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Australian Police Get McLaren and Aston Martin Supercars
An anonymous reader writes: Australia's New South Wales police department has added a pair of new cars to their fleet that are going to be very hard to outrun, a McLaren 650S and an Aston Martin Vanquish Volante. The vehicles aren't going to be used on the job, but as a promotional tool to help raise money for the families of fallen police. "These sponsorship arrangements are designed to promote community engagement with NSW Police. This agreement is designed to promote tomorrow's Police Legacy Wall to Wall ride and celebrate 100 years of Women in Policing," a police spokesperson said in a statement.
to raise more than the cost of the two cars?
It doesn't make a lot of sense to hire engineers to design an expensive special purpose machine, and then not use it for the purpose it was specialized for.
But hey, it's Australian Politics!
I'm sure these are the last of the V8 Interceptors the Australians will buy. They'll get used eventually for that purpose.
If you "couldn't care less" about something, why would you even write about it?
I always considered 'I could care less' to be an abbreviation of 'I could care less, but not by much'.
If you read the article you'll see that the cars are supplied by the manufacturers at no cost. The police departments just pay for fuel.
If you tell me something I couldn't care less about, you know how little I care about it and won't keep wasting my time with telling me things I couldn't care less about if I tried. Therefore I may not care about the bollocks coming out of your cake hole, but I DO care about my time being wasted.
And if you couldn't care less if it's "couldn't care less" not "could care less", why did YOU talk about how "it's correct now"?
Two supercars or several months' worth of frontline support for the families of fallen police officers?
How about both? The cars didn't cost the cops anything.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
thank god you didn't compare them to the vostok rocket
That's probably a lot cheaper than paying for all this publicity. It's already made world-wide news.
This McLaren is rated at 11.7L/100km
The Holdens they current use are rated at 12.1L/100km
That's half a bee's dick difference.
These cars cost $0.00
What can you get for less than that?
Why bother with these "supercars" when they can easily...
Very simple: Because the Australian Police can actually read an article summary on Slashdot before posting.
No sig today...
The vehicles aren't going to be used on the job, but as a promotional tool to help raise money for the families of fallen police.
So I'm guessing that "outrunning" them is largely irrelevant.
Then try saying the full thing BEFORE contracting it. You know, like what happened with "Couldn't care less". Then you would be contracting a statement, not just making one and saying "It's not longer than it could be!" as a "defence".
How about "I don't really care"? Shorter and more accurate and already known, without the "I think you mean *couldn't care less*" argument.
This McLaren is rated at 11.7L/100km
The Holdens they current use are rated at 12.1L/100km
That's half a bee's dick difference.
And in favour of the McLaren...
The correct question should be: by any chance is one of the officers assigned to drive it called Max Rockatansky?
There's also this thing called a "trailer" that can be used to move a fuel inefficient vehicle (or two) around far more efficiently, and probably with less chance of them being involved in a traffic accident in the hands of an inexperienced driver as well - the Maclaren is even shown on the back of one at the top of the story. Other than a few VIP joyrides which will no doubt result in a sizeable contribution to the cause, I doubt these cars will be doing a lot of miles, fuel efficient or not, and will almost certainly bring in more donations than the outlays from fuel costs and moving them from fundraiser to fundraiser.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
How is this relevant for cars that won't be used on the job? Please don't stand by your comments if they were idiotic to being with. Even without reading TFA or even reading the whole summary it was obvious that these were donated and won't cost the NSW government any additional money.
If you read the article
This is Slashdot . . . we don't read the articles . . . some folks don't even read the summaries . . . some don't even read the post that they are replying to . . . or even the subject line.
Back on topic, I was a passenger in a "race taxi" on a track in Germany where amateurs are allowed on during the weekend. There were some rich guys with Porsches . . . and they got passed by my female professional driver in a plain looking white car . . . and were clearly annoyed about that.
The driver told me that more important than the car . . . is the driver. If the Aussie police do decide to put these super cars into active service, they should make sure that they properly train the drivers.
Oh, the car was a BMW M5
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Advertising. Audis are relatively unknown in Australia, Porsches have a bad rep here as being driven by wankers who had money and didn't know what to spend it on other than speeding tickets, so no you can't substitute them, even if Porsche and Audi did provide the cars for free like these two were.
We need these because of... reasons.
Porsche has an history of giving cars free to German police.
Lamborghini did give some cars for free to Italian police (at least two I've not been counting, being used for publicity and a few other special uses): http://www.poliziadistato.it/articolo/view/33523/ (official italian police website).
Carabinieri did not get such special treatment for some reason. Maybe that's because they are a military force, not exactly the same thing.
It's always happened for sports cars companies to give cars to police forces for free to police forces. Nothing new.
No, he couldn't care less about the fact that it is off-topic.
Audis are unknown? Where do you live? They are bloody everywhere around where I am in Brisbane.
That said I wouldn't swap them as I agree with your Porsche sentiment and audis are driven by accountants or sales droids.
Because idf they want to parade them around and ge people to come see em and maybe donate something it's better to have a goddamn supercar to show of than an ordinary audi? I mean, Audi does make cars that are super enough to gather people to see them, but I guess you weren't talking about those.
A Yugo
Actually, US police were all set to get new Audis but Audi decided they would only give us the saloons, so it never happened.
but Australians don't get a super fast internet
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
I like to imagine the Australian police driving something a little more like this:
http://www.zupimages.net/up/15...
You are welcome on my lawn.
