It is not B.S. Companies that can't make money will not survive.
You seem to not understand the difference between a bluechip company and a growth company.
Established automakers are working on making an affordable electric car,
In America established automakers have been "working on it" for years and have nothing to show. In Europe people don't like the Tesla for the large American tank that it is, and Telsa is rightfully behind the automakers who make a more European style car. If those established automakers were resting on their laurels for 14 years and are having their lunch eaten.
Tesla makes expensive toys for the wear-the-nails crowd.
The Model 3 costs $358 less than the average new car price. The Model S is the most popular electric car in America.
They clearly are the solution and have been the solution for a while.
If he doesn't like answering those questions HE SHOULDN'T HAVE TAKEN THEIR MONEY.
And that's precisely what played out here. Investing isn't something the CEO chooses. People chose to invest in Tesla, that doesn't entitle them to anything other than profits and depending on their share a vote on measures when they get raised (controlling stakes not withstanding). He and you are 100% in agreement. He doesn't want to answer the questions and he invited to those who demanded answers to take their money elsewhere.
Microsoft's downfall began when they fired most of their QA staff.
I highly doubt their QA staff would have caught this. Everything that has gone to shit has mostly gone to shit in the user space, and even then it's not like the lack of QA staff is the problem as much as their entire process is (e.g. that Chrome locking bug (which also affects Cortana so it's not even MS not caring about the competition) in the latest version of Windows 10 was reported by insiders 2 months before the release on multiple different bug reports, and yet remained unfixed)
QA from Microsoft never really did catch critical security flaws.
These clowns are too stupid to write any OS for more than a non-programmable calculator.
Or maybe this is a fundamentally hard problem to fix depending on how it the entire system is designed. Linux got lucky with their solution to the problem as it nicely piggybacked on work that has been ongoing since 2005 > ASLR then KASLR 4 years ago. Windows 10 was the first MS OS to even experiment with ASLR on the kernel and it had its fair share of bugs so they didn't have a neat and easy foundation for KPTI.
Unlike other OSes (i.e. Linux) which only rolled out the fix to the most recent kernel and the LTS kernel, MS backported it to a variety of OSes, each with significant differences in the way kernel memory is managed.
W10 is touted as the Most secure version ever, and they cannot fix a critical flaw
In their defence, OS level attacks on Windows 10 are very rare, and this critical flaw they cannot fix hasn't actually caused any grief to the point where across most OSes there are a large number of people who either purposely didn't apply the fix or disabled the fix to gain a speed improvement.
Not all critical flaws are critical to all people.
I'm probably going to lose my job over this which sucks, but I did put in writing in an email that our staging systems wouldn't boot after installing the latest Windows updates.
If you didn't lose your job over this and you had even a bit of self respect you would quit and find a place to work for that isn't an absolute toilet.
The world's top most minds in this field can be described as "not knowing what they are doing" which is why there is so much trial and testing in the first place.
Indeed but the treaty is just an extradition treaty and does not define *who* gets extradited. Specifically Germany is only allowed to extradite a non-citizen under the Article 16 of the German constitution. https://www.gesetze-im-interne... exception being extradition for final destination in an EU country, and extradition to appear in front of an international court.
The only German citizens who have ever been extradited have been war criminals and most of them didn't leave the EU.
He would probably argue that US prison would violate his human rights, especially at his age. That's enough to stop extradition.
He wouldn't need to because the GP was incorrect. Germany has never extradited a citizen to a non-EU country and / or for anything other than to be tried at an international court for war crimes.
The treaty with the USA does not trump the German constitution.
You do get cases where union workers complain about union rules.
If the local on site union finds out you did a union job and weren't: a) qualified, b) part of the union, c) employed for the reason of doing the job, then that one person who lets things slide is irrelevant.
Yes, because Google has stopped doing business in all of Europe due to the GDPR (which I will add is much more strict and has more teeth than this proposed legislation).
How did you get from "companies or groups" to "all of Europe". Maybe re-read my post, and the GDPR, what has that achieved? Oh that's right: Opt into everything Google, or opt out of using Google, which was exactly my point.
