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Comment Re:Pointless gesture (Score 1) 71

As for "advanced weapons", the US has blown up a primary school in Iran

The school is literally in the corner part of an IRGC base. Nobody knows shit at this point about who/what hit it or why. It is fair to assume if not for Trump starting a war this attack would not have happened. To go beyond and speak of weapons is just wild guessing as there is 0 publicly available information at this point.

These "advanced weapons" are proving useless in Ukraine, as the Russians figured out over a weekend how to jam the guidance systems. Advanced crap is still crap.

While EW is fundamentally a cat and mouse game the characterization "proving useless" in Ukraine is absurd.

There were initially issues with low cost GLSDB. That kit was successfully reworked to address them. Excalibur while degraded by EW was ultimately done in by cost, availability and other tools that filled the same needs. JDAMs, GMLRS, ATACMS are still very effective even if some categories are limited by availability.

Against this, the British have used aircraft with far less advanced weapons to blow up specific floors in specific buildings - something way way outside the capacity of the US. The day your "advanced weapons" in the hands of imbeciles can match crude weapons in the hands of actual experts is the day you get to tell us about these "advanced weapons".

In a peer contest between an imbecile firing off a standoff weapon and a skilled expert the imbecile is going to live longer and be more successful.

Comment Re:I use a lot of non-play-store apps (Score 1) 53

It's pretty unlikely that the restriction will actually prevent you from using many non-Play apps. There might be a handful, but I expect that nearly all will either fall into one of the exception buckets or their developers will register. Malware authors probably won't, of course, which is the point.

Personally I hope no developer registers. Capitulation only lends legitimacy to this naked power grab.

Comment Re:IDIOTIC! Has Japan hired an American policy mak (Score 1) 47

WTF!? The time to ban them was in the 90s. Now they do it? It is much safer, well known, and we have modern replacements some of which can't practically become a serious threat.

Personally I think they should go further to limit power banks. There is limited value in allowing them.

Solution: fireproof bags and marginally trained staff. Hell, tell the passengers where the bags are and they'll do it.

Commercial airlines already do.

We've had the 90s to engineer the jet fuel away from the floor... other critical parts; well how many accidents or crazy people will even know and be able to burn those? So rare it's not worth us bothering to talking about it. We let far more people die every year in acceptable risk, even ones we profess to care about preventing.

Not such a rare problem and only getting worse.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faa.gov%2Fhazmat%2Fres...

Laptops have more power than most every powerbank.

The point seems to be making reasonable tradeoffs to mitigate risk rather than eliminating it entirely.

Hate to think of when they figure out a nutjob can harm more people attacking a bullet train. People wanting to harm society have already found the answer thanks to global media and our desire for outrage porn. (To save you the thought: it's killing children, who are easily concentrated in schools. If you want to change that everybody needs to fake outrage and promote some other target in a way that appeals to a deranged mind. Maybe a bunch of AI virtual Trumps?.)

TFA is about malfunctioning equipment.

Comment Re:Exactly what every IT dept needs (Score 1) 67

Applications no one knows how to maintain and have zero support. There is a reason enterprises BUY software vs build, support. Access Database apps version 2.0

I agree with these sentiments to an extent yet one thing I've seen in my area is what larger enterprises buy tend to end up looking more like SDKs than finished product. There may be a core that resembles a product yet basically to be usable requires a substantial amount of programming activity with all of the follow on maintenance / lifecycle concerns anyway. I could see cases where better generic tooling and access to open supporting stacks results in reduced reliance on SaaS.

Off the shelf software/SaaS has to meet everyone's needs. As complexity and requirements grow this becomes increasingly expensive to pull off. While the choice is market and environment dependent there are points where it can make more sense to just roll your own.

Comment Re:Unwarranted Outrage (Score 1) 51

The military wanted Anthropic tech as part of their supply chain. Anthropic said no, we won't provide unless you accept our terms. Military said no thank you, we don't agree to those terms.

The military had already accepted Anthropic's terms as part of their contract. They now want to alter the deal and Anthropic refused.

Military said no thank you, we don't agree to those terms. Military now has a supply chain issue they need to solve. If a company disrupts your supply chain, what's to prevent them from disrupting their other clients who have contracts with military.

If you change your mind and no longer agree to terms you already agreed to just cancel your contract and move on. There is no need for further drama. Going beyond this and retaliating is a blatant abuse of power.

Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 233

Read between the lines, dude.

So you are telling us it isn't their mission statement after all and you have no evidence to support your bullshit yet you see fit to spew it anyway? Why are you wasting everyone's time spewing gibberish?

This is nonsense. All categories are spoken for. If you assume everyone in "Other" is Muslim you end up at 40.5%. Adding Sufi to the pot you end up with 43.7% Either way you are wrong.

What kind of fucking weird Fox News concept of Muslim are you operating with, dude?

Stop digging and stop gaslighting us with your inane garbage. This is basic arithmetic. There is nothing in the other possible categories that can possibly equal Muslim and add up to more than 43.7%.

Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 233

And yet other polls not conducted by groups who's mission statement is the collapse of the regime show that an overwhelming majority of the country identifies as Muslim.

Not their mission statement. Why are you making shit up? What is your malfunction?

It should also be noted that the GAMAAN "survery", if it can even be called that, doesn't demonstrate that only 40% are Muslim. Rather, it shows that only 40% are one of the 2 main denominations of Islam.

This is nonsense. All categories are spoken for. If you assume everyone in "Other" is Muslim you end up at 40.5%. Adding Sufi to the pot you end up with 43.7% Either way you are wrong.

Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 233

That isn't a study, you ignorant shit-for-brains. It's a poll.

They call it a study.

"This study was financially supported by and carried out in cooperation with Dr. Ladan Boroumand, cofounder of and senior fellow at the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran"

No worries, I'll just call you a loser.

The poll's shortcomings are mentioned right in the link you sent. It was a social-media driven survey. 70% of the country is estimated to be active, in some way, in social media.

You said 99% Muslim and now you are quibbling over the minority of group not captured. Literate above 19 years old is 85% and not everyone on social media. Even if you assume 100% of the group not captured are Muslim it would not come close to explaining the discrepancy between your assertions and the conclusions of the study.

Now of the 30% missing, how do you think they lean?

Does it matter when 63% of the people captured in this study (majority of population) are not Muslim? If you had shit for brains it would dramatically increase your IQ.

I love stupid people.

Loving yourself is kind of gross and vain. Whatever you are in to I guess. The surveys these dataset are mostly based on are people traveling to homes and conducting in person interviews. Answering the religion question wrong in Iran is literally punishable by death.

At the end of the day religion isn't even relevant. There are no shortage of Muslim majority countries with secular governments.

Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 233

Just as stupid as accepting a poll so far from a random sampling that one wonders if it was just made to further the rhetorical goals of GAMAAN.

I certainly don't think so. I don't place any value at all in regime statistics. Can you point to a substantive objection or refutation of this study? Do you have a better source of Iranian public opinions about religion?

Iran is a culturally Muslim country, and has been for a millennia.
That doesn't mean every single one of them is a hard-line practicing Shiite or Sunni, but the overwhelming majority of them are thinking of Allah when you ask them if they believe in God.

Put up or shut up motherfucker. Cite a better source or fuck off.

Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 233

It was a successful attempt. Before the coup the role of the monarch in Iran was similar to Great Britain

The hell it was, there was no coup and the monarch had the power to remove Mosaddeq the entire time.

But in the coup the government was overthrown, democracy died

The government was not overthrown, Mosaddeq tried to become a dictator and instead he was ousted.

Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 233

This is fascinatingly stupid.

Iran is 99% muslim, and has been for pushing 1000 years.
Discussions of what religion they followed 2500 years ago is less than meaningless.

What is fascinatingly stupid is accepting regime statistics at face value.

This is closer to reality:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgamaan.org%2Fwp-content%2F...

Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 233

ORLY? Then how come a small band of zealots were able to topple the Shah and install themselves as government in 1979? It all started with little protests here and there, like the brainwashed vapid Palestinian-loving privileged white kids here protesting for what they perceive is the latest outrage, the latest slight caused by US and Israel, prodded by their brainwashed teachers.

There was big time buyers remorse after Mullahs took over and people realized reality was nothing like the marketing materials.

All the kiddies helped them do it. They wanted it, they got it, and and now you say they're secular?

A lot of them are. Iran is a real modern country not some oil cursed shit hole.

Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 233

USA already put in a pro-Western puppet. It eventually failed, and lead to the Ayatollah.

Some of the common wisdom surrounding Iran is comically wrong. This so called pro-western puppet won his power/position by succession. His father abdicated during WWII I believe at the behest of the British.

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