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Sandeep Mewara wrote: Didn't knew the word Went in another direction today. I guess nautical terms aren't very popular.
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Don't want a long cricket thread (if it gets converted to) but felt like sharing here about a great test match and the series that came to an end.
India loosing the first test (with one of the innings being 36 all out) to India winning the series scoring 300 odd runs chasing in final test. Simple awesome!
Great game of cricket!
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I was never a great cricket fan, but watching a few matches last summer I realised how exciting it can be. Well done India (I have to support my country of birth).
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Wow! Richard-Raja!
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Sadly I lost my Urdu many years ago.
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Cricket? never heard of the game.
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Nahhh, just kidding, congrats to India.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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[x] football (both kinds)
[x] baseball
[x] basketball
[x] hockey
[x] celebrity bowling
[x] cricket
Just added another item to the list of things I don't give a shyte about
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modified 19-Jan-21 7:12am.
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Bowling was qualified with celebrity, so does that mean you enjoy the professional version?
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Greg Utas wrote: does that mean you enjoy the professional version Actually, it's my adorable sense of humor - throwing that particular version into the same list as the others - as a loosely veiled further comment.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: [x] celebrity bowling
Heathen!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Not if you get to Bowl the Celebities, I can think of more than one Oxygen thief who could dismembered and thrown at wood pins with no great loss to civilisation
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yes, congrats on that .. And the Indian Cricket Team (well, Ajinkya Rahane) presented Nathan Lyons with a signed jersey for his 100th test - gentlemen
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It was fantastic Sandeep.
I loved it.
It was one of the best tests ever.
So exciting.
Being an Aussie I wasn't barracking for India.
But when they performed in the last test I thought like you "Simply awesome".
Yes a great game of cricket.
Congrats on the win.
So good to see India do so well without Kolhi and with all the new youth in the team.
I loved it like you.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Tried using a GIT commit at the end of a long running TeamCity build step and got into problems when someone committed in the meantime, GIT update would not work for some dark reason.
Asking for help on the TeamCity forum did not help.
Also one branch refused to build at all, it did not check-out.
Time passed, and lo-and-behold, after a TeamCity update I saw an option 'Use Git mirror', turned it off and hey presto problem solved!
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That we have a committee that has the power to say, that the government should ask for the committee's permission to apply the vaccine on us, as it is actually a human research...
I think the committee is not hole, we need to assign some policemen to let the committee actually confiscate the vaccine to stop this crime...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Agreed. Everyone should be required fill out an informed-consent form of at least 100 pages (hard copy, in triplicate, no carbon paper allowed!) before receiving the vaccine.
/s
Now seriously.
- The vaccines are given with a proper purpose - the prevention of a deadly (~0.8% fatalities over the entire population) disease
- The vaccines were tested using standard protocols, and shown to be safe in the short run (a few months)
- From other vaccines, we know that the overwhelming majority of side-effects of occur in the first hours/days, with vanishingly few effects lasting beyond a month
- (3) appears to be the case also for these vaccines
- All of this information has been provided in all media - print newspapers, radio, TV, internet, ...
In other words, the vaccines appear to be just as safe as the flu vaccines which many of us get every year. Is Helsinki Committee approval required for those, as well?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Although I developed some certain skepticism for some vaccines that the government has pushed (or been lobbied to be pushed, like HPV), I take a quite different view about life-saving vaccines.
Key word: life saving. Certain maladies have all but totally disappeared from live experience (and memory): typhoid, tetanus, diphtheria, and smallpox, to name a few. My sleeve is rolled up.
COVID: I didn't want to be at the front of the line but this past weekend I managed to schedule appointments for Mrs & Myself. I'd have liked them a month earlier than we are scheduled but you take what you get.
Pretty much everything you do in the health field is a gamble. Sometimes the chances of it going wrong are insignificant. Other times there's a bit of a roll of the dice. You are sort of obligated to use your brain (aside for keeping one's ears apart) and make an intelligent choice.
0.8% mortality rate . . . that's overall. At one end, it's far lower (very young children) but at the other end, it's freakin' scary. I'm in a 5x greater risk group. What a fool I'd be to risk a 1 in 20 chance of dying (and much higher chance of lingering effects) when I could prevent it with what appears to be extremely low risk of mortality and very low risk of side effects by the vaccine.
I, personally, choose to spend my paranoia wisely - by living long enough to do so.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I, personally, choose to spend my paranoia wisely - by living long enough to do so. Nicely expressed
I have tried to contact the authorities too... pretty much impossible for me to get in the line this year.
My wife is working in health system and was not even asked yet.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: What a fool I'd be to risk a 1 in 20 chance of dying (and much higher chance of lingering effects) when I could prevent it In that case, stay off the road.
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20212 wrote: In that case, stay off the road In my particular corner of the world (most) people have licenses to drive their vehicles. You should look into that.
Even the most reckless consider their insurance rates going up if they hit anyone or anything.
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Agreed.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: 0.8% mortality rate . . . that's overall.
I'm well aware of that, but I didn't want to lose the point I was making, namely that this is a vaccine against a DEADLY disease.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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0.8% mortality rate, vs a vaccine that has been ruled 95% effective (I'm going with the higher-end figure; I'm not aware any one of the other options have been made out to be more effective than that).
In light of this, doesn't it seem like the vaccine therefore doesn't do much?
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That's not the way to look at it.
Assuming that the vaccine prevents 95% of all infections, the death rate should drop to 5% of the current rate as well. If the current death rate in the US is 3,000/day, that would be expected to drop to 150/day.
All this assumes that the vaccine prevents disease, but not transmission. If the vaccine also prevents transmission, the death rate should drop even lower - the virus has no legs or wings, and can only be passed from one person to another.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Like most things medical, risk/reward comes into play. So, what is riskier for me, vaccine or trying to isolate? I decided the vaccine is less risky. Got my first shot Sunday, via the VA (over 75). 4 weeks to go for the second.
Need another hat for the second head growing out of my left shoulder.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: Need another hat for the second head growing out of my left shoulder. Waste Not - Want Not:
See if it's eligible to apply for social security.
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