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Popular Mechanics Defends Elon Musk -- While He Tweets About Fortnite (popularmechanics.com)
The November issue of Popular Mechanics includes a message from its editors that Elon Musk is "under attack," arguing that while some criticisms have merit, "much of it is myopic and small-brained, from sideline observers gleefully salivating at the opportunity to take him down a peg."
But what have these stock analysts and pontificators done for humanity? Elon Musk is an engineer at heart, a tinkerer, a problem-solver -- the kind of person Popular Mechanics has always championed -- and the problems he's trying to solve are hard. Really hard. He could find better ways to spend his money, that's for sure. And yet there he is, trying to build gasless cars and build reusable rockets and build tunnels that make traffic go away. For all his faults and unpredictability, we need him out there doing that. We need people who have ideas. We need people who take risks.
We need people who try.
The magazine includes statements from 12 high-profile supporters, including investor Mark Cuban, who writes "When you invest in a company run by an entrepreneur like Elon, you are investing in the mindset and approach that an entrepreneur brings to the table as much as you are valuing the net present value of future cash flows. That is not typical for public companies that are overwhelmingly run by hired CEOs. My advice for Elon is simple: Be yourself. Be true to your mission. Respect your investors. Ignore your critics."
Meanwhile, in a Friday post on Twitter, Musk jokingly claimed that he'd purchased and then deleted the game of Fortnite, posting a doctored Marketwatch article quoting him as saying "I had to save these kids from eternal virginity."
"Had to been done," tweeted Musk, adding "ur welcome".
We need people who try.
The magazine includes statements from 12 high-profile supporters, including investor Mark Cuban, who writes "When you invest in a company run by an entrepreneur like Elon, you are investing in the mindset and approach that an entrepreneur brings to the table as much as you are valuing the net present value of future cash flows. That is not typical for public companies that are overwhelmingly run by hired CEOs. My advice for Elon is simple: Be yourself. Be true to your mission. Respect your investors. Ignore your critics."
Meanwhile, in a Friday post on Twitter, Musk jokingly claimed that he'd purchased and then deleted the game of Fortnite, posting a doctored Marketwatch article quoting him as saying "I had to save these kids from eternal virginity."
"Had to been done," tweeted Musk, adding "ur welcome".
I feel exactly that way about Elon Musk. I don't care about his defects shown so far. They are absolutely expected. I'd buy his company stock in small amounts just to stand where I speak. And if any goes bankrupt, I'd gladly share the weight of what I put. But to try to make him step down, feels like s*****d Apple when they fired Jobs for a "stable proven guy"...nothing got invented. Actually, Apple is still riding Jobs' waves and has done very little if nothing to invent anything that will change how we live or work, otehr than what was already started.
unfinished: (adj.)
Is worse than Hitler.
And stock analysis are supposed to be reliable and infallible.
But reality has switched things around. And I end up with mutual funds managed by idiots, and there are people who invent big things who are criticized for perceived mistakes that have not even occurred.
How the hell can a magazine that prides itself on people being able to do technical ventures as a DIY thing support the guy who is singlehandedly trying to change the automobile market from the current "You can repair anything you want" status to "Screw you, we'll refuse to perform safety recalls on your AIRBAGS and even disable features on your car remotely if we find you allowed your car to have been touched by anyone who isn't a Tesla certified mechanic".
Elon can sit and rotate. And, apparently, now I know why I never found Popular Mechanics worth buying.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw
So what exactly did he buy?
I feel like this guy jumps on any bandwagon he sees as popular and then tries to capitalize as much as possible from it.
Is there a history of the magazine that explains its different layout and thematic shifts?
WTF? Do you work for his OBVIOUSLY SCARED competitors in GM/Ford (latter I like, their trucks & the MUSTANG V8 rock)?? He's done MORE than your WORTHLESS ASSES ever WILL!
* From what I understand, he made his money via PayPal (pretty cool in & OF itself + I bet you IDIOTS who are DO-NOTHING zero "ne'er-do-wells" WISH that YOU thought of that 1st - but your LAZY asses, didn't & THAT's truly, that...)
I also RESPECT he smoked his POT in front of the planet (it should be LEGAL anyhow & taxed like booze) - takes BALLS to tell everyone (minus saying it) "I AM WHO I AM"
(Just like God himself did).
APK
P.S.=> Correct me IF I am off/wrong anywhere above - it's not like I 'worship' Mr. Musk (BUT I do RESPECT him because he "keeps on KEEPIN' ON" using his COIN to do more than POTENTIALLY cool stuff & THAT? I have to respect - so should you ALL) - & like I say to MY "detractors" whom I easily ANNIHILATE here on /., e.g. https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... ?
