Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same?
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Americans don’t have HALF the balls. Cowards to the last.
Okay, if this was happening in your country, what would you do that would actually stop fascism?
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Okay, if this was happening in your country, what would you do that would actually stop fascism?
Oh, don’t worry- we’re all aware it’s coming to our country. And we’re armed.
I love how every time Americans are challenged on their lack of urgency, your response is always to pull a tu quoque, though. Never fails.
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At the end of the day it only takes a Luigi.
66% of Republicans vs 41% of Democrats and 45% of independents. I still don't like those numbers.
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Oh, don’t worry- we’re all aware it’s coming to our country. And we’re armed.
I love how every time Americans are challenged on their lack of urgency, your response is always to pull a tu quoque, though. Never fails.
Your answer is you’re armed? Does that mean you’ll shoot and kill the bad people who rise to power in your country?
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Your answer is you’re armed? Does that mean you’ll shoot and kill the bad people who rise to power in your country?
Does he think Americans aren't armed?
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The tech billionaire and Trump adviser “donated” Starlink service to the White House. The move resembles a previous maneuver by Microsoft, which used “free” trials to lock in costly upgrades across the federal government.
The difference here is that felon charges the government a fuckload to use Starlink already. Trial was years ago.
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the difference is microsoft's products actually worked.
Mostly. Office 365 has pretty frequent outages.
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the difference is microsoft's products actually worked.
In a different time, and a different age, somewhere around year 2000. The Phantom Menace, The Matrix, Peter Jackson abusing LOTR fans. PlayStation before it got boring, Web before it got stupid, Sun Microsystems before it got dead, construction and aerospace and software design alike being done by actually competent people.
Microsoft did the barely necessary to be taken seriously.
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After all of the sketchy contracts that musk seems to be getting under this regime, the next administration should nationalize SpaceX. With their corrupt self dealing, perhaps give him a dollar or so for it.
So there were some military contracts that were just awarded.
54 missions total:
SpaceX: 28 missions, $5.9 B = $210.7 M per launch
ULA: 19 missions, $5.4 B = $284 M per launch
BO: 7 missions, $2.4 B = $342.9 M per launch
SpaceX did get the most money, but they were also the cheapest provider due to their reusable 1st stages.
Just with those 9 extra launches over ULA SpaceX saves the US government and taxpayers 668 million dollars.
If SpaceX didn't exist, it would have been almost 8 billion more but actually worse since the other providers can't supply that much and wouldn't have had as much competitive incentive.
Doesn't seem so self dealing to me, they were able to bid lower and win more, and saved, (I'm assuming you given your rage) a shit load of money.
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So you’re … going to parades.
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