Perpetual motion is possible if you can figure out a way of feeding all the energy in the universe into your device. The motion stops when the universe ends... so perpetual...
Easily proven. If I put a bar of gold in your path you will pick it up. If you saw you wouldn't, you are lying. Even if you yourself see no value in gold, you realize that other people do, and therefore you realize you could sell it for profit. QED. The intrinsic value of gold is the perceived value of gold.
Oh there will be a law suit. It will be settled out of court - after all this is the financial industry. Lawyers will walk off with a few tens of millions and affected consumers will get a 5% discount on their next credit check provided they cash in the coupon before the 6 month expiry date.
No that's not the problem. The problem now is that Tesla have just left themselves wide open for all sorts of litigation in the future, since they have proven that they can do this - some lawyers will argue that the fact that they don't do it in future can be construed as criminal if anyone ends up dying anywhere near a Tesla car. Questions like "how come you can do it for Hurricane Irma, but you can't do it for a severe icestorm in NY?" etc can come up in future, and they will find themselves sliding down that slippery slope where lawyers argue where Tesla's new legal responsibility should end.
He made it possible. It's a long way from the drawing board to an actual working business. It takes organization, vision, determination and a lot of money. It's easy to sit around and say "oh these plans have been around for years". No one else did it. The guy deserves credit.
I would be much more afraid of a Korean diesel electric boat sailing right into LA harbor or San Francisco and detonating a nuke that way. Or the cargo ship. Or the cargo plane. The crew are fanatic enough to die for their leader... heck you don't even have to tell them. If someone wanted to fuck up America's shit there are lots of ways to do it. Remember the surprise on 9/11? Star Wars is a nice toy. It prevents NOTHING. It does however make a lot of money for a lot of weapons contractors.
Elon Musk is someone a lot of people love to hate. Say what you will, but I think this tech is fucking awesome and he's the one who made it possible. He's a dreamer with the unique ability to make some of his dreams come true. I'm also very happy because I knew private spaceflight was possible when I was younger, only I was never in a position to be able to prove it. I was laughed at more than once. This is a sort of vindication for me.
The problem with working on a technology to counter your enemy's technology is that it assumes your enemy is not working on his own technology... Politicians are willing to stake all our lives on an expensive tech which has been sold to them as foolproof but human history will show who the real fools were.
I realize that ships burn bunker fuel, but even that is made from crude and subject to price changes in proportion to crude oil prices. While we're not talking a jump from $1 to $3 a gallon, a 10 cent to 30 cent spike makes a big difference to a shipping company. And while oil prices will fluctuate with the market we keep adding people to this planet and we keep growing economies and energy demand - oil prices will invariably rise over time. One day wind propulsion might make a real comeback.
Fucking academics who have never left a schoolground and gone to a construction site.
Plastic fibers are coming from the air.... as opposed to leaching off from those miles and miles of PVC conduit water has to run through before getting to your tap.
They keep statistics for how much ROI they get on different platforms.
No they don't. They can and they should, but they don't. Market research is something my wife does - and at a very high level in Fortune 500 companies - is something companies are spending less and less on each year. They think they can replace a trained researcher with survey monkey in the hands of a marketing graduate (market research != marketing kind of like a statistician is not an engineer). The attitude among companies is that market research is a waste of money and they can just guess if an ad is "good" or "bad" and go with their gut feeling - which is often completely wrong due to any number of biases. They generate statistics and studies that they don't understand or don't know how to apply. Etc. So yes you are right that they keep statistics. But they often have no idea what those statistics actually mean. You would be shocked at the stuff I've heard country and regional level marketing people say - and I only know what I know about research by "osmosis".
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How do you think radar works, son?
Or if a plane is there it gasses the radar operator?
Perpetual motion is possible if you can figure out a way of feeding all the energy in the universe into your device. The motion stops when the universe ends... so perpetual...
western intelligence hahahahahahahaha
Easily proven. If I put a bar of gold in your path you will pick it up. If you saw you wouldn't, you are lying. Even if you yourself see no value in gold, you realize that other people do, and therefore you realize you could sell it for profit. QED. The intrinsic value of gold is the perceived value of gold.
anyone affected already gets a free year of monitoring
EXACTLY... and 5% discount off free is? The guys in finance went nuts when we proposed this!