YOU WISH YOU WERE HIM (pity is, you COULD be, IF you had some BRAINS/EDUCATION/DRIVE & ideas you could MAKE happen - along w/ RISK TAKING BALLS)... apk
If a serial killer paedophile finds a cure for cancer or a way to mitigate climate change, we'll let him rape and murder kids because, on balance, you think it'd be OK.
You can't save the world, moron!
much of it is myopic and small-brained, from sideline observers gleefully salivating at the opportunity to take him down a peg
Creimertards. Can you believe this has been going on for two years? Sad. Fucking sad.
Well, yes, Musk is a total piece of shit
But letâ(TM)s also acknowledge reality and understand that anyone living paycheck to paycheck, and canâ(TM)t support feeding their family if they miss one paycheck is living beyond their means.
Is gonna suck my dick?
pretty sure you have to grow one first. You need an outie not an innie.
and his cars run on soytricity.
If he hadn't called the pedophile out,
all the kids would've died in that cave.
It's hard to prove,
but since you want to fuck so badly,
I suggest you go visit your momma,
seems like she has an opening
since I had to cancel my appointment.
Thank you
and a happy day to you.
He seems to be getting there. SpaceX is doing reasonably well, arguably on government money but coming from government contracts rather than subsidies, and offering a real value: Uncle Sam is saving money on those contracts. As for EV's... I don't think that market - meaning all auto makers, not just Tesla - would be where it is today if it wasn't for those tax breaks. Perhaps tax breaks are necessary to kick-start certain markets... I'm all for that, as long as those subsidies are doled out equally, and end at some point.
Here's hoping that Tesla can get over the financial hump, they've pulled out all the stops to meet important targets, but next 2 quarters are going to be make or break, and Musk will have to show that they can not only reach the current production (and distribution) levels, but sustain them as well, while turning to a positive cash flow.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
What EXACTLY have YOU done with your billions that in any way has helped anyone other than your mom and dad upstairs unclog the toilet? You spouting off bullshit in some off the wall forum and somehow STILL feel somehow superior is absolutely amazing.
Hahaha, you dunce, go back under the stairs.
He failed to deliver on his promises. True. The goal was so over the top, what he did deliver is way above other car companies delivered.
He showed what a no compromise electric car can do, how it will drive, how it would feel and how great it would be. That genie is out of the bottle. No body can put it back in. No ICEV can compete with a EV.
And the party is just starting. The batteries are getting cheaper, energy density is getting higher. While ICE is fully optimized and there is nothing more you could squeeze out of an internal combustion engine.
In an EV, you can have two or four motors mechanically decoupled and electronically controlled. What such a car can do, no way an ICE can do.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
All my normie roommates who play fortnite incessantly fuck a lot.
I did exactly the same as Musk except I skipped the part where I was a fat douche eater in public.
Can't believe Popular Mechanics is in league with Elon Musk. Guess I'll have to add them to my boycott list. We need to get word out that this cannot be tolerated for the good of all science!
See subject: You're IMPERSONATING me (as you can't ever get the better of me, especially on my points on hosts files). I am God's gift to Slashdot and my hosts file engine provides full protection from Spectre & Meltdown. No other software protects against speculative execution vulnerabilities. That's a fact even FAKEname trolls like you can't deny.
Where's your house fully paid for all bills & taxes current TROLL? It's not - trolls like YOU live under a bridge (hence WHY you HIDE from me STALKING ME by your UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous and FAKENAME posts like the 'brave guy' you are(n't)).
* How many times have I utterly DUSTED YOU in tech debates under your DOUBTLESS many SOCKPUPPET 'fakename' accounts you use here, hmmm?
TONS (& you doing what you do proves it).
I don't deserve coming to /. and being bullied just because I'm world-class and produce better wares than you.
APK
P.S.=> You're a fool - a DO-NOTHING "ne'er-do-well" troll loser, nothing more... apk
I, for one, think that it is ABSOLUTELY NO SURPRISE some people keep trying hard to discredit & take down Musk/Tesla!
I, for one, can clearly see that, everytime a Tesla car taken apart (for reverse engineering?), what found is innovation after innovation!
Tesla cars keep getting highest safety ratings ever & W/O CHEATING!!!
Why others count as cheating, at least to me, is because all gasoline cars are always tested for safety w/ EMPTY GAS TANK!
Is that really a realistic test? Traffic accidents in the real world ever happen w/ empty gas tanks?
& what do you think would happen to the safety ratings of all gasoline cars, if they were collision tested w/ full gas tanks?
