I'm pretty sure a 3TB portable drive already makes 'accumulating a large digital cinem.....fuck it's an easy place to store all my movies.
Why hollywood insists on complicating this (in name AND practice) is beyond me...other than the usual "for profits and evil" of course.
And if you want to get fancy, there's plenty of solutions out there to convert/stream on your own. Some of them are easier than trying to figure out the necessary apps for 17 difference services across your 4 or 5 different devices. And logins for it all. And finding what you want between them all.
No one can send friend requests, that's the setting you want them to change? That's why people join Facebook in the first place. If everyone does this, the site doesn't function.
The original complaint is 'people are finding me on social media' with the addendum of 'it's not the people I personally want because of a very specific set of parameters'
If you don't want to be found on social media, you shouldn't be on there. If you're an exception case due to your profession then maybe you should educate YOURSELF regarding your needs before joining.
I don't understand people who expect everything they do should be exactly appropriate for their specific and uncommon situation.
Ok, so only one of my examples requires the 'professional' FB account.
It doesn't have to be HER either. It can be ANYONE with information linking both accounts storing or sharing that info into somewhere that FB has links. Somehow I doubt both lives are completely separate. Sex workers are typically not experts on data mining and online privacy management.
It's trivial to 'fix' this 'problem' and the whole article is an attention grab or just idiocy by the 'victim'.
“People can always control who can send them friend requests by visiting their account settings,” said the spokesperson. “If they select ‘no one,’ they won’t appear in others’ People You May Know.”
Derp. So if it's such a bit worry maybe they should just check the help area, google, or RTFA written about their 'victimhood'. SMH.
That FB magically accessed other applications on her iPhone and hacked her life
vs.
She's actually not as smart as she thinks and DOES have common links.
That friend you met 'professionally' that then became a 'real friend' and got your other number? Oh, they share their contact info with FB for finding friends and now FB has both your numbers as one person. Done. You have pictures up of your face on both profiles? Facial recognition. Done. You accidentally add a client to the wrong phone, even briefly? Done. Your friend knows your professional name and also puts that in your contact? Done. You tell your bestie on FB Messenger about your work/work name/client/etc from your real profile? Done.
I don't doubt there's a fair level of data sharing, often with advertisers in-between, for the major players like google, amazon, and FB. People are just naive in thinking that the data they put online exists in a vacuum and never gets correlated with other data. Hell, is your recovery email your other email address? Yeah google knows all about your multiple persona's...
SpaceX is already significantly cheaper than the competition and they continue to push the price downwards. They haven't passed on the 'full' savings of reusing rockets because they themselves haven't realized it. Yet. They're still being somewhat cautious before they re-certify a rocket so they're still a ways off from launch-land-refuel-launch (and TBH if you have a half dozen rockets 'in stock' there's little need for that).
The near term includes use of the Falcon Heavy instead of using the Falcon 9 at max weight (non-return launch) which will show similar savings for heavier launches.
As a fully mature platform, SpaceX could probably get the launch costs for the F9 to about $10M/launch.
No no no no...they were holding them wrong. Their fault.
Also, Kindles aren't the pervasive always-on-you device that phones are (much to Amazon's dismay) so it's somewhat less critical.
Handy, but I've never really worried about my iPad not being waterproof and I DO have it with me a large portion of the time. It just doesn't fit the use case of needing it much for me. Plus it's harder to drop an iPad in the toilet.
Yes, Hillary would have been better without doubt.
Yup, you keep feeding off those 'unbiased' media reports there and preaching about freedom and rights while telling others their opinions are hate speech crimes that should be prosecuted.
You don't have to be a fan of Trump to see the stupidity surrounding the rabid Hillary supporters.
Forget the back door...the government has quite literally millions of people walking through 1000's upon 1000's of doors.
The CIA can't keep their own hacking tools away from hackers.
The military can't keep it's secret and illegal wiretapping, etc. out of the limelight.
