Re: it would be fantastic ...
Yes it would be nice if they paid but in the end, they would just get the fine back.
A "stern talking to"? Probably over beers and laughter in the pub if the cops there are like the cops here.
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Apparently, shutting down the accounts of anyone who might be checking
Or anyone questioning FB on anything. A friend got banned (and new accounts he tried were banned) for post links to negative articles about them. At least one was from El Reg. I think he's finally realized there's better things to do than post on Farcebook.
Poor rich kid doesn't get his way so tosses toys across the room and calls in the lawyers.
As a side comment, it's not like his company has any experience outside of his tourist rocket. How long would it take them to play catch up to a level of experience and knowledge that SpaceX has?
Zoom is fatiguing, Teams is clunky, JitSi is sometimes unstable, Google meet is a joke and doomed in 2-4 years.
All this makes me happy that I'm retired and even though I do some free-lance work, I'm not buried in all the corporate BS like this.
I'll be looking for another article on this to say either it died or it's now pure ads even in meeting.
I'll be damned if I'll go anywhere near Faecebook even with a 10 foot pole.
I don't know where you are but where I am one is lucky if the centerline is marked anywhere but the major interstate highway and even then, it fades away pretty fast due to the amount of traffic. As for most of the streets in town.... forget about pavement markings and many times even speed signs.
Solve the wear and tear problem on the roads and you might be on to something.
There is a book of Americans and their guns. One has / had a Napoleonic era canon.
I think most people would be surprised at what Americans own. Tanks, artillery, MG's, (not the car), mortars, bazookas, etc. Some even own fighter planes. There are specialty types like Civil War and Revolutionary War collectors (and re-enactors who own operational cannon.
Not an expert in any way on the matter, but it seems to me that dropping a super-cooled liquid on a raging fire is an absolute guarantee of explosive results that might not correspond to the definition of "putting out the fire".
Well, a bit of explosive does go a long way as it works on oil field fires. Not sure if it would work here as it would scatter the lithium over a wide area. See icon...
I say let him and Elon build their giant penises and have an outer space pissing match.
That really doesn't sound like a bad idea. They build, NASA tests and decides which one goes into space and gets paid. But then Bezos might have a plan to use Amazon workers and pay rates to build it.
At 1.48 he says "Accidents are always a matter of IF not WHEN in motorsport..."
I think it's the other way around.... a matter of "when" not "ifi". Even in drag racing (straight line, separate lanes) they require lots of safety gear because "when".
Back when I was younger, I did a lot of drag racing and had a lot of days/nights that I'd rather not have again that were hard on the equipment and my body.
The days of steely eyed rocket men are probably nearly over. Back then, much was unknown and unpredictable. Today, it's almost "ho-hum" with well tested spacecraft built on the shoulders of the early launches.
With NASA launches, we all held our breaths during the launch back then. With commercial guys....we blow it off. I think both of the commercial guys got entirely too much applause and credit. Innovation... they've heard of it. Their flights are for status (they get an astronaut badge) only.and maybe some rights to willy waving.
All things considered.. space is an adventure and the return on investment is knowledge, not bragging rights.
"My workers are living in tents, so I don't have to pay them a living wage and thus I could have all this money for the rocket fuel. Those poor buggers could watch me through the holes in their tents." - Jeff
He is taking a lot of crap about that. And he probably should. However, like almost all the very wealthy, he won't care.
Worked at a place a long time ago. One evening the security guy was doing rounds, ran into the owner of the company. They decided to go to the cafeteria for some coffee. There they found a manager and the head of the typing pool (Yes it was that long ago) in a delicate position on a table. All we in the office knew was that he and her suddenly left the company. Funny thing is, a brass plaque ended up on table they'd used. Plaque said said "X and Y Memorial Table".with X and Y being their names. No one ever sat at that table again for lunch nor did anyone take credit or blame for the plaque.
We had an engineer designing a "box" for customers. It has one control besides the on/off switch. That control was labeled "wonderful" and only rotated in on direction. Per his comments this was designed that way as customers always wanted "more wonderful".
As I recall, the product was released but after a month or so, the company owner had him remove the "wonderful" control. While the marketing types loved it, the owner was a more practical person who realized it really didn't do anything.