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In China, General Motors is hot. In November, its 10 joint ventures and two wholly-owned foreign enterprises sold 418,225 new vehicles in China, up 13% from a year ago. It was the best November ever, GM said. SUV sales soared 73%.

General Motors has proposed an investment of $2.8 billion into its loss-making South Korean operations over the next 10 years and has asked Seoul to provide its share of the funds, a South Korean government official said on Wednesday.

General Motors plans to produce two new models in South Korea, according to media reports.
According to Reuters, a local lawmaker quoted GM executive Barry Engle as revealing the plans at a meeting with South Korean members of parliament.

GM is expanding in BOTH China and S. Korea.

Git, back to your bog Caffeinated Bacon(Crimson Tsunami).

Uh, CA went from Nth to 5th and are now sliding down to 7th and below.

Still 5th. Not taking your fact-free word for it either.

GM CEO Mary Barra said the company is "still hiring people with expertise in software and electric and autonomous vehicles, and many of those who will lose their jobs are now working on conventional cars with internal combustion engines," reports Dallas News. "Barra said the industry is changing rapidly and moving toward electric propulsion, autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing, and GM must adjust with it."

Those car plants will probably be retooled over the span of a year or two and start producing Electric and Autonomous vehicles and the jobs that they couldn't automate will come back. The real losers here will be all the mechanical engineers that will be replaced with electrical engineers because those jobs are not coming back once the transition to electric cars is complete. This sucks but such is the cost of progress.

What makes China your enemy?

Like all superpowers, they want to rule the world. And if you've seen what's going on in China with death vans, organlegging and social credit scores, it should be intuitively obvious that you do not want to live under Chinese rule.

As evil as the US often behaves, and it certainly does, it's a million billion times better than China.

Then global warming must not be that important if we are throwing options off the table that lightly.

Nice red herring. Nobody's "throwing options off the table that lightly". There is active ongoing research into the effects of iron seeding going on at my nearby university, and CO2 producing power is being replaced as we speak with other options

The only ones throwing options off the table are the people who keep maintaining that it's not a big problem and that if we just wait a little bit, the climate will change back.

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Likely to protect the inside source of of the intelligence. The Chinese government isn’t exactly known for exorcising due process and the protection of human and civil rights.

Well, yes, if the Chinese figure out how the US got their information, people will die. http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22952/chinas-dismantling-of-cia-spy-ring-highlights-growing-dystopian-like-surveillance-state, https://www.businessinsider.com/how-china-found-cia-spies-leak-2018-8

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(*"exercising", I think. Although "exorcising due process" is an apt bon mot)

This 'controversy' has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that it is likely that NASA will likely cancel the Space Launch System if BFR or Blue Origin 'New Glen' are able to launch. Nothing at all. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Krugman's NYT column is called "The Conscience of a Liberal." Nate Silver and Krugman had a public dispute [mashable.com] when Silver left the NYT to form FiveThirtyEight. Silver said, about Krugman [talkingpointsmemo.com], "Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically,” Silver said in that interview."

Economic models are data fit to curves. See the 'Philips curve' [google.com] and 'the breakdown of the Philips curve' [google.com]. However, this data exists in the context of other systems. "All Models Are Wrong" [google.com] of course, but it seems to me many economists don't appreciate the error in their models and are willing (and paid) to make grand pronouncements based on highly error-filled models. Often in support of one social narrative or another.

Hey look! Chaff!

That's an awful lot of words to avoid facing that Krugman repeatedly says his simplistic models are not complete and not supposed to be complete.

Krugman: "In the aftermath of the Great Recession, I went with my models and they always worked!" Unfortunately he missed biggest economic event of the past 80 years, the Financial Crisis while a few others did not (side note, he had a feud going with that guy who predicted it).

Yes, it has since the 1980s, but it started stalling around 2005, and that is the point of curiosity.

It's not all that curious. There are plenty of plateaus in productivity in our history. Finding one, especially in an asset bubble that was sucking up a ton of capital, is not all that weird.

You're surprisingly making a bit of sense here. But your assertion that this is not a puzzle in economic circles is wrong.

No, not because 'reasons'. Because of its fairness and resistance to corruption, cronyism and favoritism.

That you can not actually design beyond high-level platitudes.

