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Complex organisms tend to evolve over time into even more complex organisms; with even longer gestation periods.
Simple organisms, like viruses, tend to reproduce faster because they are "simpler". They also tend to devolve into even simpler (and deadlier) strains by lopping off parts during a mutation that encourages even faster reproduction.
As the virus is allowed to reproduce unchecked, the chance of a "bad" mutation increases.
In case you were wondering ...
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I seriously can't tell if you're talking about COVID (and viruses in general) or humanity as we seem to go down in a downward spiral 
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So the f'wit deniers make it worse in so many ways?
Makes a lot of sense ... unlike them. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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"Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler".
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I've met a few, seemingly complex organisms devolve into a more simple/stupid state and they seem to reproduce at an alarming rate.
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Did you ever think of Darwin then?
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Herself is watching a TV program on campanology, but I'm sure she's seen it before, it's ringing a lot of bells.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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What a clanger!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Does a Madam say: "... and therefore never send to know for whom the belles toil; they toil for me."
(With apologies to John Donne)
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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Is this the kind of ding she does herself?
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It is indeed Her Dingaling[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Does the name Quasimodo ring a bell?
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Do the episodes end in due chime?
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She's not a clapper collector is she?
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I barely started working this morning, when my beloved desktop totally froze and gave me a blue screen of death! I haven't seen a BSD in some years. I tried to restart, but the bios did not boot Windows, but tried to boot from some utility over IPv4! It was trying to boot from an OS on the Internet! Yikes!
After some head scratching I went into the bios and sure enough: The preferred boot sequence was: First via IPv4, then IPv6, and lastly Windows. After fixing the sequence everything was seemingly back to normal. Out of an abundance of precaution I re-imaged the systems drive using my latest Macrium image.
It just bothers me that my bios settings were changed. I must confess it left me a little nervous! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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How old is your system? It could be just that the CMOS battery has died. Power off, and either disconnect power or switch off the PSU. Wait 10-30 seconds, and power back on. If you're back to the the previous boot order and the date/time has reset, you need a new battery. They're readily available and normally fairly easy to replace. Worth testing at any rate before you get too paranoid.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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Cp-Coder wrote: It just bothers me that my bios settings were changed.
Are you sure they changed? Maybe ip4 was always the first boot option? It's called PXE. Some systems ship with pxe first.
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In almost 2 years this is the first time it wanted to boot into PXE. Something changed the preferred boot sequence in the bios!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cp-Coder wrote: the first time it wanted to boot into PXE.
I don't watch my computer boot so if it were me, this might just be the first time I noticed that it tried PXE.
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Interesting. Just this morning, I experienced, on my own system, the sort of freeze that I haven't seen in a solid decade - mouse/keyboard not responding, not even Ctrl-Alt-Del could elicit any sort of response. Unplugged both the mouse and keyboard, still nothing - and this time the CapsLock and NumLock keys wouldn't trigger the lights for them. The mouse is going through a powered hub, but the keyboard is plugged into the PC itself, so that ruled that out.
Rebooted, all fine, and the system didn't report anything unusual, at least to the extent where it could have captured *some*thing in the event log.
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... might ba tima to changa/rafrash tha battary?
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No The computer is not yet 2 years old.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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