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Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

At this time, they are staying in the 3000-4000 cars / week, but are modifying their lines again. Supposedly, they will be above 6000 cars / week by end of august. That will put them in the range of 300, 000 model 3 / year, along with another 50,000+ of each model S and model X.

BTW, the 'tent' makes total sense. First off, they are based where they have a nice moderate climate similar to what Europe has. Generally, no real weather extreme. But, here in COlorado, DIA, generally the top rated airport in America, has a large 'tent' for the main concourse. It outperforms the regular constructed island concourses. Likewise, we have plenty of sprung buildings (what you call a 'tent') around here, even though we run from 105F/41C to -30F/-35C. It would be too expensive to have weeks of 35+ C or -20- C to use spring buildings, but otherwise, they do just fine.

Well then as a stockholder you are looking at the wrong thing then. You can have all those things and still go out of business. The fact is that Tesla is $10 billion in debt and has a negative 90 P/E ratio. In addition, Tesla will need to go back to the capital markets to get more money.

Just a hypothetical question.

Suppose, just suppose, Tesla turns a profit in Q3 and Q4 of this year.

What would that do to the neg 90 P/E ratio, and would they still need to get more money?

Put aside whether they will or wont, first answer the question: If they become suddenly profitable, what will the outlook be like?

Tesla tends to run in the red in the years running up to a new model, then makes a profit for the next year or so.

If Musk is correct, and they start being profitable in Q3 and Q4, what will happen to the stock?

India's governing party is guilty of trolling and fake news on WhatsApp so this is all about control.

He [Mahaveer Prasad Khileri] is a former troll for India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, or the BJP. “At that time, poison was in my mind,” he said.

Khileri was recruited by two acquaintances into the party’s social media operation in February 2014, just as Modi was racing to become India's next prime minister. He was given eight cell phones and ID’s for six different Facebook identities, he recalled in an interview in his home village of Jogaliya. He worked 18-hour days, toggling between legitimate campaign work and trolling of opponents and journalists, he said. When Modi won, the operation evolved as well, transitioning to a tool supporting Modi’s government.

Khileri worked in what the BJP calls its ‘IT Cell,’ which effectively operated as an ad hoc troll farm, he said. The development of the cell in the world's largest democracy occurred around the same time that American authorities believe Russia began using such techniques to influence the 2016 presidential election. The researchers contributing to the institute and Google reports found similar timing in different countries and under various circumstances.

According to Khileri, the Indian version of the trolling toolkit included strategies meant to inflame sectarian differences, malign the Muslim minority and portray Modi as savior of the Hindus. Supervisors would set themes for the day and specify targets to attack. Khileri and 300 other paid trolls would create memes or cut-and-paste Twitter posts that were sent to WhatsApp groups of tens of thousands of party loyalists. Their reposts sent hashtags viral in minutes.

“Muslims slaughter cows, so we’d tell them, ‘When Modi comes, we will slaughter you,’” Khileri recalled. “We’d tell Hindus: ‘If you don’t vote for Modi, then Muslims will destroy you.’”

That's because he is down to more or less just his psycho base supporters. An alarmingly large group but they support him no matter how crazy he gets.

Actually it's because the public has become immune to the constant Russia hysteria. When a CNN producer (John Bonifield) and a news anchor (Van Jones) are caught on video saying that "there's nothing to the Russia collusion", and "we talk about it all the time for ratings", people tend to stop believing the collusion narrative.

Since Trump came into office, the US is exporting weapons to Ukraine and cutting into Russia's profits on energy exports, it becomes difficult to accuse him of working for Russia as those are actions that were directly in his power that work against Russia.

Sources:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...
http://thehill.com/homenews/me...
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/0...

A funny thing happened on the way to outer space... SpaceX developed a business model that is quickly obsoleting Russia's space launch supremacy. Now that it's an actual threat, expect to see frequent bot attacks on SpaceX, Elon Musk, Tesla, Hyperloops, et cetera. That's how the disinformation age works. Delegitimize anyone that is deemed a threat.

