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Bob Lutz, car-guy-to-the-max, former VP of GM and Chrysler, with time at BMW before that, wrote this recent article --
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a26859/bob-lutz-tesla/
The opening paragraph is gloomy:
Tesla's showing all the signs of a company in trouble: bleeding cash, securitized assets, and mounting inventory. It's the trifecta of doom for any automaker, and anyone paying attention probably saw this coming a mile away. Like most big puzzles, the company's woes don't have just one source.
and the prognosis goes downhill from there mentioning competition from Audi, the lack of enough dealers to attract more buyers and other problems.
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Wow! Look!! A stray meatball!! Let's interview it!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday October 30 2015, @05:01PM
Hey, Carly Fiorina thinks that qualifies her to be president of the United States for some reason. And a strikingly large number of people seem to agree with that.
For some reason people think that just because somebody has done a high-status job, they're qualified for another high-status job, regardless of how badly they've bungled the first high-prestige job. I tend to subscribe to a different theory: Any society that tolerates shoddiness in high-status jobs like "professor" and fails to reward quality in low-status jobs like "plumber" will have neither pipes nor ideas that hold water.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday October 30 2015, @05:24PM
Hey, Carly Fiorina thinks that qualifies her to be president of the United States for some reason. And a strikingly large number of people seem to agree with that.
If you ignore all the people shes' shafted for personal gain (admittedly a lot of that is due to the absence of adult supervision at HP and Lucent. If you don't want Fiorina to do something, then don't reward her for doing it), she still stands out from most of the crowd as being well spoken, intelligent, and able to think on her feet. If I hadn't been personally laid off due to a Fiorina enrichment exercise (HP/Compaq merger which resulted in a decline in both companies's fortunes), I might be inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt too.
Any society that tolerates shoddiness in high-status jobs like "professor" and fails to reward quality in low-status jobs like "plumber" will have neither pipes nor ideas that hold water.
Worthy quote there.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday October 30 2015, @05:48PM
Isn't the president (whether of a business or of the government) supposed to be adult supervision rather than requiring adult supervision? I've got idea: How about picking a candidate that doesn't shaft other people for personal gain, rather than giving those who would shaft others even more power to shaft even more people?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday October 30 2015, @06:36PM
Isn't the president (whether of a business or of the government) supposed to be adult supervision rather than requiring adult supervision?
No, I think it's both. I think a big part of the silliness, routine to politics in democracies, is the lack of adult supervision by the electorate.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday October 30 2015, @09:31PM
Point being, why would we hand authority and responsibility to somebody who has repeatedly demonstrated cannot handle authority and responsibility? Because that's just plain stupid.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.