Just started listening to a U of Minn CIDRAP podcast this week, and coincidentally ran into a short (below) about the beginning of state (and other lesser than federal) agencies rising to fill in the gaps of our suddenly increasingly incompetent federal public health agencies. (I think the west coast states have started something too, but I…[Read more]

Pope,

Sorry if i have cost you time searching as a result of my misplaced placement intransigence.

Wow, thanks Reg. Glad I finally got to reading this.

I mentioned before that I’m incompetent in topics of history. I often even fail at accurately recalling the history of myself.

High school pre-college tests ranked me at 99th percentile in science, 95th percentile in math, 35th percentile in humanities and history, and others I’ve forgotten.…[Read more]

Reg,

@Enco – I ‘misspoke’ – I usually format the USB drive completely. Type each line, one at a time, from a command prompt in Windows to fully and safely delete data so it can be re-used.

diskpart
select disk 2
clean
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
exit

So what does this have to do with free expression?

Are you having…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Tá roinnt teangacha agam, cuid acu ar chaighdeán passable, cuid eile caighdeán “turasóireachta” an-bhunúsach. Ach tá an Ghaeilge líofa agam chomh maith, nó ar a laghad bhí mé nuair a bhí mé níos óige. Má chaitheann mé seachtain i nGaillimh (abair) tagann sé ar ais chugam. Is í an teanga is deacra a fhoghlaim.

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This singer’s even in tune.
And that second line, “Oww!”.

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Unseen wrote:
The original video won’t give me an embed code […]

You should be able to copy the embed code of a short video on Mac or PC by pressing Ctrl-click on the video, and then select “Copy embed code”. But you still won’t be able to use it in a post here without moderator rights, because the page has to be able to accept it as h…[Read more]

Simon,

There’s so much i might say.

But not today.

@Enco –  I ‘misspoke’ – I usually format the USB drive completely. Type each line, one at a time, from a command prompt in Windows to fully and safely delete data so it can be re-used.

diskpart
select disk 2
clean
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
exit

As a bit of an aside, have you ever considered how difficult English is to learn vs. most other languages?

Yes. When I am in America I speak Hinglish with my extended family. At home I am currently learning Tamil. Soon I will try to only speak Tamil in my house so it’s now a case of “Hindi theriyathu poda” and I will have to get the t-shirt for t…[Read more]