So a pedestrian in dark clothes, at night, not hearing an electric car, and jaywalking by stepping out from between vehicles means the driver drives like "a moronic asshat."
you do know that electric cars are almost silent, especially at low speeds, right?
Yeah, and they are also invisible, at least at low speeds.Holy fuck, don't they teach looking both ways before crossing the streets where you live? Hint: that's not just for kids.
The admission of the driver was that he wasn't looking where he was going.
The driver says him and his daughter were trying to locate where sirens were coming from "when a pedestrian stepped out in front of [their] Model S in the dark with dark clothes and in the middle of the road."
So you are saying that drivers should just ignore sirens.
I think you hit the nail on the head right there. Even digital cameras still made the shutter snap noise when they came out.
There's some noise coming closer on the street - but since it doesn't sound like a internal combustion motor, I'll just run on the street without looking. It's not like even a bicycle or a skateboarder could kill me.
" In the months before the 1933 election, brownshirts and SS displayed "terror, repression and propaganda [...] across the land",[1]:339 and Nazi organizations "monitored" the vote process. In Prussia 50,000 members of the SS, SA and Stahlhelm were ordered to monitor the votes by acting Interior Minister Hermann Göring, as so-called auxiliary police."
Wrong. The Reichschancelor was never elected but rather appointed by the Reichspresident, and thus Hitler wasn't actually elected. More importantly the RC could be voted out of office by the Rechstag via "motion of no confidence", and Hitler did not have enough support to win that.
The high cost is a myth. A nuclear reactor produces so much energy in its life that the decommissioning costs are only a small fraction of the kWh sold on the market.
If the high decommissioning cost is a myth, why do the German NPP operators ask for billions of Euros for the decommissioning of their plants that ran far longer than originally planned?
But even governments are abandoning Blackberry devices, and since he's just turning Blackberry into an Android maker, he's lost most of what differentiated BB from everyone else.
Well, they've still got their keyboards. It didn't keep them market leader like they hoped, but since pretty much nobody else has them any more, it could keep them afloat.
In the UK, ministers have to be a member of the parliament too
Not true. Several aristocrats (who would be ineligible as MPs due to being members of the HoL) have even served as PM, e.g. Lord Salisbury.
More recently there have been a few appointments of union leaders and prominent people from outside The House.
You are confusing the Parliament with the House of Commons (lower house). The House of Lords (upper house) together with the HoC forms the UK Parliament. And for a non-MP to become a UK minister all you have to do is ask the Queen to make him/her a Peer and such a Member of the HoL (and thus MP).
Cough - "To further ensure a Nazi majority in the vote, Nazi organizations "monitored" the vote process. In Prussia 50,000 members of the SS, SA and Stahlhelm were ordered to monitor the votes as so-called deputy sheriffs or auxiliary police ", Meanwhile all MPs from the third largest party were in jail.
You call that halfway democratic? Heck, even Erdogan and Putin aren't that "halfway" democratic yet.
*sigh* He didn't need to be. In a parliamentary government, the leader of the majority party wields considerable power and influence. The Nazi Party was democratically elected and became the largest party in the Reichstag.
Yeah, and that's why Hitler became Reichschancelor after the mid 1932 elections, where the NSDAP first became the largest party. No, wait, he didn't.
No, in a proportional representativeparliamentary government, the leader of the largest coalition party wields considerable power and influence. Which doesn't have to be the party with the most votes.
"You seem to have omitted a few important details, such as Saddam''s funding and support of terrorism, training terrorists, and providing them refuge in Iraq."
Got any facts on that?
Well, most of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (left-wing Iranian nationalist opposition group) took refuge in Iraq, and were considered a terrorist organisation and specifically mentioned by W. Bush as a reason for a the invasion, until, well, right after Saddam's fall.
I kid, the State Department still considered them terrorists until 2012, however the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command had trained MEK operatives at a secret site in Nevada from 2005 to 2009 (up until President Barack Obama took office).
France is heading into civil war. Add another million or so hate-filled young Mohammads and there will be enough military age Muslims to challenge the population of France for control. Once it kicks off in Paris there will be a rapid influx of fighters from other EU nations and the French will be caught flat footed.
Good news for you: a third of the dead were Muslims, far above the rate in France's population.
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That might be due to the fact that someone DIED in one of those, and people tend to value human life.
Every day about 85 people die in traffic in the US. Who values their lives when no Tesla is around?
So a pedestrian in dark clothes, at night, not hearing an electric car, and jaywalking by stepping out from between vehicles means the driver drives like "a moronic asshat."
you do know that electric cars are almost silent, especially at low speeds, right?
Yeah, and they are also invisible, at least at low speeds.Holy fuck, don't they teach looking both ways before crossing the streets where you live? Hint: that's not just for kids.
Even apes do it . http://blogs.discovermagazine....
The admission of the driver was that he wasn't looking where he was going.
The driver says him and his daughter were trying to locate where sirens were coming from "when a pedestrian stepped out in front of [their] Model S in the dark with dark clothes and in the middle of the road."
So you are saying that drivers should just ignore sirens.
Not hearing an electric car
I think you hit the nail on the head right there. Even digital cameras still made the shutter snap noise when they came out.
There's some noise coming closer on the street - but since it doesn't sound like a internal combustion motor, I'll just run on the street without looking. It's not like even a bicycle or a skateboarder could kill me.
