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A lecturer I had in college had a military background, optimizing energy consumption in remote military setups. Turns out, the cost per gallon can be over $100 by the time you get it to the region, build and start a convoy for protection, and drive to the remote camps. 40% vs 80% efficiency on the generators really makes a difference!
They were flying into an airport in the middle east, just like a commercial flight. The conversation was along the lines of:
"What are we doing? We're gonna get shot down! Why aren't we doing {aggressive landing style that limits the window for getting hit}?"
"Nah, it's completely safe to land at this airport. They don't mess with our stuff."
"What do you mean, we're in the middle of enemy territory!"
Turns out, there was an agreement between with the local opposition military leader. They wanted/needed oil for heating and other purposes. The US military had tons of barrels of used oil from all their vehicles. The US gave all that to the opposition with an agreement that they don't shoot at our planes.
Yes, they are responsible for horrific crimes, but the American Government call them terrorists in an effort to delegitimatize them. Which is why so many people are now surprised by claims that the Taliban are gaining / have gained control of Afghanistan: they can't fathom how a terrorist group can rule a country. But you change their label to be more accurate, and it clicks for people.
I would define terrorism as the organized destruction of life or property for the purpose of spreading fear rather than the achievement of any strategic military objective.
Deranged white supremacist shoots up a place? Not terrorism, unless the shooting was organized by a group (such as ISIS).
Sometimes it's debatable whether a particular attack constitutes terrorism, but the definition is not "fluid" in my opinion.
> "If I were now president, the world would find that our withdrawal from Afghanistan would be a conditions-based withdrawal," Trump claimed in a statement. "I personally had discussions with top Taliban leaders whereby they understood what they are doing now would not have been acceptable," he said.
Is there any way to force which gets chosen? I love being able to copy and image and just paste it to WhatsApp/Messenger/Whichever other client, but if I do copy an image from the internet it’s very hit or miss if it shows up as an image when I paste, or a link. If I download the image, and then copy the downloaded one, it always shows up as an image
I ended up working around this by copying into GIMP and copying from there, but of course that's a suboptimal workaround. There's surely some small utility application for this.
Now this is a "s/Facebook/Hacker News is tracking my life" coincidence. Just today I was looking to convert a CSV into a graph and came upon this exact site
We had this question earlier in a reddit submission so copying and pasting the answer here (so that you don't think I'm being insincere!) - We fully support styledComponents, or any valid React for that matter. You can even use utility CSS classes in code. The design tool can edit some of these today already (e.g. you can pass in additional styles to a component instance). Better support for creating and managing styledComponents / Emotion is high on our roadmap so watch this space!
I had the same thought about styled components. In the meantime I'll just use emacs to convert the default style objects to styled components when I'm done using Utopia.
I imagine I will use Utopia and then tailor the code afterwards with a code-editor to add my own idiosyncrasies. Still pretty darn efficient to design UIs this way honestly. I'm pretty stoked!
There is an interview with the First Deputy Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of Belarus where he confirms that Mig-29 escorted the Boeing
How many cameras do you think exist capable of capturing a MIG-29 at 50k altitude in low population density areas? I doubt there are pictures of most military interceptions of passenger flights, which is no reason to doubt they happened.
The escorting aircraft would not need to fly side by side with the passenger aircraft. They could just fly behind, above or bellow the aircraft quite easily and not be seen by anyone on the aircraft.
Not to mention that Air to Air missiles have a range in the tens of kilometers and the MIG-29 has sensors to observe the aircraft up to 100 km away.
I don't think any of the passengers would have been aware in the slightest if the MIGs where flying 5 km behind the passenger aircraft.
Of course, they could also intercept from a bigger distance or threaten the plane with surface to air missiles and no jets at all.
Intercepting from a bigger distance has the downside that the pilot cannot see the fighters except on electronic displays, all of which have zero security (just like the radio used to communicate with ATC). I wonder how long until someone "intercepts" an aircraft with an SDR and a directional antenna.
But any credible Western source has confirmed the same? For example any of the passengers or the pilots have vouched that the airliner was escorted by military aircraft?
