You all are assigning way too much credit to Slashdot. It is now a thoroughly unimportant web site that has collapsed under the weight of it's ancient shitty code base, horrible "editing", and resulting shrinking readership. I'm sure the few hundred people left that come here regularly aren't really worth the time and effort, especially since there would be a higher percentage of them that would recognize the effort due to the inherent readership demographic.
Nobody would bother with spending resources on the conspiracy you postulate. Those resources are far better spent on troll farms and sock puppet operations to poison platforms people actually use, like Reddit or Facebook, where there is a far higher percentage of people that can be taken by such operations.
Also, spare me from the obvious reply that I must be one of the sock puppets now, because I dare disagree with your ridiculous interpretation.
The media could use a bit of beating up every once in a while. Don't worry, the likes of CNN, Fox News, and NBC News aren't going anywhere, but just maybe they'll realize that people are looking for them to be presenting factual programming with a clear separation from opinion and editorial, and that separation is very murky if present at all.
Your hyperbole aside, every once in a while the media needs a good slap so they remember their place - they don't run the show, they merely report on those who do, and how they do so that the real people that run the show - The People - can be informed of what their representative government is doing, and make adjustments to that representation accordingly.
It's a critical role in a functioning democracy, and it's been put in far more danger through the consolidation and mergers of the last 20 years than Trump can do on Twitter. Clear Channel, GE NBC Universal Comcast, AT&T Time Warner DirecTV, News Corp. - these are the guys doing the real damage to the media.
First, the Pacific is to the west of California. Look at a map every once in a while.
Second, running salt water through equipment is a great idea if you want that equipment to prematurely fail, or have vastly increased maintenance costs. You may have noticed that salt tends to corrode things.
Maybe the next time you're being anonymously smug, you should try to be less of an idiot.
Energy that may have helped plants grow where you now have fields of solar panels
What. A. Load. Of. Horseshit.
Yeah, that field of solar panels is definitely worse than all the fucking asphalt parking lots that are god damn everywhere and also prevent plants from growing. Yet I'll bet you don't complain if someone was to build more parking somewhere you frequent.
That might be the single stupidest point of FUD I've ever seen about solar. Congratulations!
In your cost of fossil fuels, please consider the externalized cost of waste product disposal into the lungs of those downwind, and the cost of deleting entire mountains in the Appalachians so we can load them into furnaces, and the costs of doing all that (slurry ponds, destroyed ecosystems, etc.)
Let's factor that into the fossil fuel energy costs, completely disregarding sea level rise and how much that's going to cost in lost real estate and property, as well as increased severity and frequency of storms from climate change because some people still argue about if those are real things.
I think we can all agree that breathing coal-fired particulate and sulfur dioxide is bad for you, and anyone 30+ miles downwind from each and every coal plant is doing exactly that.
Yes, that install isn't on the scale of what you say is needed (don't know the math) but it seems to be doing pretty damn good for the Aussies - good enough that Southern California Edison wants one too.
Because that has never been a problem before, when dealing with oddball solutions of past filesystems. Deal with it the same way - a metadata file that holds the crap that the filesystem doesn't deal with well.
For example, we've all seed the.DS_Store files on any fileshare that a Mac has visited, which holds Finder metadata that would be written to the HFS file system if it were HFS, and otherwise sits in a metadata file everywhere else. No, it's not the cleanest way to work, but it's something that Dropbox could implement in about two hours and be done with it, because this is a long-solved problem, and we don't need a new shaped wheel.
Some filesystems (ext) on Linux will update the "last accessed" timestamp on read if you mount the volume without the "noatime" option. This results in significant performance improvement, as well.
Nice. Back in the 28.8 and 33.6 days, that actually worked on most modems using Rockwell chipsets as they didn't have "guard time" between the +++ interrupt and taking a command. People could mass-dump people from IRC channels and such with that command (or worse - chain on a dial command for some long distance number / 911) until firmware updates came out to insert guard time.
Why would a car manufacturer keep a battery of the same size with 10x the density, knowing that charging that battery would be a problem?
They could always just make a battery pack that gives X range, and keep the charging the same for the value of X, but with a much smaller pack (less mass)
The engineers may get overworked, but as this article proves, they always have the option of going elsewhere if they feel they are underpaid. And you state that you know people that left in order to correct the overworked bit too.
What the fuck does the cafeteria have to do with anything? And which cafeteria? At the factory? At one of their larger office buildings around the Fremont area? The one in Palo Alto? The design place in LA? Some other damn thing somewhere?
