On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 09:38:11 -0600, "Jim B"
wrote:

How ridiculous. Should the airplane have known that there was a building in
it's path, recognized the wind speed, required bank angle, airspeed,
altitude to avoid said building then alerted the pilot or kicked in the
autopilot? Or should the airplane should have been built so it's occupants
would survive any crash? WTF? How can the design of the airplane be at
fault?

You are right. They are the worst of the scum. They use the grief and
vulnerability of the victims survivors to line their own pockets knowing
that the manufacturers would rather settle than fight the case and suffer
the publicity.

Did anybody see the interview of the lawyer representing Anna Nicole Smith's
mother and how he bilked Dow Corning on the breast implant deal? He made
millions, Dow Corning went broke, then the FDA said that the implants were

The two lawyers made more off that case than DC grossed in a year and
DC is a large corporation. They managed to put together enough cases
that is was cheaper to just put several Billion (yes that is with a
B) into a pot and then declare chapter 11 to "keep from going broke"

There comes a point where there are enough simultaneous cases that it
becomes almost impossible to pursue them all let alone mount an
effective defense. Even huge corporations don't have that kind of
resources. It's not only expensive but can take literally thousands
of people to pursue. There were literally teams of people working on
quite a few *truckloads* of paper work. The amount of paperwork was
unbelievable.

As I recall there never was any research to support the claims made
against the company, but well presented "junk science" won out". The
ones who got rich were the main lawyers, not the claimants. Nor do I
believe the FDA said the implants were unsafe. They just removed them
from the market until more research could be done.

Many of us in the field of computers and medicine do not recognize the
term expert any more. If a true expert exists then there could not be
another true expert with opposing views. In many cases those
testifying will no longer allow some one to call them an expert.
"Knowledgeable in the field" is an acceptable alternative and does not
carry the connotations of expert to mislead the unknowing.

indeed safe after all. Scum.
Jim

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com