Is it?
If you're unable to understand orders and have no combat experience, you're likely to be a burden and waste of equipment. They don't have the time to train people or teach them Ukrainian.
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They're not unless you can speak Ukrainian and/or have military experience.
Meh. Lime mortar absorbs and releases moisture. IRC "Roman" lime concrete is much the same.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan, but that kind of thing isn't compatible with modern insulation. You end up with damp and mould issues in the walls.
Sure it works great in uninsulated stuff though. But people and governments want every room in a building to be insulated nowadays. The whole one warm room, the rest of the building is cold and you'd better wear a three piece suit or heavy wool jumper thing, is abhorrent to our spoiled western arses.
Also: the Romans didn't build their buildings that high. AFAIK Lime concrete has lower tensile and compressive strength, which is an issue with high rise buildings.
Thousands of years, to be exact.
Prime games too, although I've noticed they offer less GOG games than they once did, and I refuse to install their app on my pc.
In my defense prime is very cheap in my country, because they haven't crushed the competition yet.
It's an expensive problem, especially if it's a system that's being used all across the airport by regular staff.
You need to train thousands of employees to use the new software, you need to have one person using the old software as a backup, while the other uses the new software, often while surrounded by hundreds of often angry customers.
And if something goes wrong, which it invaribly does (even if it's user error or someone snagging a cable), shit can get very expensive. Small delays, add up to larger delays, and cascade through the entire system. Delayed flights, tens of thousands of euros in costs, hotels for thousands of passengers, missed flights, missed meetings, damages, lawsuits, penalties for missed landing/take-off slots, missed time windows for certain cities which don't allow flights after a certain time, etc. And often you discover legacy stuff while you're upgrading that needs fixing, stuff that no one knows how to replace anymore or is physically hard to access.
Sometimes it is genuinely better to leave it. COBOL is 60 years old. There's still plenty of stuff running on it, exactly because it's often too expensive and too risky to replace.
A lot of these systems are also always on.
Used to work at an airport that had a similar issue, turning some of these systems off simply isn't possible. So you end up having to run the replacement system simultaneously with the old system for a few days. Can't simply take it off line for a day.
German re-unification cost trillions. It's entirely unsurprising.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Relevant:
When Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at dawn on Thursday, he justified the “special military operation” as having the goal to “denazify” Ukraine. ... Ukraine does have a far-right movement, and its armed defenders include the Azov battalion ... But no democratic country is free of far-right nationalist groups, including the United States. In the 2019 election, the Ukrainian far right was humiliated, receiving only 2% of the vote. This is far less support than far-right parties receive across western Europe ... Ukraine is a democratic country, whose popular president was elected, in a free and fair election, with over 70% of the vote. That president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is Jewish, and comes from a family partially wiped out in the Nazi Holocaust. ... Putin ... has come to view himself as the global leader of Christian nationalism ... in part because of the global reach of recent Russian fascist thinkers such as Alexander Dugin and Alexander Prokhanov who laid its groundwork. ... The dominant version of antisemitism alive in parts of eastern Europe today is that Jews employ the Holocaust to seize the victimhood narrative from the “real” victims of the Nazis, who are Russian Christians. ... Those who embrace Russian Christian nationalist ideology will be especially susceptible to this strain of antisemitism. ... By claiming that the aim of the invasion is to “denazify” Ukraine, Putin appeals to the myths of contemporary eastern European antisemitism – that a global cabal of Jews were (and are) the real agents of violence against Russian Christians and the real victims of the Nazis were not the Jews, but rather this group.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/vladimir-putin-ukraine-attack-antisemitism-denazify
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Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day
- Most victims of the holocaust weren't Jewish.
- Of course there are plenty of Jewish holocaust survivors who are opposed to war crimes in Gaza. They've been criticising the Israeli government for longer than you've even been aware of this conflict. For example.
- You don't seem to understand what it's like to survive the holocaust. These are deeply deeply traumatised people who are now being confronted with war again. Plenty of them want to die. Plenty are suffering severe PTSD and flashbacks.
Half the population has an IQ of 100 or lower.
It's entirely unsurprising.
