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From Russia with love https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/1/mali-receives-helicopters-weapons-from-russia The French seems to have bad days queuing up to have their turns…

JuiceMedia ("Honest Government Ads") just released their Patreon supporters preview of their upcoming video about the subject - Aukus, Submarines, how it was handled etc. I'll share a link once it gets a public release on youtube. Agree or not with their political views, they are usually funny enough to be worth watching.

Three Cheeses for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Cheese to rule them all, One Cheese to find them, One Cheese to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Sardinia where the Shadows lie Ok, I better stop now...

A duel to the death. The winner consumes the loser. Cheese vs. Player....

Yeah, that one is prohibited by arms embargo (if not, it should be) Best kind of cheese is deep fried Camembert with blueberry jam

Welcome to Australia...

I would probably disagree that "someone" is turning this into an unnecessary crisis. I would argue, a crisis is never necessary As for reasons, yeah, I did check The Guardian later, who had a few numbers too... https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/24/what-is-causing-the-uk-crisis-in-petrol-supplies How bad are the lorry driver shortages? The industry estimates there is a gap of 100,000 lorry drivers partly due to Covid and partly Brexit. About 25,000 HGV drivers from the EU left during 2020 and did not return, and there is a backlog of 40,000 waiting to take their HGV tests. The Road Haulage Association says the government is not taking the problem seriously enough. “The average age of a truck driver in the UK is 57, every day this problem is just getting worse as more and more retire,” said Rod McKenzie, managing director of policy and public affairs at the RHA. Hey, @Keyrock ever fancied moving to Europe???

The UK is feeling various aftereffects of Brexit... besides food shortages and unrest in Northern Ireland, they now also face fuel shortages: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58713770 "If required, the deployment of military personnel will provide the supply chain with additional capacity as a temporary measure to help ease pressures caused by spikes in localised demand for fuel." Tl;dr; The UK is running out of truck/lorry drivers to move the fuel from the fuel terminals to the retailers

The only one I knew from top of my head was eV (Electron Volt, because I sometimes follow what the people at CERN are up to)... I fail at nerding

Dang you forcing me to listen to all that Swedish! Just kidding, giving it a listen now... edit: So, the tl;dr; version, it's an endless ****fight between Sweden, Estonia and the German shipyard that built the ship and nobody wants the "evidence" being out of reach.

I thought they had decided at some point to cover the wreckage in concrete... they can't have done a very good job with that. Edit: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-01-11-9601120129-story.html

Hey, that last game is called “the internet”!!!

I don't know if that gun is loaded, but it made me feel uneasy watching that guy putting his eye that close and looking down the barrel Looks like a well rehearsed show though. Different part of the world, different ceremonies.... Indian and Pakistani military facing off at the border

AJ *is* my second source of international news (alongside BBC), as I like to watch what happens in the world (besides the often heavily "Western" focused media). AJ is my goto site for news about Africa, The Middle East, South and South East Asia. BBC for stuff that happens in Europe, China and North America. Religious extremism is everyones problem, regardless what continent it happens on.

Looks like there is a supply problem on the mercenary market? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/25/mali-approached-russian-private-companies-moscow-not-involved Mali going shopping in Russia. What happened to Blackwater (who made quite a name for themselves in Iraq)??? Mali has asked Russian private companies to boost security in the conflict-torn country, Moscow confirmed as the Malian leader accused France of abandoning Bamako by preparing a large troop drawdown.

It's just PR speak for nationalism. You can try to paint it prettier than it is, but it isn't. My signature pretty much covers my thoughts on "patriotism". When the various lords, counts, dukes, kings etc. figured out they couldn't get the serfs to flock to their banner and die for their rulers, they came up with this splendid new idea in 1648. Patriotism! Trick the peasants into believing they are part of something and they'll die by the thousand (or millions, in last century) for an abstract entity that replaced the old structures. Worship your nation state instead of your local baron. It's still the masses dancing to the tunes of their masters voice. It's pretty genius really. Not happy with the system? But you're part of it. Hard to argue against, right? Now shut up and march this way, it's where the front is (because the peasants on the other side of that front belongs to another "nation"). Nothing has changed, only the name and what the rulers call themselves. So no, no sympathy for nations, nationalists (or the self proclaimed "patriots", who are just tools for their masters).

