The problem is that Mr. Osorio’s injury was completely preventable by Mr. Osorio. Instead of relying on “flesh detection technology,” which the saw was not equipped with, he should have followed the example of most people and not let his bingers get close blade to necessitate the technology. After all, spinning saw blades are pretty scary.
The # 1 rule of using a saw is “be careful” and the #2 rule is “don’t saw your fingers off.” There is no negligence here on the part of Ryobi, the makers of the saw in question. The negligence was squarely on the shoulders of Carlos Osorio. He knew that the spinning blade would cut his fingers off if he messed and and he went ahead and negligently used the saw.
If Osorio thinks that saws should be made with “flesh detection technology”, great! It’s a great business opportunity for Mr. Osorio. He should start a company making safety-table saws and put people like Ryobi and their finger manglers out of business. It’s that simple.
I hope this decision is reversed on appeal and I wish Mr. Osorio well in creating his high-tech finger-protecting table saws.
Wow this is a bad article. It appears that the reporter only talked to one source for all of her information about train travel in Spain, a marketing professor named Josep Valls. As a result, the article contains this paragraph:
Spain’s high-speed train sector seems well positioned to expand. All AVE [Alta Velocidad Española] lines turn a profit and have easily survived price wars waged by airlines, Mr. Valls said. What is more, trains require fewer employees and far less costly infrastructure than do planes.
While I’m pretty sure these trains do not, in fact, turn a profit, but is indisputably wrong is that trains require “far less costly infrastructure than do planes.” This could only be true if you don’t consider the train tracks. Generally people consider train tracks necessary for trains. There is no way flying requires more costly infrastructure than 325 miles of train tracks from Barcelona to Madrid, for example.
I hoped this article would have some interesting information, but it had none.
I like fast internet. Who doesn’t? But what evidence is there that faster internet spurs economic growth?
I wonder because the Federal Communications Commission just came out with a new plan. “It’s “a 21st century roadmap to spur economic growth and investment, create jobs, educate our children, protect our citizens and engage in our democracy,” says FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.” Apparently faster internet is an elixir for anything that ails you.
USA ranks as low as 15th in the world in broadband adoption, threatening “America’s global competitiveness.” according to the FCC Chairman. What evidence is there for the claim that our internet threatens our global competitiveness? I’m not saying it couldn’t be better, but I just do see our internet as being a problem. How do people use broadband right now in the 14 countries with faster internet? What are all of the amazing things they are doing with the internet that we can’t do? Also, there are places in the U.S. that have fiber to the curb? What are the amazing things these people doing with the internet or than pirating music faster.
There is a role for the FCC to make improvements. Here are some ideas:
1. Fight against monopolies. The reason, in many cases why we have monopolies in the provision of internet is because local governments have granted monopolies to Comcast, Cox, Verizon, etc. When monopolies are created by the government, they harm consumers by limiting choice.
2. Widen the reach of mobile broadband. The FCC proposes to do with by charging fees on the channels TV broadcasts current use. Government ownership of the airwaves is the problem, not the cure. The problem with government ownership is that the government makes decisions based on politics. The FCC should propose to auction off this spectrum, not impose fees. When the spectrum is in private hands, either those of the broadcasters or other people, they will have the incentive to better utilize the spectrum. I don’t know how the spectrum will be used, but I’m sure it will be used better than it is today.
If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch and you haven’t played Plants vs. Zombies, what is your problem? Now that I’m driving to work instead of taking the Metro I miss my metro Plants vs. Zombies time.
Dating back to 1992 models, LA Times reporters found 56 deaths reported to NHTSA over the course of 19 model-years. If Toyota is suffering from electronic problems, these electronic problems should affect all drivers equally. If Toyota sudden acceleration is caused by driver pedal misapplication, then we should expect to see a disproportionate number of elderly and short drivers. Unfortunately, we don’t have driver heights, and in only 24 of the 56 cases, did the Times list the age of the driver.
The ages: 18, 21, 22*, 32, 34, 44, 45, 47, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 63, 66, 68, 71**, 72, 72, 77, 79, 83, 85, 89.
*Passenger victim was 22 and “friend” of driver.
**Passenger victim was 71 and married to husband-driver for 46 years.
Huh. I’m sure that driver error has nothing to do with it. Nothing.
Roberts was responding to a question concerning the kerfuffle about Barack Obama’s January address, wherein Obama criticized — and flagrantly mischaracterized — a recent Supreme Court decision that loosened limits on political speech. The decision neither overturned "a century of law" nor conferred an entitlement on foreign corporations to finance U.S. candidates. Nevertheless, the Democratic donkeys arrayed in front of Obama leapt onto their hind legs and brayed in unison, while the six justices who were present sat silently. Justice Samuel Alito, in an act of lese majeste, appeared to mutter "not true" about Obama’s untruths.
When Republican presidents deliver these addresses, Republican legislators, too, lurch up and down like puppets on strings. And Congress wonders why it is considered infantile.
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Many conservatives were congressional supremacists until Ronald Wilson Reagan arrived possessing the rhetorical skills requisite for a Wilsonian presidency. His unfortunate filigree on the dramaturgy of State of the Union addresses was to begin the practice of stocking the House gallery with ordinary but exemplary people whose presence touches the public’s erogenous zones.
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Next year, Roberts and the rest of the justices should stay away from the president’s address. So should the uniformed military, who are out of place in a setting of competitive political grandstanding. For that matter, the 535 legislators should boycott these undignified events. They would, if there were that many congressional grown-ups averse to being props in the childishness of popping up from their seats to cheer, or remaining sullenly seated in semi-pouts, as the politics of the moment dictates.
The problem is that the debate could just as easily be covered on CSPAN without having to go through the hassle of getting through security at the Capitol.
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