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Thought you were English. If you are, and I know about it... in Los Angeles... and you don't know about it in England... perhaps consider not lecturing people about how things work... on planet Earth... tell me more about Mars. Maybe you know something about that. Because if I know about the knife thing in London and you don't... and you're English... and I'm not... and you're telling me how things work elsewhere... You just might not have any credibility there.

https://twitter.com/MayorofLon...

What do you want on this... You are english, yes? If not, tell me where you're from and I'll find relevant links for there. Its not like its hard.

You will kneel before the awesome power of google.

Nevertheless, someone got fired for snickering about "dongle". The woman being fired didn't re-employ him.

True but that was his company's decision. They could have chosen to simply go with an apology which the employee himself did or they could have called her out as a hypocrite for a Twitter post she made while at that very same conference

https://twitter.com/adriaricha...

You did not post a link to this organization that he does not like. See anything wrong with that picture??

From the link: "Outreachy internships are open internationally to women (cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people. Internships are also open to residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native American/American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander."

Here is an in depth article at the Register.

As an aside, here's Huffington's post view of diversity.

Welcome to segregated America 2018. Racism and discrimination has returned. Identity politics has turned into a raging wildfire.

Thanks for making the stand Rafael, really.

Another case of official corruption, this is what trump's base elected him for.

That's not a joke. Trump's entire candidacy is predicated on showing libtards that even the shittiest, most venal, incompetent, cowardly, un-american, traitorous dumbfuck is still better than obama. He's just delivering on that promise and his base fucking loves these guys. Just today Pence praised a man convicted of contempt of court for racial profiling as a "tireless champion of the rule of law."

LBJ said it back in 1960 and its still true today:

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

If any of you libtards think outing this corruption will make an iota of difference, think again. The GOP is not a party of ideas, its the party of liberal tears and taxcuts for the ultra rich. They embrace corruption as long as the people doing it are on their "team."

The tweet shows that they're forcing a vote on S.J. RES. 52, and the text of that resolution is available online. It would simply nullify the FCC's "Restoring Internet Freedom" order and do nothing else.

The problem is, it's statistics that don't mean jack squat.

It could mean a lot of things. But #1 is that it isn't 40 years of history, its only 2 years of history. Prior to that this particular set of numbers were not reported at all. That changed with the passage of the 2015 Freedom Act.

One of, if not the, most informed reporter on FISC/FISA issues is Marcy Wheeler aka emptywheel. Her twitter feed is hard to read for newbies because she does not bother to re-explain the background behind each tweet. But the articles on her website are pretty thorough, one might say too thorough. She's hyper-detailed.

FWIW, she's probably also the reporter with the most expertise on the scooter libby trial too. For example, she explains why Bush commute Libby's sentence rather than pardoning him (so that he could still maintain his 5th amendment right to silence, thus protecting Cheney and maybe even Bush from threat of prosecution for the Plame disclosure).

THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM-BENITO MUSSOLINI (1932)

Accepting mussolini's propaganda as an accurate description of fascism is like taking The Democratic Republic of North Korea's word that they are a democracy.

Instead, lets take the word of more neutral sources:

Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.
Encyclopedia Britannica

An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
Oxford English Dictionary

> Now of all the players in American politics today, which group does this best describe?

These players:
The people who absolutely lose their shit at the thought of black people kneeling that they walk out of a football game.
The television network that fired a reporter who would not toe the line on climate change reporting
Colorado Republican lawmakers want to punish striking teachers with jail time.
Harper’s Editor Insists He Was Fired Over Katie Roiphe Essay - The New York Times
Professor celebrating Barbara Bush’s death deserves to be fired | Fox News
Joyce Peterson on Twitter: "Happening in Nashville right now: lawmakers trying to penalize the @CityOfMemphis for removing confederate statues by slashing a quarter million dollars in funding. https://t.co/ZAg0ntZl30"
Law Enforcement Has Quietly Backed Anti-Protest Bills in at Least 8 States Since Trump’s Election
Memphis-Based Journalist Taken Into ICE Custody After Arrest While Covering Protest (Updated) - Rewire.News
Sinclair producer in Nebraska resigns to protest 'obvious bias'
‘Black-ish’ Political Episode on Kneeling Canceled Over ‘Creative Differences’ – Variety
Republican governor forced to stop blocking Facebook users who criticize him | Ars Technica
AprilDRyan on Twitter: "It is back again. Not called on today for a question. It has been how long? Oh, my last question was about @StormyDaniels! And, I was just told I am on a list. Whatever! I have been doing this for 21 years. I am not new to the rode
Trump attends event about campus political correctness crisis, accidental

THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM-BENITO MUSSOLINI (1932)

Accepting mussolini's propaganda as an accurate description of fascism is like taking The Democratic Republic of North Korea's word that they are a democracy.

