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81  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 14, 2024, 06:13:16 PM

Hey dumBAss! Have you heard that Trump has now decided that Ukraine matters to the US? I hope you do not suffer an epilepsy now trying to change the narrative so sudenly... this must be like a 12-G manoeuvre...do not black out. Ukraine has long announced further mobilisations. It is to be expected that to have a country with Ruzzia as a neighbourgh you'd need to be prepared for war.

Stoltenberg stating the obvious:

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"On the question about NATO's role in reconstruction of Ukraine after the war. The first thing I will say is that first of all, you need to ensure that Ukraine prevails. Because unless Ukraine prevails, there's nothing to reconstruct in the free and independent Ukraine. So the most immediate, the most important task now is to help Ukraine with military support as NATO Allies and NATO do. We need to sustain that. We need to make the support more predictable and more robust, and we are going to hopefully make decisions on that not least at the NATO Summit in July," Stoltenberg said.

Read also: China's support allows Russia to wage war against Ukraine - Stoltenberg
He noted that the future recovery of Ukraine will be a very costly process. In this context, preventing destruction is cheaper than subsequent recovery. Therefore, the more capabilities the allies provide to Ukraine so that it can defend itself, the less effort will be required for the nation’s post-war recovery.

“Every air defense missile we can provide Ukraine will actually mean less damage, less destruction. And then also less need for reconstruction after the war. We must be able to help Ukraine prevail because it's important for Ukrainians. But also because every day this war drags on, of course, the more destruction and the more expensive, the more resource demanding it will be to do reconstruction afterwards," the head of the Alliance emphasized.

"The sooner Ukraine can prevail, the sooner this war can end with just a lasting peace where Ukraine prevails as a sovereign independent nation in Europe," Stoltenberg added.

f16s are said to be arriving along June, my guess the US ones in July.

Some entertainment. I cannot but see the resemblance with phosphorous munitions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4N82wPpdg8
82  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 14, 2024, 05:20:33 PM
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How would Trump gain at least to a point my respect? If Ruzzia were to give a meaningful chunk of he Ukrainian land they have taken. THAT would proof some statesmanship. For a funny example, I can close a deal in the name of Ukraine that gives Putin half of the country and two major cities (for example), or for that matter sell you a car and on top pay you to take it, but that makes me a stupid not a businessman.

Interesting watching even you pivot from back to borders of 1991 to would be nice to get just a meaningful chunk back. Biggest tragedy is that it was on the table during the negotiations before Johnson torpedoed them now looks like too much Russian blood has been spilled for that to be acceptable, that's the problem with raising the stakes.


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There is a more interesting topic, but you may not like it or most likely you will say it is not true, but anyway: Today has marked the record of Ruzzian soldiers killed. Not only that, it seems that is NOT the record of vehicles destroyed. If you wish to give credit, 1700 Ruzzian soldiers died. They did not have adequate vehicle support.

I guess you'd like to question this?

The cause is the Kharkiv attack vector, which is an absolute crazy idea.

Question you? Now why would anyone even think of that? We of course just blindly trust any numbers that you write without any citations.

Now back to the real world

[...]

With such news, Ukraine could use a lot of damage control right about now to keep morale from collapsing.

Collapsing? I though you said something about back reality? Well, I can see that anything that does not look "surrender" is not "reality". Ruzzia has lost a bit under 1470 soldiers in a day. Please, keep "winning" and keep pressing near Kharkiv, you are right, I am wrong, keep it up.

You mean that Ukrainians are blaming each others? Like if you would for example choose to demote Shoigu because everything is going perfect?

I have not pivoted and I have not said what chunk of land either if you read carefully ("meaningful" could cover up to 30 km of Moscow). I am just saying that I can conceive a plan that would work as fast as Trump plan. All you need to do is to fulfil you troll wet dream of a surrender. Would that be something that require ingenuity, statesman ship or even vision of the future? Nah. Even your little troll mind can think of it.

There is a more interesting topic, but you may not like it or most likely you will say it is not true, but anyway: Today has marked the record of Ruzzian soldiers killed. Not only that, it seems that is NOT the record of vehicles destroyed. If you wish to give credit, 1700 Ruzzian soldiers died. They did not have adequate vehicle support.

I guess you'd like to question this?

The cause is the Kharkiv attack vector, which is an absolute crazy idea.
I have already expressed my opinion on this matter a little higher, I think this is a regular diversionary strike in order to force Syrsky to transfer reserves from other sectors of the front and accordingly weaken them (because he has no free combat-ready reserves). Syrsky now has a very difficult situation - he is forced to do what he does not want, because he cannot simply ignore the attack of the "North" group.

