simonblack

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by simonblack 5y ago
I don't need to be specific. I don't know what exists in all places. That's not my area of expertise. But I do know that there are other systems apart from the two you mention, Mir and Union Pay, that do work in countries oth
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by simonblack 5y ago
Generally, when the generation with personal experience of war dies off, and nobody living has any idea of how bad total war can be, we have another World War. We're due for another one right now. The last of the WW2 guys have died. An
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by simonblack 5y ago
Old business proverb: "Never piss off your customers. They will go somewhere else and never come back."
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by simonblack 5y ago
It's most likely that Artemis will never reach the Moon. NASA has continuous problems with funding. Space research and development is very expensive. Too expensive for Artemis to ever make it.
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by simonblack 5y ago
Patience, patience. Don't worry, we'll get there. Very likely sooner rather than later.
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by simonblack 5y ago
Sad to hear this, but collateral damage is what happens in a war. Just think about the huge amount of heritage buildings and art works that humanity lost in all countries during World War 2.
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by simonblack 5y ago
The Winter War was a romantic failure. We always hear of the one-sidedness of the start of the Winter War when the Finns destroyed a much larger Soviet invasion. We don't always hear about the end of the Winter War when the Finns w
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by simonblack 5y ago
How many people in the 4 countries? How many people in the 141 countries?
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by simonblack 5y ago
No Ukrainian air force left. Gone in the first hour.
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by simonblack 5y ago
:) I seem to remember a $120 million F35 falling into the South China Sea a couple of weeks back. Easy come, easy go.
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by simonblack 5y ago
"You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down." - Adolf Hitler, 1941 "Russia and its army are about to collapse" - Sumlenny, 2022 Wishful thinking.
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by simonblack 5y ago
Who are they going to shoot down? There's practically no aircraft in the sky. The Russian method of war is not to rubbleise like NATO does. Time and again in WW2 the lesson was do not bomb and destroy cities, it turns the destroyed bui
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by simonblack 5y ago
If you don't hold it in your hot little hand, you don't own it. Banks are supposed to be a safe place to put your money. We've just seen that ALL BANKS are not safe at all. That means Wells Fargo, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, e
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by simonblack 5y ago
It will lead to a 'West against the Rest' war. The West has not enough manpower and manufacturing capacity to win that one. India, alone, or China, alone, has more manpower than the West (5 eyes, Europe, Japan) combined. China alo
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by simonblack 5y ago
A 30-year-old document written by someone of a completely different era (and political party) to the current administration has nothing to do with anything. I hate to break this to you but the neocons are still well in control of the US.
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by simonblack 5y ago
That's to be expected that both Russia and the US put their ICBMs on hair-trigger alert. This crisis is basically a replay of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis but in reverse. US missiles being too close to Russia today, rather than Russia
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by simonblack 5y ago
Also, "things will proceed to nuclear" means that you think Putin will initiate the end of human (and most plant) life on Earth. Actually, I think the initiation will come from the US side. Read up on the Wolfowitz Doctrine. The
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by simonblack 5y ago
Much as I hate to admit it, quite high. The US is confined by its Wolfowitz Doctrine, Russia is confined by its history of 25 million dead in WW2. Neither is capable of backing down. Things will proceed to nuclear.
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by simonblack 5y ago
A flagrant invasion of this scale has not been seen since World War II Were you asleep in 2003 when The US invaded Iraq? Or in 2001 when the US invaded Afghanistan? Or in 1965 when the US invaded Vietnam? Or in 1950 when North Korea and t
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by simonblack 5y ago
Old proverb: "If it sounds too good to be true, it generally is." "The Ghost of Kyiv" is 99.999% certain to be fiction. If he's so good, why isn't he named? Which squadron is he with? How old is he? How long ha
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by simonblack 5y ago
Well, he'd be in good company: Madeleine Allbright, GW Bush, Cheney, Blair, Howard, Obama, Trump, Sarkozy, Macron, Abbott, etc, etc, etc, all need to be charged before War Crimes Tribunals.
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by simonblack 5y ago
Occam's Razor: The simplest answer is the best. There is no celebration of the 'Ghost' Ace. Therefore he doesn't exist.
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by simonblack 5y ago
If NATO decides to strike at Kaliningrad That's a whole different ballgame. That's NATO vs Russia, not Ukraine vs Russia. All bets are off. It would go nuclear within 24 hours. "Command and control centres would be hit&quot
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by simonblack 5y ago
I've never had to use Windows as my 'everyday' Operating System. I went from MSDOS to a UNIX desktop in 1991, then from a UNIX desktop to a Linux desktop in 2001. I haven't missed Windows because it isn't necessary
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by simonblack 5y ago
The sequence is more likely reversed. War and then the cables are cut. The British did that in WW1 to force the Germans to use radio that the British could then receive also.
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by simonblack 5y ago
NATO should leave the Black Sea. That's merely a tactical decision. Large ships are very vulnerable when bottled up in small, shallow bodies of water. Any NATO ships in the Black Sea should considered in serious danger. It'd be li
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by simonblack 5y ago
I found that using different programming languages takes a lots of immersion. Otherwise you find yourself (ferinstance) writing Python syntax but using C idioms. In other words, you aren't really programming in Python, but in Python-fl
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by simonblack 5y ago
Russia is channelling Dirty Harry: "Go ahead. Make my day."
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by simonblack 5y ago
Old Business Proverb: "Never turn away a paying customer." If Stripe (and others) can't cut it, go to somewhere who can. If that means using a Japanese/Nigerian/Swiss/Singapore/Brasilian/other bank,
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by simonblack 5y ago
More analysis than 'live' news: https://www.moonofalabama.org/

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