I wouldn't be shy in naming my own people of Sri Lanka into this as well, at least the wider population; meek in the face of authority, but dragons in the face of someone below them.
Thankfully though, I work with a bunch of people that are both ethical and professional. But for the most part, people are too scared to even tell their boss that something is literally not possible to be done efficiently.
The office group chat lauds those Indians that make it to CEO positions, only for me to point out that there is nothing special other than the fact that they are obedient "yes-men".
It's rather unfortunate that this is the state of this industry, considering that I grew up in the 90s with a lot of Indians that were well worth their salt. Unfortunately the ability to earn oodles of cash and coveted US citizenship meant this would blow up into the low-quality, 1984-esque nightmare that it is today.
I find the majority of the Indian workers who come to my country in IT to be just smart enough to push buttons and get the job done. Our Sri Lankans are a tad bit better (surprising considering the lack of English fluency), but still.
About the British thing: I don't think it created anything. It just exacerbated that underlying part of our peoples. At least in our country, people are capable but not interested in self-actualization or being independent. I think it's a holdover from being ruled by monarchs that has now been shifted to the government/educational institutions.
Even funnier is how they masturbate to US/UK/Aus/NZ but actively put down the "suddas" ("gori" in Sinhala) that live in the country.
It'll take a long time to fix this shit.
During Sankara's regime they already did. Then his right hand man betrayed him.
He uses it a lot, mostly to troll people.
I can kind of understand why people would ask the question. Not everyone is technical, and it is honestly frustrating when I see stuff like this.
Wired and wireless?
The wired telephone that Reagan was using used the public (or USMIL) telephone switching network to connect to NASA. Which NASA then beamed up using (as ToxicLiberyism explains below) a unidirectional antenna up to the Moon.
Wireless telephones on the other... don't have wires, so their only method of connection is if there is a tower nearby that they can connect to. If there is no tower in the direct vicinity, they have to keep dropping their connection generation (4G > 3G > 2G > GPRS > GSM) to deal with that. At some point the phone loses service because it has nothing to connect to. Mobile phone companies fix this by having towers at regular intervals so that when the coverage of one tower ends, another tower picks up.
The world is the way it is not because God doesn't want to fix stuff, but because we do not want to fix stuff.
There's two camps during both the 2020 election and the Brazilian election:
- We need to do this legally and constitutionally,
- We need to have the president bring in the military and fix everything,
I understand both camps, but we have to understand the idea of PRECEDENT.
If Bolsonaro/Trump did 2, it'd be equally possible for LOL-a/Bye-dumb (or someone else) to do the same someday.
It's not an easy choice.
Work in IT. From what I read I agree.
This also looks line something to do with "certificate based authentication", which is very rarely (0.00001%) used on public facing services.
In short, when connecting to a web-site most of the time, the person connecting to the site only verifies that the site is legit.
In "certificate based auth" the site also confirms that the person connecting is legit. For that to happen, anyone connecting to the site would have to have been provided their own certificate to connect to the site and configured their system to use that certificate.
Naturally this would be a hassle and impossible for many sites, so almost every site doesn't use "cert-based auth".
I feel the same way. The way Bolsonaro handled this evokes Trump as well.
I think we'll see the same script happening in many other countries.
To quote Q: "Sometimes you can't tell them, you must show them." (paraphrased as I remember).
Looks like an NSDF trooper that bailed out of his Grizzly or APC. Maybe sky-eye is trying ODST (orbital-drop-shock-troopers).
#battlezone-joke
FWIW. Abrahamic (Jewish/Christian/Islamic/Druze/Samaratians/Mandeans) faiths are more concerned with God (and perhaps the covenant with haIsrael), so they don't offer the type of symbolism that deals with most military/scientific/political organizations, so I'm not really surprised when they adopt these symbols.
Exception is the "Eye of Providence" (AKA "The Illuinati Eye"/"All Seeing Eye"). Which, again I believe was benevolent but now has been taken over.
At first glance I saw the head as a Babylonian. And the chevron that's present on all government space organizations is just symbolic (how would you signify "up", well you show a spear pointing to the skies, besides it's basically an arrow pointing "up" to the sky).
Fucking legend. The last of good sci-fi before all this new garbage came out. Miss that show like hell.
I sometimes thank the fact that even here in third-world Sri Lanka, I'm protected by an otherwise doofus constitution. The constitution prevents the mandate of any medical procedure if it goes against the person's conscience (by extension of fundamental rights) and the government had to do various iterations of bluffing to make people get the vaccine. In the end they had to roll back any gazette entries before they went into effect because the legal ramifications would destroy them (presumably).
Nothing much to report. But I do expect an explosion sometime at the end of the year. Be it because people finally decide to take back power after having their eyes opened, or because the government fucks up again.
IDK. But these fucks keep failing comically. At this point I'm not even sure they're even sane.
And say their "plans" come to fruition. It'll all collapse in a year or two with nowhere for them to run.
We've come to the conundrum eh?
If it's centralized, all your assets are in the control of whoever the central authority is.
If it's decentralized, it gets harder (or impossible) to verify transactions/assets.
I suppose we'll have to have some middle-ground, or mix and match appropriately for our needs.
Want to send money to your friend? Use a decentralized wallet. Want to buy off some online store? Use a centralized service.
Everything is compromise. I've been skeptical of crypto from day one. Despite that I still own crypto as I see it as a good investment asset, and a good medium of exchange.
If it all crashes down, I don't care. Hell, if my fiat crashes down, I don't care.
