[Babylon Bee] When Huffington Post writer Brutto Chalet discovered he was being let go earlier this year, he decided he was going to do what all Americans do when they lose their job: learn to code.
There's just one problem: he suddenly realized the code he was working in was binary.
"Excuse me, professor?" he said to his programming teacher. "Yeah, hi. Brutto Chalet, he/him. Did I hear you correctly? Are we only allowed to work in binary code? Are there non-binary options for us to work with?"
The teacher said that they would just be learning to program atop binary code systems in this particular class, as virtually all computer systems are written in binary.
"Wow -- that's really problematic, chief," Chalet said. After apologizing for appropriating the term "chief" from the Native Americans, Chalet excitedly realized that exposing the bigotry of the programming community would make for a great Huffington Post article. It was a few minutes before he remembered that he wasn't a journalist anymore, though.
At publishing time, Chalet had begun work on his very own ternary code computer system, with the hopes of one day expanding the code to as many genders as there are, "400 or 500 or something like that".
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"There is not Binary. There is only Zero and Not Zero"
-- Yoda++
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Wait til he finds out that there are definite right and wrong answers. Doubleplus ungood!
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In the early 60s some idiot in Russia wanted to make a base-3 computer as he thought it would take less parts. Mathematicians quickly convinced the party that supporting this idiot was a bad idea, but it took several major papers.
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Some decades ago, when computer processing power was a lot more precious, a few bright petroleum geophysicists, recognizing that the geologic structures of interest were grossly vertical cylinders (salt domes) conceived a seismic acquisition and processing system of great efficiency - shoot the seismic lines in circles (spirals) around the approximately known vertical axis of the structure and then process the data in cylindrical coordinates. It had the clever name of 'circum-seis.' It never really caught on, largely because processing power advanced so quickly that few cared at the inefficiencies of rectangular coordinates.
[AlAhram] Æthiopia's federal army is facing a tough fight against Tigrayan rebels seeking to advance on the capital Addis Ababa, despite its advantages in numbers following a huge recruitment drive and access to greater firepower.
Last week Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed deployed to the conflict zone himself in a bid to boost morale, and the government has since claimed control of several towns the rebels once held, including the UNESCO World Heritage site Lalibela.
Here are a few details about Æthiopia's national military and its shifting fortunes in the year-long war that has left hundreds of thousands on the brink of famine, according to UN estimates:
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We are being led by knaves and idiots. On both sides.
[Rusvesna] The head of the Pentagon Lloyd Austin hopes that the world "will not see the invasion of the Soviet Union in Ukraine."
This, of course, is about the notorious "Russian threat", simply, making a statement during his visit to South Korea, the US Secretary of Defense made a reservation and called Russia the USSR.
He noted that any response from Washington to Russia's actions towards Ukraine will be carried out jointly with the international community.
"Whatever we do, it will be done together with the international community. At best, we will not see a Soviet invasion of Ukraine," Austin said.
He also expressed the hope that the United States and Russia will be able to work together to "resolve issues and problems, as well as to reduce the temperature in the region," Austin was quoted as saying by Reuters.
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Seems kinda odd that some beltway jackwagon has to go tell the Ukes that they have a grumpy bear next door. I'da though they knew that already (artillery and all).
Sort of "Nice place you got here, shame if something was to happen to it."
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If the US had honored Bush pere and Bajer's, and Kohl's and Genscher's, promises not to expand NATO "one inch eastward" as the core term of the deal ensuring German reunification, none of this tension in Ukraine would exist.
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^ I agree somewhat. After the collapse of the Soviet Union we should have held a victory party and then dissolved NATO. A new alliance would have risen, but the old ways could have been declared dead and we could have engaged the Russians.
Instead, the Clintons wanted to humiliate them and expand NATO right up to Russia's border. A nation that had been invaded multiple times by Europe as was paranoid as hell about it happening again.
Well, now the US and the EU is weak and Russia knows it can push back now and there is little the west can do. Especially with the Russians supplying most of the natural gas to Europe. They have a twist on the west and they know it.
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Desamtis is forming a new Florida national guard. Oklahoma national guard is sueing Biden and the Pentagon. The US Military is no longer cohesive and is showing cracks and Xi and Putin knows it.
