Windows to Russia
We looked high and low. We searched under the rocks. We traveled deep into the forest. Climbed the highest mountain. But…
Summer never ever came to Moscow, Russia….now it is full on fall and summer is history for this year….2018 the year with no summer…
I guess Svetochka and I will have to go find summer somewhere else in the world. Time to go swimming in the big deep blue seas somewhere…
Where oh where has summer gone?
WtR
Poor people have to do what they have to do…
I love the new Galaxy Note 9, I think it may just be the perfect phone, yet when you look at the price, you realize how ignorant we are to pay such exorbitant fees for a throw away device…
Right now you will pay something close to 70,000 rubles for a Note 9 here in Russia and a s7 can be picked up for around 19,000 rubles. The s7 edge version is higher, yet they both (s7’s) have same hardware. I see a Note 9 version with 512 gigs of ROM for over 100,000 rubles! New items have their privileges…
I sat and looked at my s7 Edge and thought to myself, “Self, What if I ported the new release of the N9 firmware and created my own ROM for the s7?”
Thus:
https://www.sammobile.com/2018/08/20/galaxy-note-9-firmware-download
The link above led to this link below…
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-note9/SM-N960N/KOO/download/N960NKSU1ARH5/230614/
And I downloaded the firmware and played around….I grabbed some infinity stuff from the Note s8 firmware I had saved aside and some other parts of that firmware and mixed and matched a ROM…
Therefore, since I did this all yesterday, this morning I checked the s7 Edge to see if it was still functioning and I found less than 2% battery usage for the whole night and the phone was running perfect….I am still working a few bugs out, but I think I have created a winner…
No, I will not share the ROM…
I am not capable of satisfying everyone and their desires. The ROM is made for me. It is stripped of almost everything that makes a Samsung Galaxy a Galaxy and that is just perfect for me….I kept a few things like the s7 camera firmware and such….I did not like how the images came out with the Note 9 camera firmware…
I now have all the best of the new Note 9 firmware, the part that makes me happy and I did it on a budget…
We do not have to buy a new phone every time they bring it out. As in the case of the s7 Edge, it is more than capable of running anything Android has to offer and run it good…
Why do we need a new phone just to have the latest and greatest software?
When “Android Pie” comes to the Note 9, I will port it also if I desire…
WtR
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said, “Lying, cheating, and rogue behavior have become the new norm of the Russian culture.”
The USA has reached extremely new lows of moral conduct. When you debase the culture of other societies, then you yourself have become that which you preach…
When we hit rock bottom, it is going to hurt as we bounce…
WtR
PS: By the way, Nikki speaks for us all, everyday as we do business at the UN and yes, she is our spokesperson to the world… Think about that!
“For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion”. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Now that is the truth and the divide is getting worse, as the West grabs the Commie Train and rides…
WtR
When Israel pulled its WW3 instigating attack. I wrote this below…
But Russia which is more patient than “Job from the Bible”, has calmly investigated what happened and called all parties to the carpet over it. Instead of WW3 we have a getting more pissed by the minute Russia….pissed and asking questions that come to the point of the matter…
Israel does not normally acknowledge its airstrikes in Syria, at least not until much later. However, the IDF made a rare immediate admission of responsibility on Tuesday, after the Russian Defense Ministry identified Israeli F-16 jets as taking part in the attack, and said the Il-20 aerial observation platform vanished from radars during the strike.
I have come to the conclusion that Israel, Britain, France and America are the biggest loose canons and no one, but no one is in control of those countries….but one thing is obvious; They want war and more war to boot…
May the world thank Russia for not reacting as the West wants her to….Russia understands that America and cronies are mental sick and you never know what triggers the situation. The world is having a balance issue and China and Russia are trying to get it back inline…
There really is a large group of people all over the world trying to upset the apple cart…
WtR
Israel finally admitted to carrying out over 200 such missions over the past 18 months, only a few of which ever made any kind of international media, recently. And with the sneak attack on Latakia which involved using a Russian IL-20 ELINT war plane as radar cover Israel has now not only raised the stakes to an unacceptable level, it has also ensured that this may be the last such aerial assault it will ever be able to carry out.
Just a walking and looking at the world of Russia…
WtR
PS: I have been reading about car washes being built like this in Siberia and I was wondering when it would get around to Moscow…. Okay, I know this is not big news to fancy Americans…. But, I am not fancy and I like it…
Personally, I can’t wait to be able to give Sammy the Volga a bath the easy way…
China’s richest man said the dispute could last 20 years and persist beyond the presidency of Donald Trump, as the world’s two strongest economic powers battle for global supremacy. China needs to strengthen its economy to deal with the conflict and shift trade relations from the U.S. to regions like Southeast Asia and Africa, the chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said during a speech at the company’s investor day conference in Hangzhou.
