Amazon Complains
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Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says
Amazon's attempt to block proposals for the next-generation Starlink system is a "delay tactic" and a continuation of Amazon's strategy of "hinder[ing] competitors to compensate for Amazon's failure to make progress of its own," SpaceX told the Federal Communications Commission yesterday.
"Amazon's track record amply demonstrates that as it falls behind competitors, it is more than willing to use regulatory and legal processes to create obstacles designed to delay those competitors from leaving Amazon even further behind," SpaceX told the FCC in its filing. Approving Amazon's request would hurt consumers by denying them "access to faster-moving competition," SpaceX said.
Amazon last week urged the FCC to reject an update to SpaceX's Starlink plan because it "proposes two different configurations for the nearly 30,000 satellites of its Gen2 System, each of which arranges these satellites along very different orbital parameters." Amazon contends that the SpaceX request violates a rule requiring applications to be complete and have no internal inconsistencies.
Amazon's request would prevent the commission from seeking public comment on SpaceX's application, SpaceX said. "The commission should recognize this gambit for the obstructionist tactic that it is, reject Amazon's request, and quickly put the amendment out for public comment," SpaceX said. The public-comment process will allow "any issues [to] be fully vetted," SpaceX said.
Amazon's Kuiper Systems subsidiary plans to eventually launch low Earth orbit satellites to compete against SpaceX's Starlink division. But while SpaceX is providing beta service to over 100,000 customers from over 1,700 satellites, Amazon has said it won't start launching any satellites until at least 2023.
SpaceX comments:
The commission issued an order in July 2020 informing Amazon that it had not provided sufficient information about how its proposed system would protect others from interference or meet the commission's rules for orbital debris. But while Amazon has filed nothing with the commission to address these conditions on its own license for nearly 400 days, it took only 4 days to object to SpaceX's next-generation NGSO system. In fact, Amazon has not had a single meeting with the commission this year about how it intends to resolve the commission's interference or safety concerns, but it has had 15 meetings in that same span just about SpaceX. While Amazon has waited 15 months to explain how its system works, it has lodged objections to SpaceX on average about every 16 days this year
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Yep.
Voter fraud is easy to prove. There were multiple examples of it.
Now, while we're at it, let's fix it. One man, one vote, in person. must have ID to vote, no provisional ballots. No mail-in ballots, except for soldiers serving overseas and other government personnel. Early voting begins 24 days before the election. All polling places will be subject to monitor by every party with a person on the ballot.
See how easy this is?
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Yep.
Voter fraud is easy to prove. There were multiple examples of it.
Now, while we're at it, let's fix it. One man, one vote, in person. must have ID to vote, no provisional ballots. No mail-in ballots, except for soldiers serving overseas and other government personnel. Early voting begins 24 days before the election. All polling places will be subject to monitor by every party with a person on the ballot.
See how easy this is?
@jolly said in Amazon Complains:
Voter fraud is easy to prove.
Yet Trump’s Kraken brigade batted less than 1 in 60 with their voter fraud lawsuits. They should pay all the legal costs involved, including those incurred by the defendants they named in their lawsuits.
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Loser pays …
Michigan demands ex-Trump campaign lawyer reimburse $22,000 in legal fees
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