Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 617 Editor's Choice: 9
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I'm sure no one will care or do anything about this
[Read the article: The burning question]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Give it a month. If the fine people of southern California can't be prodded then me, 3000 miles away certainly doesn't need to be be involved. In cases like this I really want to raise the banner of state's rights and tell them to own and fix their own problems. If that means a year of figuring out who to blame and stopping there, then power to them. If sane development doesn't mean anything to them - fine, do that. You've got millions of people huddled together in an geography that was never designed to support even 1/10th of that capacity. Enjoy.
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I think they mean the high cost of losing litigation not the process thereof
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt's concern over "costly litigation" for AT&T and Verizon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now given, eDiscovery is a fantastically expensive process for large civil cases and class actions, and Glenn, an attorney certainly knows this. But that's not what they're talking about. They're talking about the potential exposure of multi hundred million dollar fines and judgments.
And there is something to be said for the incredibly BAD policy that results from trying to construct policy in the civil courts and not out the regulatory process itself. For instance - would you be happy with a civil court process outcome that dictated how prescription drugs are made, sold and priced or would you prefer the process of the FDA. I'm thinking that the latter is better than the former.
I think it's a little more nuanced than sticking it to The Man. Don't you?
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So you would prefer policy being set in the courts then
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt's concern over "costly litigation" for AT&T and Verizon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ok, instead of wasting everyone's time insulting me, you could have just said so. You see, and I'll try to use small words and short sentences, there are three types of law:
Case law
Regulation
Legislation
What you're relayed to me, is that you prefer to turn over regulation to the courts a priori, in other words do away with regulatory law. Ok that's your theory. I disagree.
If you think this is a troll then you are too stupid to talk to. Sorry if that offends you.
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I changed my mind
[Read the article: I'm dressing up as a melting polar ice cap]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think dressing up is the best and only thing you people should do. Based on your typical reaction to anything that doesn't 10,000% agree with every syllable of nonsense burbling from your lips, you call 'trolling' I agree that putting on a silly costume is the best thing you could do and the best thing we could hope for.
Carry on, please do.
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Yessssss their websites
[Read the article: I'm dressing up as a melting polar ice cap]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We stand corrected then, all is well. They mentioned it on their blogs. I would point out that (I think) all of the candidates currently hold elected offices of some kind or another but that would be almost cynical. And certainly expecting them to ACT would be too too much. Maybe ignoring it is really the best thing.
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kovie
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt's concern over "costly litigation" for AT&T and Verizon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, actually they'd just be setting fines and punishments in lieu of policy. Kind of like abanoning the FDA and waiting for the courts to establish punishments. That's pretty Libertarian for this crowd. Color me shocked.
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Hand to God
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought Bionic Woman was a vampire movie. It's THAT bad. But hey most TV this year is ghosts, the undead, vampire cops so why not?
Also TMBG; greatest band evah. If you don't get it you never will.
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Since this is Salon
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the suitcase was carefully removed and sent to a secret government lab where the dog hair was removed as a simple matter while they were busy implanting RFID and GPS chips in the bag in order to track you because Israel needs to blame the whole nuclear war from space against the Iranians on you, you personally.
Didn't you get the memo?
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Boondocks
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But the 2nd season is off to a slow start. Not quite as angry as the 1st season. The MLK episode last year was the best ever.
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Can you just title your next article
[Read the article: A bizarre, unsolicited e-mail from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]'Click here to arbitrarily boost the read counter'? Somehow I think your posting of these weird emails is no more mature that the screwloose who wrote them.
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90% of these letters on Salon
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are dipshits fresh out the 11th grade telling someone else to go fuck off and/or some sneering retard screaming at someone else to 'prove' something to them. Every day I come to Salon it reinforces my belief that the sooner some massive comet smashes into earth and wipes everything out, the better.
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Halloween smacks of religion
[Read the article: This Modern World ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And as good Salon liberals in fully paid up status, we cannot permit such invisible angry man in the skyism to exist. I'm sorry but you should be wearing Che t-shirts and throwing eggs at those bourgeoisie losers.
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The Civic HX, the Subaru 360 and the rickshaw
[Read the article: Who needs a Prius anyway?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A few years ago (2005?) Honda sold the Civic HX which got up to 45+mpg on a straight gas engine.
The first Honda cars in the US (CVCC, ergo the Civic) were tiny 1100cc 2 seater hatchbacks.
I remember the first Subaru 360's in America. They were white, looked like 3/4 sized VW beetles. They had 2 cyl 30 hp aircooled engines.
Similarly the real Austin Mini Coopers, not the fake ones you get now, had a whopping 1275cc engine at the very end of their runs.
Pound for pound cars are about 2x as gas efficient as 25 years ago. The problem is that cars weigh 2x as much as they did 25 years ago.
I own a 50cc scooter that gets about 80mpg. I'm going to get a 125cc scooter to go on the highways. I would seriously consider getting a rickshaw if gas got expensive enough. For going to the grocery store, a 175cc 8.5hp three wheeled covered rickshaw such as the Bajaj which can be registered as a motorcycle in all 50 states is a great around town thing.
Yes I know half of your will shout you live in the Arctic or on the side of Hippie Mountain but you're unique. Of course you are.
But the point is that miserly is where you find it. If you're looking for a 300hp all leather interior GPS equipped Pimp mobile that runs on salad oil, the sun and unicorn farts then you will be waiting a long long long time.