Not for "speaking his mind" but doing so via an interstaff memo, which is intrinsically not suited to such purposes (and which doesn't really have anything to do with free speech, as such).
Logically minded as you are, you understand this distinction, yes?
I agree with that but then Google employees are not encouraged to speak their mind if these technicalities result in disciplinary action. It was not a good idea to release it this way for that matter. Because it is not a channel to speak your mind. Google should make that clear in that case and it probably did not.
I would suggest the same logical agreement with differentiation here although that is a bit childish.
But seriously, that stunt has nothing to do with production Teslas. Tesla is still a very new player we are now seeing more and more growing pains, especially on the customer side, which is too bad but honestly should have been expected.
We are the first adopters to discover what kind of shelf life a Tesla car has, what it works like after 5, 10 and 15 years. Personally, I'm not optimistic about it. It seems to break down quite easily for a lot of people - add a decade of wear and tear on top of that, and it's not a great picture.
The idea that we are only now seeing growing pains is wrong. Service has always been a major issue. As far back as Model S it has been a consistent topic.
The base electronic, motors and batteries seem to be pretty reliable for most people. They had very few major issues with those things compared to most companies much smaller EV efforts.
Its easy to think of this stunt as some sort of playboyy thing, but I felt it was a brilliant PR move.
They needed a known weight to test the rocket and orbital flight mechanics. Instead of putting any random thing, he put his car and the world went gaga over the stunt. It brought Tesla and SpaceX tremendous amount of press.
Amazon is 1.5 TB, so is Microfuck and Google and I think Facebook...why is Amazon being targeted? Microsoft has been the root of all evil since Gates was born, or a few years thereafter. Gates is buying America's farmland, Google it. Google Google doubling, trippling its commercial real estate holdings.
When Clinton decided to become chummy with Gates as Clinton's career was ending and miraculously the DOJ stopped working on breaking up Microsoft, it paved the way for Google's and Amazon's and Facebook's monopolies.
The conspiracy theory that one person can't rise to great wealth on their skill and talent and some luck rather than mostly luck and connections, is a conspiracy theory.
Evolution is what I used for years until severl years ago when they greatly modified the way the email was stored. I switched back to Thunderbird. Now I discover TB is including more and more usage of sqlite (which is great for data, by my email is not data); my email is files.
I didn't realize how many sqlite files there are, I ran "find . -name *.sqlite", I see Chrome related files, cookie files, a file related to storage? Time to look for a new email client which is sad to say after all these years.
If Thunderbird moves away from file based I will find a new email client. I already have to deal with the monstrosity that is systemd, don't want my email subjugated to a database. Databases are fine for data. I want my email in files so I can easily move away if needed, to another client.
Yeah, we're sticking with thunderbird in large part for their MBOX support and if they ever dropped it we'd move to something else. MBOX makes it dead simple to parse or grep through your messages.
James Damore was fired for speaking his mind, he performed logical analysis, not hate speech and was fired.