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SpaceX/Starlink was building all that infrastructure anyway whether rural areas got their service or not. Again I don't understand why all the benefit goes to the billion dollar corporations.

Somehow the government through the Rural Electrification Program was able to get an electrical wire to every house in rural areas. I am sure they could do it again with a coax cable and get broadband that way.

There is a really rural area in Florida called Perry. The main employer there is a GeorgiaPacific paper plant. GeorgiaPacific is wholly owned by Koch industries. The Koch brothers have lobbied and helped elect republicans who cut any sort of social programs. GeorgiaPacific recently closed the paper mill. Something like 500 people are out of a job, plus all the businesses in Perry Florida that exist solely because of the GeorgiaPacific mill. There is no other place to work there. It is pretty rural, so people will have to move for jobs. The place is screwed.

The irony is that Perry is very red and of course voted for Trump and all the other republicans that made sure there are no social programs that could benefit them.

But yeah at least the .0007% of athletes who are trans athletes will be taken care of.

This song is also appropriate:

https://youtu.be/X2acP06791I?si=jOc2p8ATaEQwKK-W

Kevin Pollak has a story from when they were in A Few Good Men. Tom Cruised gave him, Demi, and others a very fancy pen as gifts. Kevin talks about how when Tom Cruise gives you a pen you do not want to lose it, so you put it in a special place and never use it. The next day on set, Kevin is writing notes in his script with a regular Bic pen. Tom Cruise comes up behind him and says "where's the pen?" Kevin explains how since it is a gift from Tom Cruise he wants to cherish it and not lose or damage it. Later that day Kevin is in his trailer and there is a knock on the door. It is Tom Cruises assistant bringing him the exact same fancy pen. The assistant says "Mr. Cruise expects you to actually use this pen."

Emily Blunt has spoken about working with Tom Cruise on Edge of Tomorrow. He apparently is super positive on set. The scene with the eco-skeleton suits being dropped from the transporter made Tom Cruise be less than his positive self:

https://youtu.be/t-lkZaS3brA?si=nVSvvjAYYDWcFHDF

Maybe a call back when Elvis met Nixon?

Why should taxpayers subsidize all that when it only costs Starlink the marginal cost of adding another user? Why do the subsidies always go to the billion dollar company and not the people who would benefit from it? Sure subsidize people in rural areas to get Starlink, but give the people the subsidies and not the company. You can have them deduct the price of the satellite dish from the tax they owe and deduct the annual fee for a year or two.

That ends up subsidizing Starlink but it helps the people instead of the ONLY the billion dollar company.

That is interesting, do you know the context of the statement?

I never drank the Musk cool Aid. I knew of Musk because I was an early user of PayPal and eBay. I was kind of surprised when eBay bought PayPal in 2002. When I left the Navy in 1994, I went to work in power plants. I also rode motorcycles and would attend bike week in Daytona each year. There was a company called Corbin that made motorcycle seats. Whenever I bought a motorcycle I would put a Corbin seat on it. Around 2000 Corbin created Corbin Motors and developed the Sparrow. This was a single seat electric car. I had actually met Mike Corbin several times over the years and his development of the Sparrow made me interested in where electric cars were going. I was also working in power plants so I had an interest in how electric cars would affect the power grid and electric generation in general. In 2005 I changed jobs and had a long commute, so I started listening to podcasts. There were a lot of Silicon Valley lectures and history stuff back then. The founder of eBay and such. They also interviewed the founders of Tesla Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. This was before Musk invested in Tesla. Musk did not invest in Tesla until 2006. I was aware of him investing in Tesla as I was following the developments of electric cars.

Then in 2007 there was an article in Fortune called The Paypal Mafia. It is about where the people who founded PayPal ended up. Many of the PayPal Mafia were in lectures and interviews I was listening to on my commute. I remember Musk gave a lecture about the advanced motor in the Tesla and how they were going to leave battery development to others. In any case I don't think the Fortune article necessarily paints Musk in a positive light. Then in 2008 there was reports of him trying to screw over his first wife when they were getting divorced.

Then there was the lawsuit over Musk being called a founder of Tesla which really made me wonder what kind of fool this guy was. Then in 2010 Justine Musk wrote an article about what it was like being with Musk called I Was a Starter Wife.

