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@cstross The Sleight Doctor 🃏
The innovation wasn't the cars.
It was implementing a transport _system_
Now once there is a system of a supply network for recharging, and vehicles to recharge, other people will do it, and eventually as commodities and better.
The thing with Spacex wasn't launches and missions, it was a transport _system_.
Now, what is the complete system being floated?
@cstross
However, if we assume the purpose was to give Ms Trump $30M (a contribution to her Running Away Fund?) then it presumably counts as a success.
@cstross
The review attributed to Variety seemed helpful:
If it was shown on an aircraft people would still walk out.
@Infoseepage ...but that is (also) corrosive to the rest of us.
@Infoseepage
Tempting to advise a more permanent placement.
@mmorschel going digital for tax etc may turn out to have been sub-optimal.
Particularly if it uses closed source applications running on closed source operating systems on proprietary hardware of limited sourcing.
#MakingTaxDigital
@futurebird
Anyone in US government who is a Russian agent would feel very successful if they disrupted NATO.
@atomicpoet
If it was selling something to someone outside, perhaps.
As it is you are probably getting capital gains (it may be unevenly distributed). services some visible, some less so, and some insurance.
For which you make a contribution to the expenses of the whole.
Perhaps the public are not as good at running what they own as they might be, nor at the oversight of the operation?