Elons Little Plan

schuylaar

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I can't keep up with the content from my Telus satellite TV service which is my only option as we can't get cable here. Nor can we get internet over phone or optic cable so when a wireless service came along in 2012 we upgraded from dial-up then. I upgraded our wireless about a year ago but we still only get about 1meg download speed unless I want to get the business service for about twice as much and it's almost $100/mth now as is sat TV.

Lots of great content on many of the streaming services but not enough hours in my day to waste money on them. I donate monthly to PBS so I could get some DVDs I wanted and that was over a year ago and I haven't watched them yet. Gives me access to their streaming service called Pasport but I haven't watched anything on it as the same shows come with the sat TV service. Need to cancel that I think. It's $10/mth US but shows on my MC as $14Can. I do watch it a lot so may just lower my donation to $5US a month.

If I need to learn to do something like car repair I prefer a website with print and pictures for instruction or the Haynes manual I bought for my car than a video tho I have recorded a few things off Utube for later watching.

It can be tough to be an analog guy in a digital world. :)

:peace:
I just get basic internet $25. I have the apps that I'm interested in, so I pay less than $100, to stream. So many apps have live channels too.
 

schuylaar

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wheee! Let’s really jam up low earth orbit! What could possibly go wrong!


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That's okay because we still have one 'regret' card from them to use for their stupid stealth weather balloon.

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Now we know what China finds acceptable..'regret', and can weaponize it. See how this works?
 

schuylaar

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Looks like Elon would sell out America or anybody out for a buck, so rich and yet so greedily desperate for more, attention and money. Maybe he should just lead a one-way trip to Jonestown on Mars.


What Elon Musk’s China ties mean for Tesla & Twitter... and how it could endanger the rest of us

83,431 views Feb 23, 2023 #msnbc #elonmusk #china
Elon Musk calls himself a 'free speech absolutist,' but Mehdi says his "strange, almost fawning" approach to China exposes Musk's blatant hypocrisy, China’s potential influence on Tesla and Twitter, and why that’s a danger to all of us.
We really just didn't find this out, did we?
 

Budley Doright

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I just get basic internet $25. I have the apps that I'm interested in, so I pay less than $100, to stream. So many apps have live channels too.
Capped (350 GB then the dreaded slowdown) wireless costs $85. Sat TV is $125. So over $200 a month. As much as I hate the ideal of the giving Musk money, skylink is the only viable option to get rid of sat. TV, if it ever gets here :o!
 

OldMedUser

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Capped (350 GB then the dreaded slowdown) wireless costs $85. Sat TV is $125. So over $200 a month. As much as I hate the ideal of the giving Musk money, skylink is the only viable option to get rid of sat. TV, if it ever gets here :o!
I paid my deposit and waited almost a full year before getting an email saying mine was ready to ship. Wanted it because of the slow wireless I have now and having to pay another hun for satellite TV or nothing. In the meantime I had read a few articles about how these low-orbit satellites were screwing up the night sky for astronomers all over the world. Decided I didn't want to contribute my support for that and declined. Got my deposit back on my VISA within a week or so.

Not a lot of impact to Muck but like not tossing my cigarette butts on the ground when there is already lots there I'm not contributing to the problem and get to feel just a tiny bit better about myself for it.

There's a couple other companies planning the same kind of service and with China's 13,000 headed up only space telescopes are going to be able to see anything soon.

Eventually a space launch with people on it is going to get clobbered by one of these things and I won't have to share the blame. :)

:peace:
 

Budley Doright

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I paid my deposit and waited almost a full year before getting an email saying mine was ready to ship. Wanted it because of the slow wireless I have now and having to pay another hun for satellite TV or nothing. In the meantime I had read a few articles about how these low-orbit satellites were screwing up the night sky for astronomers all over the world. Decided I didn't want to contribute my support for that and declined. Got my deposit back on my VISA within a week or so.

Not a lot of impact to Muck but like not tossing my cigarette butts on the ground when there is already lots there I'm not contributing to the problem and get to feel just a tiny bit better about myself for it.

There's a couple other companies planning the same kind of service and with China's 13,000 headed up only space telescopes are going to be able to see anything soon.

Eventually a space launch with people on it is going to get clobbered by one of these things and I won't have to share the blame. :)

:peace:
I hear you, the struggle is real :(.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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Roger A. Shrubber

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you think he’s headed for one? I think it’ll be more of a slow death by belt sander. Overdocumented on his captive media platform.
he won't have twitter for much longer, that level of gross mismanagement cannot lead to success. The only reason he hasn't tanked it yet is he has other resources to tap...but he's losing money daily.
Tesla is doing well, but they had a huge jump on the established car makers. Now they're catching up, and they KNOW what the fuck they're doing, not stumblin in the dark. They know you have to test shit before you announce it, that you have to have service available, and universal power connections...They also know you take care of your employees better, and pay your fucking bills...
muck seems to be bent on alienating everyone on the planet that isn't on his list of twit fanbois. It's the one thing he's doing that he will succeed at...
 

