The two RGJ employees and the Tesla employee were then met at the Jeep by a second safety manager at the Gigafactory. The two Gigafactory safety managers asked the RGJ employees to wait before departing, as security management and the Sheriff’s Department were en route to the scene. Disregarding this request, the RGJ employees entered the Jeep. As the Tesla employee attempted to record the license plate number on the rear bumper, the driver put it in reverse and accelerated into the Tesla employee
So second safety manager pulls up and then when the RGJ folks try and get away somebody gets a license plate? No camera rolling? Sounds like an episode of Mayberry RFD or the Wacky Racers. Barney Fife would be proud. At least a real cop (Sheriff) arrested one of them. As I previously stated, Elon needs better security if he's concerned about trade secrets getting out or a better PR department onsite so that RGJ doesn't somehow think that they need to trespass.
Fist thing that usually goes in is power, even if it's temporary. This location isn't that remote. I used to live about 20 minutes from where that industrial park is located.
yeah, you could always guarantee that on those kinds of RFPs somebody had too much information. At a private company, we had a bid out for a replacement for an NAS/6 mainframe so IBM came in and bid a 3083 at twice the price of what National Advanced Systems (Hitachi) came back with. When a board member heard about awarding it to NAS, he became upset since he was a former IBM guy. He convinced the board not to approve the funding and buy IBM. That 3083 was a big piece of shit but we had the foresight to have performance penalties in the contract so IBM basically gave it to us for free.
It's funny how government contract awards go. Losers whine and if the RFP hasn't been properly documented, vetted and scored then bidders can and have overturned decisions. It can even wind up in court based on federal procurement laws. In some cases fraud or collusion is involved while in others despite having an open process, a selected bidder can have an easier path through the process. The latter being the collusion part. For example a department writes an RFP and it goes out to bid for a new computer system that must be natively compatible with IBM's iSeries. Let's count how many bidders there may be.
This is how you get overly priced items built for the government. It drowns in paper and bureaucracy including the annual "spend the budget" fun of summer where government agencies spend unused money on anything and everything because they don't want to risk the upcoming fiscal year budget. Rather than waving or giving the budget back to the treasury they'll spend it on anything they can.
In reading the TFA it sounds like Lockheed did indeed come up with an overpriced system that had features that NASA didn't want. In reasonable cases that'd be it but all of the government contractors, not just aerospace, know how to game the system to the determent of all US taxpayers. It'll be fun to see if this gets dragged out. Fortunately there's two years until the next contract period and if Lockheed ultimately wins, the current contract holders will probably get paid at an escalated rate to deliver resupply missions because it'll be in their contracts as well since it's outside the agreed upon contract duration.
Even though they'll take responsibility, in every state in the US you must still have liability coverage. If these companies are to be their own underwriters so to speak then they'd have to jump through hurdles to be approved to operate as an insurance company as well. They could obviously partner with insurance companies as well.
These are companies, companies have lobbyists who make sure that interests are protected. Sure VW will pay fines, a lot of them but all that money will disappear in a great big puff of smoke to buy landing gear for an F-35. It won't go to help preventing this type of thing from happening, pay for more research into clean energy or healthcare. That's the bigger problem with the "fine" concept of government it all dumps into the general fund and at the current burn rate VWs cumulative fines probably won't pay for an hour of running the government.
They think they know. They've done some homework, some research and have come up with a couple of hypothesis. They think they've ruled out one but they don't actually know. FTFY
I for one hold out hope for the large drinking rocks theory where the shape was determined by an over-wash of Jack Daniels.
you can't write anybody in. The elections are controlled by the same two parties and to get on a ballot in a state you have to have enough signatures. Writing somebody in may have worked in the 19th century but certainly not the 21st. We have a two party system because they agreed long ago to just cut out all the other choices wherever possible.
It's a tick tock thing. We all know that the even numbered Gs are major releases and the odd, minor. So 5G will be 4G+, wait for 6G and it'll be much better.
Traffic, road heat/cold and overall car vibration. You can simulate a load on a dyno but much like in racing you don't see all the exact conditions until it's out on track.
The reason VW was allowed to sell vehicles wasn't about examining the code that drove the ECU, but a failure to actually test the vehicle in real world conditions independently. That means you don't trust the ECU, you test using separate instrumentation to verify that it operates within parameters under actual road conditions; not in a lab, not on a dyno and use random samples available from dealers after it goes on sale. The EPA shouldn't rely on the ECU OBD information, use information from the tailpipe.
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ITU, FIM, FIA, FIFA, IOC all useless bodies that are there to create some "structure" but wind up being bloated and corrupt.
I got a guy who can do it.
