• =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_Monty:_Elon_has_space_lasers?= =?UTF-8?Q?_=E2=80=A6?=

    From Dob@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 8 19:56:21 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    political bullshit like this pisses me off, please do not post links like
    these again, thank you
    "Lynn McGuire" wrote in message news:vvb3pj$16gim$[email protected]...

    Monty: Elon has space lasers …
    https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2025/05/01

    He probably does. Each one of those satellites is over two tons. Who
    knows what all the satellites contain.

    Lynn

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to Dob on Fri May 9 08:58:36 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote:

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

    It is Lynn's (or the cartoonist's) fault that Musk has made himself an
    object of ridicule. People who want to be respected behave
    respectably.

    Posting <https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2025/05/01> is what produced
    Dob's reaction. Apparently, posting a link to a comic strip is now a
    political act in some quarters.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to Paul S Person on Fri May 9 09:45:30 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote:

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

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

    Is the sentence above missing a "not"?

    --
    "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
    Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. -------------------------------------------------------
    Robert Woodward [email protected]

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Robert Woodward on Sat May 10 10:46:06 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 2025-05-09 16:45:30 +0000, Robert Woodward said:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote:

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

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

    Is the sentence above missing a "not"?

    Maybe, or perhaps the first two words need to be swapped and a question
    mark added to the end of the sentence. :-)

    Muskrat didn't make himself an object of ridicule ... he has *ALWAYS*
    been an object of ridicule.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat May 10 09:09:16 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On Fri, 09 May 2025 08:58:36 -0700, Paul S Person
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote:

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

    It is Lynn's (or the cartoonist's) fault that Musk has made himself an
    object of ridicule. People who want to be respected behave
    respectably.

    OK, this deserves correction: the first few words should be

    It is not Lynn's
    ___

    I /really/ have to do better proof-reading these things.

    And apologies to Lynn, who I slammed whilst trying to defend.

    Posting <https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2025/05/01> is what produced
    Dob's reaction. Apparently, posting a link to a comic strip is now a >political act in some quarters.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 10 09:31:56 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On Sat, 10 May 2025 10:46:06 +1200, Your Name <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 2025-05-09 16:45:30 +0000, Robert Woodward said:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote:

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

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

    Is the sentence above missing a "not"?

    Maybe, or perhaps the first two words need to be swapped and a question
    mark added to the end of the sentence. :-)

    I posted a correction to insert the "not" earlier this morning. But
    your solution was certainly possible, just not the right one in this
    case.

    Muskrat didn't make himself an object of ridicule ... he has *ALWAYS*
    been an object of ridicule.

    So, you're theory is that, on day 1, when he popped out, all the
    Nurses and Doctors ridiculed him?

    That's what "always" would require.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat May 10 09:29:07 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On Fri, 09 May 2025 09:45:30 -0700, Robert Woodward
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote:

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

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

    Is the sentence above missing a "not"?

    Indeed. I posted a correction earlier this morning.

    I'm really failing to proof-read my posts all too often.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to Your Name on Sat May 10 09:52:38 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    In article <vvm0je$338te$[email protected]>,
    Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-05-09 16:45:30 +0000, Robert Woodward said:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote:

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

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

    Is the sentence above missing a "not"?

    Maybe, or perhaps the first two words need to be swapped and a question
    mark added to the end of the sentence. :-)

    Muskrat didn't make himself an object of ridicule ... he has *ALWAYS*
    been an object of ridicule.

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

    --
    "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
    Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. �-----------------------------------------------------
    Robert Woodward [email protected]

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Robert Woodward on Sat May 10 17:36:46 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    Robert Woodward <[email protected]> writes:
    In article <vvm0je$338te$[email protected]>,
    Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-05-09 16:45:30 +0000, Robert Woodward said:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote:

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

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

    Is the sentence above missing a "not"?

    Maybe, or perhaps the first two words need to be swapped and a question
    mark added to the end of the sentence. :-)

    Muskrat didn't make himself an object of ridicule ... he has *ALWAYS*
    been an object of ridicule.

