Japan has a spate of stories of very long lived people who turn out to be fake. Children collecting pension checks dont report the death of the pensioners for years.
Surprised, such a law abiding country, with a tradition of ancestor worship would let their parents die and be without last rites, committing financial fraud, etc.
The garage was in the basement, I could smell gas, and was freaked out. Moved the car to drive way, worried sick, assumed the whole thing can explode any minute. The leak was very small but the underside was coated with gasoline. There was gasoline vapor under the car, there was this hot exhaust... Shivers even now when I think about it.
Was exaggerating a little to say it lost 80% of the capacity. The leak was in the neck, near the gas filler cap.
News papers are portrait aspect ratio. Almost all the books are portrait aspect ratio. Further newspapers reduce the aspect ratio by a factor of 6 or 8 by using multiple columns. For reading text, we need to move the eye from right edge of one line to the left edge of the next line. Scan through. We know from even before the days of Gutenberg the best aspect ratio for reading text.
It was Hollywood movies that started with a wider format, and it reached the 70 mm film format and went for this wider format.
Cathode ray tubes and TVs based on them would like to show a circular picture if they can get away with it. The best they could come up with as a kind of circle doing its best to masquerade as a rectangle. Sony struggled so hard to make the picture tube with a strict rectangular picture. The shadow mask in color TV was absorbing so many electrons near the corner, accumulated charge and deflected the beam it was a night mare. Standard def TV based on cathode ray tube was nearly impossible beyond 36 inch screens.
With the hand held phones, it is so easy to go for wider format for video and portrait mode for text, it is evolving in that direction. Almost all the desktop monitor mounts lets you flip the mode. I use two monitors in landscape mode. But almost all my reports use one in portrait, for writing code and one in landscape to see the product/GUI.
If someone comes up with a clever clamshell for laptops that lets you choose tall or wide easily and quickly it would get some good market share.
Tesla's production rate has a phase lag of about a quarter. At the rate of 2500 cars a week and 45K per car, it works out to 1.5 billion dollars. For operations as big as SpaceX or Tesla 1.5 billion loan for one more quarter is not a big deal.
Musk is not writing off 1.5 billion from SpaceX. He is just rearranging the cash flow. In his mind, Tesla is not writing off the Solar city bonds. He believes all the companies will succeed, and all that is going on is simple rearrangement of cash flow.
So he will not be averse to using SpaceX to squeeze the shorts.
No. Lots of shorts will get their fingers burned and learn not to short Tesla.
The big hedge funds will move on. But the small time shorts that lost money will stay on the sidelines and egg on the next batch of shorts "go ahead, *this* time it will be different".
In each iteration their numbers will shrink and they will be reduced to bad mouthing Tesla in Seeking Alpha and in sub reddits.
Most important reason why electric cars are doomed to fail:
Someday I plan to buy a boat and haul it once a year for 1200 miles to Chesapeake bay from Tulsa OK. And if that trip can not be done in one tank of gas, that truck, that I have not bought yet, is totally worthless. So not only I won't buy it, nobody else will buy it either. So all electric cars are doomed to fail.
You missed many more: Tesla factory must be terrible if the CEO had to pull all nighters to fix the issues. The Solar City bonds will kill them. And the fit and finish is so poor, you can actually fit a Prius in the gap between the frunk lid and the fender.
And we all will sorely miss matching our wits against the dealership salesdroid. I love doing research on Truecar, Vehix.com Edmunds and Costo.....
He never wanted to go public, he hates all the strictures that come with SEC regulation of being a publicly traded company. He would love to take it private. But too many people believe in him and it is nearly impossible to find private investors at this valuation. So in some sense if the shorts crash the stock price and take it low, he will be able to put together financing to take it private.
Of course, that will void all the billion dollar options and package he has now, but he does not care much about money personally. So that is not a problem. But he has so much ego and would not like the shorts to win either. That is his dilemma.
He needlessly limited his options, by responding to Economist and Bloomberg, saying categorically he is not going to seek financing etc. He should have thrown in some weasel words in there.
But, in the end, Space X is very good shape, it is likely to land some really big defence contracts and communication satellite launches. So like he used Tesla to rescue Solar City, he will use SpaceX to rescue Tesla. By the time Tesla rescue package bill comes due, Tesla is likely to be in a much better shape and will weather the storm.
If it is not SpaceX, he can tap the Japanese bond market through the battery making partner Panasonic. Or he can sell out to the devil and bring China in and they would gladly retire the Solar City rescue package debt for a decent chunk of Tesla and access to its AI experts. So my personal hunch is the shorts are going to escape with just some minor losses, suing for a draw.
Gazetted officers are on duty 24/7. They might not be at their regular work place. But they serve the The President at all times. The code of conduct and behavior applies all the time.
OK once you stop laughing, you need to agree technically, on paper we were on duty all the time.
I have used google maps in India. There the directions have always been like, "Turn left at Ganesha Temple, turn right at the Punjab Bank,..." kind. Was glad it did not end in, "after turning left at the Geetha Cafe, stop, ask the boy Appu selling peacock feather fan, how to proceed". No north, south, road number business.
