"We have met what's going to save our ass and it is us." - Vinge
While the bird site falls apart,
the thrill of tooting fills my heart.
| Maidenhead | DN18LE |
| VHF/UHF | kj6wuw |
But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.
I don't care if it hurts
I wanna have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When I'm not around
You're so fuckin' special
I wish I was special
My Kenwood TH-D7 handheld is now being programmed over USB from Linux. I suppose this isn't remarkable to anyone but me in 2024...
I installed a Windows executable from my radio manufacturer on my Linux laptop and it only took me an hour to get to running under Wine. After that screwing around, it runs as well as it does on my Windows desktop.
I am no newbie to Linux - I used to FTP source code from tsx11.mit.edu and sneaker net it to my 386SX back before there were distros. But I am delighted to find that eventually, shit "just works"(1).
(1) - *just works *means after reading the man pages, several forum posts, downloading and installing various packages and some shell scripting and at least one reboot to make it all clean and shiny.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
**Dwight D. Eisenhower**
So, roughly, each Sidewinder was two houses for the homeless, each AARGM was education for a doctor. This isn't radical Marxist talk - this is the true cost of America's foreign policy, in the best possible scenario, when no one dies.
This tradeoff was obvious to a GOP president 70 years ago. This tradeoff is unspeakable by any president today.
The AIM-9P block 3 Sidewinders cost the Navy $430K each in 2021. The AGM-88E AARGM were $870K each in 2011 - I've got no recent pricing on the contemporary version with upgraded software and no idea if they used the extended range motor.
Given the long teething problems with the AARGM I'm relieved that it worked.
Using a multibillion dollar ship to launch hundred-million dollar airplanes shooting million-dollar missiles at ten thousand dollar drones. Back-slapping congratulations all around, then they sailed home to accolades and ribbons.
And then the Houthi attacked the next ship that sailed by, and 90% of the prior Suez traffic headed south around Africa.
America: you can't pay more for a military, but you can never seem to accomplish the strategic mission.
What a band. *live*
Palate cleanser...
While I fully support creating a Universal Health Care (UHC) system in the US, a simple definition of UHC would be quite helpful. Plus, a more in-depth description of what it might look like would also be helpful.
I currently am under a sort of UHC system with the VA and Tricare. The system works for me, but there are some problems with it.
We have Universal Healthcare...for those who live to be 65. It seems to me we could just expand that eligibility age down to birth.
@jeffowski
Well, to be honest, that universal in many developed nations. E.g. in Austria it's attached to all kind of things, e.g. employment, benefits, but in theory (although it's rather hard), you can be privately insured. Even harder, but even that is possible, to be not insured at all.
So in effect, healthcare (and social security, all kinds of benefits) are universal. There are literally very few forms of income without โpayroll taxesโ attached, rent income mostly.
@jeffowski Ireland has a dual system, a state run system for people earning up to a threshold, and everybody above needs to insure themselves, sigh.
Yet again, the end product is similar, between the state system and the mandate, you get a mostly universal system.
And yes, all these systems are not without faults.
But a hospital visit is generally not a reason for a bankruptcy, at least not via a hospital bill as such.
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