Why does his company need a huge pile of tax breaks to succeed?" Is it getting major tax breaks?
"If I open a company tomorrow, how can I get away with not paying taxes?" don't make any money. Also, hire enough people where giving a company a tax breaks makes it worth while due to secondary a tertiary factors.
"Why are Tesla's cars so rudely expensive?" becasue they are high end luxury vehicles. Do you send letter to Mercedes telling them their care a rudely expensive?
" Is there a plan for a 4 door sedan that a real family can afford in the 20K - 30K " Yes.
"range like the Prius?" Like the Prius? no, they will actually be good.
"Why is it that a guy with a big mouth and political friends on all sides gets so much tax subsidy, loans, breaks and deals?" no more then any there similar company. Frankly I would rather people making clean energy get them, and coal and oil companies snot get them.
"when a bogus story about a gas pedal getting stuck?" A bigger question is: Why didn't the media talk about the discovery that they where, in FACT, not bogus claims?
"3.8 million priuses have been sold and cab drivers will tell you they easily go into the 300K range and even if the battery runs out the car is still useable." Funny you bring this up. I was just talking to Prius drivers this weekend, Many where bitching that the computer can get stuck in a loop and the car has to be off and sit before it will reset. apparently starting them up in the wrong way can cause this to happen.
Junk bond stats(b-) is based on they way it got money and that it's different the tradition automakers. I"m pretty sure risk fro fighting the 3rd party car sales is also taken into account.
"Just because the current administration broke multiple American laws and drew in thousand of alien children" name one law broken. Name one instance of the administration 'drawing children in'.
SO? are you saying we should alert people this is happening? remind people that they need to wash their hands? You're attitude is why Ebola is spreading. No one took it serious becasue it's always been so limited in the past so basic precautions where not taken.
When we have the elderly, people with other illness, etc.
No one is saying everyone needs to stay home. If we stay informed, take basic precautions, we can stop this from become a big deal.
You're one of the idiots who thinks because there wasn't a problem, then all the precautions and changes done ahead of time was useless, aren't you?
" Now, the Executive branch has been ceded the right of law to pass regulations," false. But hey, fix news loves misrepresenting that.
" form of government where ONLY congress makes law at the federal level,"
Every president has issued executive orders, and this includes founding fathers that became president. You do know that those agency you list where created, funded, and given their authority by congress, right?
Some of us have read history. Have read about why those agency's came to be, and what life was like before them. For the most part, thy are needed to have a functioning society.
First this: ""If you take this to it's logical conclusion, you end up at.... "
Then:
"then why don't we go whole hog here and mandate that people only be allowed 1500 Calories a day and enforce this by making it illegal to consume 1501 or more with huge fines? How about we mandate exercise too? 20 min of cardio a week for everybody.... Yea, that's the ticket.. How about we make every woman have exactly two children and force them to breastfeed? It reduces breast cancer you know.." and then: "Where does this end? " Clearly, you are a fan of the slippery slope argument. You should man up and admit it.
Since you need to make excuses fr you logical fallacy, then there is no talking to you. You won't be budged from you selfish, myopic attitude. I could go on about neurology, human self control, impact to society, economics and a great many good reasons to limit cup size.
But you stopped thinking.
" That is ONLY going to happen when we start expecting people to be personally responsible for themselves and not blame all that is bad on something/somebody else or try and legislate personal choices." And when person responsibility impacts other people?
"Liberals.." then "But I'm but a silly conservative.." Stop making this political. My post is based on the neurological, and sociological sciences.
I do no give a shit about Audi history, and bringing it up is a non sequitur.
"the brakes still will stop the vehicle if operating properly" not, they won't. IN many vehicles, they will prevent the car from starting to roll, but once you're doing 55+ they will not stop the car if the throttle is open. .
"A pretty good approximation of 100% would be my guess. " nope. errors were found. Does it apply to every case? can't say. The code in Toyota's systems are bad.
" The NHTSA has looked into this twice without finding ANY evidence of mechanical or electrical malfunction." Note: that doesn't include software.
" I work in the industry." Based on the fact you don't seem to know anything relevant about the industry, I am just going to assume that means you pump gas.
5% to 10%* of accident are due to mechanical failure. That's the problem with common knowledge, it's often wrong.
