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Under Section 231 of CAATSA, any third-country firm or individual that engages in a "significant transaction" with Russia's defense or intelligence sectors will face a penalty. Companies and individuals can apply for an exemption from the sanctions. Getting one, however, would require U.S. authorities to certify not only that the exemption would not harm the United States' national security interests but also that Russia had made "significant efforts to reduce the number and intensity of cyber intrusions."
The waiver could draw unwanted attention to countries engaged in trade with Russia and give Washington leverage to try to exact concessions from them.
Regardless of the snags in its implementation, CAATSA demonstrates that the United States is more strident than ever in pushing other countries to reduce their defence and energy ties with Russia.
If push comes to shove, India will not sacrifice its relationship with Russia. Instead, it will try to compromise with the United States by purchasing more U.S. arms or by signing the two outstanding foundational defense agreements with the country. Despite its historical links with Moscow, New Delhi has expanded its security and economic relationship with the United States over the past two decades to try to increase its clout in the global system. Their ties are now strong, and India increasingly relies on the United States to balance China's rise in Asia. As a result, Washington has greater leverage over New Delhi, which, in turn, is more vulnerable to CAATSA's stipulations than Beijing is. In the longer run, however, the CAATSA process could rekindle anti-American sentiment in the Indian defense bureaucracy and the political class, two decades after a reset in U.S.-Indian relations consigned such nationalism to the margins.
Well they are blackmailing India via CAATSA and wants an unequal partnership with us where they are free to dictate the terms of the partnership with India while at the same time wanting us to purchase more US def equipment so as to make us more dependent on them in longer run , they want us to be their vassal and chaukidar for IOR , Typical US behaviour even with allies like EU and Turkey.
CAATSA is coming from defence company lobbyists in the US - whom are second only to bank lobbyists in influence.
Pushing Russia out of the global arms market means tens of billions more in prospective sales the world over.
NATO countries will support it since the major EU countries are also defence manufacturers and stand to gain as well.
This is where you land up when you keep buying foreign armaments for decades from other countries and sink domestic projects like the IAF did with Marut and almost did with Tejas. No domestic capability to produce weapons since bags and bags of money are handed off to foreign arms companies subsidizing their R&D base at India's expense.
Only option is make nuclear arms a priority and continue to indigenise military equipment. Focus on economy .
US will keep blackmailing India till we give up on their demand and sign on COMCASA ......They pursue a carrot and stick policy first dangle the carrot if that does not work then use the big stick.
Imagine the next move US delays or stops supplies of Spares to Indian armed forces ....which is part of CAATSA provision .....Such blackmail is in a way good for any one romanticizing buying big ticket items from US in the near future and what to expect.
Interesting interview posted by Rakesh. I don't think they have any appetite for sanctioning India at this juncture. If they symbolically cancel the potential Predator drone sale to India, they are essentially sanctioning themselves. Which would be idiotic.
I don't understand what this "inter operability" tamasha is. Do they think we are naive? Let's say we put S-400 to defend New Delhi, Mumbai, Jamnagar. What's their issue? Not like they have any role defending these cities anyway.
IMHO, their issue is not with the S-400 per se. Their 'real' issue lies with India continuing to buy weaponry from Russia. Their whole excuse of interoperability lies in the premise of buy American and use American. Only in that way, can the American military industrial complex continue to thrive. All this talk - which a few on this forum have peddled or bought into - about revolutionizing India's aviation industry, is just an excuse to sell weaponry to India. Doing screwdrivergiri of the F-16, F-18 (or for that matter the Rafale, Eurofighter, MiG-35 or Gripen E) is going to do squat (basically nothing) for India's aviation industry.
— Admiral Sir Alan West, evidence to the Select Committee on Defence, 24 November 2004.
The above quote is in reference to the Queen Elizabeth Class of aircraft carriers. They fly the F-35B. The above solution works just fine for the Royal Navy. They are a poodle nation anyway.
So hopefully if the Indian Navy acquires the F-18, they can be interoperable with the US Navy. That is what they are peddling to us. However, that is an excuse to sell American weaponry to India. The US Navy can be interoperable just as effectively with any other naval platform. They did that in the most recent exercise with the Indian Navy, where our MiG-29Ks flew alongside their F-18 Super Hornets.
So they definitely can be interoperable with any platform. The above is the *TRUE* meaning of interoperability. If the F-18 was so great, why the French not just buy that, instead of the Rafale M? They are just peddling this excuse to sell us their wares. And they think, we are idiots.
By the way, here is something to think about ---> We sign a contract for 110 F-16s or F-18s with Lockheed Martin or Boeing. Deliveries have begun, squadron training is underway, squadrons are being raised and then Amreekis get wind of the fact that we would like to acquire the S-400 from Russia. What do you think they will do then? At that point, they will have us by the balls.
NO to American fighter aircraft for the Indian Air Force.
^^ Well said, saar, in both of your posts above.
Good Post Rakesh , Well Said , Cant put this any better , We need to protect our own strategic interest in the same way US does for itself.
So adding S-400 suddenly will bring the big question of Interoperability with them , Will USAF provide Top Cover to Indian Armedforce over Indian Airspace during war so that S-400 is interoperable with it ?
A clean legislative waiver for India from anti-Russia sanctions looks extremely difficult, if not impossible, several people lobbying lawmakers for changes in the law have told The Hindu.
India is caught in the crossfire as a bipartisan law, Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), requires the administration to impose sanctions on countries that have "significant" defence relations with Kremlin.
"Nobody in the Capitol Hill has the appetite to do anything that would be remotely seen as helping Russia, though in this case we are talking about helping India," a Congressional staff member said. "A waiver appears out of reach. But there are other routes and we are hopeful of a resolution," a business lobbyist working on the issue said, adding that there could be other means of ensuring that India's defence ties with Russia does do not derail the expanding defence trade between India and the U.S.
An attempt is being made to have language written into the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) for 2019 that would enable the Donald Trump administration to protect India from sanctions. The U.S. House has passed NDAA 2019 already, the rules of which allows for waivers for 180 days, provided the administration certifies that the country in question is scaling back its ties with Russia.
This formulation in inadequate to resolve the Indian situation, sources familiar with ongoing conversations involving Indian diplomats, U.S. defence companies and business bodies and lawmakers, told The Hindu. "A waiver linked to rolling back ties with Russia won't be seen as helpful by India," an executive with a U.S defence company said.
Efforts are, however, still under way to insert provisions in the NDAA in Senate that might give the Trump administration more leeway in dealing with the situation, short of a clean waiver.
Apart from India, Vietnam, Turkey and Indonesia are also caught in the same situation.
Secretary of Defence James Mattis had called for waiver provisions at the Secretary of State's level.
"There are at least 2-3 different proposals under discussions with Senators still," an official said. The Senate and House versions of the NDAA will be reconciled through a conference mechanism later.
Rep. Mac Thornberry, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, who was in India recently, has returned with an understanding that the proposed conditional waiver could be a dampener in ties with New Delhi, a source who interacted with him said.
With the midterm elections scheduled for later this year, Democrats are trying to push the Trump administration to the corner on the Russia question.
Mr. Menendez, the top Democrat in the committee, said he would consider the proposal.
Mr. Pompeo was specifically asked what he was doing to stop Turkey from buying Russian missile defence system S 400, which India is also planning to buy. "We are imploring Turkey to not buy," Mr. Pompeo said.
Earlier last month, Mr. Menendez, and Senators Mark Warner and Sherrod Brown accused the Trump administration of lame enforcement of CAATSA and sought an inter-agency review. "In light of these apparent violations and the lack of corresponding sanctions actions, we are concerned about whether the sanctions implementation process within the administration is fulfilling CAATSA's mandate and intent," the Senators wrote in a letter.
Guess its a good policy for India to keep everything ready to test the moment Americans sanction India with some acronym .. a full and comprehensive series of Nuclear tests blasting away the Pokharan with enough data yield for simulation tests .. could be no better time !!
at least it would give India a " full spectrum deterrence "
Whose fault is it that the stupid Russkies needed US dollars from us onlee? All would be no problem if they accepted rupees. They can use that to buy our rice and then sell to the chinis who eat lots of rice.
If you want to use Western hard currency then don't do stuff like invading Ukraine.
chola wrote: Whose fault is it that the stupid Russkies needed US dollars from us onlee? All would be no problem if they accepted rupees. They can use that to buy our rice and then sell to the chinis who eat lots of rice.
IT has nothing to do with accepting payments in USD or Euro or other currency , CATAASA law is to prevent any transaction of defence equipment between India and US , if India does buy like other countries it will be sanctioned period.
IT is a way of making India dependent on US equipment and then screwing our foreign policy and sanctioning India at their whips ...... The stupid Europeans and Turkey are now facing the same music because of arrogance of US.
Why doesnt US accept payment in Rupee for def equipment it sells to us , You can use the same logic of buy our rice and sell to chinis......and CAATSA has nothing to do with this.
Russia doesn't need India for US$. It is a major Oil and Gas exporter. Guess, which currency that business is done in!
https://twitter.com/SJha1618/status/1003846260476899328 ----> US-Russia tensions are quite understandable. Going forward, both are essentially competing for the same export markets: Resource supply to emerging economies and 'Geopolitical Services' rendered via their military-intelligence complexes.
eklavya wrote: Let's say we put S-400 to defend New Delhi, Mumbai, Jamnagar. What's their issue? Not like they have any role defending these cities anyway.
S-400 over Kashmir cuts Pakistan/China/US mischief. If Kashmir becomes unattainable (for China/Pak), the US losses leverage over india. Without Kashmir, a part of the Pakistani Sunni machinary will be attracted towards xinjiang.
It means we can buy arms in Rupees? Nop. Russia NEED US$. And they need it very badly. West is reducing (or finding ways to reduce) its dependence on Russian Energy. EU is thinking of a mega solar power plant in North Africa. Electricity need are starting to go southwards. Govt are encouraging Solar or geothermal heating for houses. Diesel cars disappears in 2030. Petrol one in 2035. Russia know this.
It has everything to do with the use of Amreeki dollars. If Russia accepts rupees or barter then there is no way for Unkil to "punish" us. The bluntest instrument from CATAASA is it makes banks holding dollars afraid to transfer funds to Russia.
