...than Bob Vila isn't personally involved. Ever watch "This Old House"? The guy never does ANY projects himself. He always passes it off to that other guy!
"Hi, I am Bob Vila for Sears Bulk Mail Services. For just $19.95...."
how did this become +5 insightful in 30 seconds?
Esp. when it is teh suxxors.
YOU SUCK. go suck your mama's zuckini.!
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by FTL (112112) on Friday March 05, @09:00AM (#8474434)
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Most people seem to agree that going to the Moon is a silly thing to do if your goal is to get to Mars. But I don't think that's the goal here. I think the goal is to go to the Moon. The word "Mars" doesn't even appear in the executive order. Bush just added the "and at some point on to Mars" to the end of his speech to keep the Mars camp happy.
Frankly I don't care where we go, Moon, Mars or asteroids. Let's just get off this rock.
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The last time I looked, we were supposed to be a country of INDIVIDUAL liberty. We are NOT a country of individual liberty anymore, we're a country where huge powerful organiztaions beat up on little people for their own reasons. When the constitution was created it was because a huge organization was beating up little people, but then it was a government. Now it's concentrations of people and momeny called corporations... it's the same thing. Going back to that state of being is a decline, IMHO.
So we should throw out 900 years of legal development because you don't like some of the people who file lawsuits?
What I like is not relevant... the problem is that tort law has become a sword instead of a shield. And the US laws that create this problem are NOT 900 years old.
All laws should expire on their own anyway... they were never meant to work forever in all situations.
Are you kidding? You're talking about Texas. Do you think Dubya would of permited such a thing?
As recently as the 70s, they still had a defense in the Murder statute called the "He needed killin'" clause. Now, if they hadn't gotten rid of THAT there would at least been THAT recourse in the law for the common man to fall back on!
I propose a reason for the decline of relevance of US: the amount of money used going for lawsuits (defending against bad claims and making those bad claims) vs. the amount of money that goes to new developing new ideas.
so... basically, it's asshole businessmen and CEOs that see a better living from the civil law system than actually thinking themselves. Maybe if all this effort was refocused all these WELL TRAINED tech people would actually have a job.
Time to expire ALL of tort law and begin again...
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...than Bob Vila isn't personally involved. Ever watch "This Old House"? The guy never does ANY projects himself. He always passes it off to that other guy! "Hi, I am Bob Vila for Sears Bulk Mail Services. For just $19.95...."
how did this become +5 insightful in 30 seconds? Esp. when it is teh suxxors. YOU SUCK. go suck your mama's zuckini.! jdkshakjdshklsdhfaksdhfkewufhweu a wefiaweghuaiewgheruhgkads 1 more Developers 3 more Games 13 more Interviews Science YRO 2 more Help FAQ Bugs Stories Old Stories Old Polls Topics Hall of Fame Submit Story About Supporters Code Awards Services Personals Tech Jobs Online Books PriceGrabber Product News Goals Goals (Score:5, Insightful) by FTL (112112) on Friday March 05, @09:00AM (#8474434) (http://neil.fraser.name/) Most people seem to agree that going to the Moon is a silly thing to do if your goal is to get to Mars. But I don't think that's the goal here. I think the goal is to go to the Moon. The word "Mars" doesn't even appear in the executive order. Bush just added the "and at some point on to Mars" to the end of his speech to keep the Mars camp happy. Frankly I don't care where we go, Moon, Mars or asteroids. Let's just get off this rock. [ Reply to This ] Post Comment Name Subject Comment
a) what decline
The last time I looked, we were supposed to be a country of INDIVIDUAL liberty. We are NOT a country of individual liberty anymore, we're a country where huge powerful organiztaions beat up on little people for their own reasons. When the constitution was created it was because a huge organization was beating up little people, but then it was a government. Now it's concentrations of people and momeny called corporations... it's the same thing. Going back to that state of being is a decline, IMHO.
So we should throw out 900 years of legal development because you don't like some of the people who file lawsuits?
What I like is not relevant... the problem is that tort law has become a sword instead of a shield. And the US laws that create this problem are NOT 900 years old.
All laws should expire on their own anyway... they were never meant to work forever in all situations.
Are you kidding? You're talking about Texas. Do you think Dubya would of permited such a thing?
As recently as the 70s, they still had a defense in the Murder statute called the "He needed killin'" clause. Now, if they hadn't gotten rid of THAT there would at least been THAT recourse in the law for the common man to fall back on!
I propose a reason for the decline of relevance of US: the amount of money used going for lawsuits (defending against bad claims and making those bad claims) vs. the amount of money that goes to new developing new ideas. so... basically, it's asshole businessmen and CEOs that see a better living from the civil law system than actually thinking themselves. Maybe if all this effort was refocused all these WELL TRAINED tech people would actually have a job. Time to expire ALL of tort law and begin again...
oh really? It's freely downloadable if you have a copy of Crossover Office... so I guess I use it illegally?