Here is a better link for that piece of proposed legislation that clearly shows that it hasn't even come up for a vote yet. The "vote" you, techdirt and cnet are reporting about merely brings the bill out of committee and to the Senate floor...nothing more.

.999 * 10 DOES NOT equal 9.999, it equals 9.990.

They can be somewhat hard to miss there. The gross underestimate on their license plates that says "10,000 Lakes" should be heeded as a warning when driving in Minnesota.

With any luck, the handgun will be metal.

I'm not surprised at all, as doing this requires two things I don't see a great deal of these days:

1) Common Courtesy, and

2) Awareness of "Others"

Exactly. I RTFA, and the only "evidence" we have been provided are a couple twitpics of some text from an alleged letter. Some of the other pictures in that stream (most noticeably one of somebody in ICP facepaint) make me wonder if this isn't just some asshat yanking our collective chains.

It sure SOUNDS like something we could reasonably expect in this litigious age, but something more concrete would be nice.

A (potentially) lost revenue stream.