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SpaceX Begging Feds To Ground Apple-Funded Rival's Satellites

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4w ago

SpaceX Begging Feds To Ground Apple-Funded Rival's Satellites

www.jalopnik.com /1808081/spacex-fcc-ground-apple-rival-satellites/

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FAA prevents SpaceX from launching more rockets
Musk guts the FAA
FAA no longer stopping rockets
Musk decries nobody will stop other people's rockets
- SpaceX biggest competitor is NASA/JPL Musk guts NASA
  
  How is NASA a competitor to SpaceX?
- ->Musk's team launches the most expensive firework ever blowing up and disrupting air traffic and destroying the environment again for the eighth time

Felon Musk

WHY ARE THEIR ROCKETS NOT EXPLODING!!?
— Rocket X. Hitler
- I might actually gain a tiny, minuscule bit of respect for him if he officially changes his name to Rocket Hitler
  
  I want more Kung Fury and I want him fighting Rocket X. Hitler III
- It would be cool if sabotage is happening... Adjust a hydrogen valve here and there, change a few timing parameters to the right amount and watch the 4th of July in may! And of course... Make it look like an accident.

Elon is such a bitch
- Competition for thee but not for me.

Let Apple rain Terror on this damn Nazi.
- It certainly is a weird timeline when Apple is the good guy.
  
  Reminds me of March 24 to November 10, 2001, when Apple had embraced Unix and -- to some extent -- open source by releasing OS X, but had not yet pivoted towards glued-shut and DRM'd consumer electronics by releasing the iPod.
  
  Wasn't Tim Cook one of the first to donate to Trump's Inauguration? Did they at least protest DEI scrapping (excluding some shareholders) or Gulf of Mexico rename, or bent over like rest of big tech? I'm honestly not seeing it, to me Apple is as bad as google
  
  I can think of a lot of companies that are far worse than Apple.
  
  It's best not to humanize corporations, especially as the arbiters of morality and ethics. It's simply a calculated risk on Apples part. I don't mean to be a negative Nancy and all "nothing good happens" it's just we can't keep letting corporations get away with being brands you can "trust" when we have all the evidence necessary to assume they are not trustworthy, just profit-seeking.
- Isn't this sorta how the Corporate Wars started in the Cyberpunk universe?

As someone who relies on Starlink to get functional Internet access? Please, please give me more options.
- Eutelsat is considering expanding into North America. Send them a message you are interested. Tell your friends. We need an alternative. https://www.eutelsat.com/en/contact-us.html
- I have Starlink, I stopped paying when Elon did the nazi solute. Now I’m on phone data that barely plays 360p video, but I’m happy as can be not giving a nazi money.
- 4g and 5g at home installs are pretty viable for most of the US.
  If you choose to live that far outside of civilization, frankly, that's a you problem. Not something worth littering space and pur atmosphere when they burn up on re-entry.
  
  Not everyone can live in urban areas. This is such a stupid take. Fuck farmers and other folks who's livelihood relies on being further out from living centers, I guess.

So much for the free market unless it no longer benefits SpaceX and Elon Musk in general. Welcome to post capitalistic America!
- Someone should troll libertarians on reddit with this
  
  If libertarians could read, they'd be devastated!

Must be trying to hide fraud and waste. Better set up a commission to investigate them and start firing spacex execs.

capitalism truly spurs competition and innovation

Beg 🙂
- Like a dog🦴

If you really hate Elon Musk, I have two words for you. "Thanks Obama"
Every single aspect of Elon's "success" has been heavily subsidized or paid for by the US government (aka, tax payers).
EDIT: It seems the "Thanks Obama" meme has fallen into obscurity. It is an older joke in which everything was blamed on Obama, no matter how far fetched. I even used italics.
The point of my comment is that Elon is the biggest "welfare" beneficiary in history. All of his businesses would be a financial failure without billions of dollars in grants, benefits and contracts from the government, and that he's been sucking on that government teet since Obama was in office. In fact, it was Obama who saved Tesla, hence the 'Thanks Obama" joke. Even Obama is aware and why the crashing Teslas scene is in the Netflix movie he produced. Now Elon is looking for federal assistance to block his competition.
- Obama did not make Elon a narcissist cry baby now did he?
  
  Everybody is to blame but the gang of assholes that swarmed them.
  
  On the contrary, Obama was an intelligent, well-spoken black (shudder) person that wore tan once. It's obviously his fault.
- If a crook steals a watch, you gonna jail the crook or jail the guy who makes timex?
  
  read my edit
- What is this L take my guy?
  Elon was loved by every forward facing democratic liberalism / é o-conscious person for years.
  You cannot read people's hearts or minds except from how they act.
  And I did not see any favist/overreaching actions, even the actual delusion of grandeur, when Obama was president.
  On the contrary.
  And if I remember correctly Obama told him off in multiple instances.
  
  Did everyone really forget about the "Thanks Obama" joke? Anyway, I clarified my point in the edit.
- We know the "joke." But that wasn't what you were doing. You are actually literally blaming Obama.
  
  Sure. That's why I put it in quotes AND italics. Let's also ignore the context that Elon is once again begging the federal government to save his ass.
  The joke didn't land. I'll take that L.
- Found another uneducated one.
- This very much ignores that there are tangible benefits from the successes of SpaceX’s engineers and scientists.
  Also, who’s this Elon guy? He sounds like a twat.
  
  Everything SpaceX is doing and has done could have been done by NASA had NASA been given the equivalent funds and leeway. This has been covered multiple times in many interviews of NASA scientists and engineers. Simply put, NASA cannot afford and is not allowed to take risks. They are not allowed to blow up ships over Florida and the Caribbean until they figure it out. They used to be allowed, but not anymore.

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