LOL so you only had to go back over a couple hundred years to find a single example of Russia "winning" without American help.

No you dumb fuck. That was just the biggest war you had zero involvement in. Russia has won most of their wars without your dumbass, like when they took 9% of Finland.

russia needs to rely on nuclear weapons or nobody will take it the lest bit seriously.

They've been utterly dominating your dumbfucked ass with conventional weapons.

russia was utterly dependent on America and the allies for WW2.

Utterly dumbfucked Nazi bullshit. Americans like Truman were quite explicit in wanting Germany to slug it out with the Soviets until both sides lost. You only got in the war when Soviets were in danger of saving Europe not just from Nazis but from capitalism.

> It did happened before, but not on this scale and speed.

Check out Meltwater Pulses 1a and 1b.

On the flip side, I have enjoyed the few Canadian shows that made it to the U.S. (especially during the writer's strike).

Hard to say, but rember that it was because of similar laws in Canada that we got The Great White North with Bob and Doug McKinzie.

On the other hand, If I have an ultralight and realize I need to move over 200 people at once, I know I'd better talk to a domain expert rather than trying to tie 250 ultralights together with kite string.

Then the proper response should be something like:

Run the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Net::NTP qw(get_ntp_response);
use Time::HiRes qw(time);
my %response = get_ntp_response();

.
.
etc.

Using nukes (or even a large dose of conventional warfare) is beyond a point of no return. Where most other nations will refuse to deal with you. Some may, but then you end up with a division into two groups. Like the Axis and Allied powers during WWII. And we all know how that ended up.

It's not a situation one can step back from easily and return to the negotiating table.

ChatGPT is an idiot savant. It "knows" the contents of the entire web. But it can't figure out NTP?

I use a wristwatch.

Does anyone really know what time it is?
Does anyone really care?

... my peers. If I were to hang around people who use hallucinogenics all the time.

Well, I am on Slashdot, so ...

Because the Uyghurs have too much support from the various global NGOs. Nobody is going to come to the aid of robots.

Hasn't the Crocodile Dundee franchise pretty much run it's course?

... advertisements.

Unless the government is completely politically oblivious, I'm convinced that this is a tactic to get Alberta to settle for an upgrade of the TMX pipeline, either by increasing the flow (which BC and indigenous groups have indicated that they are willing to accept) or perhaps building new pipes along the existing right of way (which is outside what BC is willing to go for, but a much smaller reach than reviving Northern Gateway).

I think something to do with TMX is where Alberta and BC will meet in the middle.