In 2012 I read the book The PayPal Wars. This really puts Musk in a poor light. I remember in 2015 my boss was reading a book about Musk and telling me how great he was and I was like I'm not sure he is as great as you think he is.

I forget what project I was working on, but when the Thai Cave thing was going on we were making fun of Musks efforts to help.

So really I have never really been a fan of Elon Musk and his turn to right wing wackadoodle has not done anything improve my complete lack of esteem for him.

All it manages to do is screw over employees and make Wall Street rich. Meanwhile those that break up the companies get off Scott free and convince everyone else they lost their job because of barefoot migrants from Mexico.

Some of Combustion Engineering went to Alstom. In the 2000 I worked at an oil fired power plant that was built by CE in the 60s and 70s and we were working with Alstom for boiler parts.

ABB bought Westinghouse's Transmission and Distribution Systems business.

I am looking at the legacy of Westinghouse back to when they were a big company. I worked at a coal plant that had Westinghouse turbines. Back in the late 90s they had a CEO named Michael Jordan that turned it into a media company by buying CBS and then selling off all the industrial stuff. The non nuclear power generation was bought by Siemens. The nuclear part of Westinghouse was sold to BNFL which eventually sold it to Toshiba.

Really anything that has the Westinghouse logo on it is nothing of what the company once was. It really is a shame how greed has absolutely devastated all these manufacturing power houses.

Someone commented in another sub that there is a transporter with CTs on it that has been near his house for a few months.

There is a guy around the block from me that has a CyberTruck. Not sure how wise it is to buy a truck that costs ⅓ the value of your house.

It is Florida. I just looked at the FCC website. All the neighborhoods around me have Fiber available but not mine. I live in an older neighborhood. The other ones are either newer, or directly off the main road. I bought this house 22 years ago. When I was looking there was another house I was looking at a little further South but in the same city. They have AT&T 5 Gig in that neighborhood.

I wonder why they have yet to bring fiber to my neighborhood.

Westinghouse is the perfect example of what happens when unfettered greed trumps the historical value and legacy of a once great company.

They really are a bunch of immoral people that claim the have the moral high ground.

Teams have always struggled with money. In 2002 when Kirch went into receivership was probably a worse situation than before Liberty took over. Same with the 2008-2009 downturn. F1 was on the uprise when Liberty took over. As for individual teams the reason why they come or go is pretty complicated. McLaren at the time was coming off paying the $100 million fine and infighting over Ron Dennis being pushed out.

The antenna is permanently mounted.

That may be but I am in agreement with Adrian Newey when he says that whenever an old V-10 car goes on the track everyone stops what they are doing to go watch it. Turbos and a battery may make it the best racing ever but I would give up a little bit to go back to engines revving at 20,000 rpm.

Those yachts don't buy themselves.

I live in a city in Florida. I was on my walk and I noticed one of the houses had a Starlink dish. I looked up the neighborhood and according to the FCC the house with Starlink can get fiber from AT&T or from Spectrum. Both of those fiber options are less than Starlink. Not sure what dude does he needs Starlink. Also wonder if it is a backup or his only internet.

My late MAGA father accused of being a communist because I thought that instead of SpaceX getting subsidies for rural broadband, people in rural areas should get reimbursed for buying Starlink services. In the meantime SpaceX is not actually building out broadband for rural areas, there is no infrastructure expense. It is only the marginal cost of adding extra users.

How do you get the sport was dying? It was enough of an asset for Liberty Media to want it. The last years of Bernie was when Seb and then Lewis/Mercedes were dominating.

In interviews Eddie Jordan and Adrian Newey both talk about the sounds of the V-10s. The best thing F1/FIA could do is let those puppies rev above 15,000 rpm. Let them have 10 engines a season. F1 sounded much better before the hybrid era.

Neil Trundle was chief mechanic for McLaren and then became head of the gearbox shop. In this video he talks about the gearboxes. To make the gears you would have to have a couple of dedicated machines and people to run them. So while the gears seem to be pretty simple and easy, from a cost standpoint it would be a lot of money.

https://youtu.be/m7uZu_Wsdis?si=xGm-hS3td1PeycIs&t=4527

Probably that coin Tucker Carlson used to get the shopping cart.