If Russia accepted something else that India has lots of (like rupees) or simply bartered then there is nothing that Unkil could do. But Russia wants dollars and that is a problem of its own making. Why should the US facilitate easy buys for Russian gear?
Chola, you are wrong. Under CAATSA, the US would have to punish India (unless they waived the punishment) even if we paid for Russian equipment with bartered goods. The form of US punishment remains to be seen e.g. no spares for C-130/C-17/P-8/LCA engine.
Now that this law exists, and India will wish to continue buying whatever we want to buy from Russia, in fact it hugely raises the risks for India to buy US equipment. In other words, this idiotic Americans law is an own goal.
CAATSA is not about using USD for trade with Russia it for controlling defense exports of Russia. US is not bothered about which currency you will be using to buy weapons from russia, they just dont want anyone to buy weapons from russia. Today its for S-400 then it will be the same for the frigates order then some other day they will come up with a new law and threaten sanctions for developing Agni or K-series or could be anything.
Rakesh wrote: By the way, here is something to think about ---> We sign a contract for 110 F-16s or F-18s with Lockheed Martin or Boeing. Deliveries have begun, squadron training is underway, squadrons are being raised and then Amreekis get wind of the fact that we would like to acquire the S-400 from Russia. What do you think they will do then? At that point, they will have us by the balls.
What about American engines on the LCA saar? This was probly an avoidable problem but alas they have made the choice. I sure hope the Frenchies come through.
It is precisely for such reasons that I have been hoping for a modest two engine lca mk2, either some variant of the kaveri or some m88 based solution, expensive though it would be..
Very true CM.Given the Yanquis track record, I've been saying for years not to depend solely upon US engines for the LCA and to have European alternatives.
Let the first sanctions come. I for one will be mighty pleased having been proved prophetic.
wrt your post above, in the video, the amreki guy is indicating that the sale of anti missile technology from the US is a very likely possibility and he also seems to be suggesting that it would be the preferred way forward.
It is nothing but blatant US arm twisting for India to junk the S400 systems and buy good ole amreki stuff . The guy talking is the chairman of the senate armed services committee and these guys are twice born royalty in the US. He is really big gun being used by the US to sort out a minor issue and prior to his visit, India may have already hardened it's position regarding these "sanctions" and indicated that it will press on, regardless.
For a guy like this to actually make a trip to a third world outpost like dilli and appear on some smelly old Indian TV channel is a huge ask.
I think that Modi's recent visit to see putin has really panicked them and the visit to see xi has set the cat among the pigeons. Even a partial rapprochement with the chinese would put paid to amreki plans in the IOR and the SCS.
The lynchpin is the IN which they are trying so very hard to trap by technological inducements and convert it into an extension of their "Indo"-pacific command.
The surveillance drones being considered for sale is Navy specific is it not??
and now, we hear that the IN has reduced its presence for the exercise Malabar.
No need for dhoti shivering Cain-ji. Let me at the outset say this....they will not put *ANY* sanctions on India. To quote eklavya, it will be akin to shooting themselves in the foot. Personally, I would *LOVE* for them to put sanctions. I say sanction everything - F404, F414, spares for the P-8I, C-17 strategic transport, C- 130 tactical transport, stop deliveries of the AH-64 Apache, CH-47 Chinook, stop negotiations on the MH-60R naval helicopter...you see where I am going with this?
Sanctioning India for buying S-400 (or any other Russian strategic weapon) would make the political ruling class in India realize the UTTER FARCE that is the Indo-US strategic partnership. As chetak rightfully called it, this partnership is nothing more than an extension arm of the Indo-US Pacific Command. If our political rulers already have not discovered it - via CAATSA - they will definitely learn it, after sanctions are imposed. But the Americans will not impose sanctions on India and I will explain later on in my post. But first let us talk about CAATSA itself.
To *WHOLLY* understand CAATSA, one must understand who *REALLY* wants CAATSA enforced? It is the Democrats in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate. The Republicans - in both governing institutions - are dead against it, as is the US Admnistration. CAATSA after all is designed to punish Russia for their interference in the 2016 US Presidential Elections. The head of the US Govt - President Donald Trump - believes there was no interference at all. He says he won that election, fair and square.
In the US House, Democratic Representative Adam Schiff - Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence - believes there was indeed Russian interference in the 2016 US Presidential Elections. His counterpart, Republican Representative Devin Nunes - Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence believes it is nothing more than a political witch hunt i.e. basically they believe that Liberal Democrats cannot digest the fact that Donald Trump is President of the United States. Any Republican who is in favour of enforcing CAATSA, is just doing it to keep his political seat safe and also avoid the 24 hours, US news cycle, media.
In the article posted by Austin, Senator Bob Menendez is a Democrat and is a Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His fellow Democratic Senators - Mark Warner and Sherrod Brown, both names also come up in the same article - serve as Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee respectively. They are concerned that the Trump Administration will not enforce CAATSA. But why will the Trump Adminstration enforce it? Stringent enforcement by the Trump Administration would prove the point that the Russians did indeed interfere in the 2016 US Presidential Elections.
Now Representative Mac Thornberry and US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo - both Republicans - believe in providing waivers to countries like India who still rely on Russia for much of its military hardware. They realise India cannot be expected to turn off the Vodka tap - at an instant - and open the tap for Jack Daniels whiskey. It does not work that way. Tomorrow, are we to expect that we will *NOT* be able to lease another Akula Class submarine because of some asinine legislation called CAATSA? Will the Americans be open to giving us a 10 year lease of a Virgina Class - Block IV or V - boat instead? No way! They do not do that even for their beloved poodles ----> UK, Australia, Japan. Why would they do it for India? But India must forget the idea of operating another nuclear boat, because of CAATSA?
Donald Trump winning the US Presidential Elections is a tremendous gain for India. If Hillary Clinton had won, she would be more than happy to enforce CAATSA. The fact that Russia interfered in the 2016 US Presidential Elections is proven beyond a shred of doubt. But with Donald Trump as US President, it makes enforcing CAATSA dicey. If Hillary Clinton had won, all the *OLD* players would be back - Madeline Albright, Strobe Talbott, Robin Raphel, etc. And if they did not come, folks who worked under them and are influenced by them, would have been advising Hillary Clinton about India. For folks who remember Pokharan '98, these names are VERY, VERY, VERY familiar.
Who wants to take on the task of telling the CEOs of Boeing (P-8, C-17, CH-47, AH-64), Lockheed Martin (C-130, MH-60R), Honeywell (Jaguar re-engine) and other American defense contractors that the money flow from India has to be stopped because CAATSA has to be enforced on India? Twenty years have passed since Pokharan '98 and imposing sanctions on India, comes with serious financial implications for American defence contractors. I say dig in deeper. Buy more P-8Is, get that one white-tail C-17, get the CH-47 and AH-64, continue deliveries of the C-130 + order more and sign the contract for the MH-60R naval helicopter.
But when it comes to fighter aircraft, it is a different story. We cannot and must not have the tip of India's spear (or Trident or Trimurti or whatever you want to call it) hostage to the whims & fancies of US foreign policy. As Exercise Gagan Shakti so clearly illustrated - effective airpower is the decisive factor in a future conflict. You control the skies, you will prevail. Our fighter aircraft must be ready to see first, strike first and kill first. Exercise Gagan Shakti proved that ---> Against Pakistan, we will overwhelm them and against China, we will give them a moment of pause before they think of firing the first shot. That capability to strike, must *NEVER* be in the hands of a foreign power. India cannot afford to have 110 fighters (latest MRCA acquistion number) to be controlled by the United States or any other country. That is a large chunk of our airpower that must not be in someone else's hands.
Call me superstitious, but I whole heartedly believe that someone, somewhere is watching out for India. If you are religious, you may believe it is the Almighty. If you are an atheist, you may think that someone is playing a chanakya game in India's favour. Regardless, I am glad CAATSA came out now and not after we "possibly" bought the F-16 from Lockheed Martin or the F-18 from Boeing. At point, we would have our balls in a vice and they will turn the lever on that vice HARD. *NEVER* to American fighter aircraft for the Indian Air Force. And I for one, wanted the F-35 to win. I am glad Ramana-ji called it a Fancy Cornish Hen. Because that is what it will truly become in the IAF.
Get 44 more Rafales, continue with Tejas production and invest money & human resources *WISELY* into the Kaveri program. Self Reliance is the ultimate goal. Shano Varuna Baby!
Nicely put but moolah for Raffys...? Alternative affordable non-US western options pursued as a first choice along with a "full-court-press" for the LCA. Extra Ru aircraft of types of those in service an easy solution too.
Philip: I am all in favour of taking up HAL's offer for the 40 additional Su-30MKIs. But for the *UMPTEENTH* time, a follow on batch of Rafales will not be close to the cost of the first batch. I have broken down the numbers for you - in previous posts - as well. After investing $2 billion - from the original Rafale deal - in ground support infrastructure to support two squadrons *EACH* at Ambala and Hasimara, to not order additional Rafales will truly be tragic.
The above comes to 37 squadrons, five squadrons short of the magic number of 42. Compared to today, the MiG-21s and MiG-27s will have all been retired. And while the squadron numbers will have increased (from the 30+ that it is now), the fire power capability will have increased even more. There is no need for another fighter type to join the IAF. Will never come on time and never address the squadron shortage. I personally think they need to order at least another three Tejas Mk1A squadrons, which will bring it up to 40 squadrons. Then Mk2 is coming (201 planned) and will start replacing the MiG-29UPG, Mirage 2000I and Jaguar Darin IIIs in the 2030s.
Philip wrote: Nicely put but moolah for Raffys...? Alternative affordable non-US western options pursued as a first choice along with a "full-court-press" for the LCA. Extra Ru aircraft of types of those in service an easy solution too.
No need to hyperventilate. USA wont sanction India in any significant way. Follow on order for Rafale makes sense considering the price drop and established infra. We've had a much better experience with the French overall and we should welcome the diversification out of Russian military basket.
I have no problem with more Rafales if they are priced competitively.The RNs JSF F-35Bs, the most expensive variant, of which they're getting around 48+, cost just $0.5B more than our measly 36 Rafales! That too a 5th- Gen fighter including infrastructure and weaponry costs, the "full Monty".That's 50% more JSFs for almost the same price.
So until one sees the actual price of our Rafale deal tranche 1, of which the GOI has refused to share details, the jury is out on the cost of tranche 2.Let's see what the CAG has to say , it's report will be out shortly where we would get a proper picture of the contours of the deal.


