Cygnia Posted August 30, 2022 Report Share Posted August 30, 2022 Y'know, of all the artists out there to go after the FBI (Ice-T, the Chicks, Dee Snider come to mind), this guy would not have been one of my top choices... Micky Dolenz Sues FBI Over Monkees File Micky Dolenz Sues FBI Over Monkees File https://ultimateclassicrock.com/micky-dolenz-monkees-fbi-lawsuit/ tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 30, 2022 Report Share Posted August 30, 2022 Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62732447 wcw43921 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted August 31, 2022 Report Share Posted August 31, 2022 5 hours ago, death tribble said: Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62732447 It's ironic. That man significantly contributed to one of the most profound and wide-reaching geopolitical transformations of the 20th Century; but he did it by being a failure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted August 31, 2022 Report Share Posted August 31, 2022 Chernobyl is the big event of his time in power. I think without it he would have made some of his reforms but a a slower pace and stretched out his reign. Not his personal failure but a failure of the Soviet system. All things considered he navigated those times pretty well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 31, 2022 Report Share Posted August 31, 2022 I don't call Gorbachev a failure. He was head of a government when, through its own internal structural problems that he inherited, it fell apart. Many others in his position would have tried to sustain his own power by force, and with resulting civil disorder and grabs for power by multiple factions. The transition from Soviet Union to CIS was far smoother and far less disorderly than anyone would have predicted, I think. Yes, the economic problems in the former USSR were horrendous for at least a decade, and probably not yet fully recovered even now; but civil war did not happen and only under its current dictator has Russia resumed conquest of its neighbors by force. I think it will be decades before a full analysis will appear, but I think a case can be made that Gorbachev was the greatest world statesman of the last quarter of the 20th Century. Cygnia, Lawnmower Boy, Ranxerox and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted August 31, 2022 Report Share Posted August 31, 2022 The Journal reports that a certain Mr. Cheeseboro will be spending his prison time in a wheel chair after signing a plea deal for murder. His other charges will run at the same time according to the paper. Mr. Cheeseboro is a victim of bad luck because while he was shooting his victim, his accomplice was shooting him. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted August 31, 2022 Report Share Posted August 31, 2022 13 hours ago, Cancer said: I don't call Gorbachev a failure. He was head of a government when, through its own internal structural problems that he inherited, it fell apart. Many others in his position would have tried to sustain his own power by force, and with resulting civil disorder and grabs for power by multiple factions. The transition from Soviet Union to CIS was far smoother and far less disorderly than anyone would have predicted, I think. Yes, the economic problems in the former USSR were horrendous for at least a decade, and probably not yet fully recovered even now; but civil war did not happen and only under its current dictator has Russia resumed conquest of its neighbors by force. I think it will be decades before a full analysis will appear, but I think a case can be made that Gorbachev was the greatest world statesman of the last quarter of the 20th Century. Preservation of the Soviet Union was his stated and implicit goal -- he only wanted to reform it to make it more functional. At that he failed. His overtures to the West to reduce political tensions endeared him in that part of the world, but domestically his efforts contributed to economic hardship and political instability, and that's what Russians remember him for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted September 1, 2022 Report Share Posted September 1, 2022 I've noticed that there's often a big disconnect between how national leaders are seen on the world stage, and how they're viewed at home. Global audiences usually only pick up on the leaders of other countries when they do something noteworthy at international events, or that impact a person's own country directly. Domestic audiences witness their leaders daily, and scrutinize how they handle all the affairs of the country, for good and bad. Of course, in more autocratic countries the leader's government generally controls the media and the message their people receive. But that can also lead to disconnect internationally, when their actions are covered by more liberal extra-national media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2022 Construction worker plays live 'Where's Waldo' with kids in hospital across the street Old Man and Ternaugh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 No, not Walmart! Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That’s Actually Two Small SD Cards in a Trench Coat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 Teenagers rescue 2 people from house fire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 Gun jams during bid to kill Argentina's vice-President https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-62762421 Bid to remove fuel from stricken ship near Gibraltar https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62763831 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 10 hours ago, Pariah said: No, not Walmart! Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That’s Actually Two Small SD Cards in a Trench Coat Eh, Wal Mart was getting scammed as well. They can't track everything across their marketplace. Both they and Amazon act simply as a promotional vehicle. And, yeah, I just got a 1 TB external SSD because my HP SSD had weird issues. IIRC it was about $50. Prices tend to go UP for extremely large drives, and 30 TB would be well up there. TechRadar has a story on this...the biggest they found is 100 TB. And it's $40,000. Not exactly a home unit; drives like this are for the seriously massive data centers where speed is also critical. Think Amazon...those pages aren't small with the amount of graphics involved, and there's *sooo many* products. Or Facebook...it's reported they generate 4 petabytes a day. A petabyte is 1000 terabytes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 37 minutes ago, unclevlad said: Eh, Wal Mart was getting scammed as well. They can't track everything across their marketplace. Both they and Amazon act simply as a promotional vehicle. And, yeah, I just got a 1 TB external SSD because my HP SSD had weird issues. IIRC it was about $50. Prices tend to go UP for extremely large drives, and 30 TB would be well up there. TechRadar has a story on this...the biggest they found is 100 TB. And it's $40,000. Not exactly a home unit; drives like this are for the seriously massive data centers where speed is also critical. Think Amazon...those pages aren't small with the amount of graphics involved, and there's *sooo many* products. Or Facebook...it's reported they generate 4 petabytes a day. A petabyte is 1000 terabytes. Most of my external drives are still spinning rust--I have a big media collection, and there are still benefits to traditional hard drives for backups and the like. Flash memory isn't really good for long-term storage, as the cards can lose information as the cells lose charge over time. Additionally, it's cheaper for larger capacities (4TB and up). Smaller flash drives (256 GB and lower) are mainly for SneakerNet transfers, and are frequently cleared for reuse afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 Oh yeah. For a lot of things, hard drives still work just fine...a co-worker had a personal web site set up with his personal music collection. This was...15 years ago? And it was rather sizable. For that, hard drives are fine. I've got a terabyte SSD for the system drive, and a 4 TB hard drive for anything non-system. And for anything that's static...like my Hero PDFs...Google Drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 One of the few non-political reasons why Ohio is Hell... Ohio man who suffered 20,000 bee-stings expected to recover, family says Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 2, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 Truly a nightmare. I read the first paragraph, then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 Yeah that’s a hard pass from me as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 Come see what it's like to get stung by the stinger ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 Curiously, Australian native bees are less likely to kill you than bees elsewhere. We also have Introduced species, but so far not the Africanised types that attacked this guy. The quarantine service is very careful about them coming in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 3, 2022 Report Share Posted September 3, 2022 2 hours ago, assault said: Curiously, Australian native bees are less likely to kill you than bees elsewhere. We also have Introduced species, but so far not the Africanised types that attacked this guy. The quarantine service is very careful about them coming in. Nice try but we know you’re just trying to lure us into drop bear range. assault 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted September 3, 2022 Report Share Posted September 3, 2022 3 hours ago, Old Man said: Nice try but we know you’re just trying to lure us into drop bear range. Busted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted September 3, 2022 Report Share Posted September 3, 2022 16 hours ago, Cygnia said: One of the few non-political reasons why Ohio is Hell... Ohio man who suffered 20,000 bee-stings expected to recover, family says I didn't read the article but my first thought was, "How did they get that number?" Do you really keep counting after, say, 2 or 3000? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 3, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2022 I can't believe it was an even number! Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 4, 2022 Report Share Posted September 4, 2022 Bees are well known for being well organized and fastidious, but their proficiency in mathematics is not as widely recognized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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