US 3 people dead, over 280 injured from explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon

well, I think the live subtitlers can edit as they go along, but the whole thing is quite a hurried process, and there are lots of mistakes.....when a new name is news there isn't always time to enter the name into the speech recognition software, so the computer looks for the closest name, I suppose, which is often a celebrity or someone else who has been in the news.
I didn't think Fox News, did subtitling at all....it all costs money......In the UK I think the laws says that certain channels have to do a certain amount of subtitling....I think the BBC has try to subtitle all its programs; Sky only a certain percent....It would cost even more if they had to employ someone to edit the subtitles.
 
It seems really silly though, like letting Autocorrect choose all the words for your text messages.
 
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If you are going to use a boat to escape you might have wanted to choose one on water, not in Watertown...

My thoughts continue to be with the victims of this past week.

Glad he was caught, all my family and friends can now have some sense of normality again.

Thank you law enforcement.
 
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"The US Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed suspected Boston marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in early 2011, following advice from a foreign government that he was “a follower of radical Islam” and was preparing to leave the United States to join underground organisations." http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article3744887.ece

They found no evidence and didn't continue the investigation.
 
Amy SF said:
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As much as it sucks in this case, I'd rather live in a country where the cops have to find evidence before committing further actions.

I wouldn't want to give the government the power to imprison or deport someone based only on an accusation not backed up by evidence.

We don't need radical Islam to become a new "red scare".
 
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das_nut said:
As much as it sucks in this case, I'd rather live in a country where the cops have to find evidence before committing further actions.

I wouldn't want to give the government the power to imprison or deport someone based only on an accusation not backed up by evidence.

We don't need radical Islam to become a new "red scare".
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I agree with das_nut on this.

Heck, if we prosecuted every idiot who posts nasty stuff online, comments to various news articles would be cut by 90% unless the people continued to have access while in prison.
 
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mlp said:
I agree with das_nut on this.

Heck, if we prosecuted every idiot who posts nasty stuff online, comments to various news articles would be cut by 90% unless the people continued to have access while in prison.
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The issue isn't the risk of prosecuting people without evidence, the issue is why, in the Internet age, the FBI, couldn't find any evidence.

They sure found evidence quickly when the world was watching. A foreign gov't isn't "some guy off the street". If they give a heads-up, you would think the FBI should have taken it seriously.
 
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I hope the extra "boat fund" money goes to relief efforts for the victim's families.
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I read early on that there was already half a million dollars raised for one marathon bombing amputee 24 hours after the race. Yes, there has been a lot going on for the victims.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobil...-students-help-boston-marathon_n_3096571.html
http://www.uproxx.com/webculture/20...bombing-victim-jeffrey-bauman-exceeds-330000/
http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1322359
http://www.newburyportnews.com/local/x266751652/Supercuts-holding-fundraiser-for-marathon-victims
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/04/16/boston-marathon-victims-fundraisers/

And lots more. People are good.
 
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Taking bets: So how long do you think it will be until there's a Hollywood movie about the whole thing?

I say this because there's an item in the newspaper stating that 42 million people watched the last hour of Friday's manhunt on television. That's the total number of people watching the news on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and/or MSNBC during the hour that ended at 9 pm Eastern Time, when the police announced that they had the suspect in custody. Apparently that's double the number of people who usually watch those networks on Friday night.
 
Amy SF said:
Taking bets: So how long do you think it will be until there's a Hollywood movie about the whole thing?

I say this because there's an item in the newspaper stating that 42 million people watched the last hour of Friday's manhunt on television. That's the total number of people watching the news on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and/or MSNBC during the hour that ended at 9 pm Eastern Time, when the police announced that they had the suspect in custody. Apparently that's double the number of people who usually watch those networks on Friday night.
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What that tells me is that the networks will be covering manhunts right and left from here forward. :rolleyes:
 
IMO, this desire to deny a burial spot to certain of the dead or to even desecrate their bodies is one of the nastiest, small minded aspects of human nature.

This whole uproar against having him buried in the various localities that were considered is ridiculous. I guess we haven't progressed from the days when convicted felons' bodies were hung at the crossroads to rot, political enemies were displayed on city walls, and still others were cut into pieces and sent to the four corners of the kingdom.
 
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How far away does the dead person in question need to be buried before he is no longer a threat to the people of Boston?
 
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