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This is an easily verifiable fact. Tesla relies on California's ZEV credits, and often complains that emissions controls should be stiffer so as to direct more gov credits to himself.

He's a well known liar. The "success" of his companies are also lies.

..no, you're completely and totally wrong, as is very often the case for you. Read this: https://www.toyota-tech.eu/HYB...

Sorry, dumbshit coward, the Prius is not a mild hybrid. It's too bad you don't know what we're talking about, because maybe then you could have made a contribution. Unfortunately, you wouldn't have done so anyway, because that would be scary and you are a coward.

I don't like the results, therefore, study is corrupt!

Checkmate bitch.

http://jalopnik.com/the-next-ford-focus-will-be-imported-from-china-instead-1796256049

See http://jalopnik.com/5911415/th...

As opposed to stopping for several hours to recharge your Tesla?

And drivers fighting over recharge points? ( http://jalopnik.com/these-elec... )

Don't get me wrong, I like Tesla vehicles, but there still is some basic maintenance and day-to-day housekeeping to be done.

Now if you wren't a dumbass moron that actually knew something about car's you could have made money off that $1500 dollar car.

Tesla isn't in the same league as BMW or Benz. Tesla is in the same league as the Yugo. They have terrible build quality, terrible reliability, a criminally negligent design, and just quite frankly they aren't even luxury cars.

The quoted parent post is a perfect example of reality being suppressed by negative scoring. Slashdot should be better than that. Musk is treated like an idol, and his firms are treated as sacrosanct but they are simply businesses with a a lot of product failures due to inexperience and poor management.

Try looking a little deeper, _every_ manufacturer has defects, all of them, period. The question isn't if there are defects, it's how does the company respond. The very few links (4) are supposed to support the claim that Musk and Tesla are crappy/bad/unethical/etc... yet, look again at those links:

Link #1: As of right now, the last post from the forum on the links "terrible build quality" is this: (1 link down, 3 to go)

Just want to update you folks on what's going on. The folks at Tesla (our regional service manager and the local sales manager) are working with me to spec out the rebuild. I had wanted to take this chance to increase the battery size to 100D and add the 3rd row child seat and informed the team of my desire a couple weeks ago. This would have been relatively simple but since the process took some time to get rolling, it now got more complicated because of all the price changes and the fact that 100D is now includes bundling of options that I didn't originally selected / wanted such as SAS and 72A charger. Based on the professionalism that I've seen from the service team so far, I still am hopeful that this will be handled in fair fashion, keeping my fingers crossed.

Link #2: "terrible reliability"

All repairs were performed under warranty and Tesla delivered the car to us the following morning.

Whaaa??? They fixed EVERYTHING FOR FREE??? Please explain to the many people with Fords, Chevys, Dodges, etc... how many times they got everything fixed properly for free and the company admitted fault. Now google Tesla's track record for fixing issues... yah, I hear crickets too.

Link #3: "a criminally negligent design"

I won’t try to assign blame or responsibility in this case, whether or not Tesla made it insufficiently clear on how to open these doors when the car has no power...

"Criminally negligent design"... really? Did they even read the article before posting this link? Also, a follow up comment is interesting as well:

It’s not uncommon for doors to be inoperable after an impact. This goes for all kinds of doors - even normal manual ones.

Why is this a story?

I don't know either...

Link #4 "they aren't even luxury cars"

Here's the relevant quote:

But Tesla says the Model S isn't a luxury car so why the comparison?

The comparison is about the Model S outselling, so is it

Tesla isn't in the same league as BMW or Benz. Tesla is in the same league as the Yugo. They have terrible build quality, terrible reliability, a criminally negligent design, and just quite frankly they aren't even luxury cars.

The quoted parent post is a perfect example of reality being suppressed by negative scoring. Slashdot should be better than that. Musk is treated like an idol, and his firms are treated as sacrosanct but they are simply businesses with a a lot of product failures due to inexperience and poor management.