You know about SpaceX business model and if they're making money? Do tell because SpaceX doesn't publish their financials.

You people should also know that there has been people called "publicists" that make sure that good things get published about their employers. And they spin things to make their bosses look good - and even publish BS to make it look so. They even Troll websites and post glowing things and bully others - like with moderation.

As far as Tesla is concerned, the company has some serious issues. As a matter of fact, Tesla is so desperate that it's trying to get cash back from its suppliers. (Yeah yeah yeah, it's all those "shorts" making up "fake news" to tank Tesla! But hey, let's ignore Tesla's financial statements that shows that it's not doing well at all because - MUSK!!!!)

But the way the Cult of Musk works is that everything said that is positive is 100% true and any -ANY - criticisms, no matter how valid and factually true, is discounted as being from "haters" or "fake news".

And let's also consider that Musk has a really big mouth and his childish shenanigans are ignored by all of the Tesla and Musk, "lovers".

Yeah yeah yeah, this will get mod'ed down by the Cult of Musk.

One of the many big problems with bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general is that the bitcoin whales own so much of the available coins that it enables collusion between a very small number of people to result in massive changes in the price of bitcoin. This makes the bitcoin market ripe for "pump and dump" securities fraud.

Without a doubt, at least one of the bitcoin whales works for Hashflare, and was aware of the planned timing of the most recent "pump," which happened 3 days ago. Hashflare's customers bought and paid for 1 year contracts ahead of time. Hashflare used that up-front money to buy all the ASICs and GPUs to set up their mining data center. Now in theory, the contract is established obligating Hashflare to transfer all of the mined bitcoins to their contract holder's wallets for the next year. But now that the most recent pump was pretty successful... they would rather keep those coins for themselves and reap the profits that rightfully belong to the people who took the risk of buying their contracts up-front. Never-mind that they wouldn't have all that mining hardware if it wasn't for the investors that bought their contracts. This is blatant securities fraud, these guys should go to jail for it.

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

My apologies, the job numbers are not the best in history, just the best in nearly century.

Half-century. Look again.

Also, I notice that wage growth has slowed since Trump took office. More jobs were being created during Obama and wages were growing faster. In fact, since the passage of his highly-touted tax cut plan, wages for most US workers have actually shrunk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

How can you possibly believe that the huge debt they were saddled with was not the cause of their demise? The leveraged buyout stuck them with a HUGE annual interest payment. For the fiscal year ending Jan 2016 they had a net loss of $130 million dollars, which included $429 million in interest payments. For fiscal year ending Jan 2017 they had a net loss of $36 million dollars, which included $457m in interest payments. [1]

So tell me...what does a net loss of $130m turn into if you don't have $429m in interest payments? Or a $36m loss without $457m in interest payments? Of course, not the ENTIRE debt is from the leveraged buyout. Before the buyout their interest payments were only $130m/year [2]. But then after the buyout it rocketed up to $537m per year. They've been able to reduce the $537m over the years. If they didn't have to deal with the buyout debt, they wouldn't been able to do the same (even better, actually) reduction with their previous debt. So likely their interest payments would've been under $50m/year.

I find it hard to understand how the leveraged buyout could NOT be responsible for putting them in the position they are in.

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/new...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/busi...

That's just the UK, the wider EU is even larger. Where do you read this nonsense?

In actual publications that have a good reputation? What have you been looking at, the BBC telling you that NG Plant emissions are the source of wind power? Looking at the site you've listed, I can see multiple days with 1% generation across just the UK. Yeah that's sure paying for itself.

It was both good and bad for democracy.

Consider this: A political outsider running on a populist platform managed to get elected over the established candidate that everyone thought was going to win. That's amazing. An upset. A sign that we actually live in a democracy. Because even if everyone can vote, but there's only the illusion of choice and the party leaders are going to pick whom they want to run, then it's not really a democracy. And for all the elections I've been around for, the victor was pretty much determined by who paid more for it. That's not a democracy, that's a plutocracy at best or a government full of corrupt official semi-employed by corporate interests at worst. But Trump only raised about half the money Hilary did. And he still won.

