Sooo only gonna blow up the test databases?

Depends how bad the turbulence is.

Oh yeah, I remember realizing my new razr had that and started going text crazy.

I felt the same way the first time I discovered swipe-to-type on a smartphone! 🤣

And they could sell a solar panel pack called a rama!

Bananarama

I’m not sure why this had 0 votes, but it’s true. I’m old enough that my first cell phone experience was a bag phone from the 1980s.

Texting wasn’t even a thing for a while, but once it started, it was charged per message with like a 16 character limit. Then that limit was expanded, but it was always per message, not per character.

But, actually typing out a message was a pain the ass. There were no keyboards at first. You used the letters on the number pad to send your messages.

When T9 texting debuted that was a GOD SEND. Only needing to tap a lil number once to guess your word? Holy crap!

I am tired of US citizens misunderstanding the entire point of the 1st amendment.

It has absolutely nothing to do with private companies. You can just not use their services. It has to do with the us and state governments not being able to jail you for talking trash about them.

Keep in mind that, at the time, the monarchy of England was known for jailing people who talked badly about them.

This was to prevent that. It wasn’t to make sure Bobby could tell Janie she was a cunt, and her not be able to slap him.

I have a kid. She turns 18 in September. I thought it was funny.

I also still make jokes about my mom, and she dlis now sitting in top of a shelf at Dad’s house as of a few months ago.

Difference is the school isn’t going to confiscate my kid’s watch (yet)

I’ve been rockin my HL3170CDW for many years now. I have absolutely no issues with this printer, and I’ll buy nothing else.

This existed briefly, but was quickly removed because big box retailers complained that people were looking at the real stats instead of big numbers in their ads.

If I’m in the bedroom, I may want my ceiling lights on if someone is in there if it’s dark outside, but if my wife and I are in bed, then only turn on the baseboard lights, at 1% brightness when someone is still in bed. Presence sensors aren’t that fine grained, and I certainly don’t want to wake up my wife when this old fart gets up to go pee again. She’s grumpy when awakened. 🤣

Banning something is not the market regulating itself. That’s outside forces regulating the market…

Yes please. Can’t be much worse than what we have now.

I’m predicting they build it in just 2 or 3 cities, then quit.

Again.

Oh no. They’ll have to use Linux! A few billion new people using it would certainly bump it up a notch or 4.

Set or change alarms, add reminders to your calendar, ask about those things, send text messages, start phone calls, have it read out last text messages received.

When I was a truck driver, my wife could test me, and I could just listen to a transcript of what she sent instead of calling her and asking what she typed.

“Hey Google, read my last text”

“Hey Google, send a text to <wife>, 'Quit texting me while I’m driving, woman!” Stuff like that. 🤣

I read this in an orange accent.

How dare they make a profit!? It’s only the whole reason they’re in business after all…

Ever notice that it’s the governments that shoot people for not buying what they sell?

You can see the US federal government imploding at this very moment, all because one side or the other takes power, and your first thought is to give them power of control over your Internet services??

Just…wow.

Guess it’s ok when governments leave debris by shooting at satellites, but not when businesses do?

Weird.

So? The ISS is due to be decommissioned soon and the HST has been failing from orbit for a while now.

Telescopes on the far side of the moon would see far far more than any telescope in earth orbit and especially any on the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Crater_Radio_Telescope

Things in space don’t veer wildly out of control when they fail. They stay pretty much in their existing orbit.

It’s not like these satellites have big thrusters or engines just propelling them constantly around the planet. They’re in a state of free fall. They’re just also moving sideways fast enough that the earth also falls away from them at around the same speed that they are falling towards it.

Lower orbits have far more atmospheric drag, and any debris in those orbits will simply slow down enough to stop missing the planet.