It is a nice thought but that could not happen. When an event like this happens it is because of huge structural failure.
Corruption would have played a part. If you brought a tanker or free oil, whose business interest, or tax revenue, would be impacted by an influx of cheap oil?
Who is being incentivized not to solve the issue?
Where do you dock the ship?
Who gets the oil for free but then charges the next user down the supply chain?
How can you be sure the majority of the oil does not end up on the black market, exported or not used for grid energy?
Twenty years ago the most advanced economy in the world, California, had blackouts due to fraud and corruption. If it can happen in CA it can happen anywhere.
The causality is backwards here. He achieved his position first, became the CTO of probably the most important Turkish tech company and then met Erdoğan's daughter.
It's probably inconceivable from a Western perspective.
Samo Burja has an interesting clip where he talks about the succession problem, and briefly mentions the Japanese practice of adopting someone by getting them to marry your daughter. He also talks about how this would not work in modern day America.
Yes, this truly doesn't tell anything about Turkey having very robust tech industry, and legions of very qualified engineers, many times the number of other countries their size.
Be him Erdo's in law, or not will not make any difference to Turkey having many other equally well performing heavy industry, and military hardware companies.
This is very distracting from the serious conversation when everybody keeps calling out one man's family status, having no bearing whatsoever on the wider industry as a whole, as a sole thing worth talking about Turkish industry.
Also, they don't actually build the thing themselves but rather buy all the parts. Not that any of it matters on the battlefield. Certainly not to their current enemies. They get blown just the same
I was under the impression that western suppliers stopped exporting to Turkey after the Artsakh "conflict" so that they now manufacture most parts themselves (reverse-engineered or not)
Nobody know's what is not declared. The Pentagon had a problem with defense contractors getting around the rules by instead holding elaborate dinner parties. They since cracked down on it. The rules still allow some scope for these kind of gifts. [0]
In the private sector it is not unheard of for a salesperson to drop 5 figures on champagne. If salesman from firm A is willing to give an exec or buyer a night to remember once or twice a year, with booze costing one or two weeks salary before tax, and the salesperson from firm B simply sends a "happy holidays" card once a year, it can easily sway that exec even if they believe they are unbiased.
"This extremely cheap knockoff of a 17th century highly valuable ceramic pot is only valued at $45, which happens to come in $5 under the allotment for bribery in your company policy"
In any event the debate is which letters were or were not written by Paul. There is no reason to suspect he wrote none of them, or at least none were transcribed them to secretary. The debate is which was written by him and which were not.
Your father may have claimed it was very obvious, but nobody else thinks so.
His research focus outside of computer science was stylometry and statistical analysis of authorship. I suspect contextually he was saying it was obvious from a form of analysis. He was a Jewish athiest and completely uninterested in the biblical scholarship questions. His collaborator, rev Morton was a parish minister in the church of Scotland. He used to joke you could be a very good scots minister without worrying about God very much.
Golb's son idolised his father maybe too much. I wouldn't be committing crimes to defend Sid's stylometry results.
I've heard of these types of statistical analyses before, but they always sounded a bit suspicious to me. Have they been verified on known datasets? i.e., if I used your fathers techniques on your comment history, would it find that it was authored by a single person, or would it think there was a committee of you?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry is as good a reference as any to the methodologies. I know pointing people at Wikipedia is a bit passé but it gives a good summary.
I think the answer to your implied criticisms would be, "it depends"
> today it remains controversial for Christian theologians to go on the record saying they’re one and the same.
You are incorrect. That is not controversial. In a sermon delivered by Apostle Paul in Athens, he even tells the pagans they may be worshiping the same God but not know it. [0] Paul was probably the least flexible or accommodating of the first Christian teachers.
What is controversial is the details. While Muhammad was inspired by Christian teachings, specifically Nestorianism [1], later Islamic scholars declared that Christian teachings were corrupted [2] thereby nullifying any contradictions between Jewish, Christian and Islamic teachings.
So yes, a Muslim theologian might truthfully say Islam is a superset of Christianity and Judaism, but they are not referring to any known version of Christianity or Judaism.
Christians on the other hand consider themselves a superset of Judaism. For the most part they don't dispute Judaism (as it existed before 0AD) and think of Christianity are an updated/evolved version.
> Christians on the other hand consider themselves a superset of Judaism. For the most part they don't dispute Judaism (as it existed before 0AD) and think of Christianity are an updated/evolved version.
Can you clarify? Because the Gospels are largely the accounts of a man who spent the most impactful years of His life disputing Judaism as it existed at the time.