I was feeling really cynical about the whole process but this one actually opened my eyes to the fact that the voters really DO have control over the outcome. Shocking I know. And HO BOY was that a shock. Seriously, I saw the numbers midway through and had to have a drink.

Now... it's ALSO a bad day for democracy. It showcased how effective propaganda can be, in case anyone had forgotten that. It also showcased how ugly elections can get. It wasn't NEARLY as bad as, say, the elections down in Mexico right now. The pile of corpses simply doesn't stack up. But it was relatively ugly for the crazy primary, tone of violence, vitriol, and hacking someone's email isn't the sort of thing we want to become commonplace. And just the sheer volume of bold-faced lies. It wasn't a good election. Better than some of our own from the past, but pretty bad by recent standards.

Buu ugliness aside, completely ignoring the... security holes of democracy and how easily swayed the voting masses are. This was a bad day for democracy. Because the guy that got elected is almost* universally reviled. The opposition really hates him. More so than the other side hated a black guy, surprisingly. The media hates him. His own party's leadership isn't a huge fan, but they're willing to use him. Some even came out against him. The best thing about our nation is it's ability to change. To balance out things and fix what's wrong. After this sort of populist movement got someone SO BAD into the white house, we're not going to see ANY hope of another populist movement again for a long time.

"but what is important is making sure it doesn't happen again."

Yep. Exactly. That'll mean more "super-candidates", more party control over who gets onto primary ballots, and the general populace will be more leery of political outsiders. It's kind of a damn shame, because if the DNC didn't have such a strong hold over the party then maybe Bernie might have had a real shot. Trump vs Bernie would have been an interesting election.

But hey, other than the EPA and FCC being castrated, maybe things won't be so bad. He's legitimately made good strides with N.Korea. Let's hope, right?

*almost, but not all. There is a very significant number of people that legitimately like his leadership style. A bully, in charge, bold, "masculine", authoritative. I'm pretty sure Mussolini wrote about this. "He'll make the trains run on time". One downside of democracy is that a lot of people are assholes.

About two years ago, Dropbox moved most of its data - including users' data - from Amazon Web Services, which it had relied on since its founding, to its own custom infrastructure in colocation data centers.
Dropbox shaved $74.6 million off its operational expenses primarily because of the move.

You were saying?

Hard to prosecute.

No harder than prosecuting a 40 year old teacher who's admitted to sleeping with a 14 year old student. Because intent is irrelevant - it's a simple yes/no question on whether or not it happened. Hillary mishandling classified material is not in dispute.

There was no evidence that anybody who wasn't allowed to see the emails actually accessed them.

Irrelevant. The case of Kristian Saucier debunks all the Hillbot excuses for her criminal hypocrisy. Former sailor went to jail for taking selfies on a sub - even though the government agreed there was no sign of intent or that the photos were subjected to espionage.

Prosecutors want a case that's a slam dunk.

Not only was the mishandling charge a slam dunk, so would have been the extra 20 years for obstruction of justice (destroying evidence). If it was Hillary Smith, state department flunky, who committed the same offenses for the same reasons, she'd be serving an effective life sentence in prison.

That. The whole FCC fraudulently killed it because the republicans wanted it -- because they're being paid a lot by big ISP who will get to charge you more.

No, not the whole FCC. Just the Republicans on it.

Republicans do everything against the public's best interest and the same victims are happy to vote for 'em repeatedly. Trump having approval ratings that aren't negative is proof that they're amazingly fucking stupid.

Trump's overall approval rating has been consistently low compared to other recent presidents. But among Republicans, his approval rating is at 90%.

The Republican party is Trump's bitch.

Are you reading the Breitbart Ranking of MAGA Economic Freedom? Because if you don't bring a serious source in a minute, I'm gonna start saying that you're completely full of shit.

No worries everybody says you're full of shit Ratzo.

