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Same two authors wrote an article from 2015 with the same intent.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

and a great retort from that 2015 article https://www.grahamcluley.com/k...

I would like to see an actual evidence based reason before I put Kaspersky on my shit list (Russia is already on it). Working with a government to track down DDoS attackers is not a low point for a security company.

Funny you should bring up San Francisco - it has a great example of how engineers screw up

The building, which opened in 2008 and was touted as the most luxurious tower in San Francisco, became a beacon of the city’s burgeoning wealth, attracting tech millionaires, venture capitalists, and even the San Francisco 49ers retired quarterback Joe Montana.

The 58-story tower's shine faded on May 10, 2016, when Agabian attended a homeowners association meeting and was informed that the building had sunk 16 inches into the earth and tilted over 15 inches at its tip and 2 inches at the base, according to suits filed by residents and the city of San Francisco. “You can imagine how distressed we were to know that, for one, our lifetime investment and savings are at risk,” she said. “And we have no idea whether or not there’s a fix to it, and if there is a fix to it, what it will entail.”

The building, meanwhile, continues to sink.

It may not even be fixable.

From https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
"worry U.S. national security officials "
"six U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agency chiefs were asked"
"While the U.S. government hasn’t disclosed any evidence of the ties"
"A person familiar with"
"The U.S. government hasn’t identified any evidence connecting"

Consider all the good work thats been done over the years.
Equation Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Stuxnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Work to publish on Gauss, Regin, Flame, Red October, Duqu, Silverlight and Mask

Except that is the issue, Google and Facebook are not abusing their positions against the rest of the news industry. The rest of the industry is pissed that google doesn't shove eyeballs at their pay-walled news sites. https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

I think there are already plans afoot to get rid of private prisons in this country. Private prisons are being phased out... at least for now, unless Trump or a later President decides to reverse that decision.

Are you nuts? While it's not really true Jeff sessions owns private prisons it most certainly is true private prisons lobbied trump lavishly, and he accepted the money including over 250k usd for just the inauguration. Further Trumps cleansing of America of immigrants requires a detainment period at, you guessed it, prison of which many are private. It's no wonder Sessions is bringing back 1960s hystaria around marijuana and minor offenses either, the shitshow of how private prisons are run in the USA needs to end but is instead expanding.

“We’re moving to a point where a major attack like this is very, very possible,” Antova said. “Once you’re into the control systems -- and you can get into the control systems by hacking into the plant’s regular computer network -- then the basic security mechanisms you’d expect are simply not there.” - https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

The fact that he said 'the plant's regular computer network' tells of his ignorance to the architectures of nuclear station control networkS (not one), and then the isolated controls as well. This guy has never set foot in a nuclear plant. Also, he should be specific about which 'basic security measure' he claim are not there, because there are in reality many basic security measure "there". That's easy stuff to say when you want attention, and quite vague to evade criticism.

“We’re moving to a point where a major attack like this is very, very possible,” Antova said. “Once you’re into the control systems -- and you can get into the control systems by hacking into the plant’s regular computer network -- then the basic security mechanisms you’d expect are simply not there.” - https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

The chief suspect is Russia, according to three people familiar with the continuing effort to eject the hackers from the computer networks. One of those networks belongs to an aging nuclear generating facility known as Wolf Creek -- owned by Westar Energy Inc., Great Plains Energy Inc. and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative Inc. -- on a lake shore near Burlington, Kansas.

The possibility of a Russia connection is particularly worrisome, former and current officials say, because Russian hackers have previously taken down parts of the electrical grid in Ukraine and appear to be testing increasingly advanced tools to disrupt power supplies.

The hacks come as international tensions have flared over U.S. intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russia tried to influence the 2016 presidential election. The U.S., which has several continuing investigations into Russia’s activities, is known to possess digital weapons capable of disrupting the electricity grids of rival nations.

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

It doesn't really matter, because ICE vehicles will be obsolete long before 2040 anyway. EVs are just better in every way that's important, in particular the cost of "fuel" and maintenance. At the moment, EVs are more expensive to buy, and take a bit longer to "refuel", but those disadvantages will disappear in the next few years. By the mid 2020s, it won't make economic sense to buy an ICE car anymore, and the entire market will switch with surprising rapidity.

