I think your right. They can slowly do as poor a job at blocking VPNs as they can, to eek out the “but srsly we re trying!” while keeping customers as happy as possible. They just need to play it up like they are really cracking down.

Hastings is way, WAY too smart to believe that no one is using VPNs to stream out-of-region video. He’s only saying this here to appease the content owners who are forcing his hand. The fees Netflix pays to license content for streaming only licenses content for specific regions. The company has to demonstrate a good…

Not even. A dealer would eventually be shamed into honoring their original agreement. I recall all those times a dealer that somehow didn’t understand how eBay works accidentally took a huge loss on a car and then refused to sell it at the sold price. Those almost always work out in the buyer’s favor after someone…

2/3rds of all statistics are made up.

“I’m OK with these findings as long as we don’t say that ‘manmade climate change’ had anything to do with it.”

You’re apparently completely unfamiliar with the oeuvre of Yogi Berra: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/…

So you’re saying it’s so crowded nobody goes there anymore?

Gimmicky*

I swear, between those doors and not having a cheaper model (the supposed 3) when gas dropped price, this will be the writing on the wall for Tesla. I am all for the company and have been from the start but opening your rear doors was never a real problem, particularly when the fronts are still conventional, and…

A metaphorical dick-size competition about who has the coolest doors on their family car?

Because Elon said so.

Quite the opposite... the stereotype of overly complex and failure prone engineering ;)

As both a master tech and a dealership service manager, I have to wonder why they put such a complex, expensive, finicky, heavy, unreliable and totally unnecessary system on a lower-priced (meaning not $200,000-level super car ) model.

I completely agree. Of course the other side of the coin is that a lot of people buying a $140k crossover don’t ever carry anything on the roof. That’s for poors.

Tesla sued German parts supplier Hoerbiger on Tuesday for the company’s inability to engineer the unique and complex “falcon” passenger doors on the electric SUV.

Even if the Falcon Door kinks are all resolved now, I wouldn’t bet on their longevity.

Me too, but I’ve also worked for great bosses who were respectful, effective and considerate. Of course, they weren’t building rockets...but they still ran successful businesses in their own right

Just as a random, only marginally related aside, a friend of mine works for Tesla in middle management and says that Elon is widely feared and hated by the vast majority of the company’s employees — those below the very upper executive and engineering echelon. He regularly shouts people down in the halls and elevators…

1. Ashley Eckstein has done amazing work opening up Star wars and the genre in general.

Totally separate but related. My point was to say that a great many urban dwellers these days voluntarily choose to forgo renewing their driver’s license for the aforementioned reasons. And cities do also have 16 year olds. Some don’t care as much about getting their licenses as their parents did because...parking.…