I will say, near the end of his presidency, Trump did says this is a news conference:

"but nobody likes me. ... It can only be my personality".

I was thinking "NOW he's starting to get it!" We don't like you. :)

Yeah at least in one point of the primary season, polling showed the Trump was the ONLY republican candidate that people liked less than they liked Hillary. According to polling at the time, any other Republican candidate would beat her.

Of course he ended up squeaking out the win, partly because of a lot of conservatives holding their nose and voting against Hillary, even though that meant voting for Trump. Remember #nevertrump was *Republicans*.

Hillary DID release a gracious concession statement right after the election. That was true statesmanship. Then 12 hours later she blaming hacking for her loss, saying "he's an illegitimate president".

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Gore said we should count dimpled ballots in the Democrat precincts, throw out all ballots in the Republican precincts that have the chad hanging by a corner, and not let the soldiers deployed overseas vote, so he could pretend to win.

Local politicians (of both parties) are often gracious about losing. People who run for president of the US always have two things in common:
1) They think they SHOULD be president of the US
2) They think most everyone else can see that and will agree

In other words, they are arrogant in the extreme.
Starting with that level of conceit, once they invest 110% for two years to set up a campaign and run, they very often can't accept that they lost. Hillary is still bitter - she very much hasn't gotten over it. Which is understandable.

So rather than watching any of the billions of FREE movies and videos, you have a need to watch the ones that took $10 million to produce.

Yet you refuse to pitch in your $1.99 toward that. You want the Hollywood product, you're not going to pay $2 to rent it, so instead you spend hours trying to find ways to steal it.

Genius.

You may be confusing two completely different numbers.
You said SpaceX has the lowest costs. What makes you think so? It's not a public company, so we don't know what their costs are. One can *guess*, given you're choosing not to believe company officials.

How can other companies compete, you ask? It's entirely possible that like Snowflake or Carvana, they're losing money every month and will soon be out of business.

Elon HOPES they can develop enough reusability to make it significantly cheaper. And he PLANS to have stuff done in 2020 that they haven't yet.

The president of SpaceX once said they anticipate refurbishing the first stage will provide a 30% reduction in cost.

That's the hoped-for benefit after the spend more to build the thing. It could very well be that their total cost ends up higher. We don't yet know how many times each part can be refurbished.

There's also a 30% payload reduction because they have to carry extra fuel for landing. And extra fuel to carry that fuel.

Suppose you can get a disposable Bic lighter for $1.50, or a refillable Zippo for $20. If you refill the Zippo $20 times, you (arguably) come out ahead. If you refill it only 10 times, disposable would have cost less overall.

I say arguably on the first one because while the total is $10 cheaper, ten dollars today is not worth the same as ten dollars three years from now. There is a coat to spending the extra money up front rather than later.

By the way, the 30% figure they projected was a few years ago. I'm not sure what their current estimates are. But the point is building a more expensive vehicle and then refurbishing for another flight it isn't necessarily cheaper. Most people never rebuild their car engine, because it doesn't make sense cost wise.

Also, toy drones likely won't knock the lamp plug out of the socket. Most of them now weigh less than 250 grams. A little plastic toy isn't going to do anything to the inch thick steel cable that supports a large power line.

This is like the dude is comparing a real dump truck to kids Tonka toy.

Blocking off your server so nobody can use it isn't a fix. It's maybe a tourniquet. A tourniquet that has to be applied before you're attacked.

That could work. It would probably have to stay up there, though. Not go up and down like the plane. Which means no crew. Weather balloons routinely go much higher.

There is a certain altitude at which an airship's bouyancy equals its weight. To fly at any other altitude, it has to use its engines to force the airship up or down. This is why airships normally fly at very low altitudes - so they don't have to use a lot of power to force themselves down landing, or to keep up at cruising altitude.

* Very low meaning close the minimum safe clearance above any potentially unseen antenna towers, etc. Around 400'-600 feet AGL or so.

DOJ investigated, reading emails and text messages between the people involved. They charged six people who WERE involved. There's no evidence that the CEO knew about what they were doing. They didn't charge people who didn't weren't involved in the wrongdoing.

When the PR head texted the CEO about the things the couple were saying, the CEO said :
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It's cool, don't worry.

You know this comes with the territory and it's part of running a consumer company.
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The CEO was telling the PR person to chill out, don't worry about it - people will criticize the company and that's just how it is. Is that a crime?

Witnesses "were in agreement that they never witnessed Wenig say or do anything that would make them think he would approve or tolerate the alleged criminal activity." (Vox.com)

A third party who investigated on behalf of the board found OTHER messages unrelated to this which influenced the decision that he would no longer be part of the company.

Well - is Ray G is this Kardashian video?

I don't know what the hell my brain was doing when I typed 20-30X. I'm half asleep. 8X.

It's been said that a picture is worth a thousand words.

And a normal quality video is worth several thousand pictures, when it comes to data size.

And a 4K video costs 20-30 times that.

Over 80% of the internet traffic, by volume, is video streaming like Netflix and Hulu. The folks who leave those streams running all day are the ones using up a fair portion of the world's bandwidth, the ones creating the cost. But consumers demand that they not pay for the costs. That's partly because mobile phone carriers charged too much per MB/GB many years ago. SO now people are afraid of paying for usage, because they don't think it'll be fair pricing. So they choose the very unfair pricing that the people who don't run up the costs end up paying them, while some idiot streams 4K in the bedroom all day while he's at work.

What a wonderful, gracious reply.
Thank you.

You're right that becoming totally dependent on China is not in anyone's best interest - other than China's.

The summary ends with -

"
"Mr. Biden has pushed a variety of legislative initiatives to boost domestic manufacturing, including direct spending on infrastructure, tax credits and other subsidies for companies like battery makers and semiconductor factories, and new federal procurement requirements that benefit manufacturers located in the United States," adds the report -- all of which could help encourage factory job growth in the coming months and years".

There is some truth that. About half of the Democrat voters, mostly the younger / less experienced half, want Biden to shut down as many businesses as possible. To punish those greedy investors (aka the voters parents, with their 401ks). They don't realize they are trying to shut down their own employers and make themselves unemployed. Fortunately Biden hasn't pandered to that severely uninformed view much. Obama gave it significant lip service, and did cause some damage to American business. Biden is wise enough he hasn't done that much.