Musk's mistake was attempting any major project in Californiastan, full stop.
No, it was attempting the project in Bel Air specifically. That's where all of the wealthy attorneys live. It's also why other sections of the project haven't been stopped. They are in less expensive neighborhoods, where the residents can't afford the legal fight.
Oh no, Elon Musk is such a genius he can't do basic paperwork
One of the things Musk impresses me the most with, is his ability to cut through red tape. I've never seen projects clear bureaucratic hurdles with such speed.
Since the FTC is cracking down on social media ads not being clearly marked as such. I'd suspect Amazon will be contacted by them shortly. Even though Amazon did mark them as ads, I expect the FTC will be coming out with new rules specifying what "clearly marked" means.
A stable economy helps lead to a stable government. No guarentees of course; but coups and rebellions and the springing up of terrorist organisations and extremists are all usually linked to impoverished people and/or social inequality in a region.
Get a strong North African economy and you're more likely to see a stable government follow.
No doubt you are correct. However, the reverse is also true. It's a catch 22. Without some sort of major change in the economy, the government will not stabilize. Without a stable government, the economy will never improve.
Fighting government corruption is really the only improvement that can be made. Hopefully that will encourage some development and eventually stabilize the government.
You don't have to conquer Algeria to invest in solar power there. I think exporting solar power to Europe would be an excellent industry for North-African countries.
Commercial nuclear in France is a basket case, reliant on government support just to survive and keep the lights on. Too big to fail, continually writing off assets and downgrading valuations.
Model Y maybe. Semi and roadster are completely different animals. Very low production volumes and exotic parts. I doubt the semi would fit down one of those lines.
Roadster will likely be built by hand. The entire heavy trucking industry is only ~200k units annually in the US. Even if they command 50% of the market, we are only talking model S/X volumes.
You really want to get better ? Start with replacing 1/10 of the computers that do menial work with Linux + Libreoffice.
That is something for the IT consultant to work out with the customer. A small business isn't going to switch all of it's software without a consultant's help. The question is, how do you find a good consultant?
No, you're wrong and spewing the typical kind of bullshit useless people do.
The problem is the choice of operating system, not the consultant. Microsoft's windows 10 update ills cannot be fixed by any consultant.
Due to proprietary software, Windows is a requirement. A good IT consultant should work with the customer's needs. Blaming the customer is not a solution. I don't know how this got modded 5 insightful. It's very unprofessional.
Additionally, a consultant can and should work with the business to find a software solution that will work the best for that business. If the current software isn't working, the consultant should make recommendations for new software. The current consultant chose Windows 10.
If nothing else, even if they do really want to keep the contract, the company is wasting an opportunity not to re-negotiate the contract based on performance they have see. Either push for a lower price or some kind of performance targets they have to hit or face penalties.
Thought: Maybe this is not on the consultant, but the choice to use Windows for everything. But despite all that, lets move on to the main issue...
Due to the proprietary nature of the work, using Windows is a requirement. Everyone loves to blame Windows, but a professional consultant needs to work with the customer's requirements.
Are you sure about Empower? It looks like Empower Retirement is related to J.P. Morgan, but I can't find anything linking Empower Finance listed here with JP Morgan - it does actually look like a new startup to me.
I work in product development. To me, production implies sellable units. Lockheed is manufacturing a prototype. Big difference. Call it manufacturing, developing, fabricating, but don't call it production. This thing may never see true production.
If the public were to get a system up and running that tracked Law Enforcement vehicles and distributed this information to anyone who wanted to see it in real time, they would pitch an absolute fit about it.
It was nice of Russia to make the exercises more realistic.
It wasn't nice. Most NATO conflicts have been against adversaries with limited capabilities. e.g. no GPS jamming. The Russians haven't been able to gather intelligence on how NATO operates against more advanced adversaries. Jamming the GPS signal allowed the Russians to gather intel on tactics used by NATO in the absence of GPS.
