Mountain_Skies

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3901.
by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
Musk loses credibility each time he stokes the 'I want it now' fires with unrealistic promises that he is unable to fulfill. We are impatient but he shares a large amount of the blame for creating these expectations.
3902.
by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
Georgia 400 is a limited access highway with a 65 mph speed limit that retains that speed limit after turning into a traffic light controlled motorway.
3903.
by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
Same thing happens with pro sports teams, especially when it comes to coverage of stadium subsidies. If you want year around free content via access to players and staff, you can't report anything that harms the business side of the op
3904.
by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
Glad I'm not one of the millions who live below the Three Gorges Dam.
3905.
by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
If nothing else this points to poor internal controls on user accounts at Twitter.
3906.
by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
The thing that always bothered my about Ayn Rand's works is that she was using fiction full of straw men to prove her philosophy. Being able to make the good guys and the bad guys say and do whatever conveniently proved the correctness
3907.
by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
It often seems that our large tech companies have become so distracted by non tech mostly social issues that they've really stopped paying attention to the core reasons for rising to their current position. I suspect that this will con
3908.
by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
Elon Musk picked up the mantle of Steve Jobs tech showman. His high visibility makes him a target. There is no public face that I'm aware of for ULA and while Jeff Bezos is certainly hated in that crowd for his ownership of the Washing
3909.
by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
I have no evidence that if wouldn't surprise me other than actually writing out that it wouldn't surprise me. You'll simply have to take my word that I wouldn't be surprised.
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by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
One benefit of the electoral college is that it compartmentalizes voter fraud to the state in which it happens. If I'm a corrupt election official in a state that is going to give a presidential candidate a large margin of victory, I h
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by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
If the electoral college did go away, I wonder if it would end up actually increasing the animosity between the coasts and 'fly over country'. Fair or not, the current system does appear to serve as a bit of a pressure relief valv
3912.
by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
The vast majority of NFL tickets are sold before the start of the season so teams are still claiming sellouts, which while technically correct, gives an impression that isn't reflected in actual people in the seats. I'm not sure h
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by Mountain_Skies 9y ago
Most stadium deals NFL teams have made over the past decade gives the team revenue from all events in the stadium instead just the NFL games. Owners who have been able to get cities and states to agree to these deals can insert other events