On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:43:58AM -0600, William Robb wrote: > > The problem with legislators is that they have to legislate things in order > to justify themselves. The big stuff has been taken care of for decades, so > now all that is left is parsing minutae.
Indeed. An example, here in California, is the recently-enacted legislation prohibiting use of anything other than a hands-free cellphone while driving. Even those proposing the law concede that hands-free cellphones are just as much of a distraction, but banning cellphones outright would be unpopular. This bill, and several others just as ridiculous, are brought to you by Joe "there ought to be a law" Simitian. Every year he sponsors a bill on whatever topic that got the most requests (measurement technique unknown). I suppose this is giving people the overnment they ask for, but ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
