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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Postcovid cases go down, covid cases go up...this is becoming tedious"I can’t find anyone who agrees with what I write or think these days, so I guess I must be getting closer to the truth." - Hunter S. Thompson
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Still haven't managed to get vaccine into my fathers arm. Doc isn't allowed let vaccine leave his surgery and he isn't ale to go to the surgery so his name went on a list of referrals to the HSE to be treated at home. After three weeks of trying to find out what was going on the response of HSE was downgraded from there is a plan to there 'will be' a plan. On the 27th Feb Reid went on the media and said all over 85's will have had a jab by 5th. On the 3rd a letter went out to GP's asking them to refer all patients to the National Ambulance Service before the 9th. Meanwhile Reid went back to the media last weekend and said that any remaining over 85's would be vaccinated this week. It's now Wed night and I still haven't heard anything, no one I know who is in the same boat has. Ambulance Service aren't taking calls and the contact form on their website is broken. Maybe they will turn up tomorrow or Friday but I'll believe it when I see it.
Mind blowing that having had the best part of a year to plan they fail when presented with wholly predictable scenarios that were known about.
We'll see how it works out but I don't fancy these lads chances of being capable of getting it into the number of arms they would need to if supply wasn't a limiting factorLast edited by Strewelpeter; 10-03-21, 19:52.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostStill haven't managed to get vaccine into my fathers arm. Doc isn't allowed let vaccine leave his surgery and he isn't ale to go to the surgery so his name went on a list of referrals to the HSE to be treated at home. After three weeks of trying to find out what was going on the response of HSE was downgraded from there is a plan to there 'will be' a plan. On the 27th Feb Reid went on the media and said all over 85's will have had a jab by 5th. On the 3rd a letter went out to GP's asking them to refer all patients to the National Ambulance Service before the 9th. Meanwhile Reid went back to the media last weekend and said that any remaining over 85's would be vaccinated this week. It's now Wed night and I still haven't heard anything, no one I know who is in the same boat has. Ambulance Service aren't taking calls and the contact form on their website is broken. Maybe they will turn up tomorrow or Friday but I'll believe it when I see it.
Mind blowing that having had the best part of a year to plan they fail when presented with wholly predictable scenarios that were known about.
We'll see how it works out but I don't fancy these lads chances of being capable of getting it into the number of arms they would need to if supply wasn't a limiting factor
There was some regional element so all couldn't go to large Dublin practices but effectively a practice with the most amount of 85+ year olds in an area got preference even if the 85+ year olds in another practice were higher risk.
Now you obviously have to draw lines somewhere but I thought, it made more sense for vaccines to be given proportionally to each practice and then allow GP's to make the decision based on some sort of centralised priority checklist with some room for discretion.
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Originally posted by Murdrum View Post
You're probably more privy to this than me but what I was told from a friend who visited the doctor as vaccines were being rolled out was that allocations of vaccines was first based upon the GP practices with the highest number of people in the cohort being vaccinated.
There was some regional element so all couldn't go to large Dublin practices but effectively a practice with the most amount of 85+ year olds in an area got preference even if the 85+ year olds in another practice were higher risk.
Now you obviously have to draw lines somewhere but I thought, it made more sense for vaccines to be given proportionally to each practice and then allow GP's to make the decision based on some sort of centralised priority checklist with some room for discretion.
My issue is with a specific cohort of housebound patients who are unable to leave home to visit a GP surgery. It was a known issue that was raised with HSE well before rollout was planned. The switch from Astra Zeneca to Pfizer did complicate the issue but failing to come up with a plan until now was dire.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
There have been issues with the rollout to some GP practices who weren't able to pair up with others but it looks like they have all been resolved now.
My issue is with a specific cohort of housebound patients who are unable to leave home to visit a GP surgery. It was a known issue that was raised with HSE well before rollout was planned. The switch from Astra Zeneca to Pfizer did complicate the issue but failing to come up with a plan until now was dire.
I suspect there must be close to no housebound patients in the country that don’t need some form of nursing support on a regular basis.
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Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
That would require being logged in with your Google account. Wouldn't dream of it. I pride myself on using all their services without giving them a sniff of personal data.
https://myactivity.google.com/ is as clean as a whistle for me. For most it tells where you have been, what you watch on youtube, what you search for etc.
Nothing to hide just, don't like paying the snakey cnuts off.
Our lives are so hit and miss with our extremely impoverished data sets in our heads, limited crunching capacities, and inability to appreciate correlations between non-obvious things. We're blind punters with the sophistication of the "this number is due" brigade.
Brings to mind a Dylan Moran joke:
But most heterosexual people in this country and around the world… meet each other and get together with one another… when they’re totally, totally drunk. Smashed…out of their minds… they could not spell their own face. And they go home with that person. You might spend months with that person… or a year… or you might have a family. This is what happens. This is how you meet. But you wouldn’t buy a toaster when you’re drunk. ’cause that’s too important.
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Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
What's the value in it though? Is it not just glorified navel gazing and a waste of science funding at this stage?
The science section of my Google News page is constantly filled with space exploration related stories, when there in so much more valuable research being done that I would be more interested in. We know about as much about the working of the brain as we do about space. A far more worthy territory for exploration IMHO.
I think all the space hype is a plot by Musk to channel science funding his way, so he can spunk it away on shite coin.
If Hotspur hasn't blocked me already, this could be the faithful post.....
Surely the chance to ride a chick from another planet/species is worth throwing hundreds of billions at space exploration...
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostThere are two landlocked countries surrounded by landlocked countries.
Name them.
Then name their surrounding countries.
(I got one)SPOILERLichstenstein (spelling?) surrounded by Austria and Switzerland.
