McDonalds coffee has caused people who tried to drink it to get third-degree burns on their mouth and stomach.
Stella didn't burn her mouth or stomach. She burned her legs while holding coffee between them.
Every case is founded on some basic principles of justice.
The basic principal in this case was:
When any adult engages in stupid or irresponsible behavior, then that person is 100% responsible for the outcome. Not 90%.
Not 99%.
100%.
And, holding hot coffee between your legs is definitely stupid and irresponsible.
Therefore, MacDonalds was not responsible at all.
American tort law is completely full of shit, especially the concept of "punitive damages".
Nowhere else in the world can tort lawyers become billionaires because the jury thinks
the defendant needs to be
"punished".
1 a : happily excited : MERRY e.g. "in a gay mood" b : keenly alive and exuberant : having or inducing high spirits e.g. "a bird's gay spring song"
2 a : BRIGHT, LIVELY e.g. "gay sunny meadows" b : brilliant in color
3 : given to social pleasures; also : LICENTIOUS
4 a : HOMOSEXUAL e.g."gay men" b : of, relating to, or used by homosexuals
Notice number 4 up there? Modern dictionaries contain all modern meanings of words. Now you find one that defines "liberal" as "supporting totalitarianism, Marxism, hating Christians" or "someone who desires power over others". It doesn't mean that and it never did, except in the warped minds of you and your fascist skinhead brothers.
News Flash:
According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, the two most common meanings of the word "liberal" are:
1 (a) : of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts:e.g. "a liberal education", or (b) archaic : of or befitting a man of free birth
2 (a) : marked by generosity : openhanded:e.g. "a liberal giver", or (b) : given or provided in a generous and openhanded way:e.g. "a liberal meal", or (c) : ample, full
Just because your local bible-banging preacher told you that it means "supporting totalitarianism, Marxism, hating Christians" doesn't make it true. Talk about brainwashed.
the only way liberals ever win is in a rigged fight (such as the US election system)
Like the 3 or 4 before the most recent one?
Where right-wings boobs like you took over:
1. the White House
2. the Congress
3. the Senate
4. the Supreme Court
What the US far right calls "liberal" is what everyone else in the world
calls "educated".
And why the hell shouldn't MacDonalds coffee be hotter than other places? The coffee in a lot of other places is about as hot as dishwater. It's been even worse since that stupid lawsuit.
Every case is founded on some basic legal principles.
In this case, the basic principle was:
When any adult engages in stupid or irresponsible behavior, then that person is 100% responsible for the outcome. Not 90%. Not 99%. 100%.
And, driving with hot coffee between your legs is definitely stupid and irresponsible. Therefore, MacDonalds was not responsible at all.
There is a very old and simple "proof" that light has not existed for an infinite length of time. If it did then the entire universe would be (more or less) uniformly bathed in it in every direction.
It is.
It's just that the "light" is of very long wavelength (microwaves), so our human eyes can't see it. That's exactly what the cosmic background radiation is.
And yet, signals quantized to 24-bit precision sound clearly better. Why?
Perhaps it is because the above analysis would only make sense when recording a full-volume (0..2^16) sine-wave. For most orchestral music, a full-volume crescendo is a rare event, and most of the music is much quieter (e.g between 0..2^9). This raises the effective noise floor to about 70 dbfs during the quietest passages, which is definately audible.
You're trying to tell me that "the rest of the world" thought that the worlds largest, and best equipped military force couldn't take on a piddly little country like Iraq?
Yes, and they were right. It doesn't matter how big your army is, unless you are fighting another army. This time, the US is fighting a couple of million insurgents who look exactly like everyone else in the country. And they have no clue how to to deal with it.
This is exactly what happened in Vietnam, and now it is happening all over again.
Oh, and by the way, I just heard an announcement: "Attention c6gunner: it's medication time."
The point is that they are spending hundreds or thousands of dollars per hour on their lawyers...
Wrong.