The police can't keep quiet about illegally tracking cell phones.
An (private!!!) agency allowed to actively collect and track PII for the entire country (and several others) without the direct consent of any individual couldn't prevent their entire records database from being copied and published...
And so on... Does anyone really think "the government" will be able to somehow keep their (required, pervasive, and permanent) encryption back-door safe somehow? Now, if it was only used in the utmost dire situations on presidential order (i.e. nuclear football) then maybe so. But if anyone thinks this would quickly become a rubber-stamp-approval for any LEO, anywhere, any time they want to access something...they're idiots.
Because the "DO SOMETHING" movement of the ~2000's brought on lots of changes. Politicians couldn't just stand by and do nothing when Bad Things happened so they called their buddies and figured out ways to make money off not fixing anything.
And of course there's plenty of examples how Doing Something actually made things worse. 'Protecting our freedom' usually translates directly into impinging upon it in the form of invasive and pervasive searches, warrant-less phone tracking and recording, restricting speech and demonstrations, and a whole plethora of laws chipping away at what otherwise are supposed to be our guaranteed rights.
I mean...you're talking about a country that can't even provide universal healthcare... so instead passes laws *requiring* it. This, of course, instead of addressing the actual problem which is the COST of said healthcare. So much for freedom.
I also wish the same would be applied more broadly to other industries. Like the TSA...but too many companies have too much interest in selling you $4 bottles of water in the airport and The Next Thing in naked-scanning machines.
It's the same logic that drives people to buy the protection plans for their cell phones. Overall, it's better to save that money and put it towards repair/replacement...but people like the "protection" and anyone can point out "BUT OMG MY FRIEND BROKE THEIR PHONE THE FIRST DAY THEY HAD IT" as a (irrelevant) counterpoint.
A few people are going to get hurt no matter what happens. Instead of taking ridiculous measures to "prevent" that, society should look at actually taking care of it's members. And as for all the claims about the US and murder rates and all...completely ignore the countries in perpetual states of civil 'war'... where people routinely murder each other but the stats are conveniently ignoble since it's 'war'
This is nothing new by any stretch and applies to many platforms.
I remember back in college the computers were all linux terminals. Someone scripted a shell within their shell that let others log in. Equal to running a VM within a VM...and a handy keylogger in the middle.
And...it looked just like every other terminal. You could log in, do your thing, log out. It was slow as crap but...the whole computer system at the time was crap so no one suspected anything. He was eventually caught and expelled, but only after he used the credentials he collected for some nefarious (and hilarious) purposes.
Many spare parts would just be fabbed on-site. 3D printing (and the next gen of multi-material micro/nano-scale assembly) is robust enough to cover a lot and related cutting/milling/grinding/shaping/finishing equipment is ripe for a generational improvement and consolidation. It's probably one of the most important techs that will come out of a mars colony project and key to short term survival.
But for all that you need feed stock. Raw iron, steel, gold, carbon, and so on. Sourcing those locally is the second major challenge and key to medium-long term survival.
NASA has 'access' to far more money. NASA also doesn't have to EARN that money - it's given to them. Now, they DO have to document everything in triplicate and form a committee on a regular basis to discuss if they need more committees or more paperwork or both and then put all the suggestions into practice to test which is the most efficient and then have a round of committees discuss further...and hopefully at that point they will be able to order lunch.
SpaceX is a for-profit company. They don't get free money handed to them to go out and do something. Even when they partner with the government, NASA, etc. and get federal money it's in return for access to the tech they're developing.