Regarding human losses and a small number of armored vehicle losses. The assault troops of the "North" group consist of "Storm Z" fighters - these are former prisoners who entered into a contract with the Ministry of Defense. In fact, these are suicide bombers; they are not entitled to armored vehicles. But the “North” group has powerful support of about a thousand artillery barrels (this is more than in the Avdeevsky direction), plus aviation support with guided bombs. Therefore, their raid will continue successfully with further losses of territory in Ukraine until Syrsky transfers at least a couple of brigades here to stop them. Then a strike will follow on the weakened section of the front. Wait, this will happen within a month, before the peace conference in Switzerland.

The thing about diversionary strikes that require troops to divert troop from the opponent is that... well, you have to divert your troops too.

If you are saying that all the killed were convicts, I will have to take your word for it, but you must reckon is difficult to believe. I can see that Ruzzia has been able to take a few kilometres which may or may not mean something. Time will tell.






83  Economy / Gambling / Re: Best game provider? on: May 14, 2024, 05:11:47 PM
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I like Pragmatic, for me it's one of the best!

I prefer BGaming. But I see it's no quite popular across the users

Well, the OP is asking for your opinion so it is ok if you consider it the best site and others not. What would be nice is to have some ideas around why do you consider that site your choice. I value above all reputation and honesty in the processes and money handling, then the variety of games and how easy is to get involved in new games. Lastly, usability is also important.
84  Economy / Gambling / Re: My betting strategies on: May 14, 2024, 02:45:45 PM

You would really be able to find it for yourself on how you would really be making out those kind of adjustments on which this is something that would really be coming up into your mind specially if you are already on such condition on which you would really be sensibly be able to make out those kind of adjustments on which this is something that you would really be doing which its of course that normal or simply been part of our instinct as a human on where we do make out those kind of adjustments. Just like on what other been people been saying that strategies would really be that differ into each other on which we know that
it would really be basing up on how broad our knowledge is on a particular subject or whatever it would be. The more knowledge or experienced you are the more chances or odds that you could be able to win up a particular bet but it will really be still needing up other things as we know.

Yeah right, if you use those good and bad experienced and adjust to make it usable in terms of determining the potentials, just like what I've mentioned knowing your types of games and those players who are behind it, with good understanding of the game it managable to work on statistics and observations if you got that good edge, though we are dealing with gambling and there's nothing that we can accurately conclude as even as very low chance of losing, inside gambling it's still possible,

upset can  happen that underdogs can pull the trigger and we don't have any control about it, even you did your part playing with your strategy but if luck is not with you on that particular sessions there's things that may affect the situation and the outcome may turned against you.
I do not believe in the adjustments that are made because it will always be wrong everywhere, if not, luckily, not much can be done, in fact those who try to adjust what is already Predefined will be worse, I experienced that with freebitcoin when in At one point I didn't earn much and I started doing another type of configuration and I lost more than anything else, so given these things I quickly realized that other types of things can be generated, the reuses will be worse , because we don't even know what we are doing, That is why we in the game must accept what comes , whether we are lucky or not.



An adjustment can work if you have a general way or a general strategy that is ballpark correct or you will have to think if that is actually pointing in the right direction in terms of how to develop something that may work. In other words, you need to get the bulk of your strategy right or you will never solve it just changing a few details here and there. e.g. If you are playing martingale you will not ever get it right.
85  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 13, 2024, 08:11:00 PM
Shoigu civilian? ... well, short of...

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Shoigu received the rank of major general in 1993,[12] and was promoted swiftly to lieutenant general in 1995,[13] colonel general in 1998,[14] and to army general, in practice the highest Russian military rank, in 2003.[15]
Yep, Shoigu civilian. Before becoming a major general, he was a lieutenant, and received the rank of lieutenant thanks to his studies at a university with a military department. And you yourself know this very well, but out of habit you quoted only that part of the information that is beneficial to you. You have a professional deformation from an overdose of propaganda. Grin

Oh, so he was civilian before he is no longer civilian. So now is not civilian? And somehow I am doing propaganda? You have an interesting way of thinking.

I mean, I am sure that applies to all military, they are not born militaries, they eventually become militaries. I could quote how he was first civilian, but it would not add, subtract, multiply, divide nor make the square root of the fact that he is not civilian now, but military and hence my statement saying that he is military is correct, whereas your statement about him being civilian is, at minimum, inaccurate.
It seems you are ready to argue about anything, simply because you like to argue.