Nothing I said is a platitude. Work on your literacy, there are many good educational aids out there.

Don't conflate all of Europe as one.

Don't skip over the word "most".

So that leaves Germany.

You apparently think Europe consists of 6 countries, one of which is located in South America. Also, you want to warn people to not over-generalize Europe.

Your reading comprehension needs work. I specifically said Venezuela was not part of Europe, in the part you cut out.

I know you're trying, bless your heart, but try harder.

We're not as homogeneous as Germany for sure, or even the UK so our population has a different temperament, values and intelligence

And why am I not surprised racist bullshit appears.

Nothing I said is racist. One of the reasons the term 'racism' is losing its power in suppressing discussion is because people like you bandy it about too much whenever you disagree with something. It's an incontrovertible fact different groups have different temperaments, intelligence and values. Look up the UN indices on national corruption. Look up national IQs. You know what "Boko Haram" means? Educate yourself, you'll appear less foolish per

Really the biggest problem I see, is how Gen X and Millennials are getting blocked out of their advancement tracks. When people in their 60+ are not retiring, that is creating a workforce where it is difficult to for the younger folks to advance in, because these promotion jobs are already covered by people with more experience.

So much this! In addition to people being stuck in jobs because of no promotion path, it means that we would see 70 year old people in manual labor careers. They can't move up, they can't retire, so they will be trying to work manual labor as their bodies deteriorate.

Plus the next set of problem, is these older people are not planning on retiring, so this means, they are not taking promising young people under their wing, mentoring them the tricks of the trade, to be ready to step up and continue on the work. Now these people are working to their death, without a transition plan in effect.

We already have the beginnings of this. The bean counters have largely eliminated mentoring programs in order to reduce overhead - and usually hire more bean counters. So very often a person who does retire now will be called back into work as an emergency hire. I know I was. And in a further preview of the future, after returning, there was still no transition planned, they apparently just figured I'd keep going until I dropped.

Screw that.

This no retirement bullshit simply Occams out as the concept that a select group wants your money. And if the select few need your pension and other retirement money, and need to pay you at a level that makes it very difficult to save or invest for retirement, and still cry the blues about the select not having enough, I guess the next step is euthanasia when you can't "Tote that barge. Lift that bale." any more.

The plight of the 1 percenters: https://www.businessinsider.co...

Certainly this is not unique to China or a new practice to recruit from schools for armies around the world. What then is the purpose of this pair of stories, one overrun by trolls, and this one vaguely repeating some of the usual xenophobic fears? One was an accidental honey trap that will allows tracking influence networks on Slashdot, and this one fits into the old tapestry of fear-based propaganda.

Yeah, it's unbelievable that China still thinks it can go on with the war. It's been what, 17 years in Afghanistan for example and the conflict keeps going despite massive casualties, a bill in the of over 2 trillion that could have been used more productively and no end in sight. It's almost like this is a problem that cannot be solved with military force, but stubborn China and their massive fleet of aircraft carries and overseas bases doesn't seem to care. Gotta kill the terrorists until there are no longer terrorists and finally there will be peace on Earth, right?

The ancient Chinese emperor George Bush once famously said in 2002: "This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while." But what he didn't realize is that terrorism is not an ideology, it's a tactic. You can't have a war on a tactic that's been used by insurgencies through time immemorial and expect it to someday be 'defeated'.

Truly, the Chinese have a lot to learn. But here we stand in the west, powerless to do anything about this wanton madness, watching as the dragonlords, blinded by their ideology of 'Chinese exceptionalism' keep turning large rocks into smaller rocks with precision guided state of the art weaponry, a single unit of which could be used to put many kids through school or provide them with health care like many western countries do. Truly a sad, sad state of affairs.

One day I can only hope the Chinese take a lesson from the great American general Sun Tzu who wrote: 'He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.'. & There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.'

There is a measurable change in health related deaths near one solstice. There's is a roughly equivalent and opposite health benefit near the following solstice. A non-trivial number of people die as the result of the one, and aren't there to enjoy the benefit that follows.
Perhaps calling it government mandated human sacrifice would be more appropriate. It's certainly more accurate.


It's like Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, but a little more subtle.

Trump wants Medicare for all too.

