I was thinking that hitting water at 150mph is gonna have the same end-result as hitting concrete at 100 - you’re dead or squashed. I highly doubt water “compresses” that much to have similar effects as to what you ascribe (150 mph hitting water = 15 mph hitting concrete). I realize that’s overly simplistic but…

The ownership status and knowing the limits of the car is irrelevant. Nobody should consider 150mph to be a safe speed on any public road in the USA.

Hitting water at that speed is likely as damaging as hitting concrete.

I think the odds are better that a dumb young adult was showing off and completely forgot the corner existed until it was too late. Based on my armchair analysis of the trajectory it looks like he tried like hell to make it though.

“I feel like if they owned it, they would know it can’t take a 15mph curve at 150.”

more people than seats + crazy speed is rarely going to end well. a shame.

I don’t mean to sound super callous, but if the driver is who survives and the two deaths are those who shoe-horned in without belts, that person should go away for a long, long time (perhaps for life)

Yeah, this whole situation seems to really boil down to people not understanding the licensing terms of the platforms they’re releasing content on. In fairness, Nexus probably could do a better job making the license more obvious in the creation flow. When you open a public repo on Github, one of the first things it…

That’s the thing though, I can’t see why any major mod creator would _want_ to opt out. Like, right now, it’s not like a content creator can stop another content creator from “depending” on them, other than by deleting their content. And even then, there aren’t clear licensing rules here for mod release. Which means…

Michael Phelps was also banned for supposedly smoking pot and he didn’t even take a test so your assessment that this is race related is reaching, sorry. Change the rules in the future, sure. Pot isn’t a performance enhancing drug. If anything it’ll hamper your performance. But she knew the deal. Opportunity of a…

What indispensable element of a “binding agreement” do you think is missing here?

No one “agreed” not to prosecute Cosby. Read the opinion. Castor repeatedly and expressly disclaims that any agreement was ever made with Cosby whereby Castor would not prosecute Cosby and in exchange Cosby would then testify in Constand’s case (such an agreement would be ridiculous because there wouldn’t be any…

if a DA made a deal with a low level drug offender saying “if you testify in this other case, we won’t prosecute you for your drug case” and then a year later, that DA left and a new one stepped in and said “Well, that deal was with the other DA, not me. I’m going to prosecute you based on the things you testified wit…

It is absolutely the PA Supreme Court’s fault. Castor never agreed not to prosecute Cosby. He released a statement in 2005 that expressly reserved the right to change his mind about prosecution as needed. Moreover, I’m not aware of any rule, anywhere, that says when a prosecutor declines to move forward with a…

Boy, it’s almost like they’re trying to actively discourage women from seeking justice or something.

Nothing in the links says that dogs shouldn’t eat hot dogs, just that too much fatty foods “may” cause stomach upset - which is of course true if anyone consumes lots of fatty foods.  But given that many dog trainers use hot dogs as high value treats, it’s odd to make the blanket statement that dogs should not eat hot…

If we were talking about testifying in a criminal case I might be willing to concede your point, but Cosby was not agreeing to testify to help bring justice to anyone else. This was over testifying a civil case, and the idea that one can escape prosecution by having your case be settled in a civil court where the…

No, it was a benefit to Cosby. If a party pleads the fifth to avoid answering questions in a civil proceeding, their opponent in that civil proceeding would typically be entitled to seek an adverse inference as a result, i.e. that the finder of fact is entitled to assume that the party pleading the fifth is doing so…

It was an unconscionable agreement that should never have been made in the first place.

The DA didn’t lie. It was a different DA. Bruce Castor was the one who made the agreement with Cosby. Kevin Steele, the DA who prosecuted Cosby won his race on the basis of that Bruce Castor’s promise was bullshit.

There is a difference between in world, passive advertising (what was in burnout paradise) and active advertising that interrupts the experience. I hope we can find out what these games are, so we can actively avoid them.