TIL that nobody really makes 2TB MicroSD cards yet, despite the fact that numerous eBay sellers have them listed. I thought it was just faulty at first...
Oh well, at least I get free postage for returning it.
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- 2024-03-17 10:20am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 473
- Views: 113195
- 2024-03-14 07:21pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 202
- Views: 7393
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
My last word on this particular topic will be this: If anyone deserves a bit of slack for taking the position that there's got to be a strictly limited number of ways the invading forces of Nazism could be any worse than what they already have to put up with, it's someone who lived through the Holod...
- 2024-03-13 10:48am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 473
- Views: 113195
Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
The M113 is almost as versatile as Mike Sparks makes it out to be, isn't it?
- 2024-03-13 07:21am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 202
- Views: 7393
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
As I have pointed out on previous occasions when this came up, the Ukrainians are not in a position to turn down volunteers just because they have questionable backgrounds. I would however sincerely hope that their officers and NCOs are under strict instructions that any soldier caught mistreating R...
- 2024-03-07 06:26am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1688
- 2024-03-07 06:18am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 202
- Views: 7393
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
I don't think there's ever going to be actual peace , as opposed to the sort of peace you get where everyone's busy rearming, until and unless Putin is removed from office in favour of someone who might plausibly come to the negotiating table in good faith. Why would the Ukrainians sue for peace whe...
- 2024-02-17 05:22am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 137342
- 2024-02-16 06:12am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 802
- Views: 385409
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Yeah, I know. Peter Bone was thoroughly unpleasant even by Tory standards, and the swing to Labour was gratifyingly hefty.
- 2024-02-16 05:46am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 802
- Views: 385409
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Well, I'm now on first-name terms with my local MP. The local Tories have discovered that when their MP gets booted out of Parliament for waving his genitals at the staff it's probably not a good idea to appoint the woman he started shagging while his wife was in hospital with cancer as a replacemen...
- 2024-02-15 07:58pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 137342
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
What's the rush? Once this war burns itself out I doubt Russia's going to be in a hurry to try again any time soon, and even if for some unfathomable reason China decided they'd rather have us as vassals than export customers there's an inconvenient amount of continent in the way of attacking us dir...
- 2024-02-15 06:46am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 137342
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
And considering the complete lack of any credible military threat to Western Europe since the 90s it's not really been a case of us underspending on defence.
- 2024-02-12 06:40pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: TRUMP: "I will Encourage Russia to Attack non-paying NATO Members"
- Replies: 21
- Views: 846
Re: TRUMP: "I will Encourage Russia to Attack non-paying NATO Members"
All this rests on the assumption that Congress will vote any way but how Trump tells them to vote.
- 2024-02-10 06:25am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Joe Biden 'wilfully' disclosed classified materials, but won't face criminal charges
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1256
Re: Joe Biden 'wilfully' disclosed classified materials, but won't face criminal charges
Yeah. The Republicans are going to find a way to make themselves everyone's problem.
- 2024-02-09 08:51pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 802
- Views: 385409
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
As with a great many other public works projects, the question we should really be asking is, "What's not doing this going to cost us?"
- 2024-02-05 08:24pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: King Charles diagnosed with cancer and will take step back from official duties
- Replies: 15
- Views: 701
Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer and will take step back from official duties
Good to know, thank you. But I hope they start making discreet inquiries about which of the individuals further down the line of succession would be willing to step up just in case. It'd be infinitely more awkward to be scrambling around at the last minute because everyone assumed William was fine w...
- 2024-02-05 07:36pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: King Charles diagnosed with cancer and will take step back from official duties
- Replies: 15
- Views: 701
Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer and will take step back from official duties
This would probably be a very good time for someone in government to ascertain whether or not William actually wants to take over the family business, and give some thought to what to do if he doesn't.
- 2024-02-02 11:39am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Texas vs. The united States - border issues
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2414
Re: Texas vs. The united States - border issues
Oh, I dare say they were. But they probably weren't brazen enough to be calling for the National Guard to refuse the Commander-In-Chief's orders or worse. I can't really fault Biden for not wanting to be the president who gave the order that kicked off the Second War of Southern Aggression, even if ...
- 2024-02-02 06:43am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Texas vs. The united States - border issues
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2414
Re: Texas vs. The united States - border issues
The real problem here is that Biden is too much of a weenie to send in the Army like Eisenhower and Kennedy did (and Johnson threatened to do) when states started this seditious bullshit. Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson didn't have to deal with a very large bloc within Congress that was openly back...
- 2024-01-29 04:03pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Three US troops killed and up to 25 injured in drone drone attack in Jordan
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1249
Re: Three US troops killed and up to 25 injured in drone drone attack in Jordan
It's not like it takes a particularly large or sophisticated organisation to rig a drone to carry a nail bomb. It might not be an established group at all, just a couple of wannabes trying to get a foot in the door.
- 2024-01-26 09:31am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Texas vs. The united States - border issues
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2414
Re: Texas vs. The united States - border issues
That could be defined as insurrection or rebellion and provide an opening for sending the regular US military in. I'm pretty sure in the Texas National Guard vs US Military the Feds would win. But it would get ugly and the political fallout could be disastrous. More so than the fallout from not doi...
- 2024-01-18 08:01am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 802
- Views: 385409
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Some additional context for this: BBC News Report , Wikipedia article For any overseas members who aren't aware of this, British post offices handle a lot of other government functions like passport applications, vehicle tax and other financial matters -mostly for people who can't won't use the web ...
- 2024-01-18 04:07am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UK and US forces launch 'targeted strikes' against Houthi rebel targets in Yemen
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4603
Re: UK and US forces launch 'targeted strikes' against Houthi rebel targets in Yemen
I'm with Ralin on this. One or two of Biden's cabinet picks turning out to be on the fiddle or simply not up to the job is unfortunate but probably inevitable, candidates who look good on paper turning out to be a disappointment will happen to everyone who's empowered to make hiring decisions at som...
- 2024-01-17 12:07pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 137342
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
I understand that Ukraine probably won't be making new aircraft, or even too many new tanks, but Russian sympathizers are claiming that Ukraine has to capitulate soon because they will run out of artillery shells if the west doesn't give them more. I want to know why they think Ukraine can't produc...
- 2024-01-15 09:56am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 137342
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
This happened far south over the azov sea, not even patriot could reach that far, so the only plausible causes are: Russian air defense, Russian fighters being stupid a yet unknown superweapon able to intercept aircraft at 3-400 km range, or some Ukrainian hotshot flying a jet all across the southe...
- 2024-01-14 04:26pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Chinese Military woes... Corruption worse than assumed...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 867
Re: Chinese Military woes... Corruption worse than assumed...
The question is, does China actually want to annex Taiwan? Because if they accomplish that objective then they're going to lose a convenient drum to beat whenever they need to distract their population from domestic affairs, not to mention the massive headache they'll have integrating a province tha...