You might try searching with words that are synonymous with freedom in an economic context and from sources whose focus is business not politics. Like maybe try Bloomberg news instead of the Heritage Foundation. Just a thought as most people go to the Heritage foundation to find political opinion.

Oh what the hell the strain of thinking might cause you to explode
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

But even without trade-wars, we are statistically due for a recession based on the length of the current upturn. The fact the yield curve is inverting is yet another warning sign. Based on past yield curves, we got roughly 18 months until it "hits".

Trump may unfairly get the blame for a slump. Don't get me wrong, I'm NOT defending his overall economic policy, but generally the sitting President's popularity is largely tied to the current economy, and it has been this way for more than 100 years.

There's a relationship, but it's pretty fuzzy when the government is divided. Who gets the credit/blame for the economy? The President who runs the administration or the Congress who passes budgets? Still I think it matters, government need to be willing to spend to keep things going in a recession, and when things are good they need to cut back to slow down the economy (and cut deficits). There's still other things driving the economy, but their actions do matter.

I think the Bush tax cuts were a disaster that exacerbated the last recession. They overheated an already hot economy and took away a lot of opportunity to stimulate the economy when it did crash. I think this last round of tax cuts were even worse, how are you going to pass stimulus when you're already running massive deficits?

US manufacturing output has nearly tripled since the 70s, so China's manufacturing has taken apparently hasn't harmed the local industry much at all.

US manufacturing jobs have declined sharply, however - and this is what Trump's base is concerned about. But since the local industry is quite healthy, blaming China for killing it is misguided - blame the rise of automation instead; output per worker has risen even faster than total output.

I certainly agree that those ex-workers need help, but those unskilled manufacturing jobs aren't coming back. It's just not economically viable to mass-produce things by hand anymore - you'll get heavily undercut in the world market by developing countries with cheaper labour. It's more effective to help those affected to move to different sectors instead; service jobs (which are booming), or reskilling them to other areas.

I smell a recession coming on. It remains to be seen who will bear the brunt of it.

Usually the 99%. The rich can afford to wait out storms, and even get richer from recessions by buying low and selling high: be it stocks, co's, or real-estate. Recession bargain-hunting is Warren Buffett's main financial weapon, and he's arguably the richest dude on the planet.

But even without trade-wars, we are statistically due for a recession based on the length of the current upturn. The fact the yield curve is inverting is yet another warning sign. Based on past yield curves, we got roughly 18 months until it "hits".

Trump may unfairly get the blame for a slump. Don't get me wrong, I'm NOT defending his overall economic policy, but generally the sitting President's popularity is largely tied to the current economy, and it has been this way for more than 100 years.

Where he might have legitimate blame besides trade wars is the debt: the larger the debt, the smaller the possible stimulus when a slump hits. Even among Republicans, giving personal tax-cuts to the rich in exchange for debt is not popular. (The corporate tax-cuts and middle-class tax-cuts score better with Republicans. They believe US corporate tax-rates were higher than other nations'. Whether that was true is debatable.)

They even covered it in the summary. Nuclear is expected to drop off. So what is the prediction based on? I sure hope it's not historic trends given:
% coal used in energy generation in 1997: 38.5%
% coal used in energy generation in 2017: 38.5%

Worse still the percentage of coal in the energy mix along with it's consumption actually rose last year (thanks India).

https://www.bloomberg.com/view...

Time to buy a new car I think: http://madmax.wikia.com/wiki/T...

In not so many words, the "strategy" that the "visionary" Musk has been touting all these years has failed spectacularly in numerous ways.

Not at all. They just went too far too fast. It's still a very heavily automation-focused facility.

Accurate as of today...

Only counts US shipments which have been basically suspended until July 1 due to how the EV tax credits work. Nobody knows what their production numbers are right now and we won't have a good proxy again until mid July.

Accurate as of today...

Bloomberg is showing about 1700 per week right now; they need to triple that - and sustain it - within 10 days to reach 5K by the end of the quarter. My bet is they don't reach that metric, at least not sustained. Meaning, yet again, missing a production goal.

