It doesn't really matter what NASA has now. Space exploration requires projects that run 20 or 50 or even 100 years. Yes we have to reach that far if we really want to hit some big goals.
But the 4-year election cycle means NASA's funding is threatened every time we elect a new round of idiots. Sometimes they are Pro-NASA but mostly they aren't, and cutting funding is what happens.
You cannot explore space with a 20-year plan supported by fickle 4-year election cycles and 2-bit politicians.
Other countries like China have no such issues. China can set a 50-year plan and proceed to start on it. NASA is stuck.
Just did the same thing this month, leaving Verizon for Fi.
Math worked out same as yours. I'm saving about $70 a month and it breaks even after month 8 only taking so long because I had to pay off a fairly new Edge phone, sell it, and then buy a Nexus 6. The service has been fine on Fi. The $40 bill a month is just amazing. Very pleased.
I just paid Verizon a fair pile of money to buy out my Edge plan so I could port my number AWAY from them.
Bought a Nexus phone and signed up with Project Fi and cut my wireless bill by about $70 a month. Leaving Verizon hurt in terms of cash spent now but I'll start saving money in about 8 months and from them on, saving $70 a month is SO worth it.
Miss the Galaxy S6 I had on Verizon but the Nexus works OK and the Fi service is fine.
Can someone explain what all this actually means? Why should I care about this recovery key? I back up my own data so... if I had to do a recovery, I can certainly do that.
Not really any scenario where I would think of going to Microsoft to recover anything. What am I missing?
There are no conceivable circumstances where it would be OK or legal to shoot at a drone. Just because you don't like the things or disagree with them flying over or around your property, you have absolutely no right to shoot at any more than you can shoot at cars passing on adjacent roads.
If you don't like what a drone is doing, your recourse is to call the police and complain. That's all.
Many private planes are "registered" to holding companies who act as proxies and trustees for purposes of liability or collateral or other things. So when you search an N-number, you get a bank or something, not the pilot's home address.
So do the same thing for drones. $10 a year and your drone is owned by Wells Fargo or something. You merely lease it. They of course have a contract to give it back to you for a dollar to meet terms of sale. And thus you are shielded from having your name out there. Also provides a chance for the proxy to sell liability insurance, drone repairs and parts and other things.
In the state where I reside, it costs only 50 cents to get the tag info. Literally all you need is the tag number and change and they will happily give you a whole print out of the vehicle stats including VIN, the taxes paid on said vehicle, the insurance company and policy number and of course the name, address and phone number of the registered owner.
So when you see that hottie in traffic and want to get to know them, just snap their tag and take some quarters to the DMV office.
If it's like the Martian story, it has to begin with a bullshit wind storm that can't happen, yet must happen for the entire rest of the story to happen.
So there will be some massive WIND STORM on the moon and the entire thing will get blown out of Earth's orbit and go careening across space encountering shaded of beige, gray, and brown, and lots of hostile aliens. Oh wait. That's been done.
Um
Well fuck it all Andy, I guess you are out of luck. How about a book about dryer lint? I bet you can MacGuyver the shit out if it.
I don't hate The Martian. But the whole storm sequence was utter crap and ONLY happened because it had to or else there was no story. And that's just bullshit, It's as dump as BOOM dinosaurs in Central Park, chaos ensues! WILL THEY MAKE IT TO THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IN TIME!? And plot twist, the dinos swim and fly so it's all bullshit. But since this cannot happen, the whole story is bullshit. If you have to base your story on that, fix it. Andy apparently had the brains to science the shit out of his story, why didn't he FIX the damn beginning to make sense? Come on.
None of this security theater matters. All someone has to to is bring a bomb vest to the entry line at CES and wait for it to be super crowded at the detector and then detonate while in the middle of the yet-to-be-screened crowd.