Instead, lets take the word of more neutral sources:

Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.
Encyclopedia Britannica

An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
Oxford English Dictionary

> Now of all the players in American politics today, which group does this best describe?

These players:
The people who absolutely lose their shit at the thought of black people kneeling that they walk out of a football game.
The television network that fired a reporter who would not toe the line on climate change reporting
Colorado Republican lawmakers want to punish striking teachers with jail time.
Harper’s Editor Insists He Was Fired Over Katie Roiphe Essay - The New York Times
Professor celebrating Barbara Bush’s death deserves to be fired | Fox News
Joyce Peterson on Twitter: "Happening in Nashville right now: lawmakers trying to penalize the @CityOfMemphis for removing confederate statues by slashing a quarter million dollars in funding. https://t.co/ZAg0ntZl30"
Law Enforcement Has Quietly Backed Anti-Protest Bills in at Least 8 States Since Trump’s Election
Memphis-Based Journalist Taken Into ICE Custody After Arrest While Covering Protest (Updated) - Rewire.News
Sinclair producer in Nebraska resigns to protest 'obvious bias'
‘Black-ish’ Political Episode on Kneeling Canceled Over ‘Creative Differences’ – Variety
Republican governor forced to stop blocking Facebook users who criticize him | Ars Technica
AprilDRyan on Twitter: "It is back again. Not called on today for a question. It has been how long? Oh, my last question was about @StormyDaniels! And, I was just told I am on a list. Whatever! I have been doing this for 21 years. I am not new to the rode
Trump attends event about campus political correctness crisis, accidental

Well, the last time we had an earth-shaking announcement about a comet, the story wasn't the comet. This article buries the lede and doesn't address the real story here: what kind of shirt was the spokesman wearing when he made the announcement? Because we know, from direct empirical observation, that that information is more important than humanity literally landing on a comet.

The spokesman's description of the difficulty of the Rosetta mission? "She's sexy, but I never said she was easy." The reaction was immediate:

This is a photo of Matt Taylor. He was watched by millions as he landed his robot on a comet, while wearing an exploitative sexualized shirt.

His shirt says to girls watching from their elementary classrooms: Science is not for you. You shouldnâ(TM)t be an engineer sending robots into space.

His shirt says to women in STEM: I have no respect for you as a professional. When I look at you, I see a sex object, and not a colleague.

"His shirt says to women in STEM: I have no respect for you as a professional. When I look at you, I see a sex object."The Bad Astronomy blog said: If you think this is just a bunch of prudes, you're wrong. It's not about the prurience. It's about the atmosphere of denigration.

Speaking for the highly respected The Atlantic, journalist Rose Eveleth brilliantly captured what that shirt represents in a community that continues to struggle, if not outright fail, to respect women: No no women are toooootally welcome in our community, just ask the dude in this shirt.

The spokesman broke down in tears the next day and apologized. He said, "I made a big mistake and I offended many people and I am very sorry about this."

If you can force a rocket scientist, celebrating the accomplishment of a lifetime, to cry and grovel and beg forgiveness on international TV for wearing a shirt, you are not unempowered.

Well, the last time we had an earth-shaking announcement about a comet, the story wasn't the comet. This article buries the lede and doesn't address the real story here: what kind of shirt was the spokesman wearing when he made the announcement? Because we know, from direct empirical observation, that that information is more important than humanity literally landing on a comet.

The spokesman's description of the difficulty of the Rosetta mission? "She's sexy, but I never said she was easy." The reaction was immediate:

This is a photo of Matt Taylor. He was watched by millions as he landed his robot on a comet, while wearing an exploitative sexualized shirt.

His shirt says to girls watching from their elementary classrooms: Science is not for you. You shouldnâ(TM)t be an engineer sending robots into space.

His shirt says to women in STEM: I have no respect for you as a professional. When I look at you, I see a sex object, and not a colleague.

