What if the person who gets killed wasn’t a thief, but was a firefighter responding to a fire, a law enforcement officer doing a welfare check, or a power company lineman doing an inspection of the lines in your back yard?

In reality sexual harassment law is way more complicated than that, and winning that type of suit is pretty hard. You have to prove the employer knew about the objectionable behavior and willingly allowed it to continue. Successful suits are rare and are almost always the result of really egregious conduct.

“Clear” and “unambiguous” often don’t go together. When legal language seems overly-complicated it’s often because it’s trying to be extremely precise. Being insufficiantly verbose can really bite you.
Example: A university a friend worked at negotiated a contract with its TAs and their union. The contract had a clause…

My favorite is referring to a video clip as “footage,” because movie film used to be measured in feet.

This also leads to the occasional bizarre situation where someone appears to be suing *themselves*.

A big part of it is the unintended consequences of graduated licensing. Because so many teenagers were getting killed in car accidents, most states eliminated the old system where you could get a full license at age 16 after passing a course. Now there are requirements for spending a certain number of hours under the…

Getting a car for a road test can be a real problem. I actually know someone who doesn’t have a license for that reason — their old license expired, to get it renewed they need a retest, and they have no local family who can loan them a car.

Point is if we don’t keep pushing back we’ll lose our democracy. It was about time the left stopped shying away from conflict.

If the Trumpers stop doing illegal shit the counterprotests will stop too. In the mean time I’m glad to see that for once the left is actually bringing some force and not just showing up to gun fights wielding butter knives. We’re going to lose our democracy if we don’t keep pushing back.

I currently live there and it’s my favorite of any of the places I’ve lived so far. Housing prices are correspondingly high, of course (although maybe not compared to the Vancouver area.)

I’ve no desire to leave, although given the direction the US seems to be moving lately, and the fact that my wife and I are both…

California’s a great place for dirt bikers, too. Lots of OHV trails in the national forests and some pretty sizable dedicated OHV areas. Just make sure you have a good spark arrester.

Yeah, not all of California is LA or San Francisco. Traffic on California’s central coast is relatively light except around a few of the bigger towns, and even then only around rush hour. (Oh, and around Pismo Beach. I can’t explain the Pismo Beach Traffic Vortex.) And there are some lovely roads. The kinds of roads…

CA’s coastal fog is no joke either. I’ve had some really enjoyable drives up the Pacific Coast Highway near Big Sur. I’ve also had some terrifying ones in fog at night.

I remember driving through the Gorge in a VW Cabriolet. It was night, and raining, and incredibly windy. So windy the wind kept pulling the driver’s side window away from the seal and spitting raindrops down my neck!

I’ve driven a lot of great roads, but one that always comes to mind is SR-261 in Washington, from the SR-260 junction to the Snake River. It’s a classic winding-alignment road with miles and miles of flowing curves and not much traffic. I have gone out of my way on trips through eastern WA just to drive that road.

Border Patrol officers might well be on their side. It’s pretty clear the police in Ontario were.

I mean, traffic was stopped, so it’s not like they were risking causing an accident. Any bystanders would have been stopped in the tailback the convoy created.

I suspect the ECMs are different, and if you have limited production capacity you’re going to prioritize using the chips you have to make parts for the most popular and profitable version. I mean, if you have a cheese shortage and can only make so many pizzas, you’re probably going to make them with pepperoni, not…

It’s amazing, I know, but some people can care about more than one thing at a time.

IIRC the 747SP was also briefly considered a candidate for flights operating out of “hot and high” airports like Mexico city, but improvements in engine thrust made it more practical to get full-sized 747s off the ground there.