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That's right. As a developer, the President's permits and property management standards are controlled by the local government led by the Mayor. Not to speak of minor snafu's like a parking ticket received while in NYC. At least this creates a necessity for both sides to be civil to each other.

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Musllm Brotherhood, Council on American-Islamic Relations designated as terrorist groups

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They do not. The FAA used to refer to the FBI to investigate GPS disruption. Don't know if that's still done given how easy it has gotten to spoof GPS. FAA tells pilots to go analogue “Until a few years ago, a GNSS spoofing attack required expensive, high-end equipment in the $50,000- $500,000 range...

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GPS is insecure and vulnerable to spoofing. This much is known. What changed starting about 10 years ago is that cheap software defined radios became available for anyone to spoof GPS. GPS Signal Reception and Spoofing Based on Software-Defined Radio Devices This paper is recent, but the tech and ch...

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Pentagon name change could cost up to $2 billion

Officially changing the Department of Defense to the Department of War can only be done by Congress and would require updating thousands of signs, rewriting digital code and creating new letterheads, placards and badges.

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One thing I noticed on my recent visit to India is that immigration at the airport was questioning the intent to enter India pretty thoroughly. Even for those with OCI. This questioning increases the possibility that someone is truthful about their intent, but is now going run afoul of some of condi...

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More reasons why talks of India reducing energy imports from Russia are premature. Its naive to think India will never need to test again in a world where even the mighty USA needs to resume testing possibly due to the Chinese testing by proxy in North Korea. WRT ANEEL/CCTE, are Indian reactors goin...

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Vayutuvan wrote: ↑01 Nov 2025 23:20 I saw the clip and her question. She came across as overly emotional, immature, and illogical.

I interpret it as the sisterhood coming out of the woodwork given the rumors of the JD/Usha divorce circulating now that the JD/Erika pairing is being talked about ahead of the 2028 election cycle.

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There's quite a bit of history in other countries where that has been tried. Executive Order 6102 These days, a visit to India means you can pay for your trip by hauling back dirt cheap high quality merchandise sold in India as part of your personal baggage. Far cry from the 1991 days where India st...

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More strain showing up due to rising interest rates. Ironic that a university known for its business school has fallen prey to spending over its available means. In this case, its unlikely that the university will shut down any time soon, but smaller universities will not be so lucky. Colleges Face ...

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Well, India will need a new range if explosive testing is to resume.
Where might that be?

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If others start training their new generations on nuclear weapons skills, India will have to do the same to keep skills current. India will need a new test site as well in all likelihood.

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Meanwhile ToI had this article about slipping academic standards. Definite signs that the constituency for excellence has been shrinking on all sides.

'A' is for average

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Since Harvard has not been growing enrollment for a while, a decline was inevitable when hard times hit. Sucks when it happens of course.

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The tariff on movies helps California. Puzzling to say the least why El Presidente is helping an opposition state.

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The usual comeback for this data is that the job that's going for $149,000 in that list would otherwise have paid $249,000 in the absence of additional labor supply. Note that $149,000 is middle income and less than comfortable for a family of 3 and 4 respectively where Amazon is headquartered. I su...

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In tennis India was not exactly a super power ( then or now). But not so in Cricket (now). But they should have never agreed for neutral venues. India should have used its power to tell nay order ICC to act according to its (India's) convenience (a la OM). Without India in these games there is no f...

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If you remember, India did not play Davis Cup international fixtures against South Africa in the apartheid era.

Don't understand why India plays cricket against Pakistan with the excuse of needing to play international cricket.

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saip wrote: ↑22 Sep 2025 23:36 Few days back my SiL came from Blore. The flight was empty she said. So much so, she was able to sleep on her row. The flight interestingly took a detour via Kolkata (refueling - Paki problem I guess) and then came non-stop to SFO.

Boeing plane perhaps? People may be avoiding them.

