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[...] Musk has a top-secret level clearance because the company he founded and leads is certified to launch military spy satellites for the US government.
The review underscores the ramifications of Musk's appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in September, where he took a puff of a marijuana blunt during the livestream. Musk's appearance on the program didn't sit well with NASA's top officials, who earlier this month ordered a review of the workplace cultures of SpaceX and Boeing.
NASA's contracts with the aerospace companies -- worth a combined total of $6.8 billion -- require both companies "maintain a program for achieving a drug-and alcohol-free workforce."
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(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday March 08 2019, @11:39PM (1 child)
con artist
noun. a person who cheats or tricks others by persuading them to believe something that is not true.
Now, you could argue that persuading people to believe any lie is inherently tricking them, but cheating seems to be pretty central to the kind of trickery attributed to a con artist, and I can't think of any examples of that.
A plagiarizer, perhaps - except he does generally give credit to his team for their success. And charlatan and fraud seem too strong a term for someone who is actually delivering - even if they're doing so from more of an administrative position than doing the work themselves. We say a farmer plows his fields, even though it's the plow(horses) doing all the work.
He doesn't particularly cheat, trick, or even steal much credit, to be labeled a con. Mostly he's just good at keeping the spotlight on himself.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday March 09 2019, @01:52AM
Plagiarism? Yep. Claims to have invented the concept. In fact it's quite an old one, several other people 'invented' the concept first - and ultimately discarded it as impractical.
Which it is. And Musk is certainly not stupid or ignorant enough to believe anything else. Nonetheless he's happily taking advantage of those who are that stupid, or ignorant, to fund the project.
What's his goal? Presumably there's some other project that people would not be so eager to fund that some of this work will be relevant for.
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