I'm having flashbacks to my college materials science class lecture about the various alloys of zirconium. It was so dull. The professor was droning on and on. Most of the students had fallen asleep.
"As we alloy zirconium dioxide with aluminum dioxide, the resulting material will have a stable cubic crystalline structure. This is what you give your girlfriend if you don't like her very much..."
Wait a minute... did he just tell a joke? I'm pretty sure I was the only one in the class that got it.
Ask Seattle how well that worked with Boeing. Oh ya, HQ moved to Chicago. So if the government gets too over the top, they can shift employees to the other headquarters.
There are very few Boeing employees in Chicago. It's an HQ in name only, so they can get a taxpayer funded handout.
Thanks for confirming my suspicion. This is just a basic tunnel, nothing special or interesting, doesn't demonstrate anything new or innovative. All they did was prove they can dig a medium length tunnel, which isn't exactly news.
The tunnel serves a variety of purposes:
Musk gets a lot of criticism for projects that are behind schedule or never completed. It's very important for him to show status updates like this.
He needs to keep posting updates in order to keep the interest up in the project. If public interest wanes, funding may go with it.
This serves as a proof of concept for tunnel design. Lessons learned in the construction of this tunnel can be used to improve future tunnels.
This serves as an experimental control by which future improvements can be measured.
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While this may seem like an obvious conclusion. Many studies and news articles have reached different conclusions.
Personally, I think most of the complaining about millennials to just be old people becoming out of touch, as they always do.
Musk's mistake was attempting any major project in Californiastan, full stop.
No, it was attempting the project in Bel Air specifically. That's where all of the wealthy attorneys live. It's also why other sections of the project haven't been stopped. They are in less expensive neighborhoods, where the residents can't afford the legal fight.
Oh no, Elon Musk is such a genius he can't do basic paperwork
One of the things Musk impresses me the most with, is his ability to cut through red tape. I've never seen projects clear bureaucratic hurdles with such speed.
Since the FTC is cracking down on social media ads not being clearly marked as such. I'd suspect Amazon will be contacted by them shortly. Even though Amazon did mark them as ads, I expect the FTC will be coming out with new rules specifying what "clearly marked" means.
A stable economy helps lead to a stable government. No guarentees of course; but coups and rebellions and the springing up of terrorist organisations and extremists are all usually linked to impoverished people and/or social inequality in a region.
Get a strong North African economy and you're more likely to see a stable government follow.
No doubt you are correct. However, the reverse is also true. It's a catch 22. Without some sort of major change in the economy, the government will not stabilize. Without a stable government, the economy will never improve.
Fighting government corruption is really the only improvement that can be made. Hopefully that will encourage some development and eventually stabilize the government.
You don't have to conquer Algeria to invest in solar power there. I think exporting solar power to Europe would be an excellent industry for North-African countries.
It may also have environmental benefits for the region.
The problem is, to have successful industry, you need a stable and honest government. Something North Africa lacks.
Commercial nuclear in France is a basket case, reliant on government support just to survive and keep the lights on. Too big to fail, continually writing off assets and downgrading valuations.
This is the first I've heard of this. There's a lot of talk in the US about how France is the model for a successful nuclear energy program.
Model Y maybe. Semi and roadster are completely different animals. Very low production volumes and exotic parts. I doubt the semi would fit down one of those lines.
Roadster will likely be built by hand. The entire heavy trucking industry is only ~200k units annually in the US. Even if they command 50% of the market, we are only talking model S/X volumes.
The Volt was transitional. They are keeping the Bolt.
I thought the purpose of the Volt was to fill the niche of people that wanted electric cars but had range anxiety.
Unless GM's marketing people lied about that. Why would they do such a thing!
This is why proxy re-encryption has become popular.
OP here. Lots of comments have blamed Microsoft or the business owner, which never solves problems. Some good comments:
Use the dissatisfaction to renegotiate the contract and make it clear what services are included.
Document everything, and use that as leverage for negotiation.
Ask similar businesses who they use, as the best consultants are found by word of mouth. -- best answer.
You really want to get better ? Start with replacing 1/10 of the computers that do menial work with Linux + Libreoffice.
That is something for the IT consultant to work out with the customer. A small business isn't going to switch all of it's software without a consultant's help. The question is, how do you find a good consultant?
No, you're wrong and spewing the typical kind of bullshit useless people do.
The problem is the choice of operating system, not the consultant. Microsoft's windows 10 update ills cannot be fixed by any consultant.
Due to proprietary software, Windows is a requirement. A good IT consultant should work with the customer's needs. Blaming the customer is not a solution. I don't know how this got modded 5 insightful. It's very unprofessional.
Additionally, a consultant can and should work with the business to find a software solution that will work the best for that business. If the current software isn't working, the consultant should make recommendations for new software. The current consultant chose Windows 10.
If nothing else, even if they do really want to keep the contract, the company is wasting an opportunity not to re-negotiate the contract based on performance they have see. Either push for a lower price or some kind of performance targets they have to hit or face penalties.
Good points.
Thought: Maybe this is not on the consultant, but the choice to use Windows for everything. But despite all that, lets move on to the main issue...
Due to the proprietary nature of the work, using Windows is a requirement. Everyone loves to blame Windows, but a professional consultant needs to work with the customer's requirements.
Are you sure about Empower? It looks like Empower Retirement is related to J.P. Morgan, but I can't find anything linking Empower Finance listed here with JP Morgan - it does actually look like a new startup to me.
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I used to have a JP Morgan account that is now an Empower account.
Marcus (Goldman Sachs) and Empower (J.P. Morgan) are really just large megabanks in disguise. Marketing at its finest!
I work in product development. To me, production implies sellable units. Lockheed is manufacturing a prototype. Big difference. Call it manufacturing, developing, fabricating, but don't call it production. This thing may never see true production.
If the public were to get a system up and running that tracked Law Enforcement vehicles and distributed this information to anyone who wanted to see it in real time, they would pitch an absolute fit about it.
We have, and they did.
It was nice of Russia to make the exercises more realistic.
It wasn't nice. Most NATO conflicts have been against adversaries with limited capabilities. e.g. no GPS jamming. The Russians haven't been able to gather intelligence on how NATO operates against more advanced adversaries. Jamming the GPS signal allowed the Russians to gather intel on tactics used by NATO in the absence of GPS.
Indeed. Most zirconium alloys are 95% or more zirconium for this reason.
More info here: Zirconium Alloys
I'm having flashbacks to my college materials science class lecture about the various alloys of zirconium. It was so dull. The professor was droning on and on. Most of the students had fallen asleep.
"As we alloy zirconium dioxide with aluminum dioxide, the resulting material will have a stable cubic crystalline structure. This is what you give your girlfriend if you don't like her very much..."
Wait a minute... did he just tell a joke? I'm pretty sure I was the only one in the class that got it.
This has been going on for at least a year!
The ozone layer hole could be even smaller if we can get China to stop releasing them.
Ask Seattle how well that worked with Boeing. Oh ya, HQ moved to Chicago. So if the government gets too over the top, they can shift employees to the other headquarters.
There are very few Boeing employees in Chicago. It's an HQ in name only, so they can get a taxpayer funded handout.
Thanks for confirming my suspicion. This is just a basic tunnel, nothing special or interesting, doesn't demonstrate anything new or innovative. All they did was prove they can dig a medium length tunnel, which isn't exactly news.
The tunnel serves a variety of purposes:
Musk gets a lot of criticism for projects that are behind schedule or never completed. It's very important for him to show status updates like this.
He needs to keep posting updates in order to keep the interest up in the project. If public interest wanes, funding may go with it.
This serves as a proof of concept for tunnel design. Lessons learned in the construction of this tunnel can be used to improve future tunnels.
This serves as an experimental control by which future improvements can be measured.