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Electric-Car Startup Faraday Future Building a $1 Billion Factory In California (businessinsider.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Faraday Future, an electric car startup based in California, wants to take on Tesla. They're building a $1 billion factory in California. Business Insider reports: "The startup of about 400 employees has poached executive talent from Tesla and also draws its name from a luminary scientist — Michael Faraday — who helped harness for humanity the forces of nature. Even Faraday's public announcement that California, Georgia, Louisiana and Nevada are finalists for the factory mirrors the approach Tesla took to build a massive battery factory. Nevada won that bidding war among several states last year by offering up to $1.3 billion in tax breaks and other incentives. Faraday hopes to distinguish itself by branding the car less as transportation than a tool for the connected class."
Gas cars seem like they really are doomed to going the way of the horse and buggy. Ultimately we're going to have to have a bunch of different electric car manufacturers otherwise Tesla would be a monopoly, and despite the geek's adoration for Elon Musk's dick, a monopoly is generally a bad thing, even if it's headed by a saint (which Musk is not).
The big car manufacturers are already hilariously slow moving and behind the curve, and are basically following Tesla's technology and lead. It seems pretty obvious to me that they aren't going to exist in the future except in severely shrunken form. So we urgently need new electric car manufacturers before it's Tesla that's the big clunky traditionalist car manufacturer.
In other words, this is a good thing and everyone should be happy about it. Except maybe Musk.
A fool and his hard drive are soon parted.
Martin Luthor King
Wow, I always thought he was a highly-respected clergyman and civil-rights crusader.
I had no idea he was actually a brilliant scientist and Superman's arch-nemesis.
;-P
It took me a moment... OK, I misspelled "Martin Luther King". Thanks - I'll watch for that in the future.
He was also a brilliant orator. I've occasionally watched the oratory of popular leaders looking for the reason of their popularity. Was it Hitler's mannerisms, his content, delivery, or timing that made him so popular?
Martin Luther had a specific cadence that I think explains some of his popularity. He pauses in the lead-ins to the sentence phrases (as opposed to the ends of sentences, when the thought is finished), so that in listening you are always on the edge of your seat waiting to hear what comes next.
Add the fact that the content was timely, important, what people wanted to hear, and written at an emotional level, and the results are obvious.
Good comedians do this as well, and it's not just "waiting for the laughter to die down". Ron White stands out as an example, as does Jeff Dunham.
I've tried oratory myself, through toastmasters. In normal conversations, we're used to giving information as fast as possible for fear of being interrupted. I find slowing down and cadencing particularly difficult. Most politicians *try* to have good cadence, but are doing it by rote and don't synchronize with the audience.
How famous orators pick up that skill is beyond me. Maybe it's innate.