need to try some drugs.

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Technology & Information / Re: How to Subnet, an Example
« on: August 17, 2021, 01:52:28 PM »
Just passed the Net+ but I was shitting my pants for a few hours before the start time. I studied circuit switched networks for hours and didn't see a single question on it.

* fist bump*

I want to take Security Plus but I'm sure I need to be in to network plus before I try it.

Microsoft has virtual server ISOs ( trial copies) for free download. I'm looking at setting one up in virtualbox to practice on.  I'm guessing that Active Directory is all over the network plus test and I hardly ever use it in my real life.

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Technology & Information / Re: How to Subnet, an Example
« on: August 10, 2021, 03:25:50 PM »
I asked the instructor why we have to learn to do this when there are calculators to do this.

Instructor: What if you're trapped on a desert island without your calculator and you have to assign IP addresses across a SOHO network. You would have to come up with the addresses by hand.
Well, yes, that is a terrible reason. A better reason is that you need to be able to reason about what the calculators are doing.

The only thing less professional than not using the tools available to help you is using tools without understanding what they do.

That is the most correct answer.

Unfortunately for me, I forgot all the subnetting techniques one day after I took the exam.

If I'm stuck on Gilligan's Island without subnet calculating software and I have to assign IP addresses, I'm screwed.

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Technology & Information / Re: How to Subnet, an Example
« on: August 10, 2021, 11:59:31 AM »
https://www.calculator.net/ip-subnet-calculator.html
https://www.site24x7.com/tools/ipv4-subnetcalculator.html

I asked the instructor why we have to learn to do this when there are calculators to do this.


Instructor
: What if you're trapped on a desert island without your calculator and you have to assign IP addresses across a SOHO network. You would have to come up with the addresses by hand.
Me: But if you're setting up a network wouldn't you have...
Instructor: Shut Up!

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Coronavirus Vaccine and You
« on: July 30, 2021, 09:17:19 PM »
That article Tom linked to says doctors are “feeling pressured”, but never does it even quote a single doctor who is feeling this way. It is just asserted and Tom is drinking it up.

He is a great puppet.

It's the same way that Tom believed Trump, when Trump was saying that all the doctors are lying and the pandemic is a hoax.

Of course, we really don't know if Trump is lying now or was lying then.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Coronavirus Vaccine and You
« on: July 30, 2021, 08:48:30 PM »

Quote from: Dr Van Nostrand
Ok Tom,   I'll ask you the same question I asked Wuhan80.

If all these numbers are fake and everyone is lying, how will you ever know if a real pandemic hits.

Probably when people other than the elderly and chronically ill are actually dying and these memes aren't possible:




But your 99.9% figure comes from somewhere. How do you know that's not a lie?

By the way, you understand that there are those who question the casualty figures of World War II? There are those who say Millions did not die in the Nazi death camps.

Aren't you just picking the numbers you want to pick?
Is the only thing that will convince you otherwise is to see dead bodies piling up somewhere?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Coronavirus Vaccine and You
« on: July 30, 2021, 08:20:20 PM »
Ok Tom,   I'll ask you the same question I asked Wuhan80.

If all these numbers are fake and everyone is lying, how will you ever know if a real pandemic hits. After all, even Trump says he lied about the pandemic. You believe the emergency rooms and intensive care units are packed with crisis actors right now. Do you not believe that pandemics occurred naturally?
You obviously have no friends, family or connections in the medical industry. I'm sure Mike Liddell will tell you the real truth.
For the anti-maskers it's all about defending their individual rights. Well, I also have the individual right to protect myself and my family from ignorant, disease-ridden rednecks spreading their pathogens in my neighborhood. You can move to Alabama where they believe all the internet science you're spewing.

It's funny how anything that inconveniences conservatives or cost them money is always a liberal hoax.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: July 27, 2021, 12:39:57 PM »
Trump says "routers" a lot  :D

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/07/27/bill-gates-maricopa-county-trump-routers-sot-ebof-vpx.cnn

Now he's talking about network equipment when the only app he knows how to use is Twitter?

