This is still a stupid search and should be ruled as such.
However the facts are:
1. The (male) administrator did NOT perform the search.
2. A (female) nurse performed the search.
Stupid yes, but it seemed from the various comments that this needed to be stated.
I've had good luck with my local FBI office (Ann Arbor) when I received an interstate death threat.
Yet another reason I make all my death threats locally...
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It is an INTERESTING response...almost word for word from the True Stella website. Now here's the rest of the facts (from True Stella) that you failed to include:
#The resulting $640,000 isn't the end either. Liebeck and McDonald's entered into secret settlement negotiations rather than go to appeal. The amount of the settlement is not known -- it's secret!
#The plaintiffs were apparently able to document 700 cases of burns from McDonald's coffee over 10 years, or 70 burns per year. But that doesn't take into account how many cups are sold without incident. A McDonald's consultant pointed out the 700 cases in 10 years represents just 1 injury per 24 million cups sold! For every injury, no matter how severe, 23,999,999 people managed to drink their coffee without any injury whatever. Isn't that proof that the coffee is not "unreasonably dangerous"?
#Even in the eyes of an obviously sympathetic jury, Stella was judged to be 20 percent at fault -- she did, after all, spill the coffee into her lap all by herself. The car was stopped, so she presumably was not bumped to cause the spill. Indeed she chose to hold the coffee cup between her knees instead of any number of safer locations as she opened it. Should she have taken more responsibility for her own actions?
And...
# Here's the Kicker: Coffee is supposed to be served in the range of 185 degrees! The National Coffee Association recommends coffee be brewed at "between 195-205 degrees Fahrenheit for optimal extraction" and drunk "immediately". If not drunk immediately, it should be "maintained at 180-185 degrees Fahrenheit." (Source: NCAUSA.)
SO YES...APPARENTLY, MOST PEOPLE APPARENTLY DO LIKE COFFEE THAT CAN GIVE THEM 3RD DREGREE BURNS
Exactly what, then, did McDonald's do wrong? Did it exhibit "willful, wanton, reckless or malicious conduct" -- the standard in New Mexico for awarding punitive damages?
This has been discussed before regarding SWAT with the kid from Oregon who had he SoCal family "taken down". SWAT is far and away the safest way to be arrested since they practice with their weapons daily.
The results from this study go back to 1985. California has 37 incidents listed, New York has 36, Texas 26. That is a little over 1.5 "mistakes" per year per STATE. (for some states with HUGE populations) I think that hardly equates to "often" or even "how often". Further, the study fails to distinguish between SWAT raids and other "no-knock" raids conducted by regular police/deputies. So please at least be familiar with the study before disparing the EXCELLENT men/women who work for SWAT.
Superwiz said: "A good percentage of the people in that database are "criminals" who committed the statutory rape of having sex while in high school (because the other person was under age)."
While it is nice to modded insightful...I'll quote from the person above who questioned recidivism rates...
tomstdenis wrote:
in this case would it have been so hard to pull the kid aside with the parents and ask what's up? Instead of going all omgbbq!!!!111oneCRAZIES over it?
Yes, actually it would. Because if it does turn out this kid is the next mass murderer/psycho/rapist/etc., guess who gets sued into oblivion by the victims' families (and their attorneys who get 1/3+ of any $$$)?...that's right: the teacher, school, and district because they should have seen it coming. This is just the school doing a CYA as a result of our litigious society.
After reading the article and comments, it appears the compatibility is only good for
Novell's version of Open Office. It is not available for the "standard" Open Office.
REBECCA WRITES: In addition, anyone who has visited there or been allowed to inspect the facility (such as Amnesty International) have reported that they believe the prisoners are unlawfully detained and being tortured.
So if someone here posts a belief in...say...an intelligent creator of life on earth, they are to be ridiculed and assumed to lack an reasoning ability whatsoever. But if a group with a stated agenda posts a belief, we are to treat them with respect and honor that belief????? I am confused....
The problem with his argument is that while playing cowboys and indians, not only was I using my imagination, I was also developing my muscles, improving my heartrate, and coordinating my thoughts with real movements in real space. Video games while certainly stimulating the imagination, do none of these with the possible exception of developing killer thumbs...
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This is still a stupid search and should be ruled as such. However the facts are: 1. The (male) administrator did NOT perform the search. 2. A (female) nurse performed the search. Stupid yes, but it seemed from the various comments that this needed to be stated.
I've had good luck with my local FBI office (Ann Arbor) when I received an interstate death threat.
Yet another reason I make all my death threats locally...
It is an INTERESTING response...almost word for word from the True Stella website. Now here's the rest of the facts (from True Stella) that you failed to include: #The resulting $640,000 isn't the end either. Liebeck and McDonald's entered into secret settlement negotiations rather than go to appeal. The amount of the settlement is not known -- it's secret! #The plaintiffs were apparently able to document 700 cases of burns from McDonald's coffee over 10 years, or 70 burns per year. But that doesn't take into account how many cups are sold without incident. A McDonald's consultant pointed out the 700 cases in 10 years represents just 1 injury per 24 million cups sold! For every injury, no matter how severe, 23,999,999 people managed to drink their coffee without any injury whatever. Isn't that proof that the coffee is not "unreasonably dangerous"? #Even in the eyes of an obviously sympathetic jury, Stella was judged to be 20 percent at fault -- she did, after all, spill the coffee into her lap all by herself. The car was stopped, so she presumably was not bumped to cause the spill. Indeed she chose to hold the coffee cup between her knees instead of any number of safer locations as she opened it. Should she have taken more responsibility for her own actions? And... # Here's the Kicker: Coffee is supposed to be served in the range of 185 degrees! The National Coffee Association recommends coffee be brewed at "between 195-205 degrees Fahrenheit for optimal extraction" and drunk "immediately". If not drunk immediately, it should be "maintained at 180-185 degrees Fahrenheit." (Source: NCAUSA.) SO YES...APPARENTLY, MOST PEOPLE APPARENTLY DO LIKE COFFEE THAT CAN GIVE THEM 3RD DREGREE BURNS Exactly what, