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Malaysia isn't going to attack Russia.

I highly doubt the Russians/separatists running the Buk knew the identity of the flight before shooting it down.

Most certainly not, but I don't see how that is relevant.

The problem (from a victim/Dutch perspective) is that there is complete denial from the Russian side (despite heaps of evidence around the people involved, origin and transport of the launcher from Russian territory).

Even if Russian judges and prosecutors are completely corrupt and biased, an actual investigation/trial is the least that would be expected here, but all we got are the bald faced lies that Russia is particularly fond of.


Because the thread was about how shooting down a civilian airliner has consequences, and the person I replied to insinuated it didn't because Malaysia was ill-equipped to push the issue militarily.

Which isn't relevant if the people who shot it down had no idea if it was / wasn't Malaysian.

Similar to how cartels likely wouldn't have the sophistication to nationally ID any aerial targets they choose to shoot.


Makes sense! Misunderstood the point you were trying to make.

At least some vengeance has been already done in blood, although indirectly, given how oversized has been dutch support for Ukraine compared to other similarly sized countries.

We used to see who had the most powerful PC by seeing how many videos we could play at once. Long with Robroy and whatever other video was on there.

I remember the DOS (?) GTA demo that came on a PC Gaming magazine demo disk. I think it had a ten minute time limit?

Tons of fun on a friends dark green Acer Aspire.


And you could reach 1 million $ on those 10 mins, just had to put a bomb car south to the start point, get the orange guys to follow you, get inside the car, trigger the bomb and wait for detonation inside the car.

Additionally, you could go under the fences if you parked a heavy vehicle next to them and crawled below it.

Don't forget walking below the city entering the spot where the water was solid on northwest pier.

And finally, if you left the train in the precise spot, you could exit the train on top of the (eletrified) tracks and would not die.


It's fascinating how often it is really the tension against the unintended boundaries of virtual worlds that's the thing we remember most.

My friends in I would spend entire weekends in high school "hiking" in Halo: finding spots on campaign levels to clip out of bounds, and then exploring the exterior geometry until we hit a spot that dropped us to our deaths.

I played the GTA I demo to death after hours at school... 320x240 without any hardware acceleration, but I drove those streets err'y day for what feels like years but probably was months. I think adults did not really realize what kind of game it was. Me neither.

Oh yes! I remember playing that at a friend's house when I was 5 years old and having my little mind blown. I couldn't believe you could just take any car and go anywhere you wanted.

I later got my hands on a copy of GTA2 and played that a lot, behind my parents' back of course


Yes! I remember it, it was around 1997/98, I was a kid and couldn't believe a game like that could exist lol! it was so crazy for that time

I'd like to see someone build the Linux source code leak that came out not to far after Quake was released.

What do you mean, "leak"? Linux would have been developed in the open?

I think they are referring to the 1997 hack/leak: https://www.wired.com/1997/01/hackers-hack-crack-steal-quake...

I think OP means leak of linux quake port source

Somehow my 2011 MacBook Pro was the fastest laptop I had ever used.

After I put an SSD in it, that is.

I wonder what my Apple silicon laptop is even doing sometimes.


Probably, but it's hard to take them seriously after the EU cookie debacle.

Sad day. Was such an amazing product and gave a start to so many companies back then.

It was the easiest place to host my Rails apps back in the day.

> Few people would bring an illegal firearm into NYC or other major US metros

Someone is. They recover thousands of illegal guns in Chicago alone every year.

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/report/firearms-trace-data/fire...


> These are parts that take very little stress and can be relatively easily printed and used to hold together all the other parts that actually hold the stress of firing the bullet.

A lot of the polymer guns (1911, AR15) need to be reinforced with metal at certain places for any kind of reliablity. A Glock doesn't need to be, because the material was invented by the designer of the gun and the gun was intended to be a polymer frame from the start.



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