xxovercastxx said:

...has not been alive for a few years now.

newtboy said:

So, not content with the most breathtaking scenery in the world, New Zealand also has some of the most fun to drive roads, and lets people use them like this! I love Targas, and I miss speedvision (which used to show them, but was dropped by Directv).
Damn you guys, I can't take it! I'm gonna have to become a squatter in @ChaosEngine 's back yard for 6 months or so!

oritteropo said:

Thanks for the *quality

In fairness to the race organisers, there was a slow car that he had to pass, and I think there might be safety concerns about having rally cars approaching camper vans with a 170km/h delta v...

chicchorea said:

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ! ! ! ! !

i had already forgotten how awesome the V10's sound versus the turbos from this year...

xxovercastxx said:

"Anita" is spelled wrong in the title.

Fusionaut said:

why you no backup, @siftbot?

longde said:

I thought RFID or GPS tracers would have eliminated the guesswork in finding skiers.

Sagemind said:

Critical Thinking. One thing I try to teach my kids is how to think for themselves. Listen to what people have to tell you. Measure the facts and wonder if they make sense. Confirm facts, and then make up their own decisions.
If you filter certain facts from the thinking process, then your thinking comes out flawed and incomplete. How can kids not form solid thoughts if there are people out there stopping them from learning the basic building blocks of how things work?

But more than any of that it is a genuine fucking embarrassment to me that in the 21st century we still accept any member of our society declaring themselves our natural betters in law, or indeed the rest of us as being "subjects".

Zawash said:

When I get to 250 stars, I'll make a *sadness (or *sorrow) channel, and this video, amongst others, will be in it.

lucky760 said:

My final thought: One mitigating factor with this specific happenstance in lieu of your general point is that this guy very obviously wanted to die and wanted those cops to kill him. He was apparently doing whatever he had to to get the cops to kill him.

Bottom line we can all agree on: it sucks.

lucky760 said:

Side note: I've just realized you're in Australia, and a very salient point worth mentioning is that you're probably thinking about how awful and "uncivilized" we are in America because you're comparing our police to yours, considering how much better your cops would be in a situation like this and how a fellow Australian criminal wouldn't deserve what these cops did.

It's possible you're just comparing our blood-thirsty cops to your more sensible, contemplative cops, but that you're forgetting to compare our blood-thirsty, cold-blooded, murderous cop-killer criminals with your more sensible, reasonable criminals. The cops here do things Australian cops might not do, but it may be because your cops don't have to.

Yes, it might help as it has in places like Australia for us to outlaw guns, however that won't ever happen because it's part of the inextricable bedrock used to found this great nation, so we have to do the best we can with what we have.