And let's have some kind of citation for the "largely drug-addicted assembly crew" statement. No wonder you posted Anonymous - there's no possible way for you to back that up, which means it's baseless horseshit FUD from a clueless dipshit. How's the short position going? You buy the $250 options and getting desperate?
Also don't forget:... because Tesla had a layoff two months ago that was felt disproportionately in non-car-production positions. You know, exactly the kind of workers that Apple is probably looking for.
Shocking that a handful of them would end up in Cupertino, what with it being oh-so-far away from Fremont, and suddenly available for full-time employment...
It actually was a Tesla representative that replied. Musk wasn't quoted. From TFA:
Tesla's full statement about talent competition with Apple follows:
"We wish them well. Tesla is the hard path. We have 100 times less money than Apple, so of course they can afford to pay more. We are in extremely difficult battles against entrenched auto companies that make 100 times more cars than we did last year, so of course this is very hard work. We don't even have money for advertising or endorsements or discounts, so must survive on the quality of our products alone. Nonetheless, we believe in our mission and that it is worth the sacrifice of time and the never ending barrage of negativity by those who wish us ill. So it goes. The world must move to sustainable energy and it must do so now."
So I guess tangentally it's on Musk for Tesla having an idiot who gave a shitty official quote to a non-story.
Where does "using the power of the state to uphold laws of the state enacted by the peoples' representatives" rate with you?
No, there's no law against paying someone to go away. There's not even really laws against using campaign funds to pay someone to go away - after all, John Edwards is still walking free after his acquittal / mistrial and DoJ deciding not to pursue further trial.
However, there is laws about a private citizen paying someone to go away for a politician who's running for office, as making them go away is a campaign contribution, and the payoff amount was greater than the maximum contribution allowed under Federal election laws.
Cohen violated the law as outlined in McCain-Feingold, and he pled guilty to that. The campaign violated the same law in not reporting the contribution. I guess you could say that the repayment of the hush money to Cohen was actually refunding the contribution because it was over the maximum allowed amount if you want to lie about it (they say it was a retainer payment); but they still haven't reported it to this day, which is a violation of the law.
Unless the money came from the Trump corporation coffers, then it's a corporate donation to a campaign, which is illegal. Corporations cannot contribute to the campaign of a candidate - McCain-Feingold prohibits corporations and labor unions from making direct contributions or expenditures in connection with federal elections - if a corporation is to spend money in politics, it needs to go through either the party, or a PAC / SuperPAC.
Also, Cohen is on the hook for the campaign finance violation if they can make it stick that he wasn't reimbursed, because he donated more than $5000, which is the individual contributor limit per election ($10000 in a Presidential election year, as the primary is considered to be separate, but this happened after the nomination, so the limit is $5000).
Do you think Trump would actually pay with his own money? This is the guy that gets his "charity" to pay for 6-foot tall portraits of himself...
No, but if you (and her) attest to those things in affidavits or in sworn testimony, you commit perjury (she gets the perjury, you get felony conspiracy charges) and you go to jail, and the Senator gets to grandstand a bit with a bunch of free media. And slashdot gets one less anonymous idiot posting stupid crap.
So because some fuckwits in Congress misappropriate funds and break the law, it's ok for the President to misappropriate funds and break the law?
Great fucking logic there. Classic "Whataboutism".
How about ALL politicians who misappropriate campaign funds, or even worse: taxpayer funds; upon conviction in a proper court of law, are immediately removed from office and sent to prison.
Stop pointing to the bad behavior of others to justify your chosen favorite's bad behavior. It makes you look like an idiot.
You know there's a concept in US law that a punishment should fit the crime, right? A paperwork SNAFU that ends up with the campaign returning some donations once they figure out they were more than the maximum allowed by law and then self-reporting the issue to the FEC means that a fine is levied for not finding it and returning it / reporting it sooner.
This shit here, where not only did they not self-report, they continue to deny after sworn testimony to violating the law and guilty pleas - that's not self reporting. That's not paperwork. That won't be a fine and a wink.
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You all are assigning way too much credit to Slashdot. It is now a thoroughly unimportant web site that has collapsed under the weight of it's ancient shitty code base, horrible "editing", and resulting shrinking readership. I'm sure the few hundred people left that come here regularly aren't really worth the time and effort, especially since there would be a higher percentage of them that would recognize the effort due to the inherent readership demographic.
Nobody would bother with spending resources on the conspiracy you postulate. Those resources are far better spent on troll farms and sock puppet operations to poison platforms people actually use, like Reddit or Facebook, where there is a far higher percentage of people that can be taken by such operations.
