If the attack causes physical harm or loss of life, it is an act of war. If our power grid, gas grid, water grid, etc. gets attacked and it causes harm to any single person? That's technically an attack with a weapon of mass destruction. If it harmed one person, that means you ATTEMPTED to harm as many people as it affected. Take down a city's power grid, let's say Denver? Regardless of the LEVEL of harm that WAS inflicted, there's 300,000 people just in Denver proper, let alone the Metro are which probably got affected as well. You just tried to inflict that harm on every single one of them.

Oops, you cut someone's CPAP when they were sleeping and they died. You just committed one count of First Degree Murder and 300,000 counts of attempted murder. If that's not an act of war worthy of nuclear retaliation, I don't know what is.

Biden has made it very clear that he's going to make his move in Ukraine as economically painful for Russia as he possibly can.

He also said that if Russian or Belarussian feet even move an inch across the Polish border, he's going to wipe him off the map. He did so by publicly and succinctly spilling a ton of normally secret info about the intel they had gathered on Putin's plans, which Putin did not expect him to know. Pretty harrowing experience for a paranoid guy like Putin.

He may not be beating his chest or putting his hand on the iron on his hip, but he got the point across pretty solidly by international relations standards. There are 3 carrier groups one the other side of the Bosphorus, and strategic weaponry is getting flown into Warsaw as we speak. Strategic weaponry, not small arms, he put nukes on Putin's doorstep and he was not coy about it. That's about as solid a death glare as a politician could make, even more lethal in intent than putting nukes in Turkey.

So don't sell Biden short, he's steelier than people think. This is the guy that took Giuliani off the political board completely with 7 words during a primary debate, after all. And he's a Cold Warrior to boot. He was moving and shaking in Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Berlin during the height of the Cold War and he threw haymakers with the best of the hawks. If anybody knows how to handle this without a few mushroom clouds going up, he's one of them.

Belarus has basically been turned into a vassal state. Lukashenko was propped up and the election stolen on his behalf by Putin, just like Yanukovych before he got ousted. Putin's preferred method of operation is installing puppet governments that he more or less has complete control of. Lukashenko is literally one of his lap dogs, he was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union all through the 80's and up until the collapse and is "Independent" now. Putin serves as a Chairman of the Council of Ministers for which Lukashenko is Chairman of the Supreme State Council of the Union State.

Putin also prefers to have "buffer states" between him and NATO countries, hence his Chairman status on Belarus' Council of Ministers. It keeps him close to his puppet.

Currently he has control of Georgia and Belarus. That leaves Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and he probably wants Moldova back as well.

Ukraine is the first step after Belarus because Ukraine is essential to unfettered access to a year-long sea port, which Ukraine gave him access to previously. His only other ports capable of shipping out of such as Arkhangelsk are frozen in for significant portions of the year. The REAL reason for the annexation of Crimea in 2014 was to maintain hold of Sevastopol, his only green water sea port that isn't inaccessible for parts of the year and happens to have a Naval base stationed there that is of vital importance to him because the Russian Navy doesn't have the capability of leaving pelagic zone water.

That's right folks, the once great Navy of the USSR is now so pathetic it can't leave continental-shelf depth water and couldn't circumnavigate the globe or come anywhere near threating the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar, or even Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, he can barely even get to Taiwan. Which is why he's so desperate to reclaim Ukraine because right now the only access he has to Sevastopol is through his non-freight capable port in St. Petersburg or his non year-round port in Arkhangelsk. So he wants a land bridge to Sevastopol back very badly.

The reason Lukashenko is going along? Well, he'll end up replaced if he doesn't. He'll just simply disappear. He's been a Soviet all his life and he's still a party man, through and through. And when Putin is jonesing for something that bad, he'll kill half the party to get it if he has to.

I agree, and I am a big proponent of service architectures, and yes, I force myself to use the term "microservices" because it seems to be the popular one these days.

There isn't anything new about service architecture. You put a network call in between two pieces of code and suddenly you need a queue for the interface to be robust. Once you put a queue in front of code, you're handling messages, and in particular, you're handling messages that can arrive more than once. So you need to ensure your handlers are idempotent. Then you need to stitch together a reporting database of some kind to serve queries that supply the data for the UI. Which should mean that your services publish events -- pub sub is another pattern that has been around for a while. All of that work wins you the ability to compose a large, complex system out of very loosely coupled, autonomous pieces. When it works, it's great. It usually doesn't, however, because teams don't have the maturity, habits, or expertise on hand to see such a project through to completion.

Nothing about it is "new," except to the inexperienced web programmers I coach who don't really understand service architecture -- who also usually believe that you can achieve microservices just by taking parts of your existing system and putting a web interface around them. Sigh.

All that to say, there are some definite benefits to service architecture that shouldn't be discounted just because "microservices" is yet another tech trend to have been fed through the meme machine.

They don't get the hits when I notice that their site doesn't allow comments and I never return.

So I can expect you to pay my share of the $17Trillion debt that your efficient racked up?
Or can I expect you to keep alternating between sucking the welfare teat and the crack pipe?

BOFH

Tax evasion would be this guy's high point. Contempt of congress anyone?

If the days of stupid were at a "lull" (and they are about as far as they can get from it) your post alone would have fully restored their vigor.

America's education system works EXACTLY as intended, produces hordes of powerfully ignorant, fully brainwashed, obedient libtards, who know nothing of math, science, history, or language, but are fully versed in Political Correctness, union propaganda, modern anti-white racism, and the paradise of the Socialist Utopia.