Nice conjuring. First you pull "hundreds-not-dozens" of fake successes out of your hat then you wave a wand and accuse libertarians of ignoring "conflicting data" which you also fail to produce, but hey, let's all believe "Plugh" is a smarter and better informed guy than Milton... suuuure!

The EU’s escalating war on internet freedom and American tech companies is not about “protecting consumers” or “preserving democracy.” It is a textbook case of centralized power reasserting control over the greatest engine of voluntary exchange and uncoerced speech in human history: the open internet.

The EU’s flagship weapons: the Digital Services Act (DSA), Digital Markets Act (DMA), GDPR, and the emerging AI Act, function as modern mercantilism dressed in progressive rhetoric. They impose sweeping prior restraints on speech (“illegal content” and “disinformation” defined by unelected bureaucrats), mandate interoperability and data-sharing that expropriate private intellectual property, and levy punitive fines (up to 6-20% of global turnover) that only entrenched European champions like Deutsche Telekom or Orange can hope to influence through lobbying. Smaller innovators and American platforms that refuse to build EU-specific censorship infrastructures are simply gated out.

Brussels resents that the internet’s infrastructure, protocols, and dominant platforms emerged from American libertarian soil; rooted in end-to-end principles, permissionless innovation, and First Amendment culture, rather than from continental traditions of étatisme and "licensed speech". When Meta, Google, or X push back against demands to pre-screen political content or surrender encryption keys, EU regulators do not negotiate as equals; they threaten existential penalties, knowing most companies will kneel to protect European revenue.

The EU is hostile because a truly free internet is inherently anti-hierarchical and anti-border. It routes around sovereigns the way markets route around central planners. To Brussels, that is an existential threat that must be regulated, fragmented, and ultimately re-sovereignized under the banner of “European digital sovereignty” :a euphemism for cartelizing information under state-supervised oligopolies. Internet freedom and American tech dominance are merely the most visible casualties.

Shhh!!! Don't let any cancers hear you.

I think parent was asking how to undo the damage already done by the autoimmune attack. It may not be fixable, depending on what's been damaged, how badly, etc.

CAR-T is interesting. Not a biologist, but I'm hoping that and similar technologies can be used to program immune cells to destroy viruses like E-B.

There exist antiviral drugs too. Dr. House liked acyclovir. (Do people know Hugh Laurie's father is (was?) a real doctor?)

I too had a pretty bad case of mono around age 20. A good friend, very strong and fit, had it in his mid-30s, and IIRC he ended up hospitalized. He always thought he was getting allergy attacks, and would get so run down he'd have to hole up and disappear for a few days every now and then. My bet is he was getting too run down, not enough immune-boosting sleep, and E-B would overwhelm his system.

Thanks for the shingles vaccine tip. I'm NOT an anti-vax person (sheesh) but I'm not big on needles, nor things that might cause problems if I don't think I need it. IE, it ain't broke, don't fix it. That said, Dr. said I should get a once-in-a-lifetime vaccine earlier this year- covered several things including some viral pneumonias. I'm not sure if I had reaction to it. Nothing acute, but maybe psychosomatic feeling a bit "off" for months afterward.

Question is: I'm not sure if I had chickenpox. How do I know if I need shingles vaccine?

Pseudo-official drug agencies, like the FDA in the US or the newly proposed African Medicines Agency (AMA), act as gatekeepers of death, not guardians of health. By enforcing a "safe *and effective*" mandate, they block patients from accessing existing, potentially life-saving medicines unless they're backed by billion-dollar clinical trials. This isn't about safety; it's about entrenching a monopoly for pharmaceutical giants.

The "safety" obsession already stifles innovation, but demanding proof of effectiveness at scale crushes smaller players entirely. Only mega-corporations can afford the $2-3 billion and 10-15 years required for FDA approval. As economist Milton Friedman warned "The FDA has done a great deal of harm by preventing people from obtaining drugs that would have saved their lives... The harm done by the FDA is not in the drugs that are banned, but in the lives that are lost because the drugs are not available."

In the 1980s, the FDA delayed approval of Misoprostol (a cheap ulcer drug) for use in medical abortions by over a decade; despite its proven safety and efficacy in other countries. During that time, thousands of women in the US resorted to illegal, dangerous procedures. The delay wasn't about science; it was about bureaucratic "caution" (safety cultism) and political pressure. The same pattern repeats globally: the proposed AMA risks mirroring this by harmonizing Africa's 54+ regulatory systems into one slow, centralized bottleneck: delaying generics and off-patent drugs that could treat malaria or HIV today.

