Not really. As big as VW is, it's nowhere near big enough to cause more than a small dent in European economy.
Remember this is the region which had the power to actually do something that even US didn't dare to do - actually fine microsoft for illegal monopolistic actions after finding them guilty.
That said, it's fairly obvious that this is not going to "bankrupt" VW even at it worse. Get a grip. The company is huge and will be able to absorb the costs. The problems are the long term damage to VW brand, long term damage to "made in Germany" brand (big subject of debate right now in Germany) and generally having to take a harder look at how multinationals like VW operate in EU.
Problem with VW, is that it doesn't play by European rules either. No shiny knight BS here. It's going to get nailed for its shenanigans in Europe just as much as it will in US.
Here in Finland, customer protection laws are so strong that they may require VW to actually buy relevant cars back from customers if they cannot provide appropriate compensation.
I'm European, specifically a Finn. I've never had taxi miss a reserved time. Their responsibility if they do is in fact written into the law, and I have a right under customer protection legislation to demand recompense if they clearly accepted the order.
Of course, around here taxi companies are considered part of public transit infrastructure, and are also tasked with things like driving children in sparsely populated rural areas to schools, ferrying elderly and disabled and so on. They're expensive, but you get the quality you pay for.
I suspect the reason why you have these complaints is because there isn't enough regulation on taxi services in your country.
To be fair, if you get your "placebo ~20% effect" from [treatment that does nothing other than convince you that it does something], that's great for health.
I completely agree with her statement that supporting it with public money is completely different from acknowledging that placebo effect can indeed provide help to some people.
That is incorrect. There are several features on the bike that make it much easier to get to high speed even with less musculature driving it. I'm talking about things like thinner wheels and tyres, less air drag causing posture setup, lighter frame, higher quality moving parts and gearing and so on.
Those have a direct impact on your driving speeds. I myself am in decent shape, riding a "normal" steel frame 26" wheelbase mountain bike, I go about 15-20km/h average speed. On my 28" alumimum one with better handles and proper suspension under the saddle and on the front fork, I push 25-30km/h average. The few times I got to try out the road bike with carbon fibre, I could easily go over 35km/h average.
Bike matters. A lot. Steel frame sitting on fat 26" wheels that makes you sit upright means that once you actually manage to get all that mass accelerated to about 20km/h, air friction, rolling friction on wheels and heavy mass of the bike is just going to get nasty if you want to go faster. Carbon fibre road bike means that you have bike that weighs almost nothing, so much better acceleration, and your completely different posture combined with thin, large wheels means that air friction and rolling friction on wheels starts to get noticeable at much faster speeds.
Additionally lower posture means that controlling the bike is much harder, as it's less ergonomic.
If you're sticking to seven, you're missing out on massive privacy invasion, driver installation problems and myriad of other issues. But look on the bright side, it's awesome because it doesn't come with a dedicated anal probe.
So you just drew a comparison between a device that costs above 600EUR to a free piece of software that was semi-automatically pushed on the current massive user base of windows 7/8?
How much alcohol did you have to ingest for that analogy to make any kind of sense?
Those who haven't clued in yet: this is the same engine that was used for "unreleased game turned DX 12 synthetic benchmark" star swarm. All same caveats apply: 1. Unknown engine not available to public with unknown performance. We have no idea how DX11 implementation is made, or why DX12 is so much faster than anywhere else seen so far. 2. Is in pre-alpha, meaning performance is all over the place and a complete black box, it could render faster in DX11 in next build for all we know.
We've been there with mantle already. Specialized tech demos showing massive performance boost from using mantle over DX11. Then release, frostbite et al start supporting it and we see minimal to no performance boost outside really low end CPUs bundled with really high end GPUs.
Show me this kinds of numbers on a known engine that has a polished DX11 implementation like unreal 4 engine, and I'll actually believe you. Until then, all I see is more marketing BS.
It's not actually. If you run fast, your exhaust plume and displaced air generates significant radar signature that can be tracked and targeted. Not to mention air friction on airframe itself making it easily visible by IR seekers.
F-22 is only about as fast as most heavy fighters in modern world. It's main advantage instead is fuel efficiency at reasonable supersonic speed due to its ability to cruise at supersonic speed without afterburners. Which is in part result of work done to reduce atmospheric friction to keep aircraft less visible to IR seekers.
