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  1. ggr

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Slightly off-topic about the cost of planes versus drones, but interesting. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/03/drones-and-the-us-air-force.html
  2. ggr

    SpaceX Starship - IFT-3 - Starbase TX - Launch Thread and Post Launch Discussion

    Why is there soot/smoke coming out on takeoff? I thought Methane burned clean?
  3. ggr

    SpaceX Starship - IFT-3 - Starbase TX - Launch Thread and Post Launch Discussion

    If there was a pilot, I'd have called the action of the grid fins "pilot induced oscillation". I thought they skipped the ship engine re-light.
  4. ggr

    Wiki Selling TSLA Options - Be the House

    As you can see in the graph above, Q3 2012 was indeed a negative Gross Margin. While Tesla managed to deliver the first ten Model S in Q2, there were a lot of S's that were undergoing significant re-work before they could be delivered even in Q3. I can't remember if they had already stopped...
  5. ggr

    Tesla Employee was the biggest jerk!!!!

    The pre-purchase agreement specifically states that any co-signer must be present at delivery. It would be really easy for me to add Amber Muchnick as a co-signer and just scribble something if they weren't present. You probably wouldn't like that.
  6. ggr

    Angela Chao accident

    If it was 2020 with stalk, you push down for forward, and up for reverse. If it was 2021 with on-screen shift, you swipe up for forward and down for reverse. BUT... it should have already selected forward unless there was something blocking the front of the car.
  7. ggr

    SpaceX Starship - IFT-3 - Starbase TX - Pre-Launch Preparations Thread

    Most droneship landings don't do any boostback, just re-entry and landing burns.
  8. ggr

    Why do you like your Tesla?

    Try telling that to Jan Łukasiewicz. Admittedly he invented what we would now call Prefix Polish Notation, and HP "reversed it" to RPN. (Pronounced roughly as "wook-a-SHEY-vitch", which I guess is why most people call it "Polish". :-) )
  9. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Don't forget... the Armada sank.
  10. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    This is true, I discovered it by accident myself a few days ago. Moderators have no control over the software but I'll complain to someone...
  11. ggr

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    You are missing Tasmania, which was a penal colony of the original penal colony, and I think was about 3.5 on the list.
  12. ggr

    Help!!! Girlfriend is on the road in #410 and gets Charging Aborted: Service Required

    Roadsters can't use superchargers. Only AC charging is supported.
  13. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Mod: I deleted off topic posts about FSD and the UK EV poll. In both cases, the first post would have been fine if only the other 14 people hadn't all followed up and polluted the thread. You don't all have to say "me too". The Nobel Prize discussion can cease now too. --ggr
  14. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    As usual, there are competing forces at play here. First, forget that it is Elon, or any other huge shareholder, and just look at the effect on the company of Joe Random exercising options. A small amount of cash goes to the company to pay for the shares at the strike price. At the same time an...
  15. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Mod: moved 33 posts about Cybertruk orders and rust to https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/all-cybertruck-discussion.169472/page-77#post-8086354 for lack of a better place. Be happy that I didn't just delete them. But this and off-topic in the Ukraine thread have left me in a bad mood. Don't...
  16. ggr

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Mod: I had to either work hard to move posts to where they should have been, or delete them. Guess. --ggr
  17. ggr

    The demise of the OEMs

    I heard a Toyota sponsorship radio ad on NPR yesterday. Something like (from memory): "Toyota hybrids combine the best of performance and efficiency!". Hmmm, yes, they get the performance from the electric motor and battery, and they get the efficiency from the battery and electric motor. Hmmm.
  18. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Annoyed mod: 31 posts about Ukraine/OT/musk-bashing and followups deleted. There is a reason we have dedicated threads and banned topics. And there is one member who seems to just want to continue conversations even when it's clear they should have stopped already. If you think this might be...
  19. ggr

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    But then I'd have to kill you. And you are right, traffic analysis is much more powerful than most people realize. Look up "the Zendian Problem".
  20. ggr

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    I would like to clarify this statement. Amateurs absolutely should use cryptography that is designed and implemented by experts. I can personally assure you that Starlink cryptography was designed and implemented by experts. I just can't tell you how I know.
  21. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Mod: A reminder that we have very little tolerance for attacks on other members. --grrrr.
  22. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    You are not even close to being the first to make that observation. It even saved me a traffic ticket one day when the cop made the same mistake.
  23. ggr

