buzzsawmonkey 8/5/2020 5:17:23 PM

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Aaaaaaaaaannnnnnnd I'm back!  

Lousy non-login this morning---server "couldn't recognize the URL"---and then I had crap to deal with that kept me from re-trying.

Oh, it's nice to be home.

Kosh's Shadow 8/5/2020 5:21:01 PM

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Even a fake mock-up of an American carrier can cause problems for Iran

A replica of a U.S. Naval carrier has sunk and threatens shipping at a major Iranian port. 

It was meant to send an intimidating signal to the U.S. – a mockup of a U.S. Nimitz-class aircraft carrier to be used in war games by Iran. The attempt has backfired.

Iran now has egg on its face as the replica has listed hard to starboard “and risks causing a shipping hazard in the approach to the harbour of Bandar Abbas,” UK’s The Sun reported on Tuesday.

The Sun quotes naval expert H.I. Sutton, who wrote in Forbes on Monday that the ship “is meant to be reusable and has been symbolically ‘destroyed’ twice already. But now it really has sunk. And in very much the wrong place… It is just outside the harbour entrance to Bandar Abbas, near to the main approach channel.”

“The water there is approximately 45 feet deep, which is shallow. This makes it worse for Iran because it cannot be left to sink. It is so shallow that other ships face a very real risk of catastrophic damage if they sail over it… This is a serious shipping hazard.”

Allah must have willed it/

doppelganglander 8/5/2020 5:39:24 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 8/5/2020 5:46:01 PM

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More in the poetic justice department

NBA, MLB ratings tank after embracing Black Lives Matter

Major League Baseball “really fell off after opening day. In general, both leagues aren’t getting the audience one might expect from a nation that’s been deprived of entertainment for months,” tweeted The Athletic’s Ethan Strauss on Sunday.

The National Basketball Association also didn’t do well. Both leagues had started off with great numbers.

Kosh's Shadow 8/5/2020 5:47:08 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 3:

Any way to see it without cable and in the evening?

Kosh's Shadow 8/5/2020 5:48:23 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 1:

Probably was a temporary problem with the hosting company. I'm not paying for 99.44% uptime, just their regular rates.

And it takes at least 3 servers (computers or virtual machines) for the site to be up.

doppelganglander 8/5/2020 5:57:17 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 5:

Here ya go: https://www.jeopardy.com/watch

If you don't have cable, you may be able to get it on an antenna, but IIRC you're pretty far out from the city.

Kosh's Shadow 8/5/2020 6:04:28 PM

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In #7 doppelganglander said: Here ya go: https://www.jeopardy.com/watch If you don't have cable, you may be able to get it on an antenna, but IIRC you're pretty far out from the city.

Just gives me TV station info. We don't have an antenna. Not sure it would work well 40 miles out, either. 

Stopped paying $116/month for cable we didn't watch much. 

doppelganglander 8/5/2020 6:08:01 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 8:

Don't worry about it. 

Kosh's Shadow 8/5/2020 6:18:59 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 9:

I know. 

We just watch Amazon Prime or free stuff on Roku.

Kosh's Shadow 8/5/2020 6:22:47 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 10:

TANSTAFJ

There ain't no such thing as free Jeapordy

Kosh's Shadow 8/5/2020 6:27:39 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 10:

TANSTAFJ

There ain't no such thing as free Jeapordy

Kosh's Shadow 8/5/2020 6:29:59 PM

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In #6 Kosh's Shadow said: And it takes at least 3 servers (computers or virtual machines) for the site to be up.

Which explains why to replace a 4 year old computer, I had to use my entire share if stimulus funds. Developing a site like this requires running Visual Studio (code editor, compiler, debugger, aka integrated development environment), a web server (IIS lite) and a database server (SQL lite). All that sucks up memory, CPU, and disk access.