The F-35 program has been a litany of glitches and problems, many as a result of the program’s pork distribution approach.
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All the unbuffered error messages
The F-35 program has been a litany of glitches and problems, many as a result of the program’s pork distribution approach.
Over at Counterpunch Ramzy Baroud brings an account of Israeli settlers and military deliberately attempting to infect Palestinians with coronavirus. [stderr]
Coronavirus can be thought of as a dry run for how well organized human civilization responds to a global natural disaster. I’m not counting WWI and WWII as “natural disasters” – in fact, they were more like dry runs, too; another chance for concerted and sensible human response to a crisis and another opportunity lost.
We continue the saga of the splintered resin/wood bowl.
Resin and wood make pretty neat effects, so I’ve worked on more than just the red resin/bog oak bowl, which is sitting on my desk next to me as I type this. [stderr]
But I think it’s OK to gloat about some really fine, distilled, coronavirus irony. I guess I’m just a nasty person; well, that’s who’s running the world today so I’d better jump on the bandwagon.
In an earlier posting, I asked “why does coffee work for etching knife blades?” It’s all the rage and it does work. [stderr] [Read more…]
This is translated by me from the French; dad forwarded it from one of his European friends. I guess that’ll tell you something about how they feel in some parts of France.
One of the things I loathe is America’s infatuation with its military.
The Romans’ advice was characteristically succinct: “divide et impera” (divide and rule)