[Starlink] "Interesting set of developments with Starlink. Musk says they will support "international aid orgs" in Gaza, Israel now says they will use "all available means" to stop SpaceX from doing so.

[Frantisek Borsik]

All Souls' Day is coming here in Central Europe (not sure about the
observance in the rest of Europe) and Halloween is almost here - so I have
visited cemeteries of my ancestors in Slovakia. And as we were there, my
parents told us stories from WWII and the Iron Curtain era, both related to
HAMs.

My great great grand father's family in Northern Slovakia, close to Poland,
was giving a shelter and help to partisan groups during Slovak National
Uprising <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_National_Uprising> in the
WWII and once Germans find them in their house, during the raid. They got
the whole family lined-up and firing squad ready - if there wouldn't be for
a double agent in their ranks that have managed to stop it, my great grand
mother, their only child, wouldn't be alive. Sadly, I was only a teenager
when she passed away in 2000 and so I didn't managed to talk with her
enough about those horrible days of WWII.

Later on, her son (my grand father) was accused of using HAM to talk to the
West in the early 60's, after the communist take over of Czechoslovakia
(1948). Czechoslovak counterpart of KGB, so called StB
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StB> (Czechoslovak state security service)
was investigating him - as a result, my father was banned from studying at
the university and so on.
(Side note: that KGB was not the worst of the secret services behind the
Iron Curtain - Stasi in the East Germany was in many cases calmed down by
KGB, even the number of agents and informants at Stasi were higher than the
"rookie numbers" at KGB, and StB was also in some aspects worse than KGB.)

On my mother' side, my great grand father left to the US and Canada in the
early 30s. He worked in various mines, digging coal. After WWII, he has
returned home...and then in 1948, fucking communist took everything from
him and he died from a heart attack when it happened.

I hope that Gaza/Palestine and Israel situation will get sorted out rather
soon. Both countries have all the rights to existence and the world need
peace and cooperation, not WWIII.

Sending you all a song called "You, me and the World War Three"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdV9O-PDXMI> and hoping for the best for
the world.

All the best,

Frank

Frantisek (Frank) Borsik



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On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 7:48 PM Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink <
starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

>
> Le 30/10/2023 à 18:46, Daniel AJ Sokolov via Starlink a écrit :
> > On 2023-10-29 at 09:26, Dave Taht via Starlink wrote:
> > [...]
> > There is an irony in this: Wasn't the internet a military project
> > meant to survive armageddon?
>
> This is an excellent point, indeed.
>
> We want an originally-military technology to be delivered precisely to
> civilians only, and not mistake it.
>
> It is a challenge.
>
> Alex
>
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