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on April 6, 2013 at 5:18 AM
Hi, you used to list the Mel Gibson film Payback and the longer cut called Payback Straight Up as separate entries, but they now seem to be under a single entry as alternative titles.
As they are different films can they be separated again please?
We do not support multiple cuts or versions of movies at this time. There is plans for this sometime in the future but until then we only support the original version of a film.
Reply by adexis
Ok thanks Travis - that would be really useful functionality. I've got a few films where I have different cuts and the software I use (apple tv with atvflash media player) pulls the metadata from you and gets confused!!
Yes, it will be cool. There's a lot to consider when you think about it, 3D versions, director's cuts, anniversary releases etc… it will eventually be properly supported.
Good point - I don't envy you having to build it!
Reply by ilusnforc
on March 23, 2021 at 12:15 AM
I was just inquiring about having Payback: Straight Up created as a separate title and was told that was not allowed, but now I see that there are separate titles for Justice League and Zack Snyder's Justice League which is essentially the same differences as Payback and Payback: Straight Up so I still ask, if one is allowed to have separate titles then why isn't the other? Currently, Payback: Straight Up is only listed as an "alternative title" which it is not because it was released at a later date and has at least one different cast member, etc which alternative titles does not support. Why not allow it to be listed as a separate title until new support is added that allow for such differences?
Reply by Killface
Same here, any news about the integration of various movie versions or re-activating as its own version Straight Up?
And seriously, comparing a 3d version of a movie with the original vision for Payback and its vast differences of the Theatrical cut makes me think that Travis hasn't seen the movie by 2013. But Justice League in the mean time.

