You absolutely can rent a car or stay at a hotel without a credit card. There are companies in both businesses that will happily put holds on a debit card. My phone company gives me a credit for paying my bill with a debit card instead of a credit card.
True, it's more convenient to use a credit card, but lack of convenience doesn't mean it's impossible to function without one.
The Federal Communications Commission on Friday approved SpaceX’s request to launch an additional 7,500 of its Starlink Gen2 satellites, bringing the total allowed Gen2 constellation to 15,000. The agency also granted the company’s request to operate in additional spectrum bands and to operate at higher power in other bands between 10.7-30 GigaHertz (GHz), pending the completion of an existing FCC rulemaking where the question is being considered.
The order also allows SpaceX satellites to use lower orbits, down to 340 kilometers, and provide direct-to-cell service. The company is seeking approval for a separate 15,000-satellite constellation that would provide upgraded direct-to-cell service using spectrum it’s purchasing from EchoStar.
The article notes that under the Trump administration has also revamped the FCC’s grant program, that under Biden canceled an $886 million grant, claiming absurdly that Starlink did not provide service to rural areas. Under the new program “SpaceX is set to serve the most locations of any ISP under the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program after new Trump administration rules that made it easier for satellite providers to compete for funding.”
Not certain about the NFL service, but MLB.tv blacks out the local teams' games, I think to keep the local affiliates happy. So for example, if you live in NY and want to watch the Yankees or the Mets, you're out of luck when it comes to the streaming service.
I wouldn't be surprised if the NFL streaming service is the same.
The United Kingdom's Ofcom has sent yet another threatening letter to 4chan (a US company). After 4chan refused to pay fines to a foreign government, the United Kingdom says they are "expanding the scope of the investigation into 4chan".
Australia, UK, Germany are all working in different ways to undermine one of the core principles of Western Civilization — the right of free speech.
The European Union's plan to ban new combustion cars starting in 2035 may be over before it has a chance to go into effect, if Germany's leader has anything to say about it.
2035 target was simply infeasible with current technology. While some promising new developments, like solid state batteries, are being worked on, they are not yet ready for mass production.
Criminals will be stopped from “gaming the system” by choosing trial by jury in order to increase the chances of proceedings collapsing, the courts minister has said, promising to enact radical changes to limit jury trials by the next election. Drug dealers and career criminals were “laughing in the dock” knowing cases can take years to come to trial, Sarah Sackman said, while warning that inaction would be a road to “chaos and ruin”. Ministers will legislate to remove the right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in one of the biggest and most controversial overhauls of the justice system in England and Wales in generations – promising the changes will significantly shrink the court backlog by 2029. The Ministry of Justice is braced for a backlash from barristers and the judiciary as it presses ahead with the measures to tackle a backlog of nearly 80,000 cases, which will create a proposed new judge-only division of the crown court to hear some cases. Sackman said the “stakes are incredibly high” as she prepared to announce early next month that vast numbers of cases will now be heard by judges and magistrates rather than juries, a response to recommendations in a review by Sir Brian Leveson.
And you think that would be any different at a HSR station? For the exact reasons to previous poster mentioned, you would still need to show up 2 hours early.
Who's really being disingenuous here?
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