Yeah, I had grand plans. I even did one issue, and OCR'd it as well, but then COVID happened and work got busy and now you can fast-forward four years when I've moved countries again, hopefully for the last time. I know where they are, which is good. Need to disassemble the book-edge scanner and clean the underside of the glass off because it's all fogged. I also need to stand up a VM that can talk to the crappy OpticBook drivers. And I'm behind on my start-of-season farm work, which keeps expanding fractally the deeper I go. That dependency stack is what's in my way at the moment.
I believe the person quit the organization, wasn't pushed out.
At one point in time there was problems with the storage space that VCF has. I believe it was fixed. VCF is not a wealthy organization, and is hosted by another underfunded organization. Needs capital to renovate for expansion but it's slow going.
The origin of OneWeb was that the founder approached Elon Musk with the OneWeb idea and an agreement was signed. Not sure what role SpaceX was supposed to take, but at some later point Elon bailed and started a competing service called Starlink.
The OneWeb founder posted a photo of the signed agreement on Twitter some years ago, dumping on Elon Musk.
The original OneWeb founder is no longer involved and has some other space startup now.
Originally Blue Origin and Virgin were supposed to be the launch capability but neither can put anything in space.
Here is the tweet. OneWeb was originally called WorldVu
Virgin Orbit can put things into space, although very low payload - you might have enough capacity to put one oneweb satelite into orbit at a time -- wikipedia says 500kg to 500km, Oneweb are 150kg at 1200km.
If 1 Satellite per launch, that would be 220 launched on LauncherOne at a cost of $2.6b (wikipedia costs), if Virgin Orbital could scale quickly enough (and if it can get 150kg to 1200km)
I view OneWeb as a holding company for spectrum. These sorts of companies have to have some viable operations in place to hold that spectrum, but the incentive is to build a monopoly and milk it. Good on SpaceX for iterating and building something better instead of settling for OneWeb's initial design.
Plus the genius driver had a number of issues with autopilot in the same spot. He had complaints in with the Tesla dealership that his car tried to steer him into the barrier in that location, prior I believe. Something like 7 complaints filed?
Maybe he was trying to get out of his loan but didn't know the impact absorption barrier had been removed.
The human was a human with a bicycle in another lane. It probably was large enough being sideways to look like a car, and that car was in a different lane.
Not sure if the human with bicycle was sprinting across the road either.
Eh, still the #1 streaming service in the USA. Record labels + licensing held them back a good bit and has kept them limited to the USA.
Spotify has some huge lawsuits underway for not clearing proper rights for music as well, I believe one is for 1.8 billion. They do have huge investment (ownership chunk) from at least one major label though I believe?
I don't get all the hoopla about Spotify's bad discovery stations. I notice this similar reality distortion field on reddit, feels like marketing.
And I will be keeping my hard drives full of media and cds.
