Obviously this is a frivolous case, but what has happened to western society? Why did we let lawyers take over? Is there any way to stop this?
I was somewhat recently in China and this is not the case. One of the first things I noticed is that there are no guard rails for anything. There are six foot drops from sidewalks that have no railings. Parks run directly into big rivers. Although China's government may be a unique case, but I think that the non-western society expects more common sense from their people.
That might not be a fair approach for good companies. Many companies have legitimate opt-in newsletters and other email announcements that go to their members. Most people don't go through and change all of their subscriptions when they change email addresses. Many companies would be marked as spam because their members changed addresses without notifying them.
Of course, they should make sure that they aren't getting bounced emails already, though some ISPs such as AOL often don't tell you when you've sent many bad emails.
We've all been complaining that we don't want to buy a full album for $16 when we really just want a few songs. So the industry responds by making us pay $30 for a full album with a crappy USB drive. Great progress!
You basically just proved yourself wrong. Apple started out with their 5 GB black and white iPod at $400. They often do release faster/bigger models of their products for the same price, but they are also known to reduce the price of existing configurations.
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Obviously this is a frivolous case, but what has happened to western society? Why did we let lawyers take over? Is there any way to stop this?
I was somewhat recently in China and this is not the case. One of the first things I noticed is that there are no guard rails for anything. There are six foot drops from sidewalks that have no railings. Parks run directly into big rivers. Although China's government may be a unique case, but I think that the non-western society expects more common sense from their people.
That might not be a fair approach for good companies. Many companies have legitimate opt-in newsletters and other email announcements that go to their members. Most people don't go through and change all of their subscriptions when they change email addresses. Many companies would be marked as spam because their members changed addresses without notifying them.
Of course, they should make sure that they aren't getting bounced emails already, though some ISPs such as AOL often don't tell you when you've sent many bad emails.
We've all been complaining that we don't want to buy a full album for $16 when we really just want a few songs. So the industry responds by making us pay $30 for a full album with a crappy USB drive. Great progress!
You basically just proved yourself wrong. Apple started out with their 5 GB black and white iPod at $400. They often do release faster/bigger models of their products for the same price, but they are also known to reduce the price of existing configurations.