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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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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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He is dead, that is the only fact that cannot be manipulated.
"He's Fred, Jim."
"I'm a doctor, not an escalator!"
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
They have medications for your condition.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
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.
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.
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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?
... 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.
Smart Cars might be the dumbest vehicles on the road. You can pay less, get better gas mileage and better reliability and still get a vehicle that is incredibly easy to drive and park without sacrificing the ability to carry passengers or a weeks worth of groceries.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
It's the Windows 8 start menu of gear shifters.
I know necromancy, I have the best spells. I have the best, but there is no better spell than ph'nglui mglw'nafh trump r'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
And even if you don't want to carry more passengers, there are still better choices (Miata)!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
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
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.
Try a lobotomy, then reconnect your parser with a MOSFET to regulate the gain.
without sacrificing the ability to carry passengers
Passenger.
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.
Yup, he drove to his mailbox, put it in park, the parking mechanism failed (in fact his vehicle was one in a recall regarding this exact same fucking thing) and it rolled back and pinned his ass to the mailbox.
This would not have happened had he bothered to put the vehicle in the garage where it belonged and then gone to the mailbox afterwards.
I live close to the area. Going out for some rubbernecking is EASY.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
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.
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.
Actually, some cars already have a related safety feature. Open the drivers door and they automatically shift into park.
A mechanic was complaining about backing a late model BMW onto a lift. He starts to back up and opens the door to stick his head out and line up on the lift pads. BRRRRT! as the parking pawl tries to engage.
Have gnu, will travel.
Obviously these machines are too dangerous in the hands of general public. Private ownership should be banned, just like guns.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”