NetCat with Powershell

I keep forgetting this and when you look for Powershell-like NetCat command you find tons and tons of really large scripts - evidently implementing the full schema - not what I wanted (but, to be fair, exactly what I asked for).  Anyways - here this:

PS > Test-NetConnection -ComputerName 172.16.1.5 -Port 22 -InformationLevel "Detailed"

or

PS > Test-NetConnection -ComputerName "mypc.example.com" -Port 22 -InformationLevel "Detailed"

John Dies at the End

In the dark comedy scifi horror film John Dies at the End, the main plot revolves around a drug which gives the user vast knowledge of everything in various time streams.  Essentially, the user can no longer perceive time in the usual linear way and is always confused and asking "Is this now?" "When is this?"  "Has X happened yet?"

I find myself thinking along those lines as I work on Azure.  I keep finding "solutions" to issues only to try them and find they simply do not work at all.  For example, the recent output from a command "error: unknown option `--image'" sent me looking for the date of the documentation I was using.  "Is this now?" "When is this?"  "Has X happened yet?"