I do agree that NASA has not been funded the way it could be BUT we're better off that way. NASA is a dinosaur and so mired in paperwork and oversight that they are hugely inefficient to the point that they need to be put out to pasture. SpaceX is doing what NASA never could (functionally reusable launch platform) and the reason is not complex: NASA is forced to make large compromises for political reasons in order to obtain the needed approvals to get it's funding. An example: The Space Shuttle SRBs are made from multiple joined segments sealed with giant o-rings (sidebar: challenger explosion) because the factory given the contract to make them (and thus that state's senator agreeing to sign the funding bill) was much too far away to ship a single-piece SRB. So instead of selecting a company to build them near enough to the launch platform that they could be transported, a major design compromise was created which ultimately allowed for the challenger accident to happen.
SpaceX has far fewer limitations. They have to kiss some ass to get launch permits and other things but nowhere near the level of BS that NASA deals with. I don't blame NASA though - I blame all the self-centered politicians and their constituents who destroyed NASA decades ago.
In the US (well, New York as every state is idiotically different in their traffic laws), they meet the definition of a motorcycle. 2 or 3 wheels is a motorcycle. 4+ is a car (or truck or etc.)
With that said, I see no reason why one accident with a 3-wheel vehicle in a highly monitored competition would cause them to be more restrictive than normal traffic laws.
Weight only matters for acceleration (and deceleration) and has very little impact on steady speed energy requirements. There's a minor consideration around increased rolling resistance due to weight but that can be addressed by minor changes to the wheels.
In addition, if the cars are allowed batteries at all, then you recoup much of your energy if you have to slow down (car 'analogy': this is why hybrids get so much better fuel mileage in stop-and-go driving). So that further negates any weight penalties. Yes, you build for as light as practical as it does have some bonus and this *is* a competition after all...but it's minor.
Greatly increased solar cell efficiency, advances in electric motors and the drive circuitry, as well as continued refinement if aerodynamics (which becomes increasingly important as speeds exceed 100km/h) are what's making these cars so much better.
Most companies to not intend for people to buy their drugs out of pocket and have rebates/coupons/etc. to greatly lower the cost for those who do.
Same thing with the stupid epi pen. The OOP cost is something no individual should ever actually pay. They charge that so insurance companies and institutions fork over big bucks and then they have tons of discounts for individuals. Granted it's still a scam but let's look at the reality, not what insurance companies pay on your behalf.
It does amaze me that they don't blink at $10,000's in meds but then don't approve tests and proceedures that would fix problems:)
Getting fuel during widespread power outages has been proven problematic...or nearly impossible more accurately. Power tends to come back well before the supply chain replenishes itself and fuel is readily available. Hence EVs will be refueling before ICE cars.(why more people don't get a simple diesel generator and use their heating oil to run it is beyond me)
An EV like the Model S can handily sleep two people in climate controlled comfort (google tesla camping) for a bit under 10% of the battery per night. Not so bad if it's hot/cold out and your house has been wrecked/flooded/etc. and your other option is sleeping on a gym floor in a shelter for a week.
An EV drive train is far more durable if SHTF and facilities aren't available for an extended period.
Oh, and you can generally use the EV battery in reverse to power your critical appliances, etc. A 100kwh battery will easily meet your power needs for a week or more under emergency conditions.
Over half of American households have two or more cars. Electric cars are an ideal second vehicle, used exclusively for commuting or running errands. This is a huge market opportunity and completely moots your points. Two car families can always fall back on their ICE car in the short term. In the long term, the problems you cite will likely be resolved by improved battery and charging technology.
You realize commuting and running errands comprise the large majority of miles put on a car, right? Most people average about 30 miles a day which is well within the range of any EV. Electric cars are the ideal PRIMARY vehicle.
And for long trips beyond battery range (which are infrequent for most people) from home there's the supercharger network. Not perfectly convenient, but free 'gas' for your road trip isn't the worst thing in the world.
If you're like my friend who drives between RI, PA and NY most weekends then sure, there's some advantages to the range and 'recharge' time of an ICE...however given what she spends on GAS in a month I'd bet she would jump on an EV and superchargers given the option.
The reusable boosters are still experimental at best. Yes, they did manage to reuse a couple of them once before retiring them. I'm still not convinced.
