Well, OK, but technically that makes everyone the victim, not just Tesla.

Agreed; and if it turns out that Tesla was in violation of the law, Musk should consider shutting his mouth for once. After paying the fines and apologizing, that is. Otherwise, I'd say GADA should be the folks eating crow.

You responded to me, fuckwit. I don't care what your point is, because it's completely non sequitur to the discussion I was trying to have when you derailed me with your idiotic, juvenile nonsense.

In my state, if you sell more than 5-8 cars a year, you have to get a dealers' license. Doesn't matter if they're old, new, salvage, etc, you hit that number, you'd better have a license from the state to sell cars.

Do I agree with the law? No, I think it violates the concept of free enterprise.

Is it the law? Yes, and in that every single person, corporate or otherwise, is required to follow it.

Assuming TFS is accurate (a dangerous assumption to make, I know), it sounds like the situation is thus:

- Georgia says, "if you sell more than X cars in this state, you have to have a dealership."

- Tesla responds, "OK, we'll sell less than X, so we can avoid that requirement."

So far, everything seems cool.

- GADA says "we're pretty sure Tesla has sold more than X cars, thus would be in violation of the law"

- Georgia asks Tesla, "How many cars have you sold in this state this year?"

- Tesla is thus far mum on the topic.

Again, presuming that this is a fairly accurate depiction of the circumstances... what makes Tesla the victim here? The fact that a competitor is claiming that they may have broken the law?

With a gun? Citation, please.

And gang members with guns tend to accidentally shoot bystanders far less often than police officers with guns do. What's your point?

I think you missed my point: the initial discussion was whether or not there are options for backups other than "none" or "the cloud," to which I pointed out yes, there are indeed other options.

Then, you got off on some barely related tangent, and shit digressed from there.

The very feminist you would ride to the rescue of would call you a misogynistic bastard for thinking she needed to be rescued.

Chivalry isn't dead, but the chivalrous among us know better than to waste time helping someone who's going to call us assholes for doing it.

FTFY.

How dare you point out a woman's shortcomings, what are you, some kind of misogynist? /sarc

Most people probably don't know who the lead developer was on any video game, because that shit doesn't fucking matter to 99.99% of the goddamn population.

It's not because 'misogyny,' or a 'boys club' or '[insert BS label]' - it's because it doesn't matter. We (by which I mean most gamers) aren't buying games because of who made them, we're buying games because we want to play that game.

Now, was this rant misdirected? Perhaps. But I've got to say something, because I'm tired of narcissistic bitches* saying that I'm a bad person for no reason other than the fact that I have a dick and disagree with their philosophies.

* If you're sitting there assuming I am referring to all women as narcissistic bitches, you're exactly the narcissistic bitch I'm talking about. Get over yourself.

... who have apparently figured out that they can make fat bank claiming misogyny is far more prevalent than it actually is.

Unless you were talking about some other group of vocal idiots.

I haven't actually seen any "explanations to the contrary" myself.

All I've seen are people like I kan reed going full retard, foaming at the mouth with hatred as they scream how you're some sort of woman-murdering monster because you won't just take her word for it.

Which, besides being hilariously ironic, doesn't really do anything to dispel people's suspicions.

I presume you've never been raped, then?

Look at who, statistically, gets murdered the most - gangbangers and other criminals.

So, what you're really saying here is that you think a decrease in criminals killing each other, coupled with an increase in non-criminals being raped and beaten, is a good thing.

I have to disagree with that line of thinking.

My bank used to have a 8-12 character limit on passwords, but they've always used 2-factor authentication.

YMMV, but my general point is that computer storage systems at banks have to be PCI compliant, whereas cloud storage, not so much.

FTFY.

Which seems kind of idiotic, to me, since one could use kinetic bombardment (Rods from God) instead of nuclear weapons, and avoid all that nasty fallout badness.