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DeCSS: Jon Johansen Acquitted In Retrial
EssJay writes "DVD-Jon is acquitted in the retrial. The verdict was expected in January, but was announced today in the papers." We had posted about the retrial beginning - it's a good holiday present to get this early.
According to Marx, they are the same. He used both terms interchangably.
"or understand how values without a monetary value can pre-empt any economic claims.
Yet, the socialist system is obsessed with monetery value (hence the very greedy tax rates).
"The word "greed" sums it up pretty well - in Norway, greed is still considered a sin"
And, yet, the government in Norway is much more greedy than the one in the United States.
"In the US, greed is considered a driving force"
Less so than in a socialist system. Working and creating wealth is not greed.
.."the norweigan government sue RIAA/MPAA for wasting time and tax money" and for totally "complete dickheads".
EU Declares that MPAA/RIAA are "complete dickheads" and starts warming up the Figher/bombers as European presidents issue launch codes to their nuclear silos/subs.
Us dont want any bad relations so they simply hand over the internationally known terrorist Jack Valenty to EU custody in for his execution^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H"Fair Trial" of his "Jihad against consumer".
This will get the trial-scum lawyers crawling out of the woodwork claiming the McD's is responsible for old ladies who take the lid off hot coffee in their car and spill it in their lap.
In this world view, nobody is every responsible for themselves.
I hope they all just go away and die.
> Let's hope that Mr Johansen has learned from the
> Skylarov case, and won't be stupid enough to
> visit the US in the near future.
Yes. Much better that he stay in Norway and be tried over and over on the same criminal charge. God forbid that he should come to the US and risk being subjected to the horrors of a limited civil court order, or the faint possibility of having chages filed against him and then dropped before trial like Skylarov.
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Uhm, first of all: HAHAHAHAHAHA! Cry me a river! Your poor wittle high school couldn't afford a baseball team! WHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Second of all: Do the research. McD's coffee Temp: 180 degrees. Its competitors? 155 degrees.
Thats a major temperature differential.
AS for the millions? The woman sued for 20,000 (her medical bills). The jury awarded millions, the judge reduced to 200k, THEN She and McD's settled (they would have appealed, otherwise) most likely for medical bills and court costs. Where are the millions?! Moron.
YOU are whats wrong with america. You are stupid, you don't do any research, and all you do is bitch.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
So, they were serving the coffee at the recommended temp. AND the woman was 79.. surely she knew that coffee can be hot and that you should take great care to not dump the stuff on your lap... like maybe not be opening the lid while the cup is sitting on your lap?!?!
Does it suck that she burnt herself bad enough to need skin grafts? Yes it does. Is it likely the burns were worse due to her age? Yes, as you age your skin gets thinner and is more easily damaged. Was McD being irresponsible when they served coffee at the recommended temperature? No. Were they being irresponsible when they assumed people knew that hot coffee was "hot?" Hardly, that's a reasonable expectation. Were they being irresponsible when they didn't post a warning on the cup or ordering window to tell warn people of what everyone already knows? If so, then pencil sharpener makers better start putting warnings that "sharpened pencils pose a greater risk of injury than unsharpened pencils."
The woman was injured through her own act. It was an accident, but it was hardly McD's fault.
BTW, the fact that 700 people were burnt (DURING THE PREVIOUS 10 YEARS!!) is irrelevant. How many people were burnt on car or motorcycle tailpipes during that same time period? Should we start suing manufacturers or start putting warnings on them like "Tailpipe may be very hot. Touching your leg or any exposed skin to the tailpipe may cause severe burns."
Everybody freaks when they learn that the coffee was served at 180-185 degrees F because they don't think about it. Boiling watter is 212 degrees F... what do you think is used to make coffee? If you make coffee for someone at home and they burn themselves, should they be able to sue you? If not, why should they be able to sue McD?