It's also not clear the Tesla will succeed as a car manufacturer. GM is beating them on every front.
So they're experimental "at best" yet you freely admit they're actively using them. That directly counters your claim. Frankly, no one cares if you're convinced. The fact of the matter is SpaceX is actively, successfully launching re-usable rockets when no one else is or has before. (I don't count the space shuttle as it was essentially rebuilt between every launch)
It's not clear that Tesla will succeed any more than it's clear GM will succeed. Hell, one of them has been nearly out of business on more than one occasion and had to take huge subsidized loans to avoid going belly up while still cutting several of their brands to save costs. One of the two has proven itself continuously innovative over the last decade and continues to grow at an astonishing rate.
Alas, you need to make all that activity sustainable and profitable to have any future. Musk has burned through absolutely eye watering and unprecedented amounts of cash, but that's about it. His exceptionally creative accountancy doesn't inspire confidence either.
You're kidding, right?
Musk has done what literally no one has ever done before (build a functional and profitable private space launch aka rocket ship company from scratch using private funds) and what hasn't been done in at least 50 years (start a new, functional car company).
And you can throw in the other minor things he's done around solar, power vault, superchargers as well as upcoming tech like hyperloop, advanced tunnel boring, and so on.
He is exceptionally accountable but in very much the opposite way you claim. Someone who is literally doing with private funds and for-profit what NASA could not do with $billions in 'free' government funding and decades of time without any expectation or requirement of profit...instills a HUGE amount of confidence. Get over it. Or don't I guess...but once you're proven wrong here you'll pick the next 'can't do it' thing to point out until that too is done.
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Oh come on! It's not like any kind of media storage/DRM/C&C platform EVER went out of business and locked their customers out of the content.
Right? Oh...right.
I'm pretty sure a 3TB portable drive already makes 'accumulating a large digital cinem.....fuck it's an easy place to store all my movies.
Why hollywood insists on complicating this (in name AND practice) is beyond me...other than the usual "for profits and evil" of course.
And if you want to get fancy, there's plenty of solutions out there to convert/stream on your own. Some of them are easier than trying to figure out the necessary apps for 17 difference services across your 4 or 5 different devices. And logins for it all. And finding what you want between them all.
No one can send friend requests, that's the setting you want them to change? That's why people join Facebook in the first place. If everyone does this, the site doesn't function.
The original complaint is 'people are finding me on social media' with the addendum of 'it's not the people I personally want because of a very specific set of parameters'
If you don't want to be found on social media, you shouldn't be on there. If you're an exception case due to your profession then maybe you should educate YOURSELF regarding your needs before joining.
I don't understand people who expect everything they do should be exactly appropriate for their specific and uncommon situation.
Ok, so only one of my examples requires the 'professional' FB account.
It doesn't have to be HER either. It can be ANYONE with information linking both accounts storing or sharing that info into somewhere that FB has links. Somehow I doubt both lives are completely separate. Sex workers are typically not experts on data mining and online privacy management.
What would I do on a Friday night then?
It's trivial to 'fix' this 'problem' and the whole article is an attention grab or just idiocy by the 'victim'.
“People can always control who can send them friend requests by visiting their account settings,” said the spokesperson. “If they select ‘no one,’ they won’t appear in others’ People You May Know.”
Derp. So if it's such a bit worry maybe they should just check the help area, google, or RTFA written about their 'victimhood'. SMH.
That FB magically accessed other applications on her iPhone and hacked her life
vs.
She's actually not as smart as she thinks and DOES have common links.
That friend you met 'professionally' that then became a 'real friend' and got your other number? Oh, they share their contact info with FB for finding friends and now FB has both your numbers as one person. Done. You have pictures up of your face on both profiles? Facial recognition. Done. You accidentally add a client to the wrong phone, even briefly? Done. Your friend knows your professional name and also puts that in your contact? Done. You tell your bestie on FB Messenger about your work/work name/client/etc from your real profile? Done.