The RIAA doesn't hire lawyers, they are lawyers: the RIAA is effectively a specialized law firm engaged to pursue copyright infringers full-time. They can not be deterred financially, having hundreds of millions available from the record companies. Their sole purpose in life is to harass a few people to the point that everyone else becomes too scared to download. They don't really care whether they win or not.
When I worked in the US, I had excellent health insurance provided by the university where I worked, yet in the end, the medical care stank compared to what I was used to in Europe.
There is a big difference between "has the best" and "is the best". True, the US has the best hospitals, surgeons etc. But only the wealthiest 10% of the population has access to them. For everyone else, all you get is care that would horrify the typical Swiss or German.
Horseshit. There is exactly ONE "victim" here: the bank. And as such, the bank, and only the bank, should be left holding the bag.
Analysis: Q. Exactly what crime is being committed? A. Fraud, which is essentially lying about finance. Q. So who is lying, and who is being lied to? A. The fake "owners" are doing the lying, and the
bank that issues the mortgage on the property
is being lied to. It follows that the purchasers are not involved directly, and as such have to be let out of their mortgage since the deal with the bank is "give us $$ a month, and in return you get a house". Since they don't get a house, the deal is off. If this happens some time later, it is the bank's responsibility to make it up to the purchasers.
The true owners are completely uninvolved in the transaction.
The claim that the courts are siding with the purchasers is false: it is the politically powerful banks that are being given a free ride at the expense of the true owners.
A similar incident occurred in Canada last year. An elderly woman in a government-run nursing home complained to her son that she was being abused by one of the male nurses. So, the next time he visited, the son left a bag containing a hidden camera on her dresser. When he retrieved the tape, it did indeed show evidence of abuse. When he took this to the manager of the nursing home, a law suit resulted. A law suit against the son, that is.
When the nurses union got wind of what had happened, they sued the son for "invading the privacy" of the nurse, and the government backed the union. Part of the settlement against the son involved dropping all charges against the nurse, who went unpunished.
Did anybody notice that the author didn't mention
the most successful "Motion Detector" in gaming, namely
the DanceDanceRevolution pad? Or the Guitar Hero axe?
There is a place like that in Vancouver (the Ridge) and it is a great place to go for a night out.
I guess the key is that the owner only has to answer to his customers, and not to Wall Street. Also, he really loves movies. I doubt if the MPAA types ever go to movies, except in their private theaters.
Then let the robots download maps, etc. autonomously (automatically), and as needed, during the race.
And if route planning is so easy, why did CMU need "12 analysts in a tent beside the start line scrutinize the terrain"
which "identified boulders, fence posts, and ditches so that the two vehicles would not have to wonder whether a fence was a fence".
Their [CMU's] mission: create a digital map of the race area's topography. The team logged 2,000 miles and built a detailed model of the desolate sagebrush expanses of the Mojave.
That was only the beginning. The Red Team purchased high-resolution satellite imagery of the desert and, when Darpa revealed the course on race day, Whittaker had 12 analysts in a tent beside the start line scrutinize the terrain. The analysts identified boulders, fence posts, and ditches so that the two vehicles would not have to wonder whether a fence was a fence. Humans would have already coded it into the map.
Does anyone else think that this makes a mockery of the term "autonomous"? All the route planning (the hardest part of
having an autonomous vehicle) is done by humans with the CMU vehicle. It's not autonomous at all.
If I were putting on a competition like this, I wouldn't reveal the location or route beforehand. Instead, I
would have all the contestants bring their vehicles to a warehouse, then I would put them in a truck, and drive it
to the race start. The race organizers would place them in random order
at the starting line, then at 2-hour intervals the officials would press a prominent "Start" button that each vehicle would be required to have.
That would be a true test of autonomy. The current race is clearly biased to favor projects that already
receive massive DARPA support.
I don't know what a "McScientist": is, but there is no conflict between science and
logic. Science is the best-known application of logic.