Try looking a little deeper, _every_ manufacturer has defects, all of them, period. The question isn't if there are defects, it's how does the company respond. The very few links (4) are supposed to support the claim that Musk and Tesla are crappy/bad/unethical/etc... yet, look again at those links:

Link #1: As of right now, the last post from the forum on the links "terrible build quality" is this: (1 link down, 3 to go)

Just want to update you folks on what's going on. The folks at Tesla (our regional service manager and the local sales manager) are working with me to spec out the rebuild. I had wanted to take this chance to increase the battery size to 100D and add the 3rd row child seat and informed the team of my desire a couple weeks ago. This would have been relatively simple but since the process took some time to get rolling, it now got more complicated because of all the price changes and the fact that 100D is now includes bundling of options that I didn't originally selected / wanted such as SAS and 72A charger. Based on the professionalism that I've seen from the service team so far, I still am hopeful that this will be handled in fair fashion, keeping my fingers crossed.

Link #2: "terrible reliability"

All repairs were performed under warranty and Tesla delivered the car to us the following morning.

Whaaa??? They fixed EVERYTHING FOR FREE??? Please explain to the many people with Fords, Chevys, Dodges, etc... how many times they got everything fixed properly for free and the company admitted fault. Now google Tesla's track record for fixing issues... yah, I hear crickets too.

Link #3: "a criminally negligent design"

I won’t try to assign blame or responsibility in this case, whether or not Tesla made it insufficiently clear on how to open these doors when the car has no power...

"Criminally negligent design"... really? Did they even read the article before posting this link? Also, a follow up comment is interesting as well:

It’s not uncommon for doors to be inoperable after an impact. This goes for all kinds of doors - even normal manual ones.

Why is this a story?

I don't know either...

Link #4 "they aren't even luxury cars"

Here's the relevant quote:

But Tesla says the Model S isn't a luxury car so why the comparison?

The comparison is about the Model S outselling, so is it

Tesla isn't in the same league as BMW or Benz. Tesla is in the same league as the Yugo. They have terrible build quality, terrible reliability, a criminally negligent design, and just quite frankly they aren't even luxury cars.

The quoted parent post is a perfect example of reality being suppressed by negative scoring. Slashdot should be better than that. Musk is treated like an idol, and his firms are treated as sacrosanct but they are simply businesses with a a lot of product failures due to inexperience and poor management.

Tesla isn't in the same league as BMW or Benz. Tesla is in the same league as the Yugo. They have terrible build quality, terrible reliability, a criminally negligent design, and just quite frankly they aren't even luxury cars.

It would be nice is they fixed their death traps first.

And they will soon be sued out of business.

a.k.a. "OMG, a few assistive tools that simplify driving(*) aren't actually a electronic horse (or donkey) that can bring me home safely even if I sleep the whole way through ?"

How this lawsuit has any merit ? Had this been filed in Europe, the lawyers and plaintiff would had been laughed away of the court room.

OTOH, similar kind of technology has been available on car of European manufacturer for quite some time (random examples: Volvo, Mercedes), and is an absolute standard with some constructors (example: VW. You can't buy even the smallest VW Up! without at least a LIDAR for in-city use).

And I haven't read anywhere of a lawsuit filed in Europe pretending that such things are a dangerous technology.
It's just tools to help. The driver is still in charge and shouldn't shut down their brain.

(And for the record, taking an innocent bystander with you when killing yourself by sheer stupidity will disqualify you from the Darwin Award)

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(*) BTW: exactly what the word "Auto-pilot" refers to in any other field : aviation, navigation, etc.
only in the mind of a few stupid users does it mean "an electronic donkey that brings me home while I'm passed out after the bar closes"

And they will soon be sued out of business. That's what they deserve for building shit cars.

If it works for McClaren's F1 Team it's good enough for you!

I dunno. I can buy a Tesla today with a glorified cruse control that's pretty crappy.

That's cute that you think tesla's parlor trick is anywhere close to the where gm is.

There is no reason to keep reading after that. You're just making it up, and you're wrong.

Have you ever looked at an airbase? It's buildings + runway + taxiways. The runways go on for miles. The building do not. Seriously do you not know the vast majority of space taken up by an airbase are the runways?

You don't realize, I'm not making it up. I didn't share a single idea of my own. I only shared pretty standard knowledge from the relevant field.

No. I'm just saying you are dead wrong when it comes to both military tactics and understanding about military weaponry. Cite any relevant source on military tactics where a Tomahawk missile should be used against a runway.

You could probably find a basics book that would help. Certainly you'd be better off with some basics than with your own silly ideas.

