Well, that coffee was my mistake. As you explained there was no stupidy behind that accident. I just wanted to give few examples of 'stupid lawsuits' I heared, maybe somebody told me that story incorrectly or I just did remember it wrong.
I don't say that drinking (coffee) and driving car at the same time would be stupid thing to do. My point was it is stupid make lawsuit of it, if something happens because of that coffee.
(This may sound as flamebait, but mostly it tells difference about being stupid in Finland or America)
Well, this could be bit off topic but had to write it anyway.
There has been too many times I have been wondering how so many US-citizens could be so damn stupid? (Of course that includes only few people, but there is many of those anyway).
In Finland we have saying 'You must pay for being stupid'... That means if you do something stupid, only you must pay for it.
But... It seems that in US it goes 'It pays to be stupid'. Every now and then we can read from news about people who are really stupid and receives lots of money, because they sue corporations. (I don't mean that you should not ever sue corporations, but not then when "YOU" are just plain stupid).
Few examples of 'stupid people': - Woman who dryed her cat in microwave oven - Man who managed to hit his 'willie' with toilet seat (received quite lot money from that) - Woman who spilled coffee in her lap (tried to operate car while drinking coffee).
If someone does that same thing here in Finland, he does not like that ANYONE would know it, because everybody would keep him/her just stupid.
There was short news in newspaper here just few days ago about man who kicked snow blower while it was running. Of course he got his foot amputated, but because he was just stupid and we are in Finland, he is only who must 'pay' for being stupid. If he even tries to sue some company here, I think that judge would dismiss case because that man was stupid.
Few years ago I had web site that commonly was misunderstunded to be home of one popular program. We had to put text 'this is not correct site and URL to right site' (of course +2 font and bold) to frontpage and contact page. Even then I received about ten 'how can I download that program'-requests every day (and that address they used was only told in contact page, so they had to see our message TWO times and search for Email address... About 9/10 of all those mails was from US-citizens.
I think that those peoples could read, but they was just plain stupid persons.
(Well, this soulds bit like flamebait. But we just can't understund how US-goverment don't do anything about it.)
Typos, spelling and grammar mistakes are my own and I don't think it has anything to do with stupidy. English is just not my native language.
Well, I'm not ready to run XFree under Linux even yet (I like to use text console), I can run Q1 with SVGAlib nicely (even it does not support 3D features) and it works just nice with my RivaTNT.
Only reason I have Windows is games, if Linux would have more quality games I would not use windows for nothing!
FYI, Quake2 was working just fine from same CD in Windows and Linux systems (of course I had to download Linux binaries first). I bought my Quake 2 at very same day when they released Linux binaries (after I saw those binaries I run to store to buy that CD).
If there is no way to use same Q3 CD with Linux and Windows, I think I must reconsider if I even like to see Q3 then (or only with Windows).
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Well, that coffee was my mistake.
As you explained there was no stupidy behind that accident. I just wanted to give few examples of 'stupid lawsuits' I heared, maybe somebody told me that story incorrectly or I just did remember it wrong.
I don't say that drinking (coffee) and driving car at the same time would be stupid thing to do. My point was it is stupid make lawsuit of it, if something happens because of that coffee.
(This may sound as flamebait, but mostly it tells difference about being stupid in Finland or America)
... That means if you do something stupid, only you must pay for it.
... About 9/10 of all those mails was from US-citizens.
Well, this could be bit off topic but had to write it anyway.
There has been too many times I have been wondering how so many US-citizens could be so damn stupid? (Of course that includes only few people, but there is many of those anyway).
In Finland we have saying 'You must pay for being stupid'
But... It seems that in US it goes 'It pays to be stupid'. Every now and then we can read from news about people who are really stupid and receives lots of money, because they sue corporations. (I don't mean that you should not ever sue corporations, but not then when "YOU" are just plain stupid).
Few examples of 'stupid people':
- Woman who dryed her cat in microwave oven
- Man who managed to hit his 'willie' with toilet seat (received quite lot money from that)
- Woman who spilled coffee in her lap (tried to operate car while drinking coffee).
If someone does that same thing here in Finland, he does not like that ANYONE would know it, because everybody would keep him/her just stupid.
There was short news in newspaper here just few days ago about man who kicked snow blower while it was running. Of course he got his foot amputated, but because he was just stupid and we are in Finland, he is only who must 'pay' for being stupid. If he even tries to sue some company here, I think that judge would dismiss case because that man was stupid.
Few years ago I had web site that commonly was misunderstunded to be home of one popular program. We had to put text 'this is not correct site and URL to right site' (of course +2 font and bold) to frontpage and contact page. Even then I received about ten 'how can I download that program'-requests every day (and that address they used was only told in contact page, so they had to see our message TWO times and search for Email address
I think that those peoples could read, but they was just plain stupid persons.
(Well, this soulds bit like flamebait. But we just can't understund how US-goverment don't do anything about it.)
Typos, spelling and grammar mistakes are my own and I don't think it has anything to do with stupidy. English is just not my native language.
Well, I'm not ready to run XFree under Linux even yet (I like to use text console), I can run Q1 with SVGAlib nicely (even it does not support 3D features) and it works just nice with my RivaTNT.
Only reason I have Windows is games, if Linux would have more quality games I would not use windows for nothing!
FYI, Quake2 was working just fine from same CD in Windows and Linux systems (of course I had to download Linux binaries first).
I bought my Quake 2 at very same day when they released Linux binaries (after I saw those binaries I run to store to buy that CD).
If there is no way to use same Q3 CD with Linux and Windows, I think I must reconsider if I even like to see Q3 then (or only with Windows).