Oh there will be a law suit. It will be settled out of court - after all this is the financial industry. Lawyers will walk off with a few tens of millions and affected consumers will get a 5% discount on their next credit check provided they cash in the coupon before the 6 month expiry date.
No that's not the problem. The problem now is that Tesla have just left themselves wide open for all sorts of litigation in the future, since they have proven that they can do this - some lawyers will argue that the fact that they don't do it in future can be construed as criminal if anyone ends up dying anywhere near a Tesla car. Questions like "how come you can do it for Hurricane Irma, but you can't do it for a severe icestorm in NY?" etc can come up in future, and they will find themselves sliding down that slippery slope where lawyers argue where Tesla's new legal responsibility should end.
If there was ever a compelling reason to pay $500+ for an upgrade, here it is.
No. God is FANTASY. Fiction at least has some basis in reality.
In my neighborhood even those don't survive too long.
There's another better solution.
You're comparing shortwave with Netflix.
He made it possible. It's a long way from the drawing board to an actual working business. It takes organization, vision, determination and a lot of money. It's easy to sit around and say "oh these plans have been around for years". No one else did it. The guy deserves credit.
I would be much more afraid of a Korean diesel electric boat sailing right into LA harbor or San Francisco and detonating a nuke that way. Or the cargo ship. Or the cargo plane. The crew are fanatic enough to die for their leader... heck you don't even have to tell them. If someone wanted to fuck up America's shit there are lots of ways to do it. Remember the surprise on 9/11? Star Wars is a nice toy. It prevents NOTHING. It does however make a lot of money for a lot of weapons contractors.
Elon Musk is someone a lot of people love to hate. Say what you will, but I think this tech is fucking awesome and he's the one who made it possible. He's a dreamer with the unique ability to make some of his dreams come true. I'm also very happy because I knew private spaceflight was possible when I was younger, only I was never in a position to be able to prove it. I was laughed at more than once. This is a sort of vindication for me.
Because it's so hard to believe in government inefficiency and incompetence.
In b4 flat earth
The problem with working on a technology to counter your enemy's technology is that it assumes your enemy is not working on his own technology... Politicians are willing to stake all our lives on an expensive tech which has been sold to them as foolproof but human history will show who the real fools were.
Classified as secret and not for the consumption of plebs like you and me.
I realize that ships burn bunker fuel, but even that is made from crude and subject to price changes in proportion to crude oil prices. While we're not talking a jump from $1 to $3 a gallon, a 10 cent to 30 cent spike makes a big difference to a shipping company. And while oil prices will fluctuate with the market we keep adding people to this planet and we keep growing economies and energy demand - oil prices will invariably rise over time. One day wind propulsion might make a real comeback.
Oil is not expensive enough. It's just a matter of time.
Someone is enjoying their new house and pension fund. With Intel inside!
Fucking academics who have never left a schoolground and gone to a construction site.
Plastic fibers are coming from the air.... as opposed to leaching off from those miles and miles of PVC conduit water has to run through before getting to your tap.
They keep statistics for how much ROI they get on different platforms.
No they don't. They can and they should, but they don't. Market research is something my wife does - and at a very high level in Fortune 500 companies - is something companies are spending less and less on each year. They think they can replace a trained researcher with survey monkey in the hands of a marketing graduate (market research != marketing kind of like a statistician is not an engineer). The attitude among companies is that market research is a waste of money and they can just guess if an ad is "good" or "bad" and go with their gut feeling - which is often completely wrong due to any number of biases. They generate statistics and studies that they don't understand or don't know how to apply. Etc. So yes you are right that they keep statistics. But they often have no idea what those statistics actually mean. You would be shocked at the stuff I've heard country and regional level marketing people say - and I only know what I know about research by "osmosis".