It's easy to attack an economic analysis of health care as cold and calculating, but at some point we need to admit that it's not worth spending half a million dollars to keep an 80 year-old-man alive for an additional month.

Admittedly, it's harder in some situations (like in the article where the person is 67) than in others.

I'm pretty sure he's restricting his proposition to the terminally (or likely terminally) ill.

Having the right to do something is not the same as having the right to be able to do it. I have the right to pilot a flying Tyrannosaurus while wearing a cowboy hat in my backyard, but that doesn't mean that manufacturers of such dinosaur [1] have to provide me with one.

[1] Please tell me they exist

I don't think a malpractice suit against Nesson is likely to succeed, but it would be AWESOME; thus, I fully support this suggestion!

Or the famous "wreck a nice beach" instead of "recognize speech"

I mean, the post() could be in the constructor of CleverAttempt...

You could just cover your mouth with your hand so that only the phone can see it?

Yeah, the only problem is that the controls and icons still look like they were drawn by programmers in GIMP.

That the prospective jail time is from contempt of court and that it is not actually a criminal offense to cover your yard in woodchips..

Right? Right?

From the opinion...

17 U.S.C. 107

This is the law. This is not how the Postal Service used his copyrighted work. As an aside, this is also not what Tenenbaum et al. did when they downloaded music.

We shouldn't complain when judges use restraint and don't bastardize statutes.

Right, obviously they make the money through advertising. But you were trying to argue that "search" isn't a market, and that Google has thousands of competitors since thousands of people sell advertising. The point is that only a handful of people sell sponsored links in their searches; it is a distinct market.

Google makes lots of money selling sponsored links on search results.

"Science"? I think Yahoo! took the "Google Labs" thing a little too literally

I think I support this... I mean, Yahoo and Microsoft of course both suck, but Google needs some legitimate competition in the search market...

That's not what I was saying at all; re-read the post.

The first was a prediction you made, i.e. that fair-use was likely to prevail as a legal theory for file sharing.

The second was the first of many cases in which fair-use was dismissed as a legal defense.

Look, it's okay to be wrong. But when you describe something as a "nail in the coffin" even though it clearly isn't, that's when I must take issue.