Their launch costs might be great, but there just isn't any demand. Without the starlink launches, the business would not be able to sustain itself. Reusable rockets is a catch-22 because the demand isn't high enough to keep a fleet of rockets with a replacement rate that makes maintaining the complexmanufacturing pipeline viable.

So without starlink, spacex is a dead end. And without spacex, starlink is a dead end. It's a very circular dependency, and they aren't profitable. Starlink will plateau in users - they can never hope to compete with fiber. Most of the world's population lives in cities, not rural areas. The satellite density needed to be a true cellular network is prohibitive. How many satellites would have to be over New York City to provide competitive service?

Paid for by CedarDB?

This was exactly my thought. They want to turn off the money incinerators to juice their numbers and get that sweet IPO money.

Why not a screen or cover for your license plate that activates and obscures it when within a certain distance of any known Flock camera. Make it appear as to be something innocent, e.g. mud, so it looks like an accidentally obscured tag.

Talking about that game, which I played at a friend's house when it was released, right after the 60th anniversary, is a great way to make me feel old AF.

Incorrect. Anyone past my current decade is old. Anyone younger than my decade is just a kid.

Oh someone should definitely name a model Dalek.

If we're open to reducing it to one annoying icon, how about none.

Years playing 3d games and could probably still play DOOM from memory.

Of course this could all just be a self selection process, where innate spacial memory make you more likely to be a successful, long term taxi driver as well as prevent Alzheimers.

Probably going to run up against a very broad interpretation of "vandalism". They can fake up monetary losses even if there is no permanent damage.

Well I call it a lab supply store, not the "chemical store". Just amusing to imagine a store with a big sign out from thar says "Chemicals", especially because literally everything is made of chemicals, so the store could sell anything.

Why not, it's working. AI so powerful even the great billion-dollar AI company can't contain it. Who wouldn't want to invest in that?!

Chemical store?

Hate to sounds like Reddit, but... "this".

The difference is that you can chase off the creeper or call the cops, whereas you cannot do the same with state sanctioned flock cameras. I would suggest that instead of vandalizing them, you just block the view with something, perhaps even with a photo of the area they are observing.