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Lock him up for his own as well as everyone else's good.

Yeah, three strikes laws are really working out for everyone's good in California.

"Currently, if you fabricate a medical device that is labelled This is how you kill someone via an intellectual property crime.

You can think up 100 other situations today involving aircraft parts, automotive parts, electronic devices and other things that if they fail can cause people to die.

I would say life in prison for being responsible for people dying isn't all that bad an idea."

Unfortunately, given the history of governments and bureaucracies, the chances that an improved/new/expanded law would be used to effectively prosecute corporate or trade partners responsible for wrong doing seem to me to be vanishingly small.

More likely we would see them abused to protect those interests. Along the lines of the 1975 statute which was put into place with the best of intentions in the state of California.

"Currently there are very weak laws protecting against such counterfit merchandise outside of a few restricted areas."

Since IANAL, if you could provide some examples of those I would appreciate it.

Well looking at my backyard, I wouldn't be so quick to knock global cooling. Rapid climate change? What rapid climate change? :)

Heh. This one is even funnier.

Yes, you would be arrested because sex with anyone under 18 for money in Thailand is illegal and the U.S. and Thailand have legal extradition. The age of consent is 15 for what they consider "non-work sex" which almost never includes foreign nationals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Thail and

And yes, American corporations usually do value profit above all else. And the sky is usually blue, and grass is generally green, and Marxists are generally naive kids or washed up academics. It is not the job of corporations to do shit about freedom it is the job of the American people to let them know via their dollars that it is more profitable for them to not piss off their customers. Look at what just happened to Rupert Murdoc who got dick slapped by the American people for thinking about airing the O.J. Simpson "If I had done it" interview. The market controls corporate morality, almost never perfectly, but better than any other system.
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_324194322.h tml

• Drive bys with BB guns in Kentucky.
• A riot for spots in line in Burbank.
• Read - 10 to 12 people robbed in PS3 line (dubious, but possible). [Via Digg]
• Read - Sheriffs shut down another California store for rowdy behavior.
• Read - Police break up NY SonyStyle store fight.
• Read - Brawl breaks out at another Wally when manager plays musical PlayStation chairs. Seriously, what an idiot. [Thanks Kyle D.]
• Read - Shots were apparently fired at a Texas Wally. Pics here and here of the 5-0. [Thanks, Jason]
• Read - Two armed, masked robbers overtook a customer in Springfield. [Thanks, Jason]
• Watch - North Fresno / Merced had stampede-riot insanity. [Thanks, Jonathan]

For people who have Morgellons, these boards can hurt, but they are an honest reflection of how people are. I've been reading the message boards for Morgellons for over a year, looking for answers that I could not get from an Infectious Disease doctor and Dermatologist, and found boards to be supportive and helpful. This board is interesting, and people do examine all sides of an issue.

For those who'd like some more information on Morgellons, I'd like to share this brief interview with Dr. Wymore, who is researching the fibers and "scabs" of Morgellons patients. He shares his findings to date, and some thoughts about the patients and their doctors.

http://www.morgellons.org/rwupdate.html

If you cannot listen to the interview, Ever Hopeful's website has photos and a history of Delusions of Parasitosis. It is the DOP concept that seems to be the brick wall in getting doctors to listen or do examinations:

http://www.dpref.com/index.html

From Alabama, an recent article and television clip - Leigh Ann and her family give an interview, please "click" the video if you have a fast connection. It is a behind-the-scenes look into what happens to Morgellons sufferers:

http://www.wkrg.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WKR G/MGArticle/KRG_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=11378 36251643

From Los Angeles, California - In the news on May 19th, and May 20th, 2006 in the Archive - make sure you watch the clip in the archive and not the shorter "tease" clip. It should include interviews with people in the archived chip - will have to go back several pages to the 20t:

http://cbs2.com/video/?id=18783@kcbs.dayport.com

This story was followed up with Part Two on Monday, May 22nd, featuring an interview with a family who is suffering this disease, as well as a perfect example of the typical smugness experienced with Dermatologists convinced this is DOP, via an interview with a UCLA Dermatologist included in this news segment. In this story, the mother has tested positive for Lyme, and the children have not been tested for Lyme disease because the family could not afford it. Morgellons is very likely a systemic disease, involving the whole body. Not doing any tests and simply declaring this to be a delusion delays treatment.

From Portland, Oregon - May, 2006:

The written article:
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_051806_n ews_sweeps_strange_sickness_morgellons.53b2569a.ht ml

There is a video clip of an Oregon doctor who caught Morgellons disease who is interviewed, however I only have a tiny url link for it and that is at:

http://lymebusters.proboards39.com/index.cgi?board =rash&action=display&thread=1147886482&page=2

From Texas - May, 2006

The article:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.a...E_ID =50195

Again, a follow up story in Texas:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYS A052206.morgellonsfolo.KENS.12913d3a.html

Excerpt quoted: " . . . The story has received tens of thousands of page views on the MySanAntonio.com
The story was how Les Coble of Pleasanton found out he was not alone.

