We have many internets again

Yesterday I was the recipient of a new router. Today I shut down the old mesh network and started up the new one.

I don't want to say that my network is complicated so I'll just say it took me three hours to configure the router for all my servers. The non-server stuff does not require any configuration and for that I am grateful.

So now all my servers are serving and I can once again do that voodoo that I do so well. Or whatever that old saying is.

As for my devices, all the ones requiring a 2.4ghz connection are happy again and everything now appears in the connection table.

Oh, and I'm once again getting the internet speeds I'm paying for...

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So the US military, probably the army, used their fancy laser system to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone this morning which resulted in another unplanned shutdown of a chunk of the airspace near the Texas border

There are a few things I want to say about that:

Border Protection uses MQ-9 reaper drones and each one costs about $30million.

I cannot find any information about the laser but I'm betting it costs more than $100 per shot. Since it's the government, I'd bet it costs in the hundreds of thousands per shot.

A MQ-9 drone is a small jet. That means that it's possible any small jet flying in the vicinity of the laser thingee is probably going to get shot down.

The FAA has told the military that if they plan on using that laser device, they need to let the FAA know so they can control the airspace.

What this all adds up to is the bumbling idiots running the laser thingee cost us at least $30 million tax dollars. It also means they do not give a shit about what the FAA wants or about the safety of the flying public. It's only a matter of time before they shoot down some small regional or private jet filled with people who are just trying to get from Houston to San Diego.

The federal government doesn't look like idiots.

They are idiots.

And Pistol Pete is the chief idiot. He is the biggest idiot of them all.

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Here are a few links:

• Bubba is still doing his best Sergeant Schultz imitation: "I know nothing! Nothing!"



• You'll notice I didn't want to talk about this.



• Key line in this story: "The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again — to force the United States government to comply with court orders."