Random Ridiculousness of the Day Thread
You really can't make this sh*t up! :eek:
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Probably a ploy to stop the families from appealing.
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You sue someone frivolously, and lose, you pay their fees. If this was the general rule, you would not have all these lawsuits in the US. -t |
Yes, this is normal. However, the winner can be a mensch and forfeit the legal fees or at least reduce the total cost if not eliminate them entirely.
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Probably will get them more than $700,000 in bad PR.
Questionable business move at the least. Morally for sure. |
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So Spotify recently accused Apple of "using the App Store approval process as a weapon to harm competitors". In a very public and aggressive fashion at that.
So this went viral all over the interwebs with most outlets simply parroting Spotify's claim that Apple rejected the latest update to their app simply because they removed the In-App Purchasing feature. Implying that Apple was forcing them to give them a cut of their subscription revenue. I figured it was BS. And Apple's formal response lays out exactly why. http://i66.tinypic.com/11lm06p.png Literally nothing has changed here other than Spotify's whining about their app update being rejected for blatantly trying to circumvent a long-standing App Store rule. No retailer is going to let you put your product/service on their shelves and then allow you to get paid for it outside of the store! If Spotify doesn't want Apple to get a cut of their subscription revenue that's fine. They just can't provide any mechanism to sign-up for Spotify inside the app or advertise any way to do it outside the app. Simple as that. :hmm: OAW |
Why do people automatically think they deserve $$ when a bad thing happens to a member of their family? What a ****ed up mentality. :err:
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Maine Gov. LePage has left a curse-laden voicemail to a legislator, among other things challenging him to a duel. This over being called a racist.
audio link at press herald: 'Prove I'm a racist': LePage challenges Westbrook lawmaker in obscenity-laced voice mail - The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram |
In today's PC political climate it's nearly as bad as saying someone's a child molester.
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Perhaps. You can blame the "PC political climate" all you want. But at the end of the day Gov. LePage probably should have made sure that the state rep actually called him a racist before going off like that and then daring the man to make the VM public. He obliged him. And now the governor is looking even more like an asshat who doesn't have the temperament to hold the office than he already did. :hmm:
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So let me ask you this. If a fire had broken out and the fire alarms weren't functioning and people ended up dead. That would also be a tragedy. Would you feel the same way if the family members of the dead sued? OAW |
Not comparable. The theater wasn't equipped with nutjob-murderer alarms. And while there might have been fire axes behind glass, I'm confident there were no AR-15s behind glass.
Frivolous suits are a major nuisance. I think it's OK for the suers to pay something, but $25K each is excessive. That's end-of-middle-class for some of them, on top of losing a relative. But if they don't pay something, there's no disincentive to take potshots at innocent businesses either. |
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Like I said, society is crazy over being labeled a racist, even the mere possibility is too much for some people and drives them over the edge. This is where our PC culture is driving us. :shake: |
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[EDIT] Kentucky still has to make sure its elected officials have never been involved in duels...
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So, send LePage to Kentucky, then?
LePage has withstood the media storm and while some had hopes he'd resign, he's dug his heels in and struggles on. |
Actually, I see no reason for that term. Come on - who wouldn't want to elect a badass into office. :) |
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Gentlemen, I think we've solved the electoral college problem. Dueling would also make the primaries much simpler.
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What the natural f*ck? :shake:
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Want your mind blown even further? WF wasn't involved in the '08 meltdown. They stayed clear of the subprime shit.
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It's so callous I fail to comprehend. My only rationale is she wanted to be fired.
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Or perhaps she thought she was working in Comcast customer service, not 911?
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Jeez, what kind of HR do they have?
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Montana judge defends 60-day sentence for man who raped 12-year-old daughter | FOX31 Denver
Hey, at least it didn't happen in a women's bathroom |
Supposition: Prison has never rehabilitated a single child molester, it only makes them worse when they're eventually released (if they survive). The cycle of abuse never ends if we heap abuse on to such offenders. It's hard to believe, that in this day and age, people still cheer for criminals to rape and kill other criminals in the name of "justice".
It's why I eventually came to the conclusion that the death penalty is barbarism, and this isn't any better (in fact, it's actually worse). |
What's telling in this article is the supposition that the two sons would be more devastated by the loss of their father than the victim was by being raped by him.
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Indeed, but obviously: They'd lose a role model.
Trump needs to win, so that these boys don't need their father to look up to, and can be rightfully punished. Think of the children! |
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Who ever though prison would rehabilitate someone was an idiot. Prison is an "if you go here your life is ruined so don't do it." If your life is already ruined then prison doesn't do anything.
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