Sunday, September 25, 2022

Putin Checkmates NATO

Don't you love how Europe purposely destroyed it's own energy sector to place themselves at Putin's mercy?  

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58 comments:

(((TC))) said...

It's as if Putin's fears of NATO expansion were all a lie, as if buying Russia's oil and gas instead of just taking it militarily and laughing at Russia's helplessness to do anything about it weren't a show of good faith and a chance for Russia to show contrition.

If Europe can't buy Russian oil, they won't need to repair and maintain Russian oil infrastructure either before or after Ukraine takes it out with drone strikes.

Checkmate? Russia can"t play chess.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Laugh all you want about Russian tech. Petroleum engineering ain't their deficiency.

(((TC))) said...

They've already had break downs and delays in their oil infrastructure due to parts and machinery embargoes from Canada. I'm sure Russia will eventually whittle the parts they need out of a soap bar, but...

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

They're becoming self reliant...they're done getting embargoed. Its a priority tech.

(((TC))) said...

Farewell Dossier v. 2.0 lol

(((TC))) said...

kaboom

Joe Conservative said...

At least Putin wasn't stupid enough to embrace Paulo Freire.

(((TC))) said...

Not familiar with that guy. But, Putin was KGB during the time a Siberian natural gas pipeline using stolen control software self-detonated. Also recall the Stuxnet virus that gummed up Iranian uranium centrifuges.

How far do you think Russia will get with control system software using Chinese knockoffs?

To "deglobalize" their technology, they are literally going to have to reinvent the wheel.

[insert muhahahaha here]

Q said...

Century?
Did you mean 100 days?
Like that "100 days of Napoleon"? :-))))


Blogger -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...
\\Laugh all you want about Russian tech. Petroleum engineering ain't their deficiency.

Your sources?
Just interesting, are you one of that few who care to gobble propaganda from that Russia Today?


\\They're becoming self reliant...

Clearly from Russia Today.
Or that is from some other feces pipe.
Please, tell me, so I could report it to be closed.

Joe Conservative said...

...Say the critics who up until a year ago had to ride Russian rockets to get to the ISS.

(((TC))) said...

If they sit on a Siberian natgas pipeline when it explodes they might achieve low orbit

Q said...

\\...Say the critics who up until a year ago had to ride Russian rockets to get to the ISS.

Dirt cheap rockets. And... there was need to leave at least something, with which "industrial super-power" RFia could still participate in ISS project?

Are you Rogozin roommate? To bother.

Joe Conservative said...

No but I have all but the "astronaut" background of Charles Bolden.

Q said...

Do you know who Rogozin is? Well, was. :-))

Joe Conservative said...

Just from what I read in Wikipedia. I never worked "manned space". I'm a science/ r&d guy.

Q said...

\\Blogger Joe Conservative said...
Just from what I read in Wikipedia. I never worked "manned space".

Well. You seem like sucking tha dirty pipe of YouTube.
So, you should be know about that showdown of Elon Musk vs Rogozin, where later tryed to brag that without Rfia's rockets USA NEVER will have a way to deliver to ISS.
With had fell on its face shortly.



\\ I'm a science/ r&d guy.

Still, I do not see it from what you writing about.
How e-number relates to pi-number?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I manage engineers. I no longer have need for quadratics and imaginary number rotations on Broom Bridge.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

:P

Q said...

Yep. You said enough to show your ignorance.

Well, to make pill sweet a little -- you really are on your place. :-)))

As they say "in an organization managers grow to the level of their ignorance", or something like that.

But yeah, you are free to direct me to site(s?) (like xkcd or Dilbert) where managers do joke about how idiotic that lowlife engineers they need to cope with. ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Scott Adams (Dilbert's creator) jokes from a place of love. :)

...and yes, the Peter Principle is real.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...especially when you're dealing with large and increasingly complex systems of systems.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...as Nietzsche said in his "On the Future of our Educational Institutions"

"For centuries it has been an understood thing that one alluded to scholars alone when one spoke of cultured men; but experience tells us that it would be difficult to find any necessary relation between the two classes today. For at present the exploitation of a man for the purpose of science is accepted everywhere without the slightest scruple. Who still ventures to ask, What may be the value of a science which consumes its minions in this vampire fashion? The division of labor in science is practically struggling towards the same goal which religions in certain parts of the world are consciously striving after—that is to say, towards the decrease and even the destruction of learning. That, however, which, in the case of certain religions, is a perfectly justifiable aim, both in regard to their origin and their history, can only amount to self-immolation when transferred to the realm of science. In all matters of a general and serious nature, and above all, in regard to the highest philosophical problems, we have now already reached a point at which the scientific man, as such, is no longer allowed to speak. On the other hand, that adhesive and tenacious stratum which has now filled up the interstices between the sciences—Journalism—believes it has a mission to fulfill here, and this it does, according to its own particular lights—that is to say, as its name implies, after the fashion of a day-laborer.

