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Comment Re:Hi speed chase, hum? (Score 1) 443

You make it sound like once someone starts driving, there is no way to protect innocents. I don't know if you're incredibly unimaginative or a deliberate asshole. Many departments don't give chase for certain offenses. For instance, private property theft of already-insured property is not worth violence over.

So, jackass. Tell me what you want the police to do when they see a stolen car drive past? Check its insurance status, or try to pull the guy over?

Protecting private property shouldn't involve the deaths of anyone other than the criminal. Especially if it's already insured.

Again, your statements are in line with executing the criminal when they start endangering others, not "chasing" them.

Comment Re:Hi speed chase, hum? (Score 1) 443

If the police try to pull someone over, there's a non-zero chance they'll run, and keep running long after the police stop giving chase. So the *only* way to protect the innocents is to kill the driver if he fails to stop. So, do you want to protect the innocents? Then why do you allow the runners to run until they kill, even if they are not being chased?

Comment Re:Hi speed chase, hum? (Score 1) 443

So your argument is that police should shoot to kill if someone fails to yield. That's the best solution to these. The case here was someone who was not being pursued was still afraid of being caught, so they endangered others, until they crashed. "safer" is to shoot the car/driver until it stops. Is that really what you are advocating? Because it's either that, or abolishing all traffic stops.

Comment Re:Flip, flopping.... (Score 1) 147

Actually, one of the essential features of our legal system is just that ability to flip-flop. I recall one murder case where the defense announced that it'd be using three arguments on behalf of the accused:
[didn't do it, self defense, insane]

I had heard that the insane defense is a plea. You must declare it before the trial started, and if you declare "not guilty" you may not change that to "not guilty, by reason of insanity". But maybe that's jurisdictional.

Either way, Aereo isn't changing a legal argument. It was found in court to be "rebroadcasting" like a cable company, so they are simply agreeing with the finding. They didn't change their definition, the broadcasters did by suing them.

Comment Re:So what happens... (Score 1) 162

The best plan for taking down the USA is to bomb the lines in 5 major airports at the same time. Denver is one of the largest lines I've ever been in. Kill dozens, injure hundreds.

After that, they'll move the scan further away from the old lines. About a week later, bomb them there, 5 more different large airports. Probably at the check-in counters.

Then, 3 more days after the last, go back to the original 5 airports, and car-bomb the line of cars stopping to drop-off/pick-up.

Air traffic would stop. For weeks at least, maybe months. The economy would collapse.

Comment Re:Chen? Sounds Chinese (Score 1) 178

What close ties and treaties do they have with the USA? None. Oh, there's your failure. Taiwan was founded by anti-comunistic capitalists. The US backed them, but unlike the White Army, the US didn't serve them up to be killed after false promised of help, but intervened in a civil war to create a new country.

The equivalent is if the English had backed the South, and the US Civil War ended with Louisiana being the Confederacy, under the protectorate of the English. Louisiana isn't going to win an "invasion" of the USA, but it's not worth a second Revolutionary War to finish them off, so you wall them off, and mostly ignore them, while keeping the "claim" on the territory. Though the LA governemnt is formed mostly of former US Senators and Representatives from around the country, so they "claim" to be the head of the government, but can't (and don't) do anything about it.

The Ukraine is like Somalia or Yugoslavia. We don't know. We don't care. We didn't start it, and we will try to not get involved, and when we do, we'll accuse the president of treason for defending non-Americans.

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