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The State of Ukraine is currently subdivided into two contiguous regions, on the left-hand side Ukraine proper, representing two thirds of the current territory, which is currently under Martial Law, and to the right-hand side Ukraine currently under Russian Federation Administration. The area under Russian Federation Administration has been under special circumstances for over 3 years. For the area defined as Krim, aka as Crimea, these special circumstances have existed since 2014.

For the public of both area's this means that basic life does not exist in the same way it ordinarily does for other countries and populations. On the left, Martial Law is disruptive to the whole populace, routine activities like working, leisure, travel, healthcare, local government, law enforcement, agriculture, emergency services, civil society and, well, just about everything, does not operate in the way it ordinarily should. For many, these ordinary and basic services do not operate at all. Everything, from taking your children to school, to attending a hospital appointment, to traveling to see family, friends and even taking a vacation, is riddled with complications and unsafe experiences by those whom are attending, only, to the duty of enforcement of Martial Law.

The same is true of those areas under Russian Federation Administrative control. But the issue is slightly worse, because the ordinary things you take for granted are complicated by the intermixing of systems which are running next to each other, and evolving together, under the civil structure of a government that may not be, itself, using the same systems that were in place before the newly arriving administration appeared. You may say ‘administration’ only means ‘government’, which is naive.

For this land area that is currently home to over 32 million people, your ‘War’ has a limited lifespan, the duties and responsibilities of those whom work in these regions in every sector of society, and whom are providing essential services to the populace, will require a level of support that will need to be provided as competent essential services without any fuss, argument or political drama, and will need to be entirely free of unusual circumstance. Circumstances will need to be normal, useful, and cross-referenced with other known international systems. That does not happen if the state is preoccupied with some other unnecessary activity.

You do not need to listen too much to the public figures that appear in public to explain all of this, because they almost never do actually explain any of this. You need to listen to the people whom work within these areas and whom work tirelessly in direct proximity to the populace.

What we are saying is, you have a limited amount of time available to you.

Keep this in mind, and do not forget it.

Looking at the whole and bigger picture, the issue seems to stem from the limitations of the modern computer, a common consumer grade computer is limited to 64 bit parity with a non paging memory access range of 2^64 – 1, but which is limited quite severely by sizes of modern volatile memory, so the limit of volatile memory when accessing solid state memory isn’t practical enough to comfortably work on the kinds of file sizes the higher quality film routinely addresses. We estimate that digital would need to routinely use sensor sizes at least 20 times the current availability to begin to have some parity in quality terms, making digital very difficult to use in any practical form.

In addition the archival permanence of film versus digital has never had any parity, even 30 years after the first introduction of consumer grade digital camera technology the issue of archival permanence of digital has no coherent placement, and has barely moved even a single inch toward a usable state since its foundation.

There is no argument here, film is superior to digital.