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Desamtis is forming a new Florida national guard. Oklahoma national guard is sueing Biden and the Pentagon. The US Military is no longer cohesive and is showing cracks and Xi and Putin knows it.
Time and space are two of the factors that will determine their next step.
The Russians and Chinese both know it will take the US three months minimum to get an offensive force in place.
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Hey, Russia then went on to sign the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, which they were happy to sign and watch the Ukraine give up its nuclear weapons and then continuously violate for the last twenty years, talking about how much we've humiliated them for disarming their victims for them the whole time.
If we were led by intelligent and conscientious statesmen instead of poltroons and grifters, we'd end this stupid downward spiral and address the root issue: Ukraine can only and ever shall be a borderland that is next door to Russia's beating heart -- and therefore must be demilitarized and neutral. It cannot, should not, must never be part of a western or any other alliance.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. By Dmitry Steshin
[KP] Five years ago, KP special correspondents visited this island together with a military-geographical expedition and did not immediately understand its true purpose. Moreover, it was not advertised.
Officially, the expedition was trying to "uncover the secrets of Matua Island ." Indeed, by the beginning of the 21st century, colleagues and bloggers put a continuous “shadow on the fence” around the island, continuously broadcasting demobilized tales and just nonsense to the Internet. The island, with an area of 52 square kilometers, simply could not contain so many secrets.
They talked about secret Japanese chemical plants, a man-made hill hiding 10 floors with an elevator, about a Japanese airfield, with a preserved ideal runway heated by thermal waters.
In reality, the island has always been uninhabited, only a fragment of the Ainu tribe once lived near the sea lion rookery. There were no rivers on the island, and the fish did not come to the shores due to volcanic activity.
The 10,000-strong Japanese garrison of Matua was poorly supplied, lived from hand to mouth and surrendered without a fight to the Soviet landing party in the summer of 1945. The man-made hill looks perfectly round from only one point, from the others it looks like a crooked mountain of natural origin. From the legendary airfield, only a taxiway remained, and there are simply no thermal springs on the island.
Immediately after the Great Patriotic War, our air defense unit and a frontier post stood on Matua, but in the 2000s the island was again empty.
We did not immediately understand: what were the military and geographers looking for on the island?
It turned out that they were interested in completely prosaic things. How was the Japanese garrison supplied, where were the berths, if the island has no natural bays? And if there are no rivers and lakes on the island - where did 10 thousand Japanese get their water? What is left in the tunnels blown up by the Japanese? The answer, obtained with the help of sappers and military builders, is nothing. Empty, rotten wooden supports and rusty cans.
A little later, the commander of the expedition, deputy. Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Vice Admiral Andrei Ryabukhin told KP reporters:
"The Kuril ridge is a natural defensive line. If there is no garrison on one of the islands, the entire defense system loses its meaning."
In 2016, the island of Matua represented that very hole in the defense and it was urgent to plug it up. Already in September, after the completion of the expedition, the first garrison stood on the island. Then on Matua appeared: a military town, warehouses, garages, life support systems, roads.
And now, quoting the press release of the Pacific Fleet:
“The calculations of the coastal complex Bastion have been deployed for the first time on Matua. On this remote island, missilemen will be on a 24-hour watch over the adjacent waters."
The mystical secrets of Matua have been replaced by simple and strict military secrets.
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“The calculations of the coastal complex Bastion have been deployed for the first time on Matua. On this remote island, missilemen will be on a 24-hour watch over the adjacent waters."
...The important question now is what kind of missiles will the missilemen be missiling? SAMs will be bad enough; with the right missiles they could actually cover USAF and JASDF bases in northern Japan. SSMs are far, far worse; the entire northern half of Japan would be under threat.
Mike
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Bastion is a coastal defense missile system. An SSM and antiship missile system with a 350 km (215 mile) range.
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1,766 km Distance from Matua to Tokyo
Matua Island (Matsuwa, Матуа), Kurile Islands (Kuril), Russia
Jun 15, 2021 — Matua Island is located 1,092 miles from Tokyo and 943 miles from Attu Island
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[REGNUM] If the Russian leadership wants to restore the country's positions in the former USSR, or at least preserve what we have now, then the United States should be squeezed out both from Donbass and from Ukraine as a whole, noted REGNUM observer Mikhail Demurin on Thursday, December 2, commenting on the statements US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.
