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For flight 655, while they never admitted guilt, they did settle paying the victim's families "ex-gratia" a non-negligible sum. While it is not the same as dire
by loufe 7y ago
For flight 655, while they never admitted guilt, they did settle paying the victim's families "ex-gratia" a non-negligible sum. While it is not the same as directly admitting you are responible, espcecially to the victims, for most intents and purposes that counts as an admition in my books.
- misterman0 7y ago>> they never admitted guilt >> they did settle >> that counts as an admition Oh how good you look in those rose tinted glasses of yours. Edit to self: never try to change HN. It's already optimized, not for conversation but for promotion of things that are PK. That is a good thing.
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- dang 7y agoPersonal attacks will get you banned here. Also, can you please not post unsubstantive comments generally? The intended spirit of this site is described in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Would you please review those rules and post in keeping with them?
- iknowalot 7y agoAfter the US commander of the ship murdered 290 people on flight 655, he was given a Legion of Merit. Two sets of rules.
- nate_meurer 7y agoThrowing the word "murder" about like this is an abuse of language. Nobody, not even the Iranians, ever suggested that the crew of the USS Vincennes intended to kill civilians. The crew appears to have exercised piss-poor diligence, but it's universally recognized that they thought they were firing on a military aircraft.