Tony Seba predicts this will happen by 2030, but even if he's overly optimistic by a factor of two, the transition will still be complete before 2040.

Another aspect of this, noted by Bloomberg, is that long before this transition is complete, probably in the next 6 or 7 years, EVs will displace enough oil consumption to cause a crash in the oil price. That in turn will cause trillions($) of sunk capital to go belly-up. Fracked oil is barely profitable at $50/bbl. When the price goes to $30, the frackers won't even be able to service their debt at that price. Sayanora. And deep-water oil isn't far behind...

Trump told a friend in the last few weeks that he still considers the merger to be a bad deal, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the conversation was private.

The basis of article is an anonymous source. I can't belive anything an unknown source say in these times of 'fake news'. I need solid facts.

Actually ... Hettinger is not the inventor of the fidget spinner.

Keep in mind that with solar power now less expensive per watt than coal

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

That many areas which were not as good for solar are doable- you simply add more panels til you get to the price of coal generated power.

So if coal is 12c/kwh and solar is 10c/kwh then you can use 20% more solar panels.

A) trees can't be 6 feet apart, trunk to trunk should be about 30'

This makes it even cheaper.

B) native species to the area are needed and have a cost basis of about $40

C) ( blocked views ) you can not plant a tree on a corner
C1) nor can it be 75 feet from the corner
C2) drivers side can not be 85 feet from the corner
C3) Corner does not start at the swale or hellstrip, starts at the property line

D) digging a hole is not easy, you got top sandy earth then coral.

E) Native species are in tune to drought, so watering is an option, not a requirement. the city has a truck that waters plants.

F) North side plantings incur a liability of blocking the sun on private land ( sun rights ), so if I have solar, how will the city compensate me.
F1) South Side plantings cover the pavement.

G) if a driver hit's a tree planted by the city, does the driver have a legal right to claim anything to the city? ( this is where DOT studies come into play ) and does the city have to buy insurance for this.

As for the rest of this, I almost added an disclaimer to my post that this was not counting any political or lawyer BS.

I also should have included a link to this article: https://www.bloomberg.com/view...

My uncle used to put up new telephone poles. I believe it was only a two man crew. It was in the dakotas which was very rocky and hard to dig. They would drop a stick of dynamite in the ground, cover it with a heavy mat and blow it up.

We have one of the highest levels ever of unemployed men ages 18-65. If we actually stopped all the political BS, we could actually do projects like this.

How many people looking to emigrate can't cultivate a 'bona-fide' relationship with a legitimate person in the US sufficient to make this claim?

From the linked article https://www.bloomberg.com/news...:

[people exempt from the ban] "includes people visiting a close family member, students who have been admitted to a university or workers who have accepted an employment offer, the court said. But the court said people can’t avoid the ban by entering into a relationship solely for the purpose of traveling to the U.S."

I'm not sure I'm parsing your response correctly, but are you saying that the high overhead of 13% doesn't matter

Sure it matters. Lots of things matter. I don't think people will give up their choices and agree to a government-only answer to save 13-1.5=11.5%. Do you think they will?

Or are you saying that people should be ok with paying more, because they get "choices", whatever those are?

I'm not telling anyone what they should be ok with. They can decide for themselves what they're ok with. Lots of people are happy to pay extra for things when given a choice to have what they want though.

[silly ad hominems about them naaasty republicans deleted] ... extending Medicare to everybody would not cause any problem,

Except higher taxes, adverse selection, increased cost shifting to non-Medicare patients, severe hospital budget problems, etc.

[more weird, ranty, hate-fueled conspiracy nonsense deleted]

What is it with you people? Why is "oh no, some insurance company made a profit" worth the frothing-at-the-mouth hatred?

You think hate-fueled screeds are going to convince anyone of anything (other than not to listen to you)?

...profit...advertising...wasted money.

Advertising helps drug and device companies make a profit. They develop new treatments for profits. New treatments save lives and reduce suffering.

I know people in that industry. They don't work for free.

By the way, the point isn't necessarily to reduce costs, though that would be a nice bonus. The point is to make sure everyone has health care, including routine preventative care, something many poorer people don't do because they can't afford it. The upshot is that problems that otherwise either would have been preventable or caught early and treated for a lot less expense turn into serious conditions are are a lot more expensive to treat --- or the people either live in misery or outright die.

