Could be an interesting sci-fi story. Imagine that Apollo 11 had discovered an archive of data from a prior civilisation on the moon, which was at approximately 2019 levels of tech or 50 years ahead.
To be fair the spacecraft did need to escape from Earth's gravity well, reaching a speed where it won't fall back down, before being subsequently captured by the Moon's gravity. So for the middle part of the trip it is beyond the "grasp" of both, as far as that analogy works.
Since Huawei have offered to allow security audits of the code, why not take them up? Don't trust, verify.
This isn't about security, this is about western companies losing out on the lucrative 5G upgrade because Huawei has all the patents and beat them to market by years.
We KNOW that the US and Europe cheats and spies too.
In fact so far no-one has managed to find a confirmed Chinese government backdoor. But we have absolute proof of US and UK ones.
Arguably that's even worse for us because our own governments can do us far more harm than the Chinese government.
This idea that you have to trust your infrastructure is the problem. We will always lose if we rely on trusting the hardware. For example, why trust the ISP's router when you can VPN traffic through it?
With banks the secret phrase they want 3 random characters from is to supplement the full password. In fact it's mostly there to try to defeat key loggers, which is why they make you enter it using drop-down menus on a heavily Javascript laden page that pegs your CPU at 100%.
Note how it says he won't tweet anything about Tesla without having it put through the review process first.
Since Tesla failed to implement the review process, he shouldn't be tweeting abut Tesla at all, even if it is 100% true and accurate.
Doesn't matter if it influenced anyone, or if it was public information or not. He agreed not to do it and settled for only $40 million. He broke the terms of the settlement, there in black and white.
Note how it requires him to submit his Tesla related tweets to the agreed review process before publication. Note how he didn't.
Tesla appointed someone to review his tweets, and they quit after one day. So none of his Tesla related tweets have been reviewed. Musk shouldn't even have been tweeting about anything Tesla related according to that settlement, until Tesla put the review process in place.
UKIP's policies are right-wing populism. They reject what they describe in their manifesto as the "cultural left", multiculturalism, the "islamification" of the UK and opposition to the progressive politics of the European Union (particularly freedom of movement). They want to repeal the Human Rights Act and reintroduce the death penalty, while being generally very conservative on crime, and are climate change sceptics.
An example of this would be their attitude towards he NHS, which is classic social conservatism. They support the NHS in principal (it's extremely popular so not supporting it is political suicide) but advocate more involvement of the private sector and of course requiring non-citizens to have insurance to use it.
So clearly they are very different to Labour, who are actually left of centre and support things like nationalization and a fairer, more humane immigration system.
Don't mistake a few headline policies used as talking points to attack critics for a political philosophy or overall position on the left/right scale. UKIP goes much further to the right than the Tories do on many key issues.
It's probably less the stupid conspiracy shit and more the suicidal children, images of self harm, friends trying desperately and ineffectively to help, groups encouraging anorexia...
Seeing people genuinely suffering is one of the common causes of PTSD in soldiers and aid workers, for example.
Do you know why they are saying it's "contempt of court" now? It's because the court signed off on the agreement, on the basis that Musk would stick to it, and if he didn't he would be held in contempt by the court for not obeying its instructions.
See, the SEC isn't dumb. They made sure that the agreement had legal force by having the court agree it, creating this consequence if Musk ignored it.
What boggles the mind is that Musk just can't resist tweeting about Tesla production numbers even after he was told by a court not to and fined $40 million.
How hard is it to just avoid tweeting about that stuff?
That's the problem right there. Between 350k and 500k. Musk tweeted that they will produce 500k. He forgot the range.
Omitting the range suggests that Tesla is on target to produce 500k. Musk is not supposed to make statements like that any more, or at least not without prior review and approval.
I can never get over how banal the lyrics are. "Convenient shopping in the middle of the Chuo line, easily accessible from Shinjuku on the Yamanote line?" I'm already here!
It's far worse in Japan. I don't know how staff there put up with it.
Many shops in Japan have their own theme music. Actually a theme song, with lyrics. The Yodobashi Camera one is a jaunty take on Auld Lang Syne and they actually have a different version for every branch... On repeat, all day, every day.
If you spend too much time in the shop you can't get it out of your head. The staff must be hearing it in their dreams.
Here's a little selection. Don't say I didn't warn you.
On the contrary, films that fail to invite critics to early screenings make the headlines for just that reason, and it's generally accepted that the only reason it ever happens is because the movie is so terrible they judge that to be less bad than the actual reviews.