Shoigu is not a military man in the sense that he is not a product of the military system. He did not serve in the army, did not graduate from a higher military school, and was not an active officer. The Russian military itself does not consider Shoigu a military man.

Before Shoigu, Russia's Minister of Defense was Serdyukov, a former head of the tax service. Before Serdyukov, the Minister of Defense was Ivanov, a philologist by training. My point is that the Minister of Defense is not a professional military man; this is normal practice in Europe in general and in Russia in particular. The highest rank for a military man is the head of the General Staff. Formally, the supreme commander is the president, but you won’t say that Biden is a military man?

Glad to know the European and Ruzzian cultures have so many points in common. Ok, he has a military rank but is not a career military guy.

Why do you think he has been shown the door? Is everything going well over there?

There is a more interesting topic, but you may not like it or most likely you will say it is not true, but anyway: Today has marked the record of Ruzzian soldiers killed. Not only that, it seems that is NOT the record of vehicles destroyed. If you wish to give credit, 1700 Ruzzian soldiers died. They did not have adequate vehicle support.

I guess you'd like to question this?

The cause is the Kharkiv attack vector, which is an absolute crazy idea.
86  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 13, 2024, 05:48:07 PM
Shoigu civilian? ... well, short of...

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Shoigu received the rank of major general in 1993,[12] and was promoted swiftly to lieutenant general in 1995,[13] colonel general in 1998,[14] and to army general, in practice the highest Russian military rank, in 2003.[15]
Yep, Shoigu civilian. Before becoming a major general, he was a lieutenant, and received the rank of lieutenant thanks to his studies at a university with a military department. And you yourself know this very well, but out of habit you quoted only that part of the information that is beneficial to you. You have a professional deformation from an overdose of propaganda. Grin

Oh, so he was civilian before he is no longer civilian. So now is not civilian? And somehow I am doing propaganda? You have an interesting way of thinking.

I mean, I am sure that applies to all military, they are not born militaries, they eventually become militaries. I could quote how he was first civilian, but it would not add, subtract, multiply, divide nor make the square root of the fact that he is not civilian now, but military and hence my statement saying that he is military is correct, whereas your statement about him being civilian is, at minimum, inaccurate.



87  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 13, 2024, 01:21:14 PM
Seems like Shoigu has been demoted and changed for a Civilian from the closer Putin's economic circle.

My guess is that the war is going so well and corruption is so under control that Putin has taken this decision based on the armpit smell of Shoigu and not because he is an absolute incompetent in war, but very extremely competent in sending unequipped troops while filling his banks accounts with the money that should have provided the equipment.
The Minister of Defense should be a civilian; in fact, he is a supply manager. In Russia, the Minister of Defense has been a civilian since 2001 (Shoigu is also a civilian). The current Minister of Defense of Ukraine seems to also be a civilian. Almost all defense ministers in Europe are civilians.

Military operations are led by the General Staff, the Chief of the General Staff is still Gerasimov.

Shoigu civilian? ... well, short of...

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Shoigu received the rank of major general in 1993,[12] and was promoted swiftly to lieutenant general in 1995,[13] colonel general in 1998,[14] and to army general, in practice the highest Russian military rank, in 2003.[15]

All those are military ranks, he wears mostly military uniforms and - me not an expert - seems to carry around quite a bit of cheap metal in the chest quite military looking. I guess he is not properly a military grown in the lower ranks if that's your point.

A "supply manager" ... he certainly "manages" the supplies here and there yes  Grin



Not as good as the mafia boss of course:

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.422079,38.2078166,1238m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
88  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 13, 2024, 11:12:34 AM

BTW there are news that the "brave" commander that was in charge of the Bucha massacres has been HIMARSed. I think Ukrainians tend not to forget that type of bravery.


Did they hit that BBC guy who invented whole story all the way in England, or
maybe BBC sent him to Ukraine to silence him for whatever reason?

There are tens of witnesses Branko. Your loved Ruzzia army is a bunch of sadistic butchers. There are images of drones attacking families and old men simply going about their business for training. You need some?

Seems like Shoigu has been demoted and changed for a Civilian from the closer Putin's economic circle.

My guess is that the war is going so well and corruption is so under control that Putin has taken this decision based on the armpit smell of Shoigu and not because he is an absolute incompetent in war, but very extremely competent in sending unequipped troops while filling his banks accounts with the money that should have provided the equipment.
89  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 13, 2024, 08:23:52 AM

@Branko, you claim to have combat experience. Tell us, is this a special tactic? I mean, a Ruzzian soldier is usually trained to detonate a grenade in his own chest?



