Is Elon Musk Nuts?

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THGRRI

Monday, July 31, 2017 10:10 PM

President Putin Bans VPNs in Russia

Presented as a package of antiterrorist legislative amendments, but ultimately this new law increases government access to user data by removing anonymity.

ultimately allows much greater access by the Russian government to individual user's data as well as undermining the security of encrypted communications. In other words, if the Kremlin doesn't like content, it can more easily take it down and take action against the individual who posted it once this law comes into effect on November 1.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/355286/

SIGNYM

Monday, July 31, 2017 10:10 PM

Is THUGRR nuts?

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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one

THGRRI

Monday, July 31, 2017 10:12 PM

Companies say Apple removed their privacy apps from China

WASHINGTON (AP) — China appears to have succeeded in eliminating software programs that enable its people to view an uncensored internet.

Companies that let people avoid the government filters said Saturday that their programs have been removed from Apple's app store in China.

ExpressVPN, one of the companies, posted on its corporate site a message from Apple saying that its program was illegal in China. The British Virgin Islands-based software company says that all major virtual-private network apps were removed from the Apple app store in China. ExpressVPN claimed Apple was "aiding China's censorship effort."

http://www.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/Companies-say-Apple-
removed-their-privacy-apps-11693907.php

6STRINGJOKER

Monday, July 31, 2017 11:03 PM

Ermmmm... I don't see how any of that relates to Elon Musk or if he is nuts....

That being said, at least here in the States, I think VPN services are a trap.

Signing up for a VPN is like waving a big red flag and saying "I'm trying to hide illegal activity I'm doing online. Please put me on your watch list Big Brother!!!"

I do understand why it should be a concern among nations that actively censor websites though. You can bet your ass that anybody who had a VPN on their apple phones in Russia are on a watch list right now.

SIGNYM

Tuesday, August 1, 2017 12:58 AM

Yanno GSTRING, at one time wealthy people threw their money at tulip bulbs too.

The energetics of using fuel to boost a reusable rocket into space, only to waste more fuel in bringing it back down ... you will spend more money on fuel than you will save on carcass. Money-wise and energy-wise, it doesn't work. If you're going to spend the fuel boosting something into space, leave it there. Make a space hotel out of it, or something.

And when I think of the stresses on the rocket body, all I can think of is "Metal fatigue: a boy's best friend." I wouldn't trust a rocket-body to tolerate multiple takeoffs and landings. Even the shuttle made more sense than that; it ditched its main booster on the way up and passively glided back down.

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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one

SIGNYM

Tuesday, August 1, 2017 1:05 AM

Cancelling Your Model 3 Refund? Expect Delays Due To "System Failures," "IT Issues" Or "Database Errors"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-31/cancelling-your-model-3-refun
d-expect-delays-due-system-failures-it-issues-or-databa

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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one

SIGNYM

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 5:53 PM

Well, in addition to failing to meet the new rollout of electric vehicles ... again ...

Quote:
Highly Classified Satellite Plummeted Into Indian Ocean After SpaceX Launch, Official Confirms

After the launch of the secretive Zuma satellite into outer space aboard the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, reports circulated that the new eye in the sky, which is worth billions, "is presumed to be a total loss after it failed to reach orbit."

Don't even trust a business venture to an [unmedicated] bipolar executive.

A little bit of mania is a good thing, but then ....

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

America is an oligarchy
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876

SIGNYM

Thursday, March 29, 2018 10:53 PM

Well, between failing to meet production goals (which I predicted long before it became an issue) the new Tesla is tossing out all kinds of faults, and having one of its vehicles incinerate itself after a crash, and possible problems with the Autopilot mode ... Elon Musk is resorting to urging his workers to sweat blood into the project, even as Tesla is hurtling towards bankruptcy:

Tesla Bonds 'Riskier' Than Ukraine As Company Pleads Ignorance Over Fatal Crash
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-28/tesla-bonds-freefall-company
-pleads-ignorance-over-fatal-crash

"Prove The Haters Wrong": Tesla Urges Workers To Ramp Model 3 Production
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-29/prove-haters-wrong-tesla-urg
es-workers-ramp-model-3-production

Maybe it's just me, but when I see a Fearless Leader depending on his underlings to share his mania ... and it could be Chairman Mao or Elon Musk ... that tells me that there is something wrong with the path that they're on.