I don't doubt there's a fair level of data sharing, often with advertisers in-between, for the major players like google, amazon, and FB. People are just naive in thinking that the data they put online exists in a vacuum and never gets correlated with other data. Hell, is your recovery email your other email address? Yeah google knows all about your multiple persona's ...
They are.
SpaceX is already significantly cheaper than the competition and they continue to push the price downwards. They haven't passed on the 'full' savings of reusing rockets because they themselves haven't realized it. Yet. They're still being somewhat cautious before they re-certify a rocket so they're still a ways off from launch-land-refuel-launch (and TBH if you have a half dozen rockets 'in stock' there's little need for that).
The near term includes use of the Falcon Heavy instead of using the Falcon 9 at max weight (non-return launch) which will show similar savings for heavier launches.
As a fully mature platform, SpaceX could probably get the launch costs for the F9 to about $10M/launch.
Hmm...now that you mention it, I had a Kindle DX and can't for the life of me remember what I did with it. Probably buried somewhere in storage.
No no no no...they were holding them wrong. Their fault.
Also, Kindles aren't the pervasive always-on-you device that phones are (much to Amazon's dismay) so it's somewhat less critical.
Handy, but I've never really worried about my iPad not being waterproof and I DO have it with me a large portion of the time. It just doesn't fit the use case of needing it much for me. Plus it's harder to drop an iPad in the toilet.
Because Killary would have been so much better...
Yes, Hillary would have been better without doubt.
Yup, you keep feeding off those 'unbiased' media reports there and preaching about freedom and rights while telling others their opinions are hate speech crimes that should be prosecuted.
You don't have to be a fan of Trump to see the stupidity surrounding the rabid Hillary supporters.
Forget the back door...the government has quite literally millions of people walking through 1000's upon 1000's of doors.
The CIA can't keep their own hacking tools away from hackers.
The military can't keep it's secret and illegal wiretapping, etc. out of the limelight.
The police can't keep quiet about illegally tracking cell phones.
An (private!!!) agency allowed to actively collect and track PII for the entire country (and several others) without the direct consent of any individual couldn't prevent their entire records database from being copied and published...
And so on... Does anyone really think "the government" will be able to somehow keep their (required, pervasive, and permanent) encryption back-door safe somehow? Now, if it was only used in the utmost dire situations on presidential order (i.e. nuclear football) then maybe so. But if anyone thinks this would quickly become a rubber-stamp-approval for any LEO, anywhere, any time they want to access something...they're idiots.
Because the "DO SOMETHING" movement of the ~2000's brought on lots of changes. Politicians couldn't just stand by and do nothing when Bad Things happened so they called their buddies and figured out ways to make money off not fixing anything.
And of course there's plenty of examples how Doing Something actually made things worse. 'Protecting our freedom' usually translates directly into impinging upon it in the form of invasive and pervasive searches, warrant-less phone tracking and recording, restricting speech and demonstrations, and a whole plethora of laws chipping away at what otherwise are supposed to be our guaranteed rights.
I mean...you're talking about a country that can't even provide universal healthcare ... so instead passes laws *requiring* it. This, of course, instead of addressing the actual problem which is the COST of said healthcare. So much for freedom.
Agreed.
I also wish the same would be applied more broadly to other industries. Like the TSA...but too many companies have too much interest in selling you $4 bottles of water in the airport and The Next Thing in naked-scanning machines.
It's the same logic that drives people to buy the protection plans for their cell phones. Overall, it's better to save that money and put it towards repair/replacement...but people like the "protection" and anyone can point out "BUT OMG MY FRIEND BROKE THEIR PHONE THE FIRST DAY THEY HAD IT" as a (irrelevant) counterpoint.
