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  • #691
    Re: Headline News Thread

    Originally posted by The Sicatoka View Post
    80 in a 30.
    Not sure what to say now.
    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...mit-of-30-mph/
    So, negligence or mass murder?

    Positive Train Control was not installed yet or active.

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/us/amt...ton/index.html

    Grounds for a major lawsuit. IMO.
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    • #692
      Re: Headline News Thread

      Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
      So, negligence or mass murder?

      Positive Train Control was not installed yet or active.

      http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/us/amt...ton/index.html

      Grounds for a major lawsuit. IMO.
      why the **** do we still need humans to operate a train in 2017? This could all be computer controlled. If you can have an autonomous vehicle on a road, you sure as hell could do it on a track.

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      • #693
        Re: Headline News Thread

        One thing to keep in mind is that the problem isn’t completely with Amtrak. The rails are owned by freight rail companies. The government has also continuously pushed out the deadlines for PTC for these companies time and time again. Amtrak obviously doesn’t have the capital to build these systems.

        So I still point the blame firmly at the government and the freight companies.
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        • #694
          Re: Headline News Thread

          Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
          One thing to keep in mind is that the problem isn’t completely with Amtrak. The rails are owned by freight rail companies. The government has also continuously pushed out the deadlines for PTC for these companies time and time again. Amtrak obviously doesn’t have the capital to build these systems.

          So I still point the blame firmly at the government and the freight companies.
          Just another reason why this country is dying.
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          • #695
            Re: Headline News Thread

            Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
            Big news story in Politico: https://www.politico.eu/article/obam...-off-the-hook/

            Obama administration overrides a DEA investigation of $1 billion (yes, billion) drug ring run by Hezbollah in order to appease Iran.
            Of course - a Democrat did that, therefore it's "appeasement". If a Republican had done it, you'd be calling it "negotiations" or "a tough diplomatic choice".

            Nice try, Mr. BSABSVR.

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            • #696
              Re: Headline News Thread

              Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
              Of course - a Democrat did that, therefore it's "appeasement".
              Politico ran the story, aren't they generally left-leaning?
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              • #697
                Re: Headline News Thread

                Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                Of course - a Democrat did that, therefore it's "appeasement". If a Republican had done it, you'd be calling it "negotiations" or "a tough diplomatic choice".

                Nice try, Mr. BSABSVR.
                And if Trump had done it there'd be calls for impeachment.
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                • #698
                  Re: Headline News Thread

                  X Files, for real.

                  WASHINGTON — In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.

                  Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.

                  For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze.

                  The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties.

                  The shadowy program — parts of it remain classified — began in 2007, and initially it was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who was the Senate majority leader at the time and who has long had an interest in space phenomena. Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid’s, Robert Bigelow, who is currently working with NASA to produce expandable craft for humans to use in space.
                  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/u...arry-reid.html
                  A bad cause requires many words.

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                  • #699
                    Re: Headline News Thread

                    Originally posted by SonofSouthie View Post
                    X Files, for real.
                    Unfortunately it looks like an ordinary grift, not anything interesting.
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                    • #700
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                      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                      Unfortunately it looks like an ordinary grift, not anything interesting.
                      Kep, always looking to excel, was hoping for extraordinary grift.
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                      • #701
                        Re: Headline News Thread

                        Originally posted by The Sicatoka View Post
                        Kep, always looking to excel, was hoping for extraordinary grift.
                        Man has climbed Mount Everest. Gone to the bottom of the ocean. He has fired rockets at the Moon. Split the atom. Achieved miracles in every field of human endeavour... except crime!
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                        • #702
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                          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                          Man has climbed Mount Everest. Gone to the bottom of the ocean. He has fired rockets at the Moon. Split the atom. Achieved miracles in every field of human endeavour... except crime!
                          I must be dreaming.
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                          • #703
                            Re: Headline News Thread

                            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                            Man has climbed Mount Everest. Gone to the bottom of the ocean. He has fired rockets at the Moon. Split the atom. Achieved miracles in every field of human endeavour... except crime!
                            They're voting on that next week. Merry Christmas.

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                            • #704
                              Re: Headline News Thread

                              https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/u...imes&smtyp=cur

                              So, your job is engineer of a train. You go 80 in a 30. Why? That's the next question. Especially given this was the first time the new train, route, tracks were used and had such high scrutiny.
                              Last edited by ScoobyDoo; 12-19-2017, 10:52 AM.
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                              • #705
                                Re: Headline News Thread

                                Originally posted by CLS View Post
                                They're voting on that next week. Merry Christmas.
                                Tonight, in fact.
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