Saying that your country has the best human rights record in the Middle East is like saying your country is the richest in Africa. Just because it is true doesn't mean it is good.
Israel ranks higher than many EU countries including Greece. Out of 173 countries Israel ranks 33rd. Think about that, only 32 countries in the world are more free than Israel. It ranks higher than the US.
Where do you live? I just wonder real hard how the Danes/Canadians/Americans would have fared if they were in Israel's shoes. Considering history I'd say no that great.
It's much easier to virtue signal from your comfy neighborhood in Western country X though, where your biggest enemies are Republicans.
Iran circled Israel with around 100K + missiles and rockets, some are precision guided. They are in Lebanon (Hezbollah) and Shiite armies in Syria, Yemen, Iraq etc and Gaza.
It's true that things are good with Egypt and Jordan, it doesn't mean things are good in general.
I'd say Israel is more threatened than Jamaica but lets not get too personal.. anyway the nature of the threats are different than conventional armies invading like it used to be. Its now about guerillas firing massive amounts of precise missiles and drones to destroy Israeli infrastructure and civilians. I am not sure its better now; it used to be Israeli soldiers who died at wars. For the foreseeable future its gonna be mostly Israeli civilians who are hurt.
One of the things I have never seen, is an original source that details the type of attack that was done on the African National Congress HQ in Ethiopia. The only original source I have ever seen is a short piece from (of course) Le Monde. I have never seen a CVE, much less writeup of the attack.
We hear that the device was sending uploads to China in the middle of the night. But what type of uploads? And was it firmware based, or OS based? That whole Hussein(-Addis affair just seems very suspect to me.
Having spoken to someone involved in the investigation, it really did happen but like anything this politically sensitive it was quickly hushed up to avoid making it more of a diplomatic incident. The AU had tried to prevent the news from leaking in the first place.
That's quite typical for espionage, where unless there's a desire to publicly burn a few bridges countries would rather have it handled quietly through regular diplomatic channels.
I have no idea why I typed ANC instead of AU. But I'm not going to lie, it [0] does read a lot like Western Propaganda. The Yellow Peril trope, the Magical China-Tech (the Supermicro Magic Chips), the early morning uploads to Shanghai (those Chinese are playing the long game!)etc.
Generally, trusting Western media on Africa reporting is never a good idea. But at the end of the day, this, and Snowden's revelations show - if you don't make it, then you don't own it.
Do you have a source? I only recall the Le Monde [0] article. And was the nature of the breach? You have something uploading to Shanghai for 5 years - and nobody noticed?
According to the person I spoke to on the team that responded, and helped set up the new replacement system and network, there had been warnings for years about the adoption of the system and the lack of any real monitoring, but those were ignored because it was considered politically sensitive to double-check on what the Chinese had provided.
It was a new member of staff who did their own experimentation without authorisation who found it and sent it up the chain, to point where it couldn’t be ignored or hidden anymore. Mostly because that made the delegations aware of how terrible security was, whereas before it seems they’d assumed the organisation had that covered.
My examples were anecdotal based on hiring practices in my current company doing embedded systems. I don't know of any resources that'd help you gnab a job as an EE. I would say be familiar with the basics, first and second order circuits. Op amp configurations, transistors, edge cases, timing, etc.
Funnily enough, haversines and the lot can be found in Dover's Trigonometry Refresher. Had.to do some revision myself for back-to-school.
O.G. Artillery measurement and spherical navigation can be revised in that book, while spherical trig. can be practiced in the 1954 edition Schaum's Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. Good stuff.
It switched from coal in 1990 to natgas and now renewables taking market share. Nuclear is still not cost competitive without lavish subsidy injections though, no. Never was, probably never will be.
Block weights, sledgehammer levers, captains of crush grippers, fat grip barbells/dumbbells; even a large bucket of water and a pair of pliers. Brookfield's books are considered canonical, and everyone who is anyone (I'm not anyone) in grip is on grip board[0]. I was first made aware of it looking at this dude's geoshitties website[1], which is mercifully still around and a great beginners resource.
To sell you on it a bit: if you've lifted for ~10 years you've probably hit your biological peak on the big exercises, and you've gone into some kind of maintenance mode, or are concentrating more on strength endurance, or rotating through peak efforts on different kinds of strength, or working around inevitable injuries or whatever. Either way, a man gets bored, and a large part of the appeal of strength training is the feeling of making progress. Various forms of hand strength; there's basically infinite potential there. Leonardo used to bend horseshoes, and it's a seemingly impossible feat I think most men are capable of with some training. It's also something available to old people who might not be able or willing to pull 5 wheels on the deadlift any more. You can, of course, injure your hands or forearms, but your chances of being crippled by it are fairly low. The other thing about it; you can train a fair amount (unlike big lifts) without blowing out your cortisol, but you get that intense triumphant grrrrrrr ogre nerve energy from doing it that you do after a max effort lift. Also it looks cool and chicks and small children dig it when you do seemingly impossible feats.
Anyway, peasants who hoed their crops and lifted bricks all day were fucking STRONG in the hands. Probably stronger than most nobles in that regard.
Seriously, much, much thanks. My training is bodyweight exclusively (Convict Conditioning), so, I have relatively weak wrists and forearms.I have hit a pullup plateau (weights are expensive around my parts, and the gym is COVID-closed.), so these tips should be a real help.
Decent program, but try to get some lower back work in there. That's an investment you absolutely won't regret. Sandbags work and are cheap; big rocks too. Bridges if nothing else.
I get the feeling that WhatsApp works better as "Less is More" application. Basically, a superior SMS. From my experience, it is mostly used by immigrants as a workaround for international call fees and texts.
I would actually focus more on 1 on 1 interaction and photos. Maybe even integration with mobile payment systems and remittances.
What I lime about this article in particular is that the author actually talks about the graphics subsystems, and how they work. Always interesting to see alternate pipelines, and how tiling works in the various systems.
