"I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it further" -Darth Zuck

Maybe they can hire SpaceX to launch their satellites. Better than failing completely.

Leave politics out of this. Hate people on your own time. I'm looking for VIABLE options to get there. The other option is to cut losses before they just end up being space litter.

I am not a capitalist. I'm free enterprise, the free exchange of goods and services kind of guy. Subtle but distinct difference.

If one wants the protection of Patents (which I'm 100% okay with), one ought to pay for that privilege, in taxes. 100% completely voluntary with the benefits of patents expiring when nobody wants to pay the tax. Mutually beneficial Exchange being key component.

As a Libertarian, I don't suppose to support tax payer funded research. Mainly because such research leads to patents and other protections that are held not by the public for the public good, but rather commercial for profit corporations.

IMHO, the best case for solving THIS issue is tax patent holders for their patents they enforce, as a TAX. Make it steep. Stop paying the tax, the patent goes public domain. This solves a whole bunch of abuses. Make private research funded patents less taxed, and those discovery/inventions that had public funded (tax payer) at the highest rates. Tax the rich, but make it avoidable, just release to the public domain.

The protection of intellectual property ought to come at a cost.

Documenting Stuff? NO WAY! /s

That is the hardest part of IT for me, is making sure that NOT ME (and sometimes me) can figure out what I did.

We are migrating aways from proprietary to open source. Why?

Once bitten twice shy.

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

Stop feeding the Trolls.

I don't use BIOMETRICs, On Purpose.

I'm not going to either. Biometrics is not secure, and can be compelled.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

They were in flight for how long?

10:21. (less than 11 minutes)

The fact that they are TRYING to claim "experiments" to side track from the Celebrity nature is .... mildly insulting to the REAL women astronauts. "All Female" is just a marketing stunt.

Tourists .

Tourists.

False Dichotomy. Newtonian Physics works pretty darn well for a lot of situations, is simple, so much so, we still use it because it is practical. But it is wrong.

For all we know, Einstein's equations may be suffering the same basic problem, we just haven't figured out why it isn't working where we see it not working as expected. But it works for a large number of scenarios that it is still usable.

That is my current working theory ;-)

The most simple solution to the problems faced here, is that we don't understand physics. In the same way Newton didn't understand the nature of gravity.

I bought an App, years ago. I would buy it again, but it is gone..

I didn't need it. It was just a cool display and tracked my mileage when I was on a trip. "speedometer" I'm sure there are others, but this one was one I liked.

Gone.

You seem to think that only the R are on the take. It is clear, everyone in DC is on the take. The only difference is which team you're on as to whether or not you care (or don't care).

They are all Hypocrites, talking out of whichever side of the mouth gets them elected again, so they can grift off the taxpayers.

"But the other side is worse" you might say. Sure, Fine. The shit sandwich is better over there with you.

Lifespan of the HW is the important detail here. My home is not 99.99999% Uptime required. I don't need "Cisco" grade anything for the "Cisco" grade price. pfSense is good enough for home, it HAS support available (commercial grade) but I do not require it, because I'm not needing 99.99999% Uptime and 1 hour response time.

My current hardware has been running over 5 years. It needs to be replaced. Even Commercial grade needs replacement, even if it is just for obsolescence, eventually. My WiFi Router isn't routing anything, it is just an AP at this point. I use NONE of the features on it, other than getting clients on the network. Neither DHCP nor DNS is served by it. The point being, I do not Trust the OS on it, and cannot upgrade or swap it out due to Proprietary Blobs and OpenWRT is not ever going to run on it, and I don't like the HW that OpenWRT does run on (for other reasons). Therefore, it sits there being an AP serving clients, behind an actual Firewall/Router.

I'm happy you found OpenWRT setup you like. I used to by WiFi Routers that had OpenWRT, and I like the OS. So this is not a bash against that OS. I just have chosen a different route.