Re: Monty: Elon has space lasers ?

Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> writes:

In article <vvm0je$338te$1@dont-email.me>,
Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
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On 2025-05-09 16:45:30 +0000, Robert Woodward said:

In article <cb9s1k9ci1pmmh56324s04gs22mhk3v97c@4ax.com>,
  Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <dobkun@icloud.com> wrote:

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political bullshit like this pisses me off, please do not post links like
these again, thank you

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It is Lynn's (or the cartoonist's) fault that Musk has made himself an
object of ridicule.

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Is the sentence above missing a "not"?

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Maybe, or perhaps the first two words need to be swapped and a question
mark added to the end of the sentence.  :-)
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Muskrat didn't make himself an object of ridicule ... he has *ALWAYS*
been an object of ridicule.

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Really? When Tesla couldn't make cars fast enough to meet demand? When
SpaceX boosters started to stick their landings on barges?

 As is well known, musk didn't found tesla, just injected money into
it.  As first the market with a reasonably priced electric vehicle
with reasonable range, they dominated the market.  There are now
significant competitors in the market, both domestic and foreign,
with comparable vehicles (and in many cases, better).   Tesla hasn't a plan
for a new model[***], and has only made minor updates to the existing
three vehicle lines (we'll consider the cybertruck a failure
for the purposes of this analysis).  Relying on a future robocab
market (with Waymo already in operation) to rescue Tesla seems
to be a wall-street fantasy[*]
 Likewise, the SpaceX boosters are the product of a wide variety
of young enthusiastic engineers working with industry veterans
to produce a fine line of rockets[**].   Musk provided funding,
and professionals provided the engineering.  One can certainly
admire the skills of Ms. Shotwell in running the company with
all the shenanigans her CEO is up to all the time.
 He's otherwise a wealthy south african white supremecist who obviously
paid someone to take his US Citizenship examination in his place
and benefited from the timing of the 1999 dot bomb (by selling
his failing payments company X to PayPal for many multiples over
fair valution).
 [*] Disclosure, I've been a TSLA shareholder since the IPO.  And
     I voted -twice- against his ridiculous 56Billion stock grant,
     which, fortunately, has been voided twice by a court.
 [**] Were it possible, I'd own shares in it.
 [***] Like Boeing, they're looking at today's profit, not tomorrow's
       replacement for the 737.