Indian Civil Service vacation rules were by the British Raj. It took a week to go to England from India, vacation for those officers were two months every other year. Remnants of such generous leave policies are still there in India.
Fresh out of college and got into Govt Service as a Gazetted Officer (civilian equivalent of a Commissioned Officer, your name gets published in the Gazette, the official publication of Government of India). I got 30 days of "Earned Leave", and then 30 days of half pay medical leave, convertible to 15 days of full pay leave, 2 days of casual leave, 16 national holidays, two days of "restricted holidays". 65 days off! not counting 104 weekend.
OK So you think these sites are slimeballs and blood. I find it odd you have a facebook credential to begin with. It is very inconsistent with someone who takes privacy seriously.
Would it be any better if a closed source software did the same thing? Is it something like Thomas Alva Edison persuading New York to choose an AC current to make the electric chair to make people fear his rival's inventions?
I have been spending some time in the Tesla forum after the invite.
The cancellation is around 7%, some 450K pre orders are still on the books, they seem to show no sign of deserting in droves
Fan base is maintaining a detailed google spreadsheet of preorder date, invite date, VIN date and delivery date, configuration and destination. They are reporting all preorders before 3/31/2016 got invite, all line standees got preference and die cast model 3 as a gift. 19 inch wheels are getting delivered within 10 days of config. 18 inch wheels are taking more time. The 19inch wheels cost 1500$ more.
They are churning out tables showing invite to vin, vin to delivery time, by state, by color, by configuration, in the last week, last reported vin, all kinds of crazy statistics.
They are selling only the premium versions, 50K models now.
The email mentions CEO approval for 1 million dollars or more.
I don't know what the norm is on companies that size. If it is going up from half mill, it is good news I guess. If it is coming down from 5 mill, it is bad news and the stories of impending cash crunch has more credibility.
Disclaimer: Booked a 3 on 1 april 2016, got the invite, configured the car, got the wall charger, working on getting it installed. Expecting vin in three weeks, delivery two weeks after.
It is very logical, all the allied sites provide all the data about all the visitors because they don't know who is a facebook user and who is not. True. Agreed.
So we should just stop visiting all sites that support facebook login, (like slashdot) all companies that have a facebook page. That is the only way we can make sure facebook does not build a shadow profile of non users/
If you owe taxes, and deliberately fill your W4 to reduce witholdings, and spend all that money, then you deserve to be taken to the cleaners by IRS. I have no mercy for tax cheats.
IRS direct pay is just one method to make a payment. A check attached to the return, post marked before the Tax Day (April 17 this year) is a valid method to pay the tax, not very onerous, and is not vulnerable to denial of service attacks.
It is very much possible enemies of IRS, both foreign and domestic have a hand in this down time.
New Yorkers should visit places like Dubai, Shanghai, St Petersburg in Russia or even Singapore City, to see what a subway should look like and function.
Sadly, Americans still think they have the best and greatest in the world.
Leave those richer countries. Kolkata Metro (new name for Calcutta) India is cleaner than NYC subway. I can't believe it either.
But the mosquitoes in the subway have speciated and they are distinct species from the mosquitoes above ground in New York. Evolution in action. Deny that creationists.
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Surprised, such a law abiding country, with a tradition of ancestor worship would let their parents die and be without last rites, committing financial fraud, etc.
The garage was in the basement, I could smell gas, and was freaked out. Moved the car to drive way, worried sick, assumed the whole thing can explode any minute. The leak was very small but the underside was coated with gasoline. There was gasoline vapor under the car, there was this hot exhaust ... Shivers even now when I think about it.
Was exaggerating a little to say it lost 80% of the capacity. The leak was in the neck, near the gas filler cap.
But anti aliasing and the truetype etc suck big time in Remote Desktop anyway.
It was Hollywood movies that started with a wider format, and it reached the 70 mm film format and went for this wider format.
Cathode ray tubes and TVs based on them would like to show a circular picture if they can get away with it. The best they could come up with as a kind of circle doing its best to masquerade as a rectangle. Sony struggled so hard to make the picture tube with a strict rectangular picture. The shadow mask in color TV was absorbing so many electrons near the corner, accumulated charge and deflected the beam it was a night mare. Standard def TV based on cathode ray tube was nearly impossible beyond 36 inch screens.
With the hand held phones, it is so easy to go for wider format for video and portrait mode for text, it is evolving in that direction. Almost all the desktop monitor mounts lets you flip the mode. I use two monitors in landscape mode. But almost all my reports use one in portrait, for writing code and one in landscape to see the product/GUI.
If someone comes up with a clever clamshell for laptops that lets you choose tall or wide easily and quickly it would get some good market share.
Musk is not writing off 1.5 billion from SpaceX. He is just rearranging the cash flow. In his mind, Tesla is not writing off the Solar city bonds. He believes all the companies will succeed, and all that is going on is simple rearrangement of cash flow.
So he will not be averse to using SpaceX to squeeze the shorts.
