We need a Cyber command to protect all the rest of the US from cyber attacks. Ransomware attacks, cyber theft of IP and the like are degrading our private economy. School systems to hospitals are failing victim. We need to stop this. This is much bigger than setting up a secure communication channel for deployed Units. This has to be about protecting all of the United States. (And our Allies).

If it is just about consolidating the protection of the Department of Defense assets then it’s probably not worth it. In that case, general operations would probably do a better job.

Yeah for fighter jets. But I doubt that special forces are dropping men off at that altitude for the capture of a massive balloon.

Special forces often operate at altitudes higher than the flight ceiling of an F22!

This is partially false. There was a back and forth but ultimately Fremont let the plant re-open. Gavin Newsom did not become significantly involved. There was a lot of reporting but it appeared, at least in the earlier reporting, that COVID spread was higher in the community than in the TESLA plant. It does appear that you are correct in that Musk saw some of the COVID response as overreach.

California has already surpassed 12.5% electric cars without issue. Most of the charging is done at night when the load is below the grid base load. There is no reason to believe that the current charging trends would vastly change. Nine times more electric cars will increase overall electric consumption some for sure. However most of this increase will be at night. And even if all the vehicles are electric, and they will not be, the load would still be below daytime peaks. By a lot. There is the possibility that car batteries can smooth out peak load on the grid meaning this may actually help the existing grid. Investment that would have gone into gas distribution will instead go into electric generation and distribution. Ultimatly, this will not cause significant electrical system issues. (If you are looking for problems there *is* this fresh water issue ... )

https://eda.gov/arpa/good-jobs...

Paragraph two:
"Through the Good Jobs Challenge, EDA is allocating $500 million to collaborative skills training systems and programs. EDA encourages efforts to reach historically underserved populations and areas, communities of color, women, and other groups facing labor market barriers such as persons with disabilities, disconnected youth, individuals in recovery, individuals with past criminal records, including justice impacted and reentry participants, serving trainees participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Women, Infants and Children (WIC), and veterans and military spouses. "

Expected Number of Awards: 50.

They were hired to satisfy a bureaucracy. They can measure controls, and create some risk analysis based what is defined as the tenants of cyber security. They do a good job with complience. Unfortunately, most of them cannot stop hackers because they are not focused on real cyber security.

This is mostly just politics. Which is too bad because the current standard is outdated. 25/3 really is pathetic. But 100/20 today, moving to 1000/500 in the future, as a minimum bar, is just to be able to increase the number of people who they can say do not have access to the minimal broadband. And thus more who need government help. I would like to see the results of a basic zoom meeting at 50/10, 50/20, and 100/20. That kind of data would help in determining a bottom bar. 1000/500 is a nice luxury. But that speed is not at all needed now, or in the near future.

Comrade - you're doing a great job. Keep up the -1 scores! With any luck one day soon Putin himself will throw you an extra bone. Enjoy!

The numbers from Florida have been pretty bad.

# USA State TotCases/1M pop Deaths/1M pop Population
1 Mississippi 169,349 3,382 2,976,149
2 Alabama 169,439 3,158 4,903,185
3 New Jersey 134,558 3,147 8,882,190
4 Louisiana 163,103 3,124 4,648,794
5 New York 135,208 2,926 19,453,561
6 Arizona 159,304 2,890 7,278,717
7 Florida 171,909 2,770 21,477,737
8 Arkansas 169,654 2,765 3,017,804
~https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

This is a problem. The two party system, while perhaps well intended, is harming us. I am not sure how to fix it. But we need to talk about it. We need to explore fixes. Anything that gives other parties more options.

How about cost? One issue with Nuclear is that it cost too much. Both in construction and with its very expensive decomminsioning. In the US there recent reactors that just never finished because of high cost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... In California a hugely expensive renovation ended with just shutting down the reactor due to cost.

Other forms of energy are becoming more cost effective. Storage has been and is viable. Tesla has been very successful with its battery systems. Virginia's Smith mountain lake, built decades ago, is a totally different example of successful power stoage.

There needs to be lawsuit. This is foolish, stupid, and I would think, when the city government promotes this, illegal.

Really?
I enjoy my 3 more than the X. I do occasionally drive a "normal" car and I dislike doing so every time. There are a lot of haters. But have any of them actually tried the new shifter? (No) Most of them probably have not even driven a Tesla. Nothing is perfect. I am not a fan of the 3 in when it has been parked outside during an ice storm. But Tesla is pushing the envelope forward whereas everyone else seems to be satisfied with status quo.

According to the CA Covid dashboard, https://covid19.ca.gov/state-d..., they have 3,523,563 cases. Total population of CA is 39.51 million. That means 8.91% of CA residents were recorded as COVID cases.

According to the Article Tesla had 450 cases with 10,000 workers. That leads to 4.5% recorded COVID rate. If this is true then Tesla did an incredible job! That is basically 1/2 the general rate of CA as a whole.

Of course CA is a big state and I did not calculate local rates. And I do not think the time frames between the CA COVID dashboard and what was used in the article are 100% the same. I wonder what other significant and important factors have been left out. The numbers seem too good to be true. But, using this data alone seems to show that the open Tesla plant actually reduced cases and probably saved lives.