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To be fair, he didn't actually say that they wouldn't want to pursue it, it reads to me as he's stating the reality that it's a non-starter because the GOP has the votes to kill it before it starts.
Russia has always had an off ramp, given that it is a special military operation of choice...
There's been much sabre rattling from the Russians about escalation of the conflict to a nuclear one, however it seems the sabres might be a little rusty:
https://defence-blog.com/russias-icbm-test-fails-in-mid-launch-explosion/
The team benefits very little from winning the driver's championship in the grand scheme of things. They certainly benefit more from having two drivers who feel that they've been treated fairly going into next year than having one who feels that they were knifed in the back.
I doubt it, but it doesn't matter that much since the station reopened some months ago so the new timetable doesn't represent a change in that respect.
If they had an otherwise spotless record and were completely unknown to the legal system otherwise, then I agree that a custodial sentence would be overkill. But when they have multiple cases (both criminal and civil) making their way through the court, have already wasted court time by not...
One way around this is by designing a VM that replicates the actual behaviour of the system as implemented rather than as designed. Basically, you hook existing hardware up to a system that allows them to send every possible combination of inputs and record the outputs and then replicate them.
One thing that's becoming increasingly common in other areas, so likely also in the railway industry, is emulating old hardware in virtual machines running on modern equipment. This can be quite challenging as sometimes they have to replicate the bugs undocumented features of that older...
I don't have any direct knowledge about NR's plan for dealing with obsolescence, but typically organisations facing situations like this will buy up the last remaining stock of spare parts when the manufacturer announces the end-of-life. That, and buying up equipment that's recovered from...
I'm about 80% sure that this was considered in the design phase and they have passive provision for conversion to CATBOAR configuration. How practical that would turn out to be is left as an exercise for the reader.
I think had he lost the 2021 championship in any other manner he might have, but I can totally understand why he felt cheated and how hard it would have been to just walk away.
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