Its very brave.
My uncle shot himself so Italian fascists don't catch him alive

Totally different than Ukrainian soldiers killing themselves so
they don't get sent to fight

I hope there are many more "brave" soldiers doing the same in the Ruzzian army then, it would make a future peace much easier.

BTW there are news that the "brave" commander that was in charge of the Bucha massacres has been HIMARSed. I think Ukrainians tend not to forget that type of bravery.

...

Oh, Trump has spoken about his plan to reach peace:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/ukraine-war-briefing-donald-trump-says-survival-of-ukraine-important-to-the-us

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Donald Trump has said the survival of Ukraine is important to the US, in what Reuters describes as a shift in tone days before Republicans are due to vote on a $61bn aid package in the US House of Representatives. “As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than to us, but it is also important to us! GET MOVING EUROPE!”

As usual... blaming someone else after stopping the aid for 6 months. dumBAss gonna love this one.

Well, that is quite absurd if true. Trump and the Republican party (mostly the people who support Trump/Maga) have spent entire months claiming it was wasteful to send equipment to Ukraine and offer them support with the taxpayer money from the people, while there are other problems to be solved domestically and now Trump seems to be flipping on the issue of Ukraine due to God knows what reason.
If anyone in the Republican party had some spine left, they would call out Trump for his double speech and the way he easily changes of opinion in any politically relevant topic for his own benefit, some would even call him Uniparty and RINO in different circumstances. It has already flipped on abortion, in the topic of Bitcoin/cryptocurrency and now this.
I wonder how much this could hurt him politically, probably not much, considering his core base does not use logic and consistency to vote in the first place.

Spot on, his base does not care. What I see here is that Trump had to yield to the party instead of the party yielding to him. It is possibly the first time that this happens and signals a much lower grip that we all assumed.

He is swapping the narrative to keep his parties support, but yeah.. he may do whatever about the Ruzzo- Ukrainian war when elected anyway. My guess is that he understands that the US benefits from a free and strong Ukraine, but he may play the "businessman" simply forcing Ukraine to give up land. Putin would certainly love that scenario since he has been "buying" Ukrainian land at a ridiculous price in weapons, blood and political credit so getting it "for free" thanks to Trump bloated ego and pretences of "statemanship" and his like for simple solutions to complex problems.

How would Trump gain at least to a point my respect? If Ruzzia were to give a meaningful chunk of he Ukrainian land they have taken. THAT would proof some statesmanship. For a funny example, I can close a deal in the name of Ukraine that gives Putin half of the country and two major cities (for example), or for that matter sell you a car and on top pay you to take it, but that makes me a stupid not a businessman.
90  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 12, 2024, 08:50:33 PM
[...]
Indeed, Larson, who headed a 25-man platoon of legionaries in 2022, said he and his men were a "sacrificial unit."
[...]

Which perfectly matches the fact that he is alive and talking about it?  Huh Huh

Another Su25 has been shoot in Avdiivka direction. A direct effect of all that help "that is nothing", all those weapons that "do not work" and all the "US taxpayers" money wasted that Branko is so worried about (it is heartbreaking to see how much you love the US taxpayers).

There is an unusual level of Ukrainian drone activity. There is a video out there in which 6 drones are used to kill what appears like 4 Ruzzian mercenaries in a treeline.

[...]

$400k of blood money, might sound like a good deal for some poor souls. I mean everyone of course is fighting to protect democracy in Ukraine

I do not know. You tell us.

@Branko, you claim to have combat experience. Tell us, is this a special tactic? I mean, a Ruzzian soldier is usually trained to detonate a grenade in his own chest?

https://t.me/ssternenko/28454

Oh, Trump has spoken about his plan to reach peace:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/ukraine-war-briefing-donald-trump-says-survival-of-ukraine-important-to-the-us

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Donald Trump has said the survival of Ukraine is important to the US, in what Reuters describes as a shift in tone days before Republicans are due to vote on a $61bn aid package in the US House of Representatives. “As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than to us, but it is also important to us! GET MOVING EUROPE!”

As usual... blaming someone else after stopping the aid for 6 months. dumBAss gonna love this one.
91  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 11, 2024, 12:48:02 PM
[...]

