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Quote from: Thryleon – on March 02, 2026, 05:54:28 pm

I love this title.

Who was the bright spark who came up with it? 

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.

I love this title.

Who was the bright spark who came up with it? 

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.

Quote from: Thryleon – on March 02, 2026, 08:55:39 am

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.

Quote from: DJC – on March 02, 2026, 04:50:06 pm

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.