I don't know, Tesla currently has over 11 billion dollars in preorders (325,000 model 3 pre-orders x $34,000 adjusted list price), it seems like that's more solid than most companies' projections of future earnings.
When you're looking ahead, you often think of a bright positive future. You think of ways in which technology can make lives better.
It's when we're 'there,' when we're in the future, that we can look back and see the impact. It's a lot easier to analyze failure that has already happened than it is to anticipate the strange ways in which people work.
not sure how some anonymous comment proved anything, much less how an entire half of the population thinks
It just proves how some idiot needs to bring Trump into EVERY conversation. I can open up five random articles on Slashdot, political, technological, or entertainment related and find plenty of Trump-fights.
To be fair, the Russians had been allies with the NAZIs before they were enemies. They took the biggest beating in WWII because they _deserved it_.
To be fair, the Nazis had a lot of sympathizers in the USA as well, and it wasn't until around 1940 with the fall of France that popular support for them waned. While the horrors of the concentration camps and the ovens were not known of outside of Germany until the War, the Eugenics movement was quite popular in America in the early 20th Century. The America First Committee which demanded non-intervention in Europe was quite popular and excoriated FDR for trying to push the US into war with Germany (though they didn't care so much whether the US went to war with Japan). When the Japanese attacked the US at Pearl Harbor and the US and Japan were at war, Germany was required to declare war due to the Tripartite Pact, which stipulated that any country at war with one Axis power was at war with all three. It's possible (but maybe not that likely, but still possible) that if the Tripartite Pact hasn't forced Germany to declare war on the US that they might have remained neutral with each other, and the US would have contented itself with just the war against Japan.
Syria is the example of what the global future looks like, where a government decides to give the middle finger to its citizens and easily hold power no matter how many revolutionaries are attacking.
I would not say Syria is that typical, given that the rebels made a number of gains before the Russians came in and bombed the hell out of them and their cities in a Total War.
Food is fairly inexpensive, you typically see all kinds of poor people who suffer from obesity.
That's because "food" is cheap, but "healthy food," can be quite expensive. Many of the hispanics who pick produce suffer from diabetes because while unhealthy beans and rice are cheap and plentiful, on their subsistence (or worse) wages, they can't afford the very vegetables and fruit that they harvest.
she now lives in a certain city area code. when she calls 911 on her cell phone, and the cell phone location shows she is 50 miles away, they should suspect it's a fake call.
Is this still the case when you use a TTY relay for the hearing impaired, as happened with the call that sent the SWAT to Kreb's?
Another thing is that, "in the vulgar/common language of English speakers", you call it "Australian Continent", which is WRONG (main island is in one continental platform and some of its islands are in others).
Australia is both a continent and a country, and each of those contexts refers to slightly different sets of land-masses. A country can be spread out over multiple continents, like Denmark (+Greenland) and the U.K. (Great Britiain + various territories such as the B.V.I.), and a continent can be spread over multiple tectonic plates.
People who are charged with uploading songs, movies, and academic journals to the internet (with no financial gain to themselves) are threatened with decades of prison time and absurd financial penalties.
People are "threatened" all the time with ridiculous penalties for all sorts of crimes, it's what happens to "cut a deal" so they can avoid the expense and bother of a trial, but I've yet to hear of the person actually serving a 30-year sentence for just sharing some songs on the Internet.
Try telling that to the family of somebody killed in a riot.
I'd tell the family that I as sorry for their loss, but if they pressed the issue, they would have to be told that removing basic constitutional protections cannot be justified by such a situation. The 'grieving family' has been the tool to justify a number of bad/harsh laws. It's on the same level as "think of the children."
A phone call of "oh there's a hostage at 123 Apple Lane, Anywhere, USA" is not a terribly credible report, especially if the phone call did not come from the area code of the city involved.
but anti-zionist is generally a cover for being anti-Jewish. After all, just about everybody else has a "homeland".
Because they kicked someone else off their land to get a homeland, and each week they're kicking more people off their land to expand their "homeland."
Claiming a homeland is great if you can find land that isn't used, or the residents want to give it to you. And no, it doesn't matter if your ancestors had that land at some point. That doesn't matter one fucking bit, and gives you zero, absolutely zero claim to the land. Which is why Israel is quickly becoming the "rightful" owner of its 70-year old lands.