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What Seed Funding Bubble?
At the moment, people seem to believe there's a "bubble" in seed-stage technology funding. Many limited partner investors in VC funds I've spoken with have raised the concern and related topics seem popular on Quora (see here, here, and here). However, I've examined the data and it argues pretty strongly against a widespread seed-stage bubble.
Rather, I think the increased attention that top startups attract these days induces availability bias. Because Y Combinator and superangels generate pretty intense media coverage, people read more frequently about the few big investments in seed-stage startups. They confuse the true frequency of high valuations with the amount of coverage. Of course, they never read about all the other seed-stage startups that don't get high valuations.
But if you look at the data on the aggregate amount of seed funding and the average deal size, I think it's very hard to argue for a general seed-stage bubble. At worst, there may be a very localized bubble centered around consumer Internet startups based in the Bay Area.
First, look at the amount of seed funding by angels over the last nine years, as reported by the Center for Venture Research. I calculated the amount for each year by multiplying the reported total amount of funding by the reported percentage going to seed and early stage deals. (Note: for some reason the CVR didn't report the percentage in 2004, so I interpolated that data).
As you can see, the amount of seed funding by angels in 2009-20010 was down by half from its level in 2004-2006. Hard to have a bubble when you're only investing 50% of the dollars you were at the recent peak. But perhaps it's a pricing issue and angels are pumping more dollars into each startup. While the CVR doesn't break down the average investment amount at each stage, we can calculate the average investment amount across all stages and use it as a rough index for what is probably going on at the seed and early stage (the index of 100 corresponds to a $436K investment).
The amount invested in each startup in 2010 was down 35% from its 2006 peak. Now, the investment amount is not the same as the valuation. However, for a variety of reasons (anchoring on historical ownership, capitalization table management, and price equilibrium for the marginal startup), I doubt angels have radically changed the percentage of a company they try to own. So deal size shifts should be a good proxy for valuation shifts.
Now, you might think that VC moves in the seed stage market could be a factor. Probably not, for two reasons. First, VCs account for a much smaller share of the seed stage market. Second, what gets counted as the seed stage in the VC data isn't what most of us think of as seed stage investments. Check out the seed dollar chart and the average seed investment data from the National Venture Capital Association.
Notice that amount of seed funding by VCs has remained flat for the last three years. Moreover, angels invest dollars in the seed stage at a rate of 3:1 compared to VCs. So VCs probably aren't contributing to a widespread seed bubble. But the story takes a strange twist if you look at the average size of VCs' seed stage investments.
The size has increased since 2007. But look at the absolute level! $4M+ seed rounds? I'm starting to think that "seed" does not mean the same thing to VCs as it does to angels and entrepreneurs. Obviously, VCs cannot be affecting what I think of as the seed round very much. However, they could be generating the impression of a bubble by enabling a few "mega-seed" deals. VCs did 373 seed deals in 2010 while angels did around 20,000 (NVCA and CVR data, respectively).
The last factor we have to account for is the superangels. Most of them are not members of the NVCA. However, they probably aren't counted by the CVR surveys of individual angels and angel groups either. ChubbyBrain has a list of the superangels that seems pretty complete; I can't think of anyone I consider a superangel who isn't on it. Of the 16, there are known fund sizes for 13. Two of them (Felcis and and SoftTech VC) are members of the NVCA and thus included in that data. The remaining 11 total $253M.
Now, there are probably some smaller, lesser known superangels not on this list. However, many on the list will not invest all their dollars in a single year and some will invest dollars in follow-on rounds past the seed stage. So I'm confident that $253M is a generous estimate of the superangel dollars that go into the seed stage each year. That's only about 3% of angels and VCs combined.
Just to really drive the point home, here's a graph of all seed dollars, assuming superangels did $253M per year in 2009 and 2010. Seed funding is down $5.4B or 40% from it's peak in 2005! So I don't believe there's a bubble.
(The spreadsheet with all my data is here.)
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Immigration: examining the facts by Cari Lee Skogberg Eastman
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Sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019
By JAMES LaPORTA
Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported, according to U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the intelligence.
The assessment was included in at least one of President Donald Trump's written daily intelligence briefings at the time, according to the officials. Then-national security adviser John Bolton also told colleagues at the time that he briefed Trump on the intelligence assessment in March 2019.
The White House didn't respond to questions about Trump or other officials' awareness of Russia's provocations in 2019. The White House has said Trump wasn't — and still hasn't been — briefed on the intelligence assessments because they haven't been fully verified. However, it's rare for intelligence to be confirmed without a shadow of a doubt before it is presented to top officials.
Bolton declined to comment Monday when asked by the AP if he'd briefed Trump about the matter in 2019. On Sunday, he suggested to NBC that Trump was claiming ignorance of Russia's provocations to justify his administration's lack of response.
"He can disown everything if nobody ever told him about it," Bolton said.
The revelations cast new doubt on the White House's efforts to distance Trump from the Russian intelligence assessments. The AP reported Sunday that concerns about Russian bounties also were in a second written presidential daily briefing this year and that current national security adviser Robert O'Brien had discussed the matter with Trump. O'Brien denies doing that.
On Monday, O'Brien said that while the intelligence assessments regarding Russian bounties "have not been verified," the administration has "been preparing should the situation warrant action."
The administration's earlier awareness of the Russian efforts raises additional questions about why Trump didn't take punitive action against Moscow for efforts that put the lives of American service members at risk. Trump has sought throughout his time in office to improve relations with Russia and President Vladimir Putin, moving this year to try to reinstate Russia as part of a group of world leaders it had been kicked out of.
Officials said they didn't consider the intelligence assessments in 2019 to be particularly urgent, given Russian meddling in Afghanistan isn't a new occurrence. The officials with knowledge of Bolton's apparent briefing for Trump said it contained no "actionable intelligence," meaning the intelligence community didn't have enough information to form a strategic plan or response. However, the classified assessment of Russian bounties was the sole purpose of the meeting.
The officials insisted on anonymity because they weren't authorized to disclose the highly sensitive information.
The intelligence that surfaced in early 2019 indicated Russian operatives had become more aggressive in their desire to contract with the Taliban and members of the Haqqani Network, a militant group aligned with the Taliban in Afghanistan and designated a foreign terrorist organization in 2012 during the Obama administration.
The National Security Council and the undersecretary of defense for intelligence held meetings regarding the intelligence. The NSC didn't respond to questions about the meetings.
Late Monday, the Pentagon issued a statement saying it was evaluating the intelligence but so far had "no corroborating evidence to validate the recent allegations."
"Regardless, we always take the safety and security of our forces in Afghanistan — and around the world — most seriously and therefore continuously adopt measures to prevent harm from potential threats," said Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman.
Concerns about Russian bounties flared anew this year after members of the elite Naval Special Warfare Development Group, known to the public as SEAL Team Six, raided a Taliban outpost and recovered roughly $500,000 in U.S. currency. The funds bolstered the suspicions of the American intelligence community that Russians had offered money to Taliban militants and linked associations.
The White House contends the president was unaware of this development, too.
The officials told the AP that career government officials developed potential options for the White House to respond to the Russian aggression in Afghanistan, which was first reported by The New York Times. However, the Trump administration has yet to authorize any action.
The intelligence in 2019 and 2020 surrounding Russian bounties was derived in part from debriefings of captured Taliban militants. Officials with knowledge of the matter told the AP that Taliban operatives from opposite ends of the country and from separate tribes offered similar accounts.
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied Russian intelligence officers had offered payments to the Taliban in exchange for targeting U.S. and coalition forces.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the Taliban's chief negotiator, a spokesman for the insurgents said Tuesday, but it was unknown whether there was any mention during their conversation of allegations about Russian bounties. Pompeo pressed the insurgents to reduce violence in Afghanistan and discussed ways of advancing a U.S.-Taliban peace deal signed in February, the Taliban spokesman tweeted.
The U.S. is investigating whether Americans died because of the Russian bounties. Officials are focused on an April 2019 attack on an American convoy. Three U.S. Marines were killed after a car rigged with explosives detonated near their armored vehicles as they returned to Bagram Airfield, the largest U.S. military installation in Afghanistan.
The Defense Department identified them as Marine Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman, 43, of Newark, Delaware; Sgt. Benjamin Hines, 31, of York, Pennsylvania; and Cpl. Robert Hendriks, 25, of Locust Valley, New York. They were infantrymen assigned to 2nd Battalion, 25th Marines, a reserve infantry unit headquartered out of Garden City, New York.
Hendriks' father told the AP that even a rumor of Russian bounties should have been immediately addressed.
"If this was kind of swept under the carpet as to not make it a bigger issue with Russia, and one ounce of blood was spilled when they knew this, I lost all respect for this administration and everything," Erik Hendriks said.
Three other service members and an Afghan contractor were wounded in the attack. As of April 2019, the attack was under a separate investigation, unrelated to the Russian bounties.
The officials who spoke to the AP also said they were looking closely at insider attacks from 2019 to determine if they were linked to Russian bounties.
Associated Press writers Zeke Miller and Deb Riechmann in Washington, Deepti Hajela in New York and Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report.
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Russians will hack again in '18. Here's how So Cal elections will answer
At a recent conference on election security, Orange County Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley said he'd asked former CIA Director Michael Hayden if Russian hackers will try to disrupt the 2018 mid-term elections.
"He didn't hesitate," Kelley recounted. "He said, 'They will be targeting congressional races.'"
In Southern California, home to some of the nation's most-competitive congressional contests, that threat is being taken seriously. Consider just a few of the many new security protocols being adopted by election officials in the four-county region.
Office emails are being encrypted and networks buttressed. Election employees are randomly being mock phished to see if they'll fall for simulated online invaders. Federal officials are being invited to inspect and test the region's many voting systems.
Even the seemingly oldest of old-school safety protocols — counting up some election results by hand — is expected to play an expanded role in the 2018 midterms.
The local upgrades are part of a national response to Russia's meddling in America's 2016 elections. Intelligence agencies have determined that, among other things, Russian agents and their operatives executed a cyberattack on a U.S. voting software supplier, sent spear-phishing emails to election officials, and targeted voter rolls in at least 21 states, breaching a small (but undisclosed) number of them.
Since then, Congress has authorized $380 million to help states strengthen voting systems' digital defenses, including $34 million earmarked to protect the integrity of elections in California. In the last weeks of the Obama administration, the Department of Homeland Security also designated state-run election systems as critical infrastructure, elevating them to the same classification as nuclear reactors and the Hoover Dam. And the FBI and other federal officials are offering free cybersecurity assessments to local election offices.
