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CNN Skeptical of Elon Musk's 'Big Promises' (cnn.com)
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Tesla's electric semi-truck will be launched three weeks later than planned, CNN reports. It's been bumped to November 16th because Tesla says it's "diverting resources" to address problems with its Model 3 sedan production -- they've produced just 17.3% of the cars they'd planned -- and to make more batteries to send to areas hit by hurricanes. CNN notes Tesla's Model X "didn't start shipping until two years after it was supposed to roll out," and production of its Model S sedan "was also much slower than originally promised." Michelle Krebs, an analyst with Autotrader.com, complains Tesla "may well have far too much on its plate. It should focus and deliver on some key promises."
But Elon Musk "has a history of some pretty pie-in-the-sky promises," complained CNN business anchor Maggie Lake, citing Musk's claim that he had verbal approval for an underground hyperloop connecting New York City to Washington D.C. ("This is news to City Hall," said New York's press secretary at the time, and no actual approval has ever been produced.) Lake also noted Musk's promise to fix South Australia's blackout problems by building the world's largest lithium-ion battery within 100 days back in March. Last Friday Tesla signed a contract to begin the work, so the 100-day countdown has begun.
CNN's report ran under the headline "Elon Musk: Big Dreamer or Monorail Salesman?" -- referencing a satirical 1993 episode of The Simpson's. "Here's a spoiler alert," the segment concludes. "If you haven't seen that episode...the monorail plan doesn't work out too well. Let's put it that way."
But Elon Musk "has a history of some pretty pie-in-the-sky promises," complained CNN business anchor Maggie Lake, citing Musk's claim that he had verbal approval for an underground hyperloop connecting New York City to Washington D.C. ("This is news to City Hall," said New York's press secretary at the time, and no actual approval has ever been produced.) Lake also noted Musk's promise to fix South Australia's blackout problems by building the world's largest lithium-ion battery within 100 days back in March. Last Friday Tesla signed a contract to begin the work, so the 100-day countdown has begun.
CNN's report ran under the headline "Elon Musk: Big Dreamer or Monorail Salesman?" -- referencing a satirical 1993 episode of The Simpson's. "Here's a spoiler alert," the segment concludes. "If you haven't seen that episode...the monorail plan doesn't work out too well. Let's put it that way."
Ownership of a bump stock does not make you a mass murder or terrorist. Just like owning a machine gun would not make you a mass murder or terrorist. Things do not define who we are... on the other hand choosing to impinge on the innate rights of your fellow citizens because you have been duped into being a lamb of the slaughter does make you a traitor to our nation by the people and for the people.
Even in the roaring twenties when mobsters ran amok it wasn't the guns that made them so dangerous it was the inability of police to respond fast enough and catch them... gunning people down and expecting to live hasn't been a valid criminal pursuit for probably 5-60+ years. So, you're trying "solve" a non existent problem. The real problem we have is lack of respect for life its very fundamental and if it were taught and instilled in our children to the same degree that "safe sex is" we probably wouldn't even need sex education classes because they would know the gravity of creating a new life and the responsibility that would be required of them.
Be very careful of changing the balance of power, because it can end disastrously. Are you really willing to trade a gun security theatre (take the ineffectiveness of the TSA as an example) for your right to protect yourself and your property!!???