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China and Russia, in contrast, use land-based internet cable to send most of their internet traffic. Putin has a powerful tool to threaten the west with. Policymakers in the West are going to have to find a way to defend these sensitive and vulnerable cables.
I think for many, they just dont think a massive outage or catastrophe could ever occur.
"Few Russians are willing to take out mortgages because the risk of foreclosure is unacceptable, and because they view interest payments which they call overpayments as unfair". As one Russian put it: "To enter into a mortgage is to become a slave for 30 years, with the bank as your master.'"
Would being cut off from the rest of the world be that awful? Also, if you run a business you're a simple moron if you're running anything on servers across an ocean anyway if from this hemisphere. I'm talking business, a site like Patnet should probably be hosted in a different country. If shit hits the fan as a business, you can still rely on the American consumer if your servers are here.
BTW, I actually look forward to the responses to ohomen171 threads now because there are usually some nice photos in them.
BTW, I actually look forward to the responses to ohomen171 threads now because there are usually some nice photos in them.
Ya got to stop posting this girl. She's hot!! Seriously, I did a girl like that back in high school and still think about it to this day.
GNL says
Ya got to stop posting this girl. She's hot!! Seriously, I did a girl like that back in high school and still think about it to this day.
I've got to disagree. Not sure if it's sarcasm. The facial features are hideous. Fine if it was a good lay, but I'd run far from a chick that looked like that. Bodies and being in shape matter, but if I am disgusted by your face I'm out. She looks like her mom drank too much while she was pregnant... let's put it that way. Maybe a touch of heroin/meth. And no, not joking.
Dirty looking girls turn me on. Couldn't tell you why. I'd seriously hit that.
Couldn't tell you why. I'd seriously hit that.
Regardless of the grief, as the old saying goes: "The show must go on." We have a couple of mysteries from the last few weeks that I want to make you aware of. Two cables providing internet services to the Shetland Islands in far north Scotland were cut. When this happened, a Russian research ship was nearby. Likewise, when the Nord Stream pipeline was blown in three areas, Russian vessels are nearby.
Each day some $10 trillion US dollars in financial transactions are sent over the internet. 95% of internet activities go through undersea cables. There are some 200 cables around the world. There are 10 choke points around the world where internet traffic could be disrupted or turned off. Russia has research ships and special nuclear submarines that act as mother ships to smaller submarines tasked to cut international internet service. We do not have a similar capability. We have not spent the money to defend these vulnerable cables.
China and Russia, in contrast, use land-based internet cable to send most of their internet traffic. Putin has a powerful tool to threaten the west with. Policymakers in the West are going to have to find a way to defend these sensitive and vulnerable cables.