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Comment Re:The predicted carnage numbers don't add up. (Score 1) 992

Those two stats are not mutually exclusive. It is quite possible for (and I'm pulling numbers out of my hat here) 80% of all fatalities caused by intoxicated drivers ALSO happened under 40MPH within a few miles of home.

In fact, your not even talking about the same groups. In one case you are talking about all injury accidents and in the other you are talking about traffic fatalities. While fatalities are certainly a subset of all injury accidents, it still only represents a portion of all injury accidents.

Comment Re:Best practices (Score 1) 120

What you are talking about is really just parliamentary procedure: adopt a "body of rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings and other operations of clubs, organizations, legislative bodies, and other deliberative assemblies" -Wikipedia

Most governments of the world today practice this in some form or other. You generally have the politicians who go about making the rules and the bureaucrats that are responsible for the implementation of those rules. Same goes for most corporations: Board sets policy, and the executive...well...executes it. Some do this better than others.

Comment Terms of Service (Score 1) 443

Your answer is in the terms of service:

The exclusive remedy against Company for any damages whatsoever to Customer arising out of or related to this Agreement shall be the refund of the fees paid by Customer to Company with respect to the then current term of this Agreement

Comment Re:The actual problem (Score 1) 84

Yeah, but then we might actually have to pay for things ourselves. Biliking large corporations from their advertisign dollars to allow users access to a service without having to undertake a monetary transaction ("free") is really the only sort of taxation we can expect these days. There will always be cons, shills and marks. As long as you accept that, then you have a pretty good chance to avoid being one of the latter.

Comment not lie to you? (Score 1) 208

I guess that all depends on one's interpretation of truth.

It is unfortunate that, all too often, "The Truth" is sold by those with a financial interest greater than the cost of the truth. The doctors and pharmacists have culpable deniability because they are just going on what they were told and in the end, it is the patient that suffers.

Oxycontin comes to mind as a very recent example of this behaviour, and I'm sure when all is said and done, this guy will walk away paying a fine that is but a fraction of the profits he made.

On the other hand, who is really stupid enough to buy drugs over the internet? Might as well buy them on the street corner and save the shipping costs.

Comment Re:Pirates increase sales! (Score 1) 663

The sad fact is you are probably not far from the bullseye on that one.

How many of the people that downloaded a crappy cam rip and could bear to sit through it told a bunch of their friends what a great movie it was, and not only went out to see it on the big screen, but brought a bunch of friends with them?

What a great guerilla marketing campaign that would be for Hollywood to pre-release a "cam" version of the film on Pirate Bay--poor video quality, lousy sound, shakes and wobbles, popcorn rustling!

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