If we get military Starlink before we can pass a bill to allow municipal internet in rural communities I’m gonna…well, feel pretty much the same amount of hopeless as the first time I saw a “let the defense department hold a bakesale for bombs” bumper sticker.
Time-travel books are my absolute favourite.
That was 80 years ago — it’s not like those ignorant Russkies wouldn’t have figured it all out on their own by now 
what, like Xitter being used to drive genocide?
Some of us have been pointing out the danger he does pose (which is probably not the most dangerous man on the planet)…
I think you’re giving him far too much credit here… Yeah, for sure he’s a danger… he’ s just not all powerful like you’re making him out…
I doubt this. At the time, the British were counting the number of Exocet missles in the Malvinas because it was 1 Exocet == 1 warship. I never ever heard of a misfire.
I was originally going to post “shame on the engineers who carried out this despicable order” until I realized all the ones who were free to leave probably already have, and we’re dealing with a bunch of H1-Bs who don’t have a lot of choice. I think it’s now safe to reveal in a thread no one will read that CSNET, the world’s first ISP, was told that South Africa, then under apartheid, wanted to join. The then exec director, who wasn’t around long, was deeply incensed that the entire staff threatened to quit before they (we) would support such a customer. In the event, a formal application never arrived so we were all able to stay.
Are you thinking of SpaceX, or Xitter?
So, question for those who have a better idea of how Starlink works than I do: Is this like cellphones where the user is largely blind to coverage except by if they’re getting a signal or not, or is this more like Issacson gave a blow-by-blow account of how Elon blew up a bridge while Ukraine was driving a bunch of vehciles over it - then Elon says “No, no you misunderstood. The Ukrainians thought there was a bridge there, and just drove over a cliff like lemmings.”
This story really doesn’t make any sense. The English lost ships because of this missile and the French made a lot of money. If that were true, they would have gone bankrupt.
I read that this nonsense was published in the book of Mr. Mitterrand’s psychoanalyst, who in one of the therapy sessions, told this anecdote about the war.
But many people use this anecdote to defend more and more investments in the local defense industry.
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