Lack of pre-release reviews is a massive red flag for any movie. Often theatres won't even carry it because they know it's going to be really, really bad.
The problem is that this isn't the first time he has done this, it's not the first time he has hung out with far right asshats for fun and profit, and it's not the first time he has used this excuse. At some point, after he has been spreading the same conspiracy theory bullshit as the far right, the same political philosophy with a slightly more acceptable veneer, you have to just conclude that it's not some kind of clever meta-argument or attempt to engage and draw them away from extremism...
He just believes that shit and tries his best to put an acceptable face on it, but occasionally the mask slips.
Well, okay, maybe he doesn't believe it, I don't know what is going on in his head. But functionally there is no difference between him actually believing it and him constantly pretending to believe it to make money, so fuck Sargon.
It's more the fact that "leftists" are a batshit conspiracy theory that only batshit people tend to believe in. The guy *did* commit acts of terrorism in support of his delusion. Maybe that is an ad hominem, but it's still a legitimate criticism of his position.
"De-feminized" is a misnomer, they went out of their way to simply remove female characters and make the male ones much more boring and predictably macho.
Basically Kylo becomes a murderous psycopath with no personality, all the women are either removed or weak and have most of their dialogue cut, and Luke dies pathetically with the first shot. Even fan favourite badass Phasma dies in one hit from Finn, with the justification given in the readme being "women are naturally weaker than men".
It's total shit. The male characters are reduced to lame disposable soldiers, little more than cannon fodder, so it's not pro-men or whatever the fuck it's supposed to do.
BTW, Rian Johnson appears to have secured a further trilogy of films. Yep, total failure.
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Could be an interesting sci-fi story. Imagine that Apollo 11 had discovered an archive of data from a prior civilisation on the moon, which was at approximately 2019 levels of tech or 50 years ahead.
To be fair the spacecraft did need to escape from Earth's gravity well, reaching a speed where it won't fall back down, before being subsequently captured by the Moon's gravity. So for the middle part of the trip it is beyond the "grasp" of both, as far as that analogy works.
Since Huawei have offered to allow security audits of the code, why not take them up? Don't trust, verify.
This isn't about security, this is about western companies losing out on the lucrative 5G upgrade because Huawei has all the patents and beat them to market by years.
We KNOW that the US and Europe cheats and spies too.
In fact so far no-one has managed to find a confirmed Chinese government backdoor. But we have absolute proof of US and UK ones.
Arguably that's even worse for us because our own governments can do us far more harm than the Chinese government.
This idea that you have to trust your infrastructure is the problem. We will always lose if we rely on trusting the hardware. For example, why trust the ISP's router when you can VPN traffic through it?
Add Vice to that list. Forbes for their crappy ads. Anything with a paywall.
With banks the secret phrase they want 3 random characters from is to supplement the full password. In fact it's mostly there to try to defeat key loggers, which is why they make you enter it using drop-down menus on a heavily Javascript laden page that pegs your CPU at 100%.
Here's the settlement letter he signed along with the SEC and submitted to the court: https://drive.google.com/file/...
Note how it says he won't tweet anything about Tesla without having it put through the review process first.
Since Tesla failed to implement the review process, he shouldn't be tweeting abut Tesla at all, even if it is 100% true and accurate.
Doesn't matter if it influenced anyone, or if it was public information or not. He agreed not to do it and settled for only $40 million. He broke the terms of the settlement, there in black and white.
Here's the joint statement that he and the SEC submitted to the court: https://drive.google.com/file/...
Note how it requires him to submit his Tesla related tweets to the agreed review process before publication. Note how he didn't.
Tesla appointed someone to review his tweets, and they quit after one day. So none of his Tesla related tweets have been reviewed. Musk shouldn't even have been tweeting about anything Tesla related according to that settlement, until Tesla put the review process in place.
Well spotted. Thanks for the correction.
I think I was confused by the fact that all shops use Auld Lang Syne to signal that they are closing soon.
the SEC cannot expect him to not publicize Tesla's successes
Sure they can, when that's what he agreed to do. He doesn't seem to have held up the agreement to have his tweets vetted either.
Robert Spencer was banned from the UK by the government... What does this have to do with corporate censorship?
He's still frequently on Fox News, right? He still has a Twitter account, his books are still on Amazon.
UKIP's policies are right-wing populism. They reject what they describe in their manifesto as the "cultural left", multiculturalism, the "islamification" of the UK and opposition to the progressive politics of the European Union (particularly freedom of movement). They want to repeal the Human Rights Act and reintroduce the death penalty, while being generally very conservative on crime, and are climate change sceptics.
