... they could find some adventurous guy to go on an epic journey to recover the lost hard drive?

IIRC the accident statistics on Tesla and Google auto-driving vehicles show that they're safer than an average newly minted 16 year-old driver, and we've (almost) all been that person at one time.

Ad when has any member of this Sadministration bothered to comply with the Constitution, the law, or an executive order? They do whatever they feel will please the Orangutan in Chief so that he can direct some of the graft their way.

Their airfoil design was what got the aviation industry under way, no one else had worked out an actual functional design yet. Otto Lelienthal for example was killed when his glider stalled because of poor airfoil configuration. IIRC they also worked out the mechanics of a wind tunnel trying to figure out the correct shape.

Pretty much everyone ignored the Wright brothers' patents at the time, if they hadn't the worldwide aviation industry would have have been stunted for decades.

Aircraft just have an obvious beginning that pretty much everyone is aware of, feel free to pick your own example.

Wow, I can't decide. Either you're remarkably ignorant about the Middle East in general and Iranian society in particular, or you're an Usrael troll. Congratulations!

China learned almost a thousand years ago that attempting to conquer and occupy foreign territory against the wishes of its populace was unsustainable, while trade links and mutual interests could last centuries. Unfortunately the US does not have the history to have learned that, nor the ability to learn from other cultures.

The Strait of Hormuz consists entirely of Iranian and Omani coastal waters, no international waters there. They have every bit as much right to decide what happens in the Strait of Hormuz as the US and Canada have to decide what happens in the Strait of Juan de Fuca that enters into Puget Sound.

Americans blatantly "steal" Chinese IP as well, that's how technology progresses. Or do you think that if China wants to build an airplane they should have to invent a whole new airfoil rather than "steal" from the Wright brothers? I personally have come to think that the whole idea of "imaginary property" is more of a drag on our civilization than a benefit. I used to be of the opposite opinion but the more I learned about the history of technology the less value protecting IP seemed to have for society as a whole.

So reading comprehension was never part of your grade school curriculum? Sad.

But none of the US citizen "illegal combatants" (i.e. fighters who don't wear uniforms) were involved with attacks against the Untied States, so does it magically make it legal for a US president to order their death, in another country no less? No, it doesn't. And does it somehow also make it legal to kill everyone in their vicinity? No, it doesn't. And even if they HAD attacked the US, and were on US soil, does that give the president the right to have them killed without due process? No, it doesn't.

If neo-Nazis in Idaho attack an Army Reserve base to steal weapons can the President just order a Predator drone to fire into his car, possibly with his family in it? It doesn't? Why? They are, after all, "illegal combatants" who directly attacked the US.

These killings are murders, nothing less.

when the ordinary rights do not obtain...

So any interaction with the Brownshirts of Fatherland Security?

Maybe not, but Presidiots since Shrub have decided they have the right to KILL you for your activities in other countries, US citizen or not, and will send a drone to fire a million dollar missile to take out you and everyone in your vicinity. No trial or even any evidence necessary.

It's the border, you have no rights until Border Patrol/Customs/La Migra let you have them. My brother's friend had his car completely taken apart in the parking lot of one of the Detroit border crossings under the absurd claim that he might be bringing drugs from Canada(?) into the country. Once they gave up trying to find what wasn't there he was told to put his car back together or they'd ticket him for littering.

Keep in mind that the (in)Justice Department claims that any international port of entry or any navigable waterway which connects to international waters is a "Constitution-free zone" up to 100 miles away when dealing with forces charged with border protection. So 99 miles from Denver airport or the Mississippi River or the Great Lakes you have effectively no rights if you're dealing with Customs, Border Patrol or La Migra, according to the government. This has been policy since Shrub was in office.

So it couldn't be a Fifth Amendment violation if the Constitution doesn't apply.