    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.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Paul S Person on Sat May 10 11:25:18 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 5/10/2025 9:31 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
    On Sat, 10 May 2025 10:46:06 +1200, Your Name <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 2025-05-09 16:45:30 +0000, Robert Woodward said:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote:

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

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

    Is the sentence above missing a "not"?

    Maybe, or perhaps the first two words need to be swapped and a question
    mark added to the end of the sentence. :-)

    I posted a correction to insert the "not" earlier this morning. But
    your solution was certainly possible, just not the right one in this
    case.

    Muskrat didn't make himself an object of ridicule ... he has *ALWAYS*
    been an object of ridicule.

    So, you're theory is that, on day 1, when he popped out, all the
    Nurses and Doctors ridiculed him?

    That's what "always" would require.

    Have you _seen_ Elon's face?

    :P

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Paul S Person on Sun May 11 11:12:40 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 2025-05-10 16:31:56 +0000, Paul S Person said:
    On Sat, 10 May 2025 10:46:06 +1200, Your Name <[email protected]>
    wrote:
    On 2025-05-09 16:45:30 +0000, Robert Woodward said:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote:

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

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

    Is the sentence above missing a "not"?

    Maybe, or perhaps the first two words need to be swapped and a
    question>mark added to the end of the sentence. :-)

    I posted a correction to insert the "not" earlier this morning. But
    your solution was certainly possible, just not the right one in this
    case.

    Muskrat didn't make himself an object of ridicule ... he has
    *ALWAYS*>been an object of ridicule.

    So, you're theory is that, on day 1, when he popped out, all the
    Nurses and Doctors ridiculed him?

    That's what "always" would require.

    Most babies do look weird when they're born, so it is quite likely he
    was ridiculed immediately after birth. ;-)

    Judging by him now and the way he must have been raised, it wouldn't be
    a surprise if his parents were ridiculed before he was born as well ...
    loonies usually begat loonies.



    A woman gets on a bus holding her baby.

    "That's the ugliest baby I've ever seen," says the bus driver.

    In a huff, the woman slams her fare into the box and takes an
    aisle seat next to a man near the rear of the bus. The man
    senses her agitation and asks what's wrong.

    "The bus driver insulted me!" she shouts.

    The man replies, "Well, he's a public servant and shouldn't
    say things to insult passengers!"

    "You're right," says the woman. "I think I'll go back up there
    and give him a piece of my mind!"

    "That's a good idea," the man replies. "Here, let me hold your
    monkey."

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Robert Woodward on Sun May 11 13:01:31 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 2025-05-10 16:52:38 +0000, Robert Woodward said:
    In article <vvm0je$338te$[email protected]>,
    Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2025-05-09 16:45:30 +0000, Robert Woodward said:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote:

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

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

    Is the sentence above missing a "not"?

    Maybe, or perhaps the first two words need to be swapped and a question
    mark added to the end of the sentence. :-)

    Muskrat didn't make himself an object of ridicule ... he has *ALWAYS*
    been an object of ridicule.

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

    You do realise that the idiot Muskrat is simply the figurehead and has bascially nothing to do with the day to day happenings at either
    company (nor any of his companies for that matter). Plus his lunatic
    antics are now causing Tesla to tank in the sharemarket and sales - to
    survive, the company may be forced to get rid of the moron.

    Not to mention the fact that the Tesla cars are complete crap anyway.
    Even simply washing the cars can cause them to become expensive
    paperweights. As for the idiotic "self-driving" nonsense, the less said
    the better.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Mon May 19 20:29:09 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> writes:
    On 5/10/2025 12:36 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
    Robert Woodward <[email protected]> writes:
    In article <vvm0je$338te$[email protected]>,
    Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-05-09 16:45:30 +0000, Robert Woodward said:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>
    political bullshit like this pisses me off, please do not post links like
    these again, thank you

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

    Is the sentence above missing a "not"?

    Maybe, or perhaps the first two words need to be swapped and a question >>>> mark added to the end of the sentence. :-)

    Muskrat didn't make himself an object of ridicule ... he has *ALWAYS*
    been an object of ridicule.

