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J.J. Abrams Reacts To Death of Star Trek Actor Anton 'Chekov' Yelchin (hollywoodreporter.com)
On Sunday morning 27-year-old actor Anton Yelchin, who plays Chekov in the new Star Trek movies, was killed in a freak accident with his own car in the driveway of his home in Studio City. "It appears he momentarily exited his car and it rolled backward, causing trauma that led to his death," a police spokesperson told the Hollywood Reporter. This afternoon J. J. Abrams tweeted a picture of a handwritten eulogy addressed to Anton. "You were brilliant. You were kind. You were funny as hell, and supremely talented. And you weren't here nearly long enough. Missing you..." Zachary Quinto, who plays Mr. Spock, also tweeted a link to a picture posted in memorial on Instagram, where he called Yelchin "one of the most open and intellectually curious people I have ever had the pleasure to know... wise beyond his years, and gone before his time..."
Stephen King called him a "crazily talented actor gone too soon," remembering Yelchin from one of his last roles in a 10-episode adaptation of King's "Mr. Mercedes". Yelchin will play a mentally deranged ice cream truck driver who's also an IT worker for a Geek Squad-like company named "Cyber Patrol".
Stephen King called him a "crazily talented actor gone too soon," remembering Yelchin from one of his last roles in a 10-episode adaptation of King's "Mr. Mercedes". Yelchin will play a mentally deranged ice cream truck driver who's also an IT worker for a Geek Squad-like company named "Cyber Patrol".
I loved that commercial where he beamed into the Xfinity Innovation Center!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
He was brilliant.
A very talented actor is gone, and it will not even save us from having to endure that unnecessary reboot of Star Trek. They'll probably just recast and not even bother to explain in any way. Nobody really gives a shit anymore it seems.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
He exited his car while it was in neutral on his steep driveway, and he got pinned between his car and the brick mailbox. This goes to show how incredibly easy it is to make one tiny mistake and pay for it with your life. If I had to guess, I would say he was trying to hop back into the car to stop it. It could have happened to any of us - in one instant, before you realize, it's too late. RIP and if anything can come of this, hopefully the rest of us can learn to take one extra moment to make sure that what we think of as a mundane, simple thing is not overlooked.
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I still don't get the Star Trek connection... This guy was only 2 years old the last time a movie came out.
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See what happens when you have self-driving cars?
This. He obviously wrongly believes the shooter was Muslim.
I wonder who he pissed off and how.
Makes no sense to assume the default explanation is true. He is dead, that is the only fact that cannot be manipulated.
Islam is the religion of peace. They wouldn't have done something like this.
It's so whitewashed I can't see anything that indicates he was drunk. The car was in neutral, and it sounds more like he was getting ready to go somewhere, started the car, remembered something he forgot, hopped out of the car, and was crushed by it. He was on his way to a rehearsal, not coming back from drinking.
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My country was having a problem with a certain central american country's citizen's coming to this country as tourists and never leaving. We solved the problem by requiring all citizens of that particular country to apply with our embassy for a visa before they could enter the country. Anyone arriving in our country from that country without a visa was immediately reboarded and returned to their country of origin, at the airline's expense.
some karma... and kinda lukewarm about it.
My father died this week. So it makes fathers day confusing for me. He was part of the greatest generation that fought in WWII.
He didn't have much to say about people like you.
Since the Vietnam War black participation in the military has grown. Today, there are more than 2.5 million black military veterans. And African-Americans who make up more than 13 percent of the U.S. population, now account for 20 percent of those serving in the military.
I realize you are just trolling, and sometimes it's funny, just for the shock value. But it wasn't funny today. I doubt it will be funny for a long time.
Wake me up when September ends. I'll let you know.
A lot of people incorrectly did. The Federal AG Lynch is going to release a 911 call with the evidence this was terrorism redacted because that is just smart.
This post harassing a slashdot editor gets voted up, but posts about this idiot not figuring out a parking brake get voted down.
