Fraud. Fraud is the word you want to say. Fraud. It's enough to not only warrant big financial penalties (and hundreds of lawsuits from individual investors) for Musk but also to have the SEC remove him as CEO from leadership of a company, if the board doesn't do it first.
Now, about those delivery numbers - are they still losing money on every unit they sell? How much of the $2 billion cash reserves they had in June 2018 are still remaining - down to around $1.2 billion?
Kickstarter is the scam. They get you to give money to someone else promising to deliver something that will probably never come to fruition, and they take a nice big cut of the action. So when it fails and you lose your money, you blame the other person, not them.
That sounds AWESOME! I'd love to buy it from you and set up an eco-preserve commune where cars are electric only and all is solar and vegan. I can pay for it next week when this Nigerian prince pays me my commission for helping him move $25,000,000 out of his country! I gave him my bank account, I should be getting a deposit any day now!
MIT says we'd have to add around 55 deg C, minimum, to top over that positive feedback loop. I think we're probably quite safe from becoming a Venusian planet.
So if my State requires proof of ID to purchase a firearm, and all firearm sales must go through a registered dealer (no private sales - this is California), should that be considered a violation of my rights?
In most States that require voter ID, there is a way to get ID for free. Now, the usual cry is "but you have to go somewhere and stand in line and wait around forever and that's racist!" but I guess ANY effort at all is considered racist today. Which makes me wonder why we even vote - it's effort required to cast a ballot (just checking off boxes on a form and then stuffing into an envelope and attaching stamps - wait, Stamps? That's a tax!) so we should eliminate that as well, and just let our Betters Choose For Us.
So, how about a job? You need to fill out an I-9 form to be employed. Which requires pretty strong proof of who you are. Or is that racist as well? Is it racist to require ID to purchase a firearm?
Many people have jobs, go to school, and generally live as normal citizens without a driver's license (which is the primary form of ID)
Those other forms of ID are proof of identity; if it's good enough for a job (an I-9 form is required to ensure you are eligible to work in the US) and register for school, it should be good enough for voting, as far as I'm concerned. Would that be acceptable to you?
Pay taxes with a check... No bank account. Really? Western Union or Post Office money order? Need ID. I need an ID to buy a firearm, why not an ID to vote? Or are some rights more important than others?
I have no problem with you saying racism all you want; I just do not believe that it is racist when asking for proof of ID when voting, or driving, or purchasing alcohol or firearms, or getting a job, or renting an apartment, or traveling.
Well, HALF of America believes we shouldn't need an ID for voting, and a large minority of the other half doesn't want to appear "racist" so they go along with them... Buying alcohol, getting a job, driving, going to school, paying taxes, flying in an airplane, getting a bank account - all require an ID and that isn't racist at all. But somehow requiring an ID to prove who are when you vote is "racist".
I wonder how many farmers are actually looking for the ability to change the embedded firmware in their tractor? That's what this is about. Likewise, when was the last time you - or your mechanic - went in and changed the firmware in your car, other than perhaps updating with a new factory image?
I can't imagine why else a lobbying group for farmers would do the exact opposite of what their constituents want.
Do we know that? The original article has just one farmer who is concerned about buying parts - but nothing about software. Perhaps most of the constituents care only about availability of 3rd party mechanical parts, and don't give a rat's ass about the firmware inside.
Given the previous O3 levels have changed historically, we may well have been above the current limit - but it wasn't newsworthy because the limit was higher.
So how is it a handout? Municipalities will make $270 per cell per year. Put that on a telephone pole (rather, allow a 5G provider to pay for their own people to put it on a pole and maintain their equipment) and make $270 per year. Given that a telephone pole runs about $3000, that means the city is paid to replace each pole so used every 11 years if they like. Now, since poles tend to last a LOT longer than that, it means those people putting the 5G cells on the poles (at their own expense, mind you) will effectively pay for 5 pole replacements on average.
And this also means that municipalities cannot keep 5G infrastructure out from their domain via insanely high rental prices. Or should we just say that wireless communications should be left at 2G/analog and screw anything else?
Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino? That's an area bigger than South Carolina, West Virginia, and 8 other States. For our European friends, that's an area larger than Belgium. So, SOMEWHERE in that area it was above the limits. Yeah, doesn't seem quite so bad now...
Oh, you think you own that publicly-owned Government land that holds the existing poles that these 5G cell antennas will mount to? Hah! Heck, you don't even own the land on which your house sits! Try not paying your property taxes for a few years and find out...
Wireless networks are the domain of the FCC - hard to localize that. I'm all for 10th Amendment issues - but wireless/spectrum usage is clearly the domain of the Federal Government.
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Fraud. Fraud is the word you want to say. Fraud. It's enough to not only warrant big financial penalties (and hundreds of lawsuits from individual investors) for Musk but also to have the SEC remove him as CEO from leadership of a company, if the board doesn't do it first.
Now, about those delivery numbers - are they still losing money on every unit they sell? How much of the $2 billion cash reserves they had in June 2018 are still remaining - down to around $1.2 billion?
