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We have terrestrial radio and cables. What is the point of this complex space-based trash?
The US taxpayers literally paid TWICE to privatized telecom companies (telco) to run fiber optic to the home, once in the 90s and again that last early "surge" of FTtH(fiber to the home aka "last mile") when google started competing direct against telcos that would not get the lead out so they all buried a fuckton of (dark)fiber that they then kept artificially turned off and sat on their excess bandwidth instead of releasing that excess supply to the market to do bare standard minimum of using their good taxpayer funded fortune AND their privatized, ridiculously gained profits from the calculable increase of use in the information age YOY to offer it for reasonable prices. We could all be on $25 a month or less no cap 1GBps fiber in many places but again, the market forces at work at this point seem more actively just hostile to the rest of us on ground level here now. It's a fascinating and also infuriating subject as an ex-IT person that helped build out this infrastructure that only could watch as it all remained dark.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund
We coulda had Local Loop Unbundling all this time.
It's the only high speed solution if you're more than 30 miles away from the nearest town and you live completely surrounded by trees or hills. 4g internet is pretty good for home use and that covers most rural areas but that's not large amounts of data usually. It's good for a lot of edge cases like open ocean or really remote areas. And crucially it can do that with very low lag unlike any other traditional geosat space internet.
Yes but people in cities getting it makes no sense. Unless your a neither town.
It's more useful as a backup in case your internet goes down, for things that need 1 or 2 backups for high connectivity uptime
Go to hyperspace, bro. That's where Jesus and Joseph Smith transcended to. Enlightenment is a process of becoming an independent phenomenon. God is an independent phenomenon; it created itself. The Alpha is the Omega; the restuarant at the end of the universe is the transcendental particle that can be in multiple...stepmoms? Tf you saying God? Yea, I got a big stepmommy fetish, tf is your point of bringing it up now? No I don't toe? Tf is toe for? I'll put my big toe in your pussy and be happy to call you about it in the morning so you come to church with me. This is why God made me a Mormon Occultist, because ain't nothing on this world for me but sin, and I did but didn't to learn defilement as the Buddhists call the möbiation of entanglement, as I call the phenomena. But space bro? Space doesn't exist bro. Get over yourself or Jesus's dad is gunna fuck your ass up.
Hm, many valid points to ponder.
That epithet is not funny.
Nothing to do with religion, a severe mental illness afflicting many, is funny.
The used the "R" word, an epithet.