Yes, some manufacturers of needles have less stringent QA than others. Moved to a new area and the local NHS disallow my usual brand due to cost... Will get to try something else... Hopefully not too bad...
Yes I need to do something about picking a location for them in the house. Loft sounds great, but it gets hot in summer. Downstairs would be nice and chilly but you don't want to hear this... So much to think about
Not tried those drives in particular, but got 4 Seagate's exos (can't recall if they are 16 or 18tb ea), very happy with them. A bit loud but they are also 7200 spin. Can get them on a real good offer sometimes
5 minutes later, ring ring, sir it appears that your gps tracker is no longer functioning, however as part of your vehicle insurance, it is mandatory. And this until it is resolved you are no longer insured. Please pay $60 for next day call out surcharge for an engineer. Engineer normal call out fee is $200 with an additional $100 per extra hour required to correct the issue.
So I am not familiar with us elections but arent there other candidates then democrats and republicans? Like 3rd party? If they don't think trump will deliver, but dislike democrats, can they not vote someone else? Or spoil ballot? Here we also ended up with so far pretty useless labour but at the very least doing nothing is better than more years under conservatives or worse, racists that musk is keen to promote these days.
Here we have a choice of either useless labour or retarded fucktards, so I vote 3rd party. At least it fucking shows not everyone is looking at the two main ones. But looking at our shit turn out, we have similar apathy
We don't need musks shit over here, but I am really worried about next elections. Labour is unsurprisingly not doing much, but if we slide back into racist politics, that be much, much worse...
How on earth did this get approved by labour? This is crazy! They were pushing for publicly owned energy company as part of their manifesto and now this? Well this is going to go down even steeper hill
So I have been in Xinjiang, specifically Urumqi in 2010, about a year after there were local tensions and riots (I didn't know about the riots until after I returned home). It was summer and I saw police in full riot gear, in APCs in groups of 10-15 at a time patroling the city. Not roadblocks everywhere, but multiple such patrols. I still felt safe (as a westerner, its super safe).
So there were clear, heavy local tensions. Now you are right about the news we here are obviously one sided. You have to take some critical thoughts about what is likely happening. However inter province travel requires you to present passport when buying a ticket. It's not really a sign of a free and fair society.
I don't keep up with internal Chinese politics beyond vaguely being interested in HK, but seeing what happened there you can make a fair assumption that in the mainland things would be harder for folks who don't fall in line.
Yes, some manufacturers of needles have less stringent QA than others. Moved to a new area and the local NHS disallow my usual brand due to cost... Will get to try something else... Hopefully not too bad...