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Awesome!
Thanks for the links!
Agree!
Awesome presenter!
David Katz from Israel's cyber crime unit which is involved in the investigation, told journalists that it was too early to prove that sexual violence was planned as part of the attack, but that data extracted from the phones of the Hamas attackers suggested that "everything was systematic"
I wonder if Israel also knew of this, since they knew a year prior, but did not think it was possible.
The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.
Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision. The document called for a barrage of rockets at the outset of the attack, drones to knock out the security cameras and automated machine guns along the border, and gunmen to pour into Israel en masse in paragliders, on motorcycles and on foot — all of which happened on Oct. 7.
Then, in July, just three months before the attacks, a veteran analyst with Unit 8200, Israel’s signals intelligence agency, warned that Hamas had conducted an intense, daylong training exercise that appeared similar to what was outlined in the blueprint.
Officials privately concede that, had the military taken these warnings seriously and redirected significant reinforcements to the south, where Hamas attacked, Israel could have blunted the attacks or possibly even prevented them.
Underpinning all these failures was a single, fatally inaccurate belief that Hamas lacked the capability to attack and would not dare to do so. That belief was so ingrained in the Israeli government, officials said, that they disregarded growing evidence to the contrary.
The failures to connect the dots echoed another analytical failure more than two decades ago, when the American authorities also had multiple indications that the terrorist group Al Qaeda was preparing an assault. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were largely a failure of analysis and imagination, a government commission concluded.
David Katz from Israel's cyber crime unit which is involved in the investigation, told journalists that it was too early to prove that sexual violence was planned as part of the attack, but that data extracted from the phones of the Hamas attackers suggested that "everything was systematic"
I wonder if Israel also knew of this, since they knew a year prior, but did not think it was possible.
The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.
Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision. The document called for a barrage of rockets at the outset of the attack, drones to knock out the security cameras and automated machine guns along the border, and gunmen to pour into Israel en masse in paragliders, on motorcycles and on foot — all of which happened on Oct. 7.
Then, in July, just three months before the attacks, a veteran analyst with Unit 8200, Israel’s signals intelligence agency, warned that Hamas had conducted an intense, daylong training exercise that appeared similar to what was outlined in the blueprint.
Officials privately concede that, had the military taken these warnings seriously and redirected significant reinforcements to the south, where Hamas attacked, Israel could have blunted the attacks or possibly even prevented them.
Underpinning all these failures was a single, fatally inaccurate belief that Hamas lacked the capability to attack and would not dare to do so. That belief was so ingrained in the Israeli government, officials said, that they disregarded growing evidence to the contrary.
The failures to connect the dots echoed another analytical failure more than two decades ago, when the American authorities also had multiple indications that the terrorist group Al Qaeda was preparing an assault. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were largely a failure of analysis and imagination, a government commission concluded.
David Katz from Israel's cyber crime unit which is involved in the investigation, told journalists that it was too early to prove that sexual violence was planned as part of the attack, but that data extracted from the phones of the Hamas attackers suggested that "everything was systematic"
What a thoughtful message!
This is another one:
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The Zero Ring
It's just that if you allow it, then all numbers are zero and you get what you deserve
Actually, you CAN divide by zero. [3:51 | Nov 03 2023 | mCoding]
Some notable comments:
Railway engineer here! A few points: Not all rail is made of the same alloys, particularly high load areas such as points and crossings. These use harder metals to reduce wear, such as manganese. Adding this into the equation means welding plain line to p&c is a particularly complex job. I am also glad you mentioned track circuit will be covered later on as that is a big downside to CWR with older signalling systems. Aluminothermic welding is spectacular when it goes wrong, search it up!
If anyone wonders why the odd figure of 39 feet was the standard length of single sticks of traditional jointed rail, it was so that they'd fit into 40-foot gondola cars. Welded rail is now typically manufactured in long lengths (1,320 feet in the USA, which is ¼ mile) and can be welded in the field to be continuous. Such long rails are transported on special rail trains, like the one Grady shows half-loaded at 0:25. The yellow racks hold them in place, and the rails bend as the train goes through horizontal and vertical curves 😮.
As a engineer who works in railway track design, one thing I'd like to point out - especially since you mentioned a video on signaling will be coming soon - is that neutral temperature is typically high not because a broken rail is less dangerous than a sun kink. Yes, its more likely that a train could operate over a pull-apart rather than theough a sun kink, but largely because the signal system will detect a pull-apart as a discontinuity in the rails and thus the signal circuit - automatically turning the signal ahead of that track to red!
Fun fact: The problem with 'rock n' roll' (more formally, harmonic rocking) is bad enough that rulebooks disallow travelling at certain speeds on jointed rail. The rulebook I have says this danger zone is 13 to 21 mph, so if your train only has enough power to reach 20 mph (entirely possible, if normal, these days) safety says you'd have to slow to 13 mph on jointed rail. So CWR not only makes maintenance-of-way's job easier, it also makes operating the trains a bit easier and safer too.
That makes it more awesome, just learning new things for fun!
Getting 2016 vibes this time around...
Or it is just the vocal few that are more openly speaking out...
Polling and all, it will be in the history books come 2024.
Here ya go!
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