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Comment Re:My honda does that now (Score 2) 132

Trucks, including the light trucks sold to consumers, are a separate category in DAFE. You don't average trucks in with cars.

It literally says in the very first sentence of the government page on CAFE: "NHTSA's Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards regulate how far our vehicles must travel on a gallon of fuel. NHTSA sets CAFE standards for passenger cars and for light trucks (collectively, light-duty vehicles), and separately sets fuel consumption standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and engines."

How did this blatant misinformation get marked as "Informative", I'll never know..

Comment Roll backs (Score 1) 132

Can we roll back the Chicken War tariffs that have been in place since 1964? (Yes, it's vehicle related.)
How about eliminating the "foreign oil" exemption to windfall profits tax? Especially US oil that is exported then re-imported at a higher price to evade the tax.
While we're at it, delete the Jones Act (Which is why the East Coast imports oil rather than pipe it in), add in Right To Repair, Right To Own, One Touch Make Ready, Repeal of all cable and telephone monopolies, escheat back to the government leased radio spectra not 72% utilized for more than 3 months, revocation of all DRM for E-Books and printer supplies, term limits for SCotUS, Senate, and House, require congressional districts have about the same number of people with the minimum possible circumference as the only legal considerations (Because voters should pick their politicians, politicians should not be able to pick their voters.)

Yeah. Pipe dream I know. Too much power into the hands of the people, too many profits short circuited.

Comment It sure is (Score 3, Insightful) 16

I got my card back in the summer and have been taking out videos almost every Saturday. Not the crappy Transformers, MCU/Marvel, Fast and Furious, but high quality ones such as A Private War or The King's Speech. Yes, all three John Wick movies have been in there along with Mr. Robot, but it's a good way to find a movie which is a bit out of the ordinary compared to all the dreck out there.

Comment Re: Of course it does (Score 1) 74

You're also somehow oblivious to the fact that the dish is always actively aiming its antenna to track the satellite. And somehow you're expecting adjacent satellites to get a good enough signal to do anything at all with, especially when the adjacent satellites aren't even making the same Doppler adjustments.

The Starlink Dish isn't moving. It's an active array and it's completely possible for that to either "point" in two directions simultaneously or to time switch so that it measures first one satellite then moves to the other.

Comment Re: Of course it does (Score 1) 74

what gives you the idea that a method of getting your own fix, from the ground, will surely work from space?

a) The fact that Starlink controls the software on the terminals and is allowed to send the location from the terminal to their system.

b) The fact that Starlink clearly states that they know, and need to know, your exact terminal location in order to allow handovers to happen correctly.

Comment Re:Move fast, break (crash) things (Score 4, Informative) 77

You say "China" but this is a private Chinese company. "China", as in the Chinese government, does have its own space programme that, like NASA, works with commercial partners. They are looking to put people on the moon around 2030, and on track to do it, but this company is working on low cost to Earth orbit payloads.

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