"His shirt says to women in STEM: I have no respect for you as a professional. When I look at you, I see a sex object."The Bad Astronomy blog said: If you think this is just a bunch of prudes, you're wrong. It's not about the prurience. It's about the atmosphere of denigration.

Speaking for the highly respected The Atlantic, journalist Rose Eveleth brilliantly captured what that shirt represents in a community that continues to struggle, if not outright fail, to respect women: No no women are toooootally welcome in our community, just ask the dude in this shirt.

The spokesman broke down in tears the next day and apologized. He said, "I made a big mistake and I offended many people and I am very sorry about this."

If you can force a rocket scientist, celebrating the accomplishment of a lifetime, to cry and grovel and beg forgiveness on international TV for wearing a shirt, you are not unempowered.

Having a bunch of entitled jackoffs running around Africa gunning down and mutilating big game doesn't help the situation.

https://twitter.com/PoodleMama...

https://twitter.com/MiaFarrow/...

It doesn't help, but the real problem worldwide is that we keep taking habitat and turning it into subdivisions and cities.

Having a bunch of entitled jackoffs running around Africa gunning down and mutilating big game doesn't help the situation.

https://twitter.com/PoodleMama...

https://twitter.com/MiaFarrow/...

It doesn't help, but the real problem worldwide is that we keep taking habitat and turning it into subdivisions and cities.

Having a bunch of entitled jackoffs running around Africa gunning down and mutilating big game doesn't help the situation.

https://twitter.com/PoodleMama...

https://twitter.com/MiaFarrow/...

Having a bunch of entitled jackoffs running around Africa gunning down and mutilating big game doesn't help the situation.

https://twitter.com/PoodleMama...

https://twitter.com/MiaFarrow/...

Muslims and until hezbollah and Hamas are banned from twitter stop posting these bullshit stories about muslims being attacked. https://twitter.com/thepartyof... https://twitter.com/HamasInfoE...

Muslims and until hezbollah and Hamas are banned from twitter stop posting these bullshit stories about muslims being attacked. https://twitter.com/thepartyof... https://twitter.com/HamasInfoE...

Uhhh, so you put a blood in jail and he stops being a blood?

No. It's been shown that taking nearly anyone--gang criminals, rapists, drug dealers, the lot--and putting them into a humane environment which focuses on their individual needs to maintain their sense of security and their human dignity quickly and effectively rehabilitates them. Yes, even hardened gang criminals.

By contrast, prison gangs actually rally around neglect and inhumane treatment. They use it to form a bond among their kin, reassuring themselves that The Man doesn't care about them, and thus demonstrating that they are fully-justified in being what they are. They do this because they need it. They believe that society owes them and that they're entitled to making the rest of us suffer and fear them. Think about the whole image of a violent gang member threatening you if you don't "respect" them and you'll see it.

Not because jailhouse food sucks.

It's not the food.

Read this in full. You can skip to the 4th page, the one that says "Rules of General Application".

Yes, it will cost money. That could be partially offset by the good publicity and the possible tax write-offs.

The good old "paid for by hopes and dreams approach" I do recall Elon Musk providing solar and battery storage only to get grilled in this very forum for doing so. You're better off trying to crowdfund it all.

He tweeted a few hours ago that there are over 600 locations in Puerto Rico being powered by Tesla battery packs and hopes to have several hundred more online as soon as possible
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/s...

It's Mashiki, he sock-puppets his way to +5. Today he overdid it a bit, and has now run out of mod points so all his replies are stuck at the default level.

Nice conspiracy theory. It's not that you have ideas that are increasingly regressive and people are having enough of it, no no, it's *not* that. It's the fault of someone else. Just a tip though, I only need one account. Maybe, you're projecting your insecurities and need for self-validation?

I don't think he will ever stop blaming Sarkeesian and Clinton for everything. They are too convenient. Look at his post history, whenever he has no argument to make (which is most of the time) he just starts ranting about one of them.

Where's the blame? Are you saying that a person who puts themselves into the public spotlight, espouses views that are socially and culturally regressive shouldn't be challenged on them? That pointing out and making people who support her, realize that her views are "toxic and problematic" to use your lexicon? Oh, I see now...it's "ranting" when someone with media and/or political power does something and people make commentary on it. Unless of course you disagree with it. Well, I guess you'd know that from experience so I'll just bow to the master.

