Steve at No More Mister Nice Blog has a bunch of material on Bill Pryor. Plenty of stuff to help you over the hump if there is some reason you have been hesitant to let your senators know you want them to keep this guy off the bench. You can also go over to Ruminate This for more.
The new headline at PC World reads:
Senator Softens Threat Against Pirates
Destroying PCs for copyright violation may be drastic, Hatch concedes.
What the Senator says is this:
“I made my comments at yesterday’s hearing because I think that industry is not doing enough to help us find effective ways to stop people from using computers to steal copyrighted, personal or sensitive materials,” he says in the statement.
“I do not favor extreme remedies–unless no moderate remedies can be found. I asked the interested industries to help us find those moderate remedies.”
What he said yesterday:
“If we can find some way to do this without destroying their machines, we’d be interested in hearing about that,” Hatch said. “If that’s the only way, then I’m all for destroying their machines.”
So some editor at PC World thinks saying the same thing using different words and structure softens the threat?
I still say let’s shove this guy down the hatch.
Some, like this guy, argue that Martha Stewart is being persecuted because of her success.Tarek at The Liquid List has another perspective on the Waksal/Stewart prosecutions.
There is an interesting story over at Silt of dilemma in the jury chamber and a discussion of appropriate reference tools for juries.
Oh, and while you are there check out this excellent precis of a current Salam Pax post.
Dwight Meredith presents ways to reduce, if not eliminate, frivolous medical malpractice suits. And he suggests that the lack of focus on actually eliminating frivolous actions means the administration really wants something else:
The Bush administration uses the rhetoric of frivolous lawsuits to promote a policy that would not curb such suits. The disparity between its rhetoric and its policy proposals suggests that curbing frivolous suits is less important to the administration than protecting insurance companies from having to pay full compensation to seriously injured victims of negligence.