1648 is calling, they want you back!

Moved a couple of posts here, as I might have been a bit too clever coming up with a name for the other, job related thread

The application language is the same, C/AL. But the old, weird development environment has long since been replaced with Visual Studio Code (with a real debugger and Intellisense ftw.) and source control is done via Azure DevOps (edit: and Git) There is a bit of history behind the name C/AL. Navision was one of several Danish ERP systems competing for the domestic market back then. Commodore and Admiral were two other ones, besides Damgaard's offerings (which were named completely different, like Xal, C5, Axapta etc.). But Navision has a lot of fun with all kinds of sea side related names. C/AL being a pun on Sea and Application Language, the online licensing system was C/CAPS, the currency you bought modules and granules for a customers license were known as C/SHELLS, the old proprietary database system (call C/SIDE) had a C/ODBC interface and so on and so on.

Split off from the politics thread, as it has very little to do with politics... @BruceVC Most of my working life has been with what was originally a Danish product, known as 'Navision' in the 1990's... It was the first IT job I got after university. I say IT job, because I had some really oddball jobs after finishing university in order to pay rent etc. nobody wants to hire people with no work experience. Eventually I got a lucky break and through a friend, got a lead to a company looking for somebody like me. Not too expensive and with a knack for programming. Did that for 5 years. While I was doing that, Microsoft bought the software and it became a Microsoft product. Thanks to that and me approaching terminal boredom in Denmark, decided to move abroad. The one good thing about Microsoft is, their products are sold all over the world and I had by then years of experience (always a selling point, trumping most other things). I did other things too, like building bespoke web applications, Windows CE (the precursor for handheld devices), but it was the ERP part that was my bread and butter. I still work with the same product 25+ years later, but it's now known as Microsoft Business Central and they push very heavily for people to join "The Cloud". I used to work ridiculous hours, like 60-80 hour work weeks for close to all of the first 20 years, being at times technical manager, developer team lead (for 8 years) and got noticeable grey hair before turning 30. One day I realized it wasn't worth it and I started aiming for positions that would give me a better work/life balance, like only working 40 hours a week. Something I should have done a long time ago. As for what I've actually done with all those ERP implementations over the years... oh dear. From implementations for small 5 person family companies to multinational corporations where we rolled out the software in 18 European countries (our teams being on site in all those countries). From weird, bespoke warehouse management systems over manufacturing, import systems (that was when I was living in England) for companies doing imports from the far east (goods costing, customs handling, container tracking etc.), supply chain management, CRM, e-commerce, freight forwarding and IVF (In vitro fertilization) solutions to a completely custom built solution for the wine industry (grape growing, processing/manufacturing, bonded warehouse handling for the high % stuff, bottling, sales, distribution and weird Aussie tax rules). I've probably left out approx. 9 out of every 10 projects, as they are either similar to the above or I simply forgot them

That's like reading the comments section on either of Fox or Sky News....

I haven’t forgotten this and I do intend to answer. I might just create a new thread for it, like what do you actually do (not just what you did today)

The downside of working only 40 hour work weeks, too much time to read news related stuff and watch youtube Edit: This is from '60 Minutes' (Australia)

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58652249 Consumers should throw away their Chinese phones and avoid buying new ones, Lithuania’s Defence Ministry has warned. A report by its National Cyber Security Centre tested 5G mobiles from Chinese manufacturers. It claimed that one Xiaomi phone had built-in censorship tools while another Huawei model had security flaws. Huawei said no user data is sent externally and Xiaomi said it does not censor communications. Sounds like something from an old Soviet movie... except it's 2021.

When legislation completely fails and how profit always comes before safety. It's an hour long, but worth watching some of the dirty laundry of Boeing and the FAA being aired.