Sure it was. There were 6 candidates running, and Hitler won the largest number of votes. Sure, there were allegations of malfeasance,
Malfeasance like restricting the second and third largest party from campaigning?
And how's that any worse than us having electronic voting machines that we're somehow supposed to trust to give us accurate results?
Well, they don't hurt you before changing your vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
" In the months before the 1933 election, brownshirts and SS displayed "terror, repression and propaganda [...] across the land",[1]:339 and Nazi organizations "monitored" the vote process. In Prussia 50,000 members of the SS, SA and Stahlhelm were ordered to monitor the votes by acting Interior Minister Hermann Göring, as so-called auxiliary police."
Yeah, a truly democratic election that was.
This is blatantly false. Hitler won the 1933 federal election in Germany.
Which wasn't actually a democratic election.
Hitler wasn't actually democratically elected, he took power after elections and never won an election himself.
(mostly) incorrect
http://diebesteallerzeiten.de/blog/2009/02/19/was-hitler-democratically-elected/
Wrong. The Reichschancelor was never elected but rather appointed by the Reichspresident, and thus Hitler wasn't actually elected. More importantly the RC could be voted out of office by the Rechstag via "motion of no confidence", and Hitler did not have enough support to win that.
You don't need "overwhelming support of the population" in a democracy.
No, but you need "overwhelming support of the population" to rule alone and undisputed like he did.
The high cost is a myth. A nuclear reactor produces so much energy in its life that the decommissioning costs are only a small fraction of the kWh sold on the market.
If the high decommissioning cost is a myth, why do the German NPP operators ask for billions of Euros for the decommissioning of their plants that ran far longer than originally planned?
But even governments are abandoning Blackberry devices, and since he's just turning Blackberry into an Android maker, he's lost most of what differentiated BB from everyone else.
Well, they've still got their keyboards. It didn't keep them market leader like they hoped, but since pretty much nobody else has them any more, it could keep them afloat.
Glad their insecure piece of shit platform is nearly dead
It isn't, they just signed a 5 year deal with some US government for crisis communications.
"Crisis communications" is the main activity of Blackberry's CEO these days.
Not true. Several aristocrats (who would be ineligible as MPs due to being members of the HoL) have even served as PM, e.g. Lord Salisbury.
More recently there have been a few appointments of union leaders and prominent people from outside The House.
You are confusing the Parliament with the House of Commons (lower house). The House of Lords (upper house) together with the HoC forms the UK Parliament. And for a non-MP to become a UK minister all you have to do is ask the Queen to make him/her a Peer and such a Member of the HoL (and thus MP).
Well, he did win the last halfway democratic elections in Germany.
Cough - "To further ensure a Nazi majority in the vote, Nazi organizations "monitored" the vote process. In Prussia 50,000 members of the SS, SA and Stahlhelm were ordered to monitor the votes as so-called deputy sheriffs or auxiliary police ", Meanwhile all MPs from the third largest party were in jail.
You call that halfway democratic? Heck, even Erdogan and Putin aren't that "halfway" democratic yet.
*sigh* He didn't need to be. In a parliamentary government, the leader of the majority party wields considerable power and influence. The Nazi Party was democratically elected and became the largest party in the Reichstag.
Yeah, and that's why Hitler became Reichschancelor after the mid 1932 elections, where the NSDAP first became the largest party. No, wait, he didn't.
No, in a proportional representativeparliamentary government, the leader of the largest coalition party wields considerable power and influence. Which doesn't have to be the party with the most votes.
"You seem to have omitted a few important details, such as Saddam''s funding and support of terrorism, training terrorists, and providing them refuge in Iraq."
Got any facts on that?
Well, most of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (left-wing Iranian nationalist opposition group) took refuge in Iraq, and were considered a terrorist organisation and specifically mentioned by W. Bush as a reason for a the invasion, until, well, right after Saddam's fall.
I kid, the State Department still considered them terrorists until 2012, however the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command had trained MEK operatives at a secret site in Nevada from 2005 to 2009 (up until President Barack Obama took office).
You seem to have a selective memory yourself. Al Qaeda started its war against the US under the Bush the First administration.
FTFY. Oh, and its roots were funded with money from the Ford administration.
Destabilization at that time served to annoy the USSR. There no longer is a USSR to annoy,
Well, the US will still happily annoy Russia at any possible occasion.
France is heading into civil war. Add another million or so hate-filled young Mohammads and there will be enough military age Muslims to challenge the population of France for control. Once it kicks off in Paris there will be a rapid influx of fighters from other EU nations and the French will be caught flat footed.
Good news for you: a third of the dead were Muslims, far above the rate in France's population.
The terrorist did your bidding. Your are the IS.
Well, you'll never know, will you?
Well, you could get some gun nuts to reenact it - http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
Actually, the US itself is fairly independent of Saudi oil these days.
The problem is that Europe and China are not.
Bullshit. http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/...
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Vegan.
Jester998 wants to cut off your head if you are a muslim.
So one more country supporting his thesis - the US has been a major supporter of terrorists for decades.
Spotted the whack job pining for Che Guevera to execute some more innocents in the name of revolution!
Spotted the whack job who denies the US supported the people who blew up Cubana Flight 455.