I seriously doubt this will result in any jail time. Levandowski's lawyers will do everything they can to see to it no time is served. But he will probably pay a fine.. chump change to this man.
And this pisses me off; people in America get thrown in jail for stealing chewing gum.
I don't know why he was downloaded. I mean, come too Florida and talk to some 80 year old guy who has nothing, due to being scammed or ID theft.
Frankly, be better if you just killed the guy. Now this guy has to decide between food and meds because his SSI doesn't cover it all. And his savings are gone.
82 years old, with serious cash flow issues. Choosing between food and meds? It's 50/50. In fact, living among them in Florida, I'd give odds that he'd choose to die.
I was downvoted because the same people who have the influence to legalize their crimes have the influence to make the public believe that it is right and proper.
No. This is a lazy comment. You're giving me a world of homework, without bothering to even give me a specific link to something.
Furthermore, I doubt that the guy running the illegal scam operation, a type of operation that literally everyone hates, is an example of a crime that the public thinks is right and proper.
//Now I am curious, who runs production customer facing apps on Azure? I'm assuming many people do given that Azure is second after AWS in market share or is that really just mostly corporate IT servers?
The government does. Though AWS and IBM are also used. In other words, entries outside the bubble.
Have you ever worked in Corporate America? Many times the decision to use something like Teams is made in an office across the country. And usually, its made with the vendor's sales team involved. This happens in government too, all the time.
You get an edict to use the software and the fun begins. I love the idea of including the CEO... have to remember that.
The other problems China has is resources and cash. As the article points out, if you include maintenance and upgrades, naval ships tend to be 3x the cost of building them. That's not cheap.
And resource wise, it is reliant on outside suppliers. Which also cost. Unlike America, China's fiances aren't infinite (America is due to oil).
I have no doubt China can easily afford invading Taiwan. I do have doubts about Japan though. Japan is mobilizing right now as well.
They are busy at replacing those outside suppliers with their own technology. Their entire economic policy is revolving around the goal of becoming self-reliant.
Layers of middle management always sucks the life out of companies. And indeed governments. Try working for a bank, and you'll see exactly what I am talking about.
The technological solutions to those problems are predictable by a sufficiently educated person.
Politics is impossible to predict. Even if you're dead on about how a group of people feel in one region, go 200 miles west, you may be completely wrong.
There is some hope at this point that he's right about the second part, too. It reads as mixed hope as quoted and that's about what we are seeing.
- Advances in wind and solar energy generation in 2018 have pushed those to being the cheapest and most efficient they've ever been. The economic case for wind/solar is now such that it is far cheaper than non-renewable alternatives, and with or without political drive in 2019 there's a chance that pure capitalist greed still pushes past some major thresholds in renewable energy portfolios versus the alternatives.
- Similarly, 2018 seems to have pushed us past several remaining electric vehicle adoption hurdles and promises that we'll really start to feel the affects of that in 2019 and 2020. (VW's electric fleet roll out / course correction due to the dieselgate fallout will particularly be something to watch this year.) Admittedly, without political drivers we're still likely to see an aging ICE long tail, but again this is mixed hope that we have the technology, now we just need to find the will. Here too there is mixed hope economically that costs and supply chains are going to be driven down on EVs enough (maybe not this year, but soon; again my eye is on what will happen with VW's fleet changes as headwind, and also the huge electric fleet leaps happening in China) that we may see some very interesting cases where EVs start to be drastically cheaper than ICE vehicles. The conditions are ripe for some interesting supply chain shakeups in cars over the next few years, possibly to the planet's benefit.
- 2018 saw some really interesting technical developments in meat substitutes (Impossible Foods in particular doing some really interesting stuff). I have no idea if there is political or economic hope that we'll see more adoption of such things in 2019 as a matter of course, but I do know that White Castle sells Impossible Sliders and that seems like a hopeful sign.
- News recently about "sponges" that can capture atmospheric Carbon without impacting atmospheric Nitrogen may mean we are closer to technology breakthroughs in carbon capture than we think. [1]
As only a hobbyist/armchair future historian, I can see room at least for mixed hope. I suppose mixed hope is better than nothing here.
It was a good idea, but once again people ruin a good thing.