RubberDuck

A very apt descriptions

Scheme just refers to a system. And you need buy in else billionaires just pull up their flag and move their capital.

The fact these people can borrow against their portfolio and thus have no income is ridiculous.

Facebook is able to make very accurate profiles of their users. Maybe they should just send someone to the address of the uploader of csam and other horrible stuff to break their legs.

In all earnest, the fact this issue is as big as it is on their platforms is only because for some reason they let it get this bad. If they want specific stuff off their platform they can just make that happen… specifically by targeting the sources… In cooperation with law enforcement and or nasty lawyers and a court summons.

We will learn when they are there from Russian telegram channels crying about shot down mig 31’s and harm missiles hitting AA radars.

I am by no means an expert. I’d guess the active carbon in the filters.

No definitive answer, but it’s about the filtering abilities:
https://www.google.com/search?q=why do ffp masks have a shelflife&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-m

So the government acted quickly, signed a contract for the delivery of PPE that was delivered. Then the pandemic died down and the PPE eventually was not needed.

I understand that these numbers are astronomical, but it does seem like it was done for the right reasons and in the right way.

For a government to get the volume they require, they need a supplier to scale up. A company scales up the way this supplier did requires investments and thus income. Meaning large orders.

And then this stuff has a 3 year shelf life meaning the existing contracts where sufficient for usage and the stock went to waste.

Can you imagine if the government had not made these provisions and the peak of the pandemic lasted 6 or 12 more months. This was an insurance premium… an expensive one… but an insurance premium. People don’t whine their house did not burn down even though they paid the premium.

My only dissapointment would be if it turns put elsewhere in the world there would have been an actual need for this stuff and instead of eating those costs, incineration was cheaper.

Yes, the Soviet union collapsed under a lot of internal pressure and strive. And when the Soviet army was overextended and the government could no longer control their Empire. Losing in Afghanistan showed internal forces that the bear was not unbeatable.

I think it is safe to say that the Russian empire is getting more than a bloody nose in Ukraine.

So in this case there will be plenty of parties that have a bone to pick with the Russian empire and see the Russian army is … well … Busy.

But probably they will settle for opening the books on the EV manufacturers and their supply chains. And then either we will see the companies are state sponsored, or the western manufacturers are price gouging customers.

And it will only get worse.

So Brexit was a good idea just implemented badly. Why don’t people remember that when he got his way he immediately bailed and left others holding the bag.

‘Presents’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting

Well, the people with migration backgrounds are overrepresented in crime stats, and crime is getting more violent. People just tend to ignore that the main driver for crime is lack of economic opportunity. These same people are also overrepresented in the low income bracket. Easy pret for criminals… hey wanna make 500? Just climb over that fence and get me a package from that shipping container.

• There are traumatized war refugees that cannot function normal on a good day, they get no guidance and nothing to do… and people wonder why they flip out and do crazy shit.
• There are young (adults), that get to sit in asylum centers and get to do nothing… months on end. And people wonder why they go out and do stupid shit.
• And then you have migrants that actually come to these countries to profiteer, knowing they will get kicked out so they enjoy it while it lasts.

There is plenty to be worried about with migrants of varying generations. But most of it is not solved by repression. But also not by bussing in more while wagging your finger at people worried about the crime in their neighborhood while telling them they are racist for noticing it is always dark skinned people that break in or deal drugs in their street.

My main issue with the right is usually their anti immigrant shit does not work, and actually solving the issues meana they lose their main recruitment tool. So they implement a lot of other bad laws while ignoring the issues that get them elected.

Anti migrant sentiment among women is probably helped by the news of the rapes. Just this week the 12 year old was raped by other minors for being Jewish.

First rule… follow the Money.

On the plus side, this means that Ukraine will be getting the bees knees in terms of modern interceptors.

And probably a lot of countries will check expiration dates and check if they can trade their old for the newer production dates.

I also wonder if the patriot software will be made aware of the age of each of her missiles and tasked to prioritize launching the oldest if possible.

When I did it before, our company bought the hardware in bulk. We prep it, provision it and have it good to go. Then ship it off to wherever. PM has the local DC staff (if they provide that service, else a local IT company install the box and bring it online. The moment it is online everything is managed remotely. The local install costs is usually a few 100, once, just like the shipping.

We even shipped full racks (assembly required) with a complete connection diagram. All it needed was power and 2 internet cables everything else was done already.

If companies like google expand, this will surely be similar. But then at even larger scale. I cannot imagine them going around trying to find equipment everytime. You just have a contract with dell/HP/IBM/NetApp/Oracle and ask your account manager to ship you x number of type A server.

So, where does it differ? Cost of hosting the machine and the data?

In a little over 2 years the EU went from being primarily dependent on Russian gas to now slapping on sanctions.

I’ll bet China is watching this.

The EU has now started identifying which resources rely on china that we can’t live without and will also start divesting there. Russian gas crunch was a tough and expensive lesson.

South Korean artillery shell production goes bbbrrrr.

Also a fine chance to get some battle testing on a battalion of K9’s and maybe even a brigade of K2’s.

It is just some Telcos that price for data usage and put in usage caps. But this is only a way to price gauge customers. In the EU most ISPs operate without datacaps and are much cheaper month to month than in the US (my 1gb symmetric fiber connection without datacaps costs around 30 euro per month).

Sure a data connection in a datacenter is more expensive, but is either shared across datacenter customers or a customer gets their own. And again, global players have framework contracts with other global players… so maybe Orange Business Services provides the internet connection for their DC operation globally.

The cost for the things they have to source locally is highly overestimated. Usually budgets they spend locally on stuff like advertising are much higher.