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Wow, think how many launches they can do with 23 rockets! :)

Mod: some posts gone, some users gone. Keep it civil. --ggr

Autopilot and FSD top out at 85mph. Couldn't have been engaged, or was being overridden by foot on pedal.

Mod: I just deleted 12 posts and temp banned one member. Some of the posts, and the ban, were for ignoring clear moderator instructions to cease a particular acrimonious discussion. (Explicitly not for allegedly trolling.) Other posts were members just being snarky at each other. I probably...

Gee, thanks. Has it occurred to you that maybe you didn't see what the moderators did? Or undid, as the case may be?

Firing then rehiring probably has side effects, such as cancelling outstanding incentives like options, RSUs, ESPP plans, whatever. If this was part of the calculation, it's pretty evil.

Wow... you obviously didn't learn on a car that didn't have power steering. It's really hard to turn the wheel when stationary, much easier if it is moving even slightly. This used to be part of driver training. I guess I'm showing my age, was driving 5 ton trucks before I was old enough to have...

Mod: I'm declaring the cost of hotels in various countries to be off-topic. Also discussion of historical wars/bombings unless shown to be relevant. And I'm getting very close to declaring one member a troll for continuing to introduce off-topic discussions. --ggr

Mod: It was only a week or two ago that head mod @AudubonB issued an instruction not to clog the thread with discussion about trolls, ignoring, disagreeing, and proposals for changing software (which I remind you all that mods have no say in). I had to take action today against particularly...

Ah, OK. I don't use either, didn't realize they are the same company. Same situation with ETrade and Morgan Stanley now... I have accounts with both, but got the same voting emails from them

It seems to me that this is very close to "soliciting a bribe".

I'm not sure there is such a thread. I do have one piece of advice though. If you ask the "from" broker (TDA) to transfer your assets to the "to" broker (Schwab in your example) they will almost certainly want to charge you money and delay. So go to the "to" broker, open your account, and ask...

Mod: This thread is not a back and forth about life in Russia. I have locked it until I am certain that everyone will have read this message. DO NOT continue discussions from before this notice; there will be no "last words". --ggr

Insiders buying stock on the open market is just as dangerous as selling, if the price suddenly goes up on good news. Theoretically they could file a 10b5 trading plan to buy, but most of them only have cash after selling, which makes no sense.

Mod: I don't have bandwidth to do detailed moderation at the moment. So, by way of directive: Tone down the argumentation! The alternative is for me to lock the thread until everyone calms down. --ggr

Mod: Reminder not to delve into US politics in this (or any) thread. --ggr

I raised the issue about tags with the admins. In the meantime I have deleted those tags.

Wow, those voyagers are HUGE!

Any car in that hailstorm is going to be written off.

This is a common fallacy. The thrust doesn't change just because of the speed of the rocket.

Hmmm, thank dog that I'm taking a break from moderating.

And I will reiterate that the moderators have no control over the forum software, and even our suggestions are often ignored.

The software doesn't allow it. Note that the moderators have no control at all over the software. Note also that the mod (singular) already weighed in and has been roundly ignored. I could start issuing bans, or I can go away and do my day job for a week or two. I think I'll do the latter. I...

Mod: I just deleted 18 posts for continuing the banned discussion of Elon and his politics. It's not about whether I/we as moderators have an opinion one way or the other. It's because it kills this otherwise useful thread. DO NOT DO THIS. Someone asked about a lot of missing posts. All I know...

I just saw a Highland Model 3 on the road in San Diego. I didn't realize they are delivering them yet. It had the temporary paper plate, so it wasn't a demo vehicle.

Unfortunately mods have no control at all over the software. I've reported it to the admins.

Mod: I wasn't even aware that tags existed. I can only edit them on threads here. I will report to other moderators. I have deleted them on the three threads I can control. --ggr

Apparently a transient error in the software.

Both cars finished in about 30 minutes, just like a normal update.

Both our FSD cars got the 12.3 update this morning. It seems much better than the 11.xx I had yesterday. Edit: Oops, missed your mention of "canucks".

... and you tell the yoong people of today that, and they woon't believe yoo, oh nooo.

Mod: Two posts deleted for various reasons. I chose not to delete the fairly obvious argumentative posts, but one way or the other, they will stop here. --ggr

Nothing is worth the effort of reporting to the SEC. I sent a bunch of reports back in the mid-late 2010s, and except for the form letter "we added you to the queue", have never had any response or apparent effect.

Slightly off-topic about the cost of planes versus drones, but interesting. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/03/drones-and-the-us-air-force.html

Why is there soot/smoke coming out on takeoff? I thought Methane burned clean?

If there was a pilot, I'd have called the action of the grid fins "pilot induced oscillation". I thought they skipped the ship engine re-light.

As you can see in the graph above, Q3 2012 was indeed a negative Gross Margin. While Tesla managed to deliver the first ten Model S in Q2, there were a lot of S's that were undergoing significant re-work before they could be delivered even in Q3. I can't remember if they had already stopped...

The pre-purchase agreement specifically states that any co-signer must be present at delivery. It would be really easy for me to add Amber Muchnick as a co-signer and just scribble something if they weren't present. You probably wouldn't like that.

If it was 2020 with stalk, you push down for forward, and up for reverse. If it was 2021 with on-screen shift, you swipe up for forward and down for reverse. BUT... it should have already selected forward unless there was something blocking the front of the car.

Most droneship landings don't do any boostback, just re-entry and landing burns.

Try telling that to Jan Łukasiewicz. Admittedly he invented what we would now call Prefix Polish Notation, and HP "reversed it" to RPN. (Pronounced roughly as "wook-a-SHEY-vitch", which I guess is why most people call it "Polish". :-) )

Don't forget... the Armada sank.

This is true, I discovered it by accident myself a few days ago. Moderators have no control over the software but I'll complain to someone...

You are missing Tasmania, which was a penal colony of the original penal colony, and I think was about 3.5 on the list.

Roadsters can't use superchargers. Only AC charging is supported.

Mod: I deleted off topic posts about FSD and the UK EV poll. In both cases, the first post would have been fine if only the other 14 people hadn't all followed up and polluted the thread. You don't all have to say "me too". The Nobel Prize discussion can cease now too. --ggr

As usual, there are competing forces at play here. First, forget that it is Elon, or any other huge shareholder, and just look at the effect on the company of Joe Random exercising options. A small amount of cash goes to the company to pay for the shares at the strike price. At the same time an...

Mod: moved 33 posts about Cybertruk orders and rust to https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/all-cybertruck-discussion.169472/page-77#post-8086354 for lack of a better place. Be happy that I didn't just delete them. But this and off-topic in the Ukraine thread have left me in a bad mood. Don't...

Mod: I had to either work hard to move posts to where they should have been, or delete them. Guess. --ggr

I heard a Toyota sponsorship radio ad on NPR yesterday. Something like (from memory): "Toyota hybrids combine the best of performance and efficiency!". Hmmm, yes, they get the performance from the electric motor and battery, and they get the efficiency from the battery and electric motor. Hmmm.