Lawsuits, reputation, and market competition already punish bad actors. We don't need new rule-makers to "protect" us by pricing medicine out of reach and ensuring only Big Pharma profits. True healthcare freedom means patients and doctors, not agencies, decide what risks are worth taking.

CoC's are for censors and people more concerned about their virtue-signaling image than getting code written. They are a way for lazy-minded political people to shoehorn their issues into places they don't belong. Project leaders already can kick out people for bad behavior. There is no need to codify what woke gender categories are "protected" by your trendy Rust project. That's simply a political distraction akin to bringing Gideon bibles to a computer swap meet.

In general the more "complete" the CoC is for any software project, the bigger douchebags you are dealing with and the lower the probability is that anyone is actually coding anything.

Your answer makes sense, but then my question becomes: why allow the runway expansion? We've seen several airplane accidents fairly recently that might have been less disastrous if there were flat fields past the end of the runways. One way or another it should be an absolute no. (Suddenly I feel like Ralph Nader or someone in the 50s or 60s campaigning for seat belts in cars...)

There's a small airport near me- supposedly small jets can fly in and out. Used to be empty open space at the ends of the runway, but they've allowed high-density condo development just next to the end of the runway. Complete idiocy. I can't imagine who would want to live there. Noise, danger, crazy.

Absolutely agree. But my first reaction to this accident was (and is): why are they allowing so much stuff- buildings, etc., right past the end of a major runway?

97% of Slashdot is now outraged that, if the economy grew at all, the money wasn't stolen from the parties involved and spent on "climate change" (a giant scam) somehow, someway.

Those 'successes' are all built on DRM and technical lock-out. As long as manufacturers go out of their way to fuck their customers, it's no real surprise they do not embrace EVs. There isn't a single EV that doesn't use DRM to lock mechanics out of battery service and the battery controller. There is no excuse for this that anyone should accept. It's pure greed. At least one can buy 3rd party parts for ICE cars.

As you perhaps are alluding to, it's not about increasing points of failure, it's about interdependence and SINGLE points of failure. All devices fail. What matters is how well you plan for the events that actually happen. The more simple you can keep those plans, the better. When it comes to using "Cloud" providers and "Hyperscalers", this seems to have been quantitatively proved to be a great way to knock off a few nines. They don't know how to keep cascading failures from disabling their entire operation, as we've seen over and over. Just about everything they do can be done with a set of CoLo's or a smaller player using more standards-based approaches and engineered much more soundly and simply. They are an expensive & dumb idea: simple as that.

Indo-European Western Whites drove innovation: Aristotle's philosophy, Newton's science, Shakespeare's literature. They invented democracy, modern medicine, electricity, flight and a ton more. Western explorers spread light, ending savagery and building empires of order and prosperity. Protestantism fueled individual responsibility and capitalism (boot good things). Magna Carta and the U.S. Constitution enshrined God-given rights: free speech, property, limited government; creating the freest, wealthiest societies in history and put the most significant effort of any culture to end slavery. The West eradicated diseases, defeated totalitarianism, and pioneered universal education and human rights. Its holidays unite families; its work ethic lifts nations.

I see. You just hand-wave away centuries of art, music, science, etc.... and the summary is Viking Metal? I mean I'm all for a good Amon Amarth song, but you maybe are narrowing your scope a biiiiit to far. Sounds like a typical racist trope from a racist. "White people just dance stupid. That's your culture." Your juvinille response is typical anti-white tripe.

It's definitely not "about" letting in a flood of Muslims and non-white anti-white hostile military age men. People in majority white countries have the same sovereignty as anyone else and they get to decide about their own country not the hostile refugees.

We'll be fine, but women are having a moment.

I don't doubt it, but thanks for the reassurance, lol.

Anyone who doesn't like brown Muslims flooding their majority white sovereign country is a complainer? Okay, color me a complainer, then.

The West still needs westerners to represent our culture or it'll die and be replaced by Muslims and a flood of brown folks which are already mad Finland isn't stuffed to the gills with hostile immigrants like Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Sweden are. Folks wanted to convince western women that childbearing is a capitalist plot to disenfranchise them of rights and they clearly got the memo.

Now they cost a mint and will definitely reduce your opportunities (unless you're already rich enough to have other people take do 100% of the chores they generate). When you get too elderly to work, they will threaten you for money or rob your house. That's what I see happening to my co-workers who are about to retire.

Sorry for late reply: in such a use case you'd select the fuse specs to match the need- hold current, trip current, etc. I only did a brief skim of available ones but there are many that would work well. Forward resistance is extremely low for these types of currents, on the order of milliohms and sub-milliohms, so I^R losses would be nil.

I'm not sure why they're not used, but when I get a chance I'll ask a very genius EE I know. My hunch is they just don't want to add the cost.