The new anti-Jew sentiment is called anti-Israel so they can claim they are still for freedom or religion and not racist
No. That is bullshit. The friends of Israel like the ADL have been trying for years and years to conflate criticism of Israel with criticism of Jews, so if you criticize Israel's political positions and actions, then you are guilty of antisemitism. That is nonsense. I can be perfectly fine with Jews while disliking settlements displacing Palestinians, land grabs, and the like.
Didn't we all spend the last 20 years heaping scorn on the 24/7 cable news circus?
Cable news is terrible, yes, but they are small players in the media. They're small players compared to the major network nightly news. Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, all enormous wastes of time.
That doesn't match with the president's strong support for Israel, although it does fit your personal narrative, presumably that old white male = evil.
Steve Bannon is anti-semitic, which is why he supports Israel so strongly. The Alt-Right was founded on the notion of the USA being a white ethnostate, so job one is encouraging the Jews to emmigrate to Israel.
video of them calling me racist when I pointed it out.
Convinced me to NEVER vote DNC for the rest of my life because of that.
So when you called out your local officials for the bike lane, they said you were racist for asking them (the local officials) why they weren't spending money more wisely?
What about it? It was pretty far down on the list. Not in the "under 5%" for the states with the fewest infrastructure problems, but not in the "over 9%" group of states with the most problems.
So, SuperKendall, why do you think all of those people would say things like that if Trump never promised to bring back the coal industry?
What I've noticed with Trump is that people hear what they want to hear, and they react appropriately.
But the other thing I've noticed is that Trump very often lies about a problem and/or its severity, but he can be surprisingly truthful about what he plans to do to solve that problem based on a lie.
So coal jobs declined most due to the glut of natural gas, so it doesn't make any financial sense to have coal miners work their asses off. But who knows, he might do what he says and try to push it through anyway.
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I don't know, Tesla currently has over 11 billion dollars in preorders (325,000 model 3 pre-orders x $34,000 adjusted list price), it seems like that's more solid than most companies' projections of future earnings.
When you're looking ahead, you often think of a bright positive future. You think of ways in which technology can make lives better.
It's when we're 'there,' when we're in the future, that we can look back and see the impact. It's a lot easier to analyze failure that has already happened than it is to anticipate the strange ways in which people work.
not sure how some anonymous comment proved anything, much less how an entire half of the population thinks
It just proves how some idiot needs to bring Trump into EVERY conversation. I can open up five random articles on Slashdot, political, technological, or entertainment related and find plenty of Trump-fights.
Now we get to play No True Libertarian
No True Scotsman was always a bullshit argument anyway; no one can figure out how to play it properly.
To be fair, the Russians had been allies with the NAZIs before they were enemies. They took the biggest beating in WWII because they _deserved it_.
To be fair, the Nazis had a lot of sympathizers in the USA as well, and it wasn't until around 1940 with the fall of France that popular support for them waned. While the horrors of the concentration camps and the ovens were not known of outside of Germany until the War, the Eugenics movement was quite popular in America in the early 20th Century. The America First Committee which demanded non-intervention in Europe was quite popular and excoriated FDR for trying to push the US into war with Germany (though they didn't care so much whether the US went to war with Japan). When the Japanese attacked the US at Pearl Harbor and the US and Japan were at war, Germany was required to declare war due to the Tripartite Pact, which stipulated that any country at war with one Axis power was at war with all three. It's possible (but maybe not that likely, but still possible) that if the Tripartite Pact hasn't forced Germany to declare war on the US that they might have remained neutral with each other, and the US would have contented itself with just the war against Japan.
Syria is the example of what the global future looks like, where a government decides to give the middle finger to its citizens and easily hold power no matter how many revolutionaries are attacking.
I would not say Syria is that typical, given that the rebels made a number of gains before the Russians came in and bombed the hell out of them and their cities in a Total War.
Food is fairly inexpensive, you typically see all kinds of poor people who suffer from obesity.
That's because "food" is cheap, but "healthy food," can be quite expensive. Many of the hispanics who pick produce suffer from diabetes because while unhealthy beans and rice are cheap and plentiful, on their subsistence (or worse) wages, they can't afford the very vegetables and fruit that they harvest.
What a well-spoken AC! But...
she now lives in a certain city area code. when she calls 911 on her cell phone, and the cell phone location shows she is 50 miles away, they should suspect it's a fake call.
Is this still the case when you use a TTY relay for the hearing impaired, as happened with the call that sent the SWAT to Kreb's?