I realized a while back that he never argues in good faith. Should have seen it sooner really... It wasn't until he accused me of being a secret sexual predator for the third time that I decided to stop replying to him if he addresses me directly.

I almost always argue in good faith. But I've never accused you, I simply wondered if your repeated pushes of regressive feminism, and rampant white-knighting, made you just like other white-knights that eventually are shown to be sex-pests and you act the way you do to try and make yourself feel better. I mean, plenty of those anti-GG actors you used to use in your arguments were great. I personally like the defenders you used, that claimed people who were supportive of gamergate were rapists, sexual predators, pedophiles and can't forget terrorists who call in bomb threats to religious/public buildings were well...projecting all the way down.

This shit got +5 informative? Good to see that blatant sexism is still A-OK on slashdot. The only thing Anita Sarkeesian did was publish a series of videos with her rather mild (and occasionally snarky) opinions on video games. Oh that and being female with intent.

So it's "blatent sexism" because she's a female Jack Thompson, and places blame for school shootings on "toxic masculinity" and then states men are sexist because of video games? Or that she wants to ban and/or video games if they don't fall into her moral compass. How about her whining about "extreme violence."

Literallt none of the bullshit lies you've tried to spread about her over the years have been true. Not one single one. Mod parent down.

Considering you can't be bothered to click on links, and read her own words for yourself. That's hilarious. Don't worry, those are all factual links too. Just like every other time you can't be bothered to click on them.

This shit got +5 informative? Good to see that blatant sexism is still A-OK on slashdot. The only thing Anita Sarkeesian did was publish a series of videos with her rather mild (and occasionally snarky) opinions on video games. Oh that and being female with intent.

So it's "blatent sexism" because she's a female Jack Thompson, and places blame for school shootings on "toxic masculinity" and then states men are sexist because of video games? Or that she wants to ban and/or video games if they don't fall into her moral compass. How about her whining about "extreme violence."

Literallt none of the bullshit lies you've tried to spread about her over the years have been true. Not one single one. Mod parent down.

Considering you can't be bothered to click on links, and read her own words for yourself. That's hilarious. Don't worry, those are all factual links too. Just like every other time you can't be bothered to click on them.

While the polls turned out to be less accurate than usual

Actually, the 2016 polls were more accurate than usual (more details). The mis-prediction of the election was not due to poor polling data but poor analysis combined with a very close election.

he caused life-long Democrats like myself to leave the party in disgust.

Well get back here and help me fix it! We have work to do.

I'm not a Democrat (and didn't vote for Clinton, either of them)

I am a Democrat, and didn't vote in 2016 because the lesser of two evils isn't my voting strategy. Nevada has a "None of these Candidates" option so you can claim you voted even when that happens. Hillary wrote a book about how it's everybody else's fault she lost; do you want that for President?

I would have voted for Bill--I did vote for Bill, but it didn't count because I was like seven.

I'd go for Elizabeth Warren or even Joe Kennedy--for different reasons. I have suggested others, but one of them practically bit my head off because she didn't want to be a politician, much less President--there are a few of us running this year with that position, but damn, something must be done and nobody is doing the right something (which is how several of us ended up as Congressional candidates with no prior political experience).

Among the somethings that must be done, treating prisoners like human beings.

Some source after quick googling:
Source 1
Source 2
Source 3 (video clip from the briefing)

People, before calling fake news, try googling first.

I rather suspect that he has access to really good base information on the subject,

Lol! The belief that the victim in chief is actually some sort of 83-dimensional chess grandmaster really must bring his supplicants great comfort since it seems that no amount of evidence to the contrary, from his own staff can shake you loose from that teat.

I look forward to you telling us that the reason the MAGAdook wants back in to the TPP is because he won asian trade.

"If you don't run a fully validating node, you're a second class Bitcoin citizen. If you don't hold your own private keys, you're a third class Bitcoin citizen." - @TraceMayer I am guessing third class citizen means a fool. Source: https://twitter.com/lopp/statu...

The mysterious js290 (or should that be "bs1000"). You can't even articulate what you're implying well enough to give us a clue what you're talking about. Thinks minor changes in the sun's output will have outsized effects on the temperature of the Earth, something that has not been evident so far. Thinks since CO2 is only 0.04% of the Earth's atmosphere it couldn't possibly have an effect even though the science behind that effect has been known for over 100 years. Like I said before if you really think you're so smart you should be publishing your results and gathering the accolades you deserve.

