I give credit to Musk for trying to help. He also sent Boring Company specialists to Thailand to confer with authorities on tunneling possibilities. I follow him on Twitter and he sometimes says dumb things (Don't we all?).
"No one else has been developing because of whatever priorities" - the "priorities" that have kept anyone with the "capabilities" from developing alternatives to planet-killing fossil fuels for transportation have everything to do with protecting the investments of fossil fuel owning billionaires by any means necessary, even if it means a dystopian future for humanity. Musk is a non-fossil fuel billionaire who is succeeding with a technology that could quickly make oil wells and coal mines useless, stranded assets. So naturally the owners of these soon-to-be useless assets will do damn near anything to derail Musk
Uh. That was my point. He did get people to invest long before he received govt moola. Musk led the Series A round of investment and the subsequent Series B as well. I’d imagine he was also involved in the decision to start with an expensive roadster as the first product, aimed at wealthy buyers in order to help fund the next car which would be cheaper and so on. . And as I pointed out, CEOs don’t generally get involved in the nuts and bolts of production so it’s not logical to judge them on that criterium.
I thought he did design it. I thought it was great. I'm sorry he's a jackass. He believes he owes nothing to anyone, least of all those who work in his factories. If he didn't gather up the capital, and didn't engineer the car, and isn't a great manager of people, then I really don't understand where he thinks his greatness lies, and I don't wonder the stockholders were so ready to dump him at that moment.
By using so much water, and so much chemicals we'll be weakened. Then, some day, we'll have only these few crops with patents on them. And you know there's a thing about diversity. Some powerful pest will appear they can't resist, and then we'll have a famine and we'll starve. And that will happen if we don't have genetic diversity in the crops. That's the problem with that. And rejecting GMO foods is not analogous to rejecting Darwinian theory.
As long as the guy on our side is not a pedo ....... it's digestible. Can't be right. Anyway, why say the guy is not equipped to decide if the submarine will work? This is a fatal flaw, the kind that he's too young to be getting.
Isn't MZuckerberg running for president? Tho he is a man who can't look a person in the eye, unless that person is actually praising him. I was fascinated to see his expression while a reporter said, "people seem angry that you've relaxed privacy controls on facebook..." He had a creepy quarter-- smile but he was not there anymore. And no intention of answering to anyone, it seemed.
Right. And the prototype came from the engineers who had been paid to develop it. And it was Musk who got the engineers together and developed the ideas and got the initial funding together to pay the engineers to develop the prototype etc etc. Yes Musk can be an insufferable asshole but he has also pulled off some amazing things. SpaceX for example. No he’s not the guy actually designing shit but that’s the case for any CEO.
The first car prototype came from a grant from the gov't that the Obama amdinistration started. And it was an inspiring story of having to finish it in 16 hrs and actually doing it. So cool and then such a marvelous car. And then to be an ordinary jerk with his people. I thought these young guys would be so different. Why would I think that? The great book is the Snowball about W. Buffett!
Well, it looks as if I'll have to cancel my PayPal account now. I really should have cancelled if years ago, but I had no idea Musk was a libelous Republican Pac donating douche-bag. I'll also never watch another SpaceX launch as long as I live, and I wouldn't drive a Tesla if he personally gave me one.
I give credit to Musk for trying to help. He also sent Boring Company specialists to Thailand to confer with authorities on tunneling possibilities. I follow him on Twitter and he sometimes says dumb things (Don't we all?).
You can be 95% good guy and 5% arsehole. But sometimes the arsehole wins.
"No one else has been developing because of whatever priorities" - the "priorities" that have kept anyone with the "capabilities" from developing alternatives to planet-killing fossil fuels for transportation have everything to do with protecting the investments of fossil fuel owning billionaires by any means necessary, even if it means a dystopian future for humanity. Musk is a non-fossil fuel billionaire who is succeeding with a technology that could quickly make oil wells and coal mines useless, stranded assets. So naturally the owners of these soon-to-be useless assets will do damn near anything to derail Musk
Yup, he creeps me out, too. Why are so many of these techie entrepreneurs so strange and/or creepy?
Uh. That was my point. He did get people to invest long before he received govt moola. Musk led the Series A round of investment and the subsequent Series B as well. I’d imagine he was also involved in the decision to start with an expensive roadster as the first product, aimed at wealthy buyers in order to help fund the next car which would be cheaper and so on. . And as I pointed out, CEOs don’t generally get involved in the nuts and bolts of production so it’s not logical to judge them on that criterium.
I thought he did design it. I thought it was great. I'm sorry he's a jackass. He believes he owes nothing to anyone, least of all those who work in his factories. If he didn't gather up the capital, and didn't engineer the car, and isn't a great manager of people, then I really don't understand where he thinks his greatness lies, and I don't wonder the stockholders were so ready to dump him at that moment.
By using so much water, and so much chemicals we'll be weakened. Then, some day, we'll have only these few crops with patents on them. And you know there's a thing about diversity. Some powerful pest will appear they can't resist, and then we'll have a famine and we'll starve. And that will happen if we don't have genetic diversity in the crops. That's the problem with that. And rejecting GMO foods is not analogous to rejecting Darwinian theory.
As long as the guy on our side is not a pedo ....... it's digestible. Can't be right. Anyway, why say the guy is not equipped to decide if the submarine will work? This is a fatal flaw, the kind that he's too young to be getting.
Isn't MZuckerberg running for president? Tho he is a man who can't look a person in the eye, unless that person is actually praising him. I was fascinated to see his expression while a reporter said, "people seem angry that you've relaxed privacy controls on facebook..." He had a creepy quarter-- smile but he was not there anymore. And no intention of answering to anyone, it seemed.
Right. And the prototype came from the engineers who had been paid to develop it. And it was Musk who got the engineers together and developed the ideas and got the initial funding together to pay the engineers to develop the prototype etc etc. Yes Musk can be an insufferable asshole but he has also pulled off some amazing things. SpaceX for example. No he’s not the guy actually designing shit but that’s the case for any CEO.
Money. Money based on the prototype.
The Obama administration gave him a car design?
The first car prototype came from a grant from the gov't that the Obama amdinistration started. And it was an inspiring story of having to finish it in 16 hrs and actually doing it. So cool and then such a marvelous car. And then to be an ordinary jerk with his people. I thought these young guys would be so different. Why would I think that? The great book is the Snowball about W. Buffett!
Man with failed business insults people on twitter?
Is he orange by any chance?
So?
Well, it looks as if I'll have to cancel my PayPal account now. I really should have cancelled if years ago, but I had no idea Musk was a libelous Republican Pac donating douche-bag. I'll also never watch another SpaceX launch as long as I live, and I wouldn't drive a Tesla if he personally gave me one.