Our media is just a LOT better at hyping up these attacks; those Europeans prove, once again, to be shiftless Mennonites when it comes to news coverage of their own mass shootings!
What does it mean to "value" the second amendment?
Its traditional interpretation is that the ultimate goal of gun ownership is protecting the liberty of a state from a power grab by the federal government.
No, it's really not be adjudicated much at the Supreme Court level. The last two times it was, the Supreme Court recognized that it meant the right to self-protection (DC v Heller) and that the 2nd Amendment was incorporated against the States (Chicago v. McDonald). The Supreme Court has been very slow to protect 2A rights, but when it's made a decision, it's always been in the direction of personal use and ownership for self-defense.
The US has made, in the past 50-ish years, the choice that sacrificing human lives on the altar of gun ownership is a value. Other countries have made a different choice, by putting whatever is necessary for a person to protect themselves and their loved ones.
I was a member of a high school shooting team, and it was common to have firearms on campus (early 80s, Seattle area). No problem carrying my bosses' hunting rifles, shotguns, and pistols from his office on Union and 4th down to his gunsmith, middle of the day, no worries. We've tightened things dramatically since then, and not a lot has changed.
What has changed is the racial composition of murder. Fully half of all gun violence is perpetrated by blacks, and overwhelmingly (90%) against other blacks. This isn't racist - this isn't bigoted. This is the fact. We've failed to provide support for the traditional black culture, and it's been perverted into something where shooting another person is an acceptable solution to a disagreement. Such that if you eliminated black-on-black gun violence, our firearm homicide rate would slash in half, down to the level where we're now in the range of European countries.
It's not a racial thing - it's not about blacks or hispanics or whites. It's about culture, and I believe in the US we've encouraged the development of a culture of dependency for racial minorities that leads to an escalation of violence out of frustration and a sense that there is nothing better for them. The solution, then, isn't to continue trying to ban guns - the solution is to bring back to culture a value for life, personal growth, and respect for achievement.
I have, and a majority of US Supreme Court Justices have as well and agree - the right to carry arms is for personal defense (DC. v. Heller) and cannot be abridged by States (Chicago v. McDonald).
No, it is not. You pointed to a tiny outlier; the industry as a whole is tickled to make 6% return. Tesla currently makes -18% return. They have a LONG way to go to even break even, let alone reach typical industry returns of 5-6%. Ferrari takes a full year to sell what Tesla does in ~2 months; and Ford sells in 1 day what Tesla does in a month.
No, no, no, you don't understand! It was a request IN PERSON because after all, Musk claimed he was there in the cave, rescuing the boys himself! After all, he stated
Never saw this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus) at any point when we were in the caves.
He was there! Unless he's so delusional he believes he can use the "royal we" in writing?
COGM and SG&A produces a loss of every car built. That's before any interest, R&D, etc. SG&A (sales and administrative costs related to sales) have been a consistent 20% of revenue. It doesn't scale like you say. If you look at the last 4 quarters, you'll find it consistently 20%, and as model 3 sales went from 0 to 5000 per week, their losses per car were amazingly consistent.
Additionally, your math is wrong. You are assuming they will make $40K per car they build; right now, on a COGM and SG&A basis, they lose $3200 per car. Unless they somehow magically slash SG&A in half (which they never have done, it's been consistently 18% to 22% of revenue over the last 5 years), the extra production means a loss - before R&D, interest, and all other expenses - of $9,600,000 per week.
Did Musk make a statement about taking Tesla private without the approval of the Board of Directors,
Nobody knows.
Especially the board, who created a committee to look into going private about 2 weeks after his tweet. I guess the board found out when the rest of the world did - when Musk tweeted his fraud.
As Tesla has repeatedly pointed out, a profitable company does not need equity rounds.
Especially when they have a $420 per share private buyout secured, right Rei? Who needs profits then (NOTE: Tesla doesn't turn a profit - they continue to lose ~$20,000 per car they sell).
So what you're saying is that he is so out-of-touch with reality that he will gladly alter schedules and pricing and shout it from the hilltops, he just willingly spreads fantasy - like the $420 secured buyout?
If Tesla wanted to be a niche, specialty maker - then they should never have bought NUMMI, it's too big. Now look at companies that build more than 700 cars a month...
Those roads would have been bid at 2 years, and at $100 million per mile, but he'd get them done in 4 years, at $200 million per mile - and the self-paving requires you to have your hands on the asphalt machine at all times. But other than that...
Want to know something funny?
See something like Google Maps or other web-apps? They should be capable of running on a Win95-era machine easily.
