AlanJ_KA7
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AlanJ_KA7
@AlanJ_KA7
Cyber war veteran. football, cycling, music. Loves travel, tragic aviation fanboy.
NZ Katılım Nisan 2011
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@Martin477857067 @MedievalScholar I know, absolutely jarringly wrong.
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Memorial near the site of the Agincourt battlefield.
“To those who have no grave.”
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@Econgrad5143 @kellyenz Between 90 to 120 days. Also “grow up” isn’t an argument.
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@AlanJ_KA7 @kellyenz We are part of the West. We openly support the US in this war of aggression. Again, grow up. How many weeks reserves do you want? Answer that and get campaigning.
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The just in time model continues to perform in line with expectations. We have fuel now but have no idea if we will have it in 3 weeks. Thats no way to run a business - and especially not a country!
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@Econgrad5143 @kellyenz Negligent not negligible. Also, we haven’t gone to war with anyone, yet here we are.
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@Econgrad5143 @kellyenz Running anything critical with supporting infrastructure (fuel) that only has 99.9% availability is negligent. If I proposed this at work for a critical system, my resilience team would laugh me out the room.
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@PhoebeCMB @collision Even earlier I think, worth mentioning they’ve tested bunk bed style too
Also worth mentioning, the Skycouch is available to economy passengers not just premium etc
afar.com/magazine/air-n…
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United built the product that everyone who has every been on an airplane has wanted!
United Airlines@united
The entire row is alllllll yours. Welcome to United Relax Row, three adjacent United Economy seats with adjustable leg rests that can each be raised or lowered to create a cozy lie-flat space for stretching out... You'll also get a mattress pad, blanket and two pillows. If you’re traveling with kids, a plushie too! United Relax Row will be available starting next year on more than 200 of our 787s and 777s, each with up to 12 of these brand-new rows. united.com/Elevated
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@BentleyAudrey The 1% of people who paid, mostly companies, have made him $200m over thr last 30 years. Genius business model.
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@Britpopmemories @shedseven Catatonia & Garbage the two picks from that list.
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Let’s go gigging!
I’m sure you know the rules by now, but choose one gig from each page of this 30 year old double spread. It’s a fairly eclectic mix, so you’ll find something you like!
I’m going with @shedseven and Tiny Monroe.
You?
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🚩Breaking RNZ Reid Poll
Hung parliament, Labour edges up (now 5% lead over Nats).
Hipkins scandal broke half way through poll period.
NZFirst 3rd largest party.
Luxon falls to 17.3%
Winston Peters rises to 13.1%
National have a problem, it’s called Christopher.
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@chocola_faith @Aviationa2z @British_Airways Sitting next to corpse would be a major upgrade on some passengers. I’d smile and take the win.
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British Airways A350 Pilots Denied Diversion, Carries Dead Passenger for 13 Hours👨✈️
A @British_Airways (BA) flight from Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) to London Heathrow Airport (LHR) continued its journey after a passenger died shortly after takeoff.
The body remained onboard for more than 13 hours, raising concerns about in-flight handling procedures.
Read in detail👇🔗
aviationa2z.com/index.php/2026…
#aviationnews #britishairways
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@damienmgrant His marriage is his business. He issued a statement publicly denying the allegations. I care if he’d lied to the public.
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Is your dentist faithful to her matrimonial vows? Where to draw the line between the personal and private....
stuff.co.nz/politics/36095…
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@JohnSmi39624798 @CharmOfCulture Every Scottish person finds this hilarious, the rest of the world confused
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Did you know the Duke of Wellington lived long enough to be photographed?
This image, taken in 1844, captures Arthur Wellesley, the hero of Waterloo, in one of the earliest photographs ever taken.
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@tmurphyNZ This is a fairly solid indicator of it being a good statement.
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The Chinese Embassy in Wellington is not happy with the NZ-Aust joint defence statement:
“The sections concerning China’s internal affairs are marked by bias,
misinformation, and inexplicable colonial-style arrogance, reflecting
hypocrisy and double standards” 1/
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@Jandal_It Does a woman’s employment status really have a bearing on her ability to share a story of mental and financial distress? I’m sure she’s got bills to pay just like everyone else.
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Is 'working as an advisor to Casey Costello' different to 'working for New Zealand first'?
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@gregmushen Orgs are burning millions of dollars monthly without purpose. It 100% makes financial sense to bring a lot of lower priority workload back on-prem. Keeping cloud for the workload that requires massive scalability or high levels of protection.
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About a year in, and I don't regret this decision. The comments were full of people saying it was a very bad idea.
Greg Mushen@gregmushen
To give you an idea of how expensive cloud has gotten, I picked up a server off FB marketplace today for $500. 128Gb of RAM and a 1Tb SSD. It will cost about $6/month in electricity to run it. An equivalent server in AWS would cost $950/mo. so I'll have payback in two weeks. I'm going to buy a GPU for $600, and the cost of that in AWS would be about $350/mo. I think if someone created a distributed garage hosting network it would kill it.
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@ShaunPinnerUA @UK_Daniel_Card @LondonLovesBiz Article 5 only applies for events in Europe, North America or Turkey. Can’t be used im the gulf. This os why the UK couldn’t use it in 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falklands.
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@LondonLovesBiz He can call Article 5 and we will all go in my view, but it was only last week he didn’t need us.
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.@ShaunPinnerUA Unconfirmed: But sources are indicating that the UK is considering sending assets to the Strait of Hormuz...
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To run or not to run before work at 7:30am. Choices choices…
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@SwiftOnSecurity Major red flag. If that's the effort that goes into customer comms, imagine what they're doing with product development and updates.
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Got an AI-written reply from a vendor we pay tens of millions of dollars a year to, and it doesn't feel good.
Three people spent enormous
deliberative effort for a whole day in very expensive company time to make every word of that.
You put it in an answer shredder.
Feels bad.
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@WayneOWastes @reedgalen That would be wildly stupid even by existing standards.
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@AlanJ_KA7 @reedgalen I'm not talking about the strait, i'm talking about the island.
It seems the idea is to use the island as a way to pressure the regime into opening the strait.
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Spoke to a retired Marine about this today. Only 2,200 or so, two battalions, are combat units. The rest are Naval, air assets, and support units.
David D. Chapman@DavidD_Chapman
5,000 Marines are more than enough to take Kharg Island. Right now, however, the objective is to secure The Strait of Hormuz. Part of securing the strait requires clearing Iranian Offensive capabilities along the coast of the strait. 5,000 Marines can do that.
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@WayneOWastes @reedgalen Kharg Island and opening the straits are two entirely separate things. Kharg Island is 300 miles away from the straits.
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@reedgalen Curious the strategy here. They've eliminated defenses from the air, do they use a marine force to clean out and shut down the island and then leave, and bombard anyone attempting to take it back?
Or do they stay and gamble that the regime won't seriously bombard their own gdp?
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