“Short term, business communities in China, U.S., Europe will all be in trouble,” Ma said, pacing a stage in an open white dress shirt and punctuating his remarks with forceful jabs. “This thing will last long. If you want a short-term solution, there is no solution.”
His comments came just hours after China vowed to retaliate against U.S. plans to levy tariffs on about $200 billion in Chinese goods. Ma said Alibaba will also be affected by the rising tensions, given its wholesale business allows American merchants to source products from China. But he also said the trauma will offer unprecedented opportunities for companies that can take advantage of them.
China Vows to Retaliate After Trump’s $200 Billion Tariff Hit
“We should not focus on this quarter or next quarter or next year’s profit. This is a huge opportunity,” he said. “If Alibaba cannot sustain and grow, no company in China can grow. I’m 100 percent confident in that.”
Ma’s remarks carry particular weight because he is an icon of Chinese innovation and has been seen as an ambassador to the U.S. Last year, he met with Trump and promised to create 1 million jobs in the U.S. through 2021.
But Ma, a week after he announced plans to hand over the chairman role to Chief Executive Officer Daniel Zhang, left no doubt Tuesday about his support for his own country. If the U.S. insists on levying tariffs on Chinese goods, then China should shift its business to the rest of the world, he said.
“When problems come, learn how to hide, learn how to train,” he said. “I believe Daniel and his team will have the wisdom to fight for the future.”
How Jack Ma Made Rich Capitalists Acceptable in Communist China
Ma’s speech underscored the void he will be leaving when he steps down in a year’s time. His soliloquy was accentuated by comments on everything from geopolitical gambits to the importance of self-awareness on individual limits.
He even took a jab at competitor JD.com Inc.’s founder Richard Liu — while rebutting the idea he was forced out of the company. Ma said he received many queries from acquaintances, including questions on whether he was experiencing a “Minnesota” situation, a reference to current rape allegations that JD’s Liu is facing. That elicited a burst of laughter from the crowd.
Ma said he was confident of leaving the company in the hands of Zhang as the CEO bolsters Alibaba’s ambitions in e-commerce, so-called new retail and entertainment. Those initiatives will help sustain revenue growth for the financial year ending in March of 60 percent, a figure that Chief Financial Officer Maggie Wu first disclosed in May. That kind of growth will likely help Alibaba outpace its global peers, she added.
With $80 billion worth of strategic investments planted, Vice Chairman Joe Tsai said the company is nowhere near finished with deals. Some of Alibaba’s most expensive investments have been spearheaded by Zhang– including at least $8 billion worth of deals for traditional chains that underpin efforts to reinvent retailing in China.
WtR
Seems America wants to destroy Russia, 99% of the Middle East, all of Europe, Venezuela, Cuba, China, Vietnam, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and a dozen other areas around the world. The world under military, financial and immoral sanctions of siege have lots of company…
As RTfolk in comments said below: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Palestine, Lebanon, Bosnia, Kosovo, Georgia, Russia, China, North Korea, Nigeria, Sudan, Mali, Ukraine, Vietnam, Cuba, Panama, Cambodia & Nicaragua….any more from anyone else? There are more…
I have to smile as the western press toots the horn of attack…
Not sure how the Americans ended up with any friends at all in fact…
America hasn’t seen nothing yet. As it threatens the world from one end to the other. The same as a shark pulled out of the water and it thrashes and whips you across the face and smacks the hell out of you. But hang on American sock monkeys and sheeples…
More’s coming….the demise has been planned many years now…
WtR
We walk a thin line between death and life…
The Russian Defense Ministry held a press conference to discuss the destruction of a Russian military aircraft with people on board off the coast of Syria, which happened at the same time that Israeli and French forces were mounting aerial attacks on targets in Syria.The Il-20 aircraft has been downed by Syrian military forces after Israel jets put it under attack off the Syrian coast, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov stated. According to the spokesman, the Israeli jets delibe
So, it seems by what I know about war is that Israel used the Il-20 as cover and sent missiles to attack Syrian army positions. Israel knew full well that Syria would defend itself and let the Russian craft (only a cargo craft) take the hit…
You suck Israel….but then I have said that before about the Israel Gov…
WtR
I love how the wood vine has crawled up the door and the wall, but definitely the door. I could live here…
Mailbox on the door. House number 15 for the emergency services and a single car garage to the left…
WtR