Most of the military production takes place outside Ukraine and to be honest whatever is produced in Ukraine for the war will be the first priority for the remaining supply.
Ukraine is trying to produce as much military equipment as they can as they don't want depend onsupply from West fully. Like in cases that they had when supply from USA stopped. Drones, some missiles, Bohdana howitzers and etc is produced in Ukraine. And Ukraine made drones and missiles are being used to hit targets in Russia as most West counntries don't allow to use their weapons to hit targets outside  Ukraine.
I guess that even if complete blackout will happen, it won't stop Ukraine's military industry. They would solutions how not to stop it, like for example switching to diesel generators.

Oh sure, Ukraine is creating quite interesting national products (I mean, as interesting as stuff to kill others gets). Improvements to missiles, naval drones, 3d printed FPVs, re-purposed recreational planes that can now destroy billions in assets up to 1500 km from their base... Clearly Ukraine is making a virtue of necessity and are very good at asymmetric warfare. What I meant is that the loss some relevant power infrastructure is unlikely to be a problem for war production.


Moving on now on the latest doctrine of the Ruzzian army:

1- Send a couple of squads in a unarmoured golf cart to the position where you think the enemy is.
2- Throw some smoke with a tank, but somewhere else, where it does not cover your troops.
3- Let the soldiers fight in open field for the trench (where you think there might be Ukrainians).
4- Shell with the tank - whether it killing your soldiers or others.
5- When your soldiers reach the trench, shell the trench (I assume this is to avoid paying the salaries??)

And you wonder why they call this a meat attack.

https://youtu.be/quaQFy-mkLI

My favourite is the guy that stays well behind the group and takes cover. He is probably the only survivor.
92  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 10, 2024, 06:47:33 PM
I expect big offensive there pretty soon
I don't think so. The grouping of Russian troops near Kharkov is quite limited, although they are opposed there mainly by defense brigades with unknown combat capability, but I would not expect deep breakthroughs into the territory of Ukraine. I think today’s activity in the direction of Kharkov is mainly aimed at forcing Syrsky to react to it and send reserves there. I would not be surprised if Russia also demonstrates activity in the Kherson region in the near future, perhaps with an attempt to cross the Dnieper, pursuing the same goal. At least it would be logical from the point of view of military science - to show offensive activity along the edges of a thousand-kilometer front line in order to pose complex logistical tasks to Ukraine and force it to maneuver with limited reserves.

The offensive in in course, most likely to create a humanitarian problem.
93  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 10, 2024, 12:22:37 PM
[...]

Again please stop with your moronic statements about nukes. Even if 1 nuke goes to Moscow that would mean that there is no more world. [...]

Are you getting nervous? Name calling? Really? You are the only stupid here that does not understands how nuclear deterrence works.

I will repeat it again, just because you seem to like it that much: one nuke is not just a bit more than zero. It is the difference between a nuclear power and not a nuclear power, between having a world with a controlled number of countries with a controlled number of combinations for a nuclear conflict and an scenario that doubles the number of nuclear armed countries and exponentially grows the combinations for a conflict[/size][/i][/u].

1000 nukes in and controlled by Germany, Poland, Letonia, Lituania, Ukraine, Finland, Norway... just name all the countries that feel threatened by Ruzzia - and you claim that does not matter because "it is not too many more nukes"? I think you just do not understand shit of the world we live in.

Having this scenario is Putin's doing because everyone around Ruzzia cannot ever feel safe, so happy birthday and I hope that if we are all ever blown up it catches you counting the money you are getting paid little troll.

Well, when it's between top pentagon official and a forum member without citations think you know who we all believe more.

Your eyes.

Also stop pretending that Russia is planning on attacking Germany, as if NATO didn't have article 5,

Stop pretending that Germany, Poland and the Baltic countries are not going thinking already about getting their own deterrence when Trump is saying he wants to break NATO.

In that regard is irrelevant who wins the elections, because in military terms you have to hope for the best, but prepare for the worst and Europe can no longer assume that the US umbrella will work. Europe is veeery slow, but is not stupid.

...

Sure, and in response Russia should put nukes on Cuba because their people are suffering and fear US, right? oh wait haven't we been here before?
World got rid of 48k nuclear weapons from 61,662 in 1985 to  13,400 in 2020 only an idiot or a madman would want to bring the world closer to nuclear annihilation just because Ukraine is loosing on the battlefield. How much brainwashing one should get to start believing, "either NATO expands to Ukraine or we start a nuclear war" narrative  Huh

Irrelevant and missing the point as usual. It is irrelevant how many nukes Ruzzia and up to a point where they have them.

Just to make sure that your little troll brain understands the basic math behind the Treaty of non-Proliferation. You have two nuclear powers you have 2^0 potential nuclear conflicts (country A with country B). You have 3 then you have AB AC BC, three possible nuclear conflicts. You have 4 you get AB, AC, Ad, BC, Bd, Cd, so that is 6...