Solar and wind are great unless you have a still, cloudy day.

Which doesn't happen across an entire region.

Except when it does happen: https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

There, there. Don't strain yourself now. By checking up on facts for example.

You obviously didn't strain yourself in your "fact" checking, because you haven't refuted my main point: that Trump got China, North Korea's "umbrella", to enact meaningful sanctions. You can point to the distant past all you want, but we're talking about the difference between this President and the last.

Much as I'd like to hear that Dirty Donald had actually scored a major win against North Korea, I'm skeptical about the extent to which North Korea will actually, well, get rid of its nukes.

Yes, so am I. But the current position is better than North Korea blatantly testing long range missiles designed to strike the US along with continued nuclear testing.

And you might also note that China hasn't given an inch on the North Korea issue before it was made to lose face when North Korea actually exploded a nuke.

Perhaps you can "fact check" if North Korea had exploded nukes before.

Twisting arms is something Dirty Donald might be able to do against small building contractors, but it doesn't seem to be getting him (and more importantly: the US) any results on the world stage.

Oh really?

Colony collapse disorder is likely due to mites on the bees more than pesticides https://ipm.missouri.edu/MPG/2013/7/Colony-Collapse-Disorder-the-Varroa-Mite-and-Resources-for-Beekeepers/, and bee hives are generally recovering from colony collapse disorder https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-01/good-news-for-bees-as-numbers-recover-while-mystery-malady-wanes. It is true that pesticide use can be a problem, but that's probably not the primary cause of most of the bee population problems, even as neonicotinoids are separately creating problems for bees. It is also in this context, important to focus on specific pesticides like neonicotinoids rather than "pesticides" as a general category, many of which are harmless to bees. And for this reason, reducing or eliminating neonicotinoid use makes sense.

That's not to say that all other pesticides are perfect. While they are a major aspect of what has allowed humans to drastically reduce food costs and effectively escape the Malthusian trap, many neurotoxic pesticides are harmful to humans, and there's a strong correlation between general pesticide exposure and developing certain neurological diseases later in life such as Parkinson's https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/parkinsons-disease-and-pesticides-whats-the-connection/. There's good reason to reduce our use of pesticides when possible, but fearmongering about bee collapse is not on them.

Not long ago I've read this one: https://www.bloomberg.com/news... In the meantime, Slashdot ADs is pointing me to a tool to move all my code to SourceForge :)

Bloomberg has published a slew of negative stories about Tesla, so why give them an exclusive like this? Is it some attempt to get Bloomberg to change its obvious stance?

To support my assertion of Bloomberg's negative stance, I point readers to Bloomberg's Model 3 tracker, which has been and remains consistently low in its estimates, without acknowledging that its model is producing wrong numbers. Musk announced that Tesla is producing 3500 cars per week, while Bloomberg's estimate is 2560.

Are (any) fiat-currency and (any) cryptocurrency really equivalent, as cryptocurrency fans claim?
For example, US Dollar and Bitcoin are really equals?

The example is cherry picked to try and make your case. No, I don't think they are really equals...

But you started with the more generic concept asking if ANY fiat-currency and crypto-curency are equal.

Well then, please explain to use why you think Bitcoin is inferior to the Venezuelan bolivar...

The truth is that some crypto-currencies are very much worth more than fiat-currencies, and are substantially more stable.

The truth is that fiat currencies at this point operate almost as much on shared belief as any crypto-currency.

The truth is that fiat and major crypto currencies are all backed up to one degree or another by large holders of same, who will not let the value fall below a certain amount... it is weaker crypto (and real) currencies that lack that backing that become scams and disasters.

For once, TFA provides the answers:

"offered to part-time staff as well as full-timers"..." Courses can be taken...online"...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

But once you sign up for the program, you can no longer be a full-time staffer. That's in TFA, at the end.

