I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire
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@the_quiet_one said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
Simple, you send it to them in pieces with an allen wrench and IKEA-style instructions to assemble.
Why not just send in a bottle of 180proof booze and a hacksaw. The kids can send themselves out in pieces small enough to fit. Surely MuskyOdor must have a engineered a magical medical superglue by now, right?
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@lorne-kates said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
Why not just send in a bottle of 180proof booze and a hacksaw.
The kids are out now. Too little too late. Keep the booze and hacksaw for
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Disclaimer: I don't like Gizmodo (for garage-y reasons) but I just can't help myself and appreciate this article's pure brutality!
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This seems the most suitable thread for this.
There's been talk of turning this whole sorry mess into a Hollywood film (yawn,) however...
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@gribnit said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
I think the general practice is to try for the quoted approach (the one in quotes, not the one I've quoted) by requesting a study of the risks. Into which no early return is built.
My point was that the definition of “acceptable risk” in western society today seems usually to be “very low to non-existent” instead of just “low” as it might have been in the not-very-distant past.
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@polygeekery said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
Back in the construction days we had a directional drilling crew drill right through the center of some storm pipe we had installed. We gave them a price to repair the damage they caused that involved us moving out an excavator and a loader and a 5 man crew for a day. They accepted and then one of the superintendents under me got the bright idea that he would take his son's skateboard and a bucket of concrete in to the pipe and patch it up from the inside, saving money and making it all almost pure profit. So we pulled a rope through, hooked it on to the front of the skateboard and he just barely fit down the pipe. To his credit it all worked, the pipe was patched up well enough to pass inspection and we made really good money on that repair.
So you charged for a full repair and did something that just work "well enough to pass inspection". And you seem proud of that. Not cool.
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@hardwaregeek said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@onyx said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@hardwaregeek dunno, you always talk about how ancient you are
I was in my mid- to late-30s when he was born
At first I thought you're talking about Elon Musk.
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@hardwaregeek said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
Y'all are a bunch of children in adult suits.
That pretty much sums up most every adult, ever, I suspect.
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@polygeekery said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
That Twitter thread is amazing.
But it doesn't address the important question of whether the dinosaurs would have cancer.
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@sockpuppet7 said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@polygeekery said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
Back in the construction days we had a directional drilling crew drill right through the center of some storm pipe we had installed. We gave them a price to repair the damage they caused that involved us moving out an excavator and a loader and a 5 man crew for a day. They accepted and then one of the superintendents under me got the bright idea that he would take his son's skateboard and a bucket of concrete in to the pipe and patch it up from the inside, saving money and making it all almost pure profit. So we pulled a rope through, hooked it on to the front of the skateboard and he just barely fit down the pipe. To his credit it all worked, the pipe was patched up well enough to pass inspection and we made really good money on that repair.
So you charged for a full repair and did something that just work "well enough to pass inspection". And you seem proud of that. Not cool.
Did I say that the repair was not adequate? No. I did not.
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@deadfast What's frustrating and what the article misses is that sometimes he succeeds. Like when he promised to build that ridiculously huge battery bank for Australia, and hit the deadline.
But it's rare. But it does happen.
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@polygeekery said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
So we pulled a rope through, hooked it on to the front of the skateboard and he just barely fit down the pipe.
He then realized that cement obeys the laws of gravity as everything he tried to trowel just fell back on his face. He has no mouth and must scream. No one knows anything is wrong until he's long since silently suffocated. In the hot weather, his corpse bloats, filling the pipe like a sabot. Gases build from decay and bowels. When someone tugs on the rope to see if he's okay, the fabric-on-fabric movement causes a static-electric spark. The built-up gases explode.
The boss comes out of the pipe-- in a ballistic arc, at high velocity, and in many pieces.
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@blakeyrat said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@deadfast What's frustrating and what the article misses is that sometimes he succeeds. Like when he promised to build that ridiculously huge battery bank for Australia, and hit the deadline.
But it's rare. But it does happen.
A stopped Rube-Goldberg machine is right
8 * sqrt(25) - ((32 * pi) - 98.530964915)
times a day
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@blakeyrat said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@deadfast What's frustrating and what the article misses is that sometimes he succeeds. Like when he promised to build that ridiculously huge battery bank for Australia, and hit the deadline.