This man doesn't know the difference between a router, a hub, a switch and a Playstation 5. Trump has no idea what he's talking about and needs to shut his face anus.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Coronavirus Vaccine and You
« on: July 26, 2021, 09:41:24 PM »
@Wuhan80

So if this is all fake and fear-mongering, how will you ever know when a real pandemic occurs?

There are no media outlets you trust, you have no doctors you trust and even your homeboy Trump admits that he lied about the pandemic.

You do understand that pandemics occur in nature? When the real one hits, how will you know and will you give the rest of us ignorant sheeple a heads up?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: July 13, 2021, 01:54:27 PM »
The sanction hearing against the Kraken lawyers in Michigan shows just how fucking absurd the whole charade was to begin with.

https://abovethelaw.com/2021/07/kraken-sanctions-hearing-devolves-into-screaming-shtshow-debacle/

The most disturbing part is how many Republicans actually believed and still believe that idiotic crap.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: July 08, 2021, 09:53:40 PM »
I can't believe there are still people trying to defend those filthy traitors. The question isn't why that person was shot, the question is why weren't hundreds of people shot.

That piece of crap Trump was going to send federal troops into my town to protect a Target store but he let our nation's capital fall to a bunch of freaks. Their own lawyer calls them short bus retards.

BTW if you have any doubts about how mentally deficient these rioters were, some of them actually believed that Trump was going to get them out of jail. Trump has screwed everyone who ever supported him, anyone who invested in him lost their money. And he doesn't give a crap.

If Trump hadn't run every military hero of integrity out of that Administration, we would have had Jeff Sessions,  Lieutenant General McMaster and mad dog Mattis walking to the halls of that building with their sidearms chasing those people out like the animals that they were.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: July 02, 2021, 02:31:43 PM »
It's Nixon all over again. Everyone around him gets convictions, jail time but Trump walks free.

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Technology & Information / Could Tor be next...
« on: June 30, 2021, 07:00:03 PM »
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-vpn-service-used-by-ransomware-gangs-was-just-taken-down-by-police/

What if cyber criminals (nobody on this forum) were using the Tor Network for mischief?

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: FE and ICBMs
« on: June 19, 2021, 04:27:04 PM »
While Total Lackey continues to be a contrarian let’s all remind ourselves that he agrees that rockets work. What exactly the problem with a large ballistic missile vs a smaller cruise missile is unclear.

I think it's the 'intercontinental' aspect of the ICBM that he would have an issue with since he can't explain the size and positions of the major continents.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden
« on: June 15, 2021, 06:25:23 PM »
Biden seems brain dead. Is he really going to play hard ball with Putin?

Tammy Bruce
@HeyTammyBruce
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Jun 13
This is horrible. At some point his cognitive disfunction has to be considered a natl security threat if only because of the confidence it must give our enemies “President confuses Syria with Libya three times”
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One word from the Trump administration:

COVFEFE!



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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Coronavirus Vaccine and You
« on: June 13, 2021, 01:57:29 PM »
You people are arguing over which experts are qualified.  Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, an actual doctor, I don't think any of you are doctors, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toledo, a real school, in 1980 and received a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree. So no one can say she's not qualified. She says people are being magnetized! So I'm going for it.

I used fake names to sign up for the free vaccine three times next week. Soon, my abilities will be unimaginable!

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Coronavirus Vaccine and You
« on: June 12, 2021, 02:46:25 AM »
I received my invitation to book an appointment for vaccination today. Finally, this will all be over.

Update: I have made an appointment to be vaccinated. I'll have my second jab at the end of July.

Dude! I just got my second vaccine and now I'm magnetized!  No, I'm serious! Small metal objects stick to me!

I'm going back for another shot! I'm going to increase my magnetic field! My power will grow!!!

I AM MAGNETO!  FEAR ME!!!

oh, wait, it fell off... hang on...  almost got it stuck...  got to really press to get it to stick...   there....

I AM MAGNETO!!!

https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/06/10/nurse-uses-key-hairpin-try-prove-she-is-magnetic-vaccine-during-ohio-house-hearing-video/

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/06/09/doctor-sherri-tenpenny-testimony-ohio-lawmakers-vaccines-magnetized-5-g/7616027002/

https://www.newsweek.com/man-attempt-vaccine-magnet-theory-fails-admits-wrong-1599322

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