Want to know why they don't?
Because Google developers are trash-tier developers that wrap their code in deeply-nested enclosures for no sane reason.
Want to know what's the worst thing to do in JavaScript?
Wrapping functions in deeply-nested enclosures.
T R A S H
You almost had me fulled there. Almost sounded like you knew what you were talking about,
Then you referred to Javascript closures as "enclosures" multiple times and I realized I was reading a rant from a clueless idiot.
You almost had me fulled there. Almost sounded like you knew what you were talking about,
Then you screwed up the quoting and failed to realize it at the preview I realized I was reading a rant from a clueless idiot.
Easiest way to tell if a person is either historically aware or "of a certain age" is to describe your age in scores. Saying "I am two score and 10" leaves most of those under 25 scratching their heads...
Google and Apple have the funds to build a new car line. So far, nothing out of either of them.
Why should they? The automotive industry is all about MASSIVE volume (millions of cars a year, not 100,000) because the margins are so low, making 6.2% net is the high bar. It takes literally tens of billions of dollars of investment and decades of building up a supply base and industrial capacity to, at the end of it, hopefully make 6 bucks on every 100 dollars of revenue - provided you can sell more than a few hundred thousand vehicles a year.
Musk lamented having barely enough time to savor the moment, with the newspaper reporting that he arrived two hours before the ceremony and returned to Tesla’s factory immediately after. (Bloomberg News pieced together the details of his trip from Musk’s tweets and flight data.)
So, Musk claims to have rushed in and out for the wedding only; but the data - tweets, locations, and flight data - show otherwise. I guess this is as reliable as the funding secured at $420, right? Less than 3 quarters of cash in the bank, time to enjoy the good life while you can!
Denmark and Norway are also ~90% caucasian, and both countries have a strong Christian/Western Europe-based culture. Does that have anything to do with the wealth, health, and lifespan?
Driving while on drugs was associated with more deaths in 2015 than driving with alcohol in one's system... Of the more than 400 drugs that the federal National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tracks, marijuana accounted for 35% of positive tests reported
Pot smokers account for lots of driving deaths....
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Our media is just a LOT better at hyping up these attacks; those Europeans prove, once again, to be shiftless Mennonites when it comes to news coverage of their own mass shootings!
What does it mean to "value" the second amendment?
Its traditional interpretation is that the ultimate goal of gun ownership is protecting the liberty of a state from a power grab by the federal government.
No, it's really not be adjudicated much at the Supreme Court level. The last two times it was, the Supreme Court recognized that it meant the right to self-protection (DC v Heller) and that the 2nd Amendment was incorporated against the States (Chicago v. McDonald). The Supreme Court has been very slow to protect 2A rights, but when it's made a decision, it's always been in the direction of personal use and ownership for self-defense.
The US has made, in the past 50-ish years, the choice that sacrificing human lives on the altar of gun ownership is a value. Other countries have made a different choice, by putting whatever is necessary for a person to protect themselves and their loved ones.
I was a member of a high school shooting team, and it was common to have firearms on campus (early 80s, Seattle area). No problem carrying my bosses' hunting rifles, shotguns, and pistols from his office on Union and 4th down to his gunsmith, middle of the day, no worries. We've tightened things dramatically since then, and not a lot has changed.
What has changed is the racial composition of murder. Fully half of all gun violence is perpetrated by blacks, and overwhelmingly (90%) against other blacks. This isn't racist - this isn't bigoted. This is the fact. We've failed to provide support for the traditional black culture, and it's been perverted into something where shooting another person is an acceptable solution to a disagreement. Such that if you eliminated black-on-black gun violence, our firearm homicide rate would slash in half, down to the level where we're now in the range of European countries.
It's not a racial thing - it's not about blacks or hispanics or whites. It's about culture, and I believe in the US we've encouraged the development of a culture of dependency for racial minorities that leads to an escalation of violence out of frustration and a sense that there is nothing better for them. The solution, then, isn't to continue trying to ban guns - the solution is to bring back to culture a value for life, personal growth, and respect for achievement.
I have, and a majority of US Supreme Court Justices have as well and agree - the right to carry arms is for personal defense (DC. v. Heller) and cannot be abridged by States (Chicago v. McDonald).
I shudder to think what they would have done provided he show up in his national guard uniform!
This is Hugh and Series! I'm Super Cereal!
