I've sailed through this so called pacific plastic mire and have seen absolutely nothing. I've even swam and scuba dived through it and didn't see anything. Those scientists say it's microscopic which they always conveniently fail to mention when talking about the magnitude of this problem.
It's not a big deal. Just scientists peddling fear for more grant money.
What Musk did over Twitter is first and foremost unbecoming of a CEO and is outright manipulation of the stock price.
It's clear that he didn't have a buyer to bring the firm public. This was him Tweeting up late at night buzzed out of his mind on Ambien or tripping balls on LSD.
He's become dysfunctional, has allowed women of ill repute to pollute his life, and is allowing his ego to be propped up by his cult of personality who believe he is the second coming.
The whole thing is quickly becoming like Theranos and it's a complete and utter shame given what he is capable of.
Applied a little too much Eau De Musk this morning?
There's 300,000 Teslas on the road versus the 363 million gas powered cars. There's not enough data out yet to make such a claim.
Regardless, a non salvaged title used Tesla is infinitely better than your hacked together junk yard scrap.
I don't waste my time, money, or safety driving and repairing salvage title cars.
If you want to think yourself as cool and thrifty for doing so be my guest. The DIY crowd with out of warranty Teslas will thank you for it.
Other than that, I say again they're safe until they're not and I hope I don't hear about your hack N slash salvage title ride igniting somewhere in the news. Best of luck to you and your adventures.
I'd be concerned about the integrity of those batteries after an accident. A salvage title ICE gas tank can easily be replaced, it's not so easy to get replacement Tesla battery.
Another nail in the coffin for the poo ridden metropolis known as San Fran and Silicon Valley.
If engineers want to put up silly excuses like this, then companies should move to regions where engineers don't care about how its business makes money and are happy to work.
The sooner the bay area returns to its pre 1960s normalcy the better.
How about releasing a smartphone with a removeable battery (include a spare with the cost of the phone), a headphone jack, and *gasp* a clamshell slide out keyboard!
The pictures don't get deleted and are stored for permanent recall.
Who else believes that the government is looking out for our best interests, all modern examples of communism aren't the right kind of communism, and social media does its best to weigh both liberal and conservative voices?/sarcasm
I'm sorry, but this "kum bi ya" internet needs to run on magical unicorn farts crap needs to end with a harsh reality check.
It costs $$$ to run the infrastructure that runs the internet. It takes man power, energy, and an assortment of various other folks with expertise to keep the lights on. And guess what? Advertising pays for all of that. You know what doesn't pay for that? A tip jar. I'm sorry guys, buy FOSS can only do so much and a "tip jar" isn't enough to keep the lights on something this big. Sure you can do a lot with add-on corporate contracts, but let's be real with ourselves: it takes real hard cash to lay out all of that fiber.
The only thing that needs to be "decentralized" are the folks like Verizon and ATT who feel the need to keep gobbling stuff up. You're utility companies. Get over your bloody selves and accept that you will perpetually be a slow growing stock and not a sexy entertainment company.
On an unrelated note, I find it ironic that a lot of these "information wants to be free" types from the early days of the internet were more than happy to receive a paycheck from their much maligned military industrial complex. Irony at its finest!
Just like the hot 18/f/CA that used to hang out in all of those AOL chatrooms I'm willing to bet that it's a big fat hairy dude sitting behind a desk somewhere in Langley Virginia.
The beauty of the internet is that it allows readers to check multiple sources for any one subject/story, as opposed to just swallowing whatever the legacy media told them to believe. That scares the shit out of them.
Except most "journalists" these days just copy and paste identical stories from the same wire service or press release without doing any real writing or thinking.
Concerned somene will motice? Swap a section or two around.
Yes that doesn't work. It's usually blindingly obvious when the student has copied a source (paragraph swapping not withstanding) because 99 times out of 100 the writing is far more coherent.
You think you're pulling a fast one, you're not. You probably got away with it because it's extra paperwork for the professor and hey it's your education.
Between my undergraduate and MBA at two different ivy league schools it seems that the best that academia had to offer couldn't snuff out my act. Spejnt more time socializing, networking, and all around being the fun guy that makes connections.
Yeah joke's on you because most of the crap classes I had to write research papers in have zero bearing on what I'm doing today.