Don't you think that, quite a significant percentage of people who die in traffic accidents, are actually not dying from the collision,
but really dying afterwards, by BURNING TO DEATH ALIVE!!!
Why do you think, public never knows/hears about, what percentage of people burning to death alive, in all traffic accidents w/ deaths?
Do you seriously think gasoline car companies would want public to learn that?
(Realize that, a big percentage of advertising revenue of all mass media outlets are always coming from car companies!)
Now many gasoline car companies are keep pushing hard for hydrogen cars, instead of electric.
Why do you think that is?
Could it be because, switching gasoline car factories to produce hydrogen cars would be a lot cheaper,
compared to switching to produce electric cars?
(Realize that, technologically, the difference between, a gasoline car and hydrogen car, is a lot smaller than, the difference between a gasoline car and electric car!)
But the problem is, if, gasoline cars, replaced by hydrogen cars,
then we would be actually replacing extreme fire hazards (during collisions) w/ MOVING BOMBS, quite literally!
(But of course, that is not really a problem for the car companies themselves; that is a problem for the public, right?)
(And also think about, how much danger to the public would be, if whole world covered w/ hydrogen transport/storage infrastructure?!)
So again, it is ABSOLUTELY NO SURPRISE (at least to me), some people keep trying hard to discredit & take down Musk/Tesla!!!
Don't forget the No Salt.
See subject: You impersonating me PROVES it (your name's on it as submitter & yet signing as me (APK)) https://linux.slashdot.org/com... & altering /.er's words - grow up.
YOU started it by MORE than 'insinuating' that "I'm a bad programmer" PARENT to your SELF-destruction here https://linux.slashdot.org/com... & vs. that FAIR challenge from me?
YOU RAN "Forrest" (zero by comparison yet you gave me shit? LOL - please).
* LOL! You're INFERIOR imitation (but IMITATION is the SINCEREST FORM of FLATTERY).
APK
P.S.=> It's NOT easy being a "20th Century FOX" (especially in the 21st century w/ JEALOUS "Lil' Jowies" like YOU stalking OR impersonating me) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (like me)... apk
One thing I've noticed is that many Elon Musk haters are "losers." I don't mean the popular/insulting version of the word, but rather the basic noun - loser, one who loses.
I've had quite a few debates with haters, and all of the ones I spoke to had some sad story about stock shorts that didn't work out, relatives that lost their jobs on the oil rigs, or friends who owned automotive garages. No amount of "times change" really helped.
I honestly kinda feel sorry for people that really, really want the world to stop turning. :(
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
c6gunner you are the submitter here impersonating me no questions asked (twisting /.ers praise of my work in 'retaliation') https://linux.slashdot.org/com... vs. a FAIR CHALLENGE from me vs. your MORE than 'insinuation' I am a 'bad coder' & YOU RAN https://linux.slashdot.org/com... as you had ZERO by comparison to myself to show for YOURSELF.
Lame.
Don't put down your betters man until YOU have done better (or show they f'd up somehow technically so their shit gets better (not in malice but say if the IP stack had some HUGE flaw in it, wouldn't you want it corrected since YOU use it YOURSELF too? Ask yourself that))
APK
P.S.=> See subject: LMAO LASTLY + PURE TRUTH since this IS the bottom line:
HEY- You make ME look GOOD & yourself? Really bad - lol, no joke (doing it to yourself behind your FAKE NAME)... apk
See subject: Facts - I'm not like that. I don't DO that shit. YOU may, to each his own between consulting ADULTS, to each his own & nobody gets hurt etc. - so, sorry to disappoint you & your "StRaNge" (tm that & patent pending) 'Phantasies'... ok?
* NEWSFLASH: I'm not gay/homosexual (or whatever the F it's called nowadays & into the future, lol).
APK
P.S.=> HOWEVER (this is where I am listening to some tunes now later after the above): I can't HELP IT when I'm a 20th entury Fox you can't RESIST queer https://www.youtube.com/watch?... & I blew you AWAY w/ it here too https://it.slashdot.org/commen... YOUR ABNORMAL ASS STALKS CONSTANTLY wanting MORE apparently, lol)... apk
Cell phones, laptops, Tesla are operating where you cant design for today's metrics. You need to predict the processor speed 18 months from now and design the phone. You need to anticipate the bandwidth increase expected in 12 months.