What is the blast radius of a Tomahawk compared to the size of a runway? If you had any clue about the difference in size then you'd know why a Tomahawk is completely insufficient against a runway. This analysis mirrors my exact thoughts: Tomahawks are useless against runways; Durandals are the weapons to be used.

Is a runway the least replaceable? Compared to, for example, an airplane? Look it up!

The last time I checked you can fly in a replacement aircraft and drive in replacement equipment like a radar station, a mobile CNC. I don't believe you can fly in a replacement runway. My knowledge of engineering says replacing a runway takes much more effort that flying in a plane or driving a vehicle.

What rules do taxi companies follow? Oh right, they "inspect" their fleet and follow "regulations". Sure they do.

Are you willing to bet the valve train on a typical uber are in this good of shape?

Whoever solves the 'self-driving car' problem will make an absurd amount of money, people are betting Elon will win that race.

And the people are known as morons.

I have no way of knowing if you are the same AC that I was talking to before, but either way, you've missed some context.

Sorry, but as I see it, identity is of no concern here, and nope, I see no missing context either.

If you wish to engage solely with identifiable partners on this, I can only suggest you contact a nearby law school to see if they have some sort of seminars you can attend.

As for context, I will offer my rejections of your statement on that a bit further down.

Effectively, you are claiming that a man invented a carburetor in the 70s that got 400 miles per gallon, and as proof, you send me a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carburetor, as if the existence of carburetors in general were sufficient to prove the existence of an extraordinary magical carb.

As I see it, your representation of the situation is incorrect, because unlike the Wikipedia article, which at best, has an indirect reference, mine actually include direct and particular material citations.

Much like if I linked to This fellow, to explain to you that the "miracle carburetor" was a known urban legend. As such, I would consider links to it sufficient to show that it is considered to be a myth.

Find me an example of originalism being applied, by a court, as described in the context claimed.

I provided more than enough references to actual statements and opinions by known, self-professed originalists, as well as people's observations of them, for you to recognize and acknowledge them.

Of course, if you are insistent that they be in the majority, and able to effectuate their principles solely on those means, I would say that that is not necessary for them, as a mere offering in dissent is demonstrative on its own. Therefore, I would reject any such requirement upon your part, not that you have clearly articulated it, but in case that was your intent, and you failed to make it clear, and that was the context which you claimed I missed, then I am repudiating it. I made no statements as to their success after all.

So here they are again, in sufficient reference for you to review, but you'll have to access the links yourself, I don't feel like bothering further for you:

http://cornelllawreview.org/files/2016/12/Segallfinal.pdf
http://n.ereserve.fiu.edu/010010197-1.pdf
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/10/06/460/56370/lawrelated/Dred-Scott-Originalism-and-a-Living-Constitution
http://www.salon.com/2017/03/26/gorsuch-thomas-rehnquist-and-beyond-a-short-history-of-right-wing-lies-in-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings/
https://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/originalism-the-original-trigger-warning/
https://books.google.com/books?id=j--puxriagYC&dq=the+lies+of+originalism&source=gbs_navlinks_s
http://prospect.org/article/scalia-and-thomas-originalist-sinners
http://www.uclalawreview.org/a-critique-of-justice-antonin-scalia%E2%80%99s-originalist-defense-of-brown-v-board-of-education/
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2007/08/originalist_sins.html
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/clarence-thomas-has-his-own-constitution
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40042695

My apologies though, I do see where I used one link twice, but I suspect I got mixed up and double-pasted the same link, however, I doubt whatever link I had intended to make was significant enough to be important.

I wouldn't even pretend my presentations are exhaustive. If you wish that, I can only suggest you appeal to the divine, it is far beyond my capacities, I would not even offer that much. Irony, the captcha is "capacity" which I would consider that to be beyond mine.

Is it in Mercedes best interest to have a bad reputation? I think not.

It doesn't give them a bad reputation because all luxury autos are like this. That's why they all depreciate like they're in free-fall as soon as the warranty expires.

Even if you pimp up your Merc to the double of the price (which you could easily do) the Merc is still keeping its value much better (relative speaking).

Guess what? A 2007 S550 is the worst piece of shit you will ever see. You may leave your apology in your reply.

