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5 hours ago, Im_CIA said:

I'm a person that edits quotes, and I'm a person that edits quotes

Yes, yes you are.

Who are you? What do you want?

No thanks... Not into anime. Hentai however...

Deez Nuts.

Nuts.

1 hour ago, Psychotic Ninja said:

I move for a bad court thingy.

You want to court me? What?

On 2/6/2020 at 5:58 PM, Psychotic Ninja said:

 

On 2/6/2020 at 6:31 AM, Prinny said:

I don't  see a point in pirating software when there's free and open source application doing all I need. I'd use Krita on Windows as well. Of course, again, there are things Photoshop can do that Krita can't, that's why you look if application can do that you need done.

https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/introduction_from_other_software/introduction_from_photoshop.html#what-krita-has-over-photoshop

Yup. As long as it can do what you need. Unfortunately I need the additional text and blending functionality.

4 minutes ago, Prinny said:

so I wouldn't pay for Photoshop anyway.

Well, I definitely don't either... I still use it though.

7 hours ago, Annie said:

Antibiotics don't do anything because it's a virus. Viruses can't be cured by antibiotics or antifungals because it's not a bacterium or fungus. It's a virus. The only defense against viruses are vaccines and the immune system, and beyond that you can never cure a virus, only treat it.

This is a complete myth. Another scaremongering tactic in the long line of sinophobic propaganda that's been flooding western media in recent months, in fact. Wuhan has officially been quarantined, doctors in Wuhan are working around the clock to develop a vaccine and treat patients, and the Chinese government has ordered construction of more hospitals to house the sick.

I hate to have to defend China on this one but it's always annoying to see the blame tossed upon them when the media blows any major news story regarding them completely out of proportion.

7 hours ago, Annie said:

Again, wrong, there is no antibiotic that can cure a virus and there certainly is no cure for HIV. There is treatment that can make it easier to live with and more difficult to spread, but that'd be grossly misunderstanding what the drug actually does. You still have HIV even if you're living so comfortably with it that you may as well not have it.

https://www.dailysabah.com/health/2020/02/02/thailand-cures-coronavirus-with-anti-hiv-drug-cocktail-in-48-hours

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/anti-viral-drug-combo-cured-woman-of-coronavirus/

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-treatment-cocktail-of-flu-hiv-drugs-2020-2

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/flu-and-anti-hiv-drugs-show-efficacy-against-coronavirus-67052

https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-02-02-20-intl-hnk/h_f9dcabd30a7a19762113ae3aae284742

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ (timeline, February 2)

3 hours ago, Naughty Hieroglyph said:

My suspicion is that this has been aggravated by the horrific pollution going on in the country. Also remember that the older Chinese were malnourished from famine in their youth, hence why all the boomer teachers used to yell at you about starving kids in china if you wasted food at lunch. So far it appears that the people dying outside of china were Chinese expats living abroad, but there are not enough sources for me to verify that. 

I think that's a pretty logical assumption.

3 hours ago, Naughty Hieroglyph said:

So i suspect that the smog allowed easier transmission for the virus, which did happen with either sars or bird flu if i recall correctly. Combine that with chain smoking and dirty conditions and you have a powder keg waiting to go off. We had warnings: sars, swine flu, and bird flu all coming out of china over the last 20 years, yet nothing was done to prevent future outbreaks. Now we have an exceptionally dangerous one. 

Well, it is only really lethal to those with compromised immune systems, so again, that makes sense.

3 hours ago, Naughty Hieroglyph said:

Then there is the other craziness occurring simultaneous to the coronavirus: they have a bird flu outbreak, an African swine flu outbreak, and invasive armyworms decimating crops.  "Biblical disasters" is an appropriate thing to say in this situation.   

That's mainly due to poor food handling safety precautions. Basic health regulations that are actually enforced would go a LONG way to stopping this.

3 hours ago, Naughty Hieroglyph said:

how much of the global supply chain will be affected?

Not much at all... China has plenty of population to spare, and they don't really export food. (they do import a lot though)

3 hours ago, Naughty Hieroglyph said:

what happens when the doctors start getting sick and dying?

Won't happen. Doctors dealing with this are highly unlikely to have compromised immune systems.

3 hours ago, Naughty Hieroglyph said:

What happens if this virus can survive a few weeks in the smog? Can the virus be transmitted via the yellow sand pollution? 

