I didn’t know Henry Ford handbuilt each and every one of his fucking cars either. What a stupid argument. Musk had the vision and founded these companies, and then hired the aerospace engineers, electrical engineers, and infrastructure designers to develop the technology and products. That’s how businesses work.

He still deserves a lot of the credit, if even for just letting his workers do their thing. That’s why his companies succeed. Engineers are allowed to engineer. At any other company in similar markets, engineers are mostly just bitches to the accountants and lawyers.

I admire what he’s done. That’s not “fanatical worship.” I’m a fan of his Mars plans - they’re wildly optimistic, but he’s actually marching forward towards completing them, or failing trying.

“I don’t like that he’s having fun,” appears to be the main thrust of comments like these. It’s super petty and lame.

He’s one of those guys who like to smoke pot and make stupid jokes on twitter. It’s just that most stoners don’t have millions of dollars to make their infantile twitter jokes come true.

Every single absurdly rich person is a few bushels short of a harvest, but let’s face it: we’re better off having them use their craziness to be funny/developing tech that’s good for the planet, as opposed to say... investing in shitloads of banks and real estate just to hoard more wealth.

No industry insider is going to risk alienating the giants of their own industry. The hyperbolic character of his assessment leads me to wonder how long he’s been familiar with mechanical engineering. I seriously doubt anything on the Tesla can hold a candle to the corporate atrocities of the ‘70s and 80s such as the…

Feb. 5, 2016, when I asked Barry if this concept was too stupid and he said “nah, blog it.”

It’s not cold if you’re in an icehouse. It can actually be warm enough to take off your coat. As to why people enjoy it? Drinking? Avoiding their spouse? The zen-like calm of sitting in the middle of a frozen lake? Hard to say.

Too soon! No, wait, never mind. He had no grace period.

The last time I got such enjoyment out of seeing a blogger on ice, I was working as an usher at Andrew Breitbart’s wake.

Worked at an HD dealership. This is all true

It’s an economy that baby boomers have been tailoring to themselves in the last 35 years. Who got to work at supermarket (which was considered a middle class job back then) and buy a house and car? Baby boomers. Who were the first actual affordable “pony” cars targeted to in the earl 60's? Baby boomers. Ask the WW2…

Ummm. If they competitively price it, how are the Harley execs supposed to rake in 6 to 7 figure bonuses to pay for that second family and love child result of an affair and their adult childrens extramarital affairs, since monkey see monkey do right?

Those investors are dipshits who deserve to lose all their money.

If Newt and Hannity both ejaculated into a vial dish and the resulting fetus was raised by televangelists, this is what he would look like at 60.

Guy looks like a local-access cable version of Newt Gingrich so I’m not surprised.

It depends. If the roof is open, it’s nice. If the roof is closed, it’s dark and gas stagnant air. The best part is the tailgating scene around the park.

I mean there was 2011, when they won 96 games and took the division and then.....well, crapped the bed in the NLCS by putting an obviously completely gassed and ineffective shaun marcum on the hill for game 6, where he predictably got bombed in the first inning. But yeah, that was a good and fun team, with Nyjer…

When he woke up, he was in Hogwarts.