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    From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Sean Dennis on Tue Mar 8 20:54:12 2022
    FGAZ 18-05 Page 5 14 Mar 2022


    Russia needs a change of leadership real bad but a revolution is not
    really possible anymore there. Putin's state has been preparing for
    such a scenario since 2011. They are ready to consolidate its power.

    Putin claims he is realigning a brother nation in Ukraine after being
    led astray by a "fascist" leadership. How long can that story last in
    Russia?

    It's the style of newspaper articles from the 1930s and 40s. In a
    sense, there is already a civil war raging in Russia and the
    riot-police are already there. Putin is trying to drag the people
    into a dark past and forcing them to think as if the ideas and
    circumstances of eighty years ago still hold true today.

    Half of all Russians know someone in or outside Ukraine who can paint
    the real picture for them. So it will be difficult to sell the idea
    of Ukraine as a Nazi state or historical slave state, as Putin is
    trying to do.

    Russians cannot continue to pretend that nothing is wrong and to
    avoid "war" as the subject. Not talking about it but making its
    presence inaudibly known is also a way to protest.

    Sometimes silence is a statement on its own.

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    Pioneer Introduces New Optical Disc Drive
    By Sean Dennis 1:18/200

    From: https://tinyurl.com/ya24322v (tomshardware.com)

    Optical Discs Aren't Dead, as Pioneer's New Drive Doubles BD Write
    Speeds

    By Mark Tyson published 1 March 2022

    Return of the optical drive

    Physical media is back from the dead, or at least that's the opinion
    of Pioneer, which just launched a new optical disc drive (ODD) for
    desktop or media center PCs with a spare 5.25 inch bay. Yes, it's
    2022, but there are allegedly still ODD holdouts. For them, the
    [45]Pioneer BDR-213JBK doubles the maximum write speed on Blu-ray
    discs and covers the full gamut of reading and writing optical media
    including CDs, DVDs, and BDs, plus a multitude of sub-variants.

    Pioneer says it improved both recording quality, and this handsome and
    not at all over-the-hill device has a textured hairline finish and
    blue LED on its facade, alongside the classic silver embossed Pioneer
    logo. In case you don't know what you might use an ODD for in 2022,
    Pioneer has some helpful suggestions.

    "With the spread of telework these days, there are increasing
    opportunities to store large amounts of data such as work data and


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