Posts by Kenneth Cruz67

rustywalker82 said:First off, they really ought to take a closer look at those same Green activists who weren't just protesting LNG terminals, but were also up in arms against that oil pipeline project aimed at exporting crude via the Gulf Coast.
Second suspect? Honestly, I’d point the finger straight at Joe Biden. 😁 He basically choked out the construction of actual, large-scale LNG infrastructure by pushing for these floating units instead—which, let’s be real, have way less capacity since they can't just unload whenever they want. When they're out grabbing cargo, there's no gas coming in.

So yeah, nothing groundbreaking here. 🙂

Wait, what? I'm a little lost here. Could you maybe explain what you mean by that? 🤔🤣

Robert Long7 said:The second power supply isn't even responding, and I've already swapped out the battery.

Maybe you could try shutting down the PC completely and pulling the power cord right out of the wall? After that, if you hold down the power button for about 15 to 20 seconds to drain any leftover charge, you can plug it back in and see if it'll boot up normally.🤔

Robert Long7 said:I tried swapping in a different power supply, but the PC still won't budge. I pulled this spare from an old rig that's been sitting idle for three or four years. Here's what I'm working with:
https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-PowerSupply-500W-80-Bronze/dp/B00M26S6YI I’m going to tear this thing down tomorrow to see if I can spot any bloated capacitors.

I really wouldn't advise messing around with opening up a power supply unit, because if it still won't boot with a different one, then I suspect the issue probably isn't actually the power supply itself.

Maybe you could start by checking the CMOS battery? After that, I’d suggest taking the whole rig apart and giving everything a really thorough cleaning—you know, grabbing a nice soft brush, maybe one of those fine makeup brushes, and using it to carefully clear out the RAM and graphics card slots. Once you've got everything back together, give it another shot. You might also want to try moving the memory to a different slot, or perhaps just testing it with a single stick at a time to see if that does the trick.

I’ve definitely run into similar headaches myself, once due to a dead battery and another time because of some weirdness with the RAM. It sounds a bit bizarre, I know, but sometimes a computer just refuses to behave unless the memory sticks are seated in a very specific order in their exact slots. I mean, it’s totally strange, but I've had situations where two identical sticks would completely crash the system, yet if I just swapped their positions, everything would suddenly work perfectly fine.

ruggedcyclist56 said:If we’re being totally honest here, I suppose McLaren is already firmly established in the top three. The real headache seems to be the silly mistakes Daniel Ricciardo keeps making, which I guess is unfortunately dragging down their standing in the constructors' championship—since Lando Norris is essentially carrying about 76% of the team's total points right now.

Man, wouldn't it just be something if they could somehow move on from Ricciardo and bring Lewis Hamilton back to McLaren?👍

Ford 😬

I guess I just heard the news that 🤦Alonso
has officially split up!

Thomas Lopez51 said:Carlos Sainz isn't at fault here at all.

Oh, he's definitely responsible, I really think so. He probably should have realized that Daniel Ricciardo was right there on his tail! I mean, if you can't see him in your peripheral vision and he hasn't shown up in your rearview mirror yet, it doesn't mean he just vanished into thin air, right? He really should have been more aware of his surroundings.

Andrew Booth29 said:Yeah, we really ought to be calling it the Bayraktar—that’s actually the designer's surname, if you want to be precise. But honestly, people say "Barjaktar" all the time, and I don't think anyone's going to call it a massive blunder. Language is a funny thing, isn't it? It follows its own internal logic—living language has its own set of rules that don't always align with a textbook. In our case, it's just easier to let the sounds roll off the tongue a certain way. 😁

Stegonoša 🎉

driftingtinker said:Sounds like a plan! I went ahead and sent a request to the landlord to have it taken down, so hopefully, she gets to it whenever she has a free moment.

Thanks so much! 🔝

driftingtinker said:unspecified isn't a political moderator, so he really shouldn't have been handling the edits. Please, let's try not to call out or mock our colleagues like that anymore.