    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.

    Ah, the voice of the jealous jumps up again.

    So you can't argue with the facts, thus you attack the
    messenger. Sadly typical of you trumpets and most of
    the GOP.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Scott Lurndal on Mon May 19 13:58:45 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 5/19/25 13:29, Scott Lurndal wrote:
    Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> writes:
    On 5/10/2025 12:36 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
    Robert Woodward <[email protected]> writes:
    In article <vvm0je$338te$[email protected]>,
    Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-05-09 16:45:30 +0000, Robert Woodward said:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>
    political bullshit like this pisses me off, please do not post links like
    these again, thank you

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

    Is the sentence above missing a "not"?

    Maybe, or perhaps the first two words need to be swapped and a question >>>>> mark added to the end of the sentence. :-)

    Muskrat didn't make himself an object of ridicule ... he has *ALWAYS* >>>>> been an object of ridicule.

    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.

    Ah, the voice of the jealous jumps up again.

    So you can't argue with the facts, thus you attack the
    messenger. Sadly typical of you trumpets and most of
    the GOP.

    I think you have that right Scott but maybe the stuff
    he learned for the citizenship test was just in his short term
    memory and was erased by his large bonuses.

    bliss

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Tue May 20 11:40:01 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 2025-05-19 19:31:45 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:
    On 5/10/2025 12:36 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
    Robert Woodward <[email protected]> writes:
    In article <vvm0je$338te$[email protected]>,
    Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-05-09 16:45:30 +0000, Robert Woodward said:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>
    political bullshit like this pisses me off, please do not post links like
    these again, thank you

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

    Is the sentence above missing a "not"?

    Maybe, or perhaps the first two words need to be swapped and a question >>>> mark added to the end of the sentence. :-)

    Muskrat didn't make himself an object of ridicule ... he has *ALWAYS*
    been an object of ridicule.

    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.

    Ah, the voice of the jealous jumps up again.

    Lynn

    Why would anyone be jealous of Elongated Muskrat?!? He is a complete
    moron, who looks insane, and is hated by almost everybody. Even his
    buddy Trump the Chump wants to get rid of the Muskrat now he's
    outlasted the small amount of usefulness to him.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Cryptoengineer on Thu May 22 10:07:27 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 2025-05-21 19:51:56 +0000, Cryptoengineer said:
    On 5/19/2025 7:40 PM, Your Name wrote:
    On 2025-05-19 19:31:45 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:
    On 5/10/2025 12:36 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
    Robert Woodward <[email protected]> writes:
    In article <vvm0je$338te$[email protected]>,
    Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2025-05-09 16:45:30 +0000, Robert Woodward said:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Thu, 8 May 2025 19:56:21 +0300, "Dob" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>
    political bullshit like this pisses me off, please do not post links >>>>>>>>> like these again, thank you

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

    Is the sentence above missing a "not"?

    Maybe, or perhaps the first two words need to be swapped and a question >>>>>> mark added to the end of the sentence.  :-)

    Muskrat didn't make himself an object of ridicule ... he has *ALWAYS* >>>>>> been an object of ridicule.

    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.

    Ah, the voice of the jealous jumps up again.

    Lynn

    Why would anyone be jealous of Elongated Muskrat?!? He is a complete
    moron, who looks insane, and is hated by almost everybody. Even his
    buddy Trump the Chump wants to get rid of the Muskrat now he's
    outlasted the small amount of usefulness to him.

    I suspect you held a different opinion of him in 2017.

    Nope. Elongated Muskrat has *always* been a weird looney. So has Trump
    the Chump.




    He didn't found Tesla, but did build it into the first successful new American car company in 50 years, and made the EV a serious option for drivers. The Model Y was the highest selling vehicle of any kind in
    2024.

    And now he can't even give the cars away ... cars that we already knew
    were complete crap. Even a couple of years ago I wouldn't have had one
    for free (other than to have it crushed to get the garbage off the
    roads!).