Those people who crave to starve the revenue for their "free" services will find their "free" services cease serving them.
No. And in this case "no" means you really shouldn't be asking this kind of question. The world is not better or worse, a specific application is, a specific scenario is.
coal companies are blowing the top off of mountains and detroying streams and creeks and they are not in violation of the clean water act.
No they are not and the reason is *you*. *You* (as in a person in America) have a need that needs to be met in the form of energy. The government tried* to meet this need balancing the requirements of *you* and the environment. Sure they could tomorrow tell the coal companies and the frackers to stop, but just what will *you* do when the power goes out and the petrol stations run dry?
What they can do is implement long term measures to slowly change the standards by which primary energy is extracted without destroying the energy industry in the process (because who in their right mind would build anything in America with a long payback period and long service life if the government shows it will happily shutdown an industry on a whim). Cars however have shorter development cycles and shorter life spans so it's far easier make larger changes in shorter periods of time.
And what is the result? Well coal consumption in millions of tonnes for the past 10 years in the USA: 565.7 573.3 564.2 496.2 525.0 495.4 437.9 454.6 453.5 391.8 358.4
And production follows similar trends. Not actually bad at all. The USA may still be in the top handful of countries in emissions per capita, but at least you're working on the blowing off mountain tops problem.
I'm not certain about this, but I believe a criminal court case in Europe can only be brought against a person by a European government. Given Germany's reluctance to do much if anything about the emissions scandal I think we have no chance in hell of that happening.
Germany do extradite its citizen and there are treaty for it, supplemented by EU wide treaty
Not at all. The treaty with the USA does not overwrite the German constitution. The only people who can be extradited to any non-EU country are non-citizens, or citizens exclusively for the trial at an international court.
27 people have been extradited from Germany. 15 were non-citizens, and 12 were Nazi war criminals, some of which ended up in EU countries.
I think winterkorn is safe from death penalty
Winterkorn is safe because he is a German citizen protected by Article 16 paragraph 2 of the German Constitution.
27 people have historically been extradited from Germany. Of those 15 were not German citizens and 12 were tried as war criminals and extradited by the Allies for their involvement in the international law.
You're German (I think) so I'm just going to link to you your own constitution without a translation. As a citizen you are only allowed to be sent to another EU state or to an international court.
Make no mistake, Martin Winterkorn will NOT be extradited to Germany, not for his current crimes in the USA, and not if he committed far worse ones.
We joke about Google cutting off companies or groups they disagree with, but with this ballot and the right to get companies to stop selling your information, they may just find themselves cut off.
I get it, in your religion, solar panels are free.
I didn't realise economics was a religion. I suppose you haven't read The Book of Smith 24:10 "Things that have a short payback period and then save you money effectively are free."
the cost of building a roof capable of supporting the weight of solar panels
I have never seen a roof in a developed world that needed to be reinforced to support the weight of the small number of panels we are talking about. Such a roof would not be safe to step on.
as well as the simple fact that California has areas with serious problems with affordable housing
One of the great things that keep the poor poor is that we put them in housing so cheap that it becomes expensive to run. Poor insulation, poor quality windows, lack of solar panels, expensive to run hot water systems, cheap flooring that scratches and breaks when you look at it funny.
There is nothing quite as expensive as cheap housing.
They shouldn't be adding to the problem
They aren't. In countries that actually give a damn about global warming and reducing their carbon footprint, energy price rises cause a lot of financial stress for the most vulnerable (reads: poor, or low income retirees).
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It is not B.S. Companies that can't make money will not survive.
You seem to not understand the difference between a bluechip company and a growth company.
Established automakers are working on making an affordable electric car,
In America established automakers have been "working on it" for years and have nothing to show. In Europe people don't like the Tesla for the large American tank that it is, and Telsa is rightfully behind the automakers who make a more European style car. If those established automakers were resting on their laurels for 14 years and are having their lunch eaten.