I know Biden gets a lot of shit for it, but I suspect this is also one of the reasons why the Biden administration has delayed criticising Netenyahu and been very cautious in doing so.
They know Netenyahu would ignore them anyway, that it would damage their alliance with Israel, and have probably come to the conclusion that being too strong wouldn't help remove him from power.
Articles like this seem to back up my theory:
After cautious criticism by Biden, Netanyahu rallies Israel’s right wing
Not that I agree with the logic, but that might partly explain it.
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Russia fires a top geneticist who claimed people could live to 900 before sins caused Biblical flood
Bit of a tangent, but from what I can tell the language barrier (and cold war history) really doesn't do Russia any favours. Because so many Russians speak poor English, they're effectively cut off from the English speaking world.
Obviously, the Anglosphere has more than enough weird conspiracies, and there is some bleed through, but Russia has surprisingly popular stuff like Fomenko's New Chronology. For those wondering:
Some French people have come terms with their past. Some haven't.
I'll give you an example:
This is just one example, obviously. I didn't need to go back to Jean-Marie. 40% at the last election, wouldn't be surprised if she becomes the next French president.
Not singling out France. Not trying to dilute Austria's responsibility, given I was the one who brought it up in this thread. Just saying that much of Europe had a collaboration problem and that a lot of Europe is still in denial about their role in the war.
Similar thing for the US too. German-American Bund, Father McCoughlin, Charles Lindbergh, "America First Committe", etc. Once again with a perhaps predictable impact on the current political situation in their country.
Vienna's a lovely city, a lot of Austrians are great people, yadayada.
I get the impression that, unlike Germany, it's a country that hasn't fully come to terms with its Nazi past. A lot of Austrians seem to be in denial about the Anschluss or how popular it was. Many will even argue that Austrians were victims, while ignoring that there was overwhelming popular support for the Anschluss at the time.
Here's a relevant article:
This isn't just Austria, obviously.
For example, my grandfather would often sarcastically remark that the Dutch resistance gained most of its members after 1944. To quote Adolf Eichmann on Dutch collaboration: "The transports run so smoothly that it is a pleasure to see."
In Belgium, you have a similar issue where some Flemish nationalists (sometimes disingeniously) minimize the extent of their relatives collaboration during the war, as it's politically incovenient and embarassing. Same thing in France with Vichy. Same thing in much of Europe, tbh.
Unless you're pro-Putin, this is yet another ill informed take. You'll notice that the person you're replying to has a blue and white flag avatar.
That's almost certainly the white-blue-white flag. Wikipedia:
Ie. you're telling someone who opposes Putin and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, to suck it.
Ill informed take.
Russian mothers and related groups have historically protested previous Soviet and Russian wars, and are a genuine worry for Putin. It's a relatively(!!!) safe way to protest in an authoritarian state and very macho culture, because they can play the motherhood card.
Relevant article:
Ie. you're making fun of Russian women and allied groups who are protesting the war and the regime in the only way they realistically can.
I honestly wonder if my data wouldn't be safer on some sites, if I skipped two-factor authentication and a recovery email, and simply used my date of birth as a password. At least then, they'd wouldn't be able to leak the phone number or email adress, because I was never forced to give it to them.
It's even more annoying, because you can't easily avoid many of these companies. Eg. for jobs it's really hard to get around using linkedin. I mean, I refuse out of principe and have for years, so my data's a decade out of data, but it's obviously cost me opportunities.
There are almost certainly pictures of me floating around social media, taken without my permission, but tagged by facebook or google just in case I had any fucking privacy. And now thanks to some phones. they also have our finger prints and retinal scans, which will inevitably get leaked sooner rather than later. I pity the poor chumps whose DNA was leaked, that's even worse. Most of that will probably be leaked sooner or later, if it hasn't already, because it turns out a subcontractor used the youtube comment section to communicate between departments.
If I had the technical ability, I would design a two-factor authentication system based on rectal scans.
"Here at OmniCorp we believe all our customers our unique, that's why we believe in securing your data by linking your DNA, phonenumber, social security number, retinal scan and finger print, with a picture of your anus. Bend Over. The Future's Now."