Not the first, but Iridium has been doing it for years, and was the largest constellation doing it for a while.
[citation needed] Where are you seeing that? Their wiki page doesn't mention it, although it does mention using RF:
Satellites communicate with neighboring satellites via Ka band inter-satellite links
Political robocalls are still prohibited without prior consent at least in the United States. The reason campaigns do phone banking is because that gets around the robocall provision. And anyway if you did a full on real-time chatbot that wasn't obviously faked to anyone who doesn't have dementia the cost would be so high it would be cheaper to just hire people to do it.
This strikes me is just some old-fashioned snake oil to sell to campaigns with way way too much money. There is a hell of a lot of grifting going on right now in politics. This feels like something being sold to a campaign that just doesn't know any better
That's only true for cell phones, for landlines they can robocall as much as they want:
"Political campaign-related autodialed or prerecorded voice calls are permitted when made to landline telephones, even without prior express consent. "
https://www.fcc.gov/rules-poli...
Many, many, many years ago (something, something decades ago) I had come across some books with sci-fi short stories in them. It was about the size of a Reader's Digest (remember those?) and was well known at the time (so well known I can't remember what it was called. Asimov was involved).
I don't know what the story was but the publication was almost certainly "Asimov's Science Fiction"
The car was a rental and he simply did not know how to control the car.
Where are you seeing it was a rental? FTFA:
he said his brand new MG ZS EV became stuck at 30mph...
Mr Morrison said his car...
Over 4000kwh PER MONTH. I just did the calculations AGAIN to CONFIRM what I said before. My math is not only correct,
Your math might be correct, but your assumptions are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off. Teslas get ~4.5-5 miles/kwh so if you were really using 4000 kWh per month that would equate to 18,000 miles per month (at 4.5 kWh/mi.), or 9000 miles per month per car in your scenario. I don't know anyone that drives 9000 miles in a month. Even averaging 60 mph that would be 150 hours of driving per month. Only long-haul truckers would be in the class that a) drives that much and b) averages that high of a speed (and they don't generally work EVERY day so they would need to average even more miles per day to meet the 9k miles/month figure). Your assumption is that since the Tesla charger CAN pull 17.5 kW then it ALWAYS pulls 17.5 kW, that's simply not the case. The average UK car drives 617 miles per month (source) which would equate to ~137 kWh/month, or ~274 kWh/month for your 2-car scenario. Your 4000 kWh/month figure is just wrong, and so massively wrong it's almost certainly a purposeful error -- nobody is THAT stupid.
Now, can we talk about the decimation of wild song birds by cats?
What, are you one of the sheeple that still believes in birds? Newsflash: birds aren't real, it's all just a massive spying conspiracy! Cats are just trying to protect us from Big Brother.
Each car is required to have emergency mobile "SOS" function.
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This just seems like a slashvertisement, with no submitter and the classic "buy now before it's too late" marketing bullshit. Is there anyone who looks at the price of registering a domain and says to themselves "wow, $10 is just too much, I better get a cheaper TLD"? I am notoriously cheap and still won't balk at current domain prices. If Namecheap is giving
When he puts around 93% of his money on the notion the market is going down, at a time when almost everyone says there is no problem... how is that not newsworthy?
Where are you getting that figure, nothing in the story says anything like that. He bought put options, which are basically insurance against share price dropping. It's a hedge against a market drop, it's exactly what hedge funds do every day. The "notional value" listed in the summary is not the cost of the puts, the actual cost is a small fraction. Even if those "notional values" were actual values of something it would still be a fraction of the total assets his fund manages (around $107B). Where are you getting that 93% figure?
The feds say so. Feel free to challenge it in court but in the US currently AI cannot hold copyright according to guidance issued by the Copyright Office. Read all about it: https://www.federalregister.go...
I had a 40-year-old light switch
Shouldn't use light switches to control motors. Could well be why it failed so quickly.
A light switch failing after 40 years is "quickly"? How long do switches normally last? This site says "You can expect a wall switch to last about 30 to 40 years, with an average of 35 years" so it seems like the GP got around the standard life out of the switch.
There is nothing mystical or unknown about what happens when you drown. Your "one hour" number above is some kind of nonsense or old wives tale. (It could also be that someone was in the water -- not underwater -- for an hour, and the advice was to not bother trying to revive them.) The main problem is that your brain starts dying pretty quickly. After that, you're going to also have a (quite likely fatal) heart attack. This all happens within a few minutes, not an hour.
Your brain starts dying about one minute after you drown, and after 3 minutes you're probably going to have permanent brain damage. After 5 or 6 minutes, it's unlikely your brain will still work at all. The current record for survival is abut 8 minutes (female) and 11 minutes (male). That's with brain damage, though.
When you revive someone who was drowned for over 3 minutes, they're going to have very serious permanent brain damage.
Are you just making up numbers? You speak with confidence but your numbers make no sense. 3 minutes? I can hold my breath for 3 minutes but you claim that causes permanent brain damage. You also claim the "record" for survival is 8/11 minutes but there are hundreds or thousands of cases where victims survived without air for longer than that. Heck, the world record for holding your breath is 11:35. Here's a case where 7 teenagers drowned and were resuscitated up to SIX HOURS later, quite a bit longer than the "records" you claim.
To sum up, don't just make shit up on the internet, it's too easy to fact check. If you don't know then don't act like you know.
People who were facilitating theft of services moved on along with people who weren't paying at all.
shrug
FTFS:
adding that the loss of a million users, even if most weren't paid subscribers, would be a blow to Netflix in terms of word of mouth recommendation for its shows and service.
Don't you see, they were getting paid in exposure , which is how content creators are paid now. Stupid Netflix, wanting money for a service they provide.
SPACs are designed for companies that want that sweet, sweet stock market money but don't want the financial transparency that goes with an IPO. The only reason to use one is because you have shady shit going on with your financials, anyone who actually invests in one is a fool. These companies losing the majority of their stock value is an expected result, the people running it have already cashed in and the retail investors are the ones left holding the bag.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