cannabineer

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he won't have twitter for much longer, that level of gross mismanagement cannot lead to success. The only reason he hasn't tanked it yet is he has other resources to tap...but he's losing money daily.
Tesla is doing well, but they had a huge jump on the established car makers. Now they're catching up, and they KNOW what the fuck they're doing, not stumblin in the dark. They know you have to test shit before you announce it, that you have to have service available, and universal power connections...They also know you take care of your employees better, and pay your fucking bills...
muck seems to be bent on alienating everyone on the planet that isn't on his list of twit fanbois. It's the one thing he's doing that he will succeed at...
Eventually. But I think he can diesel for a while before it ends.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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go go kid

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Thought it was time to see if most people know about Elons plan. I think he wants to be the worlds most powerful man, genius often means crazy. He controls tesla,telsa solar,tesla powerwalls and he can control and communicate with all 3 with his tesla satellite internet network. He will become a electric utility provider for the grid in every country on the planet if he is allowed. He will control the power flow from solar panels to car and home batteries with his satellite network and use super computer AI to manage the surplus for sale to the grid. The beauty of the plan is the public pays for the infrastructure upfront.
the guy's got a chip in his head, ready to take on board all the knollage he can after he implants everyone with a microchip lol
 

go go kid

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This is actually interesting...but the author should seriously look about getting muck's dick surgically removed from his mouth....
https://thedriven.io/2023/02/26/history-in-the-making-tesla-may-deliver-biggest-moment-in-car-industry-since-model-t/

So how long do you think it will take the Big Boy Automakers to not only copy mucks "inovations" but to also improve upon them?
I'm guessing they're already half way done building some new equipment.
you forget, he has teslas info, thats free electricity to run what ever for life, patent pending, once he has to use it, he has the unlimited use of the tec in his hands. all electricity should be free and all vearchales should run off of it
 

OldMedUser

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Austin, Texas CNN —

SpaceX’s latest rocket launch was called off Sunday after computers detected an issue with engine power just moments before liftoff.

The Falcon 9 rocket was slated to vault 60 more Starlink internet satellites into Earth’s orbit after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The countdown clock made it all the way to zero, and a launch official was heard giving the final updates — “ignition” and liftoff!” — but nothing happened. “Disregard, we have an abort,” the announcer continued.

SpaceX’s Michael Andrews, a supply chain supervisor, said on the company’s webcast Sunday that the hold was triggered by computers, which constantly survey the rocket’s data in the moments before liftoff and can automatically stop the engines from firing if any abnormal readings are detected. Andrews added that, overall, the rocket was in good health.

:peace:
 

schuylaar

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Capped (350 GB then the dreaded slowdown) wireless costs $85. Sat TV is $125. So over $200 a month. As much as I hate the ideal of the giving Musk money, skylink is the only viable option to get rid of sat. TV, if it ever gets here :o!
No, no let's re-think this.

Where do you live, The Yukon? Capped? WTF? Your phone or home? Do you guys not have cable? Xfinity?
 

schuylaar

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I do not follow anyone, have no Twitter account and only spend time on Facebook in a medical group and a few construction related groups. But that does not change the fact that a small number of people put out a lot of misinformation that then ends up having a detrimental effect on society. I am saddened by the fact that a large portion of the general population does not fact check information and will believe what is fed them. A person I worked with closely for years is a good example, actually a few of them in our shop. Like Palm Oil. Killing gorillas to get oil from their palms. No shit, a guy in a technical field does not bother to think things through enough to realize you can not get enough palm oil from gorillas to stick in a bottle.

Free speech is fine but yelling fire in a packed theatre is one example of saying what you want has consequences for others. Sure the people in the theatre can just ignore you but what if you are telling the truth? Or what if there is no fire and everyone believes you? There are limits placed on free speech. The social media channels hold great power in society, sad but true. And without limits unscrupulous people can use that power for personal gain with no regard what the effects on society is. And that can be a danger to society.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/27/23616933/elon-musk-twitter-employees-stock-awards-march-after-more-layoffs

“This past week, we completed a difficult organizational overhaul focused on improving future execution, using as much feedback as we could gather from the entire company,” Musk wrote, confirming that he has kept laying employees off after telling them he would stop on November 21st. “Those who remain are highly regarded by those around them.”

So muck's plan is to keep those employees that give each other good reviews, and kiss each others asses...sounds like his typical level of genius...
he's down to 2k employees, from 7500 when he took over. His plan seems to be quadrupling everyone's work load, and giving them stock in a company he's busy tanking...
 

Bagginski

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“printer” said:
]A person I worked with closely for years is a good example, actually a few of them in our shop. Like Palm Oil. Killing gorillas to get oil from their palms. No shit, a guy in a technical field does not bother to think things through enough to realize you can not get enough palm oil from gorillas to stick in a bottle
That is some back-to-the-end-of-the-line, break-neck bullshit stupidity thoughtlessness

You can’t get palm oil from a gorilla *at all* because a gorilla’s not a palm tree
 
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