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The End of Innovation?
Simone writes: "2001 has been a bad year not just for dot-coms but also for people interested in preserving the public's right to fair use of copyright materials. From the shutdown of Napster and the DeCSS case to the prosecution of Dmitry Sklyarov, federal prosecutors and U.S. courts have acted in support of copyright interests and against the public's ability to use technology to secure fair-use rights. OpenP2P.com editor Richard Koman talks about these turns of events with Lawrence Lessig." Not particularly coincidentally, Lessig has a new book coming out on this very topic.
Personally.. i find it hard to believe the gun manufactures can't be sued for wrongfull deaths from a WEAPON DESIGNED TO KILL.
BUT The cigarette industry is being sued up the ass because someoen CHOSE TO SMOKE and got cancer PROBABLY because they drank too much and worked in a manufacturing environment around chemicals all day as well.
Most people don't choose to die behind a gun, everyone who popped a cig in there mouth CHOSE to smoke and any DUMBASS who grew up with a brain can figure SMOKE is bad for you. You don't stand over a fire and breath in that smoke.
By golly though were taught guns and firearms are fun and protective and for hunting..
Nobody told me cigarettes were for fun, protectice and for hunting and they sure as hell won't kill anyone else.
enough of that rant.. npr was pissing me off this morning with the dude who's winning 3billion because he got cancer... put the ass out of his misery with a freaking legal gun