Unless it mutates quite a bit, that is never going to be a problem. It only transfers with bodily contact right now.

3 hours ago, Naughty Hieroglyph said:

if so then that will hit the west coast of the US and the rest of the pacific?

There are already cases in countries other than China, but it was immediately contained. This indicates that China is mismanaging the problem, not that this is a serious disease that could change life as we know it.

3 hours ago, Naughty Hieroglyph said:

This might be the big thing to spur environmental regulations and reforms across the globe. 

No it won't. This isn't anywhere near dangerous enough for that.

6 hours ago, kerdios said:

Are you sure the antibioitics are for the virus and not just to protect the body from bacterial infection while the immune system takes care of the virus?

They're for HIV. They completely wipe out the virus entirely. Test positive going into the hospital, test negative coming out.

On 2/3/2020 at 2:17 PM, Im_CIA said:

Mister Bullseye , buam buam buam, what goes on in yo' head?

Shenanigans.

10 hours ago, kerdios said:

I mean a motive force, a reason to get out of bed in the morning that isn't just make money

How about this then? *kicks kerdios really hard in the shin with cleats*

38 minutes ago, kerdios said:

Is there a cure?

Yes. Strong antibiotics can fix this in under 48 hours.

39 minutes ago, kerdios said:

Is home rest and plenty of fluids enough to treat the mild cases?

As long as you're not immunocompromised, most definitely.

39 minutes ago, kerdios said:

I'm asking because I am hearing about a high contagion factor, but nearly no deaths, so is that because a very large amount of people are already infected but just haven't died yet?

It's basically a really contagious version of the flu. At worst it has a 3% mortality rate, and that's just because 3 out of 10 people are that weakened immunologically.

41 minutes ago, kerdios said:

What is going on?

China is refusing to provide at least basic health care, and is thereby spreading the virus significantly.

1 hour ago, Eshanas said:

mumble jumble

The term is "mumbo jumbo".

1 hour ago, Eshanas said:

What do ya think? 

I think you need to read r/HFY.

1 hour ago, kerdios said:

Don't need it

I need a motive

How about this for a motive? *hands kerdios half a pinecone with a speck of paint on it*

20 hours ago, Naughty Hieroglyph said:

Will it spark some reform?

Doubtful. Most likely it'll be forgotten less than a week after it has run its course.

16 hours ago, Psychotic Ninja said:

* It's hardly remastered, if remastered at all. If the only thing was done, (some) models were updated.

* The big thing is, any and all custom content created for the Remaster, Blizzard will automatically own and will take away your moral rights (meaning they do not, and will not, credit your, whatsoever). 

* Oh, and if you launch the game, even for a nanosecond, you can't refund the game. People found a way to get it refund, made tutorials, and were promptly banned from the official forums.

* I'm probably overlooking/forgetting/oversimplifying some things, but those should be the main points.

That's what Blizzard has become since Activision bought them. I still think that was the worst thing that could've happened.

Wen Watt says Who?

23 hours ago, Naughty Hieroglyph said:

It causes pneumonia, and THAT's what makes it dangerous. Bernie Mac died of pneumonia, and what shocked me was that lancet article about the kid that had no symptoms, but when they did a chest xray she had walking pneumonia. 

Pneumonia is not a joke, while it most likely won't kill healthy people, it will incapacitate them.  So we have a highly contagious disease that incapacitates people and is harsher than the flu, and takes about two weeks before symptoms start to show. 

The official lethality rate of the disease is only 3%. While that is significantly higher than the flu, that's still way less than almost any other major disease we've dealt with.

On 1/31/2020 at 2:43 PM, Prinny said:

Nobody needs run Windows-only programs, rather we need to run programs that do the job we want done.

Semantics.

On 1/31/2020 at 2:43 PM, Prinny said:

So while I can't run every Windows-only program I can get my job done.

Doesn't help me play games or use Photoshop. (which is much better than GIMP, mainly due to having an actually logical layout for all the controls)

Star Trek Online

All the event stuff I keep getting is making it really easy to make a new character, and then immediately outfitting them with some of the best stuff in the game for free. (except for space weapons, so far)

On 1/27/2020 at 12:11 AM, Im_CIA said:

Why does Picard dream of a bloated,  geriatric Commander Data? Doesn't he know that Androids don't age? Is Picard going senile?

It's symbolic...

Who says watt?