The ebrake will NOT lock your wheels up as long as you have a bit more finesse than an angry gorilla. Press and hold the button in and lift the lever until you feel it begin to grab. Do not yank the lever up like an idiot.
Actually, I *HAVE* used the emergency brake in an emergency. I stepped on the brake pedal and nothing happened so I carefully used the emergency brake to come to a safe stop. It sure worked as an emergency brake for me.
For cars, it would need to be a regular location. Stake out a place of business for a few days, stick transmitter under a target vehicle. The next day, steal the car.
But it's still more trouble that other methods, so it isn't likely to happen.
I never claimed that he had no virtue. I just claim that significant amounts of luck are involved. There are a lot of hard working people with vision that you will never hear of because that luck didn't fall their way. That creates a HUGE selection bias.
I'm pretty sure they did not vote for any candidates that stated up front that they would, if elected, waste scads of money passing unconstitutional laws for their buddies and benefactors. They may even have been stuck with the choice of which corrupt politician they would elect.
Meanwhile they have already been penalized by having their tax dollars flushed while useful programs go underfunded.
Sure, it takes work to turn luck into success. But it also takes luck to turn work into success. The common factor in those people who have several successful ventures is that they had a big enough early success (or a rich enough parent) to get past the intervening failures.
But ity certainly does apply. Imagine for a moment that reality changes and Musk finds himself digging ditches in Somalia for a living. Suddenly he is just that bad worker who spends too much time dreaming and not enough time digging. His odds reaching a middle class existence from there are poor at best.
The world is full of people who simply didn't have luck on their side and didn't have the resources to try again (or even the first time).
Everything you just said applies as well to CEOs. All the steering and seduction in the world is useless if the product doesn't work (or exist).
At the end of the day, the CEO is just another cog in the machine. His abilities are needed, but so are the engineer's abilities. Practically nobody can do it all and nobody at all has enough hours in the day for that. Engineering without sales and marketing will go bankrupt. Sales and marketing without engineering and labor is fraud.
If the engineer decides the ship isn't going to move all the captain can do is shout about it.
Nobody is claiming Musk or Jobs aren't (weren't) good at what they do, just that what they do is not in a vacuum. Could Musk or Jobs accomplish anything at all without a small army of largely unsung talented engineers and an even larger army of unskilled and semi-skilled workers whose names you will never know? Would Apple be anything at all today if Woz had sucked at electronics design? There has never been much market for $2000 boxes that smoke when you plug them in.
That's just it, it's NOT much different than conventional compounding, so what's the big attraction? It will have the same regulatory problems, the same liabilities, etc. But it WILL cost more and add complexity, so there's that in it's "favor".
Same old story, pilot damages plane until it can't fly, jumps to safety with his golden parachute. Passengers and flight attendants left to go down with the plane.
And likewise, some people's real names SOUND like pseudonyms. They got the choice to either violate the policy or look like they were violating the policy.
It could be either agency really. In theory, the FTC can get involved in cases of false advertising (such as claiming to offer internet access when offering only a portion of the internet).
In reality though, they've been asleep at the switch for a long time, so probably it will have to be the FCC.
Agreed, A government phase-out of v4 would speed things along.
And just to top it off, if you didn't use your real name, they would kill ALL of your linked accounts, not just Google Plus. Given all the double talk leaving people unsure of what would be acceptable at various times, and no assurance at all it wouldn't get tightened up again, there was a significant risk to using Google+.
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That is not actually true. People do still sometimes experience sudden and total brake failure.
The ebrake will NOT lock your wheels up as long as you have a bit more finesse than an angry gorilla. Press and hold the button in and lift the lever until you feel it begin to grab. Do not yank the lever up like an idiot.
Actually, I *HAVE* used the emergency brake in an emergency. I stepped on the brake pedal and nothing happened so I carefully used the emergency brake to come to a safe stop. It sure worked as an emergency brake for me.
Now don't you feel dumb?
For cars, it would need to be a regular location. Stake out a place of business for a few days, stick transmitter under a target vehicle. The next day, steal the car.
But it's still more trouble that other methods, so it isn't likely to happen.
I never claimed that he had no virtue. I just claim that significant amounts of luck are involved. There are a lot of hard working people with vision that you will never hear of because that luck didn't fall their way. That creates a HUGE selection bias.
Then you should be fighting hard against any economic system that makes humans dig in order to survive.
I'm pretty sure they did not vote for any candidates that stated up front that they would, if elected, waste scads of money passing unconstitutional laws for their buddies and benefactors. They may even have been stuck with the choice of which corrupt politician they would elect.
Meanwhile they have already been penalized by having their tax dollars flushed while useful programs go underfunded.
Sure, it takes work to turn luck into success. But it also takes luck to turn work into success. The common factor in those people who have several successful ventures is that they had a big enough early success (or a rich enough parent) to get past the intervening failures.
But ity certainly does apply. Imagine for a moment that reality changes and Musk finds himself digging ditches in Somalia for a living. Suddenly he is just that bad worker who spends too much time dreaming and not enough time digging. His odds reaching a middle class existence from there are poor at best.
The world is full of people who simply didn't have luck on their side and didn't have the resources to try again (or even the first time).
By the same token, if you have a sales department but no labor and engineering, you are a Nigerian scam.
Everything you just said applies as well to CEOs. All the steering and seduction in the world is useless if the product doesn't work (or exist).
At the end of the day, the CEO is just another cog in the machine. His abilities are needed, but so are the engineer's abilities. Practically nobody can do it all and nobody at all has enough hours in the day for that. Engineering without sales and marketing will go bankrupt. Sales and marketing without engineering and labor is fraud.
If the engineer decides the ship isn't going to move all the captain can do is shout about it.
Nobody is claiming Musk or Jobs aren't (weren't) good at what they do, just that what they do is not in a vacuum. Could Musk or Jobs accomplish anything at all without a small army of largely unsung talented engineers and an even larger army of unskilled and semi-skilled workers whose names you will never know? Would Apple be anything at all today if Woz had sucked at electronics design? There has never been much market for $2000 boxes that smoke when you plug them in.
That's just it, it's NOT much different than conventional compounding, so what's the big attraction? It will have the same regulatory problems, the same liabilities, etc. But it WILL cost more and add complexity, so there's that in it's "favor".
Looks like you got lucky on that one.
Same old story, pilot damages plane until it can't fly, jumps to safety with his golden parachute. Passengers and flight attendants left to go down with the plane.
And likewise, some people's real names SOUND like pseudonyms. They got the choice to either violate the policy or look like they were violating the policy.
It could be either agency really. In theory, the FTC can get involved in cases of false advertising (such as claiming to offer internet access when offering only a portion of the internet).
In reality though, they've been asleep at the switch for a long time, so probably it will have to be the FCC.
Agreed, A government phase-out of v4 would speed things along.
And just to top it off, if you didn't use your real name, they would kill ALL of your linked accounts, not just Google Plus. Given all the double talk leaving people unsure of what would be acceptable at various times, and no assurance at all it wouldn't get tightened up again, there was a significant risk to using Google+.
Many flash chips already have that but too many firmwares don't use it.
Better yet, jumper the write enable line and default it to off.
Sadly true, it's not a surprise.
Because they have reaped more benefit than I have.
That's like saying some poor slob making minimum wage is just as free to buy a 40 ft. yacht as Bill Gates.
That's probably because they get the vast majority of income in this country.
That is exactly what was intended. The other auto makers are free to produce zero emission vehicles and sell credits too.