You both got, and missed, the point.

Yes, it will cost shareholders money. But not the shareholders suing. Just all the rest of the retail shareholders that don't have enough clout to tell these "activist" investors to go pound it up their asses.

This happens every time a company has a problem reaching a stated goal, because these assholes don't believe they should share the risk, when sharing that risk is exactly what was signed up for when they invested in the company.

Yes, because spreading out and embracing lower density has done wonders for the traffic in Southern California...

What?

You seem to have forgotten about all the trains and buses that bring people into lower Manhattan.

Millionaire stock brokers ride the subway, so don't even bother with your argument that mass transit is only for "the poors" because you're just going to look like an idiot.

Because the trend line before now always had it at an increase, and there is no possible capacity increase in lower Manhattan.

This isn't that hard to figure out.

There are plenty of audio engineers that will disagree that nobody will be impacted. But do go on telling other people their business - I hear that goes over really well.

It's probably more about not having to maintain it.

Right next to the PS-2 ports for keyboard and mouse, and the stack of RS-232 serial, and the parallel port. Which would remain on PCs for years even though USB 1.0 could do all of those things. And that's the point people are making about Apple embracing it - they were the only company that really could, because it would have been suicide for Dell to say "fuck you and fuck all your peripherals. Buy new stuff because we say so!"

Only Apple dares to do that, and somehow gets away with it every time. I'm honestly surprised they still supported 1394 still, I figured they would purge that from the code right about the minute the last model that shipped with FireWire on it hits end-of-support.

There were other launch providers previous to SpaceX, and they were not NASA. NASA hasn't launched their own satellites in decades, except for very special cases that were carried up by Shuttle.

ULA, and their component companies have been very happy to sell a rocket to anybody that can afford one for quite a bit of time longer than SpaceX has existed.

What the fuck are you even talking about.

And?

Just like any other process that needs to scale: can you produce the same or more volume of wanted product, in the same or less amount of time, for less than what it costs today?

This is a process that has the potential to increase production yields by being more efficient. If it scales, they'll be all over it because it reduces costs while making them look like the good guys by making a meaningful cut in emissions. And it gives Big Oil something to point at when they say oil use isn't the problem, just that we haven't advanced technology enough to use it cleanly yet. so let's keep on keepin' on and let someone else figure out how to clean up their mess!

So you would rather have a world where you call customer service because you had a problem with your MFA device, and the answer is "too fucking bad, you're locked out of your retirement account forever because there's nothing we can do. Hope you didn't want your hundreds of thousands of dollars!"

Tell us you've never thought about the customer experience, without telling us you've never thought about the customer experience.

You are basically making the cost comparison of using a Gulfstream for a private jet, versus a 747-8LR. Yes, you can use a 747 as a private jet, but it's going to cost you tens of thousands of dollars in fuel for each flight.

Nobody is looking to use SLS to put shit in LEO, so quoting costs to LEO is stupid and pointless.

SLS is built to do different stuff, so if you waste it on doing things it wasn't meant to do, it's going to cost more. Congratulations on proving something everyone already knew.

Usually you want your test articles to actually make it to the test you really want data from.

That involves them not exploding on the ground during a routine pre-flight static-fire of the engines.

Let's stop making excuses for problems that are clearly problems.

Is this where some dolt comes along trying to convince everyone that this is a "successful flight" because they got some data like the last three times they created rapidly expanding clouds of plasma, superheated gases, and bits of metal?

And you already know he's incorrect when he starts trashing on the spork. As it turns out, sporks do work as both forks and spoons. He just sounds like an idiot.

The real reason you won't see macOS on an iPad: that would defeat the walled garden and allow you to install whatever the fuck you want, and Apple isn't going to officially allow that if they don't absolutely have to.

So you never considered that an employee of the company can add / remove MFA methods from the account? I.e. "I will pay you $500 if you add this email account as a MFA on account X using the permissions you've been granted to remediate account access issues."

Of course email / SMS MFA is terrible. This has been known for a long time. But even if they're using TOTP or a hardware device like a Yubikey, there is nothing preventing a customer service agent empowered to make account changes to add the TOTP seed or another Yubikey token owned by the bad actor.