Do you trust the federal government?

Do you trust the federal government?

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 4.3%

  • No

    Votes: 112 95.7%
  • Total voters
    117
#279
#279
Defective Firestone tires on Ford Explorers took the lives of at least 271 people and seriously injured many more before the companies issued the largest tire recall in history. Internal company documents would later show that the two corporations had known of the deadly tire separation and associated rollover problems for years.
 
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luthervol said:
I assume that is a joke.

When and where has that ever been the case?
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Many developers pay or install things like turning lanes, widen roads, add lanes, etc when new developments are approved here in middle Tennessee. The mayor's and boards are requiring it of them many times in order for them to get their development approved. Now, they do pass that cost on to the homebuyers in said developments, but it is happening quite frequently here in the mid state.
 
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#284
Between 1970 and 1979 the Ford Motor Company manufactured automobiles with a defective automatic transmission design. This defect produced an "illusory park" position, giving the driver the impression that the car was secured when in fact it was not. Vibration or slamming of a car door could cause the car’s transmission to slip out of the “park” position and into reverse gear. About 90 injuries and deaths were reported as a result of this defect. A “smoking gun” interoffice memo discovered during litigation established that Ford engineers had been aware of the “illusory park” problem since 1971 but had taken no action to correct it.
 
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#285
VOLS INC. said:
You are either the guy that checks emails once a month. Or the most popular poster on VN. In either case, I’m kinda jelly!
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Racist-Joe is the most popular, especially for a UGA fan.

@joevol33

Eta: another reply from notification! Look at me errybody.
 
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#286
General Motors knew for several decades that the placement of the fuel tank in the Chevy Malibu created an unreasonable risk of exploding in the event of a rear collision. An internal GM memo obtained during litigation over injuries sustained from the defective design showed that the company estimated that deaths resulting from post-collision fuel-tank fires cost General Motors $2.40 per car. This calculation was based on an estimate that each life “has a value of $200,000.”
 
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Arguably the most infamous example of “they knew and failed to,” Ford Motor Company was well aware that its Pinto was a potential death trap, but chose not to fix the problems. Ford knew from crash tests that the Pinto’s design rendered it liable to explode in rear-end collisions at speeds as low as 20 miles per hour. An internal memo from 1973, just two years after the Pinto’s launch, estimated that fixing the problem would cost just $11 per car, but that it would be cheaper to let people die. The same memo estimated the eventual death total at 180, with another 180 suffering serious burn injuries. Ford did not recall the 1.5 million Pintos for another five years. -
 
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Perhaps no product in history is a better example of corporations knowing that they were marketing deadly products and covering up the evidence for profit. By the 1930s, asbestos manufacturers were aware that their workers were dying at alarming rates. Yet they covered up the dangers for more than half a century. Between 1979 and 2001 approximately 230,000 people died from asbestosrelated causes
 
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#291
clarksvol00 said:
I'm not your secretary. If you can't figure our what you've posted, that's you're problem.
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This has been really illuminating. Thank you for being such a helpful poster. I've offered to accommodate you but I'm not searching all the way back to this morning...especially when you know the post you're crying over.

Happy to be on your ignore list and VN may be a happier experience for you that way, too.

Best wishes.
 
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#292
McDad said:
This has been really illuminating. Thank you for being such a helpful poster. I've offered to accommodate you but I'm not searching all the way back to this morning...especially when you know the post you're crying over.

Happy to be on your ignore list and VN may be a happier experience for you that way, too.

Best wishes.
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I don't ignore other posters. I don't have anyone on ignore so you shouldn't flatter yourself. I'm sorry if you made comments you don't want to back up.
 
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#293
luthervol said:
Perhaps no product in history is a better example of corporations knowing that they were marketing deadly products and covering up the evidence for profit. By the 1930s, asbestos manufacturers were aware that their workers were dying at alarming rates. Yet they covered up the dangers for more than half a century. Between 1979 and 2001 approximately 230,000 people died from asbestosrelated causes
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Now do Zyklon b, Kulaks hoarding wheat in Ukraine, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, etc and we can compare deaths.
 
#295
#295
clarksvol00 said:
I don't ignore other posters. I don't have anyone on ignore so you shouldn't flatter yourself. I'm sorry if you made comments you don't want to back up.
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I don't have anything to add to your convo.

But it's REALLY important you know you've been seen. So,

👍
 
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#297
McDad said:
The conversation is the weirdest I think I've ever had on VN.

It felt like when McRib says she's "fine" but won't shed light on what made her "fine".
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I was curious so I went back and found your post.
It took two minutes.
 
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#298
McDad said:
I don't have anything to add to your convo.

But it's REALLY important you know you've been seen. So,

👍
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I'm really curious as to why you feel the need to comment about a post of mine, but seem upset that I followed up on your response.
 
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#299
luthervol said:
I was curious so I went back and found your post.
It took two minutes.
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I think I found it too. But he won't answer if there was one earlier. Posted the one I found.

I feel like I ruffled his feathers so I don't wanna assume and do the wrong thing.
 
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