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  1. Re: Of course on Elon Musk To Stay At Tesla For Another Decade (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering that Tesla gets no real subsidies, they will do fine.

  2. Re: Of course on Elon Musk To Stay At Tesla For Another Decade (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That article called doing work for the feds or breaks going to others to be subsidies. So no, it is total BS. So show us real $5b in federal subsidies.

  3. Re: Of course on Elon Musk To Stay At Tesla For Another Decade (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? Show us where he got 5 billion in federal subsidies. And doing work for the feds does not count.

  4. Re: Hail trump!!!! USA USA USA!!!! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    BTW, this is what you SHOULD be reading, not such other BS from 20 years ago
    It explains how CHina grabbed manufacturing FROM THE WEST, and how to get it back

  5. Re: Hail trump!!!! USA USA USA!!!! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    First off, hanwha's work has been just in the last year. They had very little prior.
    And you are going to claim that a report on Echolon FROM 2001 lead to America's dominance in a field that WE CREATED, and have spent the most money EACH YEAR? Seriously?
    You really are 1 fucked up individual if you think that Echolon is what lead to Americans dominance in this?
    We no longer dominate in manufacturing of solar, but that was because of CHina's cheating at this. Subsidizing, dumping, manipulating their money, etc. BUT, R&D in it still remains dominantly in America.

  6. For those you claiming this is bad on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    How come Tesla will not be selling their roof in China, but will sell in most other nations? Because China blocks foreign-made solar from being sold there.

  7. Re: Hail trump!!!! USA USA USA!!!! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, how much foreign solar was allowed to be sold in China? NOT a single panel has ever been sold in China. Why not? Because China has a tariff that doubles the cost of the phone, even though Western panels have been.better.

  8. Re: Hail trump!!!! USA USA USA!!!! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Chinese gov has been subsidizing and dumping for ages.

  9. Re: Hail trump!!!! USA USA USA!!!! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Give me a break. America is not exporting our jobs. China is stealing them. What you claim is like blaming a woman that is raped for wearing a knee-high dress, and saying it her fault. China dumps their pollution rather than clean up, while also dumping on the west. They have damaged European solar manufacturing badly, and America's worse. And if Chinese gov is not dumping on us, then why is Chinese gov mad about this?

  10. Re: Hail trump!!!! USA USA USA!!!! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Baloney. Protectionism saves industries when done right. Normally, you have to do it early before nations like China own it. However, China's huge economics growth over the 30 years is because other nations opened their borders, namely America, while China has one of the most closed borders.

  11. Re: Hail trump!!!! USA USA USA!!!! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    What are u talking about? Nearly all innovation in solar and wind has happened in America. China steals the innovation, or buys the company here and shuts them down. Even now, top efficiency in solar remains in America.

  12. Seriously, O should have done more to stop what China is doing to manufacturing in.the west. And he should have done before China killed off 2/3 of our companies.

  13. Re: Hail trump!!!! USA USA USA!!!! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Chinese gov is subsidizing these companies and purposely dumping on Europe and America. Why? Because they want all manufacturing there. Just like they have massive tariffs on imported cars, esp EVs, while heavily subsidizing and dumping cars on foreign markets.

  14. Re:A great leap backwards on Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, I said that I had no issue with Crimea going back to Russia. It has actually been more Russian than Ukraine throughout time.
    BUT Eastern Ukraine has not. While it has been part of Russia at times, it has mostly been Ukraine. As such, that IS an issue.

    BTW, the election in Crimea was a joke.

  15. Re:First Strike Weapon by Decapitation? on Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    If russia REALLY wanted to hurt America, they would not attack Washington DC. They would leave all of CONgress and our current WH up. That would guarantee that Russia would win.
    OTOH, if Russia blows up DC only, esp the WH and CONgress, there is a good chance that many of us will cheer on Russia and thank them.

  16. Re:Prepare for the daily Cold War II fearmongering on Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    huh,
    Most of Russia's new equipment has been in development for nearly 2 decades and now is being ramped up in production.
    America, in fact the west, has not been 'warmongering' that long.

    NATO's response is due to Russia's , and other nation's, increasing focus on weaponry.
    And BTW, it was Eastern Europe that really stepped up the push for NATO, not America.
    Why did they do that? Because they know Putin quite well.

  17. Re:A great leap backwards on Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    I always have to laugh at idiots that use such things as absolute numbers for budgets.
    Russia's money is nearly worthless, so, $ comparison makes little sense.
    Interestingly, CHina manipulates their money, as well as hides the bulk of their military spending so that it appears to be far less.
    But with Russia, and China, BOTH are spending a great deal more of their budget and GDP on military than does America.

    And claiming that America has been wiping up NATO is a another joke. America/NATO were quiet when Russia invaded Georgia.
    BUT, once they invaded Ukraine, Eastern Europe are the ones that got VERY upset and said that they wanted NATO backing (and rightly). Personally, I have no issue with Russia taking back Crimea, but eastern Ukraine has belonged mostly to Ukraine, as do most of the ppl there.

  18. Re:A great leap backwards on Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Sadly, I will bet that the torpedo HAS been tested. Send it from Parts of EUrope to Cuba, with no warhead.
    This would have to be nuclear powered.

  19. Re: Not going to happen on SpaceX and Boeing Slated For Manned Space Missions By Year's End (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I live short ways from ULA HQ, and know a number of engineers there. Vulcan is moving slowly, and aces is on hold ( horrible mistake ). I had high hopes for bruno, but he really has not done squat.

  20. Re: Not going to happen on SpaceX and Boeing Slated For Manned Space Missions By Year's End (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    What else is missing in reliability, is that both Boeing and Lockheed Martin, used others equipment, which was old and expensive. And both Delta/Atlas are way too expensive to compete in the global market. Otoh, SpaceX has not only developed their own, but now have the lowest cost with the largest payload, and is going to even bigger payloads. In the mean time, ULA is doing nothing, except dying.

  21. This same CONgress/WH, allowed CHina to buy California Pass with massive amounts of rare earth and thorium.
    The GOP and this admin are at best schizophrenic.

  22. Re: 4 meter wing spans? on Russian Military Base Attacked By Drones (bellingcat.com) · · Score: 1

    no, but they are using gas model engines. That will make it easy enough to track via noise.
    If they were smart, they would be using an electric, while also using a much larger drone that is up at say 5K' and about 1-2 miles away, to launch a number of these drones at night time. By launching from height, they can glide in mostly and then use electricity to leave the area.

  23. GOP ran traitors for the WH. Now, the dems run a traitor for the senate.
    When will we stop backing criminals and start supporting honest leaders.

  24. Re:it needs to be easy. on US Supreme Court Will Revisit Ruling On Collecting Internet Sales Tax (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Quit trying to bring back NN on Many US States Propose Their Own Laws Protecting Net Neutrality (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    actually, by allowing COMcast/RBOCs to screw with their traffic, it will only tick off customers and encourage more municipals to add their own fiber.
    Otherwise, it will happen slowly.
    This is why I want to see them go ahead and destroy their customer base by our removing NN as well as monopoly.