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Who was shot and killed?

Every article I can find only identifies the dead robber as “the suspect”. In other shootings we always see the victims named and get to view their pictures. So, why are the authorities and/or media holding back? Who was the perp? Am I the only catching this obvious omission?

Military “rations” have a limited shelf life. It is better to consume them than it is to discard them. As they are consumed they will be replaced with fresh stock with years of shelf life remaining.

It is likely that the sudden withdrawl from Afghanistan created a massive surplus of field rations that will need to be consumed.

This is nothing unusual. The answer is to quit complaining and just chow down.

The WHO changed their website within hours of posting an update saying persons under 18 should not be vaccinated until more is learned. I saw it before WHO removed the update. I wish I had made a screen capture.

The declining birth rate in California isn’t rocket science.

It’s basic California birth rate arithmetic!

♀ + ♀ = 0

♂ + ♂ = 0

♂ + ♀ = > 0

The 35 star flag became the Official United States Flag on July 4th, 1863 and remained so through and beyond June 19th, 1865. It was the flag that was draped over Lincoln’s coffin and the flag that flew, two of them, at the front of Lincoln’s funeral train.

If they are changing the line “conquered and held by free men; fairest and the best” it should be replaced with “conquered by ANTIFA; we kneel at their behest”.

“.. bring back the BBSs!”

What do you thing FR is? It’s nothing more than a BBS with a snazzy face to it.

If you like KDE, MX offers you a choice of KDE, Xfce4, and Fluxbox desktops.

I do prefer Mint. It is absolutely wonderful. As I said, I consider it the ultimate Windows replacement and better than Windows in many ways. But my two old computers run much better with MX then they do with 32-bit Mint. I saw it and ran benchmarks to verify it. MX has the same hardware support as Mint but it uses less memory, leaving more to run other things like browsers and applications. And, as nice as the Mint Cinnamon desktop is, the MX Xfce4 desktop is not very far behind.

I have a laptop and a desktop running Mint. I also have a laptop and a desktop running MX. I have tried both distros on all four machines. On the newer machines Mint is the better distro. But on the older, 32-bit machines with only 2Gb RAM there is no question that MX performs better.

We just can’t ignore the fact that Mint has said they will not be going forward with 32-bits. The most recent version was released just over a year ago. Mint pledges support for that version for two more years. But then it will go the way of Windows XP, a decent OS that can’t run browsers because Microsoft stopped updating it with the security features contemporary browsers require.

The last release of Linux Mint to support 32-bit systems is 19.3 “Tricia”. Releases since that are 64-bit only. The current release is 20.1 “Ulyssa”. So, Mint support for 32-bits is going away.

On the other hand, MX Linux’s latest release currently supports 32-bit systems and they plan to do so for a long time.

I sent you another private message.

Your main limitation is RAM. According to HP your computer came with a base of 512Mb RAM and may have shipped with more. Up to 2Gb RAM is the maximum you can have installed in your system. Of course, old RAM is widely available at low cost. Your computer can hold two sticks of 1Gb each. But no 64-bit system, Linux or otherwise, is going to work well with only 2GB RAM.

MX is currently the most popular freely available distribution. The 32-bit version of MX Linux requires only 1Gb RAM but works much better with 2Gb.

If you only have 512MB to 1Gb RAM then antiX is the way to go. MX Linux and antiX Linux are cooperative efforts. AntiX with 2Gb RAM runs even happier!

FWIW, I am currently running the 32-bit version of MX Linux on an old Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop with a mobile Pentium 4 processor and 2Gb RAM. It works very well. It originally only had 1Gb RAM and I was running antiX when it was in that configuration.

I also have the 32-bit version of MX Linux running on my old MSI thin client. It has an old intel Atom processor that is 64-bit rated but that Atom CPU wasn’t fully threaded like a true 64-bit CPU. It has 2Gb RAM. I tried Windows 7 and various 64-bit and 32-bit distributions of Linux. I found 32-bit MX works the best.

I have Linux Mint on my main laptop and my main desktop. They both are 64-bit systems with 8Gb RAM. They are both dual boot Linux/Windows 10 machines but I almost never use Windows any more. To me, Linux Mint is the proverbial Windows replacement.

I do not recommend Google Chrome for you. I have experience with that on a modern Acer Chromebook. It is stable and usable if you like the pad format but I find it proprietary and weird. The current version of Chrome does allow the user to install Linux apps by running a virtual Linux box. I’ve installed Libre Office, GIMP, and some other Linux “apps” on the Chromebook and they work just fine. But if the Chromebook was mine I’d just wipe it clean and replace it with Linux Mint. Regardless, Chrome will not run on your old computer. It has limited hardware support for new computers and virtually none for old computers like yours.

I sent you a private reply. Good luck.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution link is broken.

Use this instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20190929150716/https://www.ajc.com/news/state—regional-govt—politics/state-agrees-absentee-ballot-changes-after-lawsuit/NTvnRaUoa5I3p0f2x5uAxO/

State agrees to absentee ballot changes after lawsuit
POLITICS Nov 30, 2018
By Greg Bluestein, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia’s top elections official agreed Friday to allow the counting of absentee ballots that arrive after the Dec. 4 runoff, following a lawsuit filed by state Democrats claiming that delays in sending out the ballots resulted in “arbitrary and disparate treatment” of voters.

