Hell, it'll dehumanize yourself and make you into a monster. A man becomes different when he's behind a mask. Having your best soldiers mantle the demons and discard their inhibitions makes for a terrifying fighting force.
Oh yeah it's totally a bullshit argument, it wouldn't hold water in any court. Hell if nothing else, the ground stations like you said, or the country whose airspace the center exists over, would be in jurisdiction.
But I do believe that Musk believes it's a get out of jail free card.
Putting them in space also puts them technically outside of the legal jurisdiction of any country. I figure fElon probably assumes that means said servers can never be subpoenaed.
I think it is likely that the Ukraine war will be widely considered the beginning of a series of events that will later be labeled "the ramp up to WWIII", of which this is an indirect extension.
Like, did everyone in the IT industry suddenly grow stupid and forget the most basic rule?
Thing is, in any industry, you need a combination of new blood and old wisdom in order to successfully pass the torch to the next generation. Old wisdom is expensive to keep around, but the cheap new blood doesn't know what they need to in order to succeed.
When you get rid of all your old wisdom and hire all new blood to cut costs, they're going to come in with a series of footguns that old wisdom knows how to avoid. If you're lucky, the new blood is going to learn about those footguns primarily by shooting themselves with them and then scrambling to fix the big problem that follows. If you aren't lucky, said footgun blows the entire leg off your corporation and you implode, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
All this to say, no, they probably don't know. A million companies elected to excise all of their knowledge and replace it with fresh-faced, eager, noticeably cheaper juniors.
Now there's nothing wrong with hiring juniors, but you can't just put 30 of them in a room and say "alright, monkeys, get to writing Shakespeare" - they lack 30+ years of practical knowledge, and as mentioned, juniors all ship with footguns pre-installed. You need someone who is able to steer the ship properly. A good senior dev is worth his weight in gold. However, most companies don't want to pay a senior dev his weight in gold. Observe the consequences.
Yeah well if Sony would have just let em cook and provided me with PC ports of Bloodborne and Demon's Souls then they would have happily received my money. Instead they get to recieve an extended middle finger.
Ask yourself: why did Joe Biden, of all people, win, where Clinton and Harris didnt?
Because he was an already known name that evoked memories of better times. He was Obama's VP and people liked him in that position, that's why he won, it's very simple. Clinton wasn't VP, wasn't well liked, and was known to be an unreliable prospect. Harris was not known to the majority of people. Both Clinton and Harris had contentious campaign statements that worried and alienated a significant percentage of their potential voters. Harris, in addition, also was never voted for in a primary, she was simply assigned as Biden's heir and we were supposed to just run with that and be okay with it. She really never had a chance no matter who she was. Clinton was consistently cringey and reeks of moneyed interests, she was never an attractive option to democratic voters, and would never stand a snowball's chance in hell of converting any Republican voters like she seemingly wanted to because her husband was one of the favorite Republican whipping boys of all time. They all hate the Clintons, for poorly defined reasons.
Hell, it'll dehumanize yourself and make you into a monster. A man becomes different when he's behind a mask. Having your best soldiers mantle the demons and discard their inhibitions makes for a terrifying fighting force.