The whole thread was actually locked for almost an entire year because of outbursts just like this one, and now we reopen it at Zoran's suggestion only for things to immediately revert to how they were before.

The ban seems justified, I suppose, and I imagine this kind of practice will likely continue regarding this topic.

Well, I have to say, three days feels like a bit much, doesn't it? It doesn't quite seem to fit the scale of my mistake. Honestly, I think a yellow card as a warning would have been more than enough. Or maybe, when you reopened the thread, you could have left a little note explaining the direction you wanted to take things—you know, just clarifying that the thread was unlocked specifically so Zoran could share his manifestos. Dropping a full three-day ban right out of the gate feels, well, it feels a little harsh, if I'm being honest.

Come on, be a pal and maybe dial it back to just one day?

So, I was just trying to weigh in on a political discussion—you know, having a little fun with some commentary about how certain politicians are basically just clueless, immature kids—and I somehow ended up getting slapped with a three-day ban! I mean, honestly, what on earth happened there? I guess I might have been a bit too blunt, maybe, but seriously, what was that all about?

I suppose it’s only fair to say that being a public figure means you're just as much of a target for criticism as Joe Biden or any other politician who decides to step into the arena to push for social change! I guess when you choose to involve yourself in public policy or try to drive meaningful shifts in society, you really have to expect that people are going to have plenty of opinions about what you're doing.

I suppose if I had gone ahead and called Joe Biden a total moron, I probably wouldn't have been slapped with a three-day ban, though honestly, I might not have even gotten one at all!

Could you please, please reconsider this ban? I honestly feel like it’s a bit much—it feels more like a yellow card situation than anything else. Maybe even a little warning would have been enough to get the point across!

Honestly, it’s just kind of hilarious to me that people are actually trying to come after me over these last three days, especially considering all the absolute chaos that's been going on around this forum over the past year!

I wonder if lonetrucker4 was the one who edited this? 😂

nimbleharbor10 said:$17 million apiece is a total rip-off.

I suppose we might as well just throw 50 Leo 1 tanks into the mix too, right?🤔

At least, that’s how some of the news outlets seem to be reporting it.

velvetbadger11 said:Is providing them with drones, Javelins, and Starstreak truly enough to halt the Russian advance at the Donbas?

I suppose there's also the armor they've sent over from the Czechs, plus those howitzers the Britons are providing, and even the Poles have that massive deal swapping out their T-72s for 250 M1 Abrams.🤔

I was just thinking about this rather fascinating theory 🤣

Roger Fowler said:I’m betting my life this was a paid deal rather than a donation, because I find it hard to believe anyone just gives these away; after all, when the US Army bought their Panzerhaubitze 2000s, they shelled out about $3.5 million a piece, so why would I think a Vickers unit would be any cheaper?

It’s entirely possible it might be some kind of leasing agreement🤔

I really don't think anything is being billed to Ukraine right now; maybe, if the war ends and Ukraine manages to remain a sovereign nation, then perhaps there will be some sort of settlement or billing down the road, but for now, I doubt it.

Ryan Watson43 said:I honestly never imagined I’d be the one posting a question like this on a forum, but after scouring several different sites and facing nothing but dead ends, I’m hoping someone here might actually show me some mercy...

So, here is the situation: I take a USB stick, turn it into a bootable startup disk, plug it into an empty PC, set the boot priority to the USB, and—presto—I successfully launch DOS.

The problem, however, is that the system only recognizes a single drive—the C: drive—which is, of course, the USB stick itself. Once I pull the stick out, the PC is essentially a paperweight.

How exactly am I supposed to install DOS onto the PC itself? Do I need to manually create partitions first? And if so, what is the proper way to go about that?

