588 karma · joined April 26, 2011
The first thing that happens when they're in debt is that their bank account gets frozen to pay the debts leaving them with nothing.
Forcing all transactions to be electronic takes away the margins they live in. It's no longer possible for them to pay 1/2 their rent with a promise to pay the rest in a couple of days when they get paid so that they can feed their children during that period. The rent comes out of their account on time and their children go hungry until payday.
In the current release version of Firefox (61.0.1) the provider parameter (network.trr.uri) is blank and not set to Cloudfare out of the box.
The days before ACPI.
First, the image is shot through the transparent lens cap currently protecting the camera. The cap wont be removed until after the mast is deployed. The mast is still in the position it was stowed in for the journey, this is why the image is at an angle.
Second, the high gain antenna hasn't been deployed yet, so they're working on limited bandwidth. The image was probably heavily compressed to transmit it over the link currently in use.