From Tesla:
The two RGJ employees and the Tesla employee were then met at the Jeep by a second safety manager at the Gigafactory. The two Gigafactory safety managers asked the RGJ employees to wait before departing, as security management and the Sheriff’s Department were en route to the scene. Disregarding this request, the RGJ employees entered the Jeep. As the Tesla employee attempted to record the license plate number on the rear bumper, the driver put it in reverse and accelerated into the Tesla employee
So second safety manager pulls up and then when the RGJ folks try and get away somebody gets a license plate? No camera rolling? Sounds like an episode of Mayberry RFD or the Wacky Racers. Barney Fife would be proud. At least a real cop (Sheriff) arrested one of them. As I previously stated, Elon needs better security if he's concerned about trade secrets getting out or a better PR department onsite so that RGJ doesn't somehow think that they need to trespass.
not that hard nowadays
Fist thing that usually goes in is power, even if it's temporary. This location isn't that remote. I used to live about 20 minutes from where that industrial park is located.
Actually the newer cameras out there are pretty good at it.
gotta shift them resumes. "We have Swift openings now!"
I would have thought this place would have had security cameras everywhere. Elon, you need better security staff or did you outsource it?
yeah, you could always guarantee that on those kinds of RFPs somebody had too much information. At a private company, we had a bid out for a replacement for an NAS/6 mainframe so IBM came in and bid a 3083 at twice the price of what National Advanced Systems (Hitachi) came back with. When a board member heard about awarding it to NAS, he became upset since he was a former IBM guy. He convinced the board not to approve the funding and buy IBM. That 3083 was a big piece of shit but we had the foresight to have performance penalties in the contract so IBM basically gave it to us for free.
It's funny how government contract awards go. Losers whine and if the RFP hasn't been properly documented, vetted and scored then bidders can and have overturned decisions. It can even wind up in court based on federal procurement laws. In some cases fraud or collusion is involved while in others despite having an open process, a selected bidder can have an easier path through the process. The latter being the collusion part. For example a department writes an RFP and it goes out to bid for a new computer system that must be natively compatible with IBM's iSeries. Let's count how many bidders there may be.
This is how you get overly priced items built for the government. It drowns in paper and bureaucracy including the annual "spend the budget" fun of summer where government agencies spend unused money on anything and everything because they don't want to risk the upcoming fiscal year budget. Rather than waving or giving the budget back to the treasury they'll spend it on anything they can.
In reading the TFA it sounds like Lockheed did indeed come up with an overpriced system that had features that NASA didn't want. In reasonable cases that'd be it but all of the government contractors, not just aerospace, know how to game the system to the determent of all US taxpayers. It'll be fun to see if this gets dragged out. Fortunately there's two years until the next contract period and if Lockheed ultimately wins, the current contract holders will probably get paid at an escalated rate to deliver resupply missions because it'll be in their contracts as well since it's outside the agreed upon contract duration.
Even though they'll take responsibility, in every state in the US you must still have liability coverage. If these companies are to be their own underwriters so to speak then they'd have to jump through hurdles to be approved to operate as an insurance company as well. They could obviously partner with insurance companies as well.
Don't be too sure of that, China has been burning through it's currency holdings lately to prop up the economy.
Once you understand how to make it more "secure" you know where the holes are to break into it.
but can I still get my Slurpee then?
These are companies, companies have lobbyists who make sure that interests are protected. Sure VW will pay fines, a lot of them but all that money will disappear in a great big puff of smoke to buy landing gear for an F-35. It won't go to help preventing this type of thing from happening, pay for more research into clean energy or healthcare. That's the bigger problem with the "fine" concept of government it all dumps into the general fund and at the current burn rate VWs cumulative fines probably won't pay for an hour of running the government.
That's in 1970 dollars when you could buy a house for that. Now it'll get you a Slurpee and maybe a Slim Jim.
keep your space orgy porn to yourself.
They think they know. They've done some homework, some research and have come up with a couple of hypothesis. They think they've ruled out one but they don't actually know. FTFY
I for one hold out hope for the large drinking rocks theory where the shape was determined by an over-wash of Jack Daniels.
sure, blame the mobile site.
you can't write anybody in. The elections are controlled by the same two parties and to get on a ballot in a state you have to have enough signatures. Writing somebody in may have worked in the 19th century but certainly not the 21st. We have a two party system because they agreed long ago to just cut out all the other choices wherever possible.
It's a tick tock thing. We all know that the even numbered Gs are major releases and the odd, minor. So 5G will be 4G+, wait for 6G and it'll be much better.
Panache got forked. It's now Flamboyance 3.1.4
Traffic, road heat/cold and overall car vibration. You can simulate a load on a dyno but much like in racing you don't see all the exact conditions until it's out on track.
The reason VW was allowed to sell vehicles wasn't about examining the code that drove the ECU, but a failure to actually test the vehicle in real world conditions independently. That means you don't trust the ECU, you test using separate instrumentation to verify that it operates within parameters under actual road conditions; not in a lab, not on a dyno and use random samples available from dealers after it goes on sale. The EPA shouldn't rely on the ECU OBD information, use information from the tailpipe.
You must be using Spring 5 BETA?