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dennishoddy

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For those of you out in the boonies without decent Internet access you now have the opportunity to trust Elon with $99 to secure a place in line for Starlink Internet service when in becomes available in you region. https://www.starlink.com/
We have used sat internet service previously and it sucked. The speeds were just slightly OK for normal internet use but not for any gaming which I don't do, so the slower speeds were OK. We were relegated to 10 gigs per month though.
Our internet now runs about 8-12 GBS at best but again, don't game so that is ok. Another big issue was with the latency issue when we tried to go with a wireless security system. It just wouldn't work.
As I understand it, Starlink sats are much closer to the earth than the standard satellites so the latency issue may go away as they advertise. Don't know yet.
We will certainly take a further look at it.
 

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Nobody should bankroll the richest man in the world. He should be operating from his personal wealth like you and I have to do.

We see eye to eye on that. No business should be receiving monies from the tax payer. If they don't make it, that's the nature of business and the responsibility of private and corporate investors. It boggles my mind that the government expects the small business man to bootstrap himself into success while pampered mani/pedi getting white collar elites know enough important people to get a government bankroll.

Didn't make sense during the housing crash wall street created, the auto manufacturer crash, or the $10billion oil & gas has received this past calendar year.
 

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We see eye to eye on that. No business should be receiving monies from the tax payer. If they don't make it, that's the nature of business and the responsibility of private and corporate investors. It boggles my mind that the government expects the small business man to bootstrap himself into success while pampered mani/pedi getting white collar elites know enough important people to get a government bankroll.
Rambler, Studebaker, Chord, and others failed. The Government didn't bail them out. GM should have been allowed to fail because they were ran by the Unions into the ground. Their Pension system took them down for the most part.
Lots of auto companies building cars in the US now that are not Union and they are profitable with the employees making good benefits and wages.
Same thing took the steel production overseas. The Unions wouldn't support technology that they thought would cost jobs, so those jobs went overseas where technology ruled. They didn't understand technology that still needs blue collar jobs but increases the number of jobs that support the technology with programmers, Skilled Maintenance workers and so on.
The education level of jobs had to go up while the unions fought that ideal. It cost them every steel making job in the US for the most part.
 

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Rambler, Studebaker, Chord, and others failed. The Government didn't bail them out. GM should have been allowed to fail because they were ran by the Unions into the ground. Their Pension system took them down for the most part.
Lots of auto companies building cars in the US now that are not Union and they are profitable with the employees making good benefits and wages.
Same thing took the steel production overseas. The Unions wouldn't support technology that they thought would cost jobs, so those jobs went overseas where technology ruled. They didn't understand technology that still needs blue collar jobs but increases the number of jobs that support the technology with programmers, Skilled Maintenance workers and so on.
The education level of jobs had to go up while the unions fought that ideal. It cost them every steel making job in the US for the most part.

Agreed.
 

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