The same thing applies to airports. The most dangerous place in an airport is the queue for the security checkpoint. Thousands of people, perhaps tired, overloaded with hand luggage, packed in queue lines like sardines, unarmed, not paying attention at all to the people around them, with no way to escape, and police standing around trying to stay away and really too far away on the outskirts to do anything. A couple operators with bombs or grenades or just some guns could choose the right time and utterly devastate the security queue killing perhaps hundreds before police could even react, much less stop them, even though the police are not very far away. They would not be able to stop it. It would be a massacre.
A couple well coordinated attacks like that a few different airports or other crowded places are a nightmare scenario. Airport lines, movie theater or sport event lines, shopping mall sale events like Black Friday, transit stations, or even a busy corner in a major city as people go to work. Such attacks would be particularly effective on the unscreened side of security checkpoints where it is often a huge line of sheep waiting to be checked.
CES is often the place where companies claim to have on display various products that will obsolete the laptop as we know it and free out minds and bodies from having to sit at a desk and work. And the media, bloggers, reporters and web podcast network people lap it up and spew it back at their listening and reading audiences as if these gadgets (and there is a new iteration every year!) will change the goddamn world.
Well.
Put up or shut up. Show us you really CAN report on a tradeshow for your semi-known blog using nothing more than a smartphone or tablet. Film it, take pictures, edit both, and write a script or blog post with one of these magical devices that you tell the public can do all these things and more every damn year. DO IT!
Or shut the hell up about how teh awesome things are in the mystical land of CES gadgets that won't actually ever make it to market. Or is that just the junk that appears in Showstoppers? I can't remember. So much bullshit every year, it all blurs together.
Prediction for CES: there will be lots of iPhone cases. Because dammit there just aren't enough.
In a sense the magazines may have done him a huge favor: there cannot now be a shadowy secret raid where the key "person of interest" nobody has ever heard of simply disappears into a prison. Wired knows who he is and so do we all now. And there will be reporters all over this like lions on meat. Wright may not escape the cops, but the cops won't be able to just bury him in jail without hundreds of reporters nagging them silly about it. Wright's cover got blown AND his ass got saved at the same time.
The cops were already on to him. They knew who he was. The Wired story blew it open and forced the police to act. The police did not surf around and see the Wired story and say "hey we should arrest that guy! This magazine says it's him!" They already knew. They were watching and waiting.
The magazine blew away the option to keep watching. The way the police swooped in so fast means they had warrants and plans already in the works. He was going to get raided soon.
In a sense the magazines may have done him a huge favor: there cannot now be a shadowing secret raid where the key "person of interest" nobody has ever heard of simply disappears into a prison. Wired knows who he is and so do we all now. And there will be reporters all over this like lions on meat. Wright may not escape the cops, but the cops won't be able to just bury him in jail without hundreds of reporters nagging them silly about it. Wright's cover got blown AND his ass got saved at the same time.
Reuters is reporting Australian police have executed search warrants (or the Aussie version of such a thing) on several different locations owned or occupied by Wrights. This proves Wired and Gizmodo got it right.
It takes evidence and time to get these warrants in the US and more time to stage people an officers and make plans for this kind of raid. Again assuming Aussies work the same way, this means the cops were already onto him before the media suddenly got on the trail and tipped him off that his cover was shattered. With the media sniffing around, he probably had time to run, hide, or do something else to escape. The cops slammed the door shut the moment they saw the media coverage. Their plans to keep watching him blown. It didn't sound like he was in custody yet.
Wired's evidence seems good and solid and the dots connect nicely. This man is an idiot tripped up by the same thing that catches many people trying to hide: their own damn mouths.
The Sec of State in GA is an elected position and as a result Kemp answers to no-one, not even the Governor. Kemp answers to the voters, only. And only on election day. And in this state the voters are probably going to give a blank stare about all of this mess. Burning CDs is majick wizard stuff.
It may be a Pro Arab group. So what? Should an Anti-Arab group stand up and present the same thing? No of course not, they wouldn't. That would be ridiculous. Nobody does that. In which case, this group stood up regarding their own interests and presented or promotes their side.
And certainly Pro-Israel groups have equal chance to present their side the same way.
It's up to the media and average people to hear all sides and decide if they believe it or not and wish to support it or not.
