The game is actually smaller than it once was when it was more popular. It's losing popularity because it's not that fun any more and is littered with bugs. Just like Peleton it achieved unexpected popularity thanks to the pandemic. It's now a victim of its own success. Cheaters arrived en mass with no solution given. The way 3 studios were forced to maintain it on a silly release cycle made bugs that appeared and were fixed reappear with apparently no real communication between studios to help in fixing them.

Oh sure, a few people probably have quit for file size, but it's a pretty small number in comparison to what their player base was. At least compared to the number of people who have quit because they aren't having fun any more.

This was sold as a retrofit of existing aircraft. You don't develop and try to sell a new aircraft to the army that they hasn't asked for. This allows them to more cheaply develop the technology, get their foot in the door and put them in a better position to pitch and win a contract for brand new aircraft.

For the military the advantage is leveraging this technology to cheaply make boneyards full of retired F16s, F4s, and other aircraft back into viability. Of course this goes back to the original comment that in deed, killing machines is certain a goal, but not the only.

Actually the primary use case for this is medical evac and resupply. For resupply it's a no brainer. For medivac it reduces a crew in danger by 2, presumably you still need the medics.

This is largely funded by Sikorsky, not Boeing who would be doing it with Apaches. It's not so much about making a killing machine as it is for Sikorsky to have a drop in product that keeps their products in high demand.

An industry that revolves around people who clip $0.25 coupons is having a hard time getting people to pay extra/more for delivery.

Tesla didn't have a problem because they aren't selling enough cars to warrant it. They didn't have to slow down production, so they didn't see a need to cancel supplier orders. If Tesla saw a shortcoming of a millions of cars not being sold they would have reacted the same way.

She could have not made the movie and been living high on the extra $350 unemployment benefits.

So does this move waiters and waitresses up or down a tier?

Everything has to be an us vs them situation with clear winner takes all and everyone else a loser.

It allowed restaurants to give the appearance they were safe when they really weren't. You had people happily obsessing over their mask while they were outside walking into the restaurant and sitting in their little plexi glassed cubicle to eat thinking they were somehow safe. Studies showed that indoor dining remained a vector for spread, even with the plexi glass and 25% occupancy.

As well as any athlete that nobody watches or cares about.

Actually probably at least 2 movies a month. Which isn't bad considering the main reason most people have prime is for the free shipping and delivery.

And women wear the clothes that they were so have it coming.

This is an ITAR violation, not a top secret or similar DOD violation. Once a program is labeled ITAR even the most benign things about it now become ITAR controlled. Considering it's only a $13M violation the reality is this is a slap on the wrist to make sure they do better rather than a major breach in technology.

Halloween 2011. And yes it was 3 weeks for some people in the hills. Towns are still trimming trees as a result.

Poles are typically owned by the electric utility. Often places with municipal internet do it affordably because they also own the poles. It's mostly a red tape issue than cost. My issue with space based is it seems to me to be a lot more cost effective and easier to roll out a good 5G network to most people. Space is absurdly expensive up front. Seems to be 5G will do to this what broadband internet did to directv and dish.