This was studied. Health coverage doesn't significantly impact health.

It's logical to believe that it might, but the study says it doesn't.

And preventive care coverage doesn't cut emergency room use either.

Lots of people wish there were straightforward answers. Wishing does make it true.

...profit...advertising...wasted money.

Advertising helps drug and device companies make a profit. They develop new treatments for profits. New treatments save lives and reduce suffering.

I know people in that industry. They don't work for free.

By the way, the point isn't necessarily to reduce costs, though that would be a nice bonus. The point is to make sure everyone has health care, including routine preventative care, something many poorer people don't do because they can't afford it. The upshot is that problems that otherwise either would have been preventable or caught early and treated for a lot less expense turn into serious conditions are are a lot more expensive to treat --- or the people either live in misery or outright die.

This was studied. Health coverage doesn't significantly impact health.

It's logical to believe that it might, but the study says it doesn't.

And preventive care coverage doesn't cut emergency room use either.

Lots of people wish there were straightforward answers. Wishing does make it true.

That's a lot of idle complaining, but no one has offered a workable plan to reduce health costs.

No country has reduced health care costs over time.

$10 * 40 hours per week * 52 weeks per year (no vacations) = $20,800

$20,800- 2,000 for average federal taxes = $18,800

$18,800 - median gross rent of 959 * 12 months = $11,508

$11,508 - rough average utilities * 12 months = $10,248

$10,248 - $2,641 for food = $7,607

$7,607 - rough average of health insurance per individual mandate of $3,000 = $4,607

$4,607 - annual average cost of transportation of $9,004 = -$4,397

Let's stop there. Now that person that "could live pretty well on $10 an hour" still has state and city taxes to attend to, general maintenance costs like clothing, a cellphone bill that needs to be paid (good luck getting a job without having a phone number), has no retirement, has no savings in the case of actually needing to use their health insurance, will never see a vacation, and is increasing their debt by $12 per day.

Do you understand why the average American has $16,000 in credit card debt?

That debt only covers four years of living expenses. Why could that be? Because that is how long many people live the way you describe as being "could live pretty well on $10 an hour" in order to attend higher education and seek out a better life. They rack up an average $37,172 of student loans during that time.

Now they have no savings, no assets, have never known a vacation, couldn't possibly afford to use their health insurance, have no credit, and have $53,172 in debt but finally have an opportunity to get a better job: "If you can keep up with the bots, you can stay."

How is that for living pretty well on $10 an hour?

The official exchange rate is fairly stable, but meaningless. The black market exchange rate is collapsing:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

I agree that we should be doing more nuclear.

But for my state anyway, wind production in Texas, not counting government subsidies, runs from $36 to $51 per megawatt-hour while an average national cost for coal-fired electricity ranges from $65 to $150 per MWh and for gas, depending on the type of plant, from $52/MWh to $218/MWh.

Grocery stores are practically recession proof. Everyone has to eat even when times are hard.

Whole Foods specializes in organic / artisanal / locally-sourced / blah blah blah hipster food. That segment of the market will rapidly shrink in a recession. Some small number of people will continue to buy there as a political / moral / ethical statement, but most of the casual soccer moms buying organic stuff because they think it's best for their kids will end up changing their buying habits when dad suddenly loses his job and they have to make every penny stretch as far as it can.

From a 2012 interview with Walter Robb, CEO of Whole Foods:

What did you learn from the recent recession about selling groceries?

It was a lot of humble pie, because our sales experienced a drop that I have never seen in 32 years of retail. Customers left us in droves.

(source)

Yes, people will "always" need to buy food - but WalMart and other low-price stores will gain business in an economic downturn because they're selling eggs 3 cents cheaper than the local Kroger, and 87 cents cheaper than the Whole Foods.

If, by sabotage, you mean they report what he says and does, then I concede the point

No, by "sabotage" I mean publication of falsehoods and innuendo, which, without stating an accusation, masterfully create a perception of the impeachment-worthy "high crimes and misdemeanors" having already been committed by the President.

he should stop giving them so much fodder.