The bullshitters: deniers who believe climate is constant and predictable, and alarmists who also believe it's controllable but don't understand the limitations of the climate models due to lack of math knowledge.

Science is built on falsification, not proof. When you lose that insight, the humility of the genuine skeptic is replaced by the arrogance of scientism.

— Robert J Frey (@financequant) April 12, 2018

Yes, because I should vote for a Left that is beyond convinced that we are greedy, racist, sexist, homophobe morons who hate science and love Hitler.

You mean Democrats. Democrats are not left, they're another crazy right wing party.

The American right wing owns the media. [imgur.com] OK. LOL! What, like the New York Times, Washington Post. CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and all the rest? Those are all right wing?

Of course they are. Or haven't you not noticed that they've all jumped on the we-need-to-push-Trump-into-bombing-Syria-with-zero-evidence just within the last week? They've gone so far to the right that the only people pushing back are Fucker Carlson and Tomi Lahren of all people, and they're on Fox.

I think you represent some kind of tiny splinter group that has zero traction. The Left is about sound economic policies? It's about borrow and spend to buy votes.

As is usually the case, when wingers whine about leftists they're really complaining about their fellow right-wingers. Leftists would slash a trillion out of the annual imperial budget, which would eliminate the deficit overnight while giving everyone free-to-use UBE, medical care, and higher education.

OMG the Left invented identity politics and used it as a club to beat the crap out of us. It worked, too.

Again, you're complaining about your fellow right-wingers in the Democratic party. They're the ones smearing anyone to the left of them as sexist racists for not jumping onboard the next coronation of an ultra-corrupt corporatist who loves slave labor.

They encouraged the BLM riots and cheered as people were attacked and neighborhoods burned.

Now you're just talking out of your ass. And I'm betting this describes you to a T.

Yes, because I should vote for a Left that is beyond convinced that we are greedy, racist, sexist, homophobe morons who hate science and love Hitler.

You mean Democrats. Democrats are not left, they're another crazy right wing party.

The American right wing owns the media. [imgur.com] OK. LOL! What, like the New York Times, Washington Post. CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and all the rest? Those are all right wing?

Of course they are. Or haven't you not noticed that they've all jumped on the we-need-to-push-Trump-into-bombing-Syria-with-zero-evidence just within the last week? They've gone so far to the right that the only people pushing back are Fucker Carlson and Tomi Lahren of all people, and they're on Fox.

I think you represent some kind of tiny splinter group that has zero traction. The Left is about sound economic policies? It's about borrow and spend to buy votes.

As is usually the case, when wingers whine about leftists they're really complaining about their fellow right-wingers. Leftists would slash a trillion out of the annual imperial budget, which would eliminate the deficit overnight while giving everyone free-to-use UBE, medical care, and higher education.

OMG the Left invented identity politics and used it as a club to beat the crap out of us. It worked, too.

Again, you're complaining about your fellow right-wingers in the Democratic party. They're the ones smearing anyone to the left of them as sexist racists for not jumping onboard the next coronation of an ultra-corrupt corporatist who loves slave labor.

They encouraged the BLM riots and cheered as people were attacked and neighborhoods burned.

Now you're just talking out of your ass. And I'm betting this describes you to a T.

Science is built on falsification, not proof. When you lose that insight, the humility of the genuine skeptic is replaced by the arrogance of scientism.

— Robert J Frey (@financequant) April 12, 2018

It's ok oolorie, you can't discuss your problems openly, so you just resort to the facile claim that somebody else is mentally disturbed.

It's a rather common behavior among those who do wrong to claim they're the only ones who see the clear truth.

That's why you send all your opponents to the Department of Mental Hygiene. For their own good.

By the way, here's an cartoon or two for you to ponder.

It's ok oolorie, you can't discuss your problems openly, so you just resort to the facile claim that somebody else is mentally disturbed.

It's a rather common behavior among those who do wrong to claim they're the only ones who see the clear truth.

That's why you send all your opponents to the Department of Mental Hygiene. For their own good.

By the way, here's an cartoon or two for you to ponder.