Stay classy slashdot.
Have gnu, will travel.
We should celebrate his life and work, and take the most important reminders we can from his unnecessary death at only 27 years old. It is fitting, and not only because learning and growing and facing the evils of life with hope were always at the core of Star Trek.
There are three I see: (1) life is short and can be over at any time, (2) we should build every day on the work we leave behind, because see #1, and (3) use your parking break and never get out of your car without verifying that it is holding its own weight while your feet are no longer on the pedals.
"Seize the time, Meribor. Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again." -- Picard, The Inner Light
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Yes it is a bit dark as humour goes but you have to wonder as it was the first thing that popped into me head when I read how he got killed.
I'm sorry for your loss, man.
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Why is he dead and all of the Kardashians still alive?
Do you really think anyone is interested in your inane conversations with yourself you fucking useless piece of shit cunt?
... on his way to rehearsal at 1:10 am Sunday morning (a.k.a. late Saturday night). Not that I didn't like the guy, and it is a sad tragedy, but come on...
Stupid sexy Flanders.
Why post on twitter/facebook/instagram... they are meant for things to be forgotten in 5min. They are "5min of fame tools".
JJ, Zach... y'all are celebrities. Have a freaking press release, press statement or even take out an ad--that's called being formal and professional--something we sure Anton would want as an example in this 5min world... that would be real respect.
Anyone that knows what car model it was and if it has an electronic parking brake?
There have been reports of cases where the electronic parking brake has released itself due to a software bug on some brands. And all it takes is a glitch in the software.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
So they interviewed a neighbor:
"It's surprising.... That a car can hurt you in your own driveway"
Uh. It's a car...a tool, and they are dangerous by fact you need a license to operate one. And for instance, you can get seriously hurt from a horse... or a hammer, a car is no different. Know your context. That neighbor's comment sort of dismisses the context.
Though this is likely a freak accident (likely pinned him from the back--e.g. he didn't see it?), I'm seeing the "lack" of common sense in this world today from these celeb posts. Might as well put a sign-sticker saying "warning, car may roll if brake is not on" (sorry, is it TOO EARLY?).
Of all the people who could have died such a ignoble death, why wasn't it that goddamn hack JJ Abrams or the equally worthless Orci and Kurtzman?
i wish they would stop giving mod-points to morons.
Because of the "Just-world Fallacy".
Something something, nuclear wessles.
I will vote for anyone who can bring Jobs back. I'm talking about the Steve variety, of course.
Yes, making fun of a guy for something that could happen to any of us is worse than having a go at a Slashdot Editor who hasn't even come close to dragging down two decades worth of standards. Dipshit.
Your post was good read until you put race into it.
How many times has skynet gone after Sarah and/or John can failed? Looks like skynet finally figured out a better target.
So there was an 18 hour rehearsal scheduled for Sunday for the next weeks worth of filming isn't a party lifestyle. It's show business.
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Presidents can't bring back Jobs. You can't force companies to come back or stay. You can entice them to come back, but it's ultimately their choice. Walls? That's why Ladders and Shovels were made.
So how do you get out of your car and get behind it enough that it's able to run you down and kill you through gravity alone?
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Especially no President can bring back Steve Jobs, unless the next President is some type of necromancer who can raise the dead.
I don't know. I have never lived or done business anywhere with a steep incline leading to or ending with a security gate. In fact, any place I go to seems to go out of its way to be on level ground. So you'll pardon me for not acting all high and mighty in a situation I haven't actually been tested on.
...sexual congress with a nubile negress.
If only slashdot had some kind of comment rating and filtering system so you could block stupid crap like that from being seen. If it did, I would filter out the -1 ratings.
Wait and see what happens when your army is 20% muslim
Which kind? The majority of Muslims that actually follow the Quran and believe in peace, charity, and tolerance, or the few who follow hadiths and fatwas written centuries and millennia after the original text and use them to kill, buy 12 year old virgins so they can get laid, and drink and take drugs because they are probably going to be dead within the year because of the atrocities they commit and the fact that they declare jsut about everyone in the world (including the first group of Muslims) to be their enemy?