What "fodder" did he give anybody to accuse him of treason? None — but for months we were talking about it... Indeed, Comey, of all people, knew perfectly well, the charges of "treason" are so baseless, there is not even an investigation about them — but still maneuvered to have a special prosecutor appointed to investigate something — even though no one can even state a coherent accusation, much less prove anything.

That is done to sabotage his agenda — there is no other plausible explanation — an undeniable and objective fact...

The Bloomberg story is at

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

https://www.bloomberg.com/poli...

I mean seriously, one would think that if he were concerned about it at the time, he (or rather, his administration) would have at least informed the IT folks over the affected systems so that they could at least try and remediate and harden things?

Washington elites were so sure, Hillary would win, they didn't want to publicize the hacking attempts for fear of delegitimizing her.

Now that she lost, they are sabotaging the actual winner with this unending allusions and unstated allegations and innuendo — to slow him down and prevent him from implementing, what the voters voted for.

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

No subsidies no buyers. Imagine that.

Wray left the Justice Department in 2005 and returned to the Atlanta-based law firm King & Spalding, where he’s now a litigation partner.

King & Spalding’s energy practice has represented clients working on deals involving Russia, including the state-owned Rosneft Oil Co. and Gazprom PJSC, according to the firm’s website. It says the firm also represented a large Russian oil company it does not identify that operates in Kazakhstan.

King & Spalding is a large law firm with more than 900 attorneys and 18 locations around the globe. Micheline Tang, a spokeswoman for the firm, had no immediate comment on whether Wray was involved in the firm’s work with Rosneft.

But just keep in mind: That over budget, over time job is being done by private sector already. The FAA does none of that.

https://www.bloomberg.com/prof...

Same group of gov scammers at the teet again.

So, let's do nothing?

Yes. Until we can agree on what to do...

Are you that worried it might delegitimize your guy?

Yes, that is a valid concern. The constant talk of "treason" — despite no one being able to even state a coherent accusation, much less prove it — slows down his agenda and keeps him from fulfilling his promises. You know this and quite deliberately keeping up the talk and the shitposting on the subject.

we're so partisan we can't repel a foreign invader

Yes, we are. Such is the Illiberals' hatred towards Trump, it even made them switch their opinion of Russia.

What "illiberals"? This 25 year-old progressive, for example, who "resisted" Trump by, apparently, leaking this very story to the press. She is, obviously, more interested in "repelling" Trump, than Putin...

Because the US is a third world country.

The modern countries on this planet provide health care instead of selling it.

That's some complaining. What do you want to do about it?

And before you say "single payer", understand that single payer will be a lot more expensive than the current system because US health care workers get paid a lot and they probably won't just sit back and accept huge pay cuts. And they have enormous political clout in the US.

Also, why should the US be like other countries when most people in the US want a more US-like system?

Maybe you missed the memo, but unsubsidized solar is already cheaper than coal for new construction. Coal is only cheap because the plants already exist.

Now how are you guys going to go about that money transfers

I checked the list for the usual suspects. Sure enough: Mayor Rahm Emanuel, City of Chicago, IL. Meanwhile, we learn today that S&P and Moody's have downgraded Illinois to "Near Junk, Lowest Ever for a U.S. State," because these people have been spending themselves into an epic hole for decades.

You are conflating Chicago's leadership which is democratic for the city with the state level which is republican which is has become such a republican trope I am surprised that it is not pointed out more regularly. Bruce Rouner s the Republican Governor of Illinois. You should really check your facts a little better before you make sweeping judgements like that crap about these people spending themselves into an epic hole for decades and trying to blame it on Rahm Emanuel. Nice try but your partisan crap made you look like a Tea Party retard. Good Job!

Over in the inquiring they're trying to get to the bottom of this meeting Jared had with the Russian spy banker.

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-40128001/bbc-quizzes-russia-banker-who-met-kushner

The one the bankers says was a totally normal business meeting for a property deal, and Jared says was a Trump related meeting to make connections to Putin (because this bank is Putin controlled, his cover story has to acknowledge the fact, but why would you need such a obsfucated communications channel to Putin?).

We learn that Jared wanted a new backcomms link secured by Russia, we learn he wanted it sorted at a meeting abroad with trusted intermediaries outside the US (trusted by Trump and Moscow, but not CIA). So did he get his link?