"The rest could be available for energy price arbitrage"

Tesla has been very resistant to using the car battery for anything other than powering the car; I suspect the battery formulation is not suited for it. That said, Tesla hacker wk057@skie.net has a pretty nice off-grid setup with his 44 kW solar array backed up by 191 kWh of Tesla battery pack modules.
https://twitter.com/wk057/stat...
https://skie.net/skynet/projec...

Halted moved a few blocks away, but is still in business.

That said, the owners of HSC (Halted) "have made the difficult decision to offer the company for sale.", so if you want to experience HSC, you should probably make your pilgrimage pretty damn soon.

https://twitter.com/twogenevda...

The letter

However, having to vacate their premises wouldn't mean the company closing down if it wasn't already in trouble. Leases don't get invalidated with change of ownership, so if they're vacating before the end of the lease, it's because Google offered them money to move out early. Otherwise they could stay until the end of the lease and look for new premises. Clearly they took the opportunity to shut down with some extra cash in pocket, and they don't think it's worth trying to keep the company going.

What's the evidence that this is a witch hunt? Is it just because Trump and his buds are calling it one? Because I've that's the standard I've got some bad news for you, Nixon thought it was a witch hunt against him, and no, that wasn't, and he had to quit before he got fired.

The Red Scare with McCarthy had major congressional force backing it, and congress seems to be asleep at the switch this time around, and sometimes running interference for Trump particularly through the actions of Rep. Nunes, as opposed to focusing on measures to secure electoral and other infrastructure. If you are going to invoke McCarthyism, you are going to want to show how it is a relevant comparison deeper than the pure surface similarity of being freaked out by the Russians.

You think Mueller's running a witch hunt? Because the work he's shown so far with the guilty pleas and indictments suggests otherwise. I know we've always been at war with Eastasia, but Mueller is a Republican, and was W Bush's pick to run the FBI, and was almost unanimously granted an extension to his 10 year term in Obama's first term. His background doesn't suggest him being any sort of political inquisitor.

I'm sorry, but from the other side of the fence these accusations of "witch hunt" really sound like cries of deflection and denial, there's an obvious amount of dirt in public view and the usual suspects want nothing more than to sweep it under the rug. Personally, I think a lot of these guys are guilty as hell, but ultimately I want the truth to come out and let the chips fall where they may. When you got guys like Hannity running interference for obvious crooks like Paul Manafort, who would be a total crook due to his work in Ukraine and for other dictators even if he had never met Trump, that's pretty clear indication that the truth and honest enforcement of the law is not the desired end from that side.

Don't think so. You should ping rich turner and ask since he's been helpful, there's also an github+"uservoice" thing where you can post these issues.

Is it Ok to hate certain white hood-wearers? How about those with red stars and hammer-and-sickle?

STW Analyst: “A lot of things have surprised me about working at the CIA! The diversity of occupations employed here, the rotation opportunities, the investment in employee training.”

But not, sadly, the practice of torture.

I suspect you are correct in thinking of protection of the DNS or a website when under attack. You might appreciate this https://twitter.com/olesovhcom... 2 years ago someone got hit with an attack, 1.1 T not G but T. being able to shield one's self from these types of attacks might be ok.

Now a funny thing about junk traffic, it's a good place to learn what to filter out, I look forward to a cleaner system over the next 10 years ( when I owned an ISP back in 2000 we were fighting the same battle and no one cared. it takes a $$$ for people to react to these things

Have a good day

Finally someone comes up with some good rational analysis, ...

Add to that: she was really paranoid. She thinks she is being targeted, often unfairly.

See this video. She makes some valid points about what is 'age restricted' and what should not be, but then in her mind it is 'they' are targeting her specifically.

Not only did she think that Youtube is 'filtering' her videos, and reducing their views, and demonetizing them, she was thinking that 'anti-vegan animal supporting supporting criminals' (her words) are trying to harm/kill her, because she found something piercing her tires. Looks like a hypodermic needle which may have been accidental. Yet she attributes that to animal rights stickers on her car!

For a comparison, one of my sites was de-listed from Google's index some years ago. They sent me an email saying that it had 'inappropriate content'. I contacted them back saying: tell me which page has that content, and I will remove it. They send back the same form letter, no specifics at all. On the third try, I mentioned that the probably objectionable content is where I compiled a list of common 419/Nigerian type scams, and that is to warn against them, NOT to promote them! They responded with a form letter that my site was being indexed again!

