Uber CEO Calls Saudi Murder of Khashoggi 'a Mistake', Scrambles To Backtrack (axios.com) 49
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told "Axios on HBO" that the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was "a mistake" by the Saudi government, and then he compared it to Uber's self driving accident in which a woman died. From a report: An hour later, Khosrowshahi called Axios to express regret for the language he used. The next day he sent the following statement: "I said something in the moment that I do not believe. When it comes to Jamal Khashoggi, his murder was reprehensible and should not be forgotten or excused."
This is unacceptable (Score:2)
We need to punish him. Cancel Uber.
Punish who? (Score:1)
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No, I just want to get rid of Uber.
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the low guy does the time for the self driving dea (Score:2)
the low guy does the time for the self driving death.
The safety driver may face some time for it but not any of coders or engineers who setup the car?
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the low guy does the time for the self driving death.
Nobody is "doing time" for what was clearly an accident.
If we are going to start putting people in prison for incompetence, we are going to need a lot more prisons.
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they are trying to pin the death on the Safety driver for looking at an screen even when part of the job is monitoring systems.
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they are trying to pin the death on the Safety driver for looking at a screen even when part of the job is monitoring systems.
There was plenty of incompetence at multiple levels, including the safety driver (who was fiddling with her cellphone, not "monitoring systems"). None of it rises to the level of criminal behavior.
Prisons are for dangerous people, not stupid people.
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Re: This is unacceptable (Score:2)
Cancel Uber
That's a bit much; how about just shooting him and giving raises to the drivers?
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That's a bit much; how about just shooting him and giving raises to the drivers?
On the other hand I don't think that goes quite far enough. What if we torture him to death, then dismember the body and dump into into drums of acid?
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It is similar to Tallyrand's quote about the execution of Louis Antoine: "It was worse than a crime. It was a mistake."
Hell yeah ! (Score:1)
I will go sharpen my guillotine mes enfants!
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Slashdot would be a lonely place.
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With the CEO making comments like this, Uber doesn't deserve to exist. I just canceled my Uber account completely and will use Lyft from now on. It's better anyway.
Wow. Good luck with maintaining perfection. Sure hope you don't that the human in you get out of control and say a few wrong words ever again.
I mean, we wouldn't want society unfairly dragging you to the electronic guillotine just as you're demanding...
It might have been a mistake (Score:1)
But at best, it was torture gone wrong, and losing sight of that even for a second means the bad guys win.
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Even if we don't lose sight of that, the bad guys are still winning.
Re: It might have been a mistake (Score:3, Insightful)
it was torture gone wrong,
An example of torture "done wrong" would be coffee and a breakfast burrito, followed by a blowjob.
Whatever was meant to happen to Khassoggi, the Sauds both sent a message and got away with it (which certainly didn't hurt the message any).
Maybe you need a cup of fucking coffee.
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It's just the liquor talking. Mr. Lahey isn't 10/10 drunk yet.
Re:It might have been a mistake (Score:5, Insightful)
But at best, it was torture gone wrong, and losing sight of that even for a second means the bad guys win.
Yeah, right .. torture gone wrong. I always bring a bone saw, assorted suitcases and ear buds for my music whenever I schedule a torture session. But I leave it up to my secretary to ensure travel my arrangements allow for a quick fly in/out schedule, so that I can leave the country before anyone knows the the victim has gone missing.
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Yeah, right .. torture gone wrong. I always bring a bone saw, assorted suitcases and ear buds for my music whenever I schedule a torture session.
Everyone knows a proper torture session isn't complete without a table full of various (and often bloody and/or rusty) tools and implements with which the torturer can at least appear to be picking from. You don't have to necessarily plan or expect to use them, they just help create the required ambiance. You want to make sure your victim gets the full, expected torture experience otherwise you've done them a real disservice.
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Any country that tortures has absolutely no standing to criticize fellow torturers.
Only on technique.
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You got it wrong. Who better than a "jury" of their peers?
Amongst the torturers it's like a chili cook off. The cruelest gets a red ribbon.
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"Gone wrong?" There yes torture, yes, but when you saw someone's head off, I'm pretty sure you're trying to kill him
Re: It might have been a mistake (Score:1)
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Okay, I'll own up, I misremembered that part. But even though it was simply the hand, you have to think that there was no chance they'd let Khashoggi out alive to let the world see that they'd maimed him.
Business opportunity (Score:4, Funny)
Can Uber's firmware be coded to recognize middle--eastern journalists?
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Huh? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re: Huh? (Score:2)
They wanted stupid; they got stupid.
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Well, I'd call both events "Mistakes", and bad ones at that.
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He's actually not so far off (Score:3)
We Make Mistake, They Commit Crimes (Score:2)
Nothing new here. The Iraq war was a mistake too. You're allowed to call it a huge mistake.
The problem with MBS is that he was already very hard to defend and then he attacked someone who was part of the Washington Press Corps. This undercut the narrative that MBS was part of us and led to a confusing situation. For Lockheed et al the situation is clear: as long as MBS pays 80 billion of protection money he belongs to us. Not a minute longer but hey, he's still committed. Trump understands that . Pundits l
In the moment (Score:3)
"I said something in the moment that I do not believe..." Liar. What we say in the moment IS what we believe. What you say the next day is spin. .
Your fully automated self-driving Uber (Score:2)
Spin doctoring is such a lost art these days (Score:1)
Whoops (Score:2)
Backtrackificiation (Score:1)