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robin huber said:

Apple needs to cut a side deal with WGA. Raise the pirate flags once more. 

laytech said:

I'm tired of patent trolls. Some are funded by investment companies, hoping to make a quick buck. Ultimately, it's the lawyers that win at the end of the day, and everyone else suffers because of it. We are losing our way. 

darkvader said:

Who?

Never heard of him.

timmillea said:

Americans are always blind-sided by a desire to have everything bigger. The MBA is designed to be small, light and fit in an envelope. A "15-inch" MBA would be a similar crime against sensibilities as the Mac Studio. We don't need another monstrous carbuncle. Apple has soiled it reputation enough. Small. light, thin and great battery life. If you want a bigger display just plug it into one. If these rumours are true, it appears even common sense is in short supply at Apple. 

DAalseth said:

jimh2 said:

JP234 said:

Is anyone surprised that people who can work for a psychopathic a-hole are a-holes themselves? The boss a-hole has already crapped out and flushed anyone who isn't his brand of a-holery, and not just in Tesla. He should wind up just like his hero, Nikola Tesla, a con man/hustler with one good idea and a lifetime of bad decisions leaving him alone, friendless, staggering drunk on his own Kool-Aid.

Can you provide us a list of your accomplishments? I will say 100% certainty you have done little to nothing that is even noteworthy whereas Musk, whom you describe psychopathic a-hole, will remembered as one of the greatest leaders in history:

• Tesla: Against all odds he created a successful car company and brought EV's to the masses. No other car company has been able to come close to what he has done and they are established manufacturers with everything to make a car in place. They chose to get passed by a newcomer. I still do not have much hope for Ford or GM and Toyota has mostly sat the quest for EV's out. I am not sure how anyone will catch Teslain the near term as he is years ahead and not letting off of the gas.
• SpaceX: First privately developed liquid-fueled rocket to put a commercial satellite in orbit. First private company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft. First private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Has rockets that return to their takeoff spot. Prior to SpaceX Lockheed Martin and Boeing sat on fat, competition free contracts with NASA delivering the status quo, with no hope of every doing what Musk did.
• Starlink: Created a company delivering Internet to numerous area and countries that stood zero change of getting high speed service. The market leader prior to Starlink was Hughes Net which pales in comparison to Starlink even though it is early stage.
• PayPal: Cofounder.
• Add in battery production, work on solar and probably some stuff I cannot think of.

Note that this is more than one good idea. That is four game-changing companies he founded, co-founded or leads. As close to Steve Jobs as anyone has been in a long time. No question his behavior is questionable, but he has gotten results. If you have someone to compare him to please let us all know.

My accomplishments, or yours or JP234 are irrelevant. Making a lot of money off other people’s work is not an excuse for being a psychopathic a-hole. 

Understand that a decade or more ago I believed they hype, I admired Musk. But the more of his antics, lying about having the money to take Tesla private to pump the stock, suggesting that his Mars colonists pay for the trip by being indentured servants (aka slaves), not actually having founded all the companies he claimed to have founded, and other assorted things, the more I started taking a jaundiced view of him. When I actually looked into his history, I realized that he is in fact just an psychopathic a-hole.

And AFAIK there is a special place in hell for people who are a-holes, and claim to be autistic as a way to justify it. No Elon you may claim to be but I will dismiss that until you prove it. That is how one treats habitual liars, Even if it is true though, it’s no excuse. The two are unrelated. And by making the claim he harmed myself and a lot of other people in an attempt to shield his thin skin.

Musk is scum.