An EV's most critical metrics are energy density Kg/kWh of the battery and price $/kWh of the battery. Elon, in his famour 2006 "secret" master plan calculated a 7 year half life for these two critical metrics. The energy density will double, and the price wil halve every seven years. Sort of like Moore's law of batteries. Tesla is designing, building and pricing the cars based on that model. In 2012 for the Tesla Roadster, the battery cost was 270 $/kWh. Model 3, battery is 130 $/kWh (Tesla's claim) 140$/kWh Monroe's tear down. It is following the expected path. Tesla says it is going to hit 100 $/kWh sometime in 2019. That is the figure when the EV and ICEV will cost the same off the dealer's lot. Battery + motor cost = engine+transmission+emission control+fuel tank cost.
The legacy car makers are not used to engine manufacturing cost going down by 50% in 7 years. Nor the weight of the power train falling by 50% between drawing board and production.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Yeah but he did start SpaceX. Also to a large degree what you see in the Model S or X was because of his guidance. Both the good and the bad.
So you think tax breaks should be offered by the government, but that nobody should take them?
Boeing called, they want to give the SLS money back.
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
"Fight the GOOD fight" https://www.youtube.com/watch?... & WIN for decades!
* See subject & something "your kind" can NEVER really understand OR more IMPORTANTLY, appreciate...
(NOT having experienced itself FOR yourself & NOT just that analogy to that CHAMPION LEVEL game for my hometown - life too)
APK
P.S.=> Nothing LIKE it & pity is? You'll NEVER know... apk
He just tries really hard. :)
[($)]
That sounds a lot like the way trump cultists think about trump.
The fact is, Musk is just another billionaire with narcissistic personality disorder. Guys like that can be useful, but don't be suckered into believing any of their altruistic bullshit. Like all NPDs he only cares about feeding his fragile, stunted ego. When altruism serves the purpose of feeding their egos they will perform altruism, but the second that stops working they will switch to something else, something much darker.
Don't believe me? Look at how quickly Musk started leveling false accusations about that rescue diver being a pedo just because the guy criticized Musk's ill-conceived, self-aggrandizing plans to send an impractical submarine to the kids trapped in that cave. The accusation was completely without merit, just pure butthurt. Does that remind you anyone?
Musk, like Trump, is great click bait. Any media is going to love him, even if it is only to hate him. He isn't really competing with the major car companies for typical consumers, he is competing for the luxury toy car market. At some point he has to show he can do that profitably. He hasn't yet and it looks like he might not be able to. That doesn't move electric cars any closer to taking a significant share of the market. In fact, his failure will impede progress in that direction.
I don't believe you. I bought Tesla stock a couple years ago, and made a bunch. It'd be difficult not to. If you're interested in transitioning to EV's, power grid changes, and/or American manufacturing, then you would understand that there is very good reason for grants. Grants are earned by doing important things - and if he pursued them, then the incentives did there job (but that wasn't the point to him - since if you'd even just read his biography, you'd know he was already talking about the importance of electric vehicles while doing his physics undergrad in Canada). SpaceX's money comes largely from contracts to do jobs that are needed - just business.. and they do it far more cheaply than the competition. Your position strains credulity.
Evolution shows genes are successful at competing with other genes because they cooperate with other genes to make an organism that will compete well with other organisms by cooprerating with them.
Talented creative assholes are still assholes.
Fortnite is a shitty game full of shitty people and it should be euthanized for the good of humanity.
He's human and just like everyone says B.S. like calling people names. The bad thing is that we now register our mistakes on internet forums / fora.
But I'd like to point out a much graver problem: our modern society has developed many ways to let inventors vulnerable -- even subverting the original patent protection and turning it into a weapon against such individuals.
If you're skilled enough -- or can pay skilled enough lawyers -- you'd be able to severely hinder Musk's initiatives, which would seem like good for certain business in the short term, but only delay America's entry into new businesses while providing an excellent window for other countries to take the lead in these future economic sectors (this from a non-American, so there...).
Careful with what you wish, because you may well get it. And later regret what you got.
The main problem he has with Tesla is that it's selling products to the public, so when he tweets something a lot of people take it as a promise or at least a reasonably reliable statement. Then when Tesla doesn't deliver for years they get upset.
Most companies have a PR department for that reason, and don't let the CEO tweet. Well, at least now Musk will have to have his tweets vetted so maybe it will get better.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
exposed Musk as, well, kind of a dick. But be honest: you'd probably be a dick too.
Ugh. That is the soft bigotry of low expectations - that everybody is equally awful. When you adopt that mindset you excuse the worst of us and diminish the best of us. Musk isn't any old plebe. He's a god damn multi-billionaire. It is not too much to expect that someone with such enormous power be a better person than the average joe.
In the end, he'll continue to be rich and we will continue to be a bunch of nobodies on slashdot.
Do I smell a little envy in all that hatred? I think I do.