Uh, Trump doesn't pay attention to what he says. One day he says "why can't Medicare just cover everybody?" (ref:) A few months later, he says "Medicare for all would be a catastrophe and a disaster!" (ref:)

The actual truth is, he has spent zero time studying the question of health insurance, he has no plans or policies about health insurance, and he's not going to have any plans or policies about health insurance: it's a hard problem, and he just isn't interesting in doing anything that is hard. It simply isn't something he has any interest in.

The Democrats won't sit at the same table with him, so your only chance in hell at it happening is shot down.

"Medicare for all", of course, is a Bernie Sanders proposal (ref:)

Most people don't want to be the boss.

https://www.businessinsider.co...

Apparently, Microsoft's new business model is imitating Google: Collect a lot of information about users, and sell it to any organizations that will pay.

Microsoft is poorly managed? Plenty of evidence. (Oct. 20, 2018)

That business model is not going well:

A watchdog group pretended to be Russian and bought 'divisive' Google ads -- now, Google is blasting the group for its ties to Oracle. (Sep. 4, 2018)

Facebook discloses possible election meddling by Russia, foreign actors on eve of midterms. (Nov. 5, 2018)

We read every one of the 3,517 Facebook ads bought by Russians. Here's what we found. (May 13, 2018)

Video from a Wired Business Conference

How the Amazon Warehouse Works

Or a series of pics from Business Insider.

See what it's like inside Amazon's massive warehouses

We already know that I-phone sales are down, it was in the quarterly report

We do? It was?

The year ago quarter they sold 46.7 million phones. This quarter they sold 46.9 million.

FY 2017 they sold 216.8 million phones
FY 2018 they sold 217.7 million phones

Which of those figures show that sales are down?

You are cherrypicking data. Their sales dropped after 2015.
FY 2018 they sold 217.7 million phones
FY 2017 they sold 216.8 million phones
FY 2016 they sold 211.9 million phones
FY 2015 they sold 231.2 million phones
(Sales continuously increased before that time.)

Also, the issue is not that their sales are dropping, it's that their rate of increase is dropping, which is indicative of lack of enthusiasm in their product.

You can see this from their sales trends here and here .

Perhaps that says something regarding the future of the company.

* https://www.businessinsider.co...

Do people not remember the joys of Apple Maps? ;)

How does the U.S. drop a rank after REMOVING regulation that made the internet less Free?

If the U.S. is at 22, who is higher - Germany or the UK where you can be arrested for tweeting the wrong thing?

What does "internet freedom" even mean if not that you can say what you want online?

Steve Jobs was good at presenting Apple and Apple products in a sensible manner.

The present Apple CEO, Tim Cook, apparently does not have much ability to direct communication about a company.

(Jobs was very abusive in other ways. For example: The memoir by Steve Jobs' daughter makes clear he was a truly rotten person whose bad behavior was repeatedly enabled by those around him) (Aug. 26, 2018)

I like the idea of deep water storage for places where that's convenient. I realize this probably isn't a huge issue considering the actual forces involved, but I'm not too fond on the idea of pumping water out of caves and then over-pressurizing them. Although if we get enough pressure then we might have the opportunity to set a new record.

In San Francisco, where rents are sky-high , a developer has been trying to build 75 new housing units since 2014. He has been battling the city and local activists: More info

Berkeley throws roadblock on developing a parking lot into 260 units: More info

"From 2007 to 2014, San Francisco only approved half of the building permits necessary to accommodate its growth, the San Francisco Business Times reported." Source

Most intelligence agencies would kill to know the breakfast menu of the president of the United States.

Most intelligence agencies would find it easier to read the Business Insider:

In fact, he usually doesn't eat a morning meal. Back in 2016, Trump told People, "Oftentimes I skip breakfast. But usually my favorite would be bacon and eggs — bacon medium and the eggs over-well."

Ah yes, only the intelligent and wealthy can master Android devices.

This might be a belated but amateurish tit for tat.

The problem with failing at covert actions is that they become, ah, not covert, and provide justification for a more conventional response.

Break 'em up,specially google and facebook!

Under what context? Just because you don't like them? Because they're too big and successful? They're not really monopolies - and yes, they do abuse their power with anti-competitive behaviours at time, but the courts slap them when they do. I don't see any legal justification to break them up.

"I don't like them" isn't a good reason.

