[DallasBiff]

With all the homeless in "weird" Austin, I don't blame them. Austin is the sh!thole of Texas, and the liberal organizers are more concerned with the money and not the health of the attendees.

[rktman]

They could hold sexinthesoutwest and there could be a Texas twister come along.

[isthisnickcool]

Austin is NOT the sh!thole of Texas. It’s the sh!thole of the southwest.

[redshawk]

300k Austin whack Os are expected to vote today. About 150k have already done early voting. ....my state rep is truly a horse faced lesbian. ...even says so in her bio. ....years ago when thinking of women and horses I had nice thoughts of tight jeans and plaid shirts and red boots, not so much today. ...

[Jane Long]

Oh, come on....what’s wrong with these big tech cos? It’s Just the Flu™?

[mass55th]

I just read that Adam Schiff and Hillary Clinton were supposed to speak there.

[AppyPappy]

Our Enterprise system just canceled their convention

[Zathras]

Considering Intel employees work in cubes that our 4x6 and jammed 5000/building, any infection runs wild in the design community.
Back in the 90’s we had a hard working guy who gave Pneumonia to 10 other co-workers until he was escorted out of the building and told not to come back for a month.

I caught a piece of it and was out for 2 weeks.

[null and void]

All this fuss for a flu... (H/T Big Mike)

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[RayChuang88]

There is now real talk that South by Southwest could be cancelled altogether. That could cost the city of Austin, TX hundreds of millions in revenue.

[TarasBulbous]

I was in Austin about a month ago. I remarked to a friend of mine who is a local that I had not seen a single homeless guy in the four days I was there. He explained to me that the city has a policy of shipping homeless guys out to the suburbs to keep the tech workers downtown insulated.

[VanShuyten]

I’m sort of surprised these big tech companies haven’t organized a virtual SXSW festival. Never let a crisis go to waste.

[OrangeHoof]

South by SouthWorst was better as just a music festival, anyway.

[Svartalfiar]

Huh? Since when is SxSW considered a tech conference? I thought it was pretty much a music festival with some movie stuff in the periphery..?