Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war

OK, let's not do that again.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

But the military doesn't learn! (It seems to be part of their mindset.)

Note the Brits "learned" during the Revolutionary War 250 years ago... We have this belief that MORE technology is ALWAYS the solution ("We need drone jammers!! That evolve to adapt to a rapidly evolving drone ecosystem...")

Am 27.01.26 um 23:42 schrieb john larkin:

Yes, that repulsive business of importing eastern block women/kiddies with Einstein visa if needed! While the repulsive part is still fun for the selected target group, the revealing part is much more eeeek!!! and cannot possibly be done even on court order.

I'm just saying it's disappointing when the party of "small government" gets all excited over militaria. The "problems" involved aren't particularly interesting and the "solutions" are mostly buggy junk, anyway.

"Our A.I.-powered platform processes battlefield data in real time, adapting to changing conditions without human intervention,” the pamphlet says. “Neutralize more targets at a fraction of legacy system costs. Deploy at scale to achieve overwhelming force multiplication against sophisticated threats.” The pamphlet claimed a “future monthly production” of more than 6,000 units.

As usual the NYT pretty much just repeats their military-industrial master's breathless optimism about the new junk verbatim. I could just read the sales brochure

Sounds like they've invented a very slow cruise missile which would have difficulty penetrating mosquito netting

Cost matters. Those little cruise missiles are dirt cheap, and very expensive to defeat, so send a few hundred and enough will get through to do the job.

So the army with the big expensive weapons like tanks may go bankrupt first.

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Joe

"Enough" of anything (sticks and stones) can overwhelm any offense/defense.

If you can coerce (because they have no other devices in their arsenal) your enemy to expending lots of treasure, you can defeat them "on a budget".

Ukraine has got to be a HUGE embarassment for Russia. Even hiring mercenaries and "convicts" has led to a very limited "success". Hardly what one would expect of a "world power".

Putin is lucky that someone hasn't taken the opportunity to nibble at other borders (and that Trump hasn't been smart enough to capitalize on Putin's weaknesses to "defeat Russia" -- "when no other american president could"!)

Reminds me of my drone experiments:

I did the auto-tracking too Not even a raspberry needed, just some lines of PIC asm

What's new? Good thing I open-sourced it, but then China has had all that stoff for many years.

Where will it go?

This from alt.survival today:

You always pay for sex; if not at the time, then for the rest of your married life.

Yuk. I like and love my wife. We have had times when one or the other had no income, and we helped one another.

Someone said "I don't see what a big deal sex is about. It only takes a minute."

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Well that doesn't seem like a very equitable way to think about it. There are a decent number of women who actually enjoy sex and seek it out of they're not getting any, all else being equal if one is a straight man it's kind of best to date/marry someone like that..

The military industry in China makes weapons. The military industry in USA makes money.

The ai bubble in USA is about to burst, because China use ai on an open source base, and use it to a profitable purpose, robotization.

Groetjes Albert

The CIA wages all out war on all fronts, are you kidding? Tchechanian rebels were on one time disrupting Russia. Now they are fighting in Ukraine alongside Russia.

Groetjes Albert

On Thu, 29 Jan 2026, Bill Sloman wrote: "Russia's economy is about the same size as Italy's".

Wow. In what way? This is not a topic which I know about. Glances at

tramp is, among many more bad and evil things, a genocidel thug who killed thousands in Gaza by supplying arms to the religious fanatic YouWitz sect Killed people in Venezuela killed people in boats Killed US people in Minnesota Probably had Epstein killed so he would not talk about his sex

He wants to do the same in Iran now, wants to kill Cubans, invade Cuba, steals oil just like double you you bushman did in Iraq What a bunch of crap 'merrica has become World may unload its radioactive waste on those divided states any time now, the doomsday clock is making noises. tramp ape has no respect for anything but maybe a gun on - or a bullet through the empty bubble mounted above his shoulders.

ego maniac nutcase he is.

And the more stupid the 'leader' the more the simple minded follow him: Youws and 'Adam did it with Eve' reciters.

The best thing Cuba could do for its people is start a war with the US and lose. Of course, the communist party is dumb, but not that dumb.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Am 29.01.26 um 17:53 schrieb john larkin:

The US was even more dumb for that in 1962. Forcing a submarine to surface that has nuclear weapons is not exactly evidence of intelligence. And there were some nuclear rockets on Cuba already. McNamara turned quite pale later when he learned it.

If that has slipped your mind: Google is your friend.

I would not bet my a* that the mullahs don't have an interim solution. You did teach them in after all, several times.

Religious people are usually from the shallow end of the gene pool, but they seem to have a natural affection towards killing or being killed, cashing in their reward in the next life.

Gerhard

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Nor do they tolerate criticism. It can be bad for the health

Joe

The US has gobs of NG, enough to liquify and export.

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