If we are talking just about accident cause by manufacturer defect, then yes, it's a fraction of a percent. Don't forget that incident due to improper maintenance also counts under mechanical failure. Under inflated tires, worn brakes, etc. http://www.gao.gov/assets/240/...
"Repeated references to same." Doesn't mean it's true. There are may repeated reference to think that aren't true. see Acupuncture 'therapies', or standing in a door way during an earthquake, or the people repeated say people used to think the world was flat.
*this is a surprisingly hard number to pin down. Now, you need to apologize for not doing your homework.
"Broad spectrum stuff for bacteria that most likely already has resistance. I false. Not even close. You are tlkaing out of your ass to defend tlaking out of your ass. Stop it.
"Or should I say correctly?" No. fact that turns nasty can be too late.
"I'm a big believer in getting a culture to be positive of what needs to be killed and then picking an antibiotic that has some chance of working. Fact of the matter is, that often not possible. Plus, it could be several. And it could become too late.
"Remember back when NYC tried to ban soft drink cups over some set size?" I do, and I agree with that. Note: It in no way limited how much you could drink. You could still get seconds.
That was done becasue people, as a whole, will drink all there soda regardless off how much is their. The size of all cup of soda was increasing dramatically.,
There where many good reason for that, none of which was 'control'.
"So the CDC has it's place, but trying to legislate personal/private behavior is not among them." When it's health related, and what you do impacts others, then yes, they are doing what they should be doing.
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Musk does a lot of awesome things.
Why does his company need a huge pile of tax breaks to succeed?"
Is it getting major tax breaks?
"If I open a company tomorrow, how can I get away with not paying taxes?"
don't make any money. Also, hire enough people where giving a company a tax breaks makes it worth while due to secondary a tertiary factors.
"Why are Tesla's cars so rudely expensive?"
becasue they are high end luxury vehicles. Do you send letter to Mercedes telling them their care a rudely expensive?
" Is there a plan for a 4 door sedan that a real family can afford in the 20K - 30K "
Yes.
"range like the Prius?"
Like the Prius? no, they will actually be good.
"Why is it that a guy with a big mouth and political friends on all sides gets so much tax subsidy, loans, breaks and deals?"
no more then any there similar company. Frankly I would rather people making clean energy get them, and coal and oil companies snot get them.
"when a bogus story about a gas pedal getting stuck?"
A bigger question is: Why didn't the media talk about the discovery that they where, in FACT, not bogus claims?
"3.8 million priuses have been sold and cab drivers will tell you they easily go into the 300K range and even if the battery runs out the car is still useable."
Funny you bring this up. I was just talking to Prius drivers this weekend, Many where bitching that the computer can get stuck in a loop and the car has to be off and sit before it will reset. apparently starting them up in the wrong way can cause this to happen.
Junk bond stats(b-) is based on they way it got money and that it's different the tradition automakers.
I"m pretty sure risk fro fighting the 3rd party car sales is also taken into account.
The man is changing the world.
"Just because the current administration broke multiple American laws and drew in thousand of alien children"
name one law broken. Name one instance of the administration 'drawing children in'.
That's one way to look at it.
The other way would be with facts and science.
Except this is a jump in the number of people getting them, and it has a stronger then effect.
You are wrong. The regions have specific designations; which has exactly NOTHING to do with the Louisiana purchase.
You probably should look shit up once in a while.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Reading the biblical nonsense, it's ~ 144,000 that will be rapture. So no one would notice.
SO? are you saying we should alert people this is happening? remind people that they need to wash their hands?
You're attitude is why Ebola is spreading. No one took it serious becasue it's always been so limited in the past so basic precautions where not taken.
When we have the elderly, people with other illness, etc.
No one is saying everyone needs to stay home. If we stay informed, take basic precautions, we can stop this from become a big deal.
You're one of the idiots who thinks because there wasn't a problem, then all the precautions and changes done ahead of time was useless, aren't you?
" Now, the Executive branch has been ceded the right of law to pass regulations,"
false. But hey, fix news loves misrepresenting that.
" form of government where ONLY congress makes law at the federal level,"
Every president has issued executive orders, and this includes founding fathers that became president.
You do know that those agency you list where created, funded, and given their authority by congress, right?
Some of us have read history. Have read about why those agency's came to be, and what life was like before them.
For the most part, thy are needed to have a functioning society.