To date, there's no evidence that votes were changed or voting machines infected during the 2016 cyberattacks. And election security experts say such threats are remote in any specific jurisdiction, and nearly impossible on a substantial scale.
But the upcoming midterms are the first national election since 2016. And those same election experts caution that attacks remain feasible in some American elections systems, particularly if existing vulnerabilities aren't fixed.
Risk is low; security high
California's voting infrastructure is, in many ways, far more secure than those of most other states. Counties in California are legally required to keep paper ballots as fixed records of electronic voting tallies and to hand-count the ballots cast at one percent of all precincts to verify digital totals. That means even if voting machines are compromised, there's a physical backup to warn of a discrepancy.
That's not true in 11 states, where voting equipment can't be audited manually and a hack that alters voting results could go entirely undetected. (Interestingly, most of the un-auditable, all-digital machines in those states were put into use after Florida's "hanging-chad" debacle during the 2000 presidential election scared officials away from punch-card voting systems to what were perceived as more reliable electronic machines.)
Despite California's superior safeguards, cybersecurity experts say the state's voting systems remain susceptible to some forms of attack. Recognizing the threat, election officials in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties all said recently that they've become more vigilant since the 2016 campaign and have welcomed help from federal agents to assess their systems.
But implementing fixes has happened at different speeds across the region, with some counties addressing potential vulnerabilities more aggressively than others.
The leader of the pack seems to be Orange County, where four congressional contests in longtime GOP-held districts are being targeted by national Democrats in their effort to take control of the House of Representatives.
In April, Kelley released a 28-page "2018 Election Security Playbook" outlining new security protocols his office has implemented: from improving its ability to detect network intrusions and malware, to encrypting its emails, to enhancing building security, to implementing a third-party cybersecurity audit, to randomly testing its employees by sending them faux phishing emails and seeing if they bite.
The most substantial of the county's new fixes is its risk-limiting audit – a protection that verifies electronic tallies with an even higher degree of certainty by hand-counting a random sample of paper ballots, with the number of votes scrutinized corresponding to the margin of victory in a given race.
Kelley knows firsthand that malicious actors are constantly probing local voting systems.
At the election security conference, held at UC Irvine in March, Kelley revealed that he and Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Dean Logan were contacted by federal officials in spring 2016. They warned Kelley that people using overseas IP addresses had prodded his office's networks in a move that was described as "checking to see if the front door of your house was locked."
Kelley said his office's defenses withstood the test, but he immediately worked to strengthen protections anyway.
"We've reevaluated every piece of the voting system and process, identified potential vulnerabilities, and made sure those are solid and secure," said Kelley, who serves on a recently created federal 25-member election security council.
"Even though the risk is low, (the potential for hacking) is being taken very seriously," he said. "And that should inspire voter confidence, just to know that there's a different approach being taken to elections than there was in 2016."
In Los Angeles County, home to another one of the nation's most competitive congressional races, Logan has educated his staff on cyber threats by having them see firsthand how voting machines can be hacked.
Last year, he sent members of his team to DEF CON in Las Vegas, one of the world's largest hacker conventions. There, at something called the "Voting Machine Hacking Village," they watched white-hat hackers "go through and show the vulnerability of voting systems," a process that helped Logan's office identify its own potential shortcomings. Since the 2016 elections, the office has upgraded its malware protection and mandated cybersecurity training for staff. It soon will implement vulnerability-assessment and phishing exercises to further test its new systems.
"If we don't know those vulnerabilities, we can't respond to them," Logan said at the conference.
San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters Michael Scarpello was more cryptic about what he'd done to enhance election security in his jurisdiction.
Scarpello said his office had been working with federal agents and the county's IT department to harden its voting systems, website and local voter registration database from attack. He noted the effort was partially in response to a "heightened level of scrutiny, based on what's going on at a national level." Scarpello declined to identify any specific security system or protocol changes – and even refused to disclose the federal agency his office worked with.
And in Riverside County, election officials say the FBI and Department of Homeland Security are helping to monitor their network traffic and supplying a list of IP addresses to watch out for.
Riverside County Registrar of Voters Rebecca Spencer said the increased vigilance isn't in response to a July 2017 Time magazine cover story. In that article, the Riverside County District Attorney stated that hackers had changed a small number of county residents' voter registration data in advance of the 2016 primary. And unnamed national cybersecurity officials said the incident may have been a "test run by the Russians… (to see) what kind of chaos they could unleash on Election Day."
Since then, that version of events has been rebuffed by election officials. California Secretary of State Alex Padilla's office, which operates the state's voter registration database, said his office had no evidence that voter rolls were breached. And Spencer said her office had identified the cause of nearly all the voter roll changes, many of which occurred because voters simply forgot they had updated their information.
Hacking your confidence
Despite all the recent upgrades to Southern California's election infrastructure, cybersecurity experts say most voting systems – even bolstered local ones – still have vulnerabilities.
Many Southern California polling places use 15-to-20-year-old voting machines with outdated operating systems that officials acknowledge are less secure than modern versions. While voting machines are tightly protected, some need to be programmed with a separate memory card, which, depending on the offices' protocols, could be a vehicle for malicious code. And experts say some voting machines are serviced by outside vendors with varying security protocols, sometimes via computers that might occasionally be connected to the internet, providing a pathway for attack.
Another feasible mode of attack, experts say, could target the state's voter registration system. Intruders might seek to change or delete portions of voter rolls in a way to deter citizens from voting – similar to what was alleged in Riverside County. To prevent such a breach, Padilla's office has buttressed its information systems in advance of the 2018 elections by conducting an agency-wide security audit, enhancing its server security and replacing antiquated infrastructure. The state also has implemented "increased 24/7 monitoring" to detect and block potential strikes.
"I think we're in a much better place in 2016 because we really have our antennas up," UC Irvine law professor Jack Lerner, who studies electronic voting, said of California's system.
"I don't think we're totally safe unless we have a (mandatory risk-limiting) audit, the way experts have recommended. But we're in way better shape than other jurisdictions."
Even if the elections systems are never breached, though, many election-security experts worry the intrusions and hacking attempts are damaging elections in a more intangible way.
Mary Beth Long, a former CIA intelligence officer and Assistant Secretary of Defense, said at the UC Irvine conference that a central aim of Russia's efforts is to foster distrust of the democratic process and amplify divisive dialogues by causing voters to think elections are able to be rigged.
"It sows discord, controversy and a real lack of confidence in our system… And that has a tremendous impact in how we conduct ourselves, and how we move forward with our elections," Long said.
"We'll definitely see more (attempts) in 2018 and 2020."
That knowledge has put election officials and others in a delicate position when deciding whether or not to sound the alarm about potential election security threats and the need to safeguard and modernize voting systems. Tread too softly, and the fixes might never come. Announce the vulnerabilities too loudly, and you risk cultivating skepticism among voters.
"There are election officials who worry that if voters know what the risks are, they might not come to the polling place," said Alex Halderman, a University of Michigan computer scientist who in 2017 testified before U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about cyber threats to U.S. elections.
"Although studies show that voters who are more aware of cybersecurity issues are just as likely to vote, I think there's a concern that even talking about these problems is somehow negative," Halderman said at the UC Irvine conference.
"But if we don't talk about them, nothing is ever going to get done."
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Wisconsin's transportation priorities are backwards and need to be fixed now.
Madison, WI – Residents of cities and towns across Wisconsin came together at the State Capitol today to deliver a simple message to Governor Walker and to our state leaders: Wisconsin's transportation priorities are backwards and need to be fixed now. We don't need new transportation taxes! We need to stop wasteful highway expansions and we need to fix the potholes that litter our streets!
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation may build a double-decker freeway in Milwaukee.
"We don't want a double decker highway boondoggle in Milwaukee, we want Gov. Walker to fix our local roads and potholes and stop wasting taxpayer money on wasteful highway expansions we don't want and need," said Juan Carlos Ruiz, Chair of the Cleaner Milwaukee Coalition and member of the Coalition for More Responsible Transportation.
The La Crosse community has been fighting the North-South highway 53 corridor for 25 years and voted to oppose the highway expansion by a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent. Over protests of La Crosse residents, the DOT proposed a new road that harmed residential neighborhoods and the La Crosse River marsh. Traffic counts have been essentially flat for the last 10 years.
Across the state, streets are riddled with potholes, bridges are crumbling and local transit needs are being ignored. Three quarters of Wisconsin's roads are of "poor" or "mediocre" quality, and over 1,100 bridges, 8 percent of all bridges in the state, are structurally deficient. Nonetheless, funding for local road maintenance and repair has declined by 30% over the past 15 years. Meanwhile spending on big-ticket highway projects has nearly doubled.
At the same time, Wisconsinites – and especially Millennials – are driving less, and want more transportation options, including more walkable and bike-able communities, and more and better transit. Yet, funding for these options is being cut, to build highway boondoggles. Investing in these options is not only key to bringing and keeping young, bright minds in Wisconsin; it will also become more and more essential as our population ages, and older Wisconsinites who can no longer drive become stranded, without options.
"Instead of spending billions on new mega-highway expansion projects that we can't afford, don't want and don't need – and especially before considering new transportation taxes – we should focus transportation funds on fixing what we have first," said Bruce Speight, WISPIRG Director.
Faced with crumbling local infrastructure and growing transit needs across the state, Governor Walker's Department of Transportation is instead choosing to waste billions of taxpayer dollars to expand highways, on stretches of road where we are driving less.
Take the expansion of I-94 in Milwaukee as an example: The state intends to spend as much as an additional $800 million (above and beyond the cost of repairing the aging highway) to add capacity to the Interstate, despite strong public opposition and an 8 percent decrease in traffic volumes from 2000-2012.
Four dubious highway expansion projects, including the double-decker expansion of I-94 in Milwaukee, would cost taxpayers nearly $3 billion. For just a third of that, we could repair local roads, upgrade transit, bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and finance the urgent rehabilitation of state-owned roads – for the next 10 years.
The Coalition for More Responsible Transportation was formed to challenge the overbuilding of highways in Wisconsin while our local roads and transit systems suffer.
Amen! Passing this article around and so should you!


