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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by Lods -
I love this title.

Who was the bright spark who came up with it?  :D

On an ambivalence level what does a nato sanctioned war look like?

Nothing to do with NATO.  The Treaty only comes into force in a member state is attacked. The USA argued that 9/11 was an attack on it by Afghanistan, hence NATO involvement.  Most NATO countries have refused permission for US aircraft to use their bases.

I think the UK might have reversed their decision and France and Germany are also thinking about it.

Also, can I ask, how would we all like it if someone destroyed parliament and enforced their own take on our leadership?

I may be cynical but is this about concern for the Iranian people or access to oil?

We probably wouldnt necessarily hate our government being over thrown but they're going to need some staunch leadership to right that ship, and if history is a guide this is just history repeating since the Iraq involvement in the 80's.

Libya, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria?  Using military might to topple a government can work in the long run, but only with something like the Marshall Plan in Germany or SCAP in Japan.  That's not going to happen in Iran and it's going to take a miracle to see Iran functioning as it should.

It's a recipe for disaster.

To get the regime to fall will be a difficult task because they control the weaponry, and won't hesitate to use it on their own people.

Many in Iran have no desire to adopt a more freer, non religious form of government. It will be a country divided.

There seems to be no thinking as to what comes next should the regime fall.

It's not a conflict that can be restrained by borders and terrorist acts will occur across the world against the US and it's supporters.

It sends a message to other superpowers that there aren't any rules anymore and 'might is right'.

Bibi must have some excellent polaroids.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by DJC -
I love this title.

Who was the bright spark who came up with it?  :D

On an ambivalence level what does a nato sanctioned war look like?

Nothing to do with NATO.  The Treaty only comes into force in a member state is attacked. The USA argued that 9/11 was an attack on it by Afghanistan, hence NATO involvement.  Most NATO countries have refused permission for US aircraft to use their bases.

Also, can I ask, how would we all like it if someone destroyed parliament and enforced their own take on our leadership?

I may be cynical but is this about concern for the Iranian people or access to oil?

We probably wouldnt necessarily hate our government being over thrown but they're going to need some staunch leadership to right that ship, and if history is a guide this is just history repeating since the Iraq involvement in the 80's.

Libya, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria?  Using military might to topple a government can work in the long run, but only with something like the Marshall Plan in Germany or SCAP in Japan.  That's not going to happen in Iran and it's going to take a miracle to see Iran functioning as it should.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by PaulP -
How many American Presidents have either not started any new wars / conflicts, or ended conflicts they inherited ? Trump is a useless sack of sh1t, but he's upholding a proud, time honored American tradition.

Americans are crying out for the chance of living a life of some meaning and purpose,and they get this. Apparently no money for social services or anything that might actually help people, but plenty of dough for war. And they can't even get that right.

"If you ever feel useless, remember it took 20 years, trillions of dollars and 4 US Presidents to replace the Taliban with the Taliban."
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: AI
Last post by Thryleon -
Record ive seen on a Linux host is 1700 days of uptime as a side note.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by DJC -
I believe that under International Energy Agency rules, we should hold 90 days worth but we're usually around the 50 day mark.

It would seem to be a no brainer to have our strategic reserves stored here rather than in the USA.  There's really no guarantee that the USA will hand our reserves over or have the means to get it to us.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by Thryleon -
Beyond that there's not much to like.  This is world war 3 unfolding.  A critical thinker would say it started years ago.  Some would assert this is simply the continuation of all the proxy wars fought since I can remember.   This is gonna get really ugly.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: AI
Last post by bobby -
I refuse to use anything that is overly autonomous and needs to make decisions about my safety.  Computers are just too unreliable.  Reboot and all is well, but after the next batch of security updates, you might have a brick.
In my current Engineering R&D type job we have intrinsically safe and also high availability systems, none of them use a PC for hardware control, they are built on real-time hardware using industrial microcontrollers not a PC. We talk about MTBF measured in years of continuous service. PCs are used, but in the user interface not in hardware control.

The only way we get some semblance of reliability out of the PC based hardware control systems is to make sure they get a regular manual reboot whenever the opportunity arrives, which is usually at least once a week. Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, it makes no difference. The longest genuine claim I have heard was about one year for a PC, but most were really talking of virtualisation of an OS on bare metal that itself gets cycled while the client OS gets a snapshot and resumes after the hardware reboots. I'm sure there will be users who have a Raspberry Pi or something like that sitting there running continuously doing mostly nothing, but that's a different story to operating continuously under genuine demand.

There is no way AI should be allowed anywhere near a robot or cobot.

I’ve seen production Linux hosts run for over a year.  Can’t say the same for the Windows platform. Less than perfect code slowly leaking memory is a usual suspect. Infrequent race conditions are another.

LLMs logical language models. They build answers by calculating which word is most likely to follow the previous word based on the troves of information they have trolled through. Obviously there is more to but simply put this is what is going on. It explains why they aren’t very good at maths. I really worry when they start learning off their own content. We need some sort of standard in document tagging that classifies the veracity of the source.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by Thryleon -
I love this title.

On an ambivalence level what does a nato sanctioned war look like?

Also, can I ask, how would we all like it if someone destroyed parliament and enforced their own take on our leadership?

We probably wouldnt necessarily hate our government being over thrown but they're going to need some staunch leadership to right that ship, and if history is a guide this is just history repeating since the Iraq involvement in the 80's.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by Lods -
Meanwhile, there's panic buying at service stations and I expect that there'll be a run on dunny rolls  ::)

I've been hiding under a rock the past few days due to a family emergency....and not sure when all this actually kicked off.

However, the first thing i saw on my phone was an article telling everyone to go and stock up on fuel because of the war with Iran will limit supply and increase costs.

Can't remember where the article was from, but clearly i wasn't the only person to see it as i've had 4 other people talk about that very issue today.

Best fill up if you can get a good price before the petrol people jack it up...which they'll do regardless.

Barnaby Joyce asked a question about supply during Question time today.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen said Australia has 36 days worth of petrol and 34 days worth of diesel stockpiled.

Joyce took a point of order and asked whether the stored reserves were on Australian soil or on ships.

Bowen said either in Australia “or on ships in our economic zone”...so on the way.
Apparently those stocks are pretty normal which surprised me...in fact better than usual so 'no worries' just yet.



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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by DJC -
Plan EB, what plan?

There's Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi waiting in the wings and cheering the US on, but I'm not sure that the Iranians will want to change an authoritarian theocratic regime for an authoritarian monarchical regime.

I suspect that the USA thinks that chopping the head off the snake will encourage the populace to rise up and establish a western style constitutional democracy.