Although, you may be
right when it comes to science teachers, at least in grade school. Many
of them wouldn't be able to distinguish logic from illogic, even in simple cases.
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Unlike your group-think, coming straight from Fox News.
Anyone who identifies themselves as a "Republican" or a "Democrat" is more likely to be part of the problem than part of any solution.
Stella didn't burn her mouth or stomach. She burned her legs while holding coffee between them.
Every case is founded on some basic principles of justice. The basic principal in this case was:
When any adult engages in stupid or irresponsible behavior, then that person is 100% responsible for the outcome.
Not 90%.
Not 99%.
100%.
And, holding hot coffee between your legs is definitely stupid and irresponsible. Therefore, MacDonalds was not responsible at all.
American tort law is completely full of shit, especially the concept of "punitive damages".
Nowhere else in the world can tort lawyers become billionaires because the jury thinks the defendant needs to be "punished".
Notice number 4 up there?
Modern dictionaries contain all modern meanings of words.
Now you find one that defines "liberal" as "supporting totalitarianism, Marxism, hating Christians" or "someone who desires power over others".
It doesn't mean that and it never did, except in the warped minds of you and your fascist skinhead brothers.
According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, the two most common meanings of the word "liberal" are: Just because your local bible-banging preacher told you that it means "supporting totalitarianism, Marxism, hating Christians" doesn't make it true.
Talk about brainwashed.
Where right-wings boobs like you took over:
1. the White House
2. the Congress
3. the Senate
4. the Supreme Court
What the US far right calls "liberal" is what everyone else in the world calls "educated".
And why the hell shouldn't MacDonalds coffee be hotter than other places? The coffee in a lot of other places is about as hot as dishwater. It's been even worse since that stupid lawsuit.
Every case is founded on some basic legal principles.
In this case, the basic principle was:
When any adult engages in stupid or irresponsible behavior, then that person is 100% responsible for the outcome.
Not 90%.
Not 99%.
100%.
And, driving with hot coffee between your legs is definitely stupid and irresponsible.
Therefore, MacDonalds was not responsible at all.
American tort law is completely full of shit.
It's just that the "light" is of very long wavelength (microwaves), so our human eyes can't see it. That's exactly what the cosmic background radiation is.
I didn't know NBC had NCO's. Does CBS and ABC? How about Fox?
And yet, signals quantized to 24-bit precision sound clearly better. Why?
Perhaps it is because the above analysis would only make sense when recording a full-volume (0..2^16) sine-wave. For most orchestral music, a full-volume crescendo is a rare event, and most of the music is much quieter (e.g between 0..2^9). This raises the effective noise floor to about 70 dbfs during the quietest passages, which is definately audible.
Yes, and they were right.
It doesn't matter how big your army is, unless you are fighting another army. This time, the US is fighting a couple of million insurgents who look exactly like everyone else in the country. And they have no clue how to to deal with it.
This is exactly what happened in Vietnam, and now it is happening all over again.
Oh, and by the way, I just heard an announcement: "Attention c6gunner: it's medication time."
Wrong.
The RIAA doesn't hire lawyers, they are lawyers: the RIAA is effectively a specialized law firm engaged to pursue copyright infringers full-time. They can not be deterred financially, having hundreds of millions available from the record companies. Their sole purpose in life is to harass a few people to the point that everyone else becomes too scared to download. They don't really care whether they win or not.
When I worked in the US, I had excellent health insurance provided by the university where I worked, yet in the end, the medical care stank compared to what I was used to in Europe.
There is a big difference between "has the best" and "is the best". True, the US has the best hospitals, surgeons etc. But only the wealthiest 10% of the population has access to them. For everyone else, all you get is care that would horrify the typical Swiss or German.
Horseshit. There is exactly ONE "victim" here: the bank. And as such,
the bank, and only the bank, should be left holding the bag.
Analysis:
Q. Exactly what crime is being committed?
A. Fraud, which is essentially lying about finance.
Q. So who is lying, and who is being lied to?
A. The fake "owners" are doing the lying, and the
bank that issues the mortgage on the property
is being lied to.
