[TheForge] Teaching blacksmithing and insurance

[Andy Vida]

Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> 
> It's easy to blame the lawyers, and in some cases justified, but mostly
> the problem is the #@#@#@# who press frivolous lawsuits and the jurys
> who support them.

	Lawyers set the system up to their advantage.  I don't suppose
	I can blame them for this, but likewise they cannot blame me 
	for not being particularly fond of it.

> The virtue of the system is it offers a way to settle conflicts short of
> firearms...fewer dead people are pretty much worth the incessant
> bullship...mostly.

	As my one-time colleague at AT&T, Max Fine, used to say:
	"There's no shortage of people". :)


> RE digi camera...I want one too...but every time it comes down to a new
> camera or a tool.

	Rock and hard place.  I feel your pain.