(The machine has an SSD in it, though it seems to be failing—it caused things to crash during a previous Windows installation attempt. Still, I’d at least like to get DOS up and running)

What question are we talking about? 🤣

I honestly think I could probably recite this whole thing from memory after twenty-five years! 🤣

To get everything up and running, you’re going to need a few specific files: command.com, himem.sys, config.sys, and autoexec.bat. I guess the easiest way would be to just copy those over to the hard drive, and then you'll just need to configure the autoexec.bat so that it loads himem.sys and properly initializes your keyboard. Once you've handled those little details, I imagine you should be all set!

Betty Murphy3 said:Back in the 1990s, Russia needed a fundamental overhaul of its leadership—de-Sovietization should have been a non-negotiable prerequisite for any meaningful cooperation with the West.

Because that didn't happen, we ended up with Putin.

And because of that failure, "brilliant" Americans effectively disarmed Ukraine to the benefit of Russia. Looking at the nuclear situation today, we can see just how "wise" that move was—assuming, of course, their goal was to trigger this exact war with a twenty-five-year delay.

Now we're seeing the fallout. It turns out they were simply turning a blind eye, and now it’s too late to sharpen the claws; when it actually mattered, the response was nowhere to be found.

They practically fed them, allowing them to evolve into this particular evil. It will be a miracle if this conflict in Ukraine doesn't spill over into the rest of Europe.

Even Hiccup didn't rush across the entire continent immediately; everything moved in stages. You could say Ukraine is the precursor to a Polish scenario—a prelude to much broader conflicts. The Czech Republic was sacrificed like a lamb just to feed a hungry wolf.

As these examples show, the more you feed a wolf, the hungrier it gets.

It’s just nature. With a wolf, you either stay out of its way or you lure it into a trap and kill it. There is no third option.

The problem is, nobody can lure Putin into a trap. He isn't stepping foot in the West while this war continues, and until he has security guarantees, it's doubtful he'll ever visit a Western nation again—regardless of his status as the Russian President.

From what I can gather, Putin doesn't let anyone get within ten feet of him. I actually watched that stadium performance and spent some time comparing the guy giving the speech to various photos of Putin, and I swear, I'm almost certain that whoever was standing there on that field was some kind of body double rather than the actual Putin himself.

I mean, why on earth would the West bother helping a nation that basically dissolved from within? It seems like they were so desperate to keep pace with their rivals that they poured endless amounts of money into space races and massive military budgets, all while their own people were struggling just to put food on the table. Then, of course, you had the Chernobyl disaster, which I suppose just drained whatever tiny bit of resilience they had left. That’s probably why we saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and such a massive exodus of anyone who actually had the means to leave.

And now, it feels a bit contradictory, doesn't it? On one hand, they're looking toward Western aid, but on the other, they still insist on acting like a major superpower by getting involved in all sorts of various interventions everywhere.

They lost the Cold War, plain and simple; the country was defeated, and if you ask me, the better move in the 90s might have been to focus on disarmament or even breaking up their power rather than offering them a helping hand.

Does anyone happen to have a link for the race stream?

boldotter2 said:Everything should be done publicly—everything! You have to say it a hundred times, emphasize it, and then just say it again.

I mean, that's the only way to fight against violence and bullies—by facing them head-on, stating the facts, and announcing future moves. That goes for any kind of violence, including Putin's. There’s just no room for fear. A tough stance like, "I'm not afraid of you, so back off," is really the only thing that works.

If this were a secret war, that would actually play right into Putin's hands, making it look like a hidden clash between NATO and Russia. Then he'd just use any evidence of aid deliveries for his own propaganda.
Just imagine if the US denied involvement, but then discarded Stinger or Javelin packaging was found scattered all over Ukraine. I guess you think the situation would be any better then?

If nothing else, I feel like Western politicians simply have to be completely transparent about how and how much they are supporting Ukraine, because if they weren't, their own citizens would probably just kick them right out of office in a heartbeat.

The most striking example might be the German politicians, who seemed to flip their entire narrative overnight, and I don't think that was due to Putin, Biden, Xi, or anyone else, but rather because their own people started calling them out on the nonsense they've been pulling for eight years now.