Well it is an electric train... I did mean to put the info into the description, but only put it in the tags.

The train is a Siemens Taurus, ES 64 U2. According to Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia, it has a top speed of 230 km/h, although there is a really similar model which proved itself quite a bit faster at 357 km/h in testing prior to delivery. It also says it has a quill drive, but I'm not really sure what that means or why it would reduce track forces.

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I don't know. I'm confused at what happened here. Was he in a valet zone?

When he goes to get in his car he looks right at the cop says something. The cop never looks up but seems to say something. He then gets in his car and turns it on. Cop ignores engine sound, cop ignores moving car.

Guy is an idiot for not just taking the ticket. Cop is an idiot for letting his foot get runover. No ticket you can issue is worth getting your foot runover.

There are tools who drive Ferraris and tools who have a beat up Ford Taurus etc...

All that said traffic cops are jerks out on a mission to drum up revenue. I've rarely been the victim (crazy vigilant about it) but see all kinds of people get tickets in Chicago (or towed) that are VERY bad calls by the cops.

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>> ^spoco2:

Wow, Ford sent out their best to handle Conan, she did really well.
And he was piss funny also.
Doesn't make me want to buy a Taurus though.
It made me want Susie. ~

Wow, Ford sent out their best to handle Conan, she did really well.

And he was piss funny also.

Doesn't make me want to buy a Taurus though.

>> ^Yogi:

I miss him sooo much.


TBS!

Good skit. I wonder if Ford liked this.

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Cars were hideous overall until the 90s. In the late 80s, when Robocop came out using repainted Ford Tauruses to stand in for the SUX 9000, I noticed that mainstream cars were finally starting to get some attractive lines again. But compare a 90s Ford Taurus to the mainstream Ford offerings of the 50s and 60s, and you can see just how fucking ugly the design trends had made things by 1980.

I used to look at vans, minivans, station wagons, K-cars, town cars, Cadillacs, etc. in the 80s as a little kid and wonder why the hell everything was made so ugly.

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>> ^mxxcon:
this car looks way too aggressive and intimidating. we wouldn't want our police departments to turn into Detroit PD from Robocop.


They were Ford Taurus's in Robocop, so I don't think there is any danger of that.

The difference is that if you take out insurance against your stock dropping in value, your insurer only has to pay you (not every investor in that company) because only you are paying out the premiums to the insurance company. If the company chooses to insure several people who are invested in the same company, that's a risk they take, and it's calculated.

The analogy with all Mustang drivers doesn't hold because there's no foreseeable circumstance under which all Mustang drivers would suddenly crash at the same time. A better analogy would be if all the passengers in one airplane took out life insurance from a small insurance company, and the ratings agency was watching as that airplane slowly ran out of fuel over the ocean.

>> ^flechette:
I'm not a banker, or really excellent with money, but insuring stocks and bonds, even to other bankers, seems like a downright stupid idea, even before this great explanation. I understand how you can compare a car/driver insurance policy to a stock/business insurance policy, but there's one HUGE difference. When a driver has a wreck, it's a small amount of those cars that were involved. When a business fails (and it's stock) EVERYONE WHO HAD THAT STOCK crashes! It'd be like saying everyone who was driving a Ford Taurus had a wreck all at one time today! How in the world do you expect to cover that!?

I'm not a banker, or really excellent with money, but insuring stocks and bonds, even to other bankers, seems like a downright stupid idea, even before this great explanation. I understand how you can compare a car/driver insurance policy to a stock/business insurance policy, but there's one HUGE difference. When a driver has a wreck, it's a small amount of those cars that were involved. When a business fails (and it's stock) EVERYONE WHO HAD THAT STOCK crashes! It'd be like saying everyone who was driving a Ford Taurus had a wreck all at one time today! How in the world do you expect to cover that!?

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