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You don't get to take home anything without dramatic haggling and ending up paying far more than the junk is worth. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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By the sixth time you try to walk away, the price has normally come down!
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Only two times if you loudly exclaim "Help! he's trying to rob me!"
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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You've done this before! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I actually got good enough at haggling that I was offered a job in an Arab shop in Jerusalem's Old City by a shop keeper. It's a lot of words and body language and knowing what something's worth (to you) - and often fun.
In a weird way, it's a better way to buy and sell: both buyer and seller were content with the prices if the deal goes through. How often do you buy (online/brick'n'mortor) and feel like you overpaid?
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The last time I commented on something like this, I got in trouble.
With that said, yes, the manure continues. 
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Simples.
Avoid mentioning presidents, parties, and different politics/religions that might turn into any type of political/religious blame fight.
Instead point out ridiculous stupidities that makes even the directly affected people shake their heads.
When in doubt, don't.
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Yeah, my post was rhetorical, but thanks anyways.
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I actually guessed as much, but my response wasn't meant just for just you.
I had a thread getting locked yesterday because of some people not being able to keep it down.
The tread was meant to be informative and could've started some interesting discussions. But didn't.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Instead point out ridiculous stupidities that makes even the directly affected people shake their heads.
Unless that stupidity comes from a president, of course. Then it shall not be mentioned, even if you do not mention the president, only the stupidity.
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In other words, don't talk about presidents, or prime ministers for that matter, because almost everything that they do can be construed as stupid.
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I was reading about this.
Apparently, what they do is they use it to find people, so that they can whip them off into confinement, where they're not allowed any contact with any other people for an indefinite period, except for the guy who once a day shoves a tin plate of bread and water through a flap in the bottom of the door.
There's some confusion as to its effectiveness, though, and it's thought that there must have been some mix-up in the AI's training regime, because, rather than coronavirus infection, it seems to detect Israeli passports.
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One can hope their leadership, especially their supreme leader, rely upon it to guard their own health.
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Quote: bipolar virus inside
As long as it gets support, a sensible and manageable medical regime and looks after itself with plenty of sleep, good food and avoids triggers that virus will be fine.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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So, the Government isn't following "the latest scientific advice" at all. It's just following the plot (and quoting huge chunks of the script?) of this 2011 film. 
I recorded it back on 26th March (ITV2) and got round to watching it last night. It is genuinely scary how close this is to predicting our current situation. And it's quite a watchable film.
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Have you played "Plague Inc"? it's pretty scary how close that is to the current situation as well.
In that, you are the plague, and your "job" is to kill the entire human population. One of the easiest ways is to start with something that shows few symptoms, does no real damage, but infects like crazy. Once you have it well and truly established, start it killing as fast as possible. And the later countries close borders, ban flights, and so forth the easier your job is ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Have you played "Plague Inc"? it's pretty scary how close that is to the current situation as well.
I know this is going to be huge shock, (and big disappointment) to my fellow loungers, but I don't play computer games! Having worked in IT for 40 years, the last thing I want to do with my spare time, is go anywhere near a computer - apart from the odd visit here at the weekend. 
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 With the rare exception, no computer games for me either. And never anything fast-paced. For that, there's tennis.
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Although I respect your stance on computer games and working with computers all day, I have to play a few games every now an then to help escape the real world. In moderation, it is quite therapeutic.
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Slacker007 wrote: In moderation, it is quite therapeutic.
Exactly
Some days I like to read a book, other days I want to see a film, other days I want to play...
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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5teveH wrote: I don't play computer games!
I played some games in my student years (in the years of command line interfaces only, and the classical Adventure game!) Then a couple of my classmates went completely crazy, spending all their time on it. They got hold of the Adventure source code (in Fortran!) and started extending it, trying to outsmart each other by adding new tricks you had to use to grab the treasures, and so on. One of them later stated "Being a University junior was the three best years of my life".
So I got it up my throat, watching those guys. It expanded to other sorts of games as well: Since my student days, I haven't really played a single game, neither board games, computer games, quizzes or whathaveyou. (Exception: When small kids beg me to play children's card games with them, Ludo or other plain-luck games.)
So you are not alone as a non-gamer!
The one "game" I really wished for as a student, I never saw (and never got around to develop myself): I was quite interested in astrophysics, non-Euclidian space, black holes and such, and dreamed of a space invasion inspired "game" made in strict accordance with current cosmological theories, that would allow me to navigate a space ship towards black holes or super-gigantic stars, to see how close I could get without crashing. I bought one of the standard bibles of astrophysics, Misner, Thorne, Wheeler: Gravitation[^], having a section headed something like "The fate of an astronaut who is dragged into a black hole", describing how his body will be pulled out to a thin strand, the different speed of the clock at his feet and head, and so on. I really wished to have a model where I could see this happen! (Of course a major requirement would be an adjustable virtual time, to let you travel many light years a second in open space, and to slow down the fate of that astronaut to slow motion.) I don't know if you would call that a "game", but I never found (or made) anything like that anyway.
I wonder: Do astronomers / cosmologicans have that sort of visualization tools to use for themselves? Or don't they need it - do they just imagine in their heads? (Similar to "Radio plays have so much better images than TV plays!") If they have it, can they adjust parameters like the amount of dark energy/matter? DaveAuld presented some astronomy pictures the other day; if you read this: Do you happen to know of any such visualization models?
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I like computer games, primarily ones that have a good story to keep me interested and that have simple controls, but my problem is that I never have time to play them.
I have an 8TB drive (and back-ups) that's almost full of installers for games, and shelves full of game CDs/DVDs, that I will never play.
So I'm not so much a video-game player as a video-game buyer.
Shopaholism is a real thing.
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This is, in a way, how the old "Stoned" virus worked. You can have countless infected diskettes and yet not have the virus yourself - until you accidentally try to boot from one (left in Drive A:, remember?). Now, every floppy that goes into your system becomes a carrier. And it doesn't kill your system (the Michelangelo knockoff, unfortunately, did).
Or, put in more draconian terms - just for illustrative purposes:
Think of some undesirably genetic trait. It could be a dominant or recessive gene - so consider both scenarios.
Dominant Gene: Essentially if you kill every one who has this gene before they breed you can wipe out the trait. As a dominant gene, anyone with one or two copies shows the trait and all vectors of transmission can be observed.
Recessive Gene: Many carriers who, having only one copy, show no undesirable physical traits - only those with two copies are apparent. Genocide won't help as you don't know who to target.
Similarly, a parasite that (quickly) kills its host will not be nearly as successful as one that lives off it - and even less successful, still, than a symbiotic relationship.
Covid-19 carriers, it seems, are mostly asymptomatic, or nearly so. It's pretty obvious as to which category it falls into.
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5teveH wrote: It is genuinely scary how close this is to predicting our current situation
That's because it was written by a real writer, not the hollywood variety.
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