It follows that the purchasers are not involved directly,
and as such have to be let out of their mortgage since
the deal with the bank is "give us $$ a month, and
in return you get a house". Since they don't get a
house, the deal is off. If this happens some time later,
it is the bank's responsibility to make it up to the
purchasers.
The true owners are completely uninvolved in the transaction.
The claim that the courts are siding with the purchasers is
false: it is the politically powerful banks that are being
given a free ride at the expense of the true owners.
This is government corruption, plain and simple.
A similar incident occurred in Canada last year.
An elderly woman in a government-run nursing
home complained to her son that she was being abused
by one of the male nurses.
So, the next time he visited, the son left a bag containing
a hidden camera on her dresser. When he retrieved the tape,
it did indeed show evidence of abuse. When he took this
to the manager of the nursing home, a law suit resulted.
A law suit against the son, that is.
When the nurses union got wind of what had happened,
they sued the son for "invading the privacy"
of the nurse, and the government backed the union.
Part of the settlement against the son
involved dropping all charges against the nurse, who went
unpunished.
It's that the most common method of obtaining a suspect's DNA is via a cheek swab. Why do they need his blood?
Too bad it sucked.
Did they grab people off the street and
say "Hey, wanna be in a movie?"
Worst acting I've ever seen.
Great visuals though.
Did anybody notice that the author didn't mention the most successful "Motion Detector" in gaming, namely the DanceDanceRevolution pad? Or the Guitar Hero axe?
There is a place like that in Vancouver (the Ridge) and it is a great place to go for a night out.
I guess the key is that the owner only has to answer to his customers, and not to Wall Street. Also, he really loves movies. I doubt if the MPAA types ever go to movies, except in their private theaters.
If anyone belongs in the Special Olympics, it is you, "glitch23". I hope you win.
Then let the robots download maps, etc. autonomously (automatically), and as needed, during the race.
And if route planning is so easy, why did CMU need "12 analysts in a tent beside the start line scrutinize the terrain" which "identified boulders, fence posts, and ditches so that the two vehicles would not have to wonder whether a fence was a fence".
That's not "autonomy", it's glorified R/C.
Their [CMU's] mission: create a digital map of the race area's topography. The team logged 2,000 miles and built a detailed model of the desolate sagebrush expanses of the Mojave. That was only the beginning. The Red Team purchased high-resolution satellite imagery of the desert and, when Darpa revealed the course on race day, Whittaker had 12 analysts in a tent beside the start line scrutinize the terrain. The analysts identified boulders, fence posts, and ditches so that the two vehicles would not have to wonder whether a fence was a fence. Humans would have already coded it into the map.
Does anyone else think that this makes a mockery of the term "autonomous"? All the route planning (the hardest part of having an autonomous vehicle) is done by humans with the CMU vehicle. It's not autonomous at all.
If I were putting on a competition like this, I wouldn't reveal the location or route beforehand. Instead, I would have all the contestants bring their vehicles to a warehouse, then I would put them in a truck, and drive it to the race start. The race organizers would place them in random order at the starting line, then at 2-hour intervals the officials would press a prominent "Start" button that each vehicle would be required to have.
That would be a true test of autonomy. The current race is clearly biased to favor projects that already receive massive DARPA support.
ID is trying to fill the gaps left by generations of 'scientific' willful ignorance.
Yes: "filling in the gaps" with superstition. No thanks.
I don't know what a "McScientist": is, but there is no conflict between science and logic. Science is the best-known application of logic.
Although, you may be right when it comes to science teachers, at least in grade school. Many of them wouldn't be able to distinguish logic from illogic, even in simple cases.
The point is that ID brings nothing to the table. It explains nothing.
And so it is nothing but a waste of time in science class.
Everything in this universe has a beginning and end.
Says who? You aren't the ID are you? If you are, I apologize.