Bandera is a national hero, fighting for Ukrainian freedom from occupiers, the ruzzians spout nonsense. Ukrainians are actually proud that Bandera was a Ukrainian. If the ruzzians went to war against the USA they would call George Washington a nazi, whatever.

It is what religion is. Faith. Belief without evidence. They very definition of stupidity and the source of much evil

I just landed in Warsaw, taking a ride to Ukraine right now. There are dirt poor people living in Ukraine, I am sure, probably some older folks are. That said, I work with over 950 people from Ukraine, vast majority of them living in Ukraine, over 200 people in software development, over 600 in support, many sales and other roles. Half of them own their homes, half of them have their own cars, everyone owns a computer, power banks, generators, satellite communication equipment, most also have fiber at home. They dine in nice restaurants, food is not worse than anywhere.

Here is a link to one of many restaurants I frequent when in Odessa for example. https://maps.app.goo.gl/GvHDHh...

Here is one in Kiev https://maps.app.goo.gl/JSnpEW...

one in Mykolaiv https://maps.app.goo.gl/Sd72r6...

here is a shopping mall in Harkiv https://maps.app.goo.gl/3osPzi...

You should maybe find out a few things before typing something, though we know that paper tolerates everything.

Bixby's Law says, "In any security installation the weakest link is not in the hardware or the software, but in the wetware."

SlashDot has been infested with Libertardians for a long time, otherwise intelligent people who believe that if we just get rid of taxes and government the Magical Mystical Free Market Fairy will wave her magic wand and clean water, clean air, bridges and safe work places will appear.

Public school funding mostly comes from property taxes for a reason; so that districts full of rich people have better schools for their children than districts full of poor people. They were very open about that when the system was set up, and it's working very well. In Michigan schools in Benton Harbor haven't been painted in two decades and have leaking roofs, a couple of hours away in Gross Pointe Shores the high school has a heated indoor pool and kids go to Washington and New York on class trips.

I run a few companies, more than 950 people are working with me, I have a few system administrator, it is a serious matter. Eventually there are people in any company that have access and control that really allows them to do damage that is massive enough that the very survival of a company is in question. This immediately has an effect on all of the clients, all of the people working for the company, partners, families, infrastructure contractors, quite a few things really. This type of behavior really compromises what people think about IT professionals everywhere.

schooling is used to control how kids think and act so they follow 'society values'. Governments who do this want to make sure that their political and religious beliefs are instilled in the next generation of voters for the rest of their lives.

Yes, I'm a heretic, but I RTFA in Phys.org and it says:

In March 2022, the researchers sent hundreds of sporophytes to the ISS aboard the Cygnus NG-17 spacecraft. Once they arrived, the astronauts attached the sporophyte samples to the outside of the ISS, where they were exposed to space for a total of 283 days. The moss then hitched a ride back to Earth on SpaceX CRS-16 in January 2023 and was returned to the lab for testing.
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The simulation was to see if this was a reasonable experiment to conduct, you need some sort of baseline level of reasonableness before NASA lets you hang something off the ISS.

Surviving reentry would be easy for spores, as soon as there's enough air molecules to create any sort of resistance and slow them down they'll just start to drift. They may take a few months to arrive at the surface, and then there's a 70% chance they'll land in the ocean, but if they wander into a rain cloud it could be faster since spores are one of the things that can cause raindrops to coalesce. Once they're on land it's just a matter of being lucky enough to land somewhere habitable for their species. There are a lot of species of moss that are found from the Arctic to the Antarctic, probably because spores got caught in an updraft that took them into the upper atmosphere for a few months.

If you need to have your security contractor come on site for $150-200/hr to reset every camera password costs start to accelerate. Now add HVAC systems, building automation, etc.

Plus finding the myriad services that are now failing because they can't log into systems and databases and figuring out how to reset those. For example their security system needs to run at least half a dozen server-based services and log into a database probably hosted on another server, and access to those resources from client machines must be reset. Much worse, the security cameras also now need to have their password reset. If they're from Axis or Pelco that can be tedious but possible to script, if they're from pretty much every other vendor it comes down to logging into every individual camera.

I think that most of them "went out of business" because they were bought by a larger competitor and shut down.

That seems to be a habit with that user. Admittedly I sometimes remember things incorrectly, and when I'm corrected acknowledge that I was wrong (and generally thank them for the correction if they're polite about it). So far I haven't seen him acknowledge being wrong even when presented with clear evidence to the contrary.

Think of the traffic on the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri rivers, then extend that throughout 2/3 of the country and make that transit 2-way rather than mostly from upstream to downstream. I'm pretty sure they're ahead.