Today, I heard that Southwest Airlines is going to transfer their fleet of 88 Boeing 717 aircraft inherited from AirTran Airways to Delta Air Lines, beginning next year at a rate of 3 per month... after spending millions on them, including buying maintenance manuals and training, FAA-approved Boeing 717 simulators for pilot training, increasing the wages of 717 pilots and reserving an entire range of registrations in the N1xxxY range with the FAA (where xxx is three numbers and Y is a letter, e.g. N1001R.) Look at all the money they just wasted while Delta gets the good part of the deal that shouldn't have happened! (but, at the same time, it's ironic, as the ex-Delta McDonnell Douglas DC-9s retired in 1992 returned to Atlanta when Valujet started operations, and now the last evolution of the DC-9, the Boeing 717, is coming from Valujet's successor's fleet to Delta's fleet...)

But wait, there's more! TorrentFreak reports that a band's fans are being sued for sharing their music with others online by a Panama-based copyright troll DESPITE the band's wishes! Apparently, the German record label of the band in question, All Shall Perish (that's the band, not the label,) inadvertently sold the rights to their music to World Digital Rights, a copyright troll... and now 80 fans were caught by World Digital "pirating" their music and now are under the threat of being sued. The band and their label are, of course, desperately fighting to regain control over their music and force World Digital to dismiss this lawsuit threat, but it's not working because "Oh noes, piracy doesn't hurt anyone, nor is it proven to hurt sales, let's sue fans that share things to increase their spread and then cause them to hate the band, that'll teach 'em!" is the logic taken by many, many courts around the world. Great.

Of course, these are just two examples of common sense not prevailing. Southwest could've kept the Boeing 717 and not wasted those millions of dollars on a subfleet of 88 planes they aren't going to operate in their colors (sure, they're expensive to operate, but why spend all that money if you aren't going to operate them?) and the label of All Shall Perish could've avoided the whole lawsuit charade by making sure that they are NOT selling the rights to the music to a copyright troll, but of course, because common sense is so rare these days it's like a superpower...