There is nothing immoral about drinking, nothing. Even the fictional character, Jesus, drank. His #1 miracle was turning water into good wine.
I would think most Christians would put the "come back from the dead, sins forgiven" to be higher-placed miracles.
B).That isn't artificial gravity.
It's "artificial gravity" because it's not a real gravitational force but instead mimics it.
Let's have an article about the horse and buggy industry next.
So is quality journalism the horse and buggy industry now? I cannot think of a more depressing news story.
Another thing is that, "in the vulgar/common language of English speakers", you call it "Australian Continent", which is WRONG (main island is in one continental platform and some of its islands are in others).
Australia is both a continent and a country, and each of those contexts refers to slightly different sets of land-masses. A country can be spread out over multiple continents, like Denmark (+Greenland) and the U.K. (Great Britiain + various territories such as the B.V.I.), and a continent can be spread over multiple tectonic plates.
So he was guilty of harboring Katniss Everdeen? Then again, that's the sort of response that happened in that story as well.
People who are charged with uploading songs, movies, and academic journals to the internet (with no financial gain to themselves) are threatened with decades of prison time and absurd financial penalties.
People are "threatened" all the time with ridiculous penalties for all sorts of crimes, it's what happens to "cut a deal" so they can avoid the expense and bother of a trial, but I've yet to hear of the person actually serving a 30-year sentence for just sharing some songs on the Internet.
Try telling that to the family of somebody killed in a riot.
I'd tell the family that I as sorry for their loss, but if they pressed the issue, they would have to be told that removing basic constitutional protections cannot be justified by such a situation. The 'grieving family' has been the tool to justify a number of bad/harsh laws. It's on the same level as "think of the children."
A phone call of "oh there's a hostage at 123 Apple Lane, Anywhere, USA" is not a terribly credible report, especially if the phone call did not come from the area code of the city involved.
The best I've had that I could consider "fast food" is Chipotle, which is genuinely good.
but anti-zionist is generally a cover for being anti-Jewish. After all, just about everybody else has a "homeland".
Because they kicked someone else off their land to get a homeland, and each week they're kicking more people off their land to expand their "homeland."
Claiming a homeland is great if you can find land that isn't used, or the residents want to give it to you. And no, it doesn't matter if your ancestors had that land at some point. That doesn't matter one fucking bit, and gives you zero, absolutely zero claim to the land. Which is why Israel is quickly becoming the "rightful" owner of its 70-year old lands.
The new anti-Jew sentiment is called anti-Israel so they can claim they are still for freedom or religion and not racist
No. That is bullshit. The friends of Israel like the ADL have been trying for years and years to conflate criticism of Israel with criticism of Jews, so if you criticize Israel's political positions and actions, then you are guilty of antisemitism. That is nonsense. I can be perfectly fine with Jews while disliking settlements displacing Palestinians, land grabs, and the like.
Didn't we all spend the last 20 years heaping scorn on the 24/7 cable news circus?
Cable news is terrible, yes, but they are small players in the media. They're small players compared to the major network nightly news. Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, all enormous wastes of time.
That doesn't match with the president's strong support for Israel, although it does fit your personal narrative, presumably that old white male = evil.
Steve Bannon is anti-semitic, which is why he supports Israel so strongly.
The Alt-Right was founded on the notion of the USA being a white ethnostate, so job one is encouraging the Jews to emmigrate to Israel.
What's a bike land?
Bunch of half-pipes to do tricks on.
video of them calling me racist when I pointed it out.
Convinced me to NEVER vote DNC for the rest of my life because of that.
So when you called out your local officials for the bike lane, they said you were racist for asking them (the local officials) why they weren't spending money more wisely?
That may be true, but how about California?
What about it? It was pretty far down on the list. Not in the "under 5%" for the states with the fewest infrastructure problems, but not in the "over 9%" group of states with the most problems.
So, SuperKendall, why do you think all of those people would say things like that if Trump never promised to bring back the coal industry?
What I've noticed with Trump is that people hear what they want to hear, and they react appropriately.
But the other thing I've noticed is that Trump very often lies about a problem and/or its severity, but he can be surprisingly truthful about what he plans to do to solve that problem based on a lie.
So coal jobs declined most due to the glut of natural gas, so it doesn't make any financial sense to have coal miners work their asses off. But who knows, he might do what he says and try to push it through anyway.