20th June 2005, 7:49 PM
A week? You need a better job...
But yeah, to say it's illegal would open a can of worms we really don't want to. For someone who has issues with overzelous law making at times I'm surprised you would suggest that. There are potential problems there. That is, any such law can be taken out of context to the point where a person may be sued using that very law in a situation it was never intended for, namely, an idiotic situation that by all rights is immoral to be tried. I suppose maybe they might sue a company that produces food because the listing of ingrediants wasn't prominent enough on the packeging.
My suggestion? Take a stand the only way you can that ONLY targets bastards like this.
Remember, let the buyer beware.
Now then, a certain something about this strikes me as pointing out a bit of naiveté on your part. Now you are intelligent enough (though sometimes you say things largely offensive), so when I say that I mean that you likely don't have a lot of experience regarding just exactly how much stuff that really SHOULD be illegal US companies can get away with in the market.
I suggest taking a casual reading of a certain James Randi's newsletters to really see the karp actively being sold when it's not just obvious the product does not work (enough to warrent sueing them at least to get the money back), but obvious that the company actually is fully aware the product doesn't work and really is trying to scam you. Sadly, the antiscience garbage they sell seems largely untouched by the law. It may be that, thanks to how it's advertised, the people succeptible to buying it are also the sort that might blame themselves for the malfunctioning products.
http://www.randi.org/
There's a link to that site...
But yeah, to say it's illegal would open a can of worms we really don't want to. For someone who has issues with overzelous law making at times I'm surprised you would suggest that. There are potential problems there. That is, any such law can be taken out of context to the point where a person may be sued using that very law in a situation it was never intended for, namely, an idiotic situation that by all rights is immoral to be tried. I suppose maybe they might sue a company that produces food because the listing of ingrediants wasn't prominent enough on the packeging.
My suggestion? Take a stand the only way you can that ONLY targets bastards like this.
Remember, let the buyer beware.
Now then, a certain something about this strikes me as pointing out a bit of naiveté on your part. Now you are intelligent enough (though sometimes you say things largely offensive), so when I say that I mean that you likely don't have a lot of experience regarding just exactly how much stuff that really SHOULD be illegal US companies can get away with in the market.
I suggest taking a casual reading of a certain James Randi's newsletters to really see the karp actively being sold when it's not just obvious the product does not work (enough to warrent sueing them at least to get the money back), but obvious that the company actually is fully aware the product doesn't work and really is trying to scam you. Sadly, the antiscience garbage they sell seems largely untouched by the law. It may be that, thanks to how it's advertised, the people succeptible to buying it are also the sort that might blame themselves for the malfunctioning products.
http://www.randi.org/
There's a link to that site...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)