Others beg to differ with that opinion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

You really need to read the thing
https://knightcolumbia.org/sit... [knightcolumbia.org]

Bahahahahaha. That's rich. Okay, let's play. On the very first page of all the ruling is "Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, Rebecca Buckwalter, Phillip Cohen, Holly Figueora, Eugene Gu, Brandon Neely, Jospeh Papp, and Nicholas Pappas [Plaintiffs]
against
Dondal J. Trump, Hope Hicks, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Daniel Scavino [Defendants]."

NOWHERE I repeat NOWHERE is Twitter named a party to the suit. NOWHERE. The suit was not brought against Twitter therefore no court would order them to do anything. This is what is meant by a "party" to the lawsuit.

For example, you wrote: "The ruling literally says "The President" must do something."
I am unable to find any such thing in the ruling. Where do you see it? The ruling says: "Finally, we consider what form of relief should be awarded, as plaintiffs seek both declaratory relief and injunctive relief. While we reject defendants’ categorical assertion that injunctive relief cannot ever be awarded against the President, we nonetheless conclude that it is unnecessary to enter that legal thicket at this time."

Bahahahahahaha. Man you really don't understand anything do you? Or you are cherry picking your statements:

Declaratory
judgment is appropriate under the factors that the Second Circuit
directs us to consider, see Dow Jones & Co. v. Harrods Ltd., 346
F.3d 357, 359-60 (2d Cir. 2003), and a declaration will therefore
issue: the blocking of the individual plaintiffs from the
@realDonaldTrump account because of their expressed political
views violates the First Amendment. “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial
department to say what the law is,” Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1
Cranch) 137, 177 (1803), and we have held that the President’s
blocking of the individual plaintiffs is unconstitutional under
the First Amendment. Because no government official is above the
law and because all government officials are presumed to follow
the law once the judiciary has said what the law is, we must assume
that the President and Scavino will remedy the blocking we have
held to be unconstitutional.

NOWHERE in any of that statement involves Twitter. NOWHERE.

But you didn't answer my question: Why would you lie about what your comments are when we can scroll up and see them. Your first comments implied that the plaintiffs could be blocked if they were harassing despite that not appearing in the ruling.

Then we can talk about why you feel that appeal is likely in a Summary Judgement case. I doubt you have answers.

You still haven't told me where the judge ordered them to do something. You can't, because she didn't. The judge "presumes" they will stop blocking but didn't order them to do it anywhere because she concluded it was "unnecessary to enter that legal thicket at this time." The legal thicket being that it is unclear she can order the President to do anything period. She can probably order Scavino to do something, but Trump can just change his password.

As for the Twitter lawsuit potential, here's another article from Noah Feldman saying the same thing: "if Trump Can’t Block Twitter Users, Twitter Can’t Either" https://www.bloomberg.com/view...

This is his bio: https://hls.harvard.edu/facult...

A lot of people don't realize how little the reaction some fans had to The Last Jedi harmed the franchise.

The force awakens made 120 Million the first day. Solo movie make 14 million.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/?page=open&p=.htm
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/solo-a-star-wars-story-box-office-opening-thursday-1202822049/

The books and toys are still selling.

Are you sure about that?

Eventually this denial of reality that caused the absurd Admiral Tumblr, complete trashing of established characters, denouncement of fan desires, SJW themes, and complete disregard for verisimilitude came back to roost as a 88% loss in gross revenue. Keep denying reality and your customers will keep denying your paycheck.

I just don't see the point here. There's already a bunch of plant-based alternatives that don't involved roaches (rice, soy, almond, quinoa, coconut, ect.).