By what definition?

Google seems to have greater than 90% of the internet search market, AND 80-90% of the cell phone market.

Seems like Google's a monopoly to me.

Facebook is a bit fuzzier, but I'd bet a strong case could be made.

Your own article says in the beginning "Maybe someday the Model 3 will be the mass-market car Tesla claimed it would be, but it isn't one yet." Because it costs 49 thousand instead of the promised 35. Tesla cars are luxuries - toys for virtue-signalling rich people.

The best selling car in America? Period? It's not even in the top 20 so far. 16 of those are trucks, SUVs and CUVs, including the top 6. The top 3 are big, gas-guzzling, Earth-destroying trucks. https://www.businessinsider.co...

Isn't this the same Bloomberg that hasn't shown any evidence that SuperMicro boards were hacked?
https://www.businessinsider.co...

Well first off, megacorps are the secondary antagonists of both the Terminator and Aliens franchise. They're why the monsters ran amok if the first place.

But we don't need crazy aliens or future tech to step into the Shadowrun setting. We're essentially already there.

• The fact that everyone has a cell phone might seem old-hat, but it's technically one of those "cyberpunk" things from the 80's.
• Shadowrun's PAN is coming into being. People's watches are talking with their phones. And their phones are talking to speakers. Phone-banking is a thing. I wish we had better bluetooth mouse/keyboard and an HDMI dock. There's no real reason people need to be restricted to thumbs and 3" screens.
• Smartlink is a real thing. Auto-aim. TrackingPoint.
• The whole "Internet of Compromised Things" is straight out of a bad shadowrun game. "Yeah sure, you can Compromise a Casino's High-Roller Database Through their Thermometer in the Lobby Fish Tank. That sound reasonable in shadowrun, why not?"
• "Annual sex robot convention is axed from London's Goldsmiths university over fears it would provoke a terror attack by Muslim extreamists. " is another real news article headline.
• Meltdown and Spectre as a whole new class of vulnerability. And old bugs like heartBleed. Like, welcome to the world "where everything can be hacked".
• China's social credit score is dystopian as all get out.
• The cable leaks showed us that the US foreign affairs is in the pocket of large corporations.
• Have you seen that video of the ball-room dancer with cyberlegs?
• Or the mind-controlled prosthetic hands?
• They've even given some people cyber-eyes. Literal eye-replacements that connect to their brain. (Spoiler, it degrades over time)
• Hell, body scanners at airports (and now subways) are a thing.
• "Police Use Fitbit Data To Charge 90-Year-Old Man In Stepdaughter's Killing" Read that again and realize that fit-bits are essentially health monitors. Now we just need a docWagon contract.
• There's a good argument that World of Warcraft and Minecraft were virtual reality worlds that consumed people for a little while. I dunno, I lost friends for like 5 years due to "raid night"
• Gene therapy is a real thing.
• Every maker-space/hacker-space I've ever been to has been straight out of a cyberpunk novel.
• That quad-copter drones are even a thing. That they're sub-$50 toys in walmart is cyberpunk as fuck.
• There are people that get undercuts ironically. I think pink mohawks have been a thing for a while, but this just kind of fashion coming up to speed with the fiction.

Yeah, sure, Net Neutrality obviously leads to death camps. That's why Finland is the happiest country in the world, it's all the grinning skulls...

Do you even read the stuff you write?

My opinion: Jeff Bezos is not a sufficiently capable manager. Evidence: Look at any Amazon web page. As you are researching some product that is interesting, you are often distracted by other products. One fix: Put any distractions at the bottom of the page.

There are many other shortcomings of the Amazon web site.

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (New York Times, Aug. 15, 2015)

Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon warehouse jobs push workers to physical limit (Seattle Times, April 3, 2012)

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Salon.com, Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 (SeattlePI, Feb. 27, 2018)

Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break (Business Insider, April 16, 2018)

The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a 'prison' (Business Insider, April 18, 2018)

Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows (The Intercept, April 19, 2018)

Quote: "Though the company now employs 200,000 people in the United States, many of its workers are not making enough money to put food on the table."

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (bloomberg.com, Feb 19, 2013)

Would you fly into space with a company managed by someone who makes those mistakes and doesn't detect them? Note that Blue Origins does not have the capability of orbiting the earth.