A few people are going to get hurt no matter what happens. Instead of taking ridiculous measures to "prevent" that, society should look at actually taking care of it's members. And as for all the claims about the US and murder rates and all...completely ignore the countries in perpetual states of civil 'war' ... where people routinely murder each other but the stats are conveniently ignoble since it's 'war'
This is nothing new by any stretch and applies to many platforms.
I remember back in college the computers were all linux terminals. Someone scripted a shell within their shell that let others log in. Equal to running a VM within a VM...and a handy keylogger in the middle.
And...it looked just like every other terminal. You could log in, do your thing, log out. It was slow as crap but...the whole computer system at the time was crap so no one suspected anything. He was eventually caught and expelled, but only after he used the credentials he collected for some nefarious (and hilarious) purposes.
Many spare parts would just be fabbed on-site. 3D printing (and the next gen of multi-material micro/nano-scale assembly) is robust enough to cover a lot and related cutting/milling/grinding/shaping/finishing equipment is ripe for a generational improvement and consolidation. It's probably one of the most important techs that will come out of a mars colony project and key to short term survival.
But for all that you need feed stock. Raw iron, steel, gold, carbon, and so on. Sourcing those locally is the second major challenge and key to medium-long term survival.
NASA has 'access' to far more money. NASA also doesn't have to EARN that money - it's given to them. Now, they DO have to document everything in triplicate and form a committee on a regular basis to discuss if they need more committees or more paperwork or both and then put all the suggestions into practice to test which is the most efficient and then have a round of committees discuss further...and hopefully at that point they will be able to order lunch.
SpaceX is a for-profit company. They don't get free money handed to them to go out and do something. Even when they partner with the government, NASA, etc. and get federal money it's in return for access to the tech they're developing.
I do agree that NASA has not been funded the way it could be BUT we're better off that way. NASA is a dinosaur and so mired in paperwork and oversight that they are hugely inefficient to the point that they need to be put out to pasture. SpaceX is doing what NASA never could (functionally reusable launch platform) and the reason is not complex: NASA is forced to make large compromises for political reasons in order to obtain the needed approvals to get it's funding. An example: The Space Shuttle SRBs are made from multiple joined segments sealed with giant o-rings (sidebar: challenger explosion) because the factory given the contract to make them (and thus that state's senator agreeing to sign the funding bill) was much too far away to ship a single-piece SRB. So instead of selecting a company to build them near enough to the launch platform that they could be transported, a major design compromise was created which ultimately allowed for the challenger accident to happen.
SpaceX has far fewer limitations. They have to kiss some ass to get launch permits and other things but nowhere near the level of BS that NASA deals with. I don't blame NASA though - I blame all the self-centered politicians and their constituents who destroyed NASA decades ago.
In the US (well, New York as every state is idiotically different in their traffic laws), they meet the definition of a motorcycle. 2 or 3 wheels is a motorcycle. 4+ is a car (or truck or etc.)
With that said, I see no reason why one accident with a 3-wheel vehicle in a highly monitored competition would cause them to be more restrictive than normal traffic laws.
Weight only matters for acceleration (and deceleration) and has very little impact on steady speed energy requirements. There's a minor consideration around increased rolling resistance due to weight but that can be addressed by minor changes to the wheels.
In addition, if the cars are allowed batteries at all, then you recoup much of your energy if you have to slow down (car 'analogy': this is why hybrids get so much better fuel mileage in stop-and-go driving). So that further negates any weight penalties. Yes, you build for as light as practical as it does have some bonus and this *is* a competition after all...but it's minor.
Greatly increased solar cell efficiency, advances in electric motors and the drive circuitry, as well as continued refinement if aerodynamics (which becomes increasingly important as speeds exceed 100km/h) are what's making these cars so much better.
Most companies to not intend for people to buy their drugs out of pocket and have rebates/coupons/etc. to greatly lower the cost for those who do.