To be fair, F-117 is also a design from the same period as that radar. It just wasn't revealed to have been in existence until much later.
But it does indeed seem that better aircraft nowadays are non-stealth. Think Rafale for example. It achieves same "radar guided missile lock immunity" through built in electronic warfare system specifically designed for that. Rafales were the only non-stealth aircraft over Libya that didn't have dedicated electronic warfare support aircraft with them on every mission.
Not at all. Flat top carriers are needed for remote force projection. Neither France nor UK have any need for this beyond what their current fleets provide. Both nations address their interests through numerous former colonies with friendly ties and ground-based aircraft.
US needs the fleet it has because it's the only worldwide hegemon remaining on the planet. To remain one, it need to be able to constantly project remote force regardless of hostility of the region.
No other nation has such need. Regional hegemons (France, UK, Russia, China) only need to be able to project force from their borders and bases in relevant regions.
It's "not normally used" because it cannot be used. To achieve what was done in the video, aircraft must be effectively empty of fuel other than what will be burned in the "go up, go down" process and have no armaments whatsoever.
To have any kinds of fuel and weapon payload, aircraft has to be used in STOVL mode.
Strange list, with really strange criteria. Typically things like which portions of citizenry is foreign born, or how many non-citizens, or which native language people use is used as a criteria.
I suppose it shows that you can arbitrarily pick criteria to make your list look like whatever the heck you want it to look.
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Hospital emergency rooms go offline during strikes?
How to recognise a dumb shill - he will use an utterly ridiculous hyperbole.
Not really. As big as VW is, it's nowhere near big enough to cause more than a small dent in European economy.
Remember this is the region which had the power to actually do something that even US didn't dare to do - actually fine microsoft for illegal monopolistic actions after finding them guilty.
That said, it's fairly obvious that this is not going to "bankrupt" VW even at it worse. Get a grip. The company is huge and will be able to absorb the costs. The problems are the long term damage to VW brand, long term damage to "made in Germany" brand (big subject of debate right now in Germany) and generally having to take a harder look at how multinationals like VW operate in EU.
Problem with VW, is that it doesn't play by European rules either. No shiny knight BS here. It's going to get nailed for its shenanigans in Europe just as much as it will in US.
Here in Finland, customer protection laws are so strong that they may require VW to actually buy relevant cars back from customers if they cannot provide appropriate compensation.
Most European countries have some sort of a scheme that mandates that employers pay at least a part of employee's healthcare.
That's one of the rules Uber typically doesn't follow.
How dare working people have any rights.
I'm European, specifically a Finn. I've never had taxi miss a reserved time. Their responsibility if they do is in fact written into the law, and I have a right under customer protection legislation to demand recompense if they clearly accepted the order.
Of course, around here taxi companies are considered part of public transit infrastructure, and are also tasked with things like driving children in sparsely populated rural areas to schools, ferrying elderly and disabled and so on. They're expensive, but you get the quality you pay for.
I suspect the reason why you have these complaints is because there isn't enough regulation on taxi services in your country.
Gonna be hard when you have five freedoms of road to drive to nearest grocery to get two freedoms of cola.
To be fair, if you get your "placebo ~20% effect" from [treatment that does nothing other than convince you that it does something], that's great for health.
I completely agree with her statement that supporting it with public money is completely different from acknowledging that placebo effect can indeed provide help to some people.
That would mean google would have to withdraw everywhere except US and some third world countries that don't yet have anti-trust legislation.
Which would basically destroy google, while letting numerous competitors take the void it leaves behind.
Are you suggesting that public can in light of its even worse history with guns?
Different kind of "pushing". In one case, you're looking at uncontrollable, undeniable stuff cooked into the OS.
On other, you have updates that you can either not install, or easily uninstall if you mistakenly installed them.
And folks made many other insane comparisons. None of them however were in this thread.
Perhaps you would do well to just join the other crazies instead of dumping this insanity into actually sane threads?
That is incorrect. There are several features on the bike that make it much easier to get to high speed even with less musculature driving it. I'm talking about things like thinner wheels and tyres, less air drag causing posture setup, lighter frame, higher quality moving parts and gearing and so on.
Those have a direct impact on your driving speeds. I myself am in decent shape, riding a "normal" steel frame 26" wheelbase mountain bike, I go about 15-20km/h average speed. On my 28" alumimum one with better handles and proper suspension under the saddle and on the front fork, I push 25-30km/h average. The few times I got to try out the road bike with carbon fibre, I could easily go over 35km/h average.
