Yeah. Eventually I just started taking on the Galactic police. If you're fully upgunned and armored it can be one hell of a battle....

Weird game. Way way ahead of its time.

Oh starflight.... First game I loved right till the end, then wanted to stick my head in an oven....

Holy crap, bitcoin is at 9625 ish. This is nice.

True, warm bodies have been kept distanced, away from each other, etc and the numbers are going down. More in countries that did this well, less in countries that did not do this well. "Herd" immunity works when the herd is being careful.

Now we get to see what happens when you re-add bodies to the pool.

I have a feeling I know which way this is going to go, when you tamp down a fire to coals and then pour gasoline on the coals you get a predictable response. But hey, maybe "this time it will be different"....

Let's check back in 2 months. Place your bets folks, just remember that chip you're betting with is your life.

The Timex Sinclair was an amazing computer. I think it had 4 chips and used a CPU data line to directly drive the screen or something like that. Also made an excellent shim to hold a door open.

I should dig mine out and see if I can boot CP/M on it. Why not....

1) How do you die "supposedly"? Are they sinking the bodies in the ocean with cement shoes?
2) Hm. 84k people dead in the US. Multiply by 13x and you get 1.1 million dead. We're well on the way to that number....

Bitcoin go purrrrr......

Looks like it's hanging on AT 9000!!!!!

(again)

Hah, that is funny. Better than the usual pr0n. :-)

You need to send half of your bitcoins to my address.

I think ...

:-)

What, 9000? There's no way that can be right!!!

(again)

I know: Took work off today so I could watch it happen. Whee!

A softer, gentler gas chamber?

Hm.

Yep, bitcoin is on a 20% sale right now. Get it while you can.

I live in a nation that can conceptualize and produce this:



Nothing to really fear in the long term.

We'll see. At the moment our loving leader is beginning to realize the limits of his control of reality....

More to the point: Requiring the wearing of masks is like requiring the wearing of pants. Sorry, otherwise you smear your shit everywhere you sit, thus society requires pants. You exhale virus particles and infect others so society requires masks.

Well, in order to fall into the sun you have to stop orbiting it. De-orbit is tougher than you think because you're starting off with a lot of velocity from the Earth. Now you can lose energy by doing flybys of the inner planets, but since they are smaller than Jupiter you lose less energy than you can gain by a Jupiter/Saturn flyby. So it is easier to go out of the solar system from Earth than into the sun.

Messenger's wikipedia page (mercury orbiter) probably has a good write up on the process.

I love how every fucking coin goes down in unison. Guess someone had a hankering for cash to buy a planet or something.

Elwar, if you were in control with the government this would never have been an issue. Heck if a fucking chicken had been in control this would probably have been a minor issue. The thing that really ticks me off is that this happened THREE times in the past.

• In 2002 we had the SARs epidemic. World governments worked together to contain and mitigate it, and the result was a minor issue with no recurrence.
• In 2011 we had the H5N1 nightmare. World governments tried to suppress, then because of me they worked together to identify and create vaccines for it. No problem.
• In 2012 we had the MERS epidemic. World governments worked together to contain and mitigate it, and the result was a minor issue with no recurrence.

Now in 2020 we have COVID/SARS. Same thing but this time world governments are all fighting with each other over pointless shit, did not work together, and the US government in particular not only did nothing but instead spread lies that allowed it to not be contained, to arrive on cruise ships released by fucking political pull, and spread like wildfire in the country.

As icing on the cake this moron leader disbanded the teams who knew how to work on this in 2018, ignored the runbooks, and put the president's moron son in charge of responses that were not only laughable but totally counterproductive.

Sorry. Those trillions of dollars down the drain is the complete and final responsibility of one Donald Trump and his less than worthless Rethuglican cronies. Their lies, inaction, and malicious response has directly cost this country trillions of dollars and as of this afternoon 78,397 dead people.

Yes, I do believe Elwar that you would have done a great job. Really, I do. But this is what the people of the US wanted, and this is what they get. They can deal with it.