Tesla makes expensive toys for the wear-the-nails crowd.
The Model 3 costs $358 less than the average new car price.
The Model S is the most popular electric car in America.
They clearly are the solution and have been the solution for a while.
If he doesn't like answering those questions HE SHOULDN'T HAVE TAKEN THEIR MONEY.
And that's precisely what played out here. Investing isn't something the CEO chooses. People chose to invest in Tesla, that doesn't entitle them to anything other than profits and depending on their share a vote on measures when they get raised (controlling stakes not withstanding). He and you are 100% in agreement. He doesn't want to answer the questions and he invited to those who demanded answers to take their money elsewhere.
Musk may be unable to provide good business leadership through controversial/rough times.
Implying that Tesla hasn't been in rough times or controversial since its inception?
Microsoft's downfall began when they fired most of their QA staff.
I highly doubt their QA staff would have caught this. Everything that has gone to shit has mostly gone to shit in the user space, and even then it's not like the lack of QA staff is the problem as much as their entire process is (e.g. that Chrome locking bug (which also affects Cortana so it's not even MS not caring about the competition) in the latest version of Windows 10 was reported by insiders 2 months before the release on multiple different bug reports, and yet remained unfixed)
QA from Microsoft never really did catch critical security flaws.
These clowns are too stupid to write any OS for more than a non-programmable calculator.
Or maybe this is a fundamentally hard problem to fix depending on how it the entire system is designed. Linux got lucky with their solution to the problem as it nicely piggybacked on work that has been ongoing since 2005 > ASLR then KASLR 4 years ago. Windows 10 was the first MS OS to even experiment with ASLR on the kernel and it had its fair share of bugs so they didn't have a neat and easy foundation for KPTI.
Unlike other OSes (i.e. Linux) which only rolled out the fix to the most recent kernel and the LTS kernel, MS backported it to a variety of OSes, each with significant differences in the way kernel memory is managed.
So by all means, step up and show how its done.
W10 is touted as the Most secure version ever, and they cannot fix a critical flaw
In their defence, OS level attacks on Windows 10 are very rare, and this critical flaw they cannot fix hasn't actually caused any grief to the point where across most OSes there are a large number of people who either purposely didn't apply the fix or disabled the fix to gain a speed improvement.
Not all critical flaws are critical to all people.
I'm probably going to lose my job over this which sucks, but I did put in writing in an email that our staging systems wouldn't boot after installing the latest Windows updates.
If you didn't lose your job over this and you had even a bit of self respect you would quit and find a place to work for that isn't an absolute toilet.
but if you know what you're doing
The world's top most minds in this field can be described as "not knowing what they are doing" which is why there is so much trial and testing in the first place.
Indeed but the treaty is just an extradition treaty and does not define *who* gets extradited. Specifically Germany is only allowed to extradite a non-citizen under the Article 16 of the German constitution. https://www.gesetze-im-interne... exception being extradition for final destination in an EU country, and extradition to appear in front of an international court.
The only German citizens who have ever been extradited have been war criminals and most of them didn't leave the EU.
He would probably argue that US prison would violate his human rights, especially at his age. That's enough to stop extradition.
He wouldn't need to because the GP was incorrect. Germany has never extradited a citizen to a non-EU country and / or for anything other than to be tried at an international court for war crimes.
The treaty with the USA does not trump the German constitution.
You do get cases where union workers complain about union rules.
If the local on site union finds out you did a union job and weren't: a) qualified, b) part of the union, c) employed for the reason of doing the job, then that one person who lets things slide is irrelevant.
Yes, because Google has stopped doing business in all of Europe due to the GDPR (which I will add is much more strict and has more teeth than this proposed legislation).
How did you get from "companies or groups" to "all of Europe". Maybe re-read my post, and the GDPR, what has that achieved? Oh that's right: Opt into everything Google, or opt out of using Google, which was exactly my point.
Those people who crave to starve the revenue for their "free" services will find their "free" services cease serving them.