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what they did in the above was holding the ticket, as in they filled in the details but did not checkout, this triggered a 15 minute holding period for the seat selected, and they brute spammed this multiple times, some even created a script to auto fill the details and hold, this in actuality caus...

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Agree. IMO it would have been better for one of the Kirks or Robinsons to call ABC out to have Kimmel taken off air. To preserve the First Amendment fig leaf.

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Well, this is a surprise.
Have always been reading that Kaveri has a FADEC, not realizing that it was not a true FADEC as used in other engines.
It has never come up in the various reports or discussions around Kaveri, so kudos to the reporter for digging this up.

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This is a tactical move targeted at India. The same crowd that is supporting this move wrt H1B also went to the Supreme Court against DACA. Primary source of DACA beneficiaries are Mexico and other South American countries. So no, I don't think the move is against India. The timing may be chosen to...

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Not really. It is trying to clamp down on the "people coming to work for a while" under the assumption that these people have been unfairly preferred over US citizens for IT jobs. That part of it serves to drive a wedge between support for employment based immigration on the left. Unions ...

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This a blatant attempt by that ******** Lutnick to make Modiji and India bow down. The L visa is not similarly treated. The unique thing about the H visa is that it allows people to transition to US citizenship eventually. That tells me, this is about reducing legal immigration to the US. They are ...

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Of immediate importance, I learnt that anyone outside the country needs to get back in before the order takes effect on 9/21.

So people have 1 day to get back to the US or risk being stuck outside until the ransom is paid or the order is blocked.

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What has changed under Trump is that Trump wants the Saudis, rather than the US treasury itself, to fund the transfer of these weapons to Pakistan. Sparks a thought wrt the Trump admin action on India wrt tariffs because of Russian oil purchase. Moving India away from purchasing Russian oil would b...

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Meanwhile: Congrats to BCCI for providing LeT with the requisite funds to rebuild its Muridke Headquarters. Thanks for this reporting this by Aditya Raj Kaul "Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) rebuilding its Muridke headquarters, which was destroyed in airstrikes during Operation Sindoor." Food for t...

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AI 171 - New theory that plumbing defects may have caused the FADEC to reset.

Lawyer for Air India families says one key theory has emerged to explain crash

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pravula wrote: ↑12 Sep 2025 03:37 The weapon was a bolt action rifle. What kind of gun control? Even the most liberal lawmakers/judges cannot outlaw that…

Plenty of shades of gray between a handgun and an AR15.

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Vayutuvan wrote: ↑12 Sep 2025 03:00 As I predicted, AOC is calling for gun control laws.

Can't quite fault her on this given the Pakistan-lite situation in the US these days.

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A_Gupta wrote: ↑11 Sep 2025 02:26 200 yards away.

Same MO as the first assassination attempt on Trump. Did they get the wrong guy then?

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Having a hard time imagining a pot bellied special forces soldier. Although, the picture may be a stock image.

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The CDG is also nuclear powered with catapults. Must be a marvel of engineering to fit all that in.

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This is similar to the narrative building done by Bush Jr. and Colin Powell of Iraq having WMD. Parade a bunch of lies to make it seem like the truth and rally all the 'coalition of the willing' (i.e. Global West/ NATO) to join the tirade to do their dirty works. The US will need a firewall of demo...

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It emerges that the even the trivially small land / property taxes have NOT been been collected in most places in India since 1947. Even if collected, they are not paid. Two generations after my grandfather transferred land to tenants as part of the post-1947 land reforms, I was able to get it back...

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He should not cede anything.

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There's usually a long line of people in wheelchairs, some very clearly not needing it. The regulator clamped down because wheelchair service was being abused.

Wheelchair service

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I suspect that's why they derated it to IRBM. Heavier payload due to increase in the number of warheads.

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Is it true that Trump will travel to Moscow for the next round of talks?

Odds are that this is all leading up to to the grand announcement of a Trump Towers project.

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