Rice: Not nutrient dense, and getting less dense due to CO2 increase.
Soy: I can't digest soy. If I eat a burrito with TVP in it, for example, it destroys my digestion. If my lady (who worked as a chef for Christina on Orcas Island, among her other culinary chops) puts tofu into a meal I won't taste it, but it will make me urpy and pukey (yes, those are technical terms) before I even finish the meal. Eating large amounts of soy may increase cancer risk in men due to phytoestrogen. Most soy produced is now GMO, which I have mixed feelings about scientifically, and specifically Monsanto's IP, which I have very clear feelings about politically. Their competition is Dupont and BASF. Dupont has a long history of being shit (They and BP together have a company which has an obvious, partially-paid-for-by-tax-money patent on efficiently producing Butanol, a 1:1 carbon-neutral replacement for gasoline, and have been suing GE to prevent them from selling the stuff, which THE WORLD NEEDS) and BASF is a major polluter (So's Dupont, and always has been) so even if Monsanto's dominance wanes, the slack will only be taken up by other shitlords.
Almonds: It takes about a gallon of water to grow a single almond. They consume literally ten percent of California's water every year, and water is becoming scarcer. Avocados have been removed from southern Caifornia en masse because there is simply not enough water to irrigate them. Almonds are next.
Quinoa: We're eating so much of it that the people who historically ate it are going hungry, because as usual only a small percentage of the population profits from exporting what the majority of people used to eat. Yay capitalism! Isn't it just the best?
Coconut: Coconut shortage!
Insects: Many of them can literally be raised on compost and most require little water. At least some can be raised in almost any climate.
Yeast: Can be raised anywhere on very little, and this is what they're actually trying to do.

I'm not actually in a rush to eat bugs or bug products, but there are clear and compelling reasons why one might want to.

that the Justice Dept is criminally investigating people involved in fixing the price of bitcoin?

This isn't "How To Google" either, but you look like you need a clue:

Uber Disabled Volvo SUV's Safety System Before Fatality

Fatal driverless crash: Radar-maker says Uber disabled safety systems

Uber Reportedly Disabled Key Safety Feature Prior to Deadly Crash

There's the powerful counterpoint of course that those vehicles actually exist, the $35k Tesla 3 does not in production quantities and is sliding further into the future with every announcement.

The Ioniq EV sold 6797 units last year globally. Tesla delivered more Model 3s than that last QUARTER and is accelerating production. In fact Tesla delivered more Model 3s than the Chevy Bolt and Nissan Lead COMBINED in Jan and Feb this year. Right now Tesla is delivering around 2800 Model 3s per week.

By the time I can walk into a Tesla dealer (especially in the UK as the RHD will be even further behind) and buy a standard Tesla 3, there will be probably another 2 major updates to that Ioniq. And maybe Ford etc will have their hands properly in play.

That's a nice little fantasy story you are telling yourself. You do know Ford is literally stopping production of almost all non-truck vehicles right? And you think the Ioniq is going to magically be redesigned massively to compete on range with the Tesla?

Where you have been? Bush email controversy It wasn't just Bush but it was his administration including Karl Rove and Colin Powell. In all 22 million emails are "missing". As for the current administration they also have been using private emails. That doesn't include GOP members like Scott Walker, Marco Rubio etc. Seriously you can google and find many GOP members caught using their own private unsecured email.

"What's the definition of a sailor?" he [Richard Jenkins] asks while launching one of the drones off the Alameda dock. "A primitive organism for turning beer into urine."

Who decides what gets published and what gets buried?

That would be the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations, also known the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project. Your tweets will be moderated by the likes of Dalia Mogahed and Generation Obama national co-chair Jeremy Goldberg. If you don't like it you can try appealing to the board of directors which includes Omar Kordestani, Marjorie Scardino, Model View Culture promoter Peter Fenton, and a board member of Chelsea Clinton's employer InterActiveCorp, David Rosenblatt.

Tesla is not hitting any of their estimates for Model 3 production. Not even close. Considering they estimated 20K/month min to "break even", there is no surprise at all they are still losing billions of dollars - BEFORE capital and NRE expenses.

I know that was probably fun to do, but either you've been mislead by what you've read, or you a painting a misleading picture here, perhaps intentionally.