Same thing with the stupid epi pen. The OOP cost is something no individual should ever actually pay. They charge that so insurance companies and institutions fork over big bucks and then they have tons of discounts for individuals. Granted it's still a scam but let's look at the reality, not what insurance companies pay on your behalf.
It does amaze me that they don't blink at $10,000's in meds but then don't approve tests and proceedures that would fix problems :)
That would be disruptive, but not something amazon can do. It's illegal and amazon is WAY to big to fly under the radar.
*however*
They ARE big enough to work on forcing through legislation to permit it legally or using other loopholes to legally import those drugs en mass.
I'll add to that...
Getting fuel during widespread power outages has been proven problematic...or nearly impossible more accurately. Power tends to come back well before the supply chain replenishes itself and fuel is readily available. Hence EVs will be refueling before ICE cars.(why more people don't get a simple diesel generator and use their heating oil to run it is beyond me)
An EV like the Model S can handily sleep two people in climate controlled comfort (google tesla camping) for a bit under 10% of the battery per night. Not so bad if it's hot/cold out and your house has been wrecked/flooded/etc. and your other option is sleeping on a gym floor in a shelter for a week.
An EV drive train is far more durable if SHTF and facilities aren't available for an extended period.
Oh, and you can generally use the EV battery in reverse to power your critical appliances, etc. A 100kwh battery will easily meet your power needs for a week or more under emergency conditions.
Over half of American households have two or more cars. Electric cars are an ideal second vehicle, used exclusively for commuting or running errands. This is a huge market opportunity and completely moots your points. Two car families can always fall back on their ICE car in the short term. In the long term, the problems you cite will likely be resolved by improved battery and charging technology.
You realize commuting and running errands comprise the large majority of miles put on a car, right? Most people average about 30 miles a day which is well within the range of any EV. Electric cars are the ideal PRIMARY vehicle.
And for long trips beyond battery range (which are infrequent for most people) from home there's the supercharger network. Not perfectly convenient, but free 'gas' for your road trip isn't the worst thing in the world.
If you're like my friend who drives between RI, PA and NY most weekends then sure, there's some advantages to the range and 'recharge' time of an ICE...however given what she spends on GAS in a month I'd bet she would jump on an EV and superchargers given the option.
The reusable boosters are still experimental at best. Yes, they did manage to reuse a couple of them once before retiring them. I'm still not convinced.
It's also not clear the Tesla will succeed as a car manufacturer. GM is beating them on every front.
So they're experimental "at best" yet you freely admit they're actively using them. That directly counters your claim. Frankly, no one cares if you're convinced. The fact of the matter is SpaceX is actively, successfully launching re-usable rockets when no one else is or has before. (I don't count the space shuttle as it was essentially rebuilt between every launch)
It's not clear that Tesla will succeed any more than it's clear GM will succeed. Hell, one of them has been nearly out of business on more than one occasion and had to take huge subsidized loans to avoid going belly up while still cutting several of their brands to save costs. One of the two has proven itself continuously innovative over the last decade and continues to grow at an astonishing rate.
Alas, you need to make all that activity sustainable and profitable to have any future. Musk has burned through absolutely eye watering and unprecedented amounts of cash, but that's about it. His exceptionally creative accountancy doesn't inspire confidence either.
You're kidding, right?
Musk has done what literally no one has ever done before (build a functional and profitable private space launch aka rocket ship company from scratch using private funds) and what hasn't been done in at least 50 years (start a new, functional car company).
And you can throw in the other minor things he's done around solar, power vault, superchargers as well as upcoming tech like hyperloop, advanced tunnel boring, and so on.
He is exceptionally accountable but in very much the opposite way you claim. Someone who is literally doing with private funds and for-profit what NASA could not do with $billions in 'free' government funding and decades of time without any expectation or requirement of profit...instills a HUGE amount of confidence. Get over it. Or don't I guess...but once you're proven wrong here you'll pick the next 'can't do it' thing to point out until that too is done.