You might want to consider wiring the money from your non-US bank directly to the recipients. However, even this can be fraught with problems.

Some US banks cannot accept incoming international wires, instead it has to go though an intermediary. In one case, I sent some money to a relative in the US from my UK bank. I tested the setup by sending $100, then sent a larger amount. The $100 that I sent was credited to my relative's account, then a couple of days later (after I had sent the larger amount), they told my relative that money could not be received this way, putting my larger wire into limbo (no, it did not automatically get refunded back to my sending account). What a clusterfuck.

Then, there is the cost of the wire. I have seen that, even if I specify that my sending bank pays all fees, the recipient (my own US bank) may also be charged a fee for receiving a wire.

If international wires can be received directly, they are fast and reliable.

That depends on your definition of "Linux". On my Gentoo desktop [OpenRC + MATE], TigerVNC no longer works, because recent versions require Gnome and Gnome requires SystemD.

There was definitely some bullshit in the arguments. One was that systemd could bring up network interfaces much faster, but when you dig into it, that speed "improvement" was largely due to not running the "arping" command to check for duplicate devices already on the network.

Thanks, that makes a lot of sense

There were a number of BBC scifi shows that used similar set pieces

Volume is definitely an issue. I went from a Pixel 4a to a 9a and now I can't get the volume loud enough on Bluetooth headphones. When walking, traffic noise is enough to overwhelm my headphones so that I can't hear a podcast or phone call. I have read that this is a deliberate choice to stop people damaging their hearing, but I don't think it is going to be loud enough for use on a plane.

It's so bad that there are apps to increase volume:
https://play.google.com/store/...

Yes, I was torn by the disparity between the excellent rendered visuals, moon base, shuttles, and practical ideas of inhabiting the moon; and the complete lack of constraint to reality with the idea that a nuclear fuel storage facility could generate enough thrust to push the moon not only out of Earth orbit, but clear into different solar systems

That said, I used to eat dinner watching it due to show times, and imagined myself working on the moon some day. I had never considered it was being used to propagandize against nuclear energy

The reason may be even more stupid

Market consolidation and monopolies are an inevitable outcome of Capitalism, that is why capitalism is regulated in America

Those who chafe at the idea of being limited in that fashion, have worked over the last 80 years to subvert this regulation (and the taxation that goes with it), and convince the American people that Starve the Beast is the only thing that will make them truly free

The BIG LIE is that the Beast (US Government) is the only thing keeping them from being proles

As in, the justification for the lower speed limit, enforced by the average speed cameras, is bullshit.

The cameras are there to drive traffic onto the M6 Toll, not for safety.

Some of these are bullshit. For example, the A446 sprouted an average speed check after the M6 Toll opened with a stretch parallel to the A446.

You have to stop people swapping lanes, because that has a dramatic effect on highway capacity. Thus, slowing down the traffic in all lanes to a value that is slower than most drivers would normally go at keeps all the lanes identical, reducing the motivation to swap lanes.

It's never a war crime the first time, let them get a hearing at the Hauge first

Maybe somebody needs to let trump know that if he nationalizes the oil companies, then he can force them to sell cheap gas to Americans and keep himself in office

>>They make pollution much much much worse than zero emission cars we have since a quarter of a century. I did say this before but no people are unable of any critical thinking and this forum is full of old right wing boomer farts they all are

No. Slashdot is full of people, who read the garbage sentence you puked out above, and said, "FUCK THIS LOSER AC"...

Beyond that the case you make is dependent on the falsehood that "smog" and "particulate pollution" are the same thing, when smog is a combination of tailpipe emissions (ozone, nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds) and particulates under PM2.5, while tire wear dust is up to PM10

In regards to "walkable cities", and the abandonment of "roadtrip culture"... That is a long long way from happening in a country that intentionally destroyed it's passenger rail systems a hundred years ago at the behest of the automotive industry.

It is particularly amusing that you rail against foreign oil use, while disparaging alternatives, which is really just an attempt to confuse people into doing nothing, and quite frankly doing nothing will not serve us well.

So, as a Gen-Xer to a Gen-z noob, sit down, shut up and spend some time learning how to post understandable sentences with a clear intent.

Oh wait, you are posting AC which means you know you are full of shit

That book must have sent waves of panic in the secret parts of the UK government. During WWII, a highly secret site built early computers to break the German Lorentz cipher. The existence of these was kept secret until the mid '70s.

That someone would write a book about a fictional computer called "Colossus" would have lots of people wondering if the name was a coincidence, of if there had been a leak.