Nissan Motor Company are bunch of assholes:
http://www.digest.com/Big_Story.php
I’m amazed this guy has held out for so long. Corporate Greed at it’s finest.
Yes, it is quite amazing he has managed to survive this long. I don’t know that much about law, but isn’t there some way he could sue for damages from their harassment? Granted, the article only gives this guys point of view, but I think that a pattern of harassment is starting to show now that Nissan Motor has exhausted all avenues on their original claim.
Oh man that’s cool… I can’t wait to see the technologies that can derived from that: lasers, telescopes, photography - all sorts of things - have to waste space (i.e. more mirrors) or processing power to compensate for the reverse effect. The dude has found himself a gold mine (if someone doesn’t try to steal it from him).
This assuming the military hasn’t already done this for one of their weapons (stealth, SDI) and have a classified patent on it.
Imagine how disturbing it would be, though, to look oneself in the mirror, raise the left arm, and one’s laincursed image raises its left arm as well!
That is truly amazing discovery. I wonder if the law could be changed to make an exception for his mirrors on cars in the US.
Knowing the US car industry, and how they HATE to spend money on retooling a factory, they’d probably try to block it for a decade or two. Then when Canada gets 'em, and proves how much better they are, the auto safety commission will be unable to hide the corruption and bribes… then do the right thing by adopting it.
On another note: what would happen if Disney bought the rights to Sailor Moon? Sailor Disney of course. “In the name of Mickey, I punish you. Mouse Healing Power!” 
Hahahahahaha! Excellent!
I don’t know, do most car companies make the actual mirrors that are used, or do they buy a base mirror part that they adjust to the design of each car? Another possibility is that the car companies contract out the making of the actual mirrors. I have no idea.
As for “Sailor Disney”, I must be really behind on the times. There are two that I can’t identify. Then again, I guess it is no surprise since I’ve been having my own little personal boycott of Disney movies for some time, since I can’t stand the way they alter classic literature so that they are always happy and cheerful (e.g. the real Little Mermaid story has a bittersweet ending). Not to mention the whole Kimba and Lion King thing.
Top row (left to right): Sailor Snow White (Snow White; apple stainglass), Sailor Ariel (The Little Mermaid; underwater stainglass), Sailor Jasmine (Aladdin; desert stainglass)
Bottom row (left to right): Sailor Cinderella (Cinderella; midnight stainglass), Sailor Aurora (Sleeping Beauty; rose pattern stainglass), Sailor Belle (Beauty and the Beast; stainglass has a mirror in the center)
It’s missing Sailor Pocahontas and Sailor Mulan… although I suppose the image was made before those two were actually movied.
Ha ha. I was seriously expecting Captain Dynamic to get whacked in the crotch when he told the guy to “touch my awesome button” at the end. Surprising that they didn’t, I mean, “crotch shots are funny” is right up there with “a man dressed as a woman is always funny”. 
Unfortunately though, (on a more serious note) in the US a man dressing in drag isn’t universally considered funny. Instead it is viewed in the minds of some as grounds for beating someone to death.
Oh please— go shove it in a pipe and smoke that attitude, because it isn’t true about the US. Saudi Arabia, Iran, sure. Hell’s it’s required by the religious police. But not in the US.
In the US, a man dressed as a woman is just looked at as boring or weird, and that’s it.
Oh really? Would you like me to start listing a bunch of examples? Let’s start off with this one: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29355157/
In an old career, I was taking the book order of a woman at a store in Colonial Williamsburg. When a surprisingly deep voice came out of her mouth, I looked up to see a man in drag. Turns out there was a convention. He was only the first of many for those three days.
I’d be more impressed if that work on that 1911 model was engraved. Still, it’d be a shame to dirty up something like that by firing it, and that defeats the whole purpose.
Yes I would.
You will get your skinny little ass kicked or killed far less often in the US for cross-dressing then in the UK. Are they stuck up religious phobes?
The US is very tolerant of cross-dressing. It’s just one more weird thing some people do.
Cross dressing and BEING GAY are not the same thing. Straight men crossdress about as often as gay men (some studies say straights cross dress more, some disagree). Now, being gay will get your ass killed— especially if you’ve been carrying on with a closeted gay man and he’s gotten scared you might start talking about the affair— ESPECIALLY after you’ve split up. I can’t tell you how many “gay bashings” I’ve seen or been the target of because of this, as I’ve LOST COUNT when I was teen. And I was only being targetted because they thought, what with me and their ex being so close, that I knew their shared secret— and I’d tell if I wasn’t threatened, damaged, or, frankly, killed. So yeah, I know a very tiny bit about this.
Most gay bashing happens under those conditions, or when an immature crowd gets together and they need a target, an “outsider”, that they can select for a bit of universal therapy in feeling alive and empowered (by of course, de-powering and making something else wish it wasn’t alive— although occasionally they go to far in that aspect and make it NOT ALIVE). Perfectly nice and normal people, particularly teens, will become monsters in a group. This is a well known phenomena. (That crowd hunting a victim, could pick a “gay”. They might just as easily pick the neighborhood slut or the neighborhood frigidaire, and do a gang bang). That’s just how unthinking and monstrous crowds get. In such a crowd, it only takes one scared little closet “ex-boyfriend” to help push such a group into beating up the openly gay one. It even provides cover— cause he’s only accusing you of being gay cause you and your friends kicked his ass. Such is the life of TEENAGERS, where their social face is the ONLY thing that is important to them. A lot of these “gay teen killed” eventually get resolved into that very conditions… Most don’t get covered in any signficant way, because the sensationalism of the act has lost interest. Gay men get killed all the time, just like straight men get killed all the time. The sensational part isn’t if the poor victim is gay or straight— its the age of the subject, and how he could be your brother, teenage son/grandson, or your cousin, or your next door neighbor.
It is true that being gay in the wrong place can get you killed. But wearing Nikes in the wrong place can get you killed. Mouthing off to the wrong person can get you killed. Having a skin tone that is too light or too dark can get you killed. Hell, being straight in the wrong place will get you killed. But the only place wearing a dress will get you killed is that is the same dress that another drunk drag queen is wearing, and you two hate each others guts. Not even in the backwoods of Tennessee or West Virginia will being a cross dresser get you killed— cause they all have an uncle or a cousin or next door neighbor who likes to “occasionally” put on dress and go “play Tootsie” or “Feel pretty”. And yes, I’ve been to the backwoods and hinterlands of Tennessee or West Virginia— and I thank my lucky stars and the powers that be that I do not LIVE THERE— cause they like to go out and bash the local “book readers” in some of those places. Seriously.
Peope are ignorant and hateful beings, everywhere in the world. But the US is tolerant enough to not kill you because you are a guy wearing a dress. When that seems to happen, there’s actually something else that is going on.
This discussion could go in circles for ages, so I’m just leaving it be. I would just like to point out a few things in your post. First, if people are ignorant and hateful beings, and you can be killed over just about anything, doesn’t that mean that a guy can be killed over wearing a dress? Second, if you were to ask an attacker why they attacked a guy wearing a dress, you are almost certainly not going to receive, “Because he was wearing a dress,” as an answer. More than likely you will get something along the lines of, “I thought he was gay,” or, “I thought he was a tranny,” as an answer, if you can get an answer out of them at all now due to hate crime legislation. Lastly, these instances of knowing a relative or acquaintance who likes to put on a dress occasionally or what have you are more than likely instances where the person does this in the privacy of their own home. For the most part, people are more tolerant of things like that being done privately than when people do such things publicly.