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Sharapova was disqualified, the same about the football team. Fans were beaten up in Marseilles. Russian Olympic team was banned from Rio Olympic games. Now this... Anton Elchin was also from Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm really not understanding what the heck Chrysler is thinking these days. A few weeks ago I rented a car with Hertz and they gave me a Chrysler 200. It has a rotary shifter. Basically it's knob you turn to shift. I hated it. But I will say that it wasn't all that hard to get the car into the right gear. I just didn't like the shifter at all. Turning a knob to shift is weird.
Wait and see what happens when your army is 20% muslim
Colour is so over rated as a divisionary point these days
Interestingly, people used to worry about the Catholics, or Papists as they were called, like they do today's Muslims. Seems, like the military survived that, too. Face it, bigotry is just a statement about how close minded and self centered we really are.
that was the saddest part...
They'll install more crescent markers (instead of crosses or stars of David) at Arlington? Other than that, I can't think of any important differences.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
My internal parser just melted down trying to parse this.
It's the Windows 8 start menu of gear shifters.
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As another poster mentioned -- and which seems like a compelling theory -- it could well be that the real cause of the accident was a very poorly designed shifter.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
LOL. No shit. You would have to be excessively careless to leave your car, engine running, in neutral, without the handbrake on, sitting atop a hill AND be directly in the path between it and a brick mailbox.
I mean it still sucks that a young man died, but people need to stop pretending that it's a common way to die.
The problem with that is you can miss some good posts that get unfairly downmodded.
Most of the best posts I have seen on Slashdot were from ACs. Unfortunately, most of the worst posts are also by ACs.
Is it seriously that fucking difficult to park your vehicle in the garage or driveway where it belongs, and then walk to your mailbox?
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
It is called a parking brake, not an E-brake, not an emergency brake, a parking brake. Before you ever exit your vehicle you apply the parking brake. This idiot got himself killed by failing to use his parking brake.
How many kids die every year when someone leaves them in a hot car to gamble at a casino or run into Walmart? How many dogs have died the same way?
These deaths are almost all preventable by vehicle design. It might take a few hours of coding effort at most. Modern cars all have built-in microphones for handsfree. They could be used to detect an occupant in a parked vehicle and enforce safe limits to temperature, or sound an alarm. Of course, human nature being what it is, the clown-drivers would just use this as an excuse to stay longer in the casino and forget the car is running out of fuel.
Oh, I'm sorry sir, I thought you were referring to me, Mr. Wensleydale.
What, you select "Start" to shut down?
Oh, I'm sorry sir, I thought you were referring to me, Mr. Wensleydale.
What? Now you need a license to operate a horse?
Oh, I'm sorry sir, I thought you were referring to me, Mr. Wensleydale.
...would put this in the Science section of the site.
Try a lobotomy, then reconnect your parser with a MOSFET to regulate the gain.
I can only hope.
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Arise chicken.
I rented the same thing. It freaked me out.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Um, I thought the "Click Start to shut down" thing began with Windows 95?
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
There is a Fight Club joke in here somewhere, but I haven't the heart to find it. Poor man. "'Star Trek' actor Anton Yelchin's SUV was recalled in April over rollaway risk" http://www.latimes.com/local/l...
What the hell?
I'm sure he didn't think it was in neutral, he thought it was in park. Automatic drivers have, for decades now, been taught that there is no "parking brake", only an "emergency brake", and that to park the vehicle, all you have to do is shift the transmission into "park". This has been done by society at large, and by the automakers themselves by making these brakes obscure in many automatic models. Very, very few people actually set their parking brakes in an automatic. I do, but that's because I drove a stick for 20 years, and I know how cars work and that it's not good practice to rely on the transmission to keep the car from rolling. Most people, unlike myself, are not engineers who have done significant auto repair work and studied how they (and their transmissions) work mechanically.
