www.Tesmanian.com: SpaceX is getting closer to offering Starlink Internet

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 01:38:16PM +1000, jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
> On 2020-08-23 13:16, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 10:31:26 +1000
> > jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
> > 
> >> On 2020-08-23 03:35, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 04:50:25 +0000 (UTC)
> >>> jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> www.Tesmanian.com: SpaceX is getting closer to offering Starlink Internet.
> >>>> https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/starlink-sats
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 	Why don't you explain how that will affect human freedom? 
> >>
> >> The space internet will be controlled by Musk, while the ground internet
> >> is controlled by the state authorities 
> 
> > 	musk is just a figurehead and facade for NASA-NSA-jakobo-goldman-sachs and the-rest-of-govcorp. 
> 
> None of which were able to get a man to the space station and back,
> despite trying for many years.
> 
> True, Musk has no power.  And I have no power.  But if all goes
> according to plan, he will have power.
> 
> If Musk builds a space internet, he will have built a space based
> powerbase that is physically resistant to the control of existing
> states.  If he settles Mars, the settlement will be physically resistant
> to the control of existing states.
> 
> In time, there will be corporations on the internet that derive their
> cohesion from a proof of stake blockchain, where instead of shares whose
> property rights are enforced by the state, and instead of the
> corporation being an entity that derives its one-ness, its corporate
> nature, from the identity bestowed by the state, there will be stake in
> the corporate blockchain, and oneness derived from the paxos algorithm
> enforced by cryptographic protocols.


What is "paxos algorithm"?



> A proof of stake blockchain will be a sovereign corporation, and the
> stake is shares in the corporation, while existing corporations are
> creations of the sovereign.  I look forward to sovereign corporations in
> space.
> 
> 
> >> It will also pass through with a much shorter ping time, which makes
> >> teleconferencing more viable, thus enabling people in flyover country to
> >> teleconference, whereupon it becomes a lot easier for members of the
> >> elite to exercise power while in locations isolated from physical
> >> violence by other members of the elite.  Antifa and BLM is not going to
> >> show up at your door, nor will the cops arrest you for suspected thought
> >> crime, if you are located at your hobby farm in Oklahoma.  I expect
> >> massive relocation of members of the the elite to Texas, Oklahoma, and
> >> Kansas.
> 
> > 	you can live in a relatively remote and hard to access place and> have a ground radio link to the closest ISP.
> 
> 
> Teleconferencing does not work very well, in large part because of the
> long ping time.  And it works considerably worse for members of the
> elite because the main question that they are interested in is whom to
> believe, and what the other member of the elite is really up to.
> 
> Which is part of the reason why power tends to wind up concentrated in
> the centers of certain cities - which cities are becoming more dangerous
> as politics becomes more violent.