3rd Gear: Why does Ford need to design 50 new cars just for China? Nevermind the overhead involved in the design and production process, but aren’t those vehicles just going to eat shares off eachother and make it damn near impossible for Ford to establish it’s own brand?

It comes down to the “expectation” of profit. Problem is, the entire model is unprofitable, and potentially illegal to boot.

Neutral:

Lets look at this from the opposite perspective:

Skills were working day 1, but I noticed yesterday my drone stopped working. I also noted CD refreshes seemed screwed up.

1st gear: Corporations are in business to maximize it’s stock price in order to satisfy it’s investors. Politicians need to learn this fact; corporations will never hire workers “because they can”.

Lebron was warned the West was a *much* tougher conference. Having Lebron does not guarantee a finals appearance, or even making the playoffs.

Fact is, this is the end of a long-term trend of American car companies moving away from passenger cars, due to being outcompeted by foreign manufactures.

Not really; the cost involved likely wouldn’t justify single-shift production and keeping the plant running.

The main reasons are close access to Tesla’s largest customer base (California and the West/Southwest), and access the the engineering base necessary for the type of R&D Tesla needs to be sustainable long term.

And that’s why I quit.  I’m a heavy control player, and once the first OTK decks started to come out, I quit.

So basically, they want to do something on Venus (which is literally Hell) they can barely accomplish on earth?

3rd gear:

“The USSR never landed astronauts on the moon or flew a reusable spacecraft like the Space Shuttle” 

Fake News; only electric cars catch fire in a crash.

4th gear: So Amtrack needs about...what...5 more shutdowns to pay for the improvements it needs?

Some states ban them due to the possibility of said chains breaking and hurting innocent bystanders.

Sure it will; pressing the pedal down farther makes the car go faster!

The owners have finally figured out they keep screwing themselves on these long term deals, and have each more or less independently decided not to do them. As a result, there’s no bidding war with owners trying to one-up eachother to try and make a deal, which is deflating labor costs.

That’s my take as well.