Kowtowing to the Great King

 The Greeks of the Antiquity refused to follow the Great King's Court ceremony of slavish kowtowing. But the tradition has not disappeared, see the high officials of the Persian Air Force being received by the Great Ayatollah. 

Sacrifice to Baal

 Following historical tradition, the Lebanese sacrifice to their god (the Baal). Thanksgiving for the "victory".

Back in Beaufort

 

ZAHAL forded the Litani River in Lebanon and is moving forward to conquer the Beaufort again. Young people will pass their milium swimming in the Qaroun reservoir. 

...but they signed a ceasefire. Just this night at 0400 AM. So it will be the next time.

Looting the Enemy

Looting the enemy's weapons is perfectly legitimate in war. And loot is arriving from South Lebanon. 
 

Voyager 1 still alive

On October 16, NASA beamed a command to Voyager 1 to turn on one of its heaters. The spacecraft responded by ghosting Earth.

It actually took the agency two full days to notice the issue. That's because Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object, and being almost 25 billion kilometers (15.3 billion miles) away, it takes nearly 23 hours for a message to get there – even at the speed of light – and another 23 hours for a response.

On October 18, Voyager 1 missed its scheduled return call. NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) scanned for the signal and eventually found it on a slightly different frequency band.

It seems that the heater triggered Voyager 1's built-in fault protection system. If an instrument tries to draw too much power, this mechanism will automatically shut off other, non-essential systems to conserve energy. 

We are under attack

For the record: This Sunday morning there were two alarm calls.Hezbollah was bombing our area. 

Sleeping and doing nothing

 After the family dinner, I took 40 mg of Valium by mistake and slept happily until midday. It was a very quiet Sabbath. I watched the Judge and Mearsheimer predict once more Ukraine's imminent collapse. Now, I am trying to do some work. But no, I cannot avoid wasting time on the net.

Doing "nothing" is very important. For example, what to do with this quotation from Goldman Sachs:  Jensen Huang’s prediction of a trillion dollars of computing capacity waiting for an upgrade. It is a very big market opportunity. Maybe INTEL will get a nice portion of it. INTEL is very cheap -- today.INTC ranks 4th on our list of Goldman Sachs' top growth investors.

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) is the beleaguered American chip manufacturing giant that has been one of the biggest stock stories of 2024 and for all the wrong reasons. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)’s decision to suspend dividends and lay off thousands of employees earlier this year decimated investor sentiment. The firm is currently focusing on developing the 18A chip manufacturing node through which it aims to take process leadership away from the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and cater to the growing chip needs of the biggest companies in the world. 18A is dead at the center of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)’s hypothesis, and the stock will respond based on developments regarding the technology’s execution milestones. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)’s contract manufacturing subsidiary is another key part of its story, but since it was made into a subsidiary earlier, its impact is less pronounced.