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Brian Fantana

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  1. Who names they kid arterio anyway
  2. Yeah we have our wonderful rural Central Texas infrastructure to thank for that. There are two fiber providers here which are our primary and primary backup. Tertiary backup is a fixed wireless connection and Starlink is the nuclear option. Kill me. e: I could add a couple of 5G solutions as additional nuclear options but those aren't really supposed to be used for business infrastructure.
  3. Yeah. We did failover testing like 2 months ago but we haven't done it since we started migrating hardware. Oops. Fuck me for assuming my MSP knew what the fuck they were doing.
  4. Oof. Changing cores is not fun, I don't envy you that process.
  5. I have a primary (AT&T) and two backups. The failovers didn't fucking work because were are in the middle of a migration and my MSP apparently had some routes configured incorrectly. I was absolutely fuming yesterday. 3~ hour downtime for a bank is a fucking disaster. Luckily our drive-through location down the street was still operational so I was able to send people down there to do their transactions.
  6. We (small bank) have bare metal on prem and bare metal in a datacenter in Austin and we still got fucked and were down for hours yesterday because my MSP had our fucking failover routed incorrectly so when this outage took out our primary ISP they couldn't reach our on prem hardware to fix it until our primary ISP came back up. Sometimes I just miss the days where I could unplug shit and plug it in somewhere else and shit would just work.
  7. I mean, honestly, when you consider we have like 15 years of posting we can go through (and people have, with a fine tooth comb) with this guy without a hint of right wing or anything even resembling Nazi sentiment, and the fact that he's openly talked about how he was indoctrinated by the military and his time as a Blackwater operator, I find his explanation that he got the tattoo in Croatia as an active duty Marine and had no clue what it was to be perfectly plausible. Especially considering I, as a terminally online leftist, had no clue what the SS Totenkopf even looked like until this morning.
  8. Interesting, that makes me wonder if my paternal grandfather ever discussed the Estes fiasco with LBJ, I'm sure they probably did. I wish he was alive so I could ask him. He was pretty good friends with LBJ back in his post-presidency days. I think, certainly, that some offenders are just as you describe - incorrigible. I've known a few in my lifetime as well. I don't think we (the US) engage in any kind of serious rehabilitation efforts and that colors people's perspectives on rehabilitation as a possibility in general. I think I'm certainly ok with rapists/child molesters/murderers getting a single strike, but I certainly don't agree with your attempt to conflate child and cop killers. There is basically never a reason to kill a child, there could be any number of valid reasons to kill a cop, unless you believe that cops are infallible arbiters of justice for some weird reason. The circumstances, in that case, do actually matter.
  9. I am genuinely unsure of what you're trying to say. Are you saying that rehabilitation of criminals is a useless endeavor, or that we should keep all kinds of criminals incarcerated for life? Is being a thief an equivalent level of criminality as a rapist or murderer? Not attacking you here, I just feel like this is really disjointed and I don't understand what point you're trying to make.
  10. God damn I forgot about why he stopped posting. What a day that was.
  11. In WW1, we used phosgene and mustard gas. During WW2, we had chemical agents deployed all over Europe and parts of Asia to be used against Germany and Japan but it was [thankfully] never deemed necessary. Use of agent orange (allegedly) and other chemical agents (not allegedly) in Vietnam. Other allegations (unproven) of use in various Cold War conflicts, namely Korea. Many, many, many thousands of American soldiers over the past 100ish years subjected to chemical weapons testing (mostly minorities). We still had missiles armed with VX gas and other chemical/nerve agents up until like 2022. All it would take is one psychotic administration with a Nazi running the Pentagon to bring shit like this back. Pretending it's all part of the past and we've moved on from shit like this is exactly the way you end up repeating history.
  12. Anyone who presents a populist, pro-worker message is an enemy of the DNC. They're uniparty with the GOP in this respect. Especially if you have called yourself a socialist in your past. They're still trying to ruin Mamdani even though it's pretty much a lost cause at this point.
  13. All I will say (not in response to you, just musing) is that it's an interesting piece of American Exceptionalism to pretend the US government/military is somehow above using chemical weapons. History never happened!
  14. 0.64 Scaramuccis or 0.18 Liz Truss's if you're into the metric system
  15. Absolutely on board with banning the tortilla toss, it's dumb. Probably in the minority with Tech fans, or maybe not, but there's no real reason to continue that going forward imo
  16. I don't either. Animal tobacco was Chrispy and he tried rearing his head again recently.
  17. Yep, because that's the only shot they have of surviving midterm elections, should they take place.
  18. Time for GRHorn to lose another sock
  19. You're advocating for millions to lose their health care and for people to die to score cheap political points. Fuck. You.
  20. Politics isn't a fucking team sport @Vegas64. That shit makes me so fucking mad. I don't know if you're dumb or you're just autistic but holy shit.
  21. Are you stupid? Honestly. If even you think they're pieces of shit, we all live in America and their rights are your rights. How many fucking times do I have to say it before it sinks in. I want American Nazis to have health care, because if they have health care we all have health care.
  22. Yup, I can tell things have changed just by looking at Tech's schedule. Still have our fair share of cupcakes on here, but last year we only had A&M on the schedule before conference play.
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