Putin would certainly have provided it, it gives him incredible influence, and having a secret illegal backlink bypassing monitoring, would also give him leverage.

I ask again, did Jared get his Moscow secured connection to Russia. Do they now have a new comms channel bypassing the rest of the Executive/Congress/Senate? Because two US spies were arrested six days after Trump got access to unredacted pee memo, which named a current FSB man and a former FSB man as source, and they fit the profile of the two arrested.

It's pretty obvious that Trump gave the Russians the names, but through what channel.

Inside Obama’s Secret Outreach to Russia (Dec. 31 2014)

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

Obama failed with all of the US government. Team Trump succeeded before he was even in office. That is called winning. Now spin away.

Now how are you guys going to go about that money transfers

I checked the list for the usual suspects. Sure enough: Mayor Rahm Emanuel, City of Chicago, IL. Meanwhile, we learn today that S&P and Moody's have downgraded Illinois to "Near Junk, Lowest Ever for a U.S. State," because these people have been spending themselves into an epic hole for decades.

It would get put into either the pockets of bigwigs at outfits like Solyndra http://fortune.com/2015/08/27/... [fortune.com]

Interestingly enough, while Solyndra did fail, the government department that made the loan to Solyndra is actually expected to generate about $5 billion in revenue (even when including the costs of Solyndra and their other failed loans). As I understand it, the entire program has not only encouraged the develop of new high technology companies, they directly earned a profit while doing so (which is doubly good for Americans, because the government also collects taxes from the companies they sponsored and the people who work for those companies, but that isn't counted as revenue for this department).

Don't be fooled by the gibbering monkeys, Solyndra represents part of a lower than expected failure rate by a very successful policy initiative.

This is very smarmily worded: although DNC spent more, Hillary had to "build" the organization that did the spending. The smarmy part is to say the second part but not the first, making it sound like the DNC was "supposed" to spend more money on her and either didn't spend it or didn't have it, when neither is true. She also ignored data scientists' models in MI/WI/PA, just as she's currently ignoring criticism that she displays awful character by blaming others for her loss.

Is Trump's character even worse? Yes, and the people who can see that voted for Hillary. The rest voted for Trump. Even the voters, if unfrustrated by DNC primary-rigging (ex. registration purges in NYC), are able to pick a candidate better than Hillary. The biggest mistake the DNC made was sacrificing its credibility by using shenanigans to put a bad candidate into the race. They lost both their credibility and the election. I don't care what Hillary thinks. She's over. The problem is her cronies are still in charge of the DNC. The "crazy racist" zombie-messages from the Hillary campaign are still coming out of the DNC and poisoning discourse. Hillary has not lost thoroughly enough.

Here's some more information on the bill to allow employers to give comp time rather than overtime pay for overtime hours: https://www.bloomberg.com/poli...

Great news, it's to benefit employees! Check out these quotes about how great it is for workers:

"Nothing should stop us from doing what we can right now to help make life a little easier for moms and dads"
"we can give men and women more choice and flexibility in how they choose to use their time”
Martha Roby (R-AL)

"I don't think there's anything more powerful than giving them more control over their time so that they can make the best decisions for themselves and their families,"
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)

See? It's not about companies screwing their employees and making them work overtime without overtime pay, it's to give "choice and flexibility" to families. Thank you Republicans, at least SOMEONE is looking out for the workers and Making America Great Again!

Will any of you dumbfucks apologize, or are you just going to keep pretending you don't notice the obvious treason taking place in front of your eyes?

You should read carefully the article. It makes two very important points:
1) "It is common for senior advisers of a newly elected president to be in contact with foreign leaders and officials."
2) "Obama administration officials say members of the Trump transition team never approached them about arranging a secure communications channel with their Russian contacts, possibly because of concerns about leaks."
In fact it is understandable the mistrust with American intelligence agencies right now, because, as Bloomberg put it, "the U.S. intelligence ship is too leaky to sail". Besides that, this Kushner-Flynn affair has ostensibly nothing to do with the alleged (and very unlikely IMO) Russian hack of the Democratic party, but it is related to the Syrian war, where American intelligence agencies have been playing dirty since the start and not in the interest of the American people (unless arming al-Qaeda is in the interest of the American people).

From your link ( https://www.bloomberg.com/poli... )...

