Patrick Elliott wrote:
> "Cops have no obligation to timely defense of people in their own homes.", or some
similar idiocy. 

Unfortunately, when you actually look at the actual reality of things, this 
makes perfect sense.  Most people who get outraged over things like this (or 
who propose, for example, a cap on incomes or similar nonsense) don't stop 
and think that the rule has to apply to cases other than the one they're 
specifically considering at the moment.

Like Joel Spolsky bitching about the power menu 
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html and ignoring the fact 
that not everyone is running a laptop with a lid that can be closed, or who 
might get on a plane and need to actually turn it off all the way, or might 
be connected to a computer in a different country and need to reboot it 
without turning it off, or ....

(That, incidentally, was the post that taught me Mr Spolsky is a dipshit in 
many ways.)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
  "How did he die?"   "He got shot in the hand."
     "That was fatal?"
          "He was holding a live grenade at the time."

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