I’ll pretend you didn’t make the second comment. What do you think happened?

If they hit her, the news story would have mentioned it, since they like to revel in those sort of details when dealing with menaces such as street racing. And aside from mechanical failure there’s no way that you can hit the car in front of you unless you

Not meaning to speak ill of the dead or anything, but I’m unsure of quite how to blame the “street racers” are here. Presumably she didn’t crash head first into a street racer, so she must have hit another vehicle since most of the damage is away from the crash barrier. Sadly, driving head first into a vehicle that…

Well done Rick! You’re now just as moderate as the Islamic Republic of Iran.

NFS: PU is what’s up. Porsche licensed their brand to EA for video games for ever for some magic beans or something when they made that game. So every game that’s had Porsches since has only done it after greasing EA’s palms.

That was the big thing about TIE fighter for me - not so much the fighting but the political intrigue, especially in the expanded game.

IIRC it’s two W8s stuck together. But since Bentley make a related W12, presumably the architecture scales quite nicely.

It really does seem like the most anti-democratic system in the world, but the thing to remember is that if there was any kind of popular call for a republic, it would happen in reasonably short order - the Queen rules by the consent of her subjects.

Yup. It’s amazing how much can be hidden behind DA.

Support for a republic here in the UK stands somewhere around 15%. the majority of people who think it’s a good idea can’t be arsed to campaign on it, so when there’s a protest it looks like this:

Ah, but historians would probably say that Britain’s true glory days occurred in the 19th century, after US independence, with the period known as Pax Britannica.

It’s not especially common for the head of state to have as much power as the US president does, and as it turns out (which was a bit of a surprise for me) the president is not directly elected in many countries. Germany, for example, has a president. It’s not Frau Merkel though as she’s the chancellor (equivalent to…

Don’t forget “providing a welfare safety net”.

You see, this was one of the reasons why we had a war. You may not like the concept of a Queen but it has worked out very well for us, all things considered.

True enough. It’s a massive organisation, and I’m amazed that he’s been able to do as much as he has so quickly.

Our Queen is very deeply involved with running the country. She may not have any hard power (although that’s something relatively common with heads of state) but as a source of wisdom and knowledge of international affairs for our government she is unmatched. Don’t forget she has now been running the country for 63…

No, the Queen is our head of state. We don’t elect our Prime Minister directly; he’s the MP (roughly equivalent to a Congressman) for Witney in Oxfordshire. The largest party in the House of Commons takes a vote (usually of all of their party members, not just the MPs) and that decides who the Prime Minister will be.

You want Tony Blair as Queen, don’t you?

Thing is, we’d still need a head of state. The one we have at the moment is more or less free once everything is accounted for - and that’s before we take elections into account. Also she looks quite good on the stamps, so there’s that.

My guess is that they’re looking to buy an existing team, but use their own engine. That seems to fit fairly well with what they’ve done so far.