My opinion: Jeff Bezos is not a sufficiently capable manager. Evidence: Look at any Amazon web page. As you are researching some product that is interesting, you are often distracted by other products. One fix: Put any distractions at the bottom of the page.

There are many other shortcomings of the Amazon web site.

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (New York Times, Aug. 15, 2015)

Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon warehouse jobs push workers to physical limit (Seattle Times, April 3, 2012)

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Salon.com, Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 (SeattlePI, Feb. 27, 2018)

Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break (Business Insider, April 16, 2018)

The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a 'prison' (Business Insider, April 18, 2018)

Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows (The Intercept, April 19, 2018)

Quote: "Though the company now employs 200,000 people in the United States, many of its workers are not making enough money to put food on the table."

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (bloomberg.com, Feb 19, 2013)

Would you fly into space with a company managed by someone who makes those mistakes and doesn't detect them? Note that Blue Origins does not have the capability of orbiting the earth.

China's well on their way:

https://www.businessinsider.co...

And they've re-instated re-education camps:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/10...

Here in the West, though, it'll be packaged up as a "depression detector". Or maybe there will be achievements for wearing it for X hours. Who knows. Regardless, the level of intrusion into not only lives, but very mind and soul itself, should bother us all.

Note the history of the authorship of that specific book (and I'm not even talking about the _original_ origin as a fanfic) is a little less black and white. It was not "written on a BlackBerry". The author took notes on a BlackBerry while in transit. She then transferred those notes to her Mac and did the "writing" there. There's no statistic given on word count from the BB vs word count from the Mac. https://www.businessinsider.co... - I assume this is one of the articles the earlier poster read. I would wager real money that of the 156000-odd words in the final work, only a small proportion of them (maybe not even a single actual phrase) was typed on the BlackBerry; "notes" are not prose for publication.

BTW, remember how I said authors are not generally masochists? I think given the particular book we're talking about here, we can assume that this author doesn't fall into the general case. :P

No, it is not. Where did you get that BS from? Here are the best selling vehicles so far in America: https://www.businessinsider.co... Note, Tesla not even in the top ten.

distinction between a private company and a gov't-influenced/controlled organization there is fuzzy and difficult to ascertain

Actually, it is very easy to ascertain: there no distinction. Every Chinese abroad, who still has relatives in China, is subject to blackmail. And many — though not all, of course — are willing to help their government voluntarily.

That's not the test of what's a monopoly.

If YouTube weren't a monopoly, Nasim Aghdam might have just moved to a different platform rather than going to YouTube headquarters and shooting people when they took away her income. (Or maybe not, who knows what crazy people might do?) But there are no viable alternate platforms for people making video content to be discovered and monetize content -- YouTube has a monopoly.

Makers of smartphones use Android because Android is a monopoly. Makers of smartphones don't have the choice to use iOS.

Waymo used to publish a monthly list of all accidents its cars were in, but they've since stopped doing this in january 2017 and scrubbed their website of past lists. And the claim that it's not been at fault in accidents when under its own control are not true - for example...

It's important to remember that for most of its miles, it's also had a human present who can take control to prevent accidents, and a large chunk of its miles have been "sandboxed" - that is, Google/Waymo tightly controlled where it was allowed to drive, in what conditions it was allowed to drive.

No, sorry. they don't.

>"Fortunately, California hasn't figured out how to legislate the Nobel Prize yet."

No, but somehow the Nobel Prize committee awarded Obama a peace award for.... well.... nothing? So it does make one question the whole thing, sometimes.

https://www.businessinsider.co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Nope. Well, maybe if you have to hire a lawyer, but Apple has gobs of lawyers *in house* (see e.g. https://www.businessinsider.co...) - they are already paid for.

For Apple, the monetary cost of filing an endless stream of motions to delay for one cause or another is minuscule.

the $200M lawsuit settlement and licensing deal is (really) old news

You have your news confused. Actually, it was only $150 million. It was a direct investment in Apple by Microsoft. Here is Bill Gates making Steve Jobs grovel to get the money.

It's a false dichotomy. Relying entirely on public transit is never as good as also owning a car..

That depends on a lot. If you include costs then owning and parking a car in a lot of cities that have good public transport infrastructure doesn't make sense. The cost of a parking space could exceed that of many long taxi journeys and hiring a car for a holiday. Add to that the cost of car purchase and maintenance and not owning a car could well be a better option.

