It is disgusting than anyone accepts or approves of Russia exerting some sort of veto over what Ukraine might want to do. (View Post)

You are dedependent on the "the internet" for your phone line today. BT switched to IP networking for their core network years and years ago. All that is really changing is that they will g… (View Post)

Last time I could be arsed to check I think I calculated (sub-back of a envelope level accuracy) that China was effectively claiming to have done 20 times better than even New Zealand. Hmmm. Very hmm… (View Post)

It's a good show, but they didn't show even half of what was done. I highly recommend the book Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy (Plokhy is a Professor of Ukrainian History a… (View Post)

Even the stuff that isn't rusty doesn't seem all that capable. I go back to the Russian tanks, even days before the war started there was so many stories about how good Russian tanks are, a… (View Post)