The big hedge funds will move on. But the small time shorts that lost money will stay on the sidelines and egg on the next batch of shorts "go ahead, *this* time it will be different".
In each iteration their numbers will shrink and they will be reduced to bad mouthing Tesla in Seeking Alpha and in sub reddits.
I am smart enough not to buy Tesla stock. I am also smart enough not to short Tesla stock.
My Subaru gas tank developed a rust through hole on the side wall of the gas tank at around 109K miles. It lost more than 80% of capacity.
most people also will detect sarcasm 500 miles a away.
Someday I plan to buy a boat and haul it once a year for 1200 miles to Chesapeake bay from Tulsa OK. And if that trip can not be done in one tank of gas, that truck, that I have not bought yet, is totally worthless. So not only I won't buy it, nobody else will buy it either. So all electric cars are doomed to fail.
And we all will sorely miss matching our wits against the dealership salesdroid. I love doing research on Truecar, Vehix.com Edmunds and Costo.....
Of course, that will void all the billion dollar options and package he has now, but he does not care much about money personally. So that is not a problem. But he has so much ego and would not like the shorts to win either. That is his dilemma.
He needlessly limited his options, by responding to Economist and Bloomberg, saying categorically he is not going to seek financing etc. He should have thrown in some weasel words in there.
But, in the end, Space X is very good shape, it is likely to land some really big defence contracts and communication satellite launches. So like he used Tesla to rescue Solar City, he will use SpaceX to rescue Tesla. By the time Tesla rescue package bill comes due, Tesla is likely to be in a much better shape and will weather the storm.
If it is not SpaceX, he can tap the Japanese bond market through the battery making partner Panasonic. Or he can sell out to the devil and bring China in and they would gladly retire the Solar City rescue package debt for a decent chunk of Tesla and access to its AI experts. So my personal hunch is the shorts are going to escape with just some minor losses, suing for a draw.
OK once you stop laughing, you need to agree technically, on paper we were on duty all the time.
I have used google maps in India. There the directions have always been like, "Turn left at Ganesha Temple, turn right at the Punjab Bank, ..." kind. Was glad it did not end in, "after turning left at the Geetha Cafe, stop, ask the boy Appu selling peacock feather fan, how to proceed". No north, south, road number business.
Fresh out of college and got into Govt Service as a Gazetted Officer (civilian equivalent of a Commissioned Officer, your name gets published in the Gazette, the official publication of Government of India). I got 30 days of "Earned Leave", and then 30 days of half pay medical leave, convertible to 15 days of full pay leave, 2 days of casual leave, 16 national holidays, two days of "restricted holidays". 65 days off! not counting 104 weekend.
But acronyms are strong in this one.
OK So you think these sites are slimeballs and blood. I find it odd you have a facebook credential to begin with. It is very inconsistent with someone who takes privacy seriously.
Would it be any better if a closed source software did the same thing? Is it something like Thomas Alva Edison persuading New York to choose an AC current to make the electric chair to make people fear his rival's inventions?
The cancellation is around 7%, some 450K pre orders are still on the books, they seem to show no sign of deserting in droves
Fan base is maintaining a detailed google spreadsheet of preorder date, invite date, VIN date and delivery date, configuration and destination. They are reporting all preorders before 3/31/2016 got invite, all line standees got preference and die cast model 3 as a gift. 19 inch wheels are getting delivered within 10 days of config. 18 inch wheels are taking more time. The 19inch wheels cost 1500$ more.
They are churning out tables showing invite to vin, vin to delivery time, by state, by color, by configuration, in the last week, last reported vin, all kinds of crazy statistics. They are selling only the premium versions, 50K models now.
I don't know what the norm is on companies that size. If it is going up from half mill, it is good news I guess. If it is coming down from 5 mill, it is bad news and the stories of impending cash crunch has more credibility.
Disclaimer: Booked a 3 on 1 april 2016, got the invite, configured the car, got the wall charger, working on getting it installed. Expecting vin in three weeks, delivery two weeks after.
So we should just stop visiting all sites that support facebook login, (like slashdot) all companies that have a facebook page. That is the only way we can make sure facebook does not build a shadow profile of non users/
If you owe taxes, and deliberately fill your W4 to reduce witholdings, and spend all that money, then you deserve to be taken to the cleaners by IRS. I have no mercy for tax cheats.
Tax fight is with legislators, not with IRS.
Looks like some pre attack shelling to soften up the ground by ambulance chasers. rats ... ambulance chasers... all same
It is very much possible enemies of IRS, both foreign and domestic have a hand in this down time.
New Yorkers should visit places like Dubai, Shanghai, St Petersburg in Russia or even Singapore City, to see what a subway should look like and function. Sadly, Americans still think they have the best and greatest in the world.
Leave those richer countries. Kolkata Metro (new name for Calcutta) India is cleaner than NYC subway. I can't believe it either.
But the mosquitoes in the subway have speciated and they are distinct species from the mosquitoes above ground in New York. Evolution in action. Deny that creationists.