Retro surf shorts made for long summer sessions ahead. Part of the 2019 Surf Capsule Collection, the Hightide Short brings together vintage high waisted bikini bottom design with a modern, surfable neoprene bottom. Made from no-slip neoprene with glide skin binding, the women's wetsuit bottom is reversible, giving you two surf shorts in one.
Model is wearing Serape in size S. Height: 5'7". Chest: 32". Waist: 24". Hips: 35".


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SF Sketchfest postponed to 2023 for safety reasons
Published January 14, 2022 5:17PM
San Francisco Sketchfest rescheduled due to COVID
Sketchfest, one of the Bay Area's most star-studded events, announces a change of plans.
SAN FRANCISCO - The 20th annual SF Sketchfest has been rescheduled for 2023 due to safety concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers announced on Friday.
The new dates for the live sketch-comedy event are Jan. 20 through Feb. 5 of next year.
Organizers were disappointed about another year apart. "The health and safety of our audience, performers, and staff comes first," read an email newsletter.
However, they were enthusiastic to share that most of the existing show will still be held at the rescheduled festival. 2023 was the earliest they could find a venue to accommodate the fest as planned.
Ticket holders will be contacted by the festival about the update and should hang on to their tickets.
The event was originally set for this month, but was postponed as COVID cases from the omicron variant surged. Organizers said some of the artists expressed concern about traveling and performing given the current health situation.
The sprawling comedy event promised talent from the likes of Maria Bamford, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Cheech & Chong, Michael Ian Black, Tim Meadows, David Alan Grier and Dana Gould.


