On Thursday 25 October 2007 11:42:58 am Andreas Pakulat wrote: > On 25.10.07 17:19:51, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Andreas Pakulat (Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:36:43 +0200) > > > > > On 25.10.07 13:33:54, Mark Summerfield wrote: > > > > Of course, I don't have any control over the pricing, and this isn't > > > > just about my particular book---my guess is that outside the US > > > > booksellers sell for whatever they think the market will bear. > > > > > > Yeah, US citizens would file a lawsuit if they'd see this happening to > > > them. In good old Europe people just take it as is. > > > > I don't think there is a law in America against overpriced books. > > No, but that doesn't stop American citizen to file a lawsuit. There's no > law against putting a cat into a microwave oven and turn it on, yet > somebody did it and filed a lawsuit because both things where broken > afterwards and (AFAIK) that person won (or all this is just a myth, but > there are plenty of these and there must be some truth in them).
This is an old urban legend. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/microwavedpet.asp There are laws in every state of the US against cruelty to animals, and microwaving a cat would almost certainly qualify. I expect the American response to overpriced books is much the same as the European one: make a .torrent and put it on the .net David -- Biggest security gap -- an open mouth. _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
