Then you don't know anything about how difficult search and rescue can be in a contested environment. Pilots don't carry Starlink, and anything with even one-tenth the powerful is still like sending up a literal red flare for the enemy who's then gonna start a foot race to your ass with a huge head start vs friendly forces. It becomes a literal cat and mouse game.

Combat SAR is one of the military's most difficult challenges.

If you mean that question honestly; they do. The problem is actually making contact in such a way that the enemy can't find the source of the transmission. It's somewhat easier in an urban setting to high amongst the noise. In the wide open "RF silent" desert? NFW am I openly transmitting if I'm isolated. The enemy doesn't have to decode your signal, just detect it and triangulate. Being alerted to, communicating with, finding, and recovering an Isolated Person (IP) is one of the most difficult challenges for the military.

Oh Bother!

Not sure why you were modded down. All valid points.

Perhaps.

But at what point do you think someone has to decide they can't fix the problem, are now facilitating it, morally just can't keep doing it, their departure at least serves as a clarion call, and perhaps denial of their skills puts a dent in unfettered progress (presumes they aren't reasonably replaceable anyway)?

There does come a point when you just have to take a stand and nope out.

And yet still half the times the terminal doesn't read, or the damn sensor is in a different spot without a clear indicator. I can see the slot. I put it in the slot. I would prefer to tap, but the user experience is amazingly somehow shitty in the US. I travel to the EU annually for 2 weeks so I get to experience how it should work, so I have a basis to compare. Some how we screwed up settled science.

get over it.

Depending on the location and situation I still wouldn't go without a PLB for that reason and more.

"Stop fucking the straw man, he's tired."

That's gold Jerry. GOLD!!!

Thank you for the chuckle AND the new phrase. I regret to inform you I will NOT however be giving you credit. :p

Totally there with you. But as stated in the article is that customer acquisition and installation costs should be much lower in any given area compared to typical panels. What that tells me is that the $/sq m and the more applicable metric, $/kW will be higher so they don't want to say that. And taking them at their word (risky, I know) that doesn't matter because what matters is installed cost and it is 100% true that it varies a LOT for all solar applications. Cost of labor, materials, complexity of install (of the new roof surface and the panels) varies wildly around the country.

So "costs the same when installed" is a valid, albeit unverified, statement.

The best part is, their panel costs should go down as production ramps up and competitors step in if this takes off. The proofs is still in the pudding if their claim that acquisition and installation costs really do go down and stay down relative to traditional solar installations.

So maybe the correct metric then is CO2 per productive or marketed kWh ... essentially don't count any kWh that is put into mining. That has the benefit of not changing the metric units for comparison purposes while correcting for waste.

Don't forget that 1) pilots wear the Universal Management Badge (aka Wings). So unlike #2,3, and 4, where the AF never mixes them, they treat pilots like they can do literally anything. And the problem is there are so very few General Officer positions for anyone without wings and that means there's very little place for incredibly qualified non-pilots to grow their careers towards. And that means the heavy hitters around the table making decisions aren't the experts either.

So the experts leave before the "might as well stick it out to retirement" hump and, only if we're lucky, do they go civilian or contractor. Of course the most qualified will feel a very powerful draw away from government service to the public sector where compensation and freedom of action are way better.

It is in fact a huge missing factor in zoom and it's annoying as shit. Just a little bit of sidetone would stop people basically yelling during a call which is both annoying for those on the call and those three rooms over that aren't on the call !!!

Good point. Kind of like has basically happened with eye care. They've got Costco Optical. Now try Costco Dental.

But isn't there a another side to your logic, and I do see the logic in it, that now the COMPETITION for talent is also increased.

It used to be that a company's ability compete for talent was hampered by the friction that was asking a worker to move / waiting for [random worker] to self-relocate to your area. I'm not talking just the expense to move, but the ability to woo a worker away from their life, their kids school, their family and to convince them your geography is worth the move.

Now, any company willing to accept remote workers can compete for talent they would have had a hard time competing for before.

It might not be an even balance, we might not know for years until this all shakes out. But I would argue it is not the one sided change in the labor market you present.