Exactly. Not to mention that Ford's CEO admits that if the rest of the auto industry had not been bailed out, Ford would have failed in short order as they rely on the global supply chain that would have collapsed if GM et al had shut down.
From the TFAWACNDR ( the fine article which Anon Coward did not read )
“What Anders has achieved is an important breakthrough.
Admittedly we do not have a good method to release the energy on demand, and we should increase the energy density further still. But now we know which path to take in order to succeed”, says a visibly enthusiastic professor Mogens Brøndsted"
So a way has been found to store much more energy that can NOT be released when needed. Should we refer to this as undispatchable locked energy storage? Do let us know when that last tricky step has "succeeded". Those niggling little problems that looks so easy usually takes years to decades to resolve and then additional time to commercialize. I do have high hopes but my flying car and fusion reactor are 30 years the date I was promised.
China's GHG emissions didn't surpass the USAs until sometime between 2003 and 2007 and the total emissions for the past century is only about roughly equal with the USA's. They're starting to cut back on coal use and have also started to build cleaner plants, putting emissions controls on existing ones and are NOT grandfathering any.
A good portion of China's emissions were because NA & Europe had outsourced a big chunk of their pollution and that's something that the "far left" didn't want.
I don't doubt that would apply to a hell of a lot of people, myself included. But some few are very driven and seem to prosper under surprising circumstances. From the little I know about Elon's early life, it seems to be somewhat lower middle-class and quite troubled.
But my point was that he could have cashed out and enjoyed a much easier life. If he wanted to keep his hand in tech, then he could have joined any number of venture capital firms. Instead he drove himself to the helm of two fledgling companies and nearly bankrupted himself doing so.
It's not Musk's fault if you have been unable to popularize your hundreds of grade school designs. There are differences between vactrains & Hyperloop, which you can read about on various sites. Here's one: http://www.gizmag.com/hyperloo...
Proper credit for reduced pressure transport or vactrains should go to rocket genius Robert Goddard who, like Musk, dreamed of going to Mars.
I don't think "lucky" really applies to Musk, at least not now or not anymore. He claims to have been thinking about space travel & personal transportation since his college days but let's say that's bullshit and that his early startup successes were lucky. But no-one lucks into founding a company that builds rockets from scratch and becoming the head of a struggling electric car company at the same time. He could easily have taken all the cash he had and gone off to live a life of ease, well, as much ease as you can have raising 5 or 6 kids. Instead, he chose to tackle not one but two disruptive businesses that are cash & resource intensive instead of sitting at home and coding up some cool apps - he's been writing software since adolescence and is one of the ways he paid his way through college.
Musk did draw up the design for the Hyperloop. What I find impressive is not if it's even feasible but that he found the time to do it. Does he not have enough to do at SpaceX & Tesla, the public appearances, shareholder meetings, raising FIVE boys, etc???
One of the divisions of my organisation acquired quite a bit of dark fibre for almost next to nothing during the dotcom meltdown as providers were going out of business . They even have 4 manholes in a 2 mile radius that's "theirs" - the covers have the old corporate name stamped on them.
Are those fiber links really from 2 independent providers? Where my company most needs redundancy, the fiber is owned & maintaned by a single provider and every one is a reseller.
I've seen quite a few people make fools of themselves on stage. Some of them hold public office, some are highly respected in their fields, some were just born stupid - and a few were female.
None of them have been forced to resign or even apologize.
So someone who hasn't done something or even been accused of doing something should face serious consequences for saying something offhand outside the theater of work?
Actions have consequences and I agree with that but in the pussified world that we now live in, every oversensitive person gets to demand retribution for their offended feelings. That's as bad as the segregrated workplace you despise.
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Exactly.
Not to mention that Ford's CEO admits that if the rest of the auto industry had not been bailed out, Ford would have failed in short order as they rely on the global supply chain that would have collapsed if GM et al had shut down.
From the TFAWACNDR ( the fine article which Anon Coward did not read )
“What Anders has achieved is an important breakthrough.
Admittedly we do not have a good method to release the energy on demand, and we should increase the energy density further still.
But now we know which path to take in order to succeed”, says a visibly enthusiastic professor Mogens Brøndsted"
So a way has been found to store much more energy that can NOT be released when needed. Should we refer to this as undispatchable locked energy storage?