Wait so the joke's on them because you spent your money and got a narrower education than you could have done. Har har har! So funny! lol.
Yup joke's on me! I skipped out on learning why white men are evil, why we should put under performing minorities first, how women are oh so oppressed, and how capitalism is the invention of satan (heard this crap during when I was finishing up my MBA). Instead of wasting my time filling my brain with degenerate Marxist thinking and nihilist deconstructionism, I spent more time networking which is why I am farther along in my career.
But please, do tell me how I missed out on the indoctrination! I'd love to hear how I missed out while I cash these cheques at the bank.
I was always quite fond of Wikipedia to simplify my researching and outlining needs. No need to copy it verbatim when you have direct primary citations and an outline ready to go. That's like 50% of the BS that goes into writing that busy work.
Concerned somene will motice? Swap a section or two around. The burden of proof is on the over worked and under paid professor.
Made getting through the stupid stuff that much better. I loved those fools who said, "But you'll never learn it and then be screwed when you're at your job and can't do it". Yeah joke's on you because most of the crap classes I had to write research papers in have zero bearing on what I'm doing today.
You have to either be naive or stupid to not understand the long term strip mining game China is playing.
The poor guy is clearly naive and in giving him the benefit of the doubt. Scientists are good souls, but sometimes the, "For the sake of knowledge" types get used and abused in this cold world.
There are countless examples of these so called partnerships being extractionary. Chicoms put on delightful little smiles, you make some money in the meantime, and a few quarters down the line your profits plunge and there are a million Chinese domestic knock offs.
For better or for worse, NASA's mission is still partly defense. Even the engineers and scientists at SpaceX know this. Sorry Trekkies, but the main goal of these is to boldly kill where no one has killed before.
The Chinese know this and want access to to the new tech that makes it possible.
Good luck to him, but I hope there's someone out there who is reigning in his information sharing.
They do this in all of the in educational games and it's a silly exercise. The kids are playing Minecraft with a hint of Treasure Island. I doubt wholeheartedly they'll pick up the book.
They could set it up so you have to read the book in order to find the actual treasure, but it's still a gimmicky tie in.
It's a shame that the best edutainment game out there was the Oregon Trail series. Make more games like this!
I loved reading these books as a kid because I was fortunate enough to have parents and educators who fostered that in me. I'm continuing to do the same with my children.
Here's a hint: Maybe stop giving electronics to kids and encourage entertainment elsewhere. You'd be surprised what they find enjoyable. And this coming from a crusty old 30 year old!
Unrelated and slightly off topic rant: if you think kids need smartphones or laptops with some violent AAA EA title shooter because you're worried about them fitting in, getting lost, or some other convoluted excuse you're a bad parent. Stop letting electronics parent your kids because you're too lazy to encourage proper habits.
As a parent with two kids already with two working full time adults, and a mortage parenting young children isn't difficult.
Exactly and this is precisely a Chinese cultural trait that will bite them in the ass.
You never let your enemy know your position. The Americans have war toys out there that haven't seen the light of day. Some generals are super eager to use them on an enemy.
Take the stealth fighters of the late 80s for example. They didn't come out out no of the wood work until an actual battle happened during Desert Storm.
The Chinese are bluffing because of the trade war and trying to spread FUD. They're screwed and they know it.
Irony: when your enemy is screwing up, dont correct him. Keep showing off your military tech while we keep ours locked up and super secret, itching to add another 100 years to their century of shame.
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I've sailed through this so called pacific plastic mire and have seen absolutely nothing. I've even swam and scuba dived through it and didn't see anything. Those scientists say it's microscopic which they always conveniently fail to mention when talking about the magnitude of this problem.
It's not a big deal. Just scientists peddling fear for more grant money.
What Musk did over Twitter is first and foremost unbecoming of a CEO and is outright manipulation of the stock price.
It's clear that he didn't have a buyer to bring the firm public. This was him Tweeting up late at night buzzed out of his mind on Ambien or tripping balls on LSD.
He's become dysfunctional, has allowed women of ill repute to pollute his life, and is allowing his ego to be propped up by his cult of personality who believe he is the second coming.
The whole thing is quickly becoming like Theranos and it's a complete and utter shame given what he is capable of.