The problem here was Jeep: they designed a shitty, unsafe shifter that's just a lever with a couple of microswitches which select the transmission position (P-R-N-D), rather than having an actual lever position corresponding to the selection. It's very easy for someone (esp. if they're not really used to the vehicle, as is the case with rental-car drivers) to not realize which position the thing is in, and leave it in neutral, and have it roll. It's happened many, many times, so much that the government forced stupid Jeep to issue a recall on these deathtraps and change them to a more traditional shift lever like everyone else uses. Unfortunately, poor Anton didn't get his fixed in time.
Personally, I hope Jeep gets the snot sued out of them, and maybe even a criminal judgment for negligence. They are completely at fault here. When there's countless incidents of people having unsafe situations (vehicle rolling) with some cheap-ass shift lever, it's not driver error, it's a shitty design by the automaker, and should be punished. This is almost as bad as the ignition switch fiasco that GM went through, for which they got off way too easy too.
This just reinforces my resolve against buying any American-branded car ever. They're always cutting corners like this and creating unsafe products in the process.
I believe it was a Jeep, and it was most probably one of those stupid Jeeps that had a shitty shifter design that's just basically a 3-position forward/back lever, where you have to look at a tiny indicator on the dashboard to see which position (P, R, N, D) is selected, rather than looking at the actual shifter position as you do in almost every other automatic-transmission car ever made. There've been a LOT of problems with people accidentally leaving this in the wrong position (like neutral) and having the vehicle roll. It's been so bad that Jeep was forced to do a recall to replace these shitty shifters with a more traditional model.
Fuel shouldn't be a problem: the car should detect the temperature's too high and the occupants are in danger, and automatically open all the windows. As long as the battery is barely working, this will work.
Well, he'll bring back jobs for illegal immigrants which is all he hires anyway.
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Yeah, I ran into this in a recent Chrysler 200 rental as well. And to make matters worse, they mount it up on the dash, just below the similarly-sized rotary volume control for the stereo. Utterly moronic.
Sad outcome.
If he had a Tesla it may not have happened since opening the driver's door at low or zero speed puts the electric parking brake on (and it will stay on after the door is closed unless drive or reverse are selected) and there are some anti collision systems that prevent those sort of low speed impacts too (saved my dog from being run over once). It seems those will also be present on the new affordable model due in a couple of years.
RIP
Jeep was bought out by Fiat, an Italian company, shortly after the bailouts.
I'm pretty sure drivers tests still test parking on an incline (and turning wheels toward curb) and using the emergency brake. It's just rare to use it unless on an incline.
Huh? "Still"? When did they *ever* test those things? Assuming you're in the USA, that is.
I had my driving test way back in 1990. The instructor had me: back out of the parking space at the DMV center (standard perpendicular space), pull out of the parking lot, take a right turn onto a 2-lane street, drive 100 feet or so to the intersection (DMV center was at an intersection), take a right turn, then take an immediate right turn back into the DMV parking lot, then park.
That was over a quarter-century ago. If they ever had rigorous driving tests, it must have been many decades ago.
My last driving test was back in 2002, because I let my license expire due to living abroad for several years. They had me pull forward through a "drive thru" style area where the test instructor got into my car. She had me drive around a block, which had speed bumps. Then she made me pull up next to a curb and back up in a straight line for 20 feet without hitting the curb or moving more than 12 inches away. After that she had me drive to an on ramp, enter the freeway, merge into the next lane over, merge back over to the right lane, exit, get back on the freeway going back, exit where we first got on the freeway and take her back to the DMV.
There was no test for parking on an incline, but it was more involved than what you did in 1990.
Yes, I particularly enjoy all the Canadian towns "welcoming people escaping Trump". So long as you have a 4 year degree, a job offer and six figures of assets. Requirements to emigrate to Canada without marriage being a factor.