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Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues.
Ikari Gendou writes "In April, Slashdot reported that Robert Novak, owner of Internet pet store Pets Warehouse filed a $15,000,000US lawsuit against several individuals who made comments about his company's poor service on an Internet mailing list. Also named in it and in the suit that followed were the owner of the mailing list, the owners of several informational sites about the lawsuit, the owners of other forums where the lawsuit was discussed, the attorney for the defense, and several sites that merely ran banner ads promoting the defense fund set up for the lawsuit. Some defendents settled out of fear, and were forced to pay cash, transfer their personal domain names to Novak, or even run banner ads for Petswarehouse on their websites. Now, the attorney for the defense has announced that in round three of the lawsuit, Google has been sued, as well as several other sites that have carried news about the lawsuit, such as search engine Judge-For-Yourself.com and pet stores DoctorDog.com and FerretStore.com. Robert Novak is representing himself in this lawsuit, and thus it is effectively costing him nothing to persue this campaign of harassment. He's already gotten several thousand dollars from settlements and cost the defendents considerably more than that in legal fees. More details should be posted soon here, including court documents that tell why Google was added to the suit."
THe man can't be "defending himself" if he is bringing accusations. He is representing himself is more along the lines of what is happening here.
Article X: The powers not delegated... by the Constitution...are reserved...to the people
Come on guys let's get with it here.
"slashdottin my site? thats a paddle'in" (jasper)
that's easily the funniest reference to the slashdot effect i've ever seen.
This Novak asshole needs to be bitch-slapped.
Dumb-ass moderator. Whoops, he might sue me! Thats right, I got karma to burn!
But back on topic-
The only reason why Novak is "flush" is that he intimidated people into settling and giving up "all their base"
Let this go to court- infact, YOU don't even need a lawyer, represent yourself PRO SE, and just let the judge throw it out.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Or, you could become a lawyer - they don't need to know how to add - just have someone else do the billing.
How can dropping a Fugees quote be overrated?!
3 of 5 and counting...
I'm taking a snapshot of this thread to myself as an excellent example of moderation gone awry.
Not wrong, but awry.
See, this thread is like Flynn talking to BIT, flynn can say all this stuff and has the ful range of human expression, where as bit can only say "YES", or "NO". So in this case I am like flynn: a man trapped in a world he helped create bu cannot understand, raging against its confinement, and the moderations are like bit's "YES" and "NO" And the moderator is like a two bit punk-ass bitch.
See, it all fits.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
It gets even worse too. Now we have sleeze lawyers that come on TV and advertise class action lawsuits, usually it has to do with medical malpractice or bad prescription drugs. Anyway you call up the number and join the suit. And the people wonder why healthcare costs so much in the US.
The Anti-Blog
Anonymous coward? Half these friggin posts are yours, you hypocrite.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Yeah, i know it dosent make much sense, but i get some bizzarre feeling of satisfaction when i metamoderate ALL of them as poor.
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
Lets not take notice of the fact that the people who grow/sell/distribute those perfectly safe bottles of liquor and cigarettes have plenty fo money for kidnaping.(I'm sure you'll respond with the ever present, "It's the U.S.'s fault because fighting alcohol and nicotine use makes prices go up")
While drunk on the alcohol they're on, addicts tend to do things most people frown uppon. An alcoholic might think its OK to drive to the gas station. Because he's drunk off his ass he drives right into someones little girl. Oh but he's just doing what he wants in the privacy of his own home.
A mother who smokes cigarettes will inevitably be seen by her children. They get the message that cigarettes are good. They smoke cigarettes every day like mommy and die of emphasema, just like mommy.
Perhaps she'll forget to feed her kids because shes too tired after her alcohol binge.
Lets not worry about the health effects that from time to time make someone sick. They have to go to the doctor to get seen. They've spent thier money on Jack Daniels or vodka or Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum or whatever so tey can't afford it. MY tax dollars go to pay the doctor bills and welfare checks because someone, in the privacy of thier own home, decided to get drunk again instead of getting a job.
Do some research youself and see what the extended physiological effects of alcohol and cigarettes have on the human body.
Alcohol and nicotine aren't illegal simply out of tradition. I'l admit that the government did the wrong thing to try to keep people away from chew, but that doesn't mean even responsible users will not suffer ill effects.
-no broken link