I don't get quite where you're coming from here, I'm sure it is off topic but since we're here...

Safety is an anaethma to me. I think seat belts and air bags in cars should be illegal. Instead put big spikes in the dash on the driver's side so that if the stupid **** doesn't watch where he's going and hits something he gets impaled. This will cure the assholes who think proper following distance is one inch per hundred miles per hour. Of course the doors are reinforced with I beams and sbit so if you get Tboned you're alright.

Guards on saws. First of all, a guard on a table saw is the worst goddam thing ever. Second of all, if you are so clumsy or infirm that you might fall on that blade or stupid enough to stick your hand on it, should you REALLY be doing carpentry ?

Even worse are those saws with the electronic brake that stops the blade in microseconds if your hand touches it. Now what happens when someone gets used to one of those and then later has to use a saw without that "feature". That "feature" might make them stupid enough to cut their hand off on a normal saw. What's more, electronics do break down, no question. Otherwise this newsgroup would not be here. So if that little sensor or solenoid stops working and someone cuts their hand off on a saw YOU guaranteed would NOT cut their hand off, guess who gets a bunch of money.

That's right, the lawyers.

Then you get a structured setlement from a class action lawsuit, and then sell that settlement to J G Wentworth for half its value and in the end, the culpable party never paid a dime. You just borrowed the interest on it. The stupidity of all this ****is overwhelming, really. In the only country to put a Man on the moon. Really, the only country to produce an extraterrestrial, albeit for a short time. But hey, even ET eventually went home right ? (never saw it)

I used to be one of the best TV techs, and I can tell you that in the nbame of safety there is more **** in there that stops it from working than makes it work ! Reality is it makes it alot harder to troubleshoot sometimes. Increases repair costs, which is good for the manufacturer. In the old days, when the TV didn't have a good picture and was billowing smoke we would generally turn it off and call the TV Man. (well, we used to fix all of our own stuff, seriously) But that was common sense. People watched the TV. They watched their show, or there was a movie on that they found out about from the PAPER TV guide. Starts at eight, we'll turn the TV on at about 7:30 and let it get goood and warmed up. Then when the credits roll at the end we turn it off. We don't lock all the kids in a room with ****ing Sponge Bob all day. That breeds more idiots.

We used to spend time with kids. Kids cannot learn from other kids, they must learn from adults.

And that is the fucvking problem, literally. Fucing makes kids, and the wrong people are ****ing. the useless biomass is reproducing alot faster than us useful Men and Women. The useless are ****ing up this world and I am all for not saving them from their fate anymore. Let Darwin's theory prevail, really.

Come on, if you but an RV ith cruise control there is a sticker that says "When using the cruise control you must still steer the vehicle" because someone took it as they could set the cruise control and go in the back, and probaably **** to make another piece of biomass that should have been recycled before it was born for all the good it would do the human race.

Doesn't anyone think of contributing to human knowledge ? To the betterment of the human condition ? Even the betterment of humanity at all ?

I think we need to either start steriliing people or putting them in chastity belts or something. Well thre Norplany might be workable. God damn, we got seven BILLION people. Tha tis too much. Our food is from overproduced land and is thus has its mineral content diluted and that is causing a ****load of diseases. When are we going to learn ?

So basically, I support letting Bubba die when he says "Hey y'all watch this". I support things being unsafe. Use the dead as an example to the young so aybe they get smart. If not, off with their hand or heads or whatever. Consequenses teach the best, so without consequenses, what happens ?

Now mind you I am not tlaking out of a lack of experience here. I have been shot in the face, I have rolled a van all the way across a hole of a golf course, I have had my ass totally kicked by three dudes, I have had my head go through the windshield of a 197 Pontiac Grand Prix, but if I had been wearing a seat belt I would be in a wheechair now because the people in the back hit the seat moving it so far forward that I could not reach the door handle.

Safety my ****ing ass, they make more money is more like it. just like a motorcycle, if my head hits the ground at 85 MPH, I would rsather be dead. Done with it.