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Earned? Accrued maybe, but I don't think earned is the appropriate word.
It was earned in the same sense that any income or salary is earned. It's agreed upon payment exchanged for an agreed upon service. It was just as much a part of his compensation as his base salary.
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It was earned in the same sense that any income or salary is earned. It's agreed upon payment exchanged for an agreed upon service. It was just as much a part of his compensation as his base salary.
The implication is that he did not deliver agreed-upon services.
The board has the option of denying the severance entirely if they think that he did not deliver the requested services.
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Polluting the environment kills people too.
And CO2 kills also people. VW's cars had far lower CO2 emissions than competitors.
On the other hand, the other gases released by diesel-burning automobiles do show direct health consequences, and VW has done the most to propagate diesel vehicles...
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you're way off http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-vw-pollution-footprint... http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-estimate-the-death-to... while pollution will affects almost everyone on earth, the cumulative effect is not that much and pollution is not a major cause for deaths to begin with http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.wrapper.ENVHEALTH3?lang=en...
From your link: > At present, outdoor air pollution kills in excess of 3 million people every year, and automobile exhaust is a significant part of the problem. Are you talking about this bit? > the harmful nitrogen oxides emitted by Volkswagen’s affected diesel vehicles – which the US Environmental Agency claims were 40 times higher than the legal level – could be responsible for as many as 106 deaths in the US betw…
http://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/sections/press-relea...
Some percebtage by car, of which some percentage by diesel cars, of which some are wv, of which some have defeat devices.
Edit: sorry totally misread parent post
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From your link: > At present, outdoor air pollution kills in excess of 3 million people every year, and automobile exhaust is a significant part of the problem. Are you talking about this bit? > the harmful nitrogen oxides emitted by Volkswagen’s affected diesel vehicles – which the US Environmental Agency claims were 40 times higher than the legal level – could be responsible for as many as 106 deaths in the US betw…
600 000 premature deaths and of the diseases caused by air pollution in the WHO European Region in 2010 http://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/sections/press-relea... Some percebtage by car, of which some percentage by diesel cars, of which some are wv, of which some have defeat devices. Edit: sorry totally misread parent post
I didn't claim that.
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Some of them will need new hardware to reduce NOx emissions in real-world driving conditions.
No other car makers get their emissions tested in real-world driving conditions, so that's irrelevant.
http://www.autonews.com/article/20150929/OEM04/150929814/gms... new-diesel-pickups-first-to-get-extra-scrutiny-from-epa-carb
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And CO2 kills also people. VW's cars had far lower CO2 emissions than competitors.
That remains to be seen. CO2 is fairly innocuous, and already makes up a large percent of the volume of air. It's theorized that it leads to climate change (that being said, 8000 years ago Europe was also in an ice age, yet it thawed without mankind's help), but for the present time the amount of deaths that can be directly blamed on CO2 from cars (remember, people and animals create more CO2 than vehicles) is non-ex…
397 ppm, to be exact, or 0.0397%.
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And CO2 kills also people. VW's cars had far lower CO2 emissions than competitors.
That remains to be seen. CO2 is fairly innocuous, and already makes up a large percent of the volume of air. It's theorized that it leads to climate change (that being said, 8000 years ago Europe was also in an ice age, yet it thawed without mankind's help), but for the present time the amount of deaths that can be directly blamed on CO2 from cars (remember, people and animals create more CO2 than vehicles) is non-ex…
Its fairly innocuous at naturally occurring levels, which are not a "large percent" of the air. Nitrogen, Oxygen, and -- if you want to be extremely generous and say that "almost 1%" is "a large percent" -- Argon are the only things that have a remotely plausible case for being a large percent of the atmosphere, and together make up around 99.9%.
Carbon dioxide makes up a large percent of the remaining ~0.1%, but...
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The implication is that he did not deliver agreed-upon services.
It's extremely uncommon to have to pay back compensation when one is fired. The board has the option of denying the severance entirely if they think that he did not deliver the requested services.
That does not imply he did his job properly.
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The implication is that he did not deliver agreed-upon services.
It's extremely uncommon to have to pay back compensation when one is fired. The board has the option of denying the severance entirely if they think that he did not deliver the requested services.
I'd imagine it's extremely uncommon to incur $18B in fines, either.