Yes, SOMEtimes adverse situations require superhuman dedication, but ... not over the long run. Life isn't a videogame or action movie, yanno? Only a few people can go 120% over long periods of time.

Also, there are predictions that China will meet, and beat, the Space X program. From celebratory articles about Space X

How Elon Musk Beat Russia's Space Program
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-07/how-elon-musk-beat-
russia-s-space-program

... to worried articles about future deficiencies ...

China's secret plan to crush SpaceX and the US space program
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/chinas-secret-plan-to-crush-spacex-and
-the-us-space-program.html

... the future of Space X seems less and less robust.

There is no doubt that Elon Musk is a brilliant "ideas person", but a competent administrator he is not. I've come to appreciate the benefits of competent administration even since our daughter transferred from one of the worst-administered elementary schools in LA County (This principal was so bad, she was even fired the year after, and that's saying something!) to one of the best-administered elementary schools in LA County. Good administrators are consistent, they don't expect superhuman efforts, they find the best procedures and STICK WITH THEM, they make sure that their employees have the tools, training, and time to do what they need to do.

I used to work for an "ideas" person who was waaaay too reactive; everything was an EMERGENCY!! and he absolutely could not prioritize. The way HE managed the workload (that he created) was to toss everything up in the air and have everyone else juggle like crazy. He was a crazy-making kind of guy.

I myself am an "ideas" person; as a technical supervisor with a ridiculously large span of control (>>10 people) and knowing the importance of good administration, I did try to re-mold myself into an administrator, but I can say ... it wasn't easy, and I'm sure I failed many times over.

So all that to say ... Elon Musk should turn administration of his companies over to someone who's a really good COO. That way, he can spin out ideas until the cows come home, but someone else can bring the better ones to fruition.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

America is an oligarchy
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, March 30, 2018 5:07 AM

I can agree with that.

I'm an ideas person myself, and a tactician. But I'm not a good "manager".

I don't handle that role very well, and I never want to have it again.

I'm very good at working on my own at something to an obsessive degree, but I don't like even sharing the work load with others because I strive for perfection and rarely ever am satisfied with my own work, so I'm really hard on anybody who is trying to help out.

That being said, it would be lovely to have Musk money though. What a wonderful little workshop I'd have to tinker in everyday if I did.

I think he's too ambitious. That's his fatal flaw. Hope he figures that out before it's too late.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Friday, March 30, 2018 8:35 AM

You'd fit right in with the group of perfectionists that I supervised. They're an awesome bunch!!

There were a few things that I did right, and a whole bunch of things I just never got the hang of.

The good stuff:

I hired really good people. I wasn't the only hiring authority, we did this by committee, but everyone who got hired over my objections turned out to be a dud, and there was only one person that I advocated for who turned out to be a jerk.

I paired every inexperienced person with an experienced one. I didn't rely on "training manuals" and SOPS but good old-fashioned apprenticeship. What we did was really complicated, and we were developing methods as we went along. (In fact, knowing our techniques is what got one of my former employees her job at VERIFIN - Finland's chemical weapons verification center- Well, that plus her PhD in aerosol chemistry, plus her incredible work ethic and stellar personality. But ASIDE from that! ...)

But everyone had SOMEthing that they were really good at - wet chemistry, or instrument troubleshooting, or QA, or computers and software - so no one was ever the total newbie, so they often taught as much as they learned, and I really did my best to have people cross-trained so that I had an expert, a competent analyst, and an emergency-fill-in for every instrument and method. Having this web of cross-training really built up morale and cooperation. People WANTED to work in my group: nobody was left twisting in the wind with a problem they couldn't solve.

I had their back. If an instrument crashed and all of their attempted fixes didn't work, and the work was piling up, I didn't rant at them or the situation, I basically said "Well, shit happens" and went into problem-solving mode with them.

I listened. People mostly know what they need to do to solve their personal or professional problems, nobody really needed "advice", what they needed was reassurance that it would all work out, which it did.

I learned never to assign people the same project with the same level of authority, because that created unnecessary competition, and people spent far too much time worrying about what the OTHER person was doing instead of paying attention to their own work.

I'm an excellent technical problem-solver.

I recognized the work that people did. I couldn't offer them a pay raise, but I could validate that they were doing good work, and that it moved our projects forward.

I'll get to what I did wrong the next time! It's a much longer list!!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

America is an oligarchy
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876

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