If the judge does not agree, Flynn can simply appeal the case. All the DOJ has to do to reach the desired outcome is to agree with the defendant's position in their first response.

Flynn wins appeal by summary judgement.

Is this going to be another one of those science-denialist threads that ignores the fact that healthiness is a continuum with no clearly defined upper bound and so there are always ways to improve it, and instead argues that the lack of any absolute standard means that the whole concept of "health" is meaningless and we should therefore just sit around eating chocolate ice-cream all day?



Because that's not really the best way to address the perceived shortage of healthy people.

I found a nice article detailing how halving are implemented in the bitcoin code.
A nice read, even if you are not a programer (like me).

Dissecting the code responsible for the Bitcoin halving


There is a nice paragrahp demystifing the legend the bitcoin protocol expectes 64 halvings.

Advertising shill, another account spamming about Blocknet.

When you see someone talking about Blocknet in the Trading section, check out the post history of the user. You will notice they also post about Idex and Stakenet in almost all their posts (like @OP btw)
At this point you can be sure they're not interested to have a discussion, their only goal is to spam via different accounts trying to make people feel this project is exciting or revolutionary.

As far as COVID, "vaccine" is a media pipe dream. COVID-19 like all these virii mutates rapidly. But every year, they'll have a flu vaccine that's better than no vaccine. That's the way it is.

That's sort of where we start to disagree. You can't. You can ASSUME what someone's intentions may be, but you don't know. Assumptions are not facts.

It may sound trite, but someone's INTENTIONS might just be to talk. On international media.

Talk to any practicing doctor about the COVID matter. Someone who has been a government administrator for forty years does not speak for him.

SNIP

No to the above.

The reason is that because you have several assumptions there.

Fauci's been an administrator for 40 YEAR!!! Not a "medical doctor."

Yes, if the vaccine is already available to the public, I think it will start to return to normal. However, this will take maybe years but OP don't say never. And also, once the potent combination of medicines is identified, we will slowly trust ourself to go out. But still practicing social distancing and all. Outbreaks in our history had been surpassed so is this one.

Thanks - and for the merit. I know that in theory we are supposed to merit 'good' posts, even if we disagree with the content. However in practice this is a rare occurrence, and I for one definitely find it a challenge to give merit when I disagree... so thanks, appreciated, this is what we should all be doing more often.


For me this is the crux of it. Yes China tried to suppress the outbreak initially, but I would argue that's not the reason for the huge number of deaths across the world.
If we look at the timeline, even back in January, the WHO was giving a risk assessment of 'high' at the global level (and 'very high' for China).

Here in the UK, our government didn't implement lockdown until 23 March... nearly two months later. Whose fault is it that the UK has thousands of deaths? Whose fault that the US has thousands of deaths? Why didn't the UK lockdown as soon as it became apparent what was happening in China? Why didn't the US lockdown as soon as it became apparent what was happening in Europe? These countries gambled the lives of their citizens against the chance of the virus not reaching them, all in order to prevent a bit of economic damage that would ensue from quarantining new entrants. And it would only have been small economic damage compared to what we have now, due to their failures to act.

Many governments around the world have managed this crisis very badly. Now they are trying the old political trick of trying to pin the blame on someone else. It's absurd.
Also look at the fact that the South China Sea stuff is suddenly back in the news... weird coincidence how this suddenly becomes a major issue at this time.

This is the essence of it. Bigger countries bully smaller countries, whether by troops on the ground, trade embargoes, or more subtle influencing or coercion. More powerful groups bully less powerful groups. More powerful people bully less powerful people.

I have no idea why people are attacking China. The idea of 'punishing' China seems like an abrogation of responsibility. CV19 originated in China, and China's initial suppression of whistleblowers was a dereliction of duty and did cause an outbreak when a different type of government might have managed to contain the virus. However their actions since then, purely in terms of suppressing the virus, have been exemplary, particularly compared with the atrocious mismanagement we've seen from other nations.

The rest of the world knew what was coming, and chose to do nothing until it was too late. Certain prominent politicians around the globe now seek to blame China in order to hide their own failure to take action. If the US/UK/whoever had implemented 14-day quarantine procedures for people entering the country as soon as the outbreak in China became apparent, then the death tolls in these countries would be negligible or zero, and the economic damage would have been slight rather than extreme. Blaming China is the 'grown-up' equivalent of the kid in the playground who is caught out doing something bad, then they just point at another kid and say 'he started it!'. You can't just try to pin your own failing on someone else, particularly if you run a country. Governments act too slowly, and are reactive rather than proactive. They are interested in what might make them look bad right now, rather than what might make them look bad a couple of weeks down the line. Our fault as voters in democracies really, it is us who put these idiots in power.



And this thing about the South China Sea, I am not defending China's attempts to wrest control over the area, but... this has been going on for years, but suddenly now it is a huge issue? Ridiculous. The people who are suddenly outraged by China's behaviour there and are demanding retributive action need to ask themselves why they had zero interest in this topic prior to the CV19 outbreak.

As China may be a developed country they need to regulate everything within the world they're going to rule the entire world they need to require control of the planet economy as they need trade and commerce. But not every desk will ever accept it. Because the entire world has suffered such a lot due to China Their economy is hampered. Although China wants to be influential within the world, Japan, us, and Russia won't support them albeit they're their neighbors.

I think this is the right step.
Although I think that the virus will be forgotten soon, because something new will appear.

I think that in the future everyone will have such work that gives a lot of free time for spiritual development, for some personal interests, for spending more time with family, etc.
But it will not be right away. We still have to get to this.

Google one of the leading search engine platforms and Facebook the leading social media platform must always need to maintain their systems and keep up. Even they have a large company base still that are freely working on it, still, they need to follow their rules but having a huge responsibility still they need to work. Those large company does not want to waste a huge amount of money just like this pandemic outbreak still they need to maintain their systems up. Also because of this crisis, there is much more number, active users, because they are in their homes. The Google and Facebook decision on home base does bring more comfortable to their employees. It is a huge disaster if they stop their service.

That's enough to build THE WALL!