You do realize that none of your links back up your assertion that "Both the Ayatollah Assaholla and Iranian President Ahmafuckingnutjob have made statements to the effect that "the jews" should worry because if Israel is nuked, even if an equal number of Palestinians have to die, there are still plenty of Muslims elsewhere in the world (like Iran) ready to wipe out whatever survives the nuclear strike." In fact, a single Iranian politician who is not "the" Ayatollah made the statement.
There is a special level in hell reserved for whoever decided on the CGA color palette. There is nothing wrong with having only 16 colors due to technical limitations. Why they picked the absolute worst possible 16 colors is where the sin lies.
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act generally protects foreign countries, but there is an exception for terrorist states, which I believe Iran is classified as.
Oh give me a break, it's such an echo chamber in here, the usual screeching about how horrible the courts are, without anyone even looking at what the judge actually did. The problem with this country isn't the judicial system, it's the ignorant people who go from zero to outraged in 5 seconds based on a slashdot summary written by some anonymous guy.
The judge is ruled by the Federeal Rules of Civil Procedure. Those rules say you can't just throw out a lawsuit AT THE DISMISSAL STAGE simply because you don't think the plaintiff will win. To survive dismissal, all you have to do is draft your complaint in a way that, if the facts you allege are accepted as true, your claim can move on to the next stage. That's it. The judge isn't saying the guy's going to win, just that under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, promulgated by the Supreme Court, as authorized by Congress, he has to let the lawsuit go to the next stage.
It seems like in America you can sue for coffee being too hot, ice-cream being too cold, water being too wet. Now this??? I'm surprised there are still people doing business over there, the legal costs to operate a business in America must be enormous.
If you believe the breathless paranoia of slashdot and the rest of the media, maybe. You have to ask yourself, though, whether it's possible, just possible, that the media has overhyped the problem.
Read through the court's order. I don't really see any serious flaws; personally I wouldn't have found that his claim for gross negligence should have survived a motion to dismiss, but it's an arguable point. He actually does make a claim for defamation, though I can't see the damages being that high.
Yes, that's an accurate assessment about football vs. rugby that's brought up occasionally. Rugby players would kill themselves (literally) if they hit with equal force. But football players would be on the ground exhausted if they ran just half as much as their counterparts.
True on both accounts.
Professional boxers greatly outmatch even most football players when it comes to sustaining insane amounts of head trauma. But somehow that discussion is culturally taboo or something.
I think it's pretty well-accepted that boxers are inevitably going to suffer long-term brain trauma from boxing, despite the ridiculously ineffective safeguards they use (referee stopping the fight if one fighter is dazed too long, months between matches, etc.)
I remember seeing an article very recently (on Slashdot maybe) that pointed out that boxing got more dangerous when they started using padded gloves, because that let the boxers hit with all their strength. Take away the football helmets and pads and you might get more contusions and cuts, but less brain damage; it would be more like rugby with the players hitting each other much more softly.
EVERY DAY in CHURCH? That's my point, it's pure hyperbole and as an agnostic who was raised Catholic while I may have heard it once or twice, I never heard it Church itself it really was not a main plank in the Church's teaching as the OP says.
We're not talking about a handful of conspiracy nuts, we're talking about the 45% of Republicans in the US who believe their president is an American citizen.
Depends on how you characterize a "handful." Republicans make up only 30% of the population.
Slashdot Mirror
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You're a fucking idiot, you know that?
You do realize that none of your links back up your assertion that "Both the Ayatollah Assaholla and Iranian President Ahmafuckingnutjob have made statements to the effect that "the jews" should worry because if Israel is nuked, even if an equal number of Palestinians have to die, there are still plenty of Muslims elsewhere in the world (like Iran) ready to wipe out whatever survives the nuclear strike." In fact, a single Iranian politician who is not "the" Ayatollah made the statement.
There is a special level in hell reserved for whoever decided on the CGA color palette. There is nothing wrong with having only 16 colors due to technical limitations. Why they picked the absolute worst possible 16 colors is where the sin lies.
Is that any different than the buxom chick in a skin tight body suit and carrying a sword that is so common these days?
Hey, let's be fair, now. She sometimes has a gun.