Google has business units in Israel (namely Waze, among others) and makes money selling search ads there.
No doubt there would be investigations and sanctions on these businesses if Google failed to cooperate with these requests regarding video content. Heck Google could find itself kicked out of the country entirely and lose billions as their shares take hits.
"Do what we want or get shut down" happens a lot in business outside the US, and even within the US to some extent. Pressure like this would be illegal and unconstitutional in the US but condoned and perhaps desired elsewhere.
What they want to do is a complete waste of time as neither Google nor YouTube control the whole internet, and in fact all it would do is push more of the videos to sites like Liveleak which isn't controlled by Google anyway. They only went to Google as an implied threat about what would happen to Google's Israeli interests and business if they DIDN'T cooperate.
And then what do you do, ask Liveleak to stop? Do you think a site fine posting videos of car accidents, decapitations, people burning to death, and much much more is going to care what Israel might ask for? No.
The site is already overrun with various videos from Syria and Iraq and all manner of other places. If you've EVER had any desire to hear how many times somebody can yell "Allahu Ackbar!" while shooting at or being bombed by other forces, Liveleak is your place. And then you can watch the daily video of the scooter crash in China where everybody died horribly. There is one of those about every day so it doesn't have to be any specific scooter crash video. Just wait. There will be a new one.
LiveLeak is certainly tame compared to Ogrish, but it is WAY beyond what Youtube would ever allow.
These countries are just upset because they don't have a space program that their own mining interests could use or build on their own to go do mining.
They are going to be locked out of this market. They have rocket envy. Maybe Canada Pharma can work on making space Viagra for when you don't have a rocket.
Anyway the OTHER reason these countries don't like this is that they all have big mining interests. Finding a cheap way to mine in space and get those resources back to the Earth would devastate the value of minerals mined on the Earth. Who the hell will need De Boers if space diamonds are found in abundance? A diamond FROM SPACE might even be worth a lot, but not to De Boers.
This brings to mind that a LOT of Earth companies would be happy in these space mining efforts blew up on the launch pad or failed in space. Those who go to do this space mining are going to have to watch their backs all the time. There is far too much money in the hands of companies on the ground who would be happy if a loose bolt or something caused a failure. Probably no proof, no way to trace it.
By the same token, if aliens came to the Sol system to mine asteroids or take water, there is nothing the Earth can do about it. We lack the technology to stop such a thing AND we don't own the Sol system. We happen to be here but we have no claims to anything beyond the moon.
For a practical matter, aliens or space miners would not need to bother with the inner system anyway. There are tons of moons, rocks, asteroids and comets in the Oort cloud where they could mine freely and we'd probably never even know they were there, much less be able to object.
The lesson here is that space mining would probably work fine if you are coming into a planetary system from outside. You can do what you want if the natives are like us, unable to stop it.
How are they going to work this with trees? Most of my property has huge trees all over it and the main area that doesn't have trees does have several different sets of power lines. We have normal ones and high-voltage lines above them on much taller poles.
It would be challenging for human standing outside to get a drone in or out of here, or indeed to most of my neighbor's homes.
And in my case, I have a overhang porch with wood columns. Amazon would have to navigate under that porch to put the packages near my door, but in any case they'd have no choice because the only other option would be dropping it in the yard and no, they can't do that.
And if all that wasn't enough, I live within six miles of an airport so Amazon can't fly here anyway. Which is a shame. As a Prime subscriber, I use Amazon a lot. But lately the USPS has decided my address is undeliverable despite being the same address for close to 20 years. Lost two packages from Amazon on Saturday because of this. The boxes are going back to Amazon and the items are now out of stock so I can't even reorder. Assuming my address is working the next time.
There are other challenges. The city where I live has three airports roughly 1/3 of the way around the circle, so each of those airports has a six-mile no-fly zone making huge areas off limits. Worse, a state agency not actually chartered to worry about air vehicles, has on their own decided most of the remaining actual downtown is also off-limits because they don't want drones flying near state-owned buildings.
