Why? Is this so that Microsoft doesn't have to pay them well enough? Or do they already make enough money for what the do?

After not agreeing to send my government ID to Google, Google spent 2 days and determined that I'm not yet 18 years old... Considering that I was alive to see the first human moon landing, that is funny.

But that will only take two court cases in separate federal court districts, or three if the first two send the C-suite and Board of Directors to jail. The better question is do we also charge the stockholders? We could get rid of private equity in short order.

Why? Do you know how much profit per launch SpaceX could make off of Amazon?

Also, please ask the PM who approved this to resign, and stop accepting updates from the devs involved, and I'd suggest: their organisations.

If, and only if, there were more than a single copy of the book.

And when the next hurricane hits and the telco's bring in mobile towers to take over, then what? They also deploy mobile towers at event locations where the crowd is expected to overwhelm the existing networks.

A single brave person standing in front of a Chinese armored column is the quintessential image of Tiananmen Square for everyone outside outside of China.

The question is why it won't criticise the countries where its funding originated? On second thought, that would be a terrible idea before going public.

I bet it will give you the brutal truth if you ask it 'What happened at My Lai?'

But that's not being argued here. What's being argued here is that materials that are recyclable, and marked as such, aren't being recycled -- for various reasons, none of which should matter to the manufacturer/distributor.
For example, if I sell you a beverage in an aluminium can, I can't stop you from thowing it in the trash even though it is marked as recyclable, and is one of the materials that is commonly recycled.
If a plastic container is marked as recyclable (because a process exists to recycle that type of plastic) is it the manufacturer's problem that the consumer can't recycle it because their locality can't or won't handle it?

re: diesel. A lot, more than will ever be recovered by recycling anything other than metals. Gold, silver, aluminum, copper, and steel are all recycled because its less expensive than mining.

Are you saying that 5% = 0%?
The reason that its only 5% is that its expensive to do so. The means some localities, including the county in which I live, don't accept plastics to be recycled.
Oddly enough they don't accept paper here, and paper has been recycleable for almost 1000 years.

The problem with your statement is that the materials are recyclable, but Californians (along with the rest of the country) aren't prepared to pay for it. If your gallon jug of milk was $20, you'd stop drinking milk. If you had to pay a recycling charge on the plastic bag in which your loaf of bread was packaged, it would cost $10.

Why doesn't the NSA already provide this service already? Or the National weather service? Or any of these existing commercial satellite companies:
Maxar Intelligence
Airbus Defence and Space
Planet Labs PBC
BlackSky
I'm sure there are others.
What if Starlink v4 are licensed to have cameras installed, pointing both downwards and upwards.

No, its not. In fact, I'd wager that they only have one copy of each unique word in their database*.

* - you have to assume that they also have development, testing, and pre-production copies of that same database.

Some of us don't trust those media companies either. Well, at least I don't. I can't speak for anyone else.