If you are just a political dissident, I don't think anyone's going to be concerned about that.
The problem comes when people express misogyny or racial or religious hatred, or pederasty and attempt to clothe those things as dissidence, or these days even conservatism. It isn't either.
Yeah, but I also have a life, so Valerie and I went for a long walk at Point Pinole, and then for tacos and beer at East Brother brewery. I had a flight with the English Strong, Baltic Porter, Oatmeal Stout, and Russian Imperial Stout. And all of this was probably more fun than Slashdot
Also, for a while the troll situation here was pretty bad. I am watching to see how things go.
FCC will not license your radio communications if your satellite does not have a de-orbit strategy. For low-orbit satellites, like your typical cubesat, the orbit decays by itself and they burn up. For higher orbit ones, you need a method to de-orbit them.
Cubesats are some multiple of a 100mm cube. I seem to remember seeing the prototype for this satellite and it was a 6x2x1 multiple of a 100mm cube. Not quite suitcase-sized.
Although the headline is sad, this was a total mission success, with the only disappointment being that it didn't stay around for even more years after the primary and secondary missions.
The Palo Alto location was a one-story building from another age, with a large parking lot, surrounded by multi-story headquarters of the most lucrative businesses. It's close to Stanford and the Sand Hill Road VCs. Fry's lost their lease. I would assume that the site will be bulldozed and rebuilt as multi-story with in-building parking.
That said, I can confirm that if you go to Fry's looking for a new laptop, you will mostly find refurbished units and old models they couldn't sell. And you will notice that there aren't many people shopping, and that the shelves are astonishingly bare.
I used to go there often, but online stores have become my main source for electronics and computer hardware. I doubt I'm alone in that. Even back when I was a frequent customer, I would find that the stuff I bought at Fry's was often old models rather than the manufacturer's current ones. Toward the end I was looking everything up on my phone before putting it in a cart. Sort of defeats the purpose of shopping in a brick-and-mortar.
Does anyone else see this as something rather unlikely to come from the administration? Scientists say that Open Publication is good for the world. There are deep-pockets publishers on the other side, with rent-seeking to protect. You tell me how this is likely to go.
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