An example of this would be their attitude towards he NHS, which is classic social conservatism. They support the NHS in principal (it's extremely popular so not supporting it is political suicide) but advocate more involvement of the private sector and of course requiring non-citizens to have insurance to use it.
So clearly they are very different to Labour, who are actually left of centre and support things like nationalization and a fairer, more humane immigration system.
Don't mistake a few headline policies used as talking points to attack critics for a political philosophy or overall position on the left/right scale. UKIP goes much further to the right than the Tories do on many key issues.
You should be Musk's lawyer.
It's probably less the stupid conspiracy shit and more the suicidal children, images of self harm, friends trying desperately and ineffectively to help, groups encouraging anorexia...
Seeing people genuinely suffering is one of the common causes of PTSD in soldiers and aid workers, for example.
I don't think I have... At least not seriously, maybe as a joke.
I guess a link is too much to ask for.
Do you know why they are saying it's "contempt of court" now? It's because the court signed off on the agreement, on the basis that Musk would stick to it, and if he didn't he would be held in contempt by the court for not obeying its instructions.
See, the SEC isn't dumb. They made sure that the agreement had legal force by having the court agree it, creating this consequence if Musk ignored it.
What boggles the mind is that Musk just can't resist tweeting about Tesla production numbers even after he was told by a court not to and fined $40 million.
How hard is it to just avoid tweeting about that stuff?
Q4 call: 350-500k Model 3s produced
That's the problem right there. Between 350k and 500k. Musk tweeted that they will produce 500k. He forgot the range.
Omitting the range suggests that Tesla is on target to produce 500k. Musk is not supposed to make statements like that any more, or at least not without prior review and approval.
I can never get over how banal the lyrics are. "Convenient shopping in the middle of the Chuo line, easily accessible from Shinjuku on the Yamanote line?" I'm already here!
It's far worse in Japan. I don't know how staff there put up with it.
Many shops in Japan have their own theme music. Actually a theme song, with lyrics. The Yodobashi Camera one is a jaunty take on Auld Lang Syne and they actually have a different version for every branch... On repeat, all day, every day.
If you spend too much time in the shop you can't get it out of your head. The staff must be hearing it in their dreams.
Here's a little selection. Don't say I didn't warn you.
https://youtu.be/cwTJEbqQy4U
https://youtu.be/hntaaDWKco4
https://youtu.be/yFLYuKUKXoY
https://youtu.be/iQqPLYUu43s
https://youtu.be/y5XfsHaB730
https://youtu.be/KOQ9HVGoGsY
On the contrary, films that fail to invite critics to early screenings make the headlines for just that reason, and it's generally accepted that the only reason it ever happens is because the movie is so terrible they judge that to be less bad than the actual reviews.
Lack of pre-release reviews is a massive red flag for any movie. Often theatres won't even carry it because they know it's going to be really, really bad.
Well 40 would be born in 1979, 45 would be 1974. That's a bit early to be a millennial.
Gen X is usually thought of as mid 1960s to early 1980s. It's all a bit vague.
The problem is that this isn't the first time he has done this, it's not the first time he has hung out with far right asshats for fun and profit, and it's not the first time he has used this excuse. At some point, after he has been spreading the same conspiracy theory bullshit as the far right, the same political philosophy with a slightly more acceptable veneer, you have to just conclude that it's not some kind of clever meta-argument or attempt to engage and draw them away from extremism...
He just believes that shit and tries his best to put an acceptable face on it, but occasionally the mask slips.
Well, okay, maybe he doesn't believe it, I don't know what is going on in his head. But functionally there is no difference between him actually believing it and him constantly pretending to believe it to make money, so fuck Sargon.
It's more the fact that "leftists" are a batshit conspiracy theory that only batshit people tend to believe in. The guy *did* commit acts of terrorism in support of his delusion. Maybe that is an ad hominem, but it's still a legitimate criticism of his position.
"De-feminized" is a misnomer, they went out of their way to simply remove female characters and make the male ones much more boring and predictably macho.
Basically Kylo becomes a murderous psycopath with no personality, all the women are either removed or weak and have most of their dialogue cut, and Luke dies pathetically with the first shot. Even fan favourite badass Phasma dies in one hit from Finn, with the justification given in the readme being "women are naturally weaker than men".
It's total shit. The male characters are reduced to lame disposable soldiers, little more than cannon fodder, so it's not pro-men or whatever the fuck it's supposed to do.
BTW, Rian Johnson appears to have secured a further trilogy of films. Yep, total failure.