I've always been interested in how legislation is often geared towards sales and use of certain products and not the scale of production of the goods. Indeed, capital growth and expansion of the market is needed to improve, if not maintain, the standard of living. But it seems that all of this technology has done the opposite of making our lives simpler. More and more behavior legislation, some clear, some not, is making a lot of lawyers very rich. If we are going in the direction of strong government then let us not try to fool anybody and go all the way. In fact, I'm amazed Homeland Security hasn't already crawled up the butts of everybody who used their credit cards to buy one of these phones. I would like to see legislation passed that restricts the production of these goods. Gun control is a joke. You have to wait seven days to buy a handgun. You cannot buy an assault rifle at a gun store,
but you can at a gun show. Availability is the issue. Certainly the execs at Nokia and Sony Ericson said to themselves, "Wow, imagine what you could do with one of these!" and I'm sure the list was well inclusive of a variety of potential civil offenses (you simply do not produce without thinking of this). Unfortunately, it falls into the category of not their problem...unless they are a tobacco company. But, you haven't heard much about that since Schrub has been in office.
On Sat, 08 May 2004 17:45:22 -0400 (EDT) Brian Lunergan <brianlunergan@xxxxxxxx> writes:Sadly, the very nature of democracy and lawmaking means some laws must be made that have the potential to block or prohibit both the good and the bad. There are far too many dangerous sods out there who would abuse the camera phones. That is why fitness facilities have banned them from their locker and pool areas to avoid what amounts to an assault by the camera phone user who takes the picture and spreads it about, likely with sexually oriented fiddling, without permission or consent. It has handed child sexual predators a whole new weapon to use hunting children.If it takes a legal smack up the side of the head to remind people of their responsibility to others then so be it. Too many people have forgotten that the only place you have a right to do as you please, when you please is when you live alone on a rock in the middle of nowhere.So much for my soap box thought. It was kindly meant...
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