Narratio

...saying Sony Pictures had apologized for its religious insensitivity...

Huh? It's a movie made from a book. Does this mean that the books publisher should also apologize?

When the big religious movies of the 20th were being made, The Robe, Greatest Story Ever Told etc, should the film makers have considered apologizing to the Jews, Mithradaietists, followers of various Egyptian, Assyrian, etal pantheons? New century, new politically correct view points I suppose.

Consider this. When Salmon Rushdie came out with a new take on Islam, he got sentenced to death and still maintains a pretty low profile. Dan Brown, to my knowledge, is still able to walk the streets.

A bunch of cartoons take a swip at Mohammed, the creators get dragged across the world's media. South Park, Simpsons and other's make fun of christianity, yet they do not cause debates in the UN.

hmmmm...

I just dragged out a specification on Hitachi elevators. I've no idea as to the model, but there's at least 3 braking systems in a typical passenger cage installation. The first being a brake on the cable and pulley system drum, a second being sort of sprung arms that wedge out onto the cage guide rails and the third is a safety interlock onto the elevator cage motor control. Any or all would have kept the elevator from falling.

For this accident to have happened, something truly bizarre (or downright stupid) was happening. Most likely a quick, cheap fix to some other problem was underway. Proably ordered by somebody who didn't really understand what he was doing.

Impossible to say really, and the plublisehed truth will be... not what really happened. I'm sorry for thier families, I'll bet their dead family will be blamed, rightly or wrongly, and no insurance will be forthcoming.