Looking forward to spending under $100 for a 1tb 2.5inch laptop drive. I'd also like to get a nice fat 512gb m.2 chip as well.
I can't justify their current prices. It was only a matter of time for the prices to drop. A collapse is a good thing!
Applied a little too much Eau De Musk this morning?
There's 300,000 Teslas on the road versus the 363 million gas powered cars. There's not enough data out yet to make such a claim.
Regardless, a non salvaged title used Tesla is infinitely better than your hacked together junk yard scrap.
I don't waste my time, money, or safety driving and repairing salvage title cars.
If you want to think yourself as cool and thrifty for doing so be my guest. The DIY crowd with out of warranty Teslas will thank you for it.
Other than that, I say again they're safe until they're not and I hope I don't hear about your hack N slash salvage title ride igniting somewhere in the news. Best of luck to you and your adventures.
They're safe till they're not.
Here's hoping your salvage titled Teslas never burst into flames with you in it.
I doubt that. It's a thousand times more difficult to land a helicopter in a Sim than it is to land in person.
VR can't simulate gravity and the perception your cochlea produce.
I'd be concerned about the integrity of those batteries after an accident. A salvage title ICE gas tank can easily be replaced, it's not so easy to get replacement Tesla battery.
Let's call it for what it is: Post Truth means having an opinion that runs contrary to what monied interests desire you to have.
And that's a good thing because it means you aren't being manipulated to make someone richer.
Another nail in the coffin for the poo ridden metropolis known as San Fran and Silicon Valley.
If engineers want to put up silly excuses like this, then companies should move to regions where engineers don't care about how its business makes money and are happy to work.
The sooner the bay area returns to its pre 1960s normalcy the better.
How about releasing a smartphone with a removeable battery (include a spare with the cost of the phone), a headphone jack, and *gasp* a clamshell slide out keyboard!
What's old is new and what's new is old!
The pictures don't get deleted and are stored for permanent recall.
Who else believes that the government is looking out for our best interests, all modern examples of communism aren't the right kind of communism, and social media does its best to weigh both liberal and conservative voices? /sarcasm
I'm sorry, but this "kum bi ya" internet needs to run on magical unicorn farts crap needs to end with a harsh reality check.
It costs $$$ to run the infrastructure that runs the internet. It takes man power, energy, and an assortment of various other folks with expertise to keep the lights on. And guess what? Advertising pays for all of that. You know what doesn't pay for that? A tip jar. I'm sorry guys, buy FOSS can only do so much and a "tip jar" isn't enough to keep the lights on something this big. Sure you can do a lot with add-on corporate contracts, but let's be real with ourselves: it takes real hard cash to lay out all of that fiber.
The only thing that needs to be "decentralized" are the folks like Verizon and ATT who feel the need to keep gobbling stuff up. You're utility companies. Get over your bloody selves and accept that you will perpetually be a slow growing stock and not a sexy entertainment company.
On an unrelated note, I find it ironic that a lot of these "information wants to be free" types from the early days of the internet were more than happy to receive a paycheck from their much maligned military industrial complex. Irony at its finest!
Just like the hot 18/f/CA that used to hang out in all of those AOL chatrooms I'm willing to bet that it's a big fat hairy dude sitting behind a desk somewhere in Langley Virginia.
The beauty of the internet is that it allows readers to check multiple sources for any one subject/story, as opposed to just swallowing whatever the legacy media told them to believe. That scares the shit out of them.
Except most "journalists" these days just copy and paste identical stories from the same wire service or press release without doing any real writing or thinking.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The smart users will go to Google and learn how to download the separate APK while also disabling the power saving features.
The summary says:
the chip is an advertised feature of the Adidas AG ball
Are we going to now say that Russia hacked Adidas, put a "spy! device on it (NFC of all things) for the sheer purpose of listening in on Trump?
The Trump Derangement Syndrome has reached new epic proportions.
Concerned somene will motice? Swap a section or two around.
Yes that doesn't work. It's usually blindingly obvious when the student has copied a source (paragraph swapping not withstanding) because 99 times out of 100 the writing is far more coherent.
You think you're pulling a fast one, you're not. You probably got away with it because it's extra paperwork for the professor and hey it's your education.
