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I had no idea Guns did a version of Sir Paul's greatest song ever. I'm.gonna have to check that out.

I WOULD be surprised to see Josh in the 2020 Pro Bowl because the Super Bowl guys don't get to play in the Pro Bowl.

With what all we had to give up to get him in the way of draft picks and what we passed up (Watson, Mahommes, and Jackson), expectations are high as they should be. I don't think he gets it any worse than anyone else. Although there was no TBD back then, there were fans calling for Frank to start over Jimbo. Nothing new here. However, I would say he gets more excuses for his play than any other Bills QB I can remember.

Don Meredith.

Trump says this every day and usually follows it up with "quickly very quickly" or "so quickly it will make your head spin" . How does he propose to do this? And if he can why doesn't he put out NYC?

Not a big Trump fan, but I do like this. I believe we'll get back to all that (air travel from busy airports and full flights, sellout playoff games at the Ralph etc.) but it will just take a while. Maybe a year or two but it is the goal and will happen.

we'll see when they play the games. They will be a formidable opponent for the division title IMHO.

let's not forget they were 13-6 with Matt Cassell, Jimmy G, and Jacoby Brissett. I would love nothing more than to see them go 0-16, but I suspect rumors to their demise are greatly exagerrated. Cheating helps and their case it helps a lot. Nothing has changed in that regard.

Having worked in the computer field since 1983, I have a pandemic sized amount of dislike for Bill. If he runs this stuff the way he did Microsoft, he'll let someone else invent something first and then put his money and might behind it and then claim he invented it. Windows, SQLServer, Internet Explorer, and .net to name a few.

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was really happy the other day watching NFL network and they were discussing which team stands the best chance of ending their drought after the draft. They didn't even mention Buffalo BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ONE!! Cleveland was mentioned a few times however.

My mother lives in a nursing home down there. I sure hope he knows what he's doing.

As did I. I think baseball could start up pretty quickly with a few rule changes like you get a 6 foot lead off of every base and you can't steal or try to pick them off. Use electronic balls and strike caller. Players not playing sit in stands feet apart. The only hangup is they couldn't spit. I think that might make it dang near impossible.

Every one must have their own golf cart. Or here's a novel idea, they could go old school and walk. Still don't understand why tennis is out. Tennis players NEVER get within 6' of each while playing.

I've been saying this for a while. If they do region by region or state by state, then they better do something to make sure the people in the still quarantined states stay where they are. Otherwise they're gonna take it with them.

Are these test kits China sold to the Brits the WHO tests? WHO is not mentioned in the article, only China as the source of the test kits.

According to snopes, the WHO never offered us tests. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-coronavirus-test/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-remark/ Just so you know ?

I don't think this is known yet. Will it be like chicken pox immunity? Get it once never get it again. Or will it be like flu immunity? I heard Dr. Bird say last week or maybe the week before that if you get the flu, you get some immunity but you might catch it again but it won't be as bad. I hear a lot of people running with this theory, but is not a given. If you have more definitive information please share.

How did they miss out on the lack of WMDs? How did they miss out on Hillary NOT being a slam dunk in 2016? There are so many examples.

This was the part I left out. Now kids can learn at home because the parents are at home too working from home or not working at all. When everyone goes back to work, are the kids gonna stay home by themselves and dutifully log on and study all day by themselves?

I would agree with part of what you say. The key to having a decent living is learning a marketable skill and staying current in it. If you never learned one you're screwed. And it's never too late to learn one. However I also believe that things like 40 hour work week, paid holidays, paid vacation are a good thing. They were put in place in part because happier employees (that get vacation etc) are better workers. Today many in the tech industry are like the late 19th century earlier 20th century monopolies except they wear T-shirts so people think they're cool and their friend. As far as Uber/Lyft drivers choosing to do this, for sure. But my point was how easily people give up what people in the past worked very hard to get and in cases died for. That was what I was responding to.

I don't disagree with much of what you say. Technologically we could close ALL schools tomorrow and replace them with distance learning. Absolutely could happen. But the question to ask is SHOULD it happen. First off, it will be more expensive than you are think IMHO. Presently the delivery is being done on a wing and prayer with Zoom or recorded sessions. My neighbor who is a teacher was telling me about this from 6' away. If we were to go to this full time, there would be massive technology infrastructure that would need to be bought and then have maintenance fees and upgrades forever. Technology often makes money savings claims but they also introduce huge costs. But the real question I have is, what is the effect on learning for going this route? Do some kids learn worse online than for in person classes? What about retention of what's learned? What about the ability to deliver complex topics like chemistry online effectively? No more chemistry labs. As a computer person I have gone to a lot of classes. I have also done a lot of online classes. As far as learning goes, the in person classes offer much better learning and retention and it's not even close. When this online stuff first started up (1999) I asked a vendor if he had studies on learning and retention between online and in person classes. They didn't. I wonder if anyone does now? Not saying it can't happen but seriously question if it should.

Totally. You have to look no further than the "gig economy" to see how this happening in front of our very eyes. In the early 20th century people worked really hard and some died to acquire things like paid vacation, sick time, health insurance, weekends, the 40 hour work week etc. Nowdays people think this is of no value and should be able to pay someone dirt wages to drive their own car totally at the mercy of the company paying only for when they have a rider and have no health insurance and work more than 40 hours a week. And people are happy to give it away because they can now do it with a cool app. Sad. Who said they were?

How does this argument suppose that this isn't happening already? The part you bolded was "the continual rise of automation taking away jobs?" https://www.dictionary.com/browse/continual?s=t Of course it's been going on. But if you raised the minimum wage to $25 as you suggested I would propose that continual process would be greatly accelerated. If McDonalds had to suddenly pay $25 per hour, very shortly you would have touch screens for customer ordering and they'd need about 1/2 the workers they need now. Domino's would get rid of pizza makers and use a machine (which already exists). Meaning more people don't have jobs. Why is outsourcing separate from wages? The whole reason we have so much stuff made in China is because you can make it a HELL of a lot cheaper with people that make $2 a day. Ask Phil Knight. If manufacturers now have to suddenly pay everyone $25 an hour don't you think more would say screw it, and move production to China or somewhere else cheaper? Raising minimum wage to $25 sounds great. But what are the unintended consequences? I have laid out two. I'm sure there are others. I knew this was coming.