The consistent theme I find with rumors of McConnell intentions is that they are almost never true. The reporters always report "insiders told us" which is likely true, but never say "these insiders are 0 for 12 on McConnell predictions."

In France I think "President's Mistress" is an official position with an office and staff and budget and residence. Or once was.

If I recall correctly, Clinton's lie was the Lawyer's Omission. He asked for a definition of "sexual relations" in the context of the question. They defined the term "sexual relations" in the question in such a way that their activities were not specifically included. Being a lawyer he told the literal narrow truth, but the answer was misleading in the common usage. It has become lore to presume his guilt.

These days the Lawyer's Omission has become the standard way to address issues in the press and congress when they don't outright lie. Feigning ignorance is also popular, as is a disastrously poor recollection bordering on senility.

3. Undermining faith in elections as we kick off the race to the midterms.

Prosecuting the election crime can be left to DOJ and the states. It's enough to focus on the insurrection.

They were seconds and inches away from taking legislators hostage.

Considering a joint session of Congress is supposedly a national security event of the highest order and that's supposed to be the most secured site on the planet, that is too close. Your complaint is that they failed to overthrow the US government and that proves there was never a plot. That doesn't follow. And it in no way acknowledges the publicly available evidence.

Pro sedition or anti-sedition.

I agree it needs a full and thorough investigation. Pelosi should hold it until McConnell is minority leader so he can't pull some trick like preventing evidence and limiting witnesses to an exposition resistant format. Like last time.

This needs a deep exposition so America can know the Republicans are literally in on a seditious plot to overthrow the US government and not just unaware. We need zero deniability.

The workstations available these days are amazing. I'm not sure what the average person needs with all that capability though. Even the cheap laptops are overkill for what I imagine most people need to do.

Anybody know how to get an invite or whatever?

There is a constituency of businesses disrupted by Musk who don't mind using social engineering to attack all things Musk and pollute the mindspace with their propaganda, or buying Congressmen to oppose his efforts. As we learned from the Manafort drama, such work has highly paid experts eager to receive that deposit into their offshore accounts.

But this is Musk's game too. He has skills in this regard or such FUD would have killed his prospects already years ago. He's taking on Boeing, Ford, GM, Fossil fuels (Saudi, BP, Exxon), nuclear power, etc. And all the nations with launch business (Russia, China, India, etc). His enemies list is pretty much the Fortune 500 and every country on Earth. If he goes missing the police are going to have a harder time finding non-suspects than suspects.

And he's fine with that. It's all going to plan. He knew when he set out to save his species from extinction that his works were not going to be popular, or they would not be necessary. We are more 100x more predisposed to extinction than the dinosaurs were, as they made it 100 million years and we seem unlikely to crack the million years mark.

What's remarkable to me is how much he seems to be enjoying making fools of them all. Stoking their ire and poking the bear as if building a self sustaining colony on another planet was insufficiently challenging and he wanted to inspire the opposition to step up their game.

I don't know why he has a problem with the short sellers. A short sale is a gamble that his stock will go down, which cannot possibly exist unless there is a counter party willing to take the other side of that bet and put their money on his stock going up. Many people who believe he cannot possibly fail buy stock in his companies and then rent out their shares to his naysayers and use the money they earn in that way to buy more shares. The long and short interest in Musk stocks is a self-reinforcing commitment to volatility against a predictable trend. Long and short sellers are gambling on whether they can predict the direction of motion and attracted because he is generating a lot of motion (volatility). They are drawn like moths to his flame for no other reason than that he is succeeding in being disruptive and controversial - which are primary goals of his. It's probably an ego thing he hasn't considered: for every stupid person willing to offer their money to bet against him there is a smart person willing to take that bet, and so there is balance in the bets that moves money from the stupid to the smart and he is the conveyor belt.

Hubris is a sin and he's guilty it. I can hope there is no human living who can make him do penance for this sin because that would be the end of Mankind. If he fails to deliver an interplanetary human species there will be no other, more capable human to repeat the attempt. And that means that eventually the last of my offsprings' heirs will die without issue, my genome will become dust as yours will, all the history struggles art and works of Men throughout all time will come to nought as the passage of time erases all evidence that we ever did exist.

/My first /. post in 4 years. Things have changed around here, so be gentle.

They know what they are doing - for the first time in many years. Windows devices are currently 14% of global computing devices sales. Their 1.5 billion unit installed base is already less than Android's 2 billion plus and its advantage is eroding at a billion units a year. It is incredibly fragmented, with only 15% of their own users on version 8+ able to access the latest version of their browser. They must consolidate their base if they hope to leverage it into a credible entry into the mobile space. And they are out of time. If this fails, by the time a "next version" is ready they will be in Blackberry share land because between them Android and iOS will be moving 2 billion units a year, their installed base will be greater than 4 billion, and there are only 7 billion humans - many of whom are too young, one, poor to count at all.

Reboot. * Install all updates. Reboot three times. * Uninstall all third party software and start over. * Reinstall the OS and drivers, all service packs, all patches. * Uninstall all third party hardware and start over. * Still a problem? Contact the PC manufacturer.

* Check for proper function.

There. Paste that to a file. You have Microsoft OS support forever.

Poe's law. They should unlock the landing achievement a week from tomorrow.

If Musk gets his reusable rockets going, he should be able to lift enough fuel to fully refuel a rocket in orbit with its ground launch capacity of fuel, for about as much money as it costs to launch a disposable rocket now. That ought to scoot out to Mars quite promptly. Like Heinlein said once you're in orbit you're halfway to anywhere.

Space nutters think you can land a rocket on its jets, like we were living in some sort of 1920's pulp fiction fantasy

We started our youngest two on computers at 12 months. They moved on to tablets not long after. They were reading at a sixth grade level before preschool. Our very youngest has been accepted to and attending a school for the gifted, as she reads at a college level now and is also good at math. She publishes how-to articles online and is working on a serial drama in the fan-fiction genre that has fans among her peers - without prompting or assistance. She's eight. She lies on the forms to get around the TOS. She has gotten her older brother interested in authorship as well. Their littler nephew was showing me the other day how to modify the network settings on my Android tablet to join his Minecraft server. He is six.