Note they have no legal constitutional ability to enforce this rule but they are doing so anyway and will arrest people regardless if they have FAA approval. Amazon won't be exempted.
Worse for Amazon, their local fulfillment warehouse is located only a mile from a major airport and in fact planes coming in or leaving pass over the Amazon facility at only about 300 feet. There is no way Amazon could use that site.
This is a mistake, then. If you want to torrent and avoid copyright holders, you need to use a SEED BOX somewhere overseas where they don't keep records. And then VPN from your home or whatever into that seed box. The box runs your torrents for you. The only traffic your IP sees is the encrypted transfers of completed files between you and the seed box. NOT VPN'd torrents.
This is of course not foolproof but it adds a nice layer between your own IP and the infringing activity. It also helps if you are on a bandwidth capped account as your connection doesn't have to support all the torrent traffic. And for cost, a seed box with VPN is not a lot more than a VPN alone. So it's not a big deal.
Well, a lot of people use vpns to hide their torrenting, and IP addresses are how copyright trolls find you and send you letters, so it kinda is an issue if you're paying for a VPN to hide your torrenting, and thus not get caught
They didn't "build it" as such. The Tesla plant is the old GM/Toyota NUMMI plant which built collaborative Toyota and GM cars and pickups for years, which was in turn a GM-exclusive plant for years before that.
It's an OLD car plant, modernized and updated no doubt by Tesla. But Tesla certainly didn't build all of it. They simply grabbed the otherwise disused NUMMI plant for cheap. There were a LOT of good reasons for doing that, ranging from existing infrastructure dedicated to building cars, to workers from what was one of the world's best car factories, to local suppliers, machines, room to expand, etc. Reusing NUMMI was a great idea for Tesla and everyone else too.
This paint booth problem can and will be solved. It won't be enough to stop Tesla or any other auto maker. It's merely something they need to fix.
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Let Bob Lazar name 115, since he claimed that was the element which powered the alien flying saucers he worked on at S-3.
Lazarium. Toaster Struedelium. I dunno.
Brewing is what people do to beer and coffee and perhaps other thing.
Her body makes alcohol. It is MAKING alcohol, not brewing beer, nor coffee or anything else.
It doesn't really matter what NASA has now. Space exploration requires projects that run 20 or 50 or even 100 years. Yes we have to reach that far if we really want to hit some big goals.
But the 4-year election cycle means NASA's funding is threatened every time we elect a new round of idiots. Sometimes they are Pro-NASA but mostly they aren't, and cutting funding is what happens.
You cannot explore space with a 20-year plan supported by fickle 4-year election cycles and 2-bit politicians.
Other countries like China have no such issues. China can set a 50-year plan and proceed to start on it. NASA is stuck.
Just did the same thing this month, leaving Verizon for Fi.
Math worked out same as yours. I'm saving about $70 a month and it breaks even after month 8 only taking so long because I had to pay off a fairly new Edge phone, sell it, and then buy a Nexus 6. The service has been fine on Fi. The $40 bill a month is just amazing. Very pleased.
I just paid Verizon a fair pile of money to buy out my Edge plan so I could port my number AWAY from them.
Bought a Nexus phone and signed up with Project Fi and cut my wireless bill by about $70 a month. Leaving Verizon hurt in terms of cash spent now but I'll start saving money in about 8 months and from them on, saving $70 a month is SO worth it.
Miss the Galaxy S6 I had on Verizon but the Nexus works OK and the Fi service is fine.
Can someone explain what all this actually means? Why should I care about this recovery key? I back up my own data so... if I had to do a recovery, I can certainly do that.
Not really any scenario where I would think of going to Microsoft to recover anything. What am I missing?
There are no conceivable circumstances where it would be OK or legal to shoot at a drone. Just because you don't like the things or disagree with them flying over or around your property, you have absolutely no right to shoot at any more than you can shoot at cars passing on adjacent roads.
If you don't like what a drone is doing, your recourse is to call the police and complain. That's all.
Many private planes are "registered" to holding companies who act as proxies and trustees for purposes of liability or collateral or other things. So when you search an N-number, you get a bank or something, not the pilot's home address.
