From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: "Larry Elmore" Subject: Re: Your english sucks, mine is better. Date: 1997/11/29 Message-ID: <65patf$fma@netra.montana.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 293652084 References: <65ab3u$v07$1@news.nyu.edu> <3479B4F1.D575BEFC@SomewhereElse.com> <01bcf94a$43fbc1c0$LocalHost@default> <65dsjd$6gq@netra.montana.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Organization: montana.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: billg@jk.pst.com wrote in message ... >There's nowhere near the amount of consumer protection that indicates >ethical behaviour is the value. The laws favor the capitalist over the >consumer. Tell that to the companies sued over product liability and who lose millions on ridiculous lawsuits. Like the lady who sued McDonald's because they didn't have a warning label on their coffee cup from the drive-thru warning that the coffee is hot and that it's dangerous to drive and try to drink hot coffee at the same time. Well, duuhhhhh... She got millions for her _stupidity_ when she sued (_after_ McDonald's had already paid all her medical bills, etc.). There's a Superman costume that was out for this Halloween where the manufacturers felt compelled to put a warning label on the cape: "Warning: Wearing this cape does not enable the wearer to fly," because, sure as sh**, some kid would jump off the garage roof with it on, the kid's moronic and/or greedy parents would sue, and likely as not, win 2.4 million dollars in punitive damages. Besides, this kind of crap (false advertising, etc) has gone on ever since any kind of trade went on, long before capitalism ever existed. Just because capitalism hasn't eliminated it, the whole problem is capitalism's fault? Get real. It's a problem of human nature, not capitalism. I don't know of _any_ other system that has done any better, so why aren't you criticizing them, too? You remind me of the "useful idiots" that were outraged by each and every abuse in South Africa, and yet turned a blind eye to far worse outrages in black-ruled African countries... Larry Larry >"Acceptable" levels of theft of income is condoned and >facilitated. Advertising context and marketing strategy need regulation. >Companies that use ommission of known facts as a marketing method (as >well as other unethical tactics/strategies) should not be allowed medium. >Companies that minimize the use of consumer bandwidth to present their >wares honestly should be.