Repulsorlifts are magical. They levitate ships with no external outputs. They're also perfectly well suited to explain how a fragment of a ship can crash from a high altitude without being destroyed. As an anti-gravity device, repulsorlifts can greatly reduce or eliminate the need for any orbital velocity, making re-entry much more viable. And in the same vein, they can reduce a ship's effective gravitational mass enough that its terminal velocity is survivable.
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If it were a single EU Jedi master, the ship wouldn't have crashed at all.
I would love to see a high production value movie with the full power of the Jedi/Sith, complete with them ripping star destroyers out of the sky, guiding their ships through hyperspace with the Force alone and closing black holes.
Repulsorlifts are the technology that enables ships to hover and fly the way they do. There are typically many across a ship's structure for redundancy and handling reasons.
Not to mention that there were two Jedi on board, both of whom would probably be using the Force to pull the ship into a safer crash. We've seen Jedi use force powers strong enough to manipulate ships before, so this is not out of the question.
That looks wonderfully cozy. I want to start my day like that again at some point.
The great thing is that there's no competition between lemmy and kbin. We can use whichever we prefer and still have access to all the same communities.
Remember, Creative Commons licenses often require attribution if you use the work in a derivative product, and sometimes require ShareAlike. Without these things, there would be basically no protection from a large firm copying a work and calling it their own.
Rolling pack copyright protection in these areas will enable large companies with traditional copyright systems to wholesale take over open source projects, to the detriment of everyone. Closed source software isn't going to be available to AI scrapers, so this only really affects open source projects and open data, exactly the sort of people who should have more protection.
Researchers pay for publication, and then the publisher doesn't pay for peer review, then charges the reader to read research that they basically just slapped on a website.
It's the publisher middlemen that need to be ousted from academia, the researchers don't get a dime.
Solaar seems to work fine. Honestly Linux's third party software often supports hardware better than the Windows first party software.
Then why is there the option of defederating at all?
In an email to friends, I could see these coming off as rude. But at least in my region, they come off as professional and concise.
You can be ousted with a lot of popular support if you really piss off a small number of people. A leader has more wiggle room with high popular support and a strong military and police force, but if those institutions weaken, then the possibility of a violent overthrow increases.
Russia's population is ~143 million. If even 1 in 1000 people take up arms, that's a 143,000 strong army. If 1% participate in a general revolt, that's 1.4 million people, which could easily overwhelm institutions and bring an already weakened economy down.
From a (US) financial perspective, a phone charger takes about 5 watts of electricity. At $0.010/kWh that's $0.0005/hr (or ¢0.05/hr) of charging. This is utterly negligible.
For reference, a worker at the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr would be paid that much after 0.25 seconds of working. It's not even worth paying an employee to tell you to not plug in, which would probably take at least 15 seconds.
Naturally, some businesses may want to discourage people from loitering, but more often than not, they probably want your business (library, grocery store, coffee shop &c) or understand that reality happens.