I'll just focus on one issue, the Manafort case. The judge did dress down the prosecution, that much is true, but you have conspicuously left out what were the stakes of the argument. It was an issue of jurisdiction, and the judge was pressing the special prosecutors as to why they hadn't passed off Manafort's prosecution on bank fraud and such to the local US attorney, as opposed to running the prosecution themselves. The special prosecutor had previously done that with the case against Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen, where at least some of that prosecution was handed off to the Southern District of New York. This doesn't imply that the judge will necessarily rule against the special prosecutor, but in the event that he does that doesn't mean that Manafort is left off the hook on prosecution, it means that the US attorneys in the Eastern District of Virginia handle it instead.

Personally, I thought the judge went out over his skis on that, but judges sometimes like to rant against prosecutors, especially ones who have been around for a very long time like Judge Ellis, and sometimes prosecutors deserve it. This special prosecution was explicitly granted authority to probe activities related to Manafort's earlier work for Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine, and the financial crimes in a lot of these indictments seem to be direct consequences from that. That memo from Deputy AG Rosenstein seems to be what you are alluding to, since several of the leadership from the House Republicans have been desperately trying to get their hands on the unredacted version of it, as it laid out much more specifically the special prosecution's mandate last year. Of course, that is law enforcement sensitive material and outing it would tip off the targets of the probe, which seems precisely the intent of their "oversight" given how quickly they leaked other things like the Comey memos after receiving them.

Well, unless you have other estimates, it seems there are about 1700 Model 3s built per week. So they are finally getting close (other than a "push week" for show) to the goal promised for last October...

Hey Beau,

Might want to fix your link - You're linking

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

When you should be linking

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

Hey Beau,

Might want to fix your link - You're linking

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

When you should be linking

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

iPhone Manufacturers’ Slowing Sales Are a Bad Omen for Apple.

Apple has been dying and getting bad omens forever.

As smartphones have become ubiquitous, the crazy numbers of new adopters simply have to slow down. We went through something similar with feature phones a few years back. I know only a couple people who have those dinosaurs now.

Regardless, the technology has matured rapidly, and now most sales will be replacement, some children, and a small group of elderly. people.

I'd wager that Apple has had this plan in the works for years.

In trying to think of the killer new smartphone that will have everyone dumping what they have now, I'm not coming up with much. Cutaneous dock implant, then direct visual and tactile implant the whole phone?

So until those dream devices come along, Apple management simply had to know the market would saturate, and planned on this years ago.

iPhone Manufacturers’ Slowing Sales Are a Bad Omen for Apple. Don't like the Slashdot headline? Then how about that bastion of conservative capitalism, Bloomberg. For your edification, "slowing sales" is commonly understood as synonymous with "slowing growth". Because everybody knows what comes next: "flat sales". Then "declining sales". Sorry I needed to spell it out for you.

You can say that Bloomberg article came out a week before the quarterlies. But they nailed the production numbers and here is the Guardian also talking about slowing sales with the quarterlies in hand. See, worry is a thing. Investors don't give a hoot how well a company just did, what they care about is where the company is going in the future. Apple's flagship product is slowing down. The quarterlies did nothing to dispel that widely held sentiment.

The US is like a 3rd world country now where politics drive trade decisions rather than rules.

Dude, we now have just as many job openings as we have unemployed, for the first time in ever.

Also, the Qualcomm thing was part of the China trade sanctions, for China turning a blind eye towards companies that did business with N.Korea.

This indirectly led to the end of the Korean war.

If you could go back in time and choose or reverse the Qualcomm decision, which choice would you make: the one for a healthy Qualcomm, high US unemployment, and North and South Korea rattling sabres?

Or would you choose the situation we have today?

You are sorely mistaken

No, I'm not mistaken at all. The DOD has the power to publicly ass rape a western company and its shareholders when they step out of line. You don't know this because you and the media you select don't pay any attention to these issues — there's no climate doom angles or evil "racists" to get outraged at — but the US government routinely crushes people and companies that flout export controls and conduct espionage against the US. Read about inmate and Professor John Reece and the company the DOJ destroyed for exposing sensitive technology to foreign students and violating export controls. ZTE was fined $430 million last year for violating export controls. You might want poke your head up from whatever cesspool of news you get your daily doses of Trump Derangement from and look around at what's going on.