Yeah you can bet that the 8000$ per m3 gas delivered from Qatar via the United States is going to become very popular, after Gasprom is no longer able to receive payments from its customer, and subsequently stops all of its supply to Europe. Well, this new $8000 gas will surely have molecules of freedom in it, unlike that authoritarian Putin's gas. But for how long will Europeans be willing to put up with prices like this?
If I understand you correctly, your opinion is that ① LNG will be much more expensive than Russian gas in the coming decades and ② Europe cannot reduce its gas usage enough to make that extra cost politically acceptable. Is that correct? If so, my answer to "how long" is "enough to depress the value of that pipeline considerably from its valuation as of two weeks ago".
LNG being much more expensive is pretty obvious - transportation costs are something like 90% of the final price. Pipelines are much more effective means of transportation for such things - build once, use for decades, at almost 0 marginal cost.
Reducing gas usage is entirely different topic, it would require to either: invest heavily in nuclear or: reopening of coal-powered plants.
Belgium (my country) imports about 400% of its domestic use in LNG, to then sell it to neighbouring countries via pipelines. Doesn't make sense if LNG was too expensive.
You can't play modern vinyl on a gramophone. Well, technically you can, but you'll just destroy the record. You need shellac records if you want to play them on a gramophone, and the last one was produced maybe in the 40s.
>You need shellac records if you want to play them on a gramophone, and the last one was produced maybe in the 40s.
Some countries like India of the Philippines kept using gramophones into the late 60s. You can get shellac records of the Beatles made in India like this one:
Yeah, a few people have mentioned these as low points. But I really liked them.
Reminds me of some of the stuff I enjoy in Umberto Eco's historical novels where he dives deep into some historical worldview, often one we now know is wrong, though I think in this case Melville was relating the current state of the art of his age, but both do so quite poetically.
Some of the cod-Shakespearean bits were a bit more of a drag for me. Something for everyone maybe.
Nobody ever in Russia gets prosecuted for doing anything to any software for their own personal use. And actually there's been very few cases when someone was prosecuted let's say for using pirated software for their business. A couple of guys got unlucky and that's basically it.
And this is how it should be everywhere, the copyright model was beneficial for the society maybe up until 300 years ago. Today, the whole copyright thing is bizarre.
This blaming Russia thing is way beyond ridiculous now. WHAT "Russian corruption" are you talking about? Is it the same as the "Russian interference in the US elections," i.e. something that has never existed in reality and was just invented by the US mass media for their purposes?
The 12 Russians, and the 3 Russian companies all hired attorneys to represent them and counter sue for defamation. When their attorney went in front of the judge, all charges were dropped by the Justice Dept, refusing document discovery "on issues of national security".
It's all political reality television, from both the right and the left. It's like a cable TV wrestling match.
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In January 2019, the federal government accused Concord of violating a protective court order designed to safeguard information shared among lawyers on the case. Prosecutors said a trove of nonclassified information they had turned over to Concord’s defense team had turned up on a website the previous October.
A message on a newly created Twitter account read: “We’ve got access to the Special Counsel Mueller’s probe database as we hacked Russian server with info from the Russian troll case Concord LLC v. Mueller. You can view all the files Mueller had about the IRA and Russian collusion. Enjoy the reading!”
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RT's claim that these groups are not responsible for these troll farms is not credible. The claim that these organizations were attempting to use the court case to get detailed information on how they were investigated however, is.
As I warned, do what you wish with the RT article.
Didn't take it as a credible source in the matter, but wasn't going to bother with a longer than 2 min. search either for all details.
On a side note, I don't take the NYT to be any less biased that RT. All of them will conveniently forget about the parts of the story which they don't like. They all have favourites in the matter (Trump, Barr, Democrat leadership, Putinistas, etc).
