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    • Sad that corruption is the new norm now in DC. State Dept. 'not functioning' as staffers get sidelined for warning Trump is breaking law
    • Yes, Ford pathetic quality control and small thinking has hurt the company, not helped it. Rather than step up their game to compete, they want easy money with minimal effort. At this point, Ford has done nothing over the last 5 to 6 decades that makes me care anymore. GM will not support AA/CP and would rather take your personal data and sell it for profit to 3rd party companies. As such, GM and Ford might just end up being out of business by 2050 if China gets into the U.S. market.
    • One would hope the site software could tell you more details on the type of bots that are attacking the site and why. That is very weird. 
    • Ford (and everyone else) went into EV's because they saw Tesla's $1.5 trillion market cap, and the investors were like "what the hell Jim, why does Ford have a $50 billion market cap while this start up that sells 1 million cars a year is worth 30 times more?  We want return on our investment!" Ford could see F150 sales double and my guess is their market cap would move from $53 billion to $55 billion.  If you aren't on the cutting edge of technology it will be too easy for others to just eliminate you.  Ford gave up on sedans because they couldn't compete with the Asians, gave up on the Ecosport, the Escape ended production this month also, because they admit they can't compete in those segments. Ford is going to be pickups, commercial vans, and Bronco.  Would be really easy to the Chinese to copy pickups and vans and come in at a much lower price and wipe out those pick up and van sales.  
    • This is really annoying. I noticed yesterday that traffic on the site was exponentially high.  Turns out we were getting crawled by apparently all of China. I had to use Cloudfare to block the entire country because there was no pattern of repeats in the IP addresses.  You can see where I installed the rule. That's 80k hits in about 18 hours. Before discovering this, we were getting 500k hits per day, super high for this site.  There are still some getting through from Hong Kong, but not nearly the same volume.  Def something going on as the other countries surrounding China are also hitting.  
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