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Comment news, why ? (Score 1) 36

There are plenty of cities in western countries where drones are entirely prohibited and you need to drive to the countryside to fly it, observing various nature reserves and restricted airspaces.

It is also very common that training, a test or license, insurance, etc. are required.

The odd thing is that buying is restricted. Does that include ordering online?

Comment Re: Instead, it plans to develop a voluntary indus (Score 1) 99

Food is labeled, it is plain obvious if it is vegan or not.

Really? Are you sure? If you're considering buying a package of croissants, how can you tell if they were made with butter or margarine? Either way they'll look the same, done properly they'll taste almost exactly the same and if the list of ingredients lies, how can you tell?

Comment Re:The SpaceX Valuation is Insane (Score 1) 67

You forgot third: He delivers results often enough to keep the believers believing. Tesla really is an electric car company that builds actual cars. SpaceX is actually flying rockets, and has achieved reusability, opening the door for dramatically cheaper space access.

Little of that is his own genius, but he does seem to have a knack for getting actually smart people working on visionary stuff.

Comment Re:It's not really greed at that point (Score 1) 314

The most obviously applicable of those are the eligibility rules for SSI, which changed the definition of "public assistance households".

And what makes you think I'm on SSI? I've said repeatedly that I'm retired and am on Social Security, which is completely different. To be a tad more specific, I'm 76 years old and will be 77 by the end of the year. My VA compensation has nothing to do with that, as none of my disabilities made me stop working and all of them were declared Service Connected after I retired.

Comment Re:Is Ohio shooting themselves in the foot? (Score 1) 96

They're a warehouse filled with equipment racks and when something fails a person is sent out to swap parts. They employ at handful of people.

I'm long retired, and the only job I had that included a data center, it was right across the street from where I worked, so I have to ask this: when something fails in the typical data center, how long does it take on the average for somebody to get to it and swap in a new box? And, do they have some spare boxes up and running so that somebody can just switch things over to it in a few minutes and worry about replacing the bad box later or is that service just down until the box gets replaced?

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