What happens when you have, instead of 3 nuclear powers in Europe, 8 or 10 nuclear powers, including some who have been know to be very active in invading their neighbours? You can check here but the answer is that you have passed from three potential nuclear conflicts to... guess how many... 6? 10? 15?... no, it is actually 45 possible bilateral nuclear wars. And this not even counting the possibility of a security flaw or hybrid attack that detonates just one of this little nuke babies or multi-country conflicts or someone getting a few bucks by selling them to ISIS or whatever other.

This is what happens when you have Putin waging a war in Europe and Trump saying that "he does not want NATO" or "would not intervene" as per article 5.


This scenario is not something that "might happen", it is an scenario that, at this point, Europe is already considering. This is some sectors in Germany, but if Germany got it, Poland ain't going to say no and if everyone around's got it... then all the baltics.

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/germans-debatethe-once-unthinkable-do-we-need-nuclear-weapons-13fa7e68

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Germans Debate the Once-Unthinkable: Do We Need Nuclear Weapons?

And now keep on speaking about whattabout and trying to mislead. Keep counting you little troll's level 3 pay in the farm and hope that all 10 countries have responsible politicians from now to the end of your miserable life.


Meanwhile 1500 km from Ukraine....

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The excerpt describes a Ukrainian drone that attacked the "Salavatnefteorgsintez" in Bashkortostan. The drone's wing span is approximately three meters wide. A video shows the drone flying over the company's territory a minute before being destroyed. The drone is reported to have traveled up to 1,500 km

And just a bit closer...
https://t.me/astrapress/55058

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On May 10, 2024, drones are reported to have attacked the "First Refinery" in Kaluga Region, according to local residents.





94  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 10, 2024, 08:36:11 AM
You can buy an electric generator from Germany, US,... is not that easy, it takes a while to manufacture and it is not a perfect solution at all. You can import electricity and perhaps improve the infrastructure to import which is no off the shelve, but is not high tec either. The attacks on Ukraine power grid are to be taken seriously, but they will not stop the Ukrainian army.
They will not stop the Ukrainian army, but they will stop the Ukrainian military industry. The main goal of attacks on the energy system is to make Ukraine completely dependent on arms supplies from the West and not be able to do anything on its own.

Most of the military production takes place outside Ukraine and to be honest whatever is produced in Ukraine for the war will be the first priority for the remaining supply.

Now, I have seen some evidence on refineries and a depot being hit today. Interesting how the strategy that is "just six bulletpoints", "cannot work" and is "impossible" is developing in plain sight with Ruzzia unable to stop it.
95  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Publicly held Trump trials - ongoing on: May 10, 2024, 07:10:37 AM
... the judge knows he does jail Trump, it could affect his career and go down in the history books...

That is so true, and that is why the judge is giving him so many chances.  If he finally orders confinement, his history will show prudence and due diligence.  It's already in the history books, and I'm sure it's boosted the price of a few playboys.  Smiley

Question:  Could the judge confine Trump to his home for 24 hours as a smaller step, or does it need to be actual jail?

I do not know, I think they have a wide latitude on what they can do in case of contempt. For example, if a witness does not answer they can send him to the brick until he  does.

Trump wants desperately to go to jail. His game is playing the victim, you know, "the deep state is hunting me because I want to remove the deep state and the deep state is bad and I am a poor victim that is innocent and helps grannies cross the road..."

If he gets sent to prison it would be a PR triumph, as he lives for those moments and most of his base basically believes whatever he says even if beyond any possible human comprehension, so for them jail will be a confirmation of a conspiracy.

The narrative is amazing, if he walks is because he is innocent and a victim, if he is declared guilty he is innocent and a victim. No cognitive dissonance for his fans.
96  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Publicly held Trump trials - ongoing on: May 10, 2024, 01:35:26 AM
Gradually the Trump trials are falling apart....

Except the one where a jury found him liable for sexual assault and ordered him to pay the woman he raped with either his finger or penis (she's not sure which) $5 million.

Or the libel case he lost for lying about the woman he raped with either his finger or penis and was ordered to pay $80 million.

Or the one where The Trump Organization was found guilty of felony fraud.

Or the criminal trial going on right now where he has no actual defense and the prosecutions case is so strong that his only hope to not be a convicted felon in a matter of weeks is jury nullification or a technicality.

