The wild life is all around up here. This nice yearling bear strolled by my front lawn yesterday. He looks hungry and not well fed. The bears don't usually wander thru Mittersill unless they can't find food back in the woods. Or for this young bear maybe he doesn't know how to forage for his lunch. Anyhow I am glad I never stack my trash out on my deck.
It just tells them how long they have to lay low. Biden just announced we want to be out of Afghanistan by the end of August this year. The Taliban must be overjoyed to hear that. Low low for a couple more months and then the country is theirs. Last time that happened they allowed Osama Bin Laden to set up the 9-11 attack on New York from Afghan soil. Good thinking Joe Biden.
The FTC and 46 states filed an anti trust suit. The judge dismissed it on vague reasoning including that the plaintiffs had not shown that Facebook was a monopoly. Duh. Anybody knows that. I only picked up on this extraordinary fact by reading a piece in Wired, a less than reliable source. I did a search with Duck Duck Go and found supporting pieces in CNET and the Manchester Guardian. Funny, I never saw a single mention of this in the Wall St Journal, a paper to which I subscribe, and which you would think would be interested in this sort of thing. It might have been there and I missed it, but it probably was not there.
I have posted before that we ought to use the Sherman Anti Trust Act to break Facebook up into two of three pieces. Divide the assets, readers, posters, advertisers, shareholders, buildings, computers, cash evenly. Dunno what to do about Zuckerburg, we cannot cut him in half. This way the pieces have to compete with each other and if one piece does things the public or the advertisers do not like, they can move over to the piece that is more satisfactory. This ought to work better than any kind of regulation.
They keep electing really terrible people to high office. De Blasio in NYC, Cuomo in NY state, Biden, Lightfoot, and many more. We gripe about lawlessness, but the lawlessness is aided and abetted by elected officials who defund the police, call off prosecution, allow shop lifting of anything less than $950 a misdemeanor and get out of jail free. If US voters were on the job they would vote these bums out. Until the US voters shape up, the country is in for a bad time.
Or loose the next war. In 2011 USAF let a $35 billion contract to Boeing for 179 KC 46 tankers. In 2021 USAF finally decides that they can fly the KC 46 for "limited operations". That is ten years pissed away on a job that should not have taken more than 2 years. The job was simple, take an existing, well proven airliner, take out the seats and install fuel tanks and a refueling boom. A lot of this time was sucked up with USAF paperwork. More was consumed by gold plating the design. Every year the program runs it sucks up more money without getting us more tankers.
Back in WWII we could go from a paper specification to mass production in a year.
Way to go USAF. Note: I am a USAF veteran.
Writing up here in NH, I have no real idea of what failed. Could have been a lot of things
1. Design failure going right back to when the building was constructed. Not enough stout in the framework.
2. Concrete deterioration over the years, water, especially salt water, attacking the concrete of the building frame.
3. Failure of building inspectors to insist on repairs, expensive repairs, after building inspection found weakened concrete structural members.
4. Subsidence of the land upon which the condo was built.
5. Something else??