To be fair, with 80's and 90's box art, we knew the graphics would look absolutely nothing like the cover, so it wasn't really dishonest.
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act generally protects foreign countries, but there is an exception for terrorist states, which I believe Iran is classified as.
Life is kind of a crap game. The graphics are great but the gameplay sucks!
I didn't know Id software made Life.
Oh give me a break, it's such an echo chamber in here, the usual screeching about how horrible the courts are, without anyone even looking at what the judge actually did. The problem with this country isn't the judicial system, it's the ignorant people who go from zero to outraged in 5 seconds based on a slashdot summary written by some anonymous guy. The judge is ruled by the Federeal Rules of Civil Procedure. Those rules say you can't just throw out a lawsuit AT THE DISMISSAL STAGE simply because you don't think the plaintiff will win. To survive dismissal, all you have to do is draft your complaint in a way that, if the facts you allege are accepted as true, your claim can move on to the next stage. That's it. The judge isn't saying the guy's going to win, just that under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, promulgated by the Supreme Court, as authorized by Congress, he has to let the lawsuit go to the next stage.
It seems like in America you can sue for coffee being too hot, ice-cream being too cold, water being too wet. Now this??? I'm surprised there are still people doing business over there, the legal costs to operate a business in America must be enormous.
If you believe the breathless paranoia of slashdot and the rest of the media, maybe. You have to ask yourself, though, whether it's possible, just possible, that the media has overhyped the problem.
maybe we need to start booting judges for allowing unbelievable crap like this into the system in the first place.
And of course you've read the judge's order?
Read through the court's order. I don't really see any serious flaws; personally I wouldn't have found that his claim for gross negligence should have survived a motion to dismiss, but it's an arguable point. He actually does make a claim for defamation, though I can't see the damages being that high.
The defendant was represented by the ACLU, and didn't have to pay a dime to them.
How do you explain Safford v.Redding then?
And thanks for overlooking my incredibly bad grammar on that post. Wow, I can barely understand what I wrote.
Yes, that's an accurate assessment about football vs. rugby that's brought up occasionally. Rugby players would kill themselves (literally) if they hit with equal force. But football players would be on the ground exhausted if they ran just half as much as their counterparts.
True on both accounts.
Professional boxers greatly outmatch even most football players when it comes to sustaining insane amounts of head trauma. But somehow that discussion is culturally taboo or something.
I think it's pretty well-accepted that boxers are inevitably going to suffer long-term brain trauma from boxing, despite the ridiculously ineffective safeguards they use (referee stopping the fight if one fighter is dazed too long, months between matches, etc.)
I remember seeing an article very recently (on Slashdot maybe) that pointed out that boxing got more dangerous when they started using padded gloves, because that let the boxers hit with all their strength. Take away the football helmets and pads and you might get more contusions and cuts, but less brain damage; it would be more like rugby with the players hitting each other much more softly.
Indeed, 5 years old and no exploit. Patched several years ago by the distros. The question is why didn't it get back into the kernel tree.
Why not ask the kernel developers? Nah, I'm not just joking, don't ask those nutjobs anything, they'll just freak out and start yelling at you.
EVERY DAY in CHURCH? That's my point, it's pure hyperbole and as an agnostic who was raised Catholic while I may have heard it once or twice, I never heard it Church itself it really was not a main plank in the Church's teaching as the OP says.
Once they're paying as much as people in any other first-world country, "beloved" will give way to "practical". And it brings in some nice cash too.
Never traveled British Rail, have we?
So...you heard it once. Proves my point.
We're not talking about a handful of conspiracy nuts, we're talking about the 45% of Republicans in the US who believe their president is an American citizen.
Depends on how you characterize a "handful." Republicans make up only 30% of the population.
Google just tells the geeks what they've been telling to everyone else for ages: "information wants to be free".
Silly, I didn't mean -MY- information wants to be free, just everyone else's.
You've obviously never met a defense attorney.
What a fucking horrible thing to say to a child, yet it is said daily in almost every single house of worship across this planet.
I have never heard that in a single house of worship, ever. I don't think you have, either.
Agreed, "children have to avoid this horrible thing I am doing to them."