No, it is not. You pointed to a tiny outlier; the industry as a whole is tickled to make 6% return. Tesla currently makes -18% return. They have a LONG way to go to even break even, let alone reach typical industry returns of 5-6%. Ferrari takes a full year to sell what Tesla does in ~2 months; and Ford sells in 1 day what Tesla does in a month.
So - funding NOT secured?
Never saw this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus) at any point when we were in the caves.
He was there! Unless he's so delusional he believes he can use the "royal we" in writing?
COGM and SG&A produces a loss of every car built. That's before any interest, R&D, etc. SG&A (sales and administrative costs related to sales) have been a consistent 20% of revenue. It doesn't scale like you say. If you look at the last 4 quarters, you'll find it consistently 20%, and as model 3 sales went from 0 to 5000 per week, their losses per car were amazingly consistent.
Additionally, your math is wrong. You are assuming they will make $40K per car they build; right now, on a COGM and SG&A basis, they lose $3200 per car. Unless they somehow magically slash SG&A in half (which they never have done, it's been consistently 18% to 22% of revenue over the last 5 years), the extra production means a loss - before R&D, interest, and all other expenses - of $9,600,000 per week.
I thought you keep saying that Tesla already makes a profit, and you crow about their 25% profit margin. Why wait until Q3?
Did Musk make a statement about taking Tesla private without the approval of the Board of Directors,
Nobody knows.
Especially the board, who created a committee to look into going private about 2 weeks after his tweet. I guess the board found out when the rest of the world did - when Musk tweeted his fraud.
As Tesla has repeatedly pointed out, a profitable company does not need equity rounds.
Especially when they have a $420 per share private buyout secured, right Rei? Who needs profits then (NOTE: Tesla doesn't turn a profit - they continue to lose ~$20,000 per car they sell).
So what you're saying is that he is so out-of-touch with reality that he will gladly alter schedules and pricing and shout it from the hilltops, he just willingly spreads fantasy - like the $420 secured buyout?
If Tesla wanted to be a niche, specialty maker - then they should never have bought NUMMI, it's too big. Now look at companies that build more than 700 cars a month...
Those roads would have been bid at 2 years, and at $100 million per mile, but he'd get them done in 4 years, at $200 million per mile - and the self-paving requires you to have your hands on the asphalt machine at all times. But other than that...
Funding Secured! $420 per share! Done deal!
You are correct; however, before you have crossed the border you are not IN the US and thus 4th Amendment rights do not apply to foreigners.
Want to know something funny? See something like Google Maps or other web-apps? They should be capable of running on a Win95-era machine easily. Want to know why they don't? Because Google developers are trash-tier developers that wrap their code in deeply-nested enclosures for no sane reason. Want to know what's the worst thing to do in JavaScript? Wrapping functions in deeply-nested enclosures. T R A S H
You almost had me fulled there. Almost sounded like you knew what you were talking about,
Then you referred to Javascript closures as "enclosures" multiple times and I realized I was reading a rant from a clueless idiot.
You almost had me fulled there. Almost sounded like you knew what you were talking about,
Then you screwed up the quoting and failed to realize it at the preview I realized I was reading a rant from a clueless idiot.
Easiest way to tell if a person is either historically aware or "of a certain age" is to describe your age in scores. Saying "I am two score and 10" leaves most of those under 25 scratching their heads...
Google and Apple have the funds to build a new car line. So far, nothing out of either of them.
Why should they? The automotive industry is all about MASSIVE volume (millions of cars a year, not 100,000) because the margins are so low, making 6.2% net is the high bar. It takes literally tens of billions of dollars of investment and decades of building up a supply base and industrial capacity to, at the end of it, hopefully make 6 bucks on every 100 dollars of revenue - provided you can sell more than a few hundred thousand vehicles a year.
Musk lamented having barely enough time to savor the moment, with the newspaper reporting that he arrived two hours before the ceremony and returned to Tesla’s factory immediately after. (Bloomberg News pieced together the details of his trip from Musk’s tweets and flight data.)
So, Musk claims to have rushed in and out for the wedding only; but the data - tweets, locations, and flight data - show otherwise. I guess this is as reliable as the funding secured at $420, right? Less than 3 quarters of cash in the bank, time to enjoy the good life while you can!
Denmark and Norway are also ~90% caucasian, and both countries have a strong Christian/Western Europe-based culture. Does that have anything to do with the wealth, health, and lifespan?
Driving while on drugs was associated with more deaths in 2015 than driving with alcohol in one's system... Of the more than 400 drugs that the federal National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tracks, marijuana accounted for 35% of positive tests reported
Pot smokers account for lots of driving deaths....
Smoking pot is not as safe as you think.