Also Christianity cannot be an offshoot of the religion now called Judaism, because the former precedes the latter chronologically. Rabbinic Judaism is significantly newer than Christianity. The old Hebrew religion died with the Second Temple.
> Can you clarify? Because the Gospels are largely the accounts of a man who spent the most impactful years of His life disputing Judaism as it existed at the time.
He disputed current practices of certain groups/sects, and his law superseded the "old" law. The key point is that Jesus did not "back date" his laws. He did not claim they applied to the ancient Hebrews and that they should be judged according to them.
> Also Christianity cannot be an offshoot of the religion now called Judaism
I make a point of noting that I was talking about Judaism as it was at 0 BC/AD.
> Things are frequently buggy, unreliable and disjointed. I’d almost be able to forgive it but unfortunately the support is really terrible too.
This is my experience. After years of paying for the service, for multiple users, using tools that seemed to have been forgotten by the dev team, my credit card failed to process one month.
Support was not interested in helping me. Not at all. Ended up having to move my team's workflow off Zoho. I had been begging them to bill my card, but they just kept sending me generic emails asking me to try again. Phone support was even less helpful.
Given the extreme wealth in the bay area, I am astonished you find it astonishing. Billionaires and multi millionaires would have funded these churches. Most churches and other religious organisations run on a tight budget and deter important costs like building maintenance because of lack of funds.
I have seen crumbling Catholic churches, and I have seen the Vatican Meusum. Two extremes of wealth.
I mean, this is specifically accurate but a useless metrics.
Its literally bullets/kill.
Modern urban warfare tactics include a whole lot of shooting where the intent is not to kill the enemy, but to make the enemy hide and reduce their ability to shoot at you.
The army also uses lot of ammo to train and stay competent.
Its similar to how most military pilots clock hundreds of hours flying for every hour of combat they experience.
Bullets/kill is like an extreme version of "game winning scores"/"all shots ever taken in a game or training"
Exactly. I know people who shoot 2000 rounds in a weekend of target practice. This might be a large amount in a country where guns are rare, but it's nothing in the US.
I imagine its similar to buying a firearm. You need an FFL to receive it and they background you same as they would a gun. However the FFL needs a special license for grenades as well.
Edit for those who dont know:
You can order guns online but they must be shipped to a qualified FFL. They must keep records of having done a background check and all that (same as buying in person). As an FFL you could be audited at any moment so you dont wanna screw around or the ATF might come down on you hard. Honestly the last agency I want coming to arrest me is ATF looking at their history of shooting peoples dogs. Its like they think they are above all other agencies and do whatever to arrest people.
It's much more like buying a suppressor, SBR, or machine gun since you have to submit paperwork including fingerprints anddirectly to the ATF and pay the $200 tax. This whole processes take around a year.
Grenades are registered destructive devices in the US. If you can pass the background check to buy a firearm you can buy a grenade. The cost will be $200 (tax) plus the cost of the grenade itself. Practical issues include the government being extremely slow in processing NFA transfers and finding a manufacturer that will actually sell you one. The few dealers I've found will only sell to Law Enforcement or Military buyers. There may be storage requirements I'm not aware of. E: to answer your actual question, it depends on a few factors but it may be possible to structure your grenade ownership to allow others to use it.
I assume you can put ownership of them in a trust just as many people do for suppressors, SBRs, MGs, etc. So whoever is a trustee can be legally in possession of them. All of these responsible people as they are so called, must be on the ATF form and submit fingerprints.
Yeah good luck finding someone to sell you one. Probably easier to manufacture yourself.
I don't think I've ever met someone with a permit for explosives to this day. I assume it's a right reserved for special cases, maybe military contractors that do go overseas?
Yeah I mean, missing material sucks and shouldn't be routine, but this is pretty trivial bullet count compared to what any military runs through in marksmanship training on a daily basis.
Seems far more likely that one pallet is moulding in a corner of a warehouse somewhere (or accidentally got thrown away) than that a right-wing paramilitary group is stealing bullets from the German military, that they simply can't find anywhere else.
Germany spends half a trillion dollars per decade on its military. It would not be surprising if $20k of ammo vanishes for any number of reasons (theft, misplaced, miscounted).
Corruption would have played a part. If you brought a tanker or free oil, whose business interest, or tax revenue, would be impacted by an influx of cheap oil?
Who is being incentivized not to solve the issue?
Where do you dock the ship?
Who gets the oil for free but then charges the next user down the supply chain?
How can you be sure the majority of the oil does not end up on the black market, exported or not used for grid energy?
Twenty years ago the most advanced economy in the world, California, had blackouts due to fraud and corruption. If it can happen in CA it can happen anywhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_ele...