If that is what your really believe, you could be a poster boy for convoluted thinking what our liberal schools and colleges are producing today. What a sad state of affairs.
mike hunt
Bill Turner wrote:
Sorry but there is one thing worse than inflation and it is deflation. Tons of people holding expensive debt with collateral worth half and assets being sold off. Happened in Japan.
When I worked for Kodak in Rochester, NY some entrances had heated sidewalks.
I'm waiting to hear of the first case were some shark sues an individual on behalf of another because he did NOT sue the guy that ran into the back of his car at a traffic light... Think of the mental anguish he would suffer waiting for the guy he hit to start litigation. "Were you NOT sued by the other person involved in you recant auto accident? Call the lawyers at Dewy Cheatem and Howe. The call is free and you pay nothing until we collect the money you deserve." LOL
mike hunt
Philip Schmid wrote:
In many ways, the Lawyer gets a bad rap.
The Lawyer sells "legal representation
"If you want to sue GOD, I'm sure there's a lawyer who'll sell you legal counsel at $500 an hour. The CUSTOMER chooses the complaint. The Lawyer sells his legal service.... The judge and jury decide the merit of the complaint.
If there are stupid judgements or awards, talk to the JURY !!
That was kind of my point. The response to there being too many lawsuits and such being that McDonalds would still be serving hot coffee just begs the question that if its ok to sue a company for having hot coffee then we might as well go all the way and sue every homeowner that has coffee that someone might deem too hot and we might spill on ourselves. Just the whole ridiculous loop of stupidity it would create. But I agree, throw people in jail for wasting the taxpayers money for frivolous lawsuits.
As far as I know Corning hasn't went out of business. And I have a pretty good reason for knowing!
Matt
Typical nanny government mentality. McDonalds didn't burn anyone. The people that spilled hot coffee on themselves burned someone. Now if a McDonalds counter persone spilled coffee on you and burned you, then maybe you could rightfully claim that McDonalds burned you.
Except that asbestos was considered safe for many years. I assum the Corning reference is actually meant to be Dow Corning and, in that case, silicone implants have still not been indicated as unsafe in the MANY studies done since the initial suits were filed.
Matt
Even having such a concept as inherently dangerous (which implies that there are inherently safe goods), is inherently stupid. Then again, nobody ever accused our legal system of being inherently smart! :-)
Matt
You are correct, Corning recovered from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
mike hunt
Matt Whit>
Keep trying. Corning (GLW) has never been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Dow Corning has, but not Corning Incorporated, commonly known simply as Corning.
Matt
I was responding to your response to BT in which he (BT) said: "Transferring money from one person or group to another person or group does *not* spur the economy. True wealth can only be created by the sweat of one's brow, both personally and nation-wide. Paper shuffles do not do anything of benefit to the economy as a whole." and you replied, in part, that "Sure it can...Someone who just hoards their money under a mattress does nothing to increase wealth. So moving money from a place where it isn't working to a place where it can work, definitely benefits the economy as a whole." There are some people who would take that to mean, and who actually think about the economy in terms of, property damage actually creating wealth (they equate stimulating the economy with creating wealth) even though you may not have actually said that. In fact, in economics, this type of fallacious thinking has a name that is given to it - I forget it exactly, but, in the field of economics, it's commonly referred to as the "shop keeper's broken window" or the "jewelry store owner's broken window" (or some similar phrasing) mentallity, and is used to illustrate the fallacy of certain false principles.
Sorry if I insulted you by insinuating that you might think that way. I was just waving off others who might misinterpret what you were saying and falling into the common misconception which only seems to be the same as what you were saying but in fact is not. 8^)
Bill Putney (to reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with "x")
Touché. ;)
mike hunt
Matt Whit>
Corning got pretty close though. Built too much fiber-optics capacity during the dot com boom. I believe they have a empty shell of a plant on the NC coast if they haven't unloaded it yet.
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Somehow you got my meaning exactly backwards, I think. I'm not sure because there is something wrong with your first sentence. There seems to be a word missing between "rather" and "placing". Re-edit and sent it again and let's see if it will make sense.
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Better yet, throw the head of McDonalds in jail for endangering the public. Now THAT would get their attention!
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Why would I "not" say that? Talking to you is like shouting at a mirror, kind of. Stuff comes back to me, but different.
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Typical airhead thinking. I suppose if McDonalds handed you a jar of nitroglycerine and said "have a nice day", it would be your fault what happened next? Different only in degree, not in kind.
I'm sure you'll laugh and think "what an idiot", but pause and think about the concept. The company is putting a product into the hands of the public which can cause moderate to serious injury, without a warning or caution of any kind. Lawsuit city, well deserved.
You're making things way too easy for your critics. If I indeed ordered a jar of nitrogylcerine without knowing how to handle it, that would be my fault not McD's.
You saved us the trouble.
If that's the case, then it should legally be required to take an IQ test before you are allowed to order a cup of hot coffee to go (back to the nanny state to protect - literally - idiots from themselves). But you'd think that if someone could own a license and drive a car to the drive thru that they would have the IQ necessary to know that hot things are, umm, hot, and that hot things will, umm, burn you if you spill them on you without you having to be told same.
Bill Putney (to reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with "x")
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