Still not better than the last of the V8 Interceptors.
-Styopa
Was that the Nurburgring by any chance? I know they use M5's for their ring taxis. And the supercars are just for public events and raising support and money for charity. Not police work.
He did. you weren't paying attention.
Clearly your brain sees something that said "FREE!" and you lunge.
What about the cost of insurance? the cost of repair? the cost of fuel? the cost of training?
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
"The vehicles aren't going to be used on the job, but as a promotional tool to help raise money for the families of fallen police."
Yeah. Why do charities or their managers always have to buy supercars?
I don't get it. I surely won't donate to any charity where the chairman doesn't drive a rusty 85 Chevy.
How are all these police dying in numbers that require this kind of money is spent to raise still more money? Are there lethal kangaroo attacks? Rabid sheep? Terrible drivers? I mean, Australia is frequently a poster child for gun control in the US, so what gives? I was told if there were no guns, that no one would die. So how are these guys snuffing it?
It's part of my 'parting message' on IRC (dalnet) in the 90's:
"Windows NT/2000/XP & Windows Server 2003 are a Look @ the Future: AND THE FUTURE IS NOW!!!" FFFFFFffffoooommmm... "In the Era of the Turbo: Screaming out of the SubSonic DataStream Riding the Lightning as AlecÂtaar - GHOST IN THE MACHINE & LAST OF THE V-8 POLICE INTERCEPTORS!!!" LaTeR++ ->->->->...
(When I was an admin on the "Official Windows Help Channel" #Windows95, endorsed by MiRC creator K. Marden Bey, circa 1994-2000)
APK
P.S.=> Great minds think alike - I was going to do a "Mad Max" post regarding that myself but you "beat me to the punch" here... apk
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Finnish police have also been donated super cars in the past. I recall them getting a Jaguar some ten years or so ago, but they trashed it in under a year.
donated by car dealers, while US police departments are getting MRAPs and APCs courtesy of the US taxpayer, to be used for terrorizing the populace into submission, as well as the occasional no-knock raid on a suspected pot grower or whatever.
If US cops want something like a Porsche or Lamborghini for their DARE propaganda vehicle, they simply start an asset forfeiture against the local coke dealer....
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This is where someone usually goes, "You must be new here." Very rarely do the comments stick to the narrowest interpretation of what the topic is.
Did'nt you read it, it is to celebrate womyn in puhlish. So, all is fine or else you are a mushoguinist.
As if any money spent is name of womyn by stupid govts. and orgs are worth it.
He DIDN'T.
He had to consider himself WITH NO EVIDENCE OF IT that it was short for what he said. Therefore COMMON USAGE of that longer statement was not held. It was straight to the *supposed* short version. He never used it himself.
I could care less about the opinions of pedants.
Why aren't you on Reddit where you belong?
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
I was amazed to find you could actually sell a British car in Australia. It's like they never learn.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Yes Audis are everywhere. What are they known for? Small cars with good traction control.
I've seen a single R8, heck I've seen more Ferraris on our streets than I've seen RS6s. Audis are seen as a luxury European small car all over the country and don't even carry remotely the prestige of a McLaren or an Aston Martin, even if for some of the cars they may deserve to.
I for one, do not appreciate reality from intruding upon my mental images and fantasy. You know, the one where you are chasing "the bad guy" across the Australian Outback, doing a cool 300 km/h in my McLaren, and it's all cool and legit because I'm a cop!
Vroom!
"Be a shame to blow them up...."
This is the Mad Max reboot we all needed.
If US cops want something like a Porsche or Lamborghini for their DARE propaganda vehicle, they simply start an asset forfeiture against the local coke dealer....
Since when did you have to break the law to get your assets forfeited? Here in America you can have your Porsche stolen by the cops just because they don't like you, no actual crime or evidence needed. Good luck getting it back too.
If you watch TV or listen to Internet forums, you'll get wrong ideas about the numbers. Here's some actual facts.
1) Roughly twice as many white people as black are killed by police every year in the USA.
2) There are about six times as many white people as black, so this shows a serious disparity - if enforcement and crime were both equal, there should be six times as many whites being killed, not twice as many.
3) There are twice as many poor white people as black people. Again, this is a disparity - if poverty were equally distributed, there'd be six times as many poor whites, not twice as many.
It should be obvious, just from these three facts (and there's many more correlations) that law enforcement bears little relation to either color or crime. Rich people of every race can literally get away with murder while the poor are victimized regardless of color. There's a brutal, bloody war being waged on the poor, and it just so happens that a disproportionate percentage of people living in poverty are non-white. Racism exists, and this situation does allow racists to exercise their hate, but the problem isn't racism itself, the problem is the lack of availability of education and jobs for the poor.
This is what Dr. King was trying to tell people. Poverty is what's keeping black people down. Every cop knows that a black man's more likely to be poor than a white man.
Do copper cows rust if left out in the rain? and does that taint the milk?
Because I couldn't care less if you're unhappy about where I posted it.
However, you apparently DO care about the opinions of pedants. Both by your base claim AND the fact that your solution is pedantry ("you should be doing this instead" == "You mean this word instead").
Italian police did buy a bunch of Seat Exeo cars, which in fact are the old version of the audi A4 Avant (Saloon). They paid for those though.
Please note that in Italy saloon cars are quite successful and instead it's the bigger sedans which are an hard sell, exactly the opposite of the U market.
How about GAGF instead
The new right fascists are bilingual. They speak English and Bullshit.