Between my undergraduate and MBA at two different ivy league schools it seems that the best that academia had to offer couldn't snuff out my act. Spejnt more time socializing, networking, and all around being the fun guy that makes connections.
Yeah joke's on you because most of the crap classes I had to write research papers in have zero bearing on what I'm doing today.
Wait so the joke's on them because you spent your money and got a narrower education than you could have done. Har har har! So funny! lol.
Yup joke's on me! I skipped out on learning why white men are evil, why we should put under performing minorities first, how women are oh so oppressed, and how capitalism is the invention of satan (heard this crap during when I was finishing up my MBA). Instead of wasting my time filling my brain with degenerate Marxist thinking and nihilist deconstructionism, I spent more time networking which is why I am farther along in my career.
But please, do tell me how I missed out on the indoctrination! I'd love to hear how I missed out while I cash these cheques at the bank.
I was always quite fond of Wikipedia to simplify my researching and outlining needs. No need to copy it verbatim when you have direct primary citations and an outline ready to go. That's like 50% of the BS that goes into writing that busy work.
Concerned somene will motice? Swap a section or two around. The burden of proof is on the over worked and under paid professor.
Made getting through the stupid stuff that much better. I loved those fools who said, "But you'll never learn it and then be screwed when you're at your job and can't do it". Yeah joke's on you because most of the crap classes I had to write research papers in have zero bearing on what I'm doing today.
You have to either be naive or stupid to not understand the long term strip mining game China is playing.
The poor guy is clearly naive and in giving him the benefit of the doubt. Scientists are good souls, but sometimes the, "For the sake of knowledge" types get used and abused in this cold world.
There are countless examples of these so called partnerships being extractionary. Chicoms put on delightful little smiles, you make some money in the meantime, and a few quarters down the line your profits plunge and there are a million Chinese domestic knock offs.
For better or for worse, NASA's mission is still partly defense. Even the engineers and scientists at SpaceX know this. Sorry Trekkies, but the main goal of these is to boldly kill where no one has killed before.
The Chinese know this and want access to to the new tech that makes it possible.
Good luck to him, but I hope there's someone out there who is reigning in his information sharing.
Sorry, but you'd have to be a dumb ass to assume anything in China is private!
Just like assuming digital assistants aren't passing your recorded conversations to the NSA.
You do business in China, don't assume you have any privacy for trade secrets or even thought crime.
The idiocy of people astounds me.
What do you think I do on Saturdays and Sundays?
This is how revolutions start.
They do this in all of the in educational games and it's a silly exercise. The kids are playing Minecraft with a hint of Treasure Island. I doubt wholeheartedly they'll pick up the book.
They could set it up so you have to read the book in order to find the actual treasure, but it's still a gimmicky tie in.
It's a shame that the best edutainment game out there was the Oregon Trail series. Make more games like this!
I loved reading these books as a kid because I was fortunate enough to have parents and educators who fostered that in me. I'm continuing to do the same with my children.
Here's a hint: Maybe stop giving electronics to kids and encourage entertainment elsewhere. You'd be surprised what they find enjoyable. And this coming from a crusty old 30 year old!
Unrelated and slightly off topic rant: if you think kids need smartphones or laptops with some violent AAA EA title shooter because you're worried about them fitting in, getting lost, or some other convoluted excuse you're a bad parent. Stop letting electronics parent your kids because you're too lazy to encourage proper habits.
As a parent with two kids already with two working full time adults, and a mortage parenting young children isn't difficult.
I do see a lot of weak parents out there.
Exactly and this is precisely a Chinese cultural trait that will bite them in the ass.
You never let your enemy know your position. The Americans have war toys out there that haven't seen the light of day. Some generals are super eager to use them on an enemy.
Take the stealth fighters of the late 80s for example. They didn't come out out no of the wood work until an actual battle happened during Desert Storm.
The Chinese are bluffing because of the trade war and trying to spread FUD. They're screwed and they know it.
Irony: when your enemy is screwing up, dont correct him. Keep showing off your military tech while we keep ours locked up and super secret, itching to add another 100 years to their century of shame.
In other news, Apple also plans on removing peripheral and charging ports. Once the battery is finished, you toss the device and buy a new one!