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With over 75 years of experience armour® star has skillfully created chili with premium Ingredients, simmered to perfection. Our unique blend of spices, tender beans, and premium beef have created the ultimate chili experience! Anytime is armour® star time!
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This Merit award has been established by Bighelp For Education to foster a competitive spirit among students studying in schools under Rebbanpally project located in Rebbanpally Village, Mancherial District of Telangana state. This award considers all students equally irrespective of their individual financial strength, cast or religion. This endeavour sends a message among all students that every child is capable of achieving highest rank regardless of their school, gender, class, race, religion or disability.
This award carries a cash prize of Rs. 1000 first prize and Rs. 500 second prize for 10th class toppers and Rs.500/- for students from 6th to 9th class for both Telugu and English Mediums separately . A certificate also presented to the winning students of 10th class. Award is presented to the winners every year.
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I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike! That song starts to play in my head every time I read or write about bicycles! This layout is all about those - cycles that is. It's documenting how my younger daughter learned to ride the bike, actually in the same strip of road where I first learned to cycle all those years ago.
The layout is done for Sizzix (link) and the main element of the page is naturally a bicycle! I took some step pictures along the way if you want to see how I made the page.
I started the layout by using clear gesso to coat the white cardstock. I then started adding colors by first using watercolors and then inks. I added the inks through a self made stencil with the "Paint Splats" die.
Next I added wheels to go round and round - that is to say circles with different patterned papers. I cut the circles with different sizes dies from the "Framelits Circles" set.
Then I made the circles a part of the background by adding some stamping and pencil doodles on top of them. Now they seemed more like elements in the background, guiding the composition.
I used the papers that were left while cutting the circles and clustered the papers behind the photo. I stapled the layers together and then used foam dots to mount the photo to the cluster and cluster to the background.
Next step was adding embellishments and more layers. I cut the bicycles and the title from black cardstock and some stars from yellow. I also added a couple of leaves cut from white cardstock and a flair button. The cycles and leaves are from "Spring Time" die set, the letters with "Delicate Letters" and the stars with "Birds and Stars".
Lastly I finished the page with some epoxy stickers and journaling. I first used a pencil to draw lies for the journaling and then wrote it using a black gel pen.
If you liked the step by step, please also see Sizzix site as there's plenty of tutorials there! Like videos to different makes (link) or step by steps like to a birthday card (link). And also, if you are low on paper but have access to a printer, there's the free paper archive in the site (link).
Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a colorful day!


