Re: ディーゼルゲート
> Only one more use of -gate should be tolerated- when Mr Musk messes up we have to have an Elongate!
That "-gate" is reserved for when The Register uncovers the secret neurolink - p0rnhub connection.
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By effectively bringing auto workers of all major manufacturers into one union, North American auto unions became a bigger monopoly than any of the car companies. So the focus of the industry became about satisfying the unions rather than customers / car owners. It took outside competition to effectively break that monopoly.
What we need is effective anti-monopoly laws that can be applied to both companies and unions so that neither can can completely monopolize critical market segments.
>The Hyperloop (Elons version) company was shutdown just before Christmas 2023
I always assumed Hyperloop was actually building his secret underground head quarters. They must have finished so they are not needed anymore. I am just surprised he has not acquired a dormant volcano somewhere for his backup launch site.
I have to wonder what having all that extra surface area does to the overall Aerodynamic drag. Creating a fleet of passenger aircraft that get there faster but use a lot more fuel would not seem like a step forward. Although I understand that with ships, for a fixed width, the longer the hull the less the drag so it may be OK.
>"they" know what phone you bought,
You don't buy the phone from a store, you buy it from the shady guy who buys them in bulk from the store, as shown in the documentary "Better Call Saul".
So one might expect these geo fenced warrants only provide the police with a list of innocent bystanders. But if the list is short then they would also make "good enough" suspects.
>Another option is the blast on the top of the booster from the second stage opened the top of the can .
The heat from the hot staging will have also increased the pressure in the fuel tanks. If that was higher then they expected it could have contributed to the engine failures. The bottom of the second stage will also have experienced higher temperatures during the first moments of hot staging. It will be interesting to see if the stick with the hot staging procedure with the next flight as it was a rather late change to the design.
>quotas they dictate appointments rather than ability or best fit for the company.
But for the quota to be responsible for the incompetence of the board, implies it is not possible to find 2 competent women or for that matter 2 competent men. I think it is more likely that the selection process itself is where the problem lies.
Like modern parents that have decided not use of negative language like "no" or "don't" with their children to improve their emotional development, Google has decided to remove such negative words from their corporate language so they can better grow as a corporation, including from their original motto: "Don't be evil".
The original rights holders might be more upset, and inclined to sue, if the AI operator was giving content away for free rather then charging for it. Charging for it would at least limit the distribution of the content and might make limits on the final customers right to reuse enforceable. Freely distributed content would make it harder to track distribution and enforce copyrights after the fact.
> whenever they access a webpage?
There is no practical way that any web content can be viewed without that content being temporarily stored in multiple servers on it's route to the viewer. So it would seem to me that if the content is allowed to be published on a publicly accessible website, then they are waving the restriction on temporary storage.
Thank goodness technology will allow our future AI overlords to truly appreciate vintage late 1960s fashion and music like this:
> Invading Taiwan is very unlikely to result in a working advanced foundry.
Agreed, most foundries would be destroyed in response to an invasion, but given the high dependence of "the west" on Taiwan foundries it could partially level the playing in terms of technology available to the military. Overall it would definitely be a lose-lose scenario. Hopefully China will not let their political pride cause them to act irrationally and focus on internal or diplomatic remedies rather than military options.
I suspect that it is now cheaper to just buy capacity from Starlink then launch and maintain their own satellite service to reach the last 10 or 20% of the population. It buys time and allows more money to go to building out ground based infrastructure. The risk being that relying on a US (or any foreign controlled) service puts them at a political disadvantage in diplomatic disputes.
The availability of Starlink could marginally reduce the demand for SpaceX satellite launches. Although I don't think SpaceX will have any shortage of customers in the near future, and Musk benefits either way.