"It is precisely in journalism that the two tendencies combine and become one. The expansion and the diminution of education here join hands. The newspaper actually steps into the place of culture, and he who, even as a scholar, wishes to voice any claim for education, must avail himself of this viscous stratum of communication which cements the seams between all forms of life, all classes, all arts, and all sciences, and which is as firm and reliable as news paper is, as a rule. In the newspaper the peculiar educational aims of the present culminate, just as the journalist, the servant of the moment, has stepped into the place of the genius, of the leader for all time, of the deliverer from the tyranny of the moment. Now, tell me, distinguished master, what hopes could I still have in a struggle against the general topsy-turvification of all genuine aims for education; with what courage can I, a single teacher, step forward, when I know that the moment any seeds of real culture are sown, they will be mercilessly crushed by the roller of this pseudo-culture? Imagine how useless the most energetic work on the part of the individual teacher must be, who would fain lead a pupil back into the distant and evasive Hellenic world and to the real home of culture, when in less than an hour, that same pupil will have recourse to a newspaper, the latest novel, or one of those learned books, the very style of which already bears the revolting impress of modern barbaric culture—"

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

"Peter" rules the world.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...or should I dare say, he "manages" it.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...with the help of "Big Tech".

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

We can't all be polymath's, after all.

Joe Conservative said...

ps - Can you get a message to Zelinsky for me? Tell him, "Go back to doing comedy. You SUCK in serious roles."

Q said...

\\Blogger -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...
...especially when you're dealing with large and increasingly complex systems of systems.

Oh... you even know that mantra of "system of sustems". 8-)

Now you piqued my interest.

So, what's more you can say 'bout it? As, people who know that mantra mostly capable only in chanting it egain and egain. egain and egain.
As well as BS about "emergent", "meta this and that", you say it.


\\We can't all be polymath's, after all.

There cannot be a polymath anymore... well, if you not see it possible to call one with smartphone in his hand chanting "Ok, Google..." as one. ;-)



\\Blogger Joe Conservative said...
ps - Can you get a message to Zelinsky for me? Tell him, "Go back to doing comedy. You SUCK in serious roles."

Why do you think he became preZeidente?
Prezidents are Biggest Comics.
"Peter", as you said.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

"system of sustems"

I have a Masters Degree (MS) is Systems Management from USC. Wait, didn't Robert Bolden have one of those, too? So strange... not.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Reagan was a GREAT actor. Look how he fooled the USSR.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

erratum - Charlie for Robert.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

But you tell us nothing about yourself... Any educational specialties? Fields of specific interest? Autodidactical pursuits?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...
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-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...and you pooh-pooh "Meta" in the metamodern age? Sounds "dangerously" performative.

Thersites said...

...or perhaps you are a Weberian bureaucrat with an interest in purchasing US T-Bills instead of fawning over your "charmiZmatic PreZident"?

Thersites said...

btw - I loved Russia's invasion stripes, but I would have started with Alpha instead of Zed.

Your IFF transponders must really suck. A Zed is just so "spoofable".

Q said...

\\\Blogger -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...
Reagan was a GREAT actor. Look how he fooled the USSR.

USSR fooled itself in and out. No, USSR was fools all way down. No, it was fools standing on carcasses of even bigger fools. :-)))))
Well, that is not surprising given with how and from what it was created. :-))))
Still, if you want to credit Reagan for that, I don't mind.



\\Blogger -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...
But you tell us nothing about yourself... Any educational specialties? Fields of specific interest? Autodidactical pursuits?

Good questions.
But would you be same great with understanding answers, as you was (don't see reason not to praise where it due) great with questions.
Or... I would not be that great with answering it... as to answer it the best one must understand mind of those to whom he answers.

Isn't it little bit too hairy and uncertain as an answer?
Go blame yourself, that is in the nature of questions you asked. ;-)

Is it enough?
Still, you used to posting self-proclaimed phylosopher(s?) in your blog.
Or I should add some more immediate treat?
Well, Ok.
Do you know something about Stanislav Lem?
I would refer to his masterpeice "Golem XIV" (available in English).

That could be urbi et orbi answer to your question(s?). Direct and to the point.As I see it, for very least. 'Cause as I said it higher, I do not know you enough to provide better suiting answer.


Joe Conservative said...

No, that was a perfect answer. You gave me somewhere to go in your "treat", to learn, to "Google".

I used to blog a lot and argue with a blogger named mr. ducky (he liked to duck/evade questions). He was what we call here a "red diaper baby" who was into film and photography. His avatar was Jean Luc Godard, and from his simple questions and sparsely dropped nuggets, I gained much knowledge about culture, which led me to understanding many things that I would never have been exposed to otherwise.

Q said...

Well.
Hardly you'd be hooked with it alone.
Lem is mostly unexistant in English-speaking world.
Known for his things like Solaris... which understood very superficially.

Would be glad to know what you found and was it interesting?
Though, I would not hold my breath waiting. :-)



PS Well. For at least, you not like that TC... who seems freakingly unable to groke that not everything (nearly nothing AFAIK) can be explained, understood with mere simple words. With "true meanings words". :-))))

Joe Conservative said...

I did find Golem XIV interesting, but then again, I'm not really an AI guy. I used to be a big Isaac Asimov fan. Back when I was at the Academy, he visited and gave a lecture once. I found the "Foundation" series the most interesting, as my History professor there was into the field of Psychohistory, much like the Seldon character in Asimov's "Foundation", but without any of the Math. His name was Jacques Szaluta.