But yeah, it looks like all he has to do is win a close presidential election to confirm he's above the law and avoid being held accountable for the other 80 felonies he's been charged with.

What is super funny is that Trump supporters can say at the same time that this is a witch hunt and that the trials are going very well because of the evidence presented.

Regardless of the trials that did go ahead, there is an obvious timing problem with the trials.

Having said that, our friend dumBAss thinks that if Trump is elected all this goes. It is not the case, part of it may go as Trump would gain line management over some of the Attorneys but some others will stay. He will still be having trials even if President.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/09/trump-trial-stormy-daniels-testimony-hush-money-case.html

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Trump loses second bid for mistrial in hush money case

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Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan previously warned that Trump has to stop cursing and shaking his head during Daniels’ testimony

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you then decided that you wanted to publicly say that you had sex with Donald Trump,”
Daniels shot back: “Nobody would ever want to publicly say that.”

97  Economy / Gambling / Re: The most liquid companies in the gambling industry on: May 10, 2024, 01:28:23 AM

There is no doubt about that, I personally could say that things can be very usable in terms of those who can put them to use, I know that in many cases corrupt rulers and people who have always done evil to the world have done so with fiat money, we cannot blame the fiat money for the crimes of some people, so sometimes seeing that they say that they have been robbed and that they have done things to be able to establish themselves better in terms of crypto, well it doesn't make much sense to me that they think Thanks to crypto, more thefts can be made these days, all of these are simply tools.

The things that are referred to crypto, the people who hate them invent all kinds of excuses to make them look bad, then based on anonymity and all this that they want to remove, well they simply want to remove it so that everything is exposed, and Those who use crypto, casinos and all this may be exposed.
There have always been alot of misconceptions and propaganda again cryptocurrency and bitcoin most especially which is why we see alot of attacks from various government a and some of it agencies around the world, even though all the criminal who use the fiat monetary process have been left unchecked and uncaught until now, but their are quick to sponsor hate statements against the industry today.

The government have failed in to act right to regulate the financial institutions,  and also making a misplaced priority by chasing the wrong fight.
You can't certainly blame the government in this regard, cryptocurrency caught them unawares, so getting used to it will take time. You can't also blame them as some speak against it while others either ban, restrict or advocate/enforce strict regulation, it wasn't the same reaction by all which indicates Hope. What they've always known was fiat which is a centralised system and is what they somewhat trusted because they still have control over it despite some illicit flows. As for the illicit flows, criminals and money launderers continue to find means to outsmart the government even as the government continues to block some and unveil some perpetrator's schemes and even jail many of them. This has been the tough task the government was fighting and still fighting before and after the introduction of cryptocurrency.

Now that cryptocurrency was introduced, it became an added headache for them for obvious reasons, and if you were the top leader in the government, would you feel differently if you were genuine? As we know, it takes harder tasks to solve the puzzles of cryptocurrencies than fiats, and the common claims that criminals are using fiats are not even a contention here because the government will never deny that. But it seems people continue to reference it which is supposed not to be so because the primary concern of any responsible government is to build and maintain a sane system where illicit flows will not happen talkless of causing the financing of terrorism, trafficking and others. The only way they can do this is to get better control of cryptocurrency which is what they're trying to do these days through various regulations, and this is for the good of all as decentralisation will always come with its danger whether we like it or not.

There is a dual effect on bitcoin holdings and crypto that is difficult to remove. On one side you are using it because it attracks a certain kind of use that uses crypto to play over and over and sometime they might be linked with crime. However the effect also plays against in the sense of the seriousness and credibility of the flows and that is the con to the pro.
98  Economy / Gambling / Re: Building a unique Casino game from scratch. What features do you want? on: May 10, 2024, 01:23:46 AM

Let's be realistic, there are already dozens if not hundreds of casinos out there and it is you that may have to come up with a unique selling point to really distinguish yourselves or simply try to carve out a piece of the pie which will likely require throwing huge amounts of money at it. If I was starting fresh these days, I'd probably target one small game like dice and try to create a unique spin on it, maybe have 3 different games running that you specialize in. After you build up a reasonable user base, you could try to expand further because you'd have enough capital behind you to grow. All of the things you've mentioned and likely others here have too, are already available across many other sites.

Realistically speaking as a gambler, it’s very hard to share even the smallest part if you will start fresh using few games especially the original games since most of the gamblers these days preferred slot games despite how low the RTP is.

Popular casino offers a complete package of games including bonuses and VIP. It’s very hard to compete with them anymore using limited games and small bonuses since most of the competitors invest tons of money on their website including the bankroll. OP idea of starting fresh will surely very hard to execute or if ever he manage to create a unique game then other casino will simply just copy it and offer as original games with few variations.

