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> Yes, Ukraine is a democracy, but also one that still contains some unsavory elements

And you think getting rid of those 'unsavory elements', replacing them with an authoritarian, warmongering Putin led puppet government would be an improvement for the world?

What utter drivel.

Oh dear.

It would be laughably easy for the Russian command to disprove (and thoroughly discredit) the Ukrainian reporting if these reports are false.

But the Russians can't.

The Mapatazi?

An increasingly rare thing these days.

> When I learned about that interior camera in my Model Y

Wait, Tesla cars video their users? Seriously?

I'm gobsmacked users tolerate and agree to this.

> The "don't be easily annoyed" rule is increasingly needed.

Interestingly....

I recall a post on here where a bloke got very indignant about the innocent use of the term 'Chinaman'; something this Englishman (sharing an office with two Frenchmen, an Irishman and a Dane) found rather odd, especially considering the complainant was not Chinese themselves.

I think this was my introduction to the idea of the 'modern' internet user being far too easily offended (on somebody else's behalf to boot!), coupled with a modern desire to engage in culture wars and internet virtue signalling. This has certainly not lead to rational and healthy discourse.

As long as we hold onto the USENET tradition, that all posts pointing out a spelling or grammatical error must themselves contain such an error. Including punctuation.

:-)

> I live in the UK. It's bizarrely barely news.

Seconded.

I'm willing to bet only Private Eye readers (where to story broke and who continue to demand justice) are aware of this debacle and the shear scale of misery it has caused; all due to software being considered infallible.

+1 for Private Eye.

Real investigative journalism, holding politicians to account, all whist taking the piss in classic British style.

If Private Eye hadn't investigated this, who would have?

> I suspect the modems will be around for a very long time.

No they won't.

'Dial up' modems need a PSTN line to work. The roll out of full fibre networks means analogue PSTN is going the way of the dodo. You cannot get a new PSTN line anymore in Blighty. In Estonia and the Netherlands (IIRC) the PSTN switch off is already complete.

> spelled

You have just outed yourself as American!

I'm surprised you think otherwise.

"Ordinary" antennas are completely passive, just a bit of metal. It's the maths for data recovery and trilateration (not triangulation!) that is processor heavy.

Amusingly, Scottish Wildcats are rare, going extinct because they are interbreeding with feral domestic cats.

Your very post (and Wikipedia link) undermines the argument you are tying to make.