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Even the biggest assholes are capable of doing a good interview. Especially those who are sociopaths, those dudes are downright likable as long as they get their way. But as soon as people aren't giving them what they want, they start acting like persecuted little children.

Musk loses his shit whenever there is a hint of criticism.

He treated his wife like an employee.
He fired his PA in the most dickish way possible after when she asked for a raise after 12 years
He used underpaid illegal immigrant labor to build his factory.
He uses illegal union-busting tactics.

Tesla's stock is down 12% in the last 12 months in a strongly up market.

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Seems like a clear case of cherry picking.

Plus, Musk is a whiny little snowflake. He can't get enough of uncritical media praise, of which there is has been tons, but anything remotely critical and he shits the floor. Its nice he's doing the electric car thing, but lets not buy into a cult of personality here because there is tons of evidence he's got a shit personality (he fired his 12 year PA when she asked for a raise he used underpaid illegal foreign labor to build his factory he uses illegal union-busting tactics and he was emotionally abusive to his first wife, treating her like an employee.

Billionaires have their place, but they aren't special geniuses, they are just 99.9% lottery winner and 0.1% skill. If there was no Elon Musk, there would just be some other billionaire doing the same work. Do not put your faith in princes.

How is it acceptable to refer to President Trump as the "orange moron" yet it was totally unacceptable to refer to President Obama's skin color as though it mattered, or had anything to do with anything?

The thing about trump being orange is that it's not an inherent feature of trump it's a choice, probably caused by his addiction to artificial tanning and also the way that he demands to be light with gold gels. If you look at recent photos of Trump, he's stopped being orange because he knew it was helping people to laugh at him.

There's a major difference between criticising something a person is (black) and something a person chooses. I would also argue that he chooses to behave like a moron. It's not that he's completely stupid, he's destroying his own country entirely due to his ego.

It is up to you to demonstrate there is evidence of a 'problem'. A statistic that simply says that there are less women than men in a given area is not evidence of a 'problem'. You've suggested there is a 'hostility' to women working in a given field...PROVE IT.

OK, start with these:

  http://www.unwomen.org/~/media...

  http://www.marieclaire.com/car...

  http://www.salon.com/2014/10/2...

  http://journalistsresource.org...

  http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/19...

The Ada Initiative was spawned (in part) because of a very much non-micro agression. That is, a full, no-SI prefix, shoulda-been-a-year-in-jail-for-assault aggression. Hands in the pants is flat out unreasonable. Full stop, schlusspunkt... Period. Fucking. Dot.

So, instead of naming the guy on her blog, why didn't she just go to the cops and file a complaint?

I'm going to agree in part and disagree in part.

I'll agree: whining endlessly about microagressions (micro == 10E-6 == very small; what is there to whine about?) is counterproductive. It destracts from the real issue.

The Ada Initiative was spawned (in part) because of a very much non-micro agression. That is, a full, no-SI prefix, shoulda-been-a-year-in-jail-for-assault aggression. Hands in the pants is flat out unreasonable. Full stop, schlusspunkt... Period. Fucking. Dot.

I'm happy that you've not had such a problem. Apparantly you're batting a thousand; even as a guy, I've been harrassed. I don't want to speak ill of the dead, but one of the more senior employees at a previous job hit on me and then felt me up. "De mortuis nihil nisi bonum", and I've forgiven her long ago, but nobody should have to deal with that. And the rate of "dealing with that" for women in tech is far too high.

So, yeah, I agree in part and disagree in part. People should stop whining about stuff that doesn't matter; similarly we should pay attention to a real problem.

http://www.marieclaire.com/sex... Sounds kinda jerky. Steve Jobs was a jerk too, but I like a lot of his products. As far as his main motive, I'm curious as to how you think you know what motivates him.

Especially at google , We will see more Marissa Meyers, Yahoo CEO from google, as long as the three men block the top at google.

No brouhaha, this is the guy that is covering his agency's shoddy work. Pure and simple. The real clarification would be that of the blogger and the guys who failed to correct the data without blaming news organizations for reporting it.

The problem with the religious fervor that surrounds the Church of Global Warming is that when key data they relied upon is shown to be in error, rather than act like scientists and admit to the error, they back peddle, obfuscate, blame those that caught them, and explain how the wrong results are still correct.

Consider these and find out why the Church is losing ground in the credibility race:

First

With that in mind, Bryce marvelously began with one of the world's greatest truisms (emphasis added throughout):
"It is the nature of civilization to use energy and it's the nature of liberalism to feel bad about it. "

And, one of the single most stupid lines uttered in a documentary...

"In fact, you can even reduce your carbon emissions to zero."

Second

"The biggest emissions-cutting projects under the Kyoto Protocol on global warming have directly contributed to an increase in the production of gases that destroy the ozone layer, a senior U.N. official says."

Third

The article, entitled, "Whose Carbon Footprint is the Smallest," found that globe-trotter "Josie," who "considers herself more eco-conscious than most people," had the largest carbon footprint.
Josie "recently earned a certificate in conservation biology from Columbia University" but "caught travel fever" last year and went to "China, Hong Kong, Germany Washington, Utah, Brazil, Ecuador and Costa Rica."
According to the judge of the competition, author of "The Rough Guide to Climate Change" Robert Henson, "Josie's wanderlust caused her footprint to balloon well above average."

The problem is, the movement has no substance, they have allowed the shrill and ideologues to take over.