Flagged under Saint Kitts / Nevis.

https://archive.ph/POl10

Archive link of that source.

One was supposedly delayed from CA to OR because of “weather” which is odd as it has been sun and mostly mild temps over the last week.

Not to defend UPS too much but enormous wildfires probably go in as “weather”.

California.

Oregon.

Only 2nd, not 3rd?

2nd best is a turn of phrase, an old one. It’s an insult. You must not be very well read.

Tiedrich? Blech, tired old has-been who, like Trump, should have disappeared years ago.

It’s what the US always does. Russia claims to have this or that so the US builds something to defeat it. It’s happening with China now too.

Okay that I’m aware of but I’ve never heard of it referred to as “bootstrapping”. Thanks for the explanation.

Firewire was good for high bandwidth devices like external hard drives and video cameras because it didn’t require the CPU to do any heavy lifting. These days USB is mature enough and CPUs are so fast that we (mostly) don’t notice any performance impact but in the Core 2 Duo days you could easily max out one of your two cores with a large file transfer over USB.

My internet being bootstrapped by ISP…

Seriously, what does “bootstrapped” mean in this context?