Sammy

Lets have a reality check. 650k people die... in the US alone... from heart disease every single year. Slightly less for cancer. So people die, in massive quantities. Unless it is someone you know, or it is some kind of tragedy, It is a fact we are all used to and accept as natural without blinking an eye. Death has little meaning. Yet this time, with somewhere around 100 dead in the US, we are all fucked. Many books are going to be written about the mass panic of 2020 and why it happened compared to SARS, the avian flu, and others. Here is how stupid it is. Usually, if there is something wrong with you and someone steps in to help then you think 'thank you' and you're going to get better. Most people are optimistic by nature. But this time people are seeing any help as a sign that things are getting 'worse'.

And more being added every minute.

898,546 deaths? Huh?

So this kind of thing has happened before and it will happen again. Last few times we took it very seriously and took the appropriate measures but didn't have mass panic over them. Neither by the population nor the leaders. I keep hearing about X number of people infected, and how many dead, but next to nothing about how many have already recovered completely. It's been around 2-3 months. Since there is a 'death rate' there should be a number somewhere. Assuming the rate is %5, and a round number of 5k dead, does that mean the other 95k are all recovered? Oh and stores are now severely limited to what they can order for restock due to mass shortages. And now that the multipacks of water are gone, saw yesterday that they are going after the 12-pack boxes of soda. Panic buying again today. One customer gave me an attitude because she had to wait in the long lines. No shit lady... not that I said that to her. ?

It doesnt matter what pandemic means. All that matters is what people think it means. And to them its a scary word that means the end of everything. Oh and its not just toilet paper. Its tissue paper. Paper towels. Anything and everything with the word 'anti-bacterial' on it. Various canned goods. Pasta, of all things. Rice. Yes, rice. Wipes. Clorox/bleach. Of course water. Potatoes cleaned out. Including those huge 10 pound bags that most people dont bother with. Large sized bags of cheese. Eggs all gone. The store I work at has been full of panicky people for three days buying shit they dont need. And of course when that happens other people... that arent in a panic... go buy shit they dont need because the panicky people are buying everything. So its a snowball effect. When you see many people with shopping carts filled with multiple 24-packs of bottled water, and its not the Fourth of July, then something is wrong. All of this in a crisis largely of our own making. The only conclusion I can reach is that every year the population is getting stupider and stupider.

I suppose a good question is, would you rather have a six pack of TP or a six pack of good beer?

Lets see. The last time this country was shut down was 9/11. And this is no 9/11.

I have that model and it works well. Synology has its own 'raid' format. However, if movies are your goal keep in mind that this model doesnt have the cpu power to transcode higher bitrate video for Plex into whatever format your playback device requires. Going from a bluray rip to an ipad likely wont work. Also if it needs things like captions or subs. They need to be burned into the video stream and transcoded if the playback device cant handle it. And yes, get the RED drives for stability and reliability.

Stock market down 1000 points today. Thanks trump.

500 people die per year, in the US, from salmonella. Something you can get from beef at your local trader joes. Maybe some lettuce. Yet nobody panics from salmonella. They just take precautions. Thus far, 37 have died from coronaflu and its the end of the world as we know it.

Targeted? Trump just banned ALL of Europe (except the UK) from traveling to the United States for 30 days. Now tell us again that people are not panicking and overreacting. So all you XI members in Europe? Dont bother coming to the US. Apparently you are no longer welcome.

Just be sure your beer doesnt say imported from China.

As always I suppose time will tell. Its only been a day or two. So yes perhaps best to withhold judgement.

South Park is usually pretty fast producing shows that use heavy sarcasm on current world events. Often only a matter of weeks. I'm waiting for this one if it hasnt already happened yet.

Modern games, like MW2019, require beefy cards if you want reasonably high settings and to avoid heavy lag. I would go with their 'recommended' spec just to start (in this case a 1660) but even their recommended cards tend to be lacking. However the 1660 would be in that range price-wise as a mid-range card.

In many ways this mess is causing a bigger public panic and overreaction than HIV/AIDS and Ebola combined. And they were certain death regardless of your age or how healthy you were when you contracted it. Sure its a lot easier to catch the flu, hence the yearly cold and flu 'season', but its just that. A particularly bad case of the flu. I am waiting for Hollywood to make up corona virus movies like they did for those two. Maybe one will get an Oscar for best picture like Philadelphia with a patient struggling to cope with the flu. ? In actual fact of course things like the flu did kill those with HIV. But that also was the point. Their immune system crashed and couldnt fight it off. To put things into perspective I remember one particularly silly movie, that actually was meant to be a serious drama, where the 'solution' to deal with areas hit with Ebola was to kill them all with a MOAB. So the question is whether or not the coronavirus is bad enough to warrant nuking entire areas to eliminate it. Or is this all unjustified panic.

Pay to win? No thanks. I just saw the words 'bear market' this morning. Always a sign of bad things to come for economies. A great many people are now going to have a lot less disposable income to pay for more shit in a video game. For the kiddies, mommy and daddy arent going to be buying them either.

Maybe a ball of yarn?

I know a way to make it work. Set up redirect for all cod4 servers, even if only one player is present, to this server. Then watch the turmoil and chaos ensue. ? edit: Oh, and set it up so only players with 'adm' or 'mod' in their names are affected.

Panicky world leaders and media figures arent helping.

As always, be sure there is enough room in the case for everything. I think its the 'ultra' versions that are the largest cards.

"Professional display". So if your line of work truly needs those kind of capabilities then its a work investment. That said, Apple has always charged a huge premium for early adopters.

Yea. Doesnt seem to parse the link to embed it however. Ah well.

how do you insert youtube links?

Uh, yea. All these fuckers panicking means my investments took a big hit. How many people die from the good ol' fashioned flu every year and nobody gives a shit?