    He did found SpaceX, and has slashed cost to orbit at least 6 fold,
    with much further improvement expected.

    As with all his companies ... *he* doesn't do any actual work there.
    He's simply a looney figurehead and money machine, that everybody
    working there wishes he would keep his mouth shut and be a *silent*
    partner.



    Those are real, objective accomplishments, and pissing on them because
    you detest his politics doesn't make them go away.

    His politics are only the latest part of his lunatic antics.



    It takes a certain type of management skill and talent to achieve
    those goals, and he clearly has it in spades.

    Nope. The people who do the acvtual work at those companies have the
    skill and talent. Elongated Muskrat is simply a massive albatross
    around their necks.



    In other areas, such as charity and compassion, he is sadly lacking.

    Just to be clear: I detest his politics and his personality. He's
    shown us just how badly we need campaign contribution limits.

    My Tesla has gone from being Greta Thunberg's preferred ride to a 'swasticar'. Its been a face/heel turn of astounding scale.

    I can hate his personality and politics, while still liking the
    cars and rockets, and recognizing that they wouldn't have happened
    without him at the helm.

    pt

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  • From Mark Jackson@21:1/5 to Your Name on Wed May 21 20:37:30 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 5/21/2025 6:07 PM, Your Name wrote:
    On 2025-05-21 19:51:56 +0000, Cryptoengineer said:
    On 5/19/2025 7:40 PM, Your Name wrote:
    On 2025-05-19 19:31:45 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

    Ah, the voice of the jealous jumps up again.

    Why would anyone be jealous of Elongated Muskrat?!? He is a complete
    moron, who looks insane, and is hated by almost everybody. Even his
    buddy Trump the Chump wants to get rid of the Muskrat now he's
    outlasted the small amount of usefulness to him.

    I suspect you held a different opinion of him in 2017.

    Nope. Elongated Muskrat has *always* been a weird looney.

    Well, ten years ago Musk was considered admirable enough / had the nerd
    cred / was viewed as sufficiently non=toxic to appear in an episode of
    "The Big Bang Theory."

    Conversely ten years ago Musk evidently thought his role as a soup
    kitchen volunteer was not unacceptably off-brand. ("The fundamental
    weakness of Western civilization is empathy.")

    Changes happen.

    --
    Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
    Never before has an hour of Presidential rhetoric
    cost so many people so much. - Lawrence Summers

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu May 22 09:27:29 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> wrote:

    I suspect you held a different opinion of him in 2017.

    A lot of us did, because in 2017 he was a loonie, but he was a loonie
    doing good work. Much like Steve Jobs, he was a guy with a vision and
    with money and he might have been crazy and abusive but could be
    forgiven for that because of that vision.

    Now he's gone from building things to destroying things, and so of
    course many of us have changed our opinion of him.

    He didn't found Tesla, but did build it into the first successful new >American car company in 50 years, and made the EV a serious option for >drivers. The Model Y was the highest selling vehicle of any kind in
    2024.

    This is true, and he does get a lot of credit for that, in part because
    Tesla was built from the ground up and even if he didn't start from the
    ground up himself, it wasn't built on any existing design or manufacturing facility.

    But, now he's hurting his own company.

    He did found SpaceX, and has slashed cost to orbit at least 6 fold,
    with much further improvement expected.

    This is true.

    Those are real, objective accomplishments, and pissing on them because
    you detest his politics doesn't make them go away.

    No, our problem isn't that we detest his politics. I work with people all
    day whose politics I detest. The problem is that he is being actively destructive. I detest destruction.

    Some of this is because he seems to have the "physician's disease" where
    he knows a lot about one thing and therefore assumes that he knows a lot
    about everything. Some of it is because he doesn't seem to understand
    the purpose of the Federal Government and how it works. The government
    is not designed to be efficient; it's designed to have checks and balances
    that slow things down but prevent injustice. Some of it is because his
    "move fast and break things" method doesn't work well when peoples' lives depend on the things you're breaking.

    Just to be clear: I detest his politics and his personality. He's
    shown us just how badly we need campaign contribution limits.

