On a serious note, it's not likely more/better reflective clothing would have helped. It sounds like the driver was deliberately and abruptly deviating from the normal lane to bypass traffic. It was not a decision made with the safety of others in mind.
This was a pretty good example of something similar that happened an year back, and I'm sure there are more examples (I just never bothered to pay attention to them).
To be more accurate, the general brought down himself: McCrystal had developed an extremely inflated sense of self and irreplaceability, and was openly dismissive of civilian oversight (which is kind of worrisome coming from a man who directs weapons). The reporter simply reported how McCrystal was openly acting around him, leading to the administration taking action.
I only say this because people often talk about that as if the reporter had done deep black ops to gain covert information, thus making enemies throughout the establishment, when in reality he simply reported quotes directly fed to him, and in some ways acting on behalf of the establishment.
And more importantly it's painful listening to a bunch of computer programmers spout off about politics and world events. I value 4Chan's analysis of current events more than Hacker News' and that's not even a joke. There are very few things more irritating than a spoiled rotten 20 year old's explanation of how the world works.
Please you guys, stick to talking about javascript. You're ruining this site.
"Gentlement, go back to your machines, this matter is of a higher sphere, and shall not be of your consideration".
Let's find some common denominator. I agree with you that there are 20 year olds on this site. That was about as much as I could find.
Now if you leave out the indirect reference to "spoiled rotten" people frequenting your site, we'd even have more room for agreement, because I do disagree with you on either of them. I know, I might smell a bit rotten if I didn't have time for showers on a 2 week death march, but I'm not showing any necrosis yet. I'm pretty sure the sour taste in my mouth doesn't stem from me being spoiled either, but rather from your chunky oratory.
But on a more serious point, what is spoiled is to expect that this entire site caters to you.
You want javascript? I'm sure there are half a dozen posts on the front page, with another dozen on the second page ("I have to scroll? But I don't want to scroll").
You know what I think is rotten?
Telling other people that politics, things which concern them directly and indirectly, shouldn't be discussed by them. Ironically, there's a reference to the GeStaPo on the article we're discussing. They kinda had a knack for that as well.
First: what does this have to do with technology? Second: damn right Germany shouldn't trust us, because the world doesn't trust Germany and hopefully it never will. It doesn't bother me in the least that we're keeping an eye on them, I'd be nervous if we weren't.
What are the chances of getting a standard battery size in these things? I'd be a shame for stations to need a hundred different batteries for every make and model.
I agree, less money on the power point, and more on the Utah data center[0]...and just for laughs, lets not forget Ryan Fogle[1], the CIA agent captured in russia.
The comment about MS Paint is one of the stupidest, most naive things I have ever seen on HN. Have you every worked for a company or organization outside of SV? Nobody gives a shit what your slides look like in the real world. Sure, ideally slides wouldn't look like crap, but since most "normal" people don't even notice, nobody tries very hard.
Eh, I'll say this much, the design really does scream "GOVERNMENT PRESENTATION" all over it.
Even the issues about the slight differences between WaPo and Guardian variants of the slides are easy to explain with different versions of Microsoft Office (or even using LibreOffice to try to open).
CNET is claiming the Washington Post & Guardian stories were wrong and the whole thing was based off a leaked Powerpoint document. James Clapper said the stories contained numerous inaccuracies but didn't specify. This whole thing is hilarious, especially HN's reaction.
sorry, couldn't resist.