Do let us know when that last tricky step has "succeeded". Those niggling little problems that looks so easy usually takes years to decades to resolve and then additional time to commercialize.
I do have high hopes but my flying car and fusion reactor are 30 years the date I was promised.
China's GHG emissions didn't surpass the USAs until sometime between 2003 and 2007 and the total emissions for the past century is only about roughly equal with the USA's.
They're starting to cut back on coal use and have also started to build cleaner plants, putting emissions controls on existing ones and are NOT grandfathering any.
A good portion of China's emissions were because NA & Europe had outsourced a big chunk of their pollution and that's something that the "far left" didn't want.
I think he's involved a lot more than many of his employees would like.
If I had 1/10th his worries, I'd have ripped up all my hair years ago.
I don't doubt that would apply to a hell of a lot of people, myself included. But some few are very driven and seem to prosper under surprising circumstances.
From the little I know about Elon's early life, it seems to be somewhat lower middle-class and quite troubled.
But my point was that he could have cashed out and enjoyed a much easier life. If he wanted to keep his hand in tech, then he could have joined any number of venture capital firms. Instead he drove himself to the helm of two fledgling companies and nearly bankrupted himself doing so.
It's not Musk's fault if you have been unable to popularize your hundreds of grade school designs.
There are differences between vactrains & Hyperloop, which you can read about on various sites.
Here's one: http://www.gizmag.com/hyperloo...
Proper credit for reduced pressure transport or vactrains should go to rocket genius Robert Goddard who, like Musk, dreamed of going to Mars.
I don't think "lucky" really applies to Musk, at least not now or not anymore.
He claims to have been thinking about space travel & personal transportation since his college days but let's say that's bullshit and that his early startup successes were lucky.
But no-one lucks into founding a company that builds rockets from scratch and becoming the head of a struggling electric car company at the same time.
He could easily have taken all the cash he had and gone off to live a life of ease, well, as much ease as you can have raising 5 or 6 kids.
Instead, he chose to tackle not one but two disruptive businesses that are cash & resource intensive instead of sitting at home and coding up some cool apps - he's been writing software since adolescence and is one of the ways he paid his way through college.
Musk did draw up the design for the Hyperloop. What I find impressive is not if it's even feasible but that he found the time to do it.
Does he not have enough to do at SpaceX & Tesla, the public appearances, shareholder meetings, raising FIVE boys, etc???
Yeah, I've read a few of her articles over the years. I think she's hoping to be the Ann Coulter of Canada before she dies - or is stung by a bee.
"you have an inferiority complex. And a small dick."
The Department of Redundancy Department would like to have a word.
How do you like it so far? Any caveats or quibbles?
Past experience with both gas & diesel Golfs has been satisfying.
One of the divisions of my organisation acquired quite a bit of dark fibre for almost next to nothing during the dotcom meltdown as providers were going out of business .
They even have 4 manholes in a 2 mile radius that's "theirs" - the covers have the old corporate name stamped on them.
Are those fiber links really from 2 independent providers? Where my company most needs redundancy, the fiber is owned & maintaned by a single provider and every one is a reseller.
"slow clap" is not an argument.
Congrats on making, by far, the most reasoned & insightful post in this entire discussion.
Re-read my entire statement carefully and you should quickly spot your own mistake.
Would you care to bet there are not an even greater number of counterexamples?
For both (straight) men & the "girls".
After the backlash he's faced, I'm quite sure he's willing to give that a try. But it would be simpler to just segregate them.
*slow clap*
I've seen quite a few people make fools of themselves on stage. Some of them hold public office, some are highly respected in their fields, some were just born stupid - and a few were female.
None of them have been forced to resign or even apologize.
So someone who hasn't done something or even been accused of doing something should face serious consequences for saying something offhand outside the theater of work?
Actions have consequences and I agree with that but in the pussified world that we now live in, every oversensitive person gets to demand retribution for their offended feelings.
That's as bad as the segregrated workplace you despise.
Consequences to them being human like the rest of us?
A pitcher with an elbow injury, a retiring player and a 12 year old who was probably afraid he was going to be humiliated by a girl?
Out of 100 years of America's sport, that's all you could find?