As previously reported, Nuland said that negotiations on Donbass were at an impasse , and the United States was ready to play a " supporting role " in resolving the situation.
"Negotiations on Donbass did not come to a standstill, but Kiev brought them there with the connivance of Berlin and Paris. He acted at the instigation of Washington.
It is clear that, since the United States did not take part in the achievement of the Minsk agreements, they would simply act in opposition to them for reasons of prestige. But in this case, the reason is more serious: the Americans saw that the prolongation of the crisis, the continuation of the war in the Donbass makes this conflict another effective instrument of pressure on Russia. If they wanted to facilitate a settlement, the conflict in Donbass would have already been resolved."
I don’t know what Nuland means when he speaks of the “role” of the United States in 2014-2016, when they allegedly “replaced the Normandy format”, but now, apart from harm, there is no benefit from them either in Donbass, or even more so in Ukraine will. They need to be squeezed out of there. This is the main long-term challenge. If, of course, the leadership of our country wants to restore Russia's positions in the former USSR. Or at least preservation of what we have now," said Mikhail Demurin.
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[KP] A frail guy on a chair with an obvious defect in diction looks at the camera in dismay: “I am a citizen of Ukraine, Igor Zinovievich Koval, on October 6 in the city of Ternopil met with the SBU colonel for the Ternopil region Vasily Kovalik and was recruited by him. He gave me the task of photographing or filming road and railway bridges and thermal power plants in Russian cities. After completing the first assignment, he said to wait for further instructions. He said he would pay my father and me ten thousand dollars. "
“Papka's saboteur” was detained together with his accomplice, his father Zinovy Koval. At the same time, FSB operatives found a whole arsenal of firearms in their car such as pistols of various modifications and a Kalashnikov assault rifle. It is unlikely that they were going to use this good for shooting bridges.
EXPLOSIVE SYNC
In another region, the FSB detained an agent of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
"Lieutenant Colonel Maksim Kirilovets taught me how to work with hiding places, with special communications, special documentation, outdoor surveillance devices, and terrain orientation. On October 11, 2021, I illegally crossed the Russian border with government officials. He chose a place on the territory of the Russian Federation, made a cache with an improvised explosive device, and then returned to Ukraine," said Alexander Tsilyk, a resident of the Kiev region.
According to the FSB of Russia, Maxim Kirilovets is the head of the sector, an employee of the operational group of the operational department of the special reserve of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. To equip caches and transfer improvised explosive devices to Russia, Tsilyk, together with Kirilovts and two military intelligence officers, illegally crossed the state border of the Russian Federation. After some time, he returned already to carry out a terrorist attack. He was caught red-handed when he took out explosive devices with a total weight of one and a half kilograms in TNT equivalent from a cache.
"We have received materials confirming the terrorist aspirations of the Ukrainian military intelligence to facilities on the territory of our country," the FSB stressed.
HIDDEN WAR
And this is not the first time. While official Kiev is screaming from every iron about a coup d'etat, which is about to be arranged by the insidious Kremlin, the Ukrainian special services are trying to wield in our rear. Several attempts to kidnap former militias directly from the territory of Russia, including from the Moscow region. One operation on 33 Wagnerians is worth a lot. Constant intelligence intelligence - Russian counterintelligence systematically identifies SBU spies. ...preparation of terrorist attacks...
Recently, a senior officer of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Captain 1st Rank Sergei Shvidenko, was sentenced to 6.5 years in a maximum security colony.
From the territory of Ukraine, he coordinated the preparation and oversaw the work of the sabotage group, which was detained in 2016. Colonel Dmitry Shtyblikov, Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Stogniy, Captain 2nd Rank Gleb Shabliy, Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Bessarabov and intelligence agent Vladimir Dudka planned to blow up the tower of the radio and television transmission center, a mobile gas turbine power plant, a fuel and lubricants warehouse and the mast of the Black Sea radio center.
Shvidenko himself was detained in July 2021. He confessed and said that the operation was led by his immediate superior, Colonel Mykola Spodar, who headed the operational department "South" of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
While the whole world awaits with horror a Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kiev saboteurs are already waging a terrorist war on Russian territory. And while they are losing it to the Russian special services.
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[Babylon Bee] When Huffington Post writer Brutto Chalet discovered he was being let go earlier this year, he decided he was going to do what all Americans do when they lose their job: learn to code.