Actually, it would be phylumist...
And what the Chinese didn't get from Hillary's e-mails, Dianne Feinstein made sure and passed along via her spy-as-driver...
Kickstarter is the scam. They get you to give money to someone else promising to deliver something that will probably never come to fruition, and they take a nice big cut of the action. So when it fails and you lose your money, you blame the other person, not them.
That sounds AWESOME! I'd love to buy it from you and set up an eco-preserve commune where cars are electric only and all is solar and vegan. I can pay for it next week when this Nigerian prince pays me my commission for helping him move $25,000,000 out of his country! I gave him my bank account, I should be getting a deposit any day now!
MIT says we'd have to add around 55 deg C, minimum, to top over that positive feedback loop. I think we're probably quite safe from becoming a Venusian planet.
So if my State requires proof of ID to purchase a firearm, and all firearm sales must go through a registered dealer (no private sales - this is California), should that be considered a violation of my rights?
In most States that require voter ID, there is a way to get ID for free. Now, the usual cry is "but you have to go somewhere and stand in line and wait around forever and that's racist!" but I guess ANY effort at all is considered racist today. Which makes me wonder why we even vote - it's effort required to cast a ballot (just checking off boxes on a form and then stuffing into an envelope and attaching stamps - wait, Stamps? That's a tax!) so we should eliminate that as well, and just let our Betters Choose For Us.
So, how about a job? You need to fill out an I-9 form to be employed. Which requires pretty strong proof of who you are. Or is that racist as well? Is it racist to require ID to purchase a firearm?
Many people have jobs, go to school, and generally live as normal citizens without a driver's license (which is the primary form of ID)
Those other forms of ID are proof of identity; if it's good enough for a job (an I-9 form is required to ensure you are eligible to work in the US) and register for school, it should be good enough for voting, as far as I'm concerned. Would that be acceptable to you?
Pay taxes with a check... No bank account. Really? Western Union or Post Office money order? Need ID. I need an ID to buy a firearm, why not an ID to vote? Or are some rights more important than others?
I have no problem with you saying racism all you want; I just do not believe that it is racist when asking for proof of ID when voting, or driving, or purchasing alcohol or firearms, or getting a job, or renting an apartment, or traveling.
Well, HALF of America believes we shouldn't need an ID for voting, and a large minority of the other half doesn't want to appear "racist" so they go along with them... Buying alcohol, getting a job, driving, going to school, paying taxes, flying in an airplane, getting a bank account - all require an ID and that isn't racist at all. But somehow requiring an ID to prove who are when you vote is "racist".
I guess a Mercedes GLS is a competitor to a Radio Flyer... Zoho is WAY more than G Suite...
It's all about priorities. Who cares what your "connectivity" is if you have to use 2017 Emojis!
I wonder how many farmers are actually looking for the ability to change the embedded firmware in their tractor? That's what this is about. Likewise, when was the last time you - or your mechanic - went in and changed the firmware in your car, other than perhaps updating with a new factory image?
I can't imagine why else a lobbying group for farmers would do the exact opposite of what their constituents want.
Do we know that? The original article has just one farmer who is concerned about buying parts - but nothing about software. Perhaps most of the constituents care only about availability of 3rd party mechanical parts, and don't give a rat's ass about the firmware inside.
A big California farmers' lobbying group just blithely signed away farmers' right to access or modify the source code of any farm equipment software.
No swindle at all. Straight out agreement by the farmers' lobbying group.
Given the previous O3 levels have changed historically, we may well have been above the current limit - but it wasn't newsworthy because the limit was higher.
We feel your pain... I live in Ventura, to stay as far away from that lot as I can, and still be in the "greater LA area"...:)
every day exceeding the federal health standard of 70 parts per billion somewhere across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties
Not the ENTIRE area, just somewhere in that area. AC needs to learn to read, rather than spending all that time trying to dream up snarky remarks...
So how is it a handout? Municipalities will make $270 per cell per year. Put that on a telephone pole (rather, allow a 5G provider to pay for their own people to put it on a pole and maintain their equipment) and make $270 per year. Given that a telephone pole runs about $3000, that means the city is paid to replace each pole so used every 11 years if they like. Now, since poles tend to last a LOT longer than that, it means those people putting the 5G cells on the poles (at their own expense, mind you) will effectively pay for 5 pole replacements on average.
And this also means that municipalities cannot keep 5G infrastructure out from their domain via insanely high rental prices. Or should we just say that wireless communications should be left at 2G/analog and screw anything else?
Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino? That's an area bigger than South Carolina, West Virginia, and 8 other States. For our European friends, that's an area larger than Belgium. So, SOMEWHERE in that area it was above the limits. Yeah, doesn't seem quite so bad now...
Oh, you think you own that publicly-owned Government land that holds the existing poles that these 5G cell antennas will mount to? Hah! Heck, you don't even own the land on which your house sits! Try not paying your property taxes for a few years and find out...
Wireless networks are the domain of the FCC - hard to localize that. I'm all for 10th Amendment issues - but wireless/spectrum usage is clearly the domain of the Federal Government.