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Well, maybe simple, but their rationale is nowhere near powerful in a lot of people's minds.

It's trivial simple to do so.

I would say the golden age never even started. I've stuck with torrenting over streaming with things like spotify because it's the only way I can guarantee that I will hear things that I like. Sure it takes a bit more planning, but for higher quality and customization I think it's more than worth it.

...if you're getting spam, then you signed up for it. I know this because I use gmail and don't get spam, or at least if I do it's always automatically filtered so I never ever see it.

Maybe it's more a problem with how you use email if that's an issue you have.

Humans do way better than 6%. I don't know who you're talking too, but I don't know anybody who I need to repeat anywhere near 6% of what I say to.

Sorry, but I have to call bullshit on that. What legitimate ecological concerns? As far as I can tell there has never been any evidence that Monsanto's GMOs cause any legitimate ecological problems. Plus Germany is known to be extremely anti-science, like when the green party wanted to shut down all the power plants despite ostensibly being the party you'd most expect to want to help the environment, not hurt it.

Most of you points are simply blatantly false tho.

>- Snowden indiscriminately hovered up so many documents, it was impossible to vet all of them.

That's why he gave them to a small group of well respected journalists, so they could use their professional discretion to vet them.

>- Snowden indiscriminately hovered up so many documents, it was impossible to vet all of them.

I highly doubt that, but even if it that were true those documents aren't the ones being leaked by the journalists, only the ones showing the NSA doing illegal things are.

>- Snowden did not attempt to go through internal channels.

Yes he did.

>- Snowden leaked / whistleblowed these documents in an operation using his secret agent skills.

Lol wut. He was just a contractor, not a secret agent. He just copied files, fled to China and shared them with a small group of people, none of which required "secret agent skills"

>- Snowden fled to Russia, a currently not-so-cold competitor of the US.

So? You can't blame Snowden for that, blame the Justice department. If Snowden could have been even remotely safe anywhere but Russia, he wouldn't be there now. You can't chase after somebody then blame them for hiding somewhere safe.

>- Snowden gave the document cache to incompetent journalists. Greenwald send his boyfriend to smuggle documents through British customs.

No he didn't, he gave them to perfectly competent journalists. Greenwald is very competent and well respected as a journalists. Doesn't matter how he got the documents in Britain the important thing is that he did without them getting leaked earlier than he wanted.

>If Snowden had given only the slides on the NSA spying on American citizens, and cooperating with US companies, that would have been whistleblowing.

He tried that and nobody took him seriously.

>As it stands, to me, it feels like a Russian operation to inflict PR/diplomacy damage on the US.

Considering he only ever entered Russia after he had distributed the documents and none of them ever entered Russia this opinion is based on nothing other than emotion and isn't substantiated by any facts.

Is there any way to get access to that info without paying? It's okay if it's illegal, I don't mind.

Yeah, but time cube isn't hard to understand. It's perfectly clear. It is the answer to everything. It is the grand unified theory. It is a box containing a consistent system of axioms capable of proving all truths about the arithmetic of the natural numbers. It is love. It is life. It is Time Cube.

I hadn't considered paying people to fly out, good idea PR wise.

I was thinking more just refusing to sell to any dealership in a state that doesn't allow Tesla to make their own. That way no new sales of Teslas would happen in that state and Tesla could show stats from their stores in neighboring states near the border showing how many people from the Tesla prohibition state are crossing over to buy. Considering this is one of those black and white cases where one side of the legislators(those who oppose direct to consumer sales) are against it for purely corruption reasons, it should take long or be hard to get the public to turn on the idea and demand the law act in the interest of the people as opposed to artificially jacking up prices for kickbacks.

Then again they could just set the price for their cars at one value that they will sell it for in all of their direct to consumer dealers. They should then make ads using this value so that everybody knows damn well that the latest Tesla costs $X. Then they could simply work with the middlemen dealerships but jack up the price they sell to the dealership for so that the dealerships have to charge a very noticeable amount more than $X. Then everybody sees the ads, which btw should mainly be played in states that are fighting Tesla and realize the dealerships are screwing them. Imagine seeing ads that clearly say a big mac is $2 yet when you go it actually cost about $3.50 in your state because your gov't gets kick backs from big beef to have a law that keeps it that high. Again the public will turn since they want the cheap Teslas that come from the official source rather than the expensive ones from some worthless middleman.

Which strategy is better I don't know for sure, but the former is what I hope they do, it seems more respectable and more effective since in the second way the corrupt states still get some revenue from the overpriced sales.

As somebody with a scumbag relative who works at a dealership I can tell you that spreadsheet was fake. Very common tactic among the ethically deprived.

But the difference is that all dealerships have artificially inflated prices, so if you live in a state with no direct to consumer sales you have no choice but to overpay which means there's no incentive to test drive at one dealership and buy at another, you're getting fucked either way. If direct sale is allowed the cars will be cheaper when bought from the manufacturer which is what creates the incentive to test drive at one place and buy at another.