Exactly that. Companies can break the law, and they are people now, so why don't they have corporate prison? Too big to fail just lines right up with corporate interests. We can do whatever we want, laws merely exist to keep the plebes away from guns so they can never stop us. And we're too big to fail so we'll get away with it.

Its exceedingly rare but there is still good in the world.

One of the most horrible truisms imaginable. Same with "the good die young" or "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

So what? Can the guy/guys/girls responsible? Badmouth them on google? That's fair punishment? How about an eye for a fucking eye. I'm curious, how can you think a life like that is worth allowing continuing to exist? And don't give me no yuppie Nuremburg bullshit about following orders. Like theres an email. "seek them out blah blah." emails have a from and a to field. Find from. Hang him. Find to. Hang him. Then, find everyone above from and to in the corporate hierarchy and hang them. Gross negligence causing physical harm = capital offense in my opinion. Or, if killings' too salty for you, well, corporations exist and are owned by people, and corporations are persons. Well that means slavery is still legal, seeing how one person owns another. So therefore people who commit physical harm against another should be commited to slavery, and owned by the victim. All the employees, everyone involved, they should forfeit there lives in the service of those whose lives they maliciously and knowingly destroyed. And if they run, then hang them.

Than advertise it as such. People love to take things that improve their life and kill them at the same time, look at cigarettes for example. If they just had the balls to tell the truth Vioxx would probably still be for sale and would probably be having ridiculous amazing sales.

a 21 year old on anti-arthritis medicine?

I'll hold the stick, you watch the carrot. Your obviously very, very, immeasurably good at concentrating on the flawed yet irrelevant instead of the completely rotten and horribly, terrifyingly relevant.

What about that? Who would have that authority at Merck? The CEO? The hit-list didn't just appear, it was a plan put into action. Who put it into action? Some one made a decision. The world needs to track down and execute the people who make these decisions.

I'm totally down for this. The world has gone global, time for revolution to go global I think. I'd say execute the top 25% of the following companies, for a start. Oil Tanker Manufacturers. Oil Producing Companies Automobile Manufacturers Large Bond Trading Firms

Does Vioxx cause death? Maybe. If the specific formulation of the drug is to blame then why are other drugs with virtually the same formulation still on the market with warnings? Why didn't those drugs also get removed from the market - with similar numbers of deaths behind them as well? Maybe? Virtually? The difference of ONE FUCKING MOLECULE is the difference between medicine and poison. So basically you are saying people clinging on to life with the tenacity that almost all humans display is the real cause of all the evils in the world. Man, I don't even know what to write, my mind recoils at the twistedness of this post. "It's a lottery and there are winners and losers. Merck lost. Too bad, I guess." Heres the problem right here, not old people. Its a lottery, every now and then the capitalist system needs someone to throw to the masses. Appease the plebs. Distract them from the fact that every company is 100% corrupt, by "catching" one of them every so often.

People plateau because there is a limit to their reaction time and skill level. I love it the way it is and think it should stay. I'm a three bar personally, and I watch the fourbars play, and I'm just not that good. I'm damn good, but I can't make my reaction time better. Bad idea.

damn skippy. I picked tool use, because nothing that people take for granted would be really possible without widescale tooluse.