There is a lot I don't understand at financial reports, but these numbers really strike me as odd.
How can you have a revenue of 731 M$ while producing in the same period about 500 M$ worth of merchandise? Said otherwise, for each car produced in Q1, they have a revenue of about 100 k$. I know the Tesla is not a cheep car, but that seems excessive. Or did I miss something here?

I wanted to add, they new very well what they were doing. An planned exactly what is happening... That some else will pay for decommissioning and they keep the cash in their pockets.

Imo, the full cost of decommissioning should be burdened to anyone who was a share holder at some point and made profit through this scheme.

In theory, this is a fine idea. In theory, it works. As you said, the funds are based on ridiculous cost predictions. Every expert knew it was not enough.

Unless the costs for decommissioning are fully independently evaluated - which is impossible - this idea will never work. And to think the independent evaluators would get the required information from the plant planners is just as utopic.

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I find the conclusion that there is an absolute limit to the human life span because at some point the stem cells producing white blood cell all die out quite strange.

A few centuries ago, we could have concluded that there is an absolute limit to human life span because at some point someone can't eat anymore while he lost all his teeth. Any similar logical train of though could lead to the same conclusion.

And now, what if you find out why the cells die and manage to prevent it? Then the next thing that kills us will limit our life span, until we find out how to fix that as well. Absolute limits are difficult to set.

I'd so wish to see the tank of my car filled up after leaving it parked all day in the field.

That's bound to happen when those who can notice are found in less than 75% of the the surface of the planet.

How about just sending the stuff by snail mail? I'd bet my cup of coffee that they completely lost the expertise and interest on this form of communication.

Yes. No one drives short before sunrise in winter.

An this, is exactly why metaphors should not be weighted as facts.

Not that I'm particularly fond of that book, but only an idot would interprete a metaphor as fact.

I disagree. The only systematic guess in the game is the first click. If you generally have to guess afterwards, you are doing something wrong and misunderstood the game. At most you'll have to guess once or twice, if at all, through the game.

Of course we "demand" it. And of course the answer is "no thanks. But good luck finding another supplier"

This is the solution we are implementing in most cases. Firewall the computers with hardware bridges (either other computers or otherwise). We have been using local independant LANs in laboratory environment all the time for different reasons.

But in some cases, the computers running the old hardware must also communicate with other computers in the institutional network. Examples I can give are for floating network licences of specific software or for high-load data production/tranfer.

Yes! I'll make sure to pass on the message to that company that closed down 3 years ago and to the guy who retired 8 years ago.
Its a shame indeed, all the self inflicted toture they are causing me.

But I'll bet they answer that themselves find it a shame that non of the companies producing the hardware respecting the requirements for the sub-components themselves only supported windows. In that sence, I guess on could say it's a second level indirectly self inflicted toture.

Or they will remind me how there is a real world, with real problems, real limations and where you do not have the control on everything.

Would like some of that malware with sprinkle of virus with that XP patch from best-patch-torrent.ro?