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Private Spaceflight Law Passes Senate
Neil Halelamien writes "HR 5382, the commercial spaceflight bill which has been previously mentioned on Slashdot, has been passed by Congress at the last minute (almost literally). The bill had previously been stalled several times due to disagreements about how much the FAA should regulate crew and passenger safety. It's now headed to the White House to be signed into law. Under this legislation, the FAA's role until 2012 will be to protect the uninvolved public on the ground, and allow passengers to ride as long as they've been properly informed of the related dangers. Also, the FAA will be able to regulate certain aspects of the vehicles if they prove to be dangerous."
I'm a republican, so I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're saying, but those sound like fighting words to me!
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
"You look just as dumb as a luser looks to you."
If they are half as useless as the average GP, lawyers are just a bunch of arrogant morons whose knowledge of an arcane and often ignored set of ridiculous laws leads them incorrectly to believe that they are intelligent and knowledgeable. They are, in fact, the modern equivalent of the ancient religious experts who presumed to tell us ordinary folk what magical processes had to be engaged in before eating a cow. We "lusers" have one thing over you "legal beagles." We can change a lightbulb without running it past the legal department, and we are just about fed up with you guys who think you can't reduce humanity to a bunch of rule-following mindless midgets.
"Is this Winkhorst a nova criminal?" "No just a technical sergeant wanted for interrogation."