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Mod: clearly what is happening in congress at the moment affects Ukraine. There are a couple of good points in there. But it's also beginning to sound too much like partisan politics. I don't want to have to clean up. So please pivot back to the actual war. --ggr.
  24. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Mod: If no-one posts about leaving TSLA, and no-one follows up with acrimonious comments, no-one will get banned. --ggr
  25. ggr

    Delaware to Texas Incorporation

    Mod: this line of discussion has been done to death many times. Stop now. --ggr
  26. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    I abandoned the Tesla forum about a week after I discovered TMC... I don't know how you stood it that long.
  27. ggr

    Tesla Unionization

    Mod: agree. Tone down the argumentation please. --ggr
  28. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Yes. Thought it was obvious. (For some reason my notifications don't work at the moment. I wasn't ignoring your question, just didn't know anyone had tagged me.)
  29. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Mod: 8 more posts discussing the Chancery court decision, after I told you to stop, deleted. You can continue discussion in the dedicated thread, but not this one. New facts are welcome here, but new opinions are not. Clear? --ggr
  30. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Mod: I deleted posts about heat sinks, including followups about LED lights and speakers. I deleted posts about political parties and/or politicians, and followups. I didn't delete posts alleging corruption but without identifying the supposedly corrupt parties other than the Chancery judge...
  31. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Mod: Arrived to find 20 pages of posts and 13 angry sounding reports. I have locked this thread until I figure out what's going on. --ggr.
  32. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Mod: Notwithstanding that some people thanked the mods, the discussion about the delivery problem video has gone way too far, and descended into acrimony. It's now a banned subject for the time being. --ggr
  33. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Mod: Reminder that we don't tolerate attacks on other members here. --ggr
  34. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Mod: travelling for over 24 hours, running on fumes, request that the elon compensation go to this other thread: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/elon-compensation-package.319695/ --ggr Me: Thank you @ggr, but I disagree. Far too important to TSLA to relegate to a standalone thread...
  35. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    I can grok that wish. Do you get this? Words of one ... you know.
  36. ggr

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    I agree with you, but... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/02/hannah-ritchie-not-the-end-of-the-world-extract-climate-crisis
  37. ggr

    Off topic galore

    I've only ever heard the term used pejoratively. It was me who deleted the post.
  38. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Tesla has never issued a forecast at the time of the production and delivery report. So I don't believe for a second that it was actually Tesla that gave that 2.2M prediction.
  39. ggr

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    Because 31' waves would be even worse?
  40. ggr

    Mars and Off Planet Colonization - General Possibilities Discussion

    I'm in the middle of it, definitely worth a read.
  41. ggr

    Tesla Unionization

    Mod: cool down the tone of the discussion (if it can be called that). --ggr
  42. ggr

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Mod: It shouldn't be necessary to remind all readers that US politics is off-topic anywhere in this sub-forum. Any recurrence will earn a temporary ban, so I don't have to waste my long weekend cleaning up. --ggr
  43. ggr

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Mod: We tolerate a little bit of politics in this thread, but it's about Ukraine, not US. Keep US politics out of it. --ggr
  44. ggr

    Salvaged Tesla with no Keys

    You have to have some minimum number (I think 5?) before you can send messages.
  45. ggr

    Help Fight the FUD

    As usual, a beat up piece. It wasn't a "Tesla" robot, it was a fixed robot on the assembly line. probably a Fanuc or Kuka.
  46. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    The O-rings were Challenger. Columbia was foam damage to the leading edge of the wing.
  47. ggr

    Tesla Unionization

    So more Swedes have lost their jobs at non-Tesla factories (~20) than are striking at Tesla (~13)!
  48. ggr

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    There is no nuclear power generated in Australia. The only reactor in the country is at ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization), a research reactor that also makes short-lived isotopes for nuclear medicine. I did an internship there in, oh, 1977?
  49. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Mod: US voting from another country is irrelevant to the vast bulk of our readers, and is perilously close to politics, so... --ggr
  50. ggr

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    More correctly, it corresponds to INC in American. In English, it corresponds to PLC or LTD. :-)