So do the same thing for drones. $10 a year and your drone is owned by Wells Fargo or something. You merely lease it. They of course have a contract to give it back to you for a dollar to meet terms of sale. And thus you are shielded from having your name out there. Also provides a chance for the proxy to sell liability insurance, drone repairs and parts and other things.
In the state where I reside, it costs only 50 cents to get the tag info. Literally all you need is the tag number and change and they will happily give you a whole print out of the vehicle stats including VIN, the taxes paid on said vehicle, the insurance company and policy number and of course the name, address and phone number of the registered owner.
So when you see that hottie in traffic and want to get to know them, just snap their tag and take some quarters to the DMV office.
If it's like the Martian story, it has to begin with a bullshit wind storm that can't happen, yet must happen for the entire rest of the story to happen.
So there will be some massive WIND STORM on the moon and the entire thing will get blown out of Earth's orbit and go careening across space encountering shaded of beige, gray, and brown, and lots of hostile aliens. Oh wait. That's been done.
Um
Well fuck it all Andy, I guess you are out of luck. How about a book about dryer lint? I bet you can MacGuyver the shit out if it.
I don't hate The Martian. But the whole storm sequence was utter crap and ONLY happened because it had to or else there was no story. And that's just bullshit, It's as dump as BOOM dinosaurs in Central Park, chaos ensues! WILL THEY MAKE IT TO THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IN TIME!? And plot twist, the dinos swim and fly so it's all bullshit. But since this cannot happen, the whole story is bullshit. If you have to base your story on that, fix it. Andy apparently had the brains to science the shit out of his story, why didn't he FIX the damn beginning to make sense? Come on.
None of this security theater matters. All someone has to to is bring a bomb vest to the entry line at CES and wait for it to be super crowded at the detector and then detonate while in the middle of the yet-to-be-screened crowd.
The same thing applies to airports. The most dangerous place in an airport is the queue for the security checkpoint. Thousands of people, perhaps tired, overloaded with hand luggage, packed in queue lines like sardines, unarmed, not paying attention at all to the people around them, with no way to escape, and police standing around trying to stay away and really too far away on the outskirts to do anything. A couple operators with bombs or grenades or just some guns could choose the right time and utterly devastate the security queue killing perhaps hundreds before police could even react, much less stop them, even though the police are not very far away. They would not be able to stop it. It would be a massacre.
A couple well coordinated attacks like that a few different airports or other crowded places are a nightmare scenario. Airport lines, movie theater or sport event lines, shopping mall sale events like Black Friday, transit stations, or even a busy corner in a major city as people go to work. Such attacks would be particularly effective on the unscreened side of security checkpoints where it is often a huge line of sheep waiting to be checked.
CES is often the place where companies claim to have on display various products that will obsolete the laptop as we know it and free out minds and bodies from having to sit at a desk and work. And the media, bloggers, reporters and web podcast network people lap it up and spew it back at their listening and reading audiences as if these gadgets (and there is a new iteration every year!) will change the goddamn world.
Well.
Put up or shut up. Show us you really CAN report on a tradeshow for your semi-known blog using nothing more than a smartphone or tablet. Film it, take pictures, edit both, and write a script or blog post with one of these magical devices that you tell the public can do all these things and more every damn year. DO IT!
Or shut the hell up about how teh awesome things are in the mystical land of CES gadgets that won't actually ever make it to market. Or is that just the junk that appears in Showstoppers? I can't remember. So much bullshit every year, it all blurs together.
Prediction for CES: there will be lots of iPhone cases. Because dammit there just aren't enough.
adding my own comment from another post:
In a sense the magazines may have done him a huge favor: there cannot now be a shadowy secret raid where the key "person of interest" nobody has ever heard of simply disappears into a prison. Wired knows who he is and so do we all now. And there will be reporters all over this like lions on meat. Wright may not escape the cops, but the cops won't be able to just bury him in jail without hundreds of reporters nagging them silly about it. Wright's cover got blown AND his ass got saved at the same time.
