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Zenit-Leica digital camera made in Russia! Somebody must have rebooted the Matrix.
Although I'm guessing a few Leica sales guys are drowning their sorrows right now.
And ORWO, the former E German maker of weird cheap slide film, is launching a new range of B&W 35mm film. At this rate my flares will be back in fashion !
>and what real life problems only these currencies can solve is glaringly absent
My XXX born colleague wants to send some money home to his parents. He can't because the banks won't deal with XXX because our government doesn't like the country's leader. So he has to give some $ to a guy at the local XXX food store, who knows somebody who is going there who will pass the money on - hopefully.
Another friend wants to send money home to a friendly country where people don't have international bank accounts so he has to use a money transfer service that charges 20%.
I want to pay a few cents when I read a post/view a youtube video to support the creator. But KYC rules means that it would cost $10s for them to process a payment from my country.
I want an algorithm that pays someone when certain easily verifiable events happen online - but I don't want to pay an accountant and lawyer $1000s to handle this.
There are lots of things that I might want to do with money that are quite legal but difficult with our banking system.
If this is satellite-satellite then eye safety shouldn't t be an issue. They are at least 300km above any pilot and are quite precisely pointed at the destination satellite.
You would need quite a chunky laser to have a Beam Hazard Distance of a satellite on the horizon 300km up. Pointing isn't a big issue, you know where the other satellite is from stored orbital data and a bit of spherical trig.
Advantage apart from bandwidth is as you say, spectrum availability. Even with narrow radio beams you are going to have some overspil and with 1000s of targets all talking at each other you are going to need quite a lot of radio channels.
>So, your government doesn't trust its cops either, huh?
No, that's why we have a couple of regiments of elite guards units surrounding the head of state, although sometimes an illegal immigrant ursine predator does get past them.
But we avoid the problem of a bunch of nut-jobspatriots attempting to break in and hang the vice prime-minister by a cunning plan of nobody knowing or caring who he, or she, is.
>How do these people get into schools? Mine has keycard controlled doors
How did a kid get into a small town school in Texas?
Inconceivable - he must be Chuck Norris or a cyber-ninja assassin programmed by Bill Gates and George Soros to drop from a stealth black helicopter on wires like Tom Cruise in MI.
Or same way that Joe Biden got into the Texas Book depository to shoot Kennedy - nobody actually locks doors and door locks on small town schools vary slightly from those on missile silos or bank vaults.
After a case where a chemistry PhD student decided to heat something amusingly reactive on an open flame and blew a fume cupboard into his stomach.
So HSE ruled that grad students were public not employees, which caused a whole can of worms about IP. We had to have IP assignments to use any software they wrote.
With everyone convinced they were going to be the Steve Jobs and every uni convinced that they were going to make $$$ from startups - it got a bit fraught
Ukraine's ability to prosecute the war doesn't depend on secure command&control links between military units.
It depends on meme-worthy videos of tractors capturing tanks being uploaded to Tik-Tok, featuring on American breakfast TV and the US public not getting bored.
>you'd blat the easily located civilian infrastructure underpinning the network on the ground,
They have satellite-satellite links, you only need an individual satellite to be in view of a ground station for optimal bandwidth.
blatting a ground station in a nearby NATAO country might lead to a serious self-own for the blatter
'Primitive' women are those that can be shown topless on a magazine cover in a school library without the PTA having a fit of the vapours.
It would be an interesting experiment to determine exactly how 'primitive' they had to be before the AI determined that librarian was to go on a government list.
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