From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 08 Feb 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , TJ wrote:   
      
   >> (My sister in Connecticut is telling me schools have been canceled   
   >> for Friday, trying to avoid catching the kids away from home.   
   >> Forecasts I'm seeing here are talking about 2 feet 60 cm NE of   
   >> the New York metro area.)   
      
   >They were making dire predictions here a few days ago, but that's   
   >tempered into a prediction of 4-7 inches - just another winter day   
   >for us. I heard 8+ inches more over Adam's way, no real specifics.   
   >And the timing's changed a bit. The component traveling through here   
   >is now scheduled for mid-afternoon, so will probably be late   
   >afternoon or early evening before it gets to Adam.   
      
   At lunchtime here, the TVs in the cafeteria are showing the weather   
   channel and the radar sequence they're showing is centered on New   
   Haven. The precip seems to be just off Long Island to the South.   
      
   >Apparently, they pay absolutely no attention to what they're reading.   
   >During the local newsbreaks, I heard the reader read this not once,   
   >but twice:   
      
   >"Southeastern New England is bracing for anywhere from 18 to 24   
   >inches of snow by tomorrow morning. And some areas may get as much   
   >as 2 feet."   
      
   That's generally true of most "local" news-readers. They're not paid   
   to think - only to "look pretty and speak clearly and without   
   hesitation while reading random text".  The real blame goes to the   
   idiots who write the nonsense - ALSO without thinking or checking   
   facts,     Story reported here this morning was about someone's   
   laptop catching fire - and it was explained that it was a battery   
   problem "identical to that which grounded the Boeing 787s world-wide."   
   Oh, really.   
      
   >I used "delicate" precisely because I wanted to avoid inaccurate   
   >connotations. "Suppressed" immune system has a better connotation   
   >than either "deficient" or "delicate" immune system, is more accurate   
   >in Adam's case,   
      
   Agreed   
      
   >and IMHO has the added advantage of being easier to type with spell   
   >check than "immunosuppressant." ;^)   
      
   That's the real advantage   
      
           Old guy   
      
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