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This just hurts my brain. I don’t get what “Linux” here is supposed to represent. Wealth, intelligence, fidelity, fanatical devotion to Free Software?
This just hurts my brain. I don’t get what “Linux” here is supposed to represent. Wealth, intelligence, fidelity, fanatical devotion to Free Software?
The envoy had probably never seen clean water before and wanted a closer look.
Fiber laser, ceramic disc laser, CO2 laser?
Hopefully they’ll take him to a place where Trump can’t find or pardon him.
Music Television doesn’t necessarily have to be showing videos, but showing something at least tangentially related to music would be nice. MTV is now what every channel is: put whatever is required in front of the viewer to sell ads. All channels are the same shit now.
Little known fact: the imaginary numbers are the algebraic closure of the irrational numbers.
The only real question left in this war is: if Putin orders a nuclear strike, will he be obeyed?
Especially if you have a media empire that is useful to discredit those opposing your invasion.
Maybe not, but ceiling cat is watching you masturbate.
Does that mean Germany will have the exotic negative energy that makes constructing a wormhole possible?
The Russians have nuclear submarines. No amount of bellicose bravado will blunt the sting of those.
Nuclear war is a very real possibility. If Putin becomes desperate enough, he will try to go to the very edge of brinksmanship. In this situation, with launch on warning, any perceived provocation could rapidly escalate. As the fear of a preemptive strike increases, so does the probability of a preemptive strike. Rationality gives way to fear. This is the logic and danger of brinksmanship: that the more you rely on it, the more likely it is to escalate out of control before one side backs down.
The outcome of the war in Ukraine has always been a game of chicken, being which side is willing to escalate to nuclear weapons, and whether the other side may or may not back down. The logic of escalation has always been that no possible gain exceeds the losses caused by a nuclear exchange. The Madman theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory ) is about convincing one’s opponent that is one is not rational, and is willing to use nuclear weapons despite the losses. The threat then, is that Putin, seeing himself politically vulnerable because of his losses, but still powerful enough to command the military to use nuclear weapons, would demonstrate his willingness to use nuclear weapons, even if not directly against a military target, in a demonstration (perhaps in the Black Sea) or an exoatmospheric test.
As long as the alumni fund gets its share, it’s all good.
Not high enough on the Aryan-o-meter for Coulter.
I just took a Core i5, 6 GB RAM laptop from 2011 and reinstalled Linux Mint and put in a 1 TB SSD. The difference between that and Ubuntu 23.10 and a 750 GB 5400 RPM drive was like night and day.
Afghanistan is not the place if you want to see Buddhist monuments.
The Soviets had COMINTERN. The CCP wants to rely on shared Chinese identity.
The Ukrainians should capitulate like the Franks at Poitiers or the Venetians at the Battle of Lepanto, or the Austrians at the Battle of Vienna. Perhaps if the Ukranians were Catholic, the Pope might support their resistance more.
I find it very hard to believe that anyone vetting a spouse in such a way cares about the spouse being a nerd in and of itself.