Also, spare me from the obvious reply that I must be one of the sock puppets now, because I dare disagree with your ridiculous interpretation.
The media could use a bit of beating up every once in a while. Don't worry, the likes of CNN, Fox News, and NBC News aren't going anywhere, but just maybe they'll realize that people are looking for them to be presenting factual programming with a clear separation from opinion and editorial, and that separation is very murky if present at all.
Your hyperbole aside, every once in a while the media needs a good slap so they remember their place - they don't run the show, they merely report on those who do, and how they do so that the real people that run the show - The People - can be informed of what their representative government is doing, and make adjustments to that representation accordingly.
It's a critical role in a functioning democracy, and it's been put in far more danger through the consolidation and mergers of the last 20 years than Trump can do on Twitter. Clear Channel, GE NBC Universal Comcast, AT&T Time Warner DirecTV, News Corp. - these are the guys doing the real damage to the media.
That's a great tip. Thanks!
Yeah, fuck those other states and their cleaner air they're getting without the paperwork and legislative detritus!
God damn California and their regulations making life better outside of California too! How dare they!
First, the Pacific is to the west of California. Look at a map every once in a while.
Second, running salt water through equipment is a great idea if you want that equipment to prematurely fail, or have vastly increased maintenance costs. You may have noticed that salt tends to corrode things.
Maybe the next time you're being anonymously smug, you should try to be less of an idiot.
From a strict economical perspective, that might be the case.
However, Californians, and Americans in general, still have to eat.
Energy that may have helped plants grow where you now have fields of solar panels
What.
A.
Load.
Of.
Horseshit.
Yeah, that field of solar panels is definitely worse than all the fucking asphalt parking lots that are god damn everywhere and also prevent plants from growing. Yet I'll bet you don't complain if someone was to build more parking somewhere you frequent.
That might be the single stupidest point of FUD I've ever seen about solar. Congratulations!
In your cost of fossil fuels, please consider the externalized cost of waste product disposal into the lungs of those downwind, and the cost of deleting entire mountains in the Appalachians so we can load them into furnaces, and the costs of doing all that (slurry ponds, destroyed ecosystems, etc.)
The grid operators may see what goes up the stack as zero cost, but there is definitely a cost to society in elevated asthma rates, lung disease, increased chances of low and very-low birth weights, cancers, cardiovascular disease, and death. It's estimated that coal contributes in up to 50,000 deaths every year in the US alone - more than all the deaths from car wrecks in the US in a year.
Let's factor that into the fossil fuel energy costs, completely disregarding sea level rise and how much that's going to cost in lost real estate and property, as well as increased severity and frequency of storms from climate change because some people still argue about if those are real things.
I think we can all agree that breathing coal-fired particulate and sulfur dioxide is bad for you, and anyone 30+ miles downwind from each and every coal plant is doing exactly that.
What does that fossil fuel energy cost now?
The good news is that Tesla also makes higher capacity grid-scale energy storage products than the PowerWall.
Yes, that install isn't on the scale of what you say is needed (don't know the math) but it seems to be doing pretty damn good for the Aussies - good enough that Southern California Edison wants one too.
Because that has never been a problem before, when dealing with oddball solutions of past filesystems. Deal with it the same way - a metadata file that holds the crap that the filesystem doesn't deal with well.
For example, we've all seed the .DS_Store files on any fileshare that a Mac has visited, which holds Finder metadata that would be written to the HFS file system if it were HFS, and otherwise sits in a metadata file everywhere else. No, it's not the cleanest way to work, but it's something that Dropbox could implement in about two hours and be done with it, because this is a long-solved problem, and we don't need a new shaped wheel.
Some filesystems (ext) on Linux will update the "last accessed" timestamp on read if you mount the volume without the "noatime" option. This results in significant performance improvement, as well.
Nice. Back in the 28.8 and 33.6 days, that actually worked on most modems using Rockwell chipsets as they didn't have "guard time" between the +++ interrupt and taking a command. People could mass-dump people from IRC channels and such with that command (or worse - chain on a dial command for some long distance number / 911) until firmware updates came out to insert guard time.
Why would a car manufacturer keep a battery of the same size with 10x the density, knowing that charging that battery would be a problem?
They could always just make a battery pack that gives X range, and keep the charging the same for the value of X, but with a much smaller pack (less mass)
You get the unfounded FUD-of-the-day award.
The engineers may get overworked, but as this article proves, they always have the option of going elsewhere if they feel they are underpaid. And you state that you know people that left in order to correct the overworked bit too.
