Here's more analysis of the Musk threats. After NPR reported the story, Musk sent another email saying "You Suck."
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NPR temporarily stopped it's twitter accounts in a "state-media" beef with Elon Musk
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Elon is acting like he actually believed it when he said SpaceX would have a human colony on Mars by 2024.
Actually that was misquoted. He believed SpaceX would have a human colony in Kirk's neighborhood, by 2024.
I thought it was mechanics. At least that's what the "Car Talk" guys always said.
Lawyers prosecute and defend against lawsuits, not mechanics. Besides, lawyers have much larger boats.
We've heard a lot about how bad social media is for children and their mental health. There are lots of articles on the subject, and some pending legislation that would put age restrictions on social media.
www.cnet.com
But Musk himself is a great example of how harmful social media is to adults. This is a very rich and successful person who has been reduced to being an online troll by his own device:
Social Media May Be Affecting Your Mental Health. Here's How to Tell
If you've been feeling down lately, social media might be to blame.
www.cnet.com
But Musk himself is a great example of how harmful social media is to adults. This is a very rich and successful person who has been reduced to being an online troll by his own device:
Except lawyers don't sue people. Plaintiffs sue people.
People are driving the lawsuits, not lawyers.
People also send threatening emails and letters to people. They use lawyers to give the complaints some weight.
As far as the Elon vs. NPR debacle, he needs to let it go. He's accomplishing nothing aside from messing with the Twitter brand.
I'll disagree with you somewhat on this point. While it's true that plaintiffs ultimately do need to "sign on the dotted line" to file a suit, with the way many lawyers work in modern times, plaintiffs are enticed to do so.
As I'm sure you've seen from the many advertisements for personal injury attorneys, the key phrases are "no risk to you" and "there's no fee for our services if we don't get you $$". Especially if there's a potential for a huge payout or they want to build their name by having involvement in a high-profile case, attorneys will take your case, or they'll often headhunt potential plaintiffs and they'll explain how your suit could work and tell you that, since their law firm is taking on all the risk here, they want a significant portion of any payout or settlement they get for you. If they take your case and lose or get no money, you owe them nothing and you're not out anything aside from your time. However, if they hit the jackpot and get you a payout, they want a significant portion of it, as it was they who more or less took on all the risk when taking your case, and their firm did the work involved. Even Vegas and the lotto don't come with those kinds of "so risk" terms, so many happily sign.
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Yes I know. That's what I said. Billionaires have the endless resources to hire lawyers and file endless lawsuits.
NPR was innocently using twitter, and the billionaire twitter owner lashed out at them for no reason at all.
Is DSL in use anywhere, still, today? I thought that some existing DSL lines were being preserved until cancelled, but new ones not offered in the US.
I know in many markets, Verizon has announced they will be eliminating DSL from their lineup.
Sure, in areas with underground lines that are too costly to dig up and replace with fiber optic. The phone lines might be all fiber optic until the last mile before your residence, then they're copper. At least then you'll get decently fast and reliable DSL, instead of the 3 Mbps maximum and interference-prone DSL I had when the lines were poorly-maintained 50-year-old copper all the way to the central office 10 miles away. Thunderstorms would make the connection drop out frequently.
Good information. But will they install a new DSL connection, or are they just sustaining the old ones?
In markets of sufficient size and modern infrastructure, ILECs are not offering new DSL anymore. The underlying technology is obsolete (and has been for years). But what "Kev" is describing is FTTN, fiber to the node. Clean, high speed, all digital from the C.O. to neighborhood pedestal boxes (or sometimes on-pole or underground node boxes). Then the existing copper lines are patched into the node, and the signals go as analog voice and/or ADSL2 data to the individual premises. So the speeds go up, to a point, and bit error rates drop significantly. But still, you can only squeeze so much blood from a rock, and only so much throughput from thin, ancient copper lines. This is the same fundamental technology the cable MSOs (and the company I used to work for) used to create high-speed-data-over-cable in the late '90's-early '00's. Because the cable lines are shielded transmission lines and go up to a much higher top-end bandwidth, they're capable (if maintained well) of *much* greater bandwidth, and FTTN is a better technological solution with more capacity for expansion. And the cable industry has been able to milk it better than telco over the last couple of decades. Which is why the telcos are hustling to push fiber-to-the-home before the steamroller crushes them.
Is that the service where a splitter plugs into the phone jack, and one wire goes to the phone and the other goes to the modem? That's what I have.
But that's too modern for you, isn't in Chimp?
I figured Chimp to have AOL dialup
Yes. A lot of areas and regions have DSL. I'm on DSL. Many of my neighbors are DSL. i think the trunk from the central switch to the neighborhood is fiber.
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