Typical Russian. Ok let me spell this out for you: One SIM remains on BEFORE entering Russia. It's used for comms to whatever towers will give it connectivity. The other SIM is on standby, its baseband configured to communicate ONLY with Russian towers when they're in range.

Let me tell you a story: Two Jewish guys from Odesa meet up. One asks the other: "So what’s the situation? What are people saying?"

He says "What are people saying? They are saying it’s a war.”

"What kind of war?"

"Russia is fighting NATO."

"Are you serious?"

"Yes, yes! Russia is fighting NATO."

"So how’s it going?"

"Well, 700,000 Russian soldiers are dead. The missile stockpile has been depleted. A lot of equipment is damaged, blown up."

"And what about NATO?"

"What about NATO? NATO hasn’t even arrived yet."

You're right, it never was about Ukraine. It has always been about this:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.co...

Your short, fat, high-heel wearing leader was raised in such a home. He has all of the classic symptoms of it: Weak jaw, short stature, thin upper lip, small head, small eyes, prone to sudden fits of anger, etc. Russian mothers apparently don't believe they have to stop the vodka while pregnant, thus you all were born the way you are. Your entire country is special needs because of this. Your leader is the shortest special needs manchild in the world. That's why he needs a special military, with his very own special military operation.

>"what if your list is two elements?

Then it isn't needed.

>"you can pretend there isn't a conflict but there is one"

I would write that:

"You can pretend there isn't a conflict, but there is one."

You first.

Nah, I think it's basically like dianetics. Sure, it's a best seller, but the only people buying it have bought thousands of copies already. When I saw nomoreacs and archiebunker leave the apple store they had 8 between the two of them. They were talking about some party they were going to that somehow involves a vcr, soda, and Tim Cook. Probably a very filthy vcr since they bought a lot of cleaner for it.

Should be fairly simple Russia did offer a workaround, after all: Use two sim cards, don't permit the Russian one to contact towers outside of Russia. Fly it from outside using the other SIM.

Yes, Russia is that incompetent. Always has been.

Unless they're going to do something silly like locking out SIM cards of everybody who was out in the boonies for too long, or anybody who let their phone die without access to a charger for a while. In which case, lol, and you probably shouldn't take it into a big building either.

Though there's an even better solution to this problem: Get the fuck out of Ukraine. If you didn't want to be on the wrong side of a drone strike maybe, just maybe you shouldn't be doing special military operations just to satisfy your leader's special needs.

Let's do this a different way: Name exactly which channels you frequently watched that didn't have ads. If you don't remember them, it's safe to say that it just plain didn't happen.

>"Seriously, make symbols for humans that are easy for humans to tell apart: lI|" :)
At least when I hand-write, I usually print (not cursive) yet I always use a cursive lowercase "L" when it is a code (like in a user ID or variable name). And capital "I"'s I always put top/bottom strokes. Pipes I write as two vertical hyphens (with a space in the middle). Oh, and slashes through zeros.

>"Now tell me your take on the Oxford comma"

I was taught in school (USA) that commas are important, lists should have commas, and there should be a comma for each element in the list (even before an "and"). I have written that way my whole life, I think it is clearer and more logical, and I am not going to stop doing it. :)

Now I pay the same outrageous prices for just cable internet alone, and I pay for streaming services!

My hammer used punctuation obstinately too. And it makes a lousy grilled cheese sandwich.

Doesn't stop it from being a useful tool though ...

You obviously spent those days watching Pat Robertson because CBN was literally the only ad free channel on cable that anybody actually watched in the earlier days. And as far as I know, it's still ad free. Pat Robertson was brought to you by viewers like you calling in to give money. Before that, the first channels offered by cable were OTA channels. Which have always had ads.

The very first channels that were only available on cable, like TBS, CNN, and USA network, always had ads from their inception.

The only channels that didn't have ads were the premium channels. Some channels, like Nickelodeon (originally called pinwheel) was the only one outside of CBN that didn't have ads at the very beginning, but at that time it was marketed towards parents to force their kids to watch "wholesome" programming. Kids would make fun of other kids that watched it in those days because the content was so terrible even for them. So literally the only non-premium channel without ads, outside of CBN, was also one that nobody watched.

You guys keep saying this and yet it's so easily debunked. Talk about a Mandela effect.

It'll be at least half of that in ten years.

The Zoomers have no interest in cable TV.

> Why not just build the proper infrastructure with what we know works?

I tried to do this locally. The government allows the pole owner (electric or telephone usually) to charge $50/mo/pole to the startup that wishes to hang wires.

The owner pays $5/mo in property taxes to the town.

There are exceptions for large corporations that are in the state's good graces.

It's just to keep competition limited to the cartel.

Short answer: corrupt government.

This was my first thought as well.

Such marketplace confusion!