Agreed. They've already started. Gated communities anyone? The rich are increasingly protecting themselves. Problem is the French tried that. Before the French revolution the rich aristocrats all hired private guards. They were mostly foreigners without any skin in the local political system. The trouble was, that when 3000 angry revolutionaries showed up at the door, the guards said "Fuck this shit!" and left or hunkered down like the idiots at the Bastille did. Eventually the angry populace stormed those jails and palatial guard posts and dragged the occupants out to be hung from a lamp post or stuffed into a guillotine. The revolution was a complicated mess, mostly, and it wasn't perfect (their leadership mostly sucked and they had some collectivism poisoning them quite often). However, after the revolution ended pay went up for damn near everyone but the rich folks. The theory is, they were a bit worried someone would drag their greedy ass out into the street and chop their deserving heads off. Personally, I believe nothing short of a similar event in this country will wake up the elites to the historical fact that no matter how many walls and guards you have, when the people come for you, they are going to wade through that shit like it was made of wet toilet paper. In a nation with huge levels of gun ownership... well... It's pretty clear that could get ugly in a hurry (like the founders intended).

How many people do you need to develop a productivity suite?
This isn't even the first time Evernote has laid people off. In 2015 they slashed 18% of their workforce. Oh and closed three of their ten global offices. Why the hell do they need ten global offices, or seven for that matter? Sounds like they were using the VC money to buy hookers and blow and give jobs to their snot nosed family.

Meh.

consoles don't make up nearly as much of the market now. PC's and mobile games do.

How is that relevant? I thought you were talking about a shift towards SJW in gaming industry as a whole, not some console vs PC masterrace debate

But just to check on the status of the industry, 2 seconds searching yielded me the following:

https://newzoo.com/insights/ar...

https://www.businessinsider.co...

Gaming as a whole (pc, consoles, mobile, everything) is still growing. Each platform's market share has been pretty stable for the last few years. Mobile is the top, but both PCs and consoles still have their share of the market.

But again, I don't see how any of this relates to the influence of SJWs. We've had individual games having contraversy, but to borrow words from the president, there are still many many fine people making games in the rest of the industry.

Look up the EA

EA is basically the "big evil corporation" of gaming. They may be big and they have big franchises that move units, but that doesn't mean they're representative of the industry as a whole. I mean, we've got big companies like Google and Facebook jumping on the SJW bandwagon, but that doesn't mean the Internet as a whole is on board.

I mean, here's one piece of recent news that should make you happy and SJWs rage: Steam didn't cave to the SJW's demand to cleanse itself of dirty adult theme games, and in fact have become more hands off in what kind of games gets a pass.

... sometimes with good reason, but we need people like him to force innovation on these dinosaurs otherwise nothing will change even if at the end of the day the maverick loses and the dinosaurs survive but producing much better vehicles.

There is nothing innovative about Tesla. His reputation "innovative disruptive genius" is all made up by his publicists and eaten up whole by sycophantic fanboys who believe everything that liar says and make excuses for his stupidity.

Does he do what he's done with SpaceX and hire people who know what they're doing for Tesla?
Nope.

Typical Silicon Valley arrogance - making cars is easy! And no one else wants to use Tesla batteries. That'll be your home work because you fanboys just stick you fingers in your ears and ignore any and all truth about Musk Tesla's faults.

Sold long position at $365.55, then shorted and covered. $$$$$$$$ Yeee Haw! I'm staying away from the SS Tesla Titanic Captained by the drug impaired Elon Musk

This list is soooo much worse.

https://www.businessinsider.co...

Or stop paying univeristy presidents high salaries that rival what CEOs make.

Not just the university presidents.

You listed some university presidents with very high salaries. Let's compare to the head football coaches for those same schools.

1. Arizona State: the president makes $1.5mil, the football coach makes $3.2mil.

Your second university listed, University of Texas, paid it's chancellor $1.5mil. In the past three years, they paid their football coaches an unbelievable $54 million.

https://www.businessinsider.co...

You can go right down that list and see that university football coaches are making several times more than the presidents of the universities. In fact, in every single case, they are the highest paid public employee of their respective states.