Yeah, Elon Musk is the biggest grifter of all, in the form of "renewable energy credits". Tesla has burned through almost 10 billion dollars in its history and only makes a profit off government handouts. Starlink as tech is crap, and most of what comes out of this guy's mouth is lies.
Yep Elon Musk. The man that destroyed terrestrial-based astrophotography until his satellite network suffers orbital decay and turns into a meteor shower.
Because HANDOUTS to the RICH always works WELL. You see the trickles? It should be trickling SOON! and THIS benefits the FEW people who LIVE in rural areas to GET AWAY from that sort of SHIT.
[ - ] localsal 1 point 3.5 yearsNov 9, 2021 14:24:54 ago (+1/-0)
The biggest drawback to mass starlink adoption is the price. $499 for the equipment and $99/mo? I guess it competes with the $150/mo cable plans (which includes tv? does starlink do tv?) but for my $40/mo plan, starlink does not compete.
I don't think that has been tried yet, but if you have reserve power Starlink will definitely work after the tornado, you can't say the same for cable internet or cellular.
It gave us the information superhighway though. It's like our actual highway system. Only difference is it's privately owned, costs $150/mo to use, hasn't been updated in 20 years, and everywhere you go is recorded. The big stuff is the same though.
It's hard to beat the $200billion slush fund the cablecos got in the 90s.
Do you happen to know exactly when that was? I suspect that money went straight to the Israeli company Converse Infosys as payment for their dragneting systems (which became legally mandatory on all web traffic by 1996 through CALEA passed in 1994), but hadn't been able to track a payment yet.
BTW, yes this is the same Comverse Infosys who was proven to be involved in 9/11 on declassified docs.
[ - ] localsal 1 point 3.5 yearsNov 9, 2021 17:32:11 ago (+1/-0)
The money wasn't to any one company.
A small clip from Cringely many years ago: Al Gore's National Information Infrastructure program of the 1990s, which was intended to build for us all exactly the sort of data network enjoyed today by people in Japan and Korea. $200 billion in tax credits were distributed, primarily to telephone companies. That's $200 billion in government revenue foregone, which is just the same, it seems to me, as writing a check. And what did we get for it? Limited Internet service in schools and no Internet service in homes. The DSL we have today we paid for, believe me - phone companies sell that stuff at a profit. However well intentioned Al was, his system was gamed by the phone companies who took the money and ran.
The telcos were supposed to deploy fiber all across the US, to replace the copper. None of the credits were even tracked - so not a penny went to installing fiber.
Only when google started buying up dark fiber and installing their own (and offering free fiber plans) did the telcos get off their collective asses and start to upgrade.
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They're coming for that, too
https://archive.ph/9BpVS
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That's almost a trillion today...
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http://irregulators.org/bookofbrokenpromises/
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Do you happen to know exactly when that was? I suspect that money went straight to the Israeli company Converse Infosys as payment for their dragneting systems (which became legally mandatory on all web traffic by 1996 through CALEA passed in 1994), but hadn't been able to track a payment yet.
BTW, yes this is the same Comverse Infosys who was proven to be involved in 9/11 on declassified docs.
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[ - ] localsal 1 point 3.5 yearsNov 9, 2021 17:32:11 ago (+1/-0)
A small clip from Cringely many years ago:
Al Gore's National Information Infrastructure program of the 1990s, which was intended to build for us all exactly the sort of data network enjoyed today by people in Japan and Korea. $200 billion in tax credits were distributed, primarily to telephone companies. That's $200 billion in government revenue foregone, which is just the same, it seems to me, as writing a check. And what did we get for it? Limited Internet service in schools and no Internet service in homes. The DSL we have today we paid for, believe me - phone companies sell that stuff at a profit. However well intentioned Al was, his system was gamed by the phone companies who took the money and ran.
The telcos were supposed to deploy fiber all across the US, to replace the copper. None of the credits were even tracked - so not a penny went to installing fiber.
Only when google started buying up dark fiber and installing their own (and offering free fiber plans) did the telcos get off their collective asses and start to upgrade.