Am guessing the other one is one of the 'stan' countries as loads of them are landlocked but no idea which one
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Originally posted by Lao Lao View Post
Surely the chance to ride a chick from another planet/species is worth throwing hundreds of billions at space exploration...Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Can't believe I have to do all your marketing for you raoul. this is a freebie. wait till you see the numbers explode.
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Originally posted by hotspur View Post
Last night I was musing a new behemoth omni-service. You actually choose to have it scrape all your online activity (and maybe even supplement it with answering questions about what you like in different areas), and this massive AI with its data crunching and machine learning will straight up recommend all manner of things to you about all areas of life. From TV and films and music to "here's someone on a dating site we think you'd connect to", to arts to explore , hobbies, careers. Pretty much everything.
Our lives are so hit and miss with our extremely impoverished data sets in our heads, limited crunching capacities, and inability to appreciate correlations between non-obvious things. We're blind punters with the sophistication of the "this number is due" brigade.
Brings to mind a Dylan Moran joke:
Life is too important to be left to people. They need this new service. And at the least it will make for a good book or film about a future when everybody automatically chooses what is suggested, perhaps it's even illegal not to. And then, um, something interesting happens or something.
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This article summarises why I had to take a break from twitter. A hundred idea a day for getting vaccines and blaming the government for not magicing up vaccines. As the article ably points out the vaccines simply don't exist. We'll all be done by end of June anyway. Although smarter money would maybe speculate on it being end of July. August holidays must be a 70% chance now.
"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Correct!
Now name the capitals of each Stan for extra points.
Note: The capital of Israel is currently in dispute. Wikipedia identifies it as Jerusalem, and for that reason, our quiz does as well. Visiting Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, is a mark of distinction for any world traveler because tourism is strictly regulated. Bangkok, on the other hand, is the most popular city for tourists in the world. How many other Asian capitals can you locate on this geography map quiz? Challenge your friends to see who can get above 75 percent on the first try!
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostThe IPB Cheltenham Tipping Comp is endorsed by a great many celebrities including Donald Trump, Meghan Arkle, Gordon Elliott, Spongebob Squarepants, Sharon ni Bheolain and Piers Morgan.
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostKyrgastan has a border with China. The other one, I think is
SPOILERUzbekistan
Couldn't bloody remember which Stan it was to answer Raoul though.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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May be a Lao Lao question.
Do landlocked (and double landlocked as per RD3s question) countries have any automatic shipping rights?
Like does say Switzerland have an inherent right to designate a French or German port as being a Swiss seaport at which only Swiss rules apply?
Or does it have to come to a treaty agreement with those counties?
It would seem a hugely important thing for a landlocked country when so much trade is still via sea.
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Originally posted by hotspur View PostUntil 5 minutes ago I didn't realise that seas didn't count in the designation of landlockedness.
Originally posted by pokerhand View PostIt's an Inland sea, but still a sea
It's not connected to the oceans and doesn't have a sea level that changes with the tide.
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Flicking through the Top Workplaces in Ireland 2021 which was released yesterday, I noticed IPB insurance ranked 8th in the medium size category with a website of www.ipb.ie
Pretty surprised to see no mention of the likes of Google/FB/PayPal/Twitter given their presence here.
ESRI ranked No1 on the small businesses which was my desired location a few years ago but no luck.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThis article summarises why I had to take a break from twitter. A hundred idea a day for getting vaccines and blaming the government for not magicing up vaccines. As the article ably points out the vaccines simply don't exist. We'll all be done by end of June anyway. Although smarter money would maybe speculate on it being end of July. August holidays must be a 70% chance now.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/worl...06889?mode=amp
hmmm, I wonder who has more leverage in that scenario; Germany, France....or Ireland. Idiots."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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It appears that everyone is right about the Caspian Sea, legally speaking.
The signed convention gives the body of water a "special legal status" which means it is not defined as a sea or a lake, Russian officials said.
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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A map of the internet from 1973. The entire internet, which consisted of 36 routers (squares), and 42 computers (ellipses).
Locations in text beside the router. MIT, Harvard, Stamford, UCLA, etc
arpanet-map-1973.png
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Originally posted by Murdrum View PostFlicking through the Top Workplaces in Ireland 2021 which was released yesterday, I noticed IPB insurance ranked 8th in the medium size category with a website of www.ipb.ie
Pretty surprised to see no mention of the likes of Google/FB/PayPal/Twitter given their presence here.
ESRI ranked No1 on the small businesses which was my desired location a few years ago but no luck.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
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Originally posted by Murdrum View PostFlicking through the Top Workplaces in Ireland 2021 which was released yesterday, I noticed IPB insurance ranked 8th in the medium size category with a website of www.ipb.ie
Pretty surprised to see no mention of the likes of Google/FB/PayPal/Twitter given their presence here.
ESRI ranked No1 on the small businesses which was my desired location a few years ago but no luck.
Trawling glassdoor.ie for disgruntled employee comments is more fun.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Originally posted by Murdrum View PostFlicking through the Top Workplaces in Ireland 2021 which was released yesterday, I noticed IPB insurance ranked 8th in the medium size category with a website of www.ipb.ie
Pretty surprised to see no mention of the likes of Google/FB/PayPal/Twitter given their presence here.
ESRI ranked No1 on the small businesses which was my desired location a few years ago but no luck."I can’t find anyone who agrees with what I write or think these days, so I guess I must be getting closer to the truth." - Hunter S. Thompson
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostI think the main thing that prevents it from being a sea is its total lack of connection to other seas so that you cannot sail on from it into another sea and onwards into the great blue yonder
What else can we argue about that may or not be now?"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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