    My Tesla has gone from being Greta Thunberg's preferred ride to a >'swasticar'. Its been a face/heel turn of astounding scale.

    I wouldn't buy a Tesla because it's not just a car, it is part of a
    vast integrated system. I want a car where everything is documented and everything is repairable, where the car is independent and not connected
    into a network that controls it and constantly updates onboard software.

    I am waiting for someone to come out with an analogue control box that
    replaces all the various computer networks in the Tesla and turns it into
    a simple press-the-pedal-and-drive vehicle, with additional controls
    to run power steering, brakes, and body lights. It does not seem like a difficult thing to do and I am surprised no aftermarket outfit has come
    out with it. The fact that they haven't is a testament to how tightly
    Tesla holds on to their technology.

    I can hate his personality and politics, while still liking the
    cars and rockets, and recognizing that they wouldn't have happened
    without him at the helm.

    I think they might have happened if someone else had been there at the
    time, but's hard to tell.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Scott Dorsey on Thu May 22 14:26:45 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    [email protected] (Scott Dorsey) writes:
    Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> wrote:

    I suspect you held a different opinion of him in 2017.

    A lot of us did, because in 2017 he was a loonie, but he was a loonie
    doing good work. Much like Steve Jobs, he was a guy with a vision and
    with money and he might have been crazy and abusive but could be
    forgiven for that because of that vision.

    Now he's gone from building things to destroying things, and so of
    course many of us have changed our opinion of him.

    He didn't found Tesla, but did build it into the first successful new >>American car company in 50 years, and made the EV a serious option for >>drivers. The Model Y was the highest selling vehicle of any kind in
    2024.

    This is true, and he does get a lot of credit for that, in part because
    Tesla was built from the ground up and even if he didn't start from the >ground up himself, it wasn't built on any existing design or manufacturing >facility.

    Actually, he was fortunate that the NUMMI plant had just been
    idled.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI

    Without that, he likely would have had difficulties getting sufficient
    funding to build a greenfield plant.

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to Scott Lurndal on Thu May 22 10:41:55 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    Scott Lurndal <[email protected]> wrote:
    [email protected] (Scott Dorsey) writes:
    This is true, and he does get a lot of credit for that, in part because >>Tesla was built from the ground up and even if he didn't start from the >>ground up himself, it wasn't built on any existing design or manufacturing >>facility.

    Actually, he was fortunate that the NUMMI plant had just been
    idled.

    This is true, but what he wound up with didn't wind up much like NUMMI
    one they were finished with it. But it WAS a good deal for everyone
    involved.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Scott Lurndal on Fri May 23 09:09:27 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 2025-05-22 14:26:45 +0000, Scott Lurndal said:
    [email protected] (Scott Dorsey) writes:
    Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> wrote:

    I suspect you held a different opinion of him in 2017.

    A lot of us did, because in 2017 he was a loonie, but he was a loonie
    doing good work. Much like Steve Jobs, he was a guy with a vision and
    with money and he might have been crazy and abusive but could be
    forgiven for that because of that vision.

    Now he's gone from building things to destroying things, and so of
    course many of us have changed our opinion of him.

    He didn't found Tesla, but did build it into the first successful new
    American car company in 50 years, and made the EV a serious option for
    drivers. The Model Y was the highest selling vehicle of any kind in
    2024.

    This is true, and he does get a lot of credit for that, in part because
    Tesla was built from the ground up and even if he didn't start from the
    ground up himself, it wasn't built on any existing design or manufacturing >> facility.

    Actually, he was fortunate that the NUMMI plant had just been
    idled.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI

    Without that, he likely would have had difficulties getting sufficient funding to build a greenfield plant.

    Plus their first car, the Tesla Roadster, was really just a Lotus Elise
    that had been convereted to electric power using the original company'
    creators ideas from their kit car they had before Muskrat got involved.

    Would the Tesla company and other car models still exist without
    Elongated Muskrat's money and idiotic ideas ... probably not, but the
    world would also now be a much better place and the roads a lot safer.

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