w’s Economic Miracle
The nationwide average for regular unleaded is now $2.78 per gallon, or 55 cents higher than last year, according to the Energy Department.
You judge who is benefitting.
Tax Day
Closing out theft tax day with this thought:
Sometimes taxation with representation isn’t all that hot either.
Frivolous Laws
Judges in Wisconsin can deal handily with frivolous law suits:
Doyle said in a veto message the frivolous claims bill would strip judges of their discretion in dealing with such lawsuits. Current law already allows judges to sanction people who bring frivolous cases, including making them pay expenses and attorney fees, Doyle said.
So just why didn’t Governor Doyle veto the apparently unnecessary law banning people from suing restaurants for making them fat? Such suits are easily classified as frivolous and it seems that plaintiffs and attorneys should quickly learn their lesson without the need for another law on the books.
“He thinks it’s certainly reasonable to have a law that you just can’t sue a restaurant because you’re overweight,” Leistikow said. “He doesn’t think we should have those kinds of lawsuits here.”
The bill creates an exemption for the food industry from civil claims related to weight gain, obesity or health conditions caused by eating food.
Nope, no apparent reason not to veto. As noted in the opening Wisconsin judges have the tools to deal with frivoloous suits. This is simply another unnecessary law, a type of law that legislatures should not be in the habit of passing because the next time they just might make some big governement entity or corporate crony immune from lawsuits that are not at all frivolous.
Meow
Pushkin and Orloff, the wonkitties, host the 108th Carnival of the Cats at Begin Each Day As If It Were on Purpose.
That seems like a good idea!
You Are The Net
In a few years it may well seem that the boundary between human and net has desolved:
“One expects there to be much more organic connection between people and technology,” says Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, who is widely known as one of the “fathers” of the Internet for his role in co-designing the TCP/IP protocol and the Internet’s architecture.
Crossing the Line
If Mr. Cerf and about two dozen other pundits Red Herring interviewed about the future of the Internet are right, in 10 years’ time the barriers between our bodies and the Internet will blur as will those between the real world and virtual reality.
If you want to see a future where the promise of the net is magnified beyond the wildest imagination of most living today, one where innovation drives new applications on a daily basis, then you need to work to assure that no government and no business (like the phone companies or the incumbent network providors) sets any rules for the internet beyond an open net where anyone can provide content and no carrier can censor the content or data streams that you want to access.