First this: .... "
""If you take this to it's logical conclusion, you end up at
Then:
"then why don't we go whole hog here and mandate that people only be allowed 1500 Calories a day and enforce this by making it illegal to consume 1501 or more with huge fines? How about we mandate exercise too? 20 min of cardio a week for everybody.... Yea, that's the ticket.. How about we make every woman have exactly two children and force them to breastfeed? It reduces breast cancer you know.."
and then:
"Where does this end? "
Clearly, you are a fan of the slippery slope argument. You should man up and admit it.
Since you need to make excuses fr you logical fallacy, then there is no talking to you. You won't be budged from you selfish, myopic attitude.
I could go on about neurology, human self control, impact to society, economics and a great many good reasons to limit cup size.
But you stopped thinking.
" That is ONLY going to happen when we start expecting people to be personally responsible for themselves and not blame all that is bad on something/somebody else or try and legislate personal choices."
And when person responsibility impacts other people?
"Liberals.."
then
"But I'm but a silly conservative.."
Stop making this political. My post is based on the neurological, and sociological sciences.
IT's cool, it will save lives, it will improve traffic conditions.
YOu do knwo the technology is already being sold by other car manufacturers, right? no? shut up.
If you need to look directly at your speedometer to know haw fast you are going, please stop driving vehicles.
In may state, there is NO SUCH THING AS A PASSING LANE for vehicles doing the speed limit.
Get over yourself.
Spoken like every old person when cruise control was introduced.
Yes, he did show reasonable causal relationship.
http://www.sddt.com/Commentary...
http://www.sddt.com/files/Book...
http://www.sddt.com/files/BARR...
I do no give a shit about Audi history, and bringing it up is a non sequitur.
"the brakes still will stop the vehicle if operating properly"
not, they won't. IN many vehicles, they will prevent the car from starting to roll, but once you're doing 55+ they will not stop the car if the throttle is open.
.
Other manufactures already have this tech at the consumer vehicle.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
"A pretty good approximation of 100% would be my guess. "
nope. errors were found. Does it apply to every case? can't say.
The code in Toyota's systems are bad.
http://www.sddt.com/files/Book...
http://www.sddt.com/files/BARR...
" The NHTSA has looked into this twice without finding ANY evidence of mechanical or electrical malfunction."
Note: that doesn't include software.
" I work in the industry."
Based on the fact you don't seem to know anything relevant about the industry, I am just going to assume that means you pump gas.
No they aren't.
5% to 10%* of accident are due to mechanical failure. That's the problem with common knowledge, it's often wrong.
If we are talking just about accident cause by manufacturer defect, then yes, it's a fraction of a percent.
Don't forget that incident due to improper maintenance also counts under mechanical failure. Under inflated tires, worn brakes, etc.
http://www.gao.gov/assets/240/...
"Repeated references to same."
Doesn't mean it's true. There are may repeated reference to think that aren't true. see Acupuncture 'therapies', or standing in a door way during an earthquake, or the people repeated say people used to think the world was flat.
*this is a surprisingly hard number to pin down.
Now, you need to apologize for not doing your homework.
Because only people on /. consider security.
Why don't you stop imagining some nightmare scenario and look into it?
oh, right, you're narrative might be wrong, and heaven forbid you change that.
"We'd be inundated..."
we would et better software is what we would get.
You don't want him to show you he got that from, because it would just be a picture of his ass
Mountain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
"Better for the herd? Yup."
If we have higher pneumonia rates, then no it s NOT better for the herd.
"Broad spectrum stuff for bacteria that most likely already has resistance. I
false. Not even close. You are tlkaing out of your ass to defend tlaking out of your ass.
Stop it.
"Or should I say correctly?"
No. fact that turns nasty can be too late.
"I'm a big believer in getting a culture to be positive of what needs to be killed and then picking an antibiotic that has some chance of working.
Fact of the matter is, that often not possible. Plus, it could be several. And it could become too late.
"Remember back when NYC tried to ban soft drink cups over some set size?"
I do, and I agree with that. Note: It in no way limited how much you could drink. You could still get seconds.
That was done becasue people, as a whole, will drink all there soda regardless off how much is their.
The size of all cup of soda was increasing dramatically.,
There where many good reason for that, none of which was 'control'.
"So the CDC has it's place, but trying to legislate personal/private behavior is not among them."
When it's health related, and what you do impacts others, then yes, they are doing what they should be doing.
healthcare.gov was better protected then sony? homedepot? target?
Not too bad.