I get the impression that you seem to think that Tesla asking the government for a loan means that they can't acquire funding in any other way.

It occurs to me that Tesla's issue is not money but rather the cost of that money. Certainly accepting money from private investors would require a loss of control/equity in the company. Or without the equity, having to repay far to much in interest.

The government loan option must appear to be pretty fantastic... Low interest rate loan and no loss of equity or control of the company.

If the government loan falls through and Tesla needs to raise more money, they will. I've no doubts that can get just about all the money they want, it's just the cost of doing so.

It's unfortunate they aren't publicly traded. I'd like to buy there stock... For a purely speculative gamble.

65536 actually. (aka 2^16)

So I guess that means the Office division finally ported their code to 32-bit. Windows has been 32 bit for . . . . . how many years now? With any luck it'll be ported to 64-bit no later than 10 years after we're all using 128-bit chips!

Seriously. Kids dvds are the worst at that. Lots of previews that you can't skip etc etc. I purchased a AppleTV hooked it up and now rip all of my dvd's. I had 2 motivating factors for doing this. Motivating factor number 1 was to keep physical media away from the (then 2.5yrs old) kid's hands. The other and the true motivating factor was the pain I'd have to go through to setup a kid's movie for my daughter to watch.

No, I'm just out of the office this week.