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US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday dismissed an expert panel of vaccine advisers that has historically guided the federal government’s vaccine recommendations, saying the group is “plagued with conflicts of interest.”

The entirety of the 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the vaccine schedule and required coverage of immunizations, will be retired and replaced with new members, Kennedy announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. The HHS secretary has authority to appoint and dismiss ACIP members, who typically serve four-year cycles. But removing the entire panel prematurely is unprecedented. . .

>US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday dismissed an expert panel of vaccine advisers that has historically guided the federal government’s vaccine recommendations, saying the group is “plagued with conflicts of interest.” >The entirety of the 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the vaccine schedule and required coverage of immunizations, will be retired and replaced with new members, Kennedy announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. The HHS secretary has authority to appoint and dismiss ACIP members, who typically serve four-year cycles. But removing the entire panel prematurely is unprecedented. . . [Archive](https://archive.today/gYLJp)

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Nah, the windows thing was Clippy

https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Clippy.jpg.jpg

From what I remember, Ask Jeeves has been around since at least the 90's. They had a butler mascot that was eventually removed and it morphed into ask.com. Nice to see it's still around, still miss the butler.

https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/100727-AskJeevesButler-hmed-118a.jpg

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In the '90s I was working my ass off on a DEC VAX mainframe and sparc workstations at work, assembled my first personal x86 PC about 1995. Dabbled with windows95 but quickly upgraded to Windows NT - I don't recall any paperclip helpers on NT, and I preferred that. Never used Ask.com. I vaguely remember a butler mascot character from that era, clearly remember the incredibly annoying paperclip guy. Lol!

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I guess they got rid of Clippy in 2007.

I didn't get a computer until probably the early 2000s. Was doing okay with it, even installed a dvd/cd player/burner drive in the tower.

After two computers biting the dust, I gave up and relegated my increasingly technologically-challenged self to a dumb tablet! 😄

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I love tablets after ~30 years of mainframes, workstations and later PCs. If all you want is to cruise the web, or load specific apps for various purposes, tablets keep it simple and are pretty cheap.

I have hardly touched my desktop or laptop since receiving my first tablet about 8 years ago. I'm getting a little slower at excel, PowerPoint and Word when I encounter a need, but it all comes back very quickly.

No need to spend big $$$ on new desktops and laptops every few years unless you're a gamer or need it for heavy work related stuff now that tablets and notebooks exist.