Posts by itsastickup

Made-up murder claims, threats to kill Twitter, rants about NSA spying – anything but mention 100,000 US virus deaths, right, Mr President?

Re: 100,000 is nothing compared to the UK's 40,000

..and how is that a refutation of what I wrote? It's evidently the case that 40,000 deaths from the UK of 70 million smashes 100,000 deaths from the US 300 million as a proportion.

Let's just help you with this as you evidently don't get percentages. Or your reasoning is based purely on emotional blackmail (which is, after all, the main reason for the lockdown instead of a quarantining of the vulnerable).

40,000/70,000,000*100 = 0.057%

100,000/300,000,000*100= 0.033%

.....so double the rate. Capiche?

Engage braincell.

100,000 is nothing compared to the UK's 40,000

Anyone with two braincells to rub together can see it doesn't make sense to quote raw numbers of Covid deaths. Raw numbers are meaningless in a country of 300 million compared to other countries of far far less.

Currently many other countries are thrashing the US for covid deaths, proportionately.

And also since it will be the >percentage< total AFTER the pandemic is over that is more meaningful, and even then one needs to account for other factors.

Since by far the majority of victims have had less than a year to live even without Covid19, those and other victims should be removed from the stats when apportioning blame.

This'll make you feel old: Uni compsci favourite Pascal hits the big five-oh this year

Re: pascal was simply useless.

...perhaps a pure version of Pascal was useless, but commercial versions of pascal had plenty of useful 'impurities' to help things along.

Microsoft blocks Trend Micro code at center of driver 'cheatware' storm from Windows 10, rootkit detector product pulled from site

A State-level infilitration opening up hacking possibilities. A sufficiently strategic mind would think of this kind of thing. It just requires blackmailing one employee.