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Comment Cave Rescue (Score 3, Informative) 98

"In a 1991 New Mexico cave rescue, it took 170 people four days to save a woman with a broken leg. The rescue team had to lay miles of telephone line in order to stay in touch with the surface." "If they'd had Kendrick's radio, the rescue time may have been cut in half." When we go caving, especially a new one, or a rescue, Who wastes time laying phone wire? Teams are two, each with a different colour string with a wire core for added strength. This way we can follow different pipes simultaneously if its a complex cave. If two can get them out we do. Otherwise one stays one goes back. With all the gear we have who wants to be carrying all this stuff. If it can be made smaller the better. I guess my point is more about the Mexico rescue thing. Cool Idea kid!

Comment Re:The government *does* have the right !! (Score 1) 246

Sorry, I don't think that's quite right. If you're a US citizen and you break a US law outside the country, I think the government can still go after you.

You don't even need to be a US citizen, and your actions need not be illegal in your homeland; the US can demand your extradition and try you in US criminal court for things that are legal in your homeland but illegal in the US. I forget the guys name, but they are currently doing this to a Canadian politician who also happens to sell weed legally in British Columbia.

Not quite right. He sold pot seeds to us citizens. Shipping the seeds into the US in the mail. Seeds here BC are not so much LEGAL as ignored. I agree that he should not have been prosecuted by the US, he is in Canada, the ones who broke the "law" were the importers. But then again it is technically illegal here too.

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