Do you really think the trial would have been public? The whole thing is about "national security" and releasing classified information and I seriously doubt his ability to turn the trial it into a public forum.

At least Powersauce doesn't post duplicate stories all the time.

Well at least it's not raining there

It's even traditional.

I think that is covered be "living of the land"

That's why you should write the names of your enemies on paper instead of storing them in a database (to many to remember all of them). Also destructing the evidence is easier /thermal, digestion).

That should work pretty well, after all if you'd remove all content that is offensive to someone, we're down to a few technical documentations and even more boring stuff.
The whole world is offensive, learn to deal with it.

We are still talking about the UK, are we?

In my opinion there is nothing wrong in blocking the whole of Sussex.

Well it happened to me a couple of times and it was rather annoying at that time. Not because I saw nude people, but because all the porn drowned out the stuff I was really searching for. The topic in question had a linguistic overlap though: Images from the James Bond movie Golden Eye, the tank driving scenes. In retrospect I have to admit that "bond golden eye pictures" was not a perfect start, but even with lots of additional terms and exclusion rules it was rather difficult to find what I was seeking in that huge steaming pile of nakedness and crap.
I didn't follow the naughty links though, so I don't know if it still counts.

I guess even the media gets bored at one point. Sure talking to people who lost most of their relatives at a wedding because of an intelligence fuckup gives lots of heart shattering footage the first couple of times, but after a while no one really cares for crying bearded guys or wrapped up woman enough to see yet another version of it. */cynical rant*
So who heard that the surviving suspect responded in writing to questions? And who heard about the 80 girls in teachers the Taliban injured with poisonous gas in their school? Or the 22 people killed and 120 injured by car bombs in Irak in the last two weeks, or ...
Whatever it is, if it happens often enough media zones out, because it's not "new(s)" anymore

Wars get boring pretty quickly these days because they are so interchangeable, far away and constant.

three words: no pizza delivery

I think you have forgotten quite a couple of very important factors for "weapon of choice". Especially range and self preservation. A tazer is nice if you want to disable a single person at close range. If there are several armed opponents trying to kill you, it is more or less suicide to try. One shot, limited range and you need to keep the wires connected. If someone points a gun at a police officer or a hostage, they are are free game in my eyes.

Bonus problem: while the concentration needs to be high enough to knock out quickly, it must not be to high either, or people simply stop breathing. I think the last time it was tried (a hostage situation in Moscow in 2002) it ended with almost everybody in the building (including 115 hostages) being dead. I'm not sure if they could have increased the fatality rate if they just blew up the building.