God's my authority, not money. Throw whatever you want at me.
I used to know why the Swiss Guard is used to guard the Vatican, but I forgot.
I always found that odd, and after finding out about Q it clicked. Either the SPG are holding the Vatican hostage, or the Vatican is the problem.
"Muh neutral."
I hate that country with a passion.
I think so too (like 75% sure it's not the mark of the beast). Jerusalem hasn't fallen yet, and the abomination of desolation isn't here yet proclaiming himself to be god, so I don't think we're even close to the hell-storm that is the apocalypse.
For one, Revelations is not meant to be taken literally, it's highly symbolic. The "elites" know this and are trying to play god and bring in the apocalypse on their terms.
Like I'd like the vax to be the mark, but I guess when the mark actually comes, it's not going to be so easy as "I'm not going to take it, so I'm going somewhere else where I won't have to take it." (or "lay low till things blow over" which was what I did). They'll hunt us down with every single resource, and scorch the rest of the earth so we can't survive anywhere outside their control.
Jesus is concerned about our soul. Forgiveness is for our soul. The anger of someone wronging you can corrupt your soul to the point where you become the thing you hated. Which is one of the reasons you're ordered to forgive.
But to keep a rabid dog around you is contrary to wisdom. You can pity them and pray for them. But if their existence is a threat, their apologies are just temporary till they get back up, and they never changed you either remove them from you, or destroy them.
I've been saying that for years, but people are too chickenshit to start one.
I guess it'll happen when shit hits the fan.
I keep seeing this, but there's a lot of context missing here.
First things first: I'm absolutely not happy about QR codes and apps to get fuel. It's infuriating that they choose this solution to something they themselves caused, but it will have to do till the foreign currency problem is solved. We don't have our own oil, the best we do is have a state corp. called Ceypetco buy crude oil and refine that into various fuels like diesel/petrol/kerosene etc.
However, there are people here stockpiling what little fuel the government can get and reselling them at exorbitant amounts: that is wrong. So the government started to hand out fuel passes to one vehicle per person.
Nope, people found a way around that. Private bus owners would take their fill of diesel, not run their route, siphon the fuel out of their tanks, and sell them at huge amounts.
There's the additional problem that people in were dying in queues. So the solution was to assign a day to the last number of your license plate and have only those people line up for fuel.
So far, it works. And there's an uptick of vehicles on the road these days and we're able to get a little bit of the economy online.
Now, onto the fact about the president.
No. We don't like him. Our main demands were that the entire president, prime-minister, and parliament resign. We got what we wanted halfway, but they managed to ring up a few of what they wanted as well.
Starters: we have this recent piece of legislation called "National List" which has dubious legality and is most likely unconstitutional. This is where the current president Ranil Wickremesinghe got his break. Ranil was not elected to parliament, or any government office, and has been itching to be president since forever.
The previous president knew this fuck wanted to be president, so he made a deal with him before running away: I pull you in from "National List" and make you PM, you let me go scott free out of the country, I temporarily give you acting president powers, and then when I get to a safe haven, I resign and you become president.
Naturally this faggot jumped at the deal; he couldn't care for the people. He's also rumored to be a faggot anyway.
That's exactly how it played out.
Now the new Queen (Ranil) is playing the tyrannical ruler because he wants to protect this coveted position he got after so long.
The protests died down because of the crackdowns that he initiated. Ala Trudeau, the first thing this fuck did as acting president was announce martial law. That martial law got passed by parliament (brokering deals with parliament again).
On a side note, the protesters were infiltrated by Rajapaksha loyalists. We're currently dealing with a Ray Epps-esque infiltration and are being forced to regroup. Meanwhile, police are using every dirty trick in the book to arrest people associated with the protest. The bar association appears to be fighting against this as much as we can.
It's taking time, yes. Do I know how things will go? No. Do I have hope for the future? Yes.
Just like how all the attempts of the Demon-rats in the US is exposing their hate of America, the Rajapakshas and political establishment credibility/popularity has been dealt a severe blow.
The protests will start again, and with martial law in place I'm figuring it'll start into a bloodbath. All the more reason for this to escalate and people hit their limit.
Whatever happens. God wins.
Govt. investigating a govt. organization?
<gasp>
How dare you assume we won't be impartial?
/s
As much as it'd be fitting, I definitely say it's not him either. The Derg (commie junta that he probably worked with considering he's TPLF), do not like homosexuality, Ethiopia itself is hostile to homosexuals.
Sri Lankan here.
The NPP's progenitor party (JVP) was socialist. The NPP however has dropped socialism and admitted that it doesn't work. They're currently a center-left populist party (populism is janata-waadi in Sinhala).
Looking accurately into the origins of the JVP, it was started as a populist endavour. The fact was that most Sri Lankans that were sent abroad for studies by the government were sent to the Soviet Union as opposed to the wealthy upper class that could make it to UK and the US. The founder of the JVP was educated at Lumumba University. As such there was very little for them to come up with populism, and they went along with Socialism.
The previously major parties (UNP, SLFP) and their descendant parties (SJB, UDF, SLPP) have run the country into the ground with fiscal mismanagement and government/individual corruption, crony capitalism, mis-appropriation of government funds in the billions (a la the Democrats). Moreover the UNP and SLFP have engaged in numerous false-flags and stoking of ethnic tensions to their benefit. Thomas Sowell has an summarises it here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOy86-Kbg9I).
The election results are people rejecting the previous parties. Much like what happened with the Republicans vs Democrats this year.