A federal judge approved a consent order between Secretary of State Robyn Crittenden and state Democrats who brought the lawsuit because dozens of counties didn’t send out the ballots until this week.

Absentee ballots must usually be received by Election Day to be counted, but under the agreement they will still be tallied if they’re postmarked as late as Dec. 4 and received by Dec. 7.

The compromise could affect a large number of voters in the runoff, which will decide the secretary of state’s race and a Public Service Commission seat. At least 121,000 voters have submitted an application for absentee mail-in ballots in the runoff election.

The agreement is the latest development in an ongoing legal battle over voting rights waged by the Democratic Party of Georgia, voting rights groups and Stacey Abrams’ new advocacy organization.

It involves a fuzzy part of state election rules guiding runoff elections. Georgia law requires county officials to send absentee ballots to eligible applicants “as soon as possible” after the results of the general election are certified, but it does not set a deadline.

And it triggered a new round of finger-pointing between parties that have long feuded over ballot access issues.

In the lawsuit, Democrats said at least 65 counties waited until earlier this week to mail their first absentee ballots. With mail delivery taking several days to reach households in parts of the state, the party warned the delay risks disenfranchising voters.

Party chair DuBose Porter said in a court document that without an extension, voters “will lose their fundamental right to vote because their ballots will have been sent to them too late to cast a ballot that will be counted.”

Crittenden said through a spokeswoman her office worked as quickly as possible to prepare the ballots but couldn’t do so until the general election results were certified. She said their efforts were delayed by a federal court ruling sought by Democrats that prevented the certification of the vote until Nov. 16.

“We told the Democratic Party when they initially sought to delay certification that doing so would adversely impact run-off procedures,” said the spokeswoman, Candice Broce, adding: “If they had come to us first, we would have tried to work with them to resolve this problem.”

Georgia GOP chair John Watson described it as a part of a more cynical Democratic strategy to “drag the process out as long as possible, and then sue over the delay they caused.”

Democrats, meanwhile, claimed victory at a press conference on the steps of the federal courthouse. John Barrow, the party’s nominee for secretary of state, said it’s another sign that changes to voting laws are needed next year.

“We’re doomed to have a lot more problems if we don’t fix them,” said Barrow. “And I’m committed to fixing them.”

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The runoff for secretary of state and a Public Service Commission seat is Dec. 4.

Absentee ballots must usually be received by Election Day to be counted, but the lawsuit asked that county officials treat them more like military absentee ballots. That means they can be postmarked as late as Dec. 4 and received by Dec. 7.

At least 121,000 voters have submitted an application for absentee mail-in ballots in the runoff election.

Scientific American is not a scientific journal but rather a magazine of “popular science”. Every year for the past 20 years it has become more and more political. It’s finally reached the point where a large portion of every issue openly pushes a blatantly far left agenda.

All we need do is look at the current web version of the magazine. For example...

Under the Section Heading “MIND” a parapsychologist and well known author of “In Praise of Psychedelics” writes: How to Be a Mystical Materialist - Psychologist Susan Blackmore stays grounded in scientific skepticism while exploring the outer reaches of consciousness

Pushing the LGBTQ agenda in the face of Bilology under the Section Heading “THE SCIENCES”: Stop Using Phony Science to Justify Transphobia - Actual research shows that sex is anything but binary

An ironic twisting of the truth under “HEALTH”: We Can’t Allow the CDC to Be Tainted by Politics - If science doesn’t drive the agency’s crucial weekly reports about disease prevalence and mortality, we’ll lose a key tool for fighting this pandemic

With an openly political agenda, under the Section Heading “TECH”: It’s Time to Rein in Inflated Military Budgets - In an era of pandemics and climate change, we need to reconsider what “national security” means

A man-made global warming alarmist’s article under the Section Heading “SUSTAINABILITY”: A New Arctic Is Emerging, Thanks to Climate Change - After years of warning, sea ice coverage and other indicators are beginning to push outside the bounds of the former “normal” climate

And another alarmist article under “THE SCIENCES”: What Ancient Mass Extinctions Tell Us about the Future - Carbon dioxide has done plenty of damage before

yesthatjallen - On March 28 you wrote, “Keep saying ‘just the flu’ and it’ll go away!” Afterward a team of naysayers wrote post after post saying it was not even as bad as the flu. But we can see now, almost four weeks later, they were sorely wrong and you were correct.

There have been as many USA COVID19 deaths in the last thirty days as we typically see from a full year of seasonal flu.

Yesterday’s 7,085 new cases of COVID-19 in New York are about as much as one week’s total cases of seasonal flu at the peak of flu season. In other words, New York is currently experiencing COVID-19 cases at seven times the rate of seasonal flu at its peak. And yet, bad as it currently is for New York, the numbers are still increasing exponentially.

If the curve is flattening in New York it isn’t flattening by much.

As of yesterday, there were 43,611 active cases in New York. Of those 7,285 were new YESTERDAY.

As of yesterday, New York had a total of 606 dead from COVID-19. Of those 140 died YESTERDAY.