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When was the last outbreak, 2000?
We had the media winding us up about H5N1, chicken flu, avian flu, chinesse stirfried chicken flu, and pretty much everythig else, so I am tempted to say, dont sweat it.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: don't sweat it
Precisely - sweat is one of the transmission vectors. I'm looking forward to the government health warning campaign slogan "Don't pet the sweaty things" 
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I was tempted to say 'dont sh*t yourself about it'
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But don't they have a point with the flu thing? As I understand it what we call Common Flu now is a strand of the Spanish flu which appeared in 1918, travelled back with the returning WW1 Soilders and ended up killing more people than WW1. The reason it doesn't kill as much anymore is we;ve built up an immunity to it. But every hundred years or so the Flu virus manages to mutate into a strain that can bypass our immune system and kill a high percentage that contract it. I think all the strains you have mentioned have the killer aspect, they just can't be airbourne yet and it's only a matter of time before one of them acheive this through mutation or cross strain breeding?
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They're taking them to a hospital right near the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. These guys kinda know what they're doing...
Besides, worst case... It's just Georgia...
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LOL: quite like Atlanta but the rest is a redneck wasteland.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: They're taking them to a hospital right near the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta
Can't they just disimigrate them back to Nigeria?
(I am going to have to hide after that!  )
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Ian Shlasko wrote: These guys kinda know what they're doing..
Except when they don't.[^] 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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So like I said, they kinda know what they're doing
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I think this is how that one show starts. The Walking Dead.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: These guys kinda know what they're doing...
yeah right. That's why they accidentally shipped the deadly 5N1 bird flu strain (I think that's what it was) to several labs around the country, and it was only discovered recently.
I don't trust the CDC with the spittle from my sneeze.
[edit] Oh yeah, your question. Overreaction. [/edit]
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: spittle from my sneeze.
Wasn't that one of Dr.Suess' less well known books?
Marcy was little
He liked to stand in the middle
and piddle with his fiddle.
The big chittle walked up
with a riddle full of fleas.
Little Marcy he declared,
have you heard of the CDCs?
And little Marcy said yes,
though he felt weak in the knees.
And I wouldn't trust 'em
with the spittle of by sneeze.
"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
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jeron1 wrote: Wasn't that one of Dr.Suess' less well known books?
That was absolutely amazing!!! 
Marc
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Move Ebola patients to the US. What could possibly go wrong? 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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A couple of months ago I noticed that IE on my Windows 7 machine quit rendering sites properly. Especially Microsoft Knowledge Base sites which would not let me select a different version. (FireFox does fine).
As IE is the company standard, and I thought it would be nice to at least try to use it. So after the problem appeared with IE 9, I upgraded to IE 10 still had the problem. But since I had FireFox I use it when IE does not work.
Today I tried upgrading to IE 11, no luck, still broke. 
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Syntax error: The proper thread subject syntax is "Why [object] sucks today" 
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Because its bloat-ware whose latest KB update just killed InstallShield?
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You're not the only one. My client uses Exchange Server 2007 for email support, and since I cannot join their domain, nor do I care to, I use the web interface, and it's okay. On my backup development system IE 10 (same version on the laptop) has a brain fart when trying to connect to the email - rendering just collapses into a singularity.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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So, an application I wrote about seven years ago has been acting up of late - some days yes, some days no, even though it's not been updated for a couple of years. This is all running on XPSP3 VMWare View Client.
So, I went and loaded appropriate compiler on my TC (Thin Client) image (VS 2008) and rebuilt the app - upgrading from .NET 1.1 to 3.5 along the way. This was a proper update, not the /clr:oldstyle flag.
And it works on my machine. On a regular TC session, however, it crashes on load w/kernel32.dll error.
So - It works on my box, where I can diagnose it, but there, it's not broken;
Flail my arms and hope for the best - but I feel myself doomed to lose this one.
Grunt.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Flail my arms and hope for the best - but I feel myself doomed to lose this one.
Welcome to development. Oh, and you need to have it fixed by yesterday.
Jeremy Falcon
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Ah the life of a developer. 
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It's Friday. Go home. You'll have the answer by Monday morning.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I've felt this pain before - rarely - but I know the outcome;
Current fall-back position: recreate from original C++ to HTML/php/javascript.
Sigh;
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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You think that's bad?
How about a random hard crash in legacy software that happens every Monday (Sometimes other days of the week, but usually just Mondays) on a random selection of 1-4 of about 20 user desktops. It somehow fixes itself sometime in the early afternoon (So we can't debug it after hours when the machines aren't in use), never hits a developer machine, and is (temporarily) fixed by releasing an update to the software (Even if nothing was actually changed).
So yeah... Bugs suck.
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