No. And in this case "no" means you really shouldn't be asking this kind of question. The world is not better or worse, a specific application is, a specific scenario is.
coal companies are blowing the top off of mountains and detroying streams and creeks and they are not in violation of the clean water act.
No they are not and the reason is *you*. *You* (as in a person in America) have a need that needs to be met in the form of energy. The government tried* to meet this need balancing the requirements of *you* and the environment. Sure they could tomorrow tell the coal companies and the frackers to stop, but just what will *you* do when the power goes out and the petrol stations run dry?
What they can do is implement long term measures to slowly change the standards by which primary energy is extracted without destroying the energy industry in the process (because who in their right mind would build anything in America with a long payback period and long service life if the government shows it will happily shutdown an industry on a whim). Cars however have shorter development cycles and shorter life spans so it's far easier make larger changes in shorter periods of time.
And what is the result? Well coal consumption in millions of tonnes for the past 10 years in the USA:
565.7
573.3
564.2
496.2
525.0
495.4
437.9
454.6
453.5
391.8
358.4
And production follows similar trends. Not actually bad at all. The USA may still be in the top handful of countries in emissions per capita, but at least you're working on the blowing off mountain tops problem.
I'm not certain about this, but I believe a criminal court case in Europe can only be brought against a person by a European government. Given Germany's reluctance to do much if anything about the emissions scandal I think we have no chance in hell of that happening.
Germany do extradite its citizen and there are treaty for it, supplemented by EU wide treaty
Not at all. The treaty with the USA does not overwrite the German constitution. The only people who can be extradited to any non-EU country are non-citizens, or citizens exclusively for the trial at an international court.
27 people have been extradited from Germany. 15 were non-citizens, and 12 were Nazi war criminals, some of which ended up in EU countries.
I think winterkorn is safe from death penalty
Winterkorn is safe because he is a German citizen protected by Article 16 paragraph 2 of the German Constitution.
Of course we do, if there is a solid case.
27 people have historically been extradited from Germany. Of those 15 were not German citizens and 12 were tried as war criminals and extradited by the Allies for their involvement in the international law.
You're German (I think) so I'm just going to link to you your own constitution without a translation. As a citizen you are only allowed to be sent to another EU state or to an international court.
Make no mistake, Martin Winterkorn will NOT be extradited to Germany, not for his current crimes in the USA, and not if he committed far worse ones.
We joke about Google cutting off companies or groups they disagree with, but with this ballot and the right to get companies to stop selling your information, they may just find themselves cut off.
but when your toilet paper gets dirty, do you try to scrub out the shit-stains? No; you get a fresh roll.
Careful there's been a huge resurgence in reusable diapers as of late :)
they'll tie it up in court until he dies.
No need. Germany doesn't extradite its citizens.
Home prices are going to skyrocket so only the rich can afford it.
Nothing is quite as expensive as living in a cheap house.
Batteries are poison.
That's a very generic statement. Which one are you worried about poisoning you?
Building standards are created by the rich elite to ensure that only the companies they own and control can build houses.
Are you too stupid to read a regulation or too weak to lift a 2x4? Or why not both.
Building a house to code isn't hard.
I get it, in your religion, solar panels are free.
I didn't realise economics was a religion. I suppose you haven't read The Book of Smith 24:10 "Things that have a short payback period and then save you money effectively are free."
the cost of building a roof capable of supporting the weight of solar panels
I have never seen a roof in a developed world that needed to be reinforced to support the weight of the small number of panels we are talking about. Such a roof would not be safe to step on.
as well as the simple fact that California has areas with serious problems with affordable housing
One of the great things that keep the poor poor is that we put them in housing so cheap that it becomes expensive to run. Poor insulation, poor quality windows, lack of solar panels, expensive to run hot water systems, cheap flooring that scratches and breaks when you look at it funny.
There is nothing quite as expensive as cheap housing.
They shouldn't be adding to the problem
They aren't. In countries that actually give a damn about global warming and reducing their carbon footprint, energy price rises cause a lot of financial stress for the most vulnerable (reads: poor, or low income retirees).