Captain Aggravated

When talking about hardware, the physical computer itself, a “server” is commercial grade and designed to run under heavy loads for years on end with very high reliability. Error correcting RAM, redundant power supplies, room inside for huge processors, more airflow than a C-130 for cooling, etc.

On the software side, a “server” is just a computer that provides some service to users on a network. You very likely have one of those Wi-Fi router/ethernet switch things from the likes of Linksys or whatever, right? That is almost certainly acting as a DHCP server for you LAN, in that capacity it might handle kilobytes of data a day because dynamically assigning IP addresses on a household Wi-Fi network is not a very demanding task, so it’ll do it on a tiny little ARM processor with a few MB of RAM. It probably also has a web server, which is how the “go to its IP address in your browser and get to your router settings page” works. It’s serving a little website that most of the time gets absolutely zero traffic.

So, turning a desktop PC into a “server.” The question is, what services will it provide? Desktop PCs are pretty good at mostly low traffic with bursts of intense work, so if they’re going to sit still doing nothing while you’re at work all day, and then maybe handle some file storage or media transcoding during the evenings while you’re home, a PC will do that just fine, if you’re okay paying the power bill of having a computer up and running all the time.

If you’re hosting a website or a game server with a lot of active users around the clock, you might want to look into more professional hardware.

Yeah see? It’s because Russians, so it’s definitely bullshit.

“within 3 months of the next presidential election cycle” if the last two have been any indication, we’re already 2 months in.

Let’s see if the mid-term election happens and/or how it goes.

That line isn’t imaginary; you can see it in aerial photos.

My understanding is we bought Alaska from Russia. We still have the canceled check we wrote. The little tail that sticks down from the side taking up most of Canada’s west coast is kind of bullshit though.

All they have to do is open all the lock doors at once.

Kinda my point with the “Lake Gatun is emptying, we can’t run the canal at full capacity.” “I don’t care, do it anyway.” kind of thing. It’s how big business seems to work. It needs to be bayonetted out of our species.

How much of that stuff would Canada and the US have done together anyway because we’re conjoined twins?

Other than that weird businessman thing of “it’s not ALL OURS” I don’t see the point. We already do joint military operations with Canada defending the arctic, to include NORAD. If climate change makes the ice cap a more viable land or sea route to attack North America, I’d count on our two nations to work together to counter that. I have to imagine we have submarines in the Arctic anyway.

We’ve already got as much of the Great White North as we can handle in Alaska to drill/mine/log. I don’t need ownership of Toronto to do that.

Now as for sea routes, this one I think is interesting. Because in addition to Canada and Greenland, the diaper in chief has mentioned re-acquiring the Panama Canal. The thing there is, the Panama Canal has had to operate at decreased capacity because Lake Gatun can’t take it; the canal is draining too much water from the lake, which the entire nation of Panama needs to live. The “grow at all costs” business sector loves to ignore things like “the canal is going to physically stop working because the lake will be empty, and also it will render the entire nation of Panama unsurvivable due to lack of water” so I’m sure the billionaires pulling Trump’s strings want the canal forced to run at max capacity no matter what, and we can’t do that while the Canal is under Panamanian ownership because the nation of Panama isn’t going to kill itself for some boats full of buttplugs and slogan T shirts.

So less shipping traffic has been able to pass through the canal. So more traffic bound from the Atlantic to the Pacific or vice versa needs to go around The Horn. Or for just one time, you can take the Northwest Passage, and find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea. A lot of the Northwest Passage lies in Greenland…ish? Greenlandese? Greenlandian? or Canadian territorial waters.

Or it’s a way for a shithead to be a shithead. We are talking about the same guy who “made” Mexico pay for that wall.

I don’t even think the people who voted for Trump had annexing Canada on their minds when filling out their ballots. Was it mentioned once during the campaign? I wasn’t listening, I knew I wasn’t gonna vote for him 9 years ago.

I mean, until last month when cross-border relations got kicked in the teeth by the diaper in chief, what did I need the State of Canada for? I had the Nation of Canada right there. It’s not like we weren’t hugely cooperative trade partners or anything.

It’s possible that might have been printer toner.