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I believe the person quit the organization, wasn't pushed out.

At one point in time there was problems with the storage space that VCF has. I believe it was fixed. VCF is not a wealthy organization, and is hosted by another underfunded organization. Needs capital to renovate for expansion but it's slow going.

The origin of OneWeb was that the founder approached Elon Musk with the OneWeb idea and an agreement was signed. Not sure what role SpaceX was supposed to take, but at some later point Elon bailed and started a competing service called Starlink.

The OneWeb founder posted a photo of the signed agreement on Twitter some years ago, dumping on Elon Musk.

The original OneWeb founder is no longer involved and has some other space startup now.

Originally Blue Origin and Virgin were supposed to be the launch capability but neither can put anything in space.

Here is the tweet. OneWeb was originally called WorldVu

https://twitter.com/greg_wyler/status/1116101020675977218?la...

Plus the genius driver had a number of issues with autopilot in the same spot. He had complaints in with the Tesla dealership that his car tried to steer him into the barrier in that location, prior I believe. Something like 7 complaints filed?

Maybe he was trying to get out of his loan but didn't know the impact absorption barrier had been removed.

Spotify Form F-1 8 years ago

Eh, still the #1 streaming service in the USA. Record labels + licensing held them back a good bit and has kept them limited to the USA.

Spotify has some huge lawsuits underway for not clearing proper rights for music as well, I believe one is for 1.8 billion. They do have huge investment (ownership chunk) from at least one major label though I believe?

I don't get all the hoopla about Spotify's bad discovery stations. I notice this similar reality distortion field on reddit, feels like marketing.

And I will be keeping my hard drives full of media and cds.

Companies like Image Engineering out of Baltimore have 50 watt solid state laser projectors that can run on fairly nimble power sources without water cooling like the Sabres and other large frame ion lasers.

Laser projectors are good for beam effects and vector art but won't be able to touch Christie and Barco projectors if one managed to scan a raster image with them. (Yes, some Christie and other projectors use lasers an an illumination source but it's much different.)

I still have full scans of local exchanges done with ToneLoc. The US Courier HST Dual Standard would detect "voice" and hang up which would boost it to around 240 numbers per hour. Ah the good old days.

Oh, and for a while there was soundblaster support that said, "Yo we found a carrier" whenever it hit a modem. Good times.