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Diamondeye
 Post subject: Re: More buckyballs
PostPosted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:47 pm 
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Like I said before, I also think it's awful and ridiculous that the CPSC is obviously making an example of this guy after he decided to respond to their initial complaint by mocking them. But seriously, he went out in public, and mocked and provoked an entity that has the ability to arbitrarily destroy him. It's utter stupidity no matter how you look at it.


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 Post subject: Re: More buckyballs
PostPosted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:41 am 
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Xequecal wrote:
"Keep this away from children" warnings are so ubiquitous on everything now that they have lost all meaning.

Gosh, whose fault is that?

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Arathain Kelvar
 Post subject: Re: More buckyballs
PostPosted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:52 pm 
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Xequecal wrote:
Neither was Pan's Labyrinth. How many parents took their little kids to see that? Just like that movie was a "fairy tale" and obviously for children, buckyballs were still a "toy," and they looked like a child's toy, and that made a large percentage of parents automatically assume it's for children despite warnings on the box. "Keep this away from children" warnings are so ubiquitous on everything now that they have lost all meaning. My TV dinners have "keep away from children" warnings on them!


You don't see the problem with this line of thought?

Companies make normal, useful products, people use them foolishly and hurt themselves, companies are sued or organizations like the CPSC come down on them and ban or fine them. They then put warning labels on their products. Other companies see what happened and put warning labels on their own products. Soon, warning labels are "so ubiquitous on everything that they have lost all meaning". This is then used as justification for lawsuits and CPSC action anyway.
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