But it's rare. But it does happen.
I get that example quoted to me a lot. I'm just not sure why I'm supposed to be super impressed. Did he use batteries that he couldn't put into Teslas because of other production snafus or something?
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@blakeyrat said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@deadfast What's frustrating and what the article misses is that sometimes he succeeds. Like when he promised to build that ridiculously huge battery bank for Australia, and hit the deadline.
But it's rare. But it does happen.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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Now we see how many Stargate people are here. Heh
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@erufael I'm not a "Stargate person" (what even is that?) but I get the joke.
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@blakeyrat said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
what even is that
Fan of the show. Like you're a Star Trek person.
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@erufael I thought you meant they had a little worm in their stomach that controlled their minds.
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@blakeyrat well, I mean, if that applies to someone here than so be it. :P
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Don't call him billionaire by the way
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@blakeyrat said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@erufael I thought you meant they had a little worm in their stomach that controlled their minds.
Liar.
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@blakeyrat said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@erufael I thought you meant they had a little worm in their stomach that controlled their minds.
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@blakeyrat said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@erufael I thought you meant they had a little worm in their stomach that controlled their minds.
No, the worm would have to be attached to their spine to do that.
Shit, I think I just came out as a Stargate person!
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@anonymous234 said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
Don't call him billionaire by the way
I wasn’t called that until my companies got to a certain size
Yeah, that's probably because you were a millionaire then.
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It looks like there are more people than just President Trump which Jon Rosenburg likes to make a fool of, so I thought this was the appropriate thread:
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I am the coolest tech billionaire.
(except for the "tech" and "billionaire" part)
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@jbert said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
It looks like there are more people than just President Trump which Jon Rosenburg likes to make a fool of, so I thought this was the appropriate thread:
Except that his solution to install water filters for people in Flint, Michigan is the opposite of this and he's being criticized by communists for not building a new water treatment plant or something. But it kind of fits the Thai thing.
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I'd love to find out what's in Twitter's source code that somehow makes whoever is using it into a blubbering idiot.
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@the_quiet_one Between this and his literally irrational paranoia about "leaks" at Tesla, I'm starting to think Elon Musk is developing a mental health issue.
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@blakeyrat Just starting?
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@erufael said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
Now we see how many Stargate people are here. Heh
Is Stargate a spinoff of Sanctuary?
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@lorne-kates Sanctuary would have been such a different show if they had Zat guns.
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@the_quiet_one said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
I'd love to find out what's in Twitter's source code that somehow makes whoever is using it into a blubbering idiot.
I use Twitter. @boomzilla uses Twitter. @Lorne-Kates uses twitter. @blakeyrat uses Twitter. Is this an argument for or against your proposition?
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@dkf I use it too!
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@pie_flavor
You are only strengthening the case against twitter here ...
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@luhmann why's that?
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@pie_flavor
Statement: Twitter turns users into blubbering idiots
Evidence: known local Twitter users @boomzilla, Lorne-Kates, blakeyrat, @dkf & @pie_flavor
Conclusion: Say No More! Nudge Nudge Wink Wink!
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@luhmann I choose to believe that I raise the level of insanity on twitter rather than the other way around.
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@boomzilla
... gaze ... abyss ... something ... something ... abyss ... gaze ...yeah ... spot on!
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@dkf said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
Is this an argument for or against your proposition?
Yes
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@blakeyrat said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
Between this and his literally irrational paranoia about "leaks" at Tesla, I'm starting to think Elon Musk is developing a mental health issue.
He's always been a narcissist; his cult followers just do their very best to hide that fact for some reason.
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@the_quiet_one He also said he'd upload a video of the sub navigating through the cave just to shut up the naysayers. This I'd like to see.
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@deadfast said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Not necessarily...
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@dcon it will be right 24 times a day
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@sockpuppet7 said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@dcon it will be right 24 times a day
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@dcon that clock doesn't inform what timezone it's talking about
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@sockpuppet7 said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@dcon that clock doesn't inform what timezone it's talking about
In that case it will be right (currently) 37 times a day.
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@dcon I tought it was only North Korea that deviated in something that wasn't an integer number of hours