IMO, words are but containers for logic. Point de Caiton's. Mathematicians love to play with the "empty containers"... but then Physicists begin to fill them with "meaning's". Then engineer's use the Physicist's meanings, and begin to fill their "forms" with actual "materials". Each step is one away from the "purity" of logic that is what is spoken of when one say's words like "truth". Have you read Plato's "Cratylus" by any chance?

Joe Conservative said...

btw - What do you think of quantum computing vs. regular computing? Golem I to Golem II?

Joe Conservative said...

:P

Joe Conservative said...

How about, "Have you ever read Aristophanes' "Clouds"?"

Joe Conservative said...

Aristophanes' "Bird's"? Welcome to "Cloud Cuckoo Land". ;)

Joe Conservative said...

Don't worry, we'll set aside a place in our heterotopia just for you.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

btw - What do you think of Putin's brain? I think he's visited "Cloud Cuckoo Land" more than once... ;)

Q said...

\\Blogger Joe Conservative said...
I did find Golem XIV interesting, but then again, I'm not really an AI guy.

Khm... but it is not about AI.
That autor made it "wise computer" to talk that is just fancies. CGI so to say.
Message is from autor himself.



\\ I used to be a big Isaac Asimov fan. Back when I was at the Academy, he visited and gave a lecture once. I found the "Foundation" series the most interesting, as my History professor there was into the field of Psychohistory, much like the Seldon character in Asimov's "Foundation", but without any of the Math. His name was Jacques Szaluta.

Yeah. I got it.
Each country have own prophets. Or "prophets".
Well, I like Azimovs Robots novellas. But his "three laws" is totally upside down. ;-P


\\IMO, words are but containers for logic.

Logic can be expressed without words...


\\ Point de Caiton's. Mathematicians love to play with the "empty containers"... but then Physicists begin to fill them with "meaning's". Then engineer's use the Physicist's meanings, and begin to fill their "forms" with actual "materials". Each step is one away from the "purity" of logic that is what is spoken of when one say's words like "truth". Have you read Plato's "Cratylus" by any chance?

Hermeneutics, ehm?


\\Blogger Joe Conservative said...
btw - What do you think of quantum computing vs. regular computing? Golem I to Golem II?

???



\\Blogger -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...
btw - What do you think of Putin's brain? I think he's visited "Cloud Cuckoo Land" more than once... ;)

TC thinks that he winning in a discussion.
Put thinking he winning in a war.
Similar cases. ;-P

(((TC))) said...

TC thinks that he winning in a discussion.

Nah. I think you suck at mind reading.

Discussions are neither won nor lost. When you learn that, you will be on your way to learning how to discuss anything.

Or you could remain a self-confessed imbecile. I don't care.

Q said...

\\\\Anonymous (((TC))) said...
TC thinks that he winning in a discussion.

\\Nah. I think you suck at mind reading.

\\Discussions are neither won nor lost.

1) That is just words.
And you showed that you do not know meaning of words. And even do not care to consult with dictionaries to fix it.

2) Still, you keep insisting that you provided some "refutation" while you are not.

3) You agreeing with FJ when he hailing for you. That you won.

Conclusion.
Your this (correct and even wise) words do not correspond with your behavior.

Means, that's just a flinch. You instinctively trying to evade it, so your self-worth would not be harmed.
But, too late.


\\When you learn that, you will be on your way to learning how to discuss anything.

\\Or you could remain a self-confessed imbecile. I don't care.


Oh, thank you.
But I, will not teach you how to dig yourself out of that hole you dag for yourself and tryed to hide in. :-)))
Try to find the way out on your own.
While I'll be watching over that process with pure interest of researcher.

But for now, I prophess that you will only continue to... drilling for oil. :-))))

Joe Conservative said...

\\Blogger Joe Conservative said...
btw - What do you think of quantum computing vs. regular computing? Golem I to Golem II?
???


Bits vs. Qubits.

Joe Conservative said...

Know anything about quantum encryption?

Q said...

\\Golem I to Golem II?

This part.

Golem was quantum based (as in the book), but AFAIK not based on some spooky "entanglment". ;-)


Yeah, I looked into it. But not that deep down.
Pragmaticky speaking -- if I cannot have it on my desktop, why bother?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

True. It's fun to think about, though.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...even if it's no longer "spooky". :)

Q said...

Well, that is one of the cases when I adhere to authority.
From one seemingly good book from a researcher of it.
I base my opinion on his. That QC is not more powerful then OC.
Because other way it would guaranty that Magic do exist.
And that is preposterous.

So, I deem it just as some special case of AC Analog Computing. ;-)

Joe Conservative said...

Six sigma is as close as you need to get to call something a "truth". ;)

Joe Conservative said...

...unless it's not. ;)

Joe Conservative said...

I don't know if you ever tried to read Plato's "Parmenides" dialogue... but IMO it's the "quantum computing" equivalent to a "digital" discourse as it deals with "absolutes"... the "qubits" of linguistic discourse.