Except those waters aren't Chinese territory, which is the entire point of doing freedom of navigation cruises....to remind them of that fact
The recent China-Russia operation was also in international waters, and you'll notice it's only a handful of senators making a stink about it to get some publicity, the military was pretty clear that it wasn't a problem. They just shadow it like they always do.
I suppose it's the natural result of wanting to keep the show on as long as possible, when you've only got one good idea for the story arc. You need a lot of filler.
I'd like to see more shows done in the style of Babylon 5, where the creator had the whole 5 years written out from day 1. There was very little in the show that felt like filler or treading water.
Which also may explain why books are being brought to TV more frequently these days. But, TV showrunners have a bad habit of taking a good novel and totally mangling it in the translation to TV, so it's not a guaranteed win.
I have the Sportback and not the TourX, but it's still a great car. Got it for a steal too.
It's mostly decent, some interesting twists, but also plenty of dumb stuff in it too. It's only 7 episodes, so even if you don't end up liking it you haven't wasted much time!
Tanium has some common apps pre-packaged and regularly updated, you could just setup an ongoing deployment for those to automate keeping them up to date with minimal work on your part.
If you need to update something not on that list, you will need to make an upgrade package yourself with the updated installer or files.
Whether this is actually easy or not really depends on the app vendor and the software. It's usually straight forward, but not always. But that's the case with literally any software deployment solution.
I have one app in particular who's install and config essentially un-automateable. But it's a shitty LOB app that was written in the 90's to be intentionally obtuse to prevent privacy, hopefully that's not an issue in your case.
We are using Tanium, just put the agent on the servers and you are good to go...build your packages and set up deployment jobs.
It also handles Windows patching, and can do system inventory, among other features.
It's also great for software deployments to you remote workforce systems that are rarely/never on the corporate network.
And seriously, you want a domain. GPOs are incredibly useful for pushing out a huge variety of Windows config changes extremely easily.
I generally find watching in release order tends to work better than chronological order at least the first time thru. The episodes are written assuming you aware of future events depicted in previous shows, if you aren't they tend to lose a lot of their impact.
Congrats for getting thru TAS, I have tried and I just can't.
To be fair, I think this is pretty common in most rural areas of the US, it's definitely not exclusive to western Kansas. Common enough in the Virginias and Carolinas for the last 7 years that it never occured to me that someone would find it novel in 2023! I don't even have pictures.
It's just one of my fans!
The Empire focused half of the show that was mostly made up specifically for the show is EXCELLENT tho, and really worth watching.
They should have just stuck with that and called the show Empire IMHO. Would have been an instant classic.
Frankly, you'll enjoy Foundaton more if you don't read the books first. Otherwise, you'll be sitting there shaking you head wondering why they continuously mangle the core concept of the books so badly, despite characters occasionally directly stating how it works (only for the same episode otherwise showing utter disregard for said statement)
I mean, they don't have to be allowed in international waters, you just need to get all the planet's seafaring countries to dedicate all of their naval resources to a blockade of the US.
The cheaper option is to realize that the USN is generally pretty serious about enforcing freedom of navigation in a way essentially noone else is able to, which is a net positive for the planet. Even when you factor in some of the shady activities and plain old fuckups that they are occasionally involved in.
Frankly I'd be thrilled if China would actually act like the modern global power they clearly want to become, rather than joining Russia in some 1800s imperial LARPing vs the rest of the world.