The cops were already on to him. They knew who he was. The Wired story blew it open and forced the police to act. The police did not surf around and see the Wired story and say "hey we should arrest that guy! This magazine says it's him!" They already knew. They were watching and waiting.
The magazine blew away the option to keep watching. The way the police swooped in so fast means they had warrants and plans already in the works. He was going to get raided soon.
In a sense the magazines may have done him a huge favor: there cannot now be a shadowing secret raid where the key "person of interest" nobody has ever heard of simply disappears into a prison. Wired knows who he is and so do we all now. And there will be reporters all over this like lions on meat. Wright may not escape the cops, but the cops won't be able to just bury him in jail without hundreds of reporters nagging them silly about it. Wright's cover got blown AND his ass got saved at the same time.
Reuters is reporting Australian police have executed search warrants (or the Aussie version of such a thing) on several different locations owned or occupied by Wrights. This proves Wired and Gizmodo got it right.
It takes evidence and time to get these warrants in the US and more time to stage people an officers and make plans for this kind of raid. Again assuming Aussies work the same way, this means the cops were already onto him before the media suddenly got on the trail and tipped him off that his cover was shattered. With the media sniffing around, he probably had time to run, hide, or do something else to escape. The cops slammed the door shut the moment they saw the media coverage. Their plans to keep watching him blown. It didn't sound like he was in custody yet.
Wired's evidence seems good and solid and the dots connect nicely. This man is an idiot tripped up by the same thing that catches many people trying to hide: their own damn mouths.
The Sec of State in GA is an elected position and as a result Kemp answers to no-one, not even the Governor. Kemp answers to the voters, only. And only on election day. And in this state the voters are probably going to give a blank stare about all of this mess. Burning CDs is majick wizard stuff.
So Kemp will be re-elected next round.
It may be a Pro Arab group. So what? Should an Anti-Arab group stand up and present the same thing? No of course not, they wouldn't. That would be ridiculous. Nobody does that. In which case, this group stood up regarding their own interests and presented or promotes their side.
And certainly Pro-Israel groups have equal chance to present their side the same way.
It's up to the media and average people to hear all sides and decide if they believe it or not and wish to support it or not.
Google has business units in Israel (namely Waze, among others) and makes money selling search ads there.
No doubt there would be investigations and sanctions on these businesses if Google failed to cooperate with these requests regarding video content. Heck Google could find itself kicked out of the country entirely and lose billions as their shares take hits.
"Do what we want or get shut down" happens a lot in business outside the US, and even within the US to some extent. Pressure like this would be illegal and unconstitutional in the US but condoned and perhaps desired elsewhere.
What they want to do is a complete waste of time as neither Google nor YouTube control the whole internet, and in fact all it would do is push more of the videos to sites like Liveleak which isn't controlled by Google anyway. They only went to Google as an implied threat about what would happen to Google's Israeli interests and business if they DIDN'T cooperate.
And then what do you do, ask Liveleak to stop? Do you think a site fine posting videos of car accidents, decapitations, people burning to death, and much much more is going to care what Israel might ask for? No.
The site is already overrun with various videos from Syria and Iraq and all manner of other places. If you've EVER had any desire to hear how many times somebody can yell "Allahu Ackbar!" while shooting at or being bombed by other forces, Liveleak is your place. And then you can watch the daily video of the scooter crash in China where everybody died horribly. There is one of those about every day so it doesn't have to be any specific scooter crash video. Just wait. There will be a new one.
LiveLeak is certainly tame compared to Ogrish, but it is WAY beyond what Youtube would ever allow.
These countries are just upset because they don't have a space program that their own mining interests could use or build on their own to go do mining.
They are going to be locked out of this market. They have rocket envy. Maybe Canada Pharma can work on making space Viagra for when you don't have a rocket.
Anyway the OTHER reason these countries don't like this is that they all have big mining interests. Finding a cheap way to mine in space and get those resources back to the Earth would devastate the value of minerals mined on the Earth. Who the hell will need De Boers if space diamonds are found in abundance? A diamond FROM SPACE might even be worth a lot, but not to De Boers.