Many casinos started with just one game, back in the day dice, plinko, and crash were unique games, and after starting with one soon after we would see other games added one by one. So Fortify has a good suggestion, one or more original games with a unique spin on them, or some totally new original game can attract people. And if things go well and the site gains some user base, other games will be added easily. I guess it would be a "cheaper" way to start compared to starting with lots of games, big funds for marketing, and various promotions, not to mention the need for a huge bankroll to be there to attract whales.

The OP mentioned that he is going to launch something within days of creating this thread, so we are still waiting to see what he is up to...

It is more difficult to launch new stuff if you make it too simple, nowdays these tend to be more sophisticated and the player would need to have a super-special experience if they wanted them to stay just with one game. However, it would make sense to start with a reduced number of games or try find a niche that allows a selective group of users that cannot find those somewhere else.
99  Economy / Gambling / Re: Casinos not asking for KYC to register and play, but do require it to withdraw on: May 10, 2024, 01:21:13 AM
If KYC is must, I think they mustn't allow users play/use their casino until they fill their details and get accepted rather than let them deposit and play from the very beginning. It may be somewhere in TOS but letting them play/deposit but deny withdrawal asking KYC is totally unfair and somewhat scam/cheating. Then it will be like one way door. One can enter but can't exit.

It is very obvious that this asymmetric treatment of entry and exit is not casual but rather by design and at this point I wonder if these casinos could not be accused of having money that is illegal, that is, you do not allow withdrawal without identification but they are keeping that cash themselves so, if the money is not legal, they are holding illegal money.
100  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: May 10, 2024, 12:31:00 AM
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Again please stop with your moronic statements about nukes. Even if 1 nuke goes to Moscow that would mean that there is no more world. [...]

Are you getting nervous? Name calling? Really? You are the only stupid here that does not understands how nuclear deterrence works.

I will repeat it again, just because you seem to like it that much: one nuke is not just a bit more than zero. It is the difference between a nuclear power and not a nuclear power, between having a world with a controlled number of countries with a controlled number of combinations for a nuclear conflict and an scenario that doubles the number of nuclear armed countries and exponentially grows the combinations for a conflict.

1000 nukes in and controlled by Germany, Poland, Letonia, Lituania, Ukraine, Finland, Norway... just name all the countries that feel threatened by Ruzzia - and you claim that does not matter because "it is not too many more nukes"? I think you just do not understand shit of the world we live in.

Having this scenario is Putin's doing because everyone around Ruzzia cannot ever feel safe, so happy birthday and I hope that if we are all ever blown up it catches you counting the money you are getting paid little troll.

Well, when it's between top pentagon official and a forum member without citations think you know who we all believe more.

Your eyes.

Also stop pretending that Russia is planning on attacking Germany, as if NATO didn't have article 5,

Stop pretending that Germany, Poland and the Baltic countries are not going thinking already about getting their own deterrence when Trump is saying he wants to break NATO.

In that regard is irrelevant who wins the elections, because in military terms you have to hope for the best, but prepare for the worst and Europe can no longer assume that the US umbrella will work. Europe is veeery slow, but is not stupid.

While Ukraine continue hitting oil refineries in Russia, such strikes is getting deeper and deeper. This atime they hit refinery in Bashkortostan, Salavat city which is located about 1500 km from border with Ukraine:
https://t.me/breakingmash/54061
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-drone-attack-oil-refinery-bashkortostan-1898844
This time it seems that not much damage was made, but only fact that drone went all this long distance unnoticed is crazy. Well, unless it was released from inside Russia.

You can buy an electric generator from Germany, US,... is not that easy, it takes a while to manufacture and it is not a perfect solution at all. You can import electricity and perhaps improve the infrastructure to import which is no off the shelve, but is not high tec either. The attacks on Ukraine power grid are to be taken seriously, but they will not stop the Ukrainian army.

At the same time, you cannot buy a refinery distillation column. You cannot build it yourself and you cannot just get it by Amazon next day. You just need to get used to buy gasoline in the market  (it is cheap right now, fill the tanks... or maybe not, they may get blown) and not having it will stop your troops. As it will not having enough to pay for the cost of a war.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-gazprom-swings-into-69-billion-net-loss-2023-2024-05-02/
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Gazprom plunges to first annual loss in 20 years as trade with Europe hit

This alone will not cause Ruzzia to loose, but along with a wider strategy and more pressure points, it perfectly may.

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