In work from about 2004: "CDC researchers and their colleagues successfully reconstructed the influenza virus that caused the 1918-19 flu pandemic, which killed as many as 50 million people worldwide." https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fflu%2Fabout%2Fqa%2F1918flupandemic.htm

See also "The Deadliest Flu: The Complete Story of the Discovery and Reconstruction of the 1918 Pandemic Virus." https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fflu%2Fpandemic-resources%2Freconstruction-1918-virus.html

If memory serves, a researcher contracted the 1918 flu and died. We are lucky this wasn't a Wuhan-like event.

Ken was good but I'd vote for James Holzhauer.

Have these morons learned absolutely _nothing_?

For a long time I thought NASA was the only part of the Federal government that worked. And then NASA killed seven astronauts.

And then NASA killed seven more astronauts.

I no longer believe NASA is the only part of the Federal government that works.

Chrome sucks eggs in managing my bookmarks.

I've managed my own bookmarks for years by putting them (often with comments) into a file using vi. This completely isolates my bookmarks from the vagaries of browsers and lets me find bookmarked items very quickly with grep and other tools. My bookmark file currently has 11,005 links.

"In the 70s and 80s a lot of people liked Fords precisely because they had carburetors, mechical ignition timing, and no computers and you could actually repair everything without a technical training course from the manufacturer."

My 1994 Taurus began running erratically one day. Turns out the speed pick-off in the transmission used a gear that was part metal, part nylon and the nylon was worn to the point of not meshing. A year later the same part was worn to the point of being inop. The replacement was mostly nylon.

Ford learned how to make stuff cheaper but to fail more often. I learned never to buy another Ford under any circumstances!

"Musk said there should be a competitor to the F-35 program..."

There was, the F-22. Alas, obama canceled it. Loser.

Did they really say the Y2038 problem will occur at Pi AM, 3:14 in the morning? I assume they mean in UTC so it won't be in my timezone but still.

With Linux if you pass 2,147,483,647 to localtime() and convert the result to UTC, you get Tuesday, January 19, 2038, 03:14:07.

Dems, you may think you've done a tremendous service to the American public. Think again. Keep pushing for open borders, $50 trillion health care plans, $90 trillion green new deals, rampant socialism, other ridiculous, dangerous, and unobtainable goals. Keep forgetting about the forgotten man and woman. You will guarantee the reelection of Donald Trump.

My life is finally complete.

My life won't be complete until he publishes volume 7!

Why should we consider voting for a guy who's been a freakin' SENATOR for years and can't even manage the most basic vocabulary of Civics 101?

The bigger question is why should we consider voting for a guy who never held a full time job until he was 41, whose honeymoon destination was Russia, and who is now a multi-millionaire?

Every time I hear Bernie or the other socialist presidential candidates wanting to give away more free stuff, I'm reminded of a quote by Margaret Thatcher: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

Years ago in a patriotic, buy-American theme, I made the mistake of buying a Ford Taurus. Worst car I ever owned! Now you couldn't give me a Ford anything. They will somehow dork up the parts made from coffee chaff, etc. This is just another reason to avoid Ford.

I suspect he's never been to a steel plant or to a plant that manufactures automotive parts or to a pulp mill. If he had, he would likely rethink this silliness.

Somebody please figure out how to create a mosquito bacteria that will prevent lunatic democrats from infecting our capitalist society with socialism!

By using Lil and Katy, Amazon et al show us they aren't serious. If they were serious, they'd hire Donald Knuth instead. But only, of course, after he has finished volume seven of TAOCP.