This brings to mind that a LOT of Earth companies would be happy in these space mining efforts blew up on the launch pad or failed in space. Those who go to do this space mining are going to have to watch their backs all the time. There is far too much money in the hands of companies on the ground who would be happy if a loose bolt or something caused a failure. Probably no proof, no way to trace it.
By the same token, if aliens came to the Sol system to mine asteroids or take water, there is nothing the Earth can do about it. We lack the technology to stop such a thing AND we don't own the Sol system. We happen to be here but we have no claims to anything beyond the moon.
For a practical matter, aliens or space miners would not need to bother with the inner system anyway. There are tons of moons, rocks, asteroids and comets in the Oort cloud where they could mine freely and we'd probably never even know they were there, much less be able to object.
The lesson here is that space mining would probably work fine if you are coming into a planetary system from outside. You can do what you want if the natives are like us, unable to stop it.
How are they going to work this with trees? Most of my property has huge trees all over it and the main area that doesn't have trees does have several different sets of power lines. We have normal ones and high-voltage lines above them on much taller poles.
It would be challenging for human standing outside to get a drone in or out of here, or indeed to most of my neighbor's homes.
And in my case, I have a overhang porch with wood columns. Amazon would have to navigate under that porch to put the packages near my door, but in any case they'd have no choice because the only other option would be dropping it in the yard and no, they can't do that.
And if all that wasn't enough, I live within six miles of an airport so Amazon can't fly here anyway. Which is a shame. As a Prime subscriber, I use Amazon a lot. But lately the USPS has decided my address is undeliverable despite being the same address for close to 20 years. Lost two packages from Amazon on Saturday because of this. The boxes are going back to Amazon and the items are now out of stock so I can't even reorder. Assuming my address is working the next time.
There are other challenges. The city where I live has three airports roughly 1/3 of the way around the circle, so each of those airports has a six-mile no-fly zone making huge areas off limits. Worse, a state agency not actually chartered to worry about air vehicles, has on their own decided most of the remaining actual downtown is also off-limits because they don't want drones flying near state-owned buildings.
Note they have no legal constitutional ability to enforce this rule but they are doing so anyway and will arrest people regardless if they have FAA approval. Amazon won't be exempted.
Worse for Amazon, their local fulfillment warehouse is located only a mile from a major airport and in fact planes coming in or leaving pass over the Amazon facility at only about 300 feet. There is no way Amazon could use that site.
This is a mistake, then. If you want to torrent and avoid copyright holders, you need to use a SEED BOX somewhere overseas where they don't keep records. And then VPN from your home or whatever into that seed box. The box runs your torrents for you. The only traffic your IP sees is the encrypted transfers of completed files between you and the seed box. NOT VPN'd torrents.
This is of course not foolproof but it adds a nice layer between your own IP and the infringing activity. It also helps if you are on a bandwidth capped account as your connection doesn't have to support all the torrent traffic. And for cost, a seed box with VPN is not a lot more than a VPN alone. So it's not a big deal.
Well, a lot of people use vpns to hide their torrenting, and IP addresses are how copyright trolls find you and send you letters, so it kinda is an issue if you're paying for a VPN to hide your torrenting, and thus not get caught
They didn't "build it" as such. The Tesla plant is the old GM/Toyota NUMMI plant which built collaborative Toyota and GM cars and pickups for years, which was in turn a GM-exclusive plant for years before that.
It's an OLD car plant, modernized and updated no doubt by Tesla. But Tesla certainly didn't build all of it. They simply grabbed the otherwise disused NUMMI plant for cheap. There were a LOT of good reasons for doing that, ranging from existing infrastructure dedicated to building cars, to workers from what was one of the world's best car factories, to local suppliers, machines, room to expand, etc. Reusing NUMMI was a great idea for Tesla and everyone else too.
This paint booth problem can and will be solved. It won't be enough to stop Tesla or any other auto maker. It's merely something they need to fix.