Bike matters. A lot. Steel frame sitting on fat 26" wheels that makes you sit upright means that once you actually manage to get all that mass accelerated to about 20km/h, air friction, rolling friction on wheels and heavy mass of the bike is just going to get nasty if you want to go faster. Carbon fibre road bike means that you have bike that weighs almost nothing, so much better acceleration, and your completely different posture combined with thin, large wheels means that air friction and rolling friction on wheels starts to get noticeable at much faster speeds.
Additionally lower posture means that controlling the bike is much harder, as it's less ergonomic.
If you're sticking to seven, you're missing out on massive privacy invasion, driver installation problems and myriad of other issues. But look on the bright side, it's awesome because it doesn't come with a dedicated anal probe.
So you just drew a comparison between a device that costs above 600EUR to a free piece of software that was semi-automatically pushed on the current massive user base of windows 7/8?
How much alcohol did you have to ingest for that analogy to make any kind of sense?
Who are not as weak or as pro-"sponsor state". Example: Turkey that didn't let US use it's bases for strike in IS until very recently.
Problem is that alternatives are actually far more costly. You'd need a huge amount of beachhead bases instead, many of them in hostile territory.
Those who haven't clued in yet: this is the same engine that was used for "unreleased game turned DX 12 synthetic benchmark" star swarm. All same caveats apply:
1. Unknown engine not available to public with unknown performance. We have no idea how DX11 implementation is made, or why DX12 is so much faster than anywhere else seen so far.
2. Is in pre-alpha, meaning performance is all over the place and a complete black box, it could render faster in DX11 in next build for all we know.
We've been there with mantle already. Specialized tech demos showing massive performance boost from using mantle over DX11. Then release, frostbite et al start supporting it and we see minimal to no performance boost outside really low end CPUs bundled with really high end GPUs.
Show me this kinds of numbers on a known engine that has a polished DX11 implementation like unreal 4 engine, and I'll actually believe you. Until then, all I see is more marketing BS.
It's not actually. If you run fast, your exhaust plume and displaced air generates significant radar signature that can be tracked and targeted. Not to mention air friction on airframe itself making it easily visible by IR seekers.
F-22 is only about as fast as most heavy fighters in modern world. It's main advantage instead is fuel efficiency at reasonable supersonic speed due to its ability to cruise at supersonic speed without afterburners. Which is in part result of work done to reduce atmospheric friction to keep aircraft less visible to IR seekers.
To be fair, F-117 is also a design from the same period as that radar. It just wasn't revealed to have been in existence until much later.
But it does indeed seem that better aircraft nowadays are non-stealth. Think Rafale for example. It achieves same "radar guided missile lock immunity" through built in electronic warfare system specifically designed for that. Rafales were the only non-stealth aircraft over Libya that didn't have dedicated electronic warfare support aircraft with them on every mission.
Not at all. Flat top carriers are needed for remote force projection. Neither France nor UK have any need for this beyond what their current fleets provide. Both nations address their interests through numerous former colonies with friendly ties and ground-based aircraft.
US needs the fleet it has because it's the only worldwide hegemon remaining on the planet. To remain one, it need to be able to constantly project remote force regardless of hostility of the region.
No other nation has such need. Regional hegemons (France, UK, Russia, China) only need to be able to project force from their borders and bases in relevant regions.
It's "not normally used" because it cannot be used. To achieve what was done in the video, aircraft must be effectively empty of fuel other than what will be burned in the "go up, go down" process and have no armaments whatsoever.
To have any kinds of fuel and weapon payload, aircraft has to be used in STOVL mode.
Severe cultural colonialism in play here. You are assuming the Anglo style "just use punishment as motivator" being acceptable.
Does not work like that here. Prevention is commonly used instead.
Strange list, with really strange criteria. Typically things like which portions of citizenry is foreign born, or how many non-citizens, or which native language people use is used as a criteria.
I suppose it shows that you can arbitrarily pick criteria to make your list look like whatever the heck you want it to look.
Us Finns. You may want to read the article being discussed and clue in.
About 10x based on real numbers. We have about 2-3% foreigners, they have about 20% or more. At least it was last time I bothered to look numbers up.