US power outages: https://www.nationaloutages.com/us-power-outages/ https://poweroutage.us/
For general information purposes. Not because there are a bunch of outages right now.
The times when I see multiple entries for the same post appear I have observed the following. The count of responses differ. I have wondered whether this is the result of the page loading/refreshing while different other users are committing changes and the particular post shows up twice because of a versioning. It is possible this might occur with differing (but close in count) upvotes for a post. In short, it is a small system bug, not the result of nefarious activities. I speculate that two people arriving at the page 'near' simultaneously may be get two results. Hence one is in the twilight zone of multiple entries and the other does not see that and thinks the twilight post user is delusional or messing with them.
I know of some persons who signed up to get Starlink in CONUS. There is a waiting list. Even if not a waiting list, still would take a few days to get the dish sent out to the respective locations and get them setup...
Unless the equipment was already staged and ready.
Unless a connection was already established to allow ground based communications to reach the Starlink Network. This would all require pre planning and equipment ready to do.
How else could it be done in ten hours?
Follow up to my own post. Does this mean that Transunion could tie or associate credit ratings of people with sensitive information passed over Neustar networks? In other words, building profiles on people matching 'credit' worthiness with sensitive personal information?
Looks like Neustar hosts in AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=69bea258-a7bf-41a4-bbfe-d11a25523ae4, https://www.home.neustar/resources/whitepapers/aws-ddos-protection-ebook, https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-mvcyqrasuwxb4
Looks like the have gone through a lot of changes in ownership in the past few years. Now owned by TransUnion (https://www.home.neustar/transunion-information-hub)? The Credit rating people? That is not comforting.
This makes sense. I have adopted the use of audio books, not because I don't like reading but because of limited time and making use of time (listen in the car). Speaking strictly for myself, the discipline of reading over decades and deconstructing ideas and arguments established a habit in my life. I can apply that to listening to Audio.
Audio over video is preferable to me, unless the visual is required (how to fix xyz). The visual component often interferes with my being able to think about/process what is being said.
That is a five star article that agrees with something I have been experiencing but did not know how to define.
Summary: We have moved from a past situation where an oral form of communication was predominant to one where a written form of communicatino was most predominant. In the most recent generation(s) we have moved or are moving back to an oral form of communication being predominant.
Persuasive Oral Arguments are considered as having higher value that well reasoned written arguments. An argument presented by an acknowledged respected (by that person) authority will be accepted without question, yet the same argument presented in written form will be ignored as it did not come from an accepted source or perhaps because it did not come in an accepted form (oral preferred over written).
Currency is a medium of exchange used to conduct commerce.
Currency is most commonly issued by government or some trusted non-government source. Currency could actually be a commodity that is so commonly known and valued that it is accepted as the medium for commerce.
Governments generally declare a monopoly on the issuing of currency in their borders. This is reasonable. In a day of using physical gold, silver, whatever ... a risk was run of someone making coins that were not the purity/% content and the issuer of such devalued coin would be giving themselves purchasing value they did not have by defrauding others. This would frequently result in harsh consequences up to the death penalty.
When a government devalues its own currency, or people have no confidence in the long term viability of the government, they will find something else to use as currency. Governments try to stop this, usually for tax purposes.
The fact that government issued currencies (and the governments issuing them) are viewed as not reliable and not stable does not make crypto reliable and stable. It just means that people are looking for something that might be stable. Growth in crypto is not a function of crypto being reliable, it is the fact that the government has become so unreliable that people would think that crypto would be a viable option. Tired of living with the abuser, the spouse hopes to find better luck with the con who up to this point has not provided evidence they are lying.
Most of the planet has as much reason to trust the issuers of crypto-currency as they do to trust the federal reserve. I have as much means of redress of grievances from being ripped off by the fed as I would from being ripped off by a crypto-currency issuer/originator. The drive is a loss of confidence in government.
The cyrpto-currency issuer: 1. can increase the amount of currency any time they want. You can't stop that and neither can I. 2. can lie about the total amount of currency in existence any time they want. You can't know the truth, you are putting implicit confidence in them. 3. backs the currency with nothing. The fact that the US government issues fiat currency does not make crypto valuable, it just means that it is a digital fiat with no government backing it. 4. can get their crypto-currency labelled a commodity or security by a government and treated as such. There is nothing the crypto-currency issuer or you can do about that but get taxed.
Many people who were 'early' adopters of crypto are quick to promote it because from there standpoint it is a potential measure of wealth that has increased for them (in potential terms) since they put government currency into the crypto.
The potential is only made into reality when the crypto is converted into tangible goods and property.
I know people who talk about how much their crypto has increased in value for them (in potential terms). Good for them. Its like someone telling me that they bought Apple at $10 a share. I have no incentive to get involved because I don't have any reasonable basis for making money there if I were entering now. The argument that 'crypto will just go higher so you should get in now' has echoes of ponzi schemes and multi-level marketing.
I accept crypto-currency is intended by some to be a good faith solution to lack of confidence in governments. However, where you find an honest inventor with a good idea, you quickly find a bunch of hucksters who see a way to take real wealth from others. For them, crypto is a way to take something of worth (real world government accepted currency units, securities, physical possessions) from suckers in exchange for the promise of crypto-currencies future.
Government issued currency backed by tangible resources (gold, silver, whatever) which the currency can actually be exchanged for is a winner. Crypto based upon the above government issued currency is a winner. Physical currency of commonly accepted value, though not issued by a government is a winner.
Crypto based upon someone's supposedly secure blockchain technology alone, with nothing to back it, and not yet exposed to a future generation of technologies ability to compromise existing security systems is a fantasy island of value. Crypto issued by some party that can devalue that currency any time without any means of redress by those who 'own' the currency is a scam. Crypto issued by a party that goes out of existence is a scam.
Just be mindful that any capitol will attract those desiring to gain from , feed off, manipulate by association to the capital and the people and organizations (bureaucracies) of power. I do see the value in periodic reshuffling. Vigilance from generation to generation, parents to children is a requirement til the end of the age.
A wise man once said: ....that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people":
First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
As a result, a continual deliberate effort to resist this trend is required.
Actually, the explosion sound is normal for a volcano; not much different than HE detonation.
A good example is this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUREX8aFbMs
Eruption at 12-13 seconds. Visible atmospheric disturbance from 14-19 seconds visible in the clouds.
Shockwave reaches the camera position around 25 seconds.
Now check out this video from the explosion in Beirut in 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwRF5liTGB4
Explosion, atmospheric disturbance visible showing the shockwave moving away from center of blast; shockwave reaches the camera position.
Law and lawsuit for the following. All patents applied for, issued, owned by any individual(s) or company receiving funding or pay from the government are forever irrevocably usable (or open sourced) to all individuals and companies owned solely by individuals of the United States.
Any profit gained from a patent where it is determined that the contracts awarded resulted from fraud, bribery or general criminal behavior to secure the contracts/agreements with the government in the development of the patent shall be taken from the individuals, entities, companies that conducted fraud, bribery, general criminal behavior and awarded those competitors directly impacted by contract competition. Individuals will/may also receive appropriate criminal penalties. The companies shall be put out of existence (corporate execution).
(Edits are due to rewording of and expansion too the core argument of penalizing the companies.)