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package org.traccar.api.resource;

import org.traccar.Context;
import org.traccar.api.BaseResource;
import org.traccar.model.GroupPermission;

import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.DELETE;
import javax.ws.rs.POST;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import java.sql.SQLException;

@Path("permissions/groups")
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public class GroupPermissionResource extends BaseResource {

    @POST
    public Response add(GroupPermission entity) throws SQLException {
        Context.getPermissionsManager().checkReadonly(getUserId());
        Context.getPermissionsManager().checkUser(getUserId(), entity.getUserId());
        Context.getPermissionsManager().checkGroup(getUserId(), entity.getGroupId());
        Context.getDataManager().linkGroup(entity.getUserId(), entity.getGroupId());
        Context.getPermissionsManager().refreshPermissions();
        if (Context.getGeofenceManager() != null) {
            Context.getGeofenceManager().refresh();
        }
        return Response.ok(entity).build();
    }

    @DELETE
    public Response remove(GroupPermission entity) throws SQLException {
        Context.getPermissionsManager().checkReadonly(getUserId());
        Context.getPermissionsManager().checkUser(getUserId(), entity.getUserId());
        Context.getPermissionsManager().checkGroup(getUserId(), entity.getGroupId());
        Context.getDataManager().unlinkGroup(entity.getUserId(), entity.getGroupId());
        Context.getPermissionsManager().refreshPermissions();
        if (Context.getGeofenceManager() != null) {
            Context.getGeofenceManager().refresh();
        }
        return Response.noContent().build();
    }

}

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Q: what does it mean by 'one application per one operating system' in hyper-visor virtualization? I was going through the documentation for docker. It was providing the concepts for virtual machine before container. The author stated that, a server can be divided into multiple virtual machines having their own operating system. He also stated that, this way, multiple applications can be run in one physical server by running each of them in separate virtual machine (one virtual machine for one application). I was little bit confused here. Can't multiple applications run in one virtual machine (operating system) without the need for other vm ? By applications, what do we mean? I am a total beginner in this topic. If anyone could make me understand this terminology, I would be very grateful. Thank You.

A: An application is a service or a process  such as: Nginx, PHP, Redis, Apache, Memcached and so on.
The reason why is recommended this way it is because containers have been designed to isolate a process by giving its own userspace and filesystem.
Therefore, this comes of benefits such as: having just one process per container makes it easily re-usable for another projects, easily scalable and you also separate  worries so for example if run 2 applications inside a container and you want to shut one of them then will that process gracefully stop or you will have to stop the entire container?

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