So, it was an algorithm glitch. Had I been as paranoid as her, I would have thought that I was being unfairly targeted because I am [insert pet conspiracy theory here].

She was living in a self-made up persecution complex, and then she went over the edge.

*Swoon*! Oh you spoony bard - I am vanquished.

I shall retreat for the evening and drown my sorrows with Teslaquilla.

(Rei has left the party)

What financial statements? SpaceX is a privately held company. And it's on a roll.

You're thinking of Tesla. They already went bankwupt ;)

Seriously, there was literally no news with a long-term impact that affected this slide, apart from the Moody's statement, which was itself based on no news with a long-term impact. The plunge in price was due to a surge in short positions based on a bunch of short term bad news. And the liquidity arguments are absurd.

In broader terms, the bear argument is that Tesla is not going to be able to pay off 900-and-something million in bonds due in spring 2019. Not a typo: 2019. And if that sounds like a lot of money, remember that even in Q1, Tesla's gross profit (quarterly gross profit) was $2,2 billion dollars. Tesla is already producing twice as many vehicles per week as they averaged in 2017. Averaged over Q1? No, it was only the upgrades during recent Fremont downtime that pushed them up that high. But it's important to remember that that gain is just *one* quarter of production acceleration. Even if you want to pretend it's a burst rate (in which it's probably more like 2500/wk extrapolated in order to have the whole week average 2000/wk), and that the 2000/wk is really smoke and mirrors and sustained is really more like 1000-1500/wk, a quarter ago the sustained rate was ~250-450/wk with a burst rate of 1000/wk

Yes, there's also Tesla's SGA expenses which in Q4 were roughly equal to their gross profits, but those don't grow linearly with gross profits; SGA expenses have to scale up before production and sales, and there's no reason to expect SGA growth to anywhere near match gross profit growth. Even at present, SGA is roughly equal to gross profit; the losses were because of ~$1,4B in R&D, which A) can be cut at any time, and B) doesn't increase at all with production scaleup.

Tesla had $3,4B cash on hand as of Q4. Go ahead and subtract the ~200M due in November and call it $3,2B. Now remember what was previously written: after the Fremont downtime earlier this month now up to double the rate as in 2017. Does that mean double the revenue? No, it's even better than that, because they have operations costs and depreciation on their production hardware regardless of how many vehicles it turns out; this means that they simultaneously grow the margin as they scaleup.

This isn't going to dramatically alter Q1's figures, although the quarterly loss will be smaller than Q4's. But it's going to have a profound impact in Q2, and depending on the rate of growth during Q2, even more profound in Q3 and Q4.

Of course the bears live in another world where Tesla is actually secretly super broke and going "bankwupt" tomorrow and will never produce anything and blah blah blah. We know this. TTAC's Tesla Deathwatch is dead, so long live Seeking Alpha, right?

After months of wanting a DACA bill he's now on Twitter pretending he doesn't want DACA.

What a kidder! Like we'd really believe he'd just switch positions like that!!

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I'm not sure I believe anything any of them say but it certain does provide a different view of it than the article portrays.

I don't understand what the fuss is about except that its trendy to dump on Facebook for any and every conceivable or even illogical reason. All cyber technology comes with and implicit and inherent danger that it will be either used nefariously or misused to harm. It was and remains perfectly legitimate subject matter. Kurzweil in his discussion of the Singularity has made similar points in his books and you don't have to believe in the Singularity to understand the technological inertia he cites.

Most recently, AI folks discuss the same subject matter; https://www.edge.org/conversat...

Yes, I am not buying into the AI thing and the simulation thing either.

OK, he flies around more than I do, and I have a travel-specific prescription, but it's not Ambien and I am concerned by his tweet regarding wine and ambien. Maybe he is wealthy enough that someone is always making sure that nothing bad happens when he is on that stuff. But alcohol and Ambien together make it even more likely that you will drive while sleeping and do other bizarre and dangerous stuff. Ambien alone is sometimes enough to do that. I believe that is the cause of the 2009 Diane Schuler Teconic Parkway tragedy.

And it sounds like Elon's dad was a horror story. Most recently Elon's dad has had a child with his step-daughter. Growing up with that guy must have been no fun.

Okay, that was mildly amusing... but I literally LOLed at this. ;) See it on a live map here.

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I'm not sure I believe anything any of them say but it certain does provide a different view of it than the article portrays.