"God, I'm not crazy, there are other people with this,"

I saw this yesterday during the afternoon hours. KCAL 9 News has a streaming video story (night time) about this. Flash is required.

The National Transportation Safety Board called for requiring standardized recorders in all light-duty vehicles after it was unable to ascertain what happened when an elderly driver plowed through a farmer's market in Santa Monica, Calif., last year, killing and injuring scores of people.

OK, let me be the first to call it since the NTSB is a bunch of politically correct pussies who don't want to piss off the fucking geezers in the AARP. The guy who caused this accident was too fucking old to drive, OK! He was 86 years old, according to this article he had "... a medical condition called a "second-degree heart block" that can cause the heart to stop beating for several seconds.", raising the question of why we are letting someone who has a bad heart that can stop beating during times of stress drive a motor vehicle. This guy's reflexes were gone, he couldn't adequately control the pedals because he had had hip replacement surgeries he might have had cognitive deficits as well as severe visual ones. He was just too fucking old to operate a motor vehicle, and guess what! There's millions more like him out there. Old folks are incredibly dangerous behind the wheel. We don't need black boxes in every car, we need annual vision, reaction and cognition testing for all drivers over 70 years old, and those who don't pass lose their licenses right then and there. While we're at it we can strip the licenses of anyone who has more than one DUI or who causes an accident where someone loses life or limb, this would go a long way towards making our roads a lot safer.

Does this suck if you're one of the old people in question? Well yes it does, but I find it interesting that the people who whine about restricting the driving privileges of the elderly have no problem with restricting the driving privileges of teenagers. Admittedly teenagers are bad drivers, but they're going to get better as they age, someone who's 16 years old will probably be a better and safer driver in 10 years when they're 26, the same cannot be said for a 70 year old. And while it might suck for elderly drivers to lose their licenses it kind of sucks for the rest of us when they lose control of a vehicle and kill 10 people and send 63 more to the hospital or in my case fail to yield right of way on a sunny day, plow into my motorcycle and cost me my left leg below the knee.

Affirmative! Here's a link from May of 2003. Typical AOL - it took them a year and a half to do something with the technology, and meanwhile the whole browser arena has been turned on it's ear (shameless plug for Firefox)!

Finally, you state that you do not wish to limit the ability of consumers to record over-the-air radio broadcasts. Instead, you apparently want to force them to buy what they have received for free since Fleming and Marconi first made it possible for consumers to hear news and music over the public airwaves.

As you know, we have long been concerned about content owners seeking to change the "play" button on our devices to a "pay" button. At least you have addressed the semantics by suggesting new devices come equipped with a "buy" button.*

*Excerpt of letter to Cary H. Sherman, President, RIAA, from Gary Shapiro, President & CEO, Consumer Electronics Association, 4/15/04, responding to a fax, by Cary H. Sherman to Gary Shapiro, at 14:30, 4/14/04, with this attempt at greasing the wheels:

We also point out that a lack of content protection will forever preclude a myriad of new business models that could [insert hush money offer here] benefit your members [end insert of hush money offer here] as well as other interested parties. For example, device manufacturers could provide "buy buttons" that would offer consumers the ability to quickly and easily purchase music that they hear on the radio. Indeed, iBiquity has said that it would like to offer to consumers, for a fee [as opposed to free], on demand weather and traffic reports. The same opportunity could and should exist for music, the bread and butter of radio broadcasts.

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), they'll need control over the BIOS. That's why Microsoft is pushing so hard in this area, and why the Linux community must push back just as hard, and get the Linux BIOS.

5 second boot times were promised with a Linux BIOS. I'm still waiting. For the BIOS, and for my computer to boot up.

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My general opinion of Hollywood is that it's populated by people like Jack Valenti, clueless rich assholes that will stop at nearly nothing to suck every last dime from the pockets of the public. I'll feel some sympathy for poor Jack when the film industry is living in cardboard boxes beneath highway overpasses. They whine and bitch about pirates stealing billions from their pockets when I read stories like this.

A liability has nothing to do with warranties or with cost.. A good example is the tragic death of the little kid who drown at a birthday party. The party was free and was even "open" because parents could attend too but there is no question that the homeowner (and his insurance company) will be held liable for the death. OTOH a warranty is basically a guarantee or contract.. Anyone can offer something without warranty unless it is forbidden by law (new car lemon laws..).