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  5. 1 hour ago, billvon said:

    Exactly!  Republicans, however, can sell Chinese shoes from the White House press office, and funnel millions in taxpayer dollars into their properties.  That's just good business!

    "But . . . but . . . his laptop . . ."

     

    And put totally unqualified family members into administration positions. 

  6. 3 minutes ago, JerryBaumchen said:

    Hi Joe,

    From your link:  The minister said last week that Slovakia is willing to give the S-300 to Ukraine if and when it gets a proper replacement.

    If NATO ( and the US is a part of NATO ) is willing to give these unmarked arms to Ukraine, then why in the world can we ( NATO ) not give them unmarked aircraft.

    Also, from your link:  Russia has warned against any shipments of advanced air defences to Ukraine and has warned it may target Western arms supplies.

    Since we are giving a lot of arms to Ukraine, I wonder just where Putin's line in the sand really is.  Just what does Putin consider advanced air defences?

    It is obvious to me that the might of the Russian army is really not much.

    Jerry Baumchen

     

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  11. Seen today on the NANOG* mailing list:

    In a unanimous vote today, the US Senate approved a bill which would 1) Cancel DST permanently, and 2) Move every square inch of US territory 15 degrees to the east.

    LOL!

    *) North American Network Operators’ Group 

  13. 8 hours ago, SkyDekker said:

    Not much is going to solve some of the other problems associated with Daylight Savings Time though:

     

    https://savestandardtime.com/sources/#studies

     

    Should have picked Standard time to fix year round.

    Agreed. The fundamental principal of the 24-hour clock is that 1200/12am is the middle of the daylight hours, and 0000/12pm/2400 is the middle of the night hours. Permanent DST will mean starting out the winter mornings in the dark which may not have occurred to the proponents.

    But whatever timezone is chosen, not fucking around with the clocks twice a year is a huge improvement!

    I expect all the ski areas here in CO will be permanently shifting their operating hours by one hour.

  14. 5 hours ago, kallend said:

    Not buying it.

    Those who REALLY need to work by the clock use Zulu time anyway.

     

    When I began working for networking department for a large multi-national tech corporation, the practice had been to put all the network devices on the local time for where they were located. Using log files from multiple devices in multiple timezones to troubleshoot network issues was a huge PITA!

    While I was there, we switched them all to Zulu time, and everyone in the department was on board with the idea.

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    15 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

    Speaking of the south. I'm surprised that Ukraine hasn't sent special forces out to destroy Putin's bridge: Russia’s $3.69bn Crimean bridge

    It needs it less now but would be a nice victory for Ukraine.

    Ooh! That would be a lovely target!

    And here is another one just 100 miles to the Southeast: Putin's $1.3B palace that looks like a supervillain's lair:

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/Black+Sea/@44.4233483,38.2058381,2749m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x405db94b77d2f233:0xfe5cd6c659adc698!8m2!3d43.413029!4d34.299316

  25. 28 minutes ago, billvon said:

     

    I don't think that's a possible outcome.  The only way that could happen if he can spin it as a victory i.e. "I made the Ukraine agree to not join NATO" or something like that.  He knows that if he just plain retreats from Ukraine that he is finished as a world power.

    He could just declare that he won, and spend the next few years arguing that he was robbed of his victory.

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