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said "We are no longer going to measure compassion by the number of programs and the amount spent on those programs."

Bloomberg fraudulently inserted a period to make it seem like that was the full quote. It was not. The full quote is:

"We are no longer going to measure compassion by the number of programs or the number of people on those programs, but the number of people we help get off of those programs."

Bloomberg's cut-off, altered version doesn't make sense. But the full quote demonstrates an understanding of what true compassion is all about.

Disclaimer: I'm one of these terrible, no-good, lazy, overspending millennials. I have actually a pretty good job situation, but that doesn't mean I'm going to lie to myself that somehow I've done better because I'm somehow a better person. I've been very lucky, and a lot of millennials are being screwed over through no fault of their own at all.

TL;DR. Whatever, dude. Until the accusers can state their accusation and provide anything like evidence, this is all politics. Dirty politics.

Marx never intended for his ideas to be implemented in feudal Russia or the carcass of Austria-Hungary

Marx did not propose ideas — to be implemented or not. He thought of his theories as laws of nature — like gravity — take it from someone, who was forced to study Marxism in high school and college...

His claim was, the workers' revolution is inevitable when the means of production develop beyond a certain point. That it did not actually happen in the US, UK, and other countries is proof, the asshole was a fool and wasted years of his life on a big mistake — while his wife brought up their children.

With more and more of the US population somehow being reliant on government handouts anyways, we've got communism coming in through the backdoor. Maybe we should just be honest with ourselves and just dive in head first to the Marxist experiment

Or maybe we should, now that the realization is kicking in, stop this creep up of Communism and go back to having a drastically lower involvement of government in the citizens' daily lives? Something like this, perhaps?

The productivity is high enough. It's a simple enough math: the selling const of the electricity, which is approaching rather low levels in some places already, is bound from below by cost of labor and non-labor (energy and materials) inputs. Clearly if you beat other sources by price, you can't be comparatively inefficient unless you're subsidizing it out of your own pocket. So the labor and non-labor inputs must be lower than the ever-shrinking PPA price. The Chilean solar price is already measurably lower than the "cost-efficient" brown coal generation facilities in my country.

An example: this is why China is eating America's lunch and Europe's dinner. I'm sure there are Chinese who hate GMOs or believe in 'chemtrails', but they have no influence on public policy

The following article seems to contradict your claim that China's public policy isn't affected by irrational politics.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-13/why-china-can-t-lure-tech-talent

It's just a different sort of irrationality than the American irrationality.

Here is a cool infographic of gas prices around the world. The most expensive gas is in Hong Kong, at over $7 per gallon. The lowest price is $0.02 per gallon in Venezuela, but that doesn't really count because none of the gas stations actually have any gasoline, since it is smuggled across the border into Colombia.

American gas prices aren't the lowest, since many countries stupidly subsidize consumption, but America does have the most affordable gas (price/income) after only Saudi Arabia.

Or has the tone switched, because Musk is a Trump-administration supporter (sort of) — and there is a well-organized smear and boycott campaign against him as a result?

Anyone who thinks the tone switched only recently hasn't been paying attention. People started grousing about Musk long before "The Donald" became a serious presidential contender.

For a few years I was annoyed about the uniform adoration Mr. Musk was getting on Slashdot and in other circles. Then hit-pieces like this one started appearing...

Would the insufferable conditions described in TFA have been described at all — or described using the same terms — if he were still the Progressives' darling for championing "green" causes?

Or has the tone switched, because Musk is a Trump-administration supporter (sort of) — and there is a well-organized smear and boycott campaign against him as a result?

There is a lively discussion on whether or not Musk is a "Trump enabler" — but people, who've already concluded, that he is, will stop at, literally, nothing. Even poisoning the "haters" is becoming a thing — online smears are child's play...

It's no wonder that California Tesla employees are considering joining the UAW. If you don't treat your employees right one at a time, they're going to ask that you do so all at once.

The amusing thing is Apple doesn't make screens. They buy them pre-made from Samsung or LG, and Samsung has been making these curved screens for years. So either Apple patented (and the USPTO granted) something both companies thought was so obvious it couldn't be patented, or they pulled a Kawasaki (who basically photocopied the U.S. patent application for the jetski, changed the name of the inventor to themselves, and submitted it for a Japanese patent).