What the fuck does the cafeteria have to do with anything? And which cafeteria? At the factory? At one of their larger office buildings around the Fremont area? The one in Palo Alto? The design place in LA? Some other damn thing somewhere?
And let's have some kind of citation for the "largely drug-addicted assembly crew" statement. No wonder you posted Anonymous - there's no possible way for you to back that up, which means it's baseless horseshit FUD from a clueless dipshit. How's the short position going? You buy the $250 options and getting desperate?
hah. Like Slashdot moves the needle on relevance anymore.
In the mid to late 90s, Apple was considered a shit show by everybody except the evangelists, up to and including Steve Jobs.
Also don't forget: ... because Tesla had a layoff two months ago that was felt disproportionately in non-car-production positions. You know, exactly the kind of workers that Apple is probably looking for.
Shocking that a handful of them would end up in Cupertino, what with it being oh-so-far away from Fremont, and suddenly available for full-time employment...
It actually was a Tesla representative that replied. Musk wasn't quoted. From TFA:
Tesla's full statement about talent competition with Apple follows:
"We wish them well. Tesla is the hard path. We have 100 times less money than Apple, so of course they can afford to pay more. We are in extremely difficult battles against entrenched auto companies that make 100 times more cars than we did last year, so of course this is very hard work. We don't even have money for advertising or endorsements or discounts, so must survive on the quality of our products alone. Nonetheless, we believe in our mission and that it is worth the sacrifice of time and the never ending barrage of negativity by those who wish us ill. So it goes. The world must move to sustainable energy and it must do so now."
So I guess tangentally it's on Musk for Tesla having an idiot who gave a shitty official quote to a non-story.
Just because the legal advice is bad, doesn't make the action legal and justified all of a sudden because a lawyer says so.
That might be the dumbest god damn thing you've said yet, and that's really saying something.
Maybe it was Heisenberg's checking account?
Where does "using the power of the state to uphold laws of the state enacted by the peoples' representatives" rate with you?
No, there's no law against paying someone to go away. There's not even really laws against using campaign funds to pay someone to go away - after all, John Edwards is still walking free after his acquittal / mistrial and DoJ deciding not to pursue further trial.
However, there is laws about a private citizen paying someone to go away for a politician who's running for office, as making them go away is a campaign contribution, and the payoff amount was greater than the maximum contribution allowed under Federal election laws.
Cohen violated the law as outlined in McCain-Feingold, and he pled guilty to that. The campaign violated the same law in not reporting the contribution. I guess you could say that the repayment of the hush money to Cohen was actually refunding the contribution because it was over the maximum allowed amount if you want to lie about it (they say it was a retainer payment); but they still haven't reported it to this day, which is a violation of the law.
Don't be a fucking apologist.
Unless the money came from the Trump corporation coffers, then it's a corporate donation to a campaign, which is illegal. Corporations cannot contribute to the campaign of a candidate - McCain-Feingold prohibits corporations and labor unions from making direct contributions or expenditures in connection with federal elections - if a corporation is to spend money in politics, it needs to go through either the party, or a PAC / SuperPAC.
Also, Cohen is on the hook for the campaign finance violation if they can make it stick that he wasn't reimbursed, because he donated more than $5000, which is the individual contributor limit per election ($10000 in a Presidential election year, as the primary is considered to be separate, but this happened after the nomination, so the limit is $5000).
Do you think Trump would actually pay with his own money? This is the guy that gets his "charity" to pay for 6-foot tall portraits of himself...
No, but if you (and her) attest to those things in affidavits or in sworn testimony, you commit perjury (she gets the perjury, you get felony conspiracy charges) and you go to jail, and the Senator gets to grandstand a bit with a bunch of free media. And slashdot gets one less anonymous idiot posting stupid crap.
So because some fuckwits in Congress misappropriate funds and break the law, it's ok for the President to misappropriate funds and break the law?
Great fucking logic there. Classic "Whataboutism".
How about ALL politicians who misappropriate campaign funds, or even worse: taxpayer funds; upon conviction in a proper court of law, are immediately removed from office and sent to prison.
Stop pointing to the bad behavior of others to justify your chosen favorite's bad behavior. It makes you look like an idiot.
What a nuanced opinion.
You know there's a concept in US law that a punishment should fit the crime, right? A paperwork SNAFU that ends up with the campaign returning some donations once they figure out they were more than the maximum allowed by law and then self-reporting the issue to the FEC means that a fine is levied for not finding it and returning it / reporting it sooner.
This shit here, where not only did they not self-report, they continue to deny after sworn testimony to violating the law and guilty pleas - that's not self reporting. That's not paperwork. That won't be a fine and a wink.