... built into a fake OBD II diagnostic port. Car thieves can pair electronic keys with a car with commands through this port. So now, when they break in and plug in their cracking tool .... poof!

http://jalopnik.com/dont-use-teslas-autopilot-like-this-1792896205

There's a proposal for the first SLS mission to be an around the moon shot http://jalopnik.com/nasa-may-send-astronauts-around-the-moon-on-the-first-t-1792586594. There are a lot of problems with this; Amy Shira Teitel discussed it in detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdrEzIlecIk&t=3s. This would make it even more of a bad idea. Right now the SLS mission proposal is just highly unsafe, redundant, and not part of a coherent program. This would make it super-super redundant.

Not that we'll eve know, but given a Division of US vs a Division or Russian soldiers on the same field, my bet would be on the Russians.

Generals McMaster and MacGregor have said as much, as well. The US brigades and divisions are too light on artillery IMO. Here's a good briefing on the subject: http://douglasmacgregor.com/RS...
But the Army never fights alone. The US relies very heavily on air power to shape the battlespace, and the argument of Russian air defenses vs USAF SEAD/PGMs is a very complex discussion.

Not sure what you're on about here so you may need to provide some references.European military expenditure is still in the normal range

France, the UK, and Poland are spending 2% GDP. China, Australia, India = 1.9%. The global share of GDP is 2.3%. Most of Europe is closer to 1% (Germany 1.2%, Italy 1.3%, Spain 0.6%). https://www.sipri.org/database... http://books.sipri.org/files/F...
And it's hard to argue that the cost savings is materializing as any sort of persistent military efficiency, given that Europe has prosecuted two air campaigns in the past 10 years where they've had to borrow/buy munitions from the US in short order. http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.c... https://www.washingtonpost.com...

International R&D/procurement programs such as the Eurofighter Typhoon and A400M probably do yield cross-national economies of scale, but without a VERY robust commitment to command & control / administration / logistics / training & readiness, you can't run a multi-national combat force with any degree of integration and proficiency. http://www.military.com/daily-...
"The expert group comprising six defense officials, including former NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, warned of "chronic underfunding" and "critical deficiencies" of the Alliance's member states, according to the report, as quoted by the Financial Times newspaper. The NATO report revealed that only 10 of 31 German Tiger helicopters and some three quarters of 406 Marder armored infantry vehicles were usable."
https://sputniknews.com/world/...

You've obviously never heard of the SUV covered in parking tickets with a dead man in the driver's seat (Nov 2016). Or the cops continuing to issue tickets after you've reported the vehicle stolen and cancelled the plates. Or ticketing and towing a car with a murder victim's body in it.

So you are implying that the Prince of Darkness Lucas Electric was involved in making these satellites?

What they invented, the 3-point safety belt, was indeed something that they could have patented but choose not to due to increased safety for all: https://jalopnik.com/volvo-gav...

Hell yea. I do the same for my motorcycle trips to work and back and general running around. Some dill-hole pulling in front of you or running you down can do a he-said/she-said unless you have video proof.

[John]

Oh so you're this guy.

The Sync system in my 2014 Mustang GT works great, with one exception. About a year in, it stopped playing bluetooth audio from phones. I've tried it with different phones - no luck. Phone calls work perfectly, and the system auto-syncs on startup without issue. The system clearly is communicating, as using the "next track" button works (in that the phone switches to the next track), but no audio at all, nor anything displayed on the Sync screen.

Mostly it's been a minor annoyance in what is otherwise an amazing and fun car - well, aside from the homicidal urges she gets when pedestrians are around, but that's par for the course with a Mustang. ( http://jalopnik.com/its-offici... )

Samsung has sold millions of these things. Three of them have caught fire. That makes the odds of a device catching fire less than 1 in 1,000,000. Business Insider says that 17 cars catch fire every hour. Where are the cries for recalling cars?

I'm going to keep a copy of your post for safe keeping. This "what about y" device is constantly being invoked as justification for everything from mass surveillance to red rum so often in so many different contexts it usually makes me cringe/sigh Al Gore style whenever I encounter it.

Boldly inquiring about cries for recalling products that catch on fire takes it to a whole new level.

http://www.reuters.com/article...

http://q13fox.com/2016/09/30/s...

http://abcnews.go.com/Business...

http://www.techtimes.com/artic...

http://jalopnik.com/5935974/fi...

http://www.autonews.com/articl...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04...

http://www.popularmechanics.co...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

http://www.streetdirectory.com...

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2...

If you want to hear cries from victims themselves click keywords and enter fire. http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/o...

To use a car analogy, it's like speeding. Speeding is illegal, but people almost never get thrown in jail for it unless it was extremely excessive. Instead, they get a fine, or sometimes just a warning. For instance, yesterday, a teenager was thrown in jail in Maine for speeding. Why? Because he was clocked doing 146mph. (citation: http://jalopnik.com/dumbass-te... ) If a cop tried to throw someone in jail for doing, let's say, 4mph over the limit, it would be ludicrously unprecedented. In fact, most of the time you won't even be pulled over for driving 4 mph over the limit, and people regularly do so. Similarly, what Clinton did (according to Comey) is not at all uncommon in the Federal Government/Intelligence Community, but it's usually punished by things like mandatory security training, letters of reprimand, revoking security clearance/firing (usually after repeat instances), but NOT jail time, UNLESS there were other factors involved, which according to Comey, there weren't. So it's certainly fair to believe Clinton is an unsafe driver, and to decide that you don't want to vote to let her drive the bus - but to claim that Officer Comey should have thrown her in jail for speeding ignores the fact that he's being entirely consistent with how he's handled other cases of speeding involving people that weren't powerful politicians.

The day after Comey made the claim that no one ever gets prosecuted for such misdeeds NPR posted an article listing many people who were prosecuted for less. One of those people was given a presidential pardon for their oversight of failing to turn over government emails. That person claimed he didn't have any government documents and then two days later came in with a government laptop to return it. Who was the president who pardoned him? Bill Clinton. So no, what Comey meant to say is that he could not find a contemporary prosecutor at the department of Justice who was willing to prosecute because the AG had already decided that they would not prosecute.

To use a car analogy, it's like speeding. Speeding is illegal, but people almost never get thrown in jail for it unless it was extremely excessive. Instead, they get a fine, or sometimes just a warning. For instance, yesterday, a teenager was thrown in jail in Maine for speeding. Why? Because he was clocked doing 146mph. (citation: http://jalopnik.com/dumbass-te... ) If a cop tried to throw someone in jail for doing, let's say, 4mph over the limit, it would be ludicrously unprecedented. In fact, most of the time you won't even be pulled over for driving 4 mph over the limit, and people regularly do so.

Similarly, what Clinton did (according to Comey) is not at all uncommon in the Federal Government/Intelligence Community, but it's usually punished by things like mandatory security training, letters of reprimand, revoking security clearance/firing (usually after repeat instances), but NOT jail time, UNLESS there were other factors involved, which according to Comey, there weren't.

So it's certainly fair to believe Clinton is an unsafe driver, and to decide that you don't want to vote to let her drive the bus - but to claim that Officer Comey should have thrown her in jail for speeding ignores the fact that he's being entirely consistent with how he's handled other cases of speeding involving people that weren't powerful politicians.

It's actually set to cost 42,500. The 35K (which on it's own is quite expensive btw, my car costs new 23K) is assuming a 7,500 credit.

Oh for fuck sake stop bullshitting. It will cost 35k before incentives.

How about a Polo, James Bond style?
jalopnik.com

Consumer Reports found that the Model S has "too many problems to recommend". Green Car Reports estimates that two-thirds of early Model S drivetrains will have to be replaced before 100000 km. While that may not necessarily be representive, of current production, the ongoing problems with the Model X are.

Since Tesla plans to ramp up production at an unprecedented rate in the coming years and Tesla's culture is much more focused on rapid change and pushing deadlines than on the engineering and long-term testing cycle the rest of the car industry works by, it will be very hard to improve this. Some analysts think that this will actually be their biggest problem while they are trying to gain foothold in the mass market.

Consumer Reports found that the Model S has "too many problems to recommend". Green Car Reports estimates that two-thirds of early Model S drivetrains will have to be replaced before 100000 km. While that may not necessarily be representive, of current production, the ongoing problems with the Model X are.

Since Tesla plans to ramp up production at an unprecedented rate in the coming years and Tesla's culture is much more focused on rapid change and pushing deadlines than on the engineering and long-term testing cycle the rest of the car industry works by, it will be very hard to improve this. Some analysts think that this will actually be their biggest problem while they are trying to gain foothold in the mass market.

You would be wrong. Early cars lacked the redundancy but today most if not all have redundant sensors. I know when the whole Toyota fiasco flared up their cars had redundant potentiometers.

http://jalopnik.com/how-electr...
http://www.diycardoctor.com/ac...

With dual potentiometers it is configured such that they behave in the opposite manner such as when the voltage on one increases the voltage from the other decreases and this is checked by the ECU.

Actually I think Mclaren is working on an upgrade for their F1 support PC and were hoping to use VB6.

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.c... -- there was already discussion in 2014 about replacing the lift fan with dual (top & bottom) laser domes.

Of course, this is anecdotal, but what about news outlets like Jalopnik? When I started reading Jalop, I was not a car guy. I read it because of the wit of the authors. Gradually, they've turned me into a car guy, and I do occasionally read automotive news from other sources, but even now, I choose to get 90%+ of my car fix from them. They actively avoid clickbait headlines (and the comments quickly call them out for it if they don't), so that's clearly not what draws their audience. In spite of that, they are one of the largest automotive news websites in the world (actually, at one point a couple years ago, they were the largest; I don't know if that's changed). Many of their readers came there just like me, and stayed for the same reason. They don't just produce news; they produce entertainment and community. It's just like a favorite TV show; you'll keep watching it because you have an emotional connection to it, not because of catchy episode titles.

Well, the "expensive" part is correct. But claiming it "can't fly, can't fight" is just not true.

A lot of people disagree:

Pentagon’s big budget F-35 fighter ‘can’t turn, can’t climb, can’t run’
http://blogs.reuters.com/great...

The F-35 may have big problems fighting at long range
http://www.businessinsider.com...

The $400 Billion Military Jet That Can't Fly in Cloudy Weather
http://www.alternet.org/fail-4...

RAND Corp: F35 Can’t Turn, Can’t Climb, Can’t Run
http://www.stopthef35.com/rand...

Air Force Admits: Our New Stealth Fighter Can’t Fight
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

The F-35 Can't Beat The Plane It's Replacing In A Dogfight: Report
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.c... ...and so on.

Here are a few.

There's a big difference between Mitsubishi and Volkswagen. Volkswagen spent an incredible amount of time and money developing software to defeat the test. Mitsubishi increased tire pressures.

A well known event that happens every year in Europe is when people from Belgium and the Netherlands pack their stuff in their cars and migrate through Germany to southern Europe. This pisses of the Germans as their autobahns are stock full of cars. .. how will they continue to do this with cars that only move a few hundred km between recharges?

Depends on the car I guess, a Tesla with supercharging wouldn't be that bad. I just checked the distance Amsterdam - Lisboa, that's ~2250km southwest and and Athens is ~2850km southeast though realistically most will be going to place like Nice on the French riviera, ~1400km away. If you're a bit loony you can drive the US coast to coast in 59 hours, that's ~4500km or about 75 km/h average including charging. So 1400km @ 75 km/h would be 18-19 hours straight charging/driving, even if we generously assume 130km/h on the Autobahn it's still 11 hours of driving in a regular car. Maybe I sound a bit like a hobbit but if I could have a charge during breakfast, lunch, an afternoon snack break, dinner and supper it sounds like I could mostly cover the same ground in a day, I need a pit stop more often than my gas guzzler.

Belgium could have probably managed it, and without hitting quite as many hospitals.

Please don't make people laugh by bringing Belgium into the discussion. A few weeks ago, after the horrific terrorist attacks in Europe, Belgium suddenly was compelled to send a grand total of ONE F16 fighter jets in support of the western coalition against ISIS. Now, that's some serious firepower. Moreover, not even US allies have the smart weapon's munitions to drop on ISIS:

U.S. Allies 'Borrowing' Munitions To Drop On ISIS As U.S. Stockpiles Are Also In Question

Against an enemy with no airforce and very little air defence, that's hardly an achievement.

Strangely, the fact that ISIS does not have either air force or air defense hasn't prevented the Iraq and the USA-led coalition from being bogged down for YEARS with no real progress against ISIS. At least Assad has already started advancing to the east onto ISIS, and liberating significant towns.

Isn't that a little close to the other Tesla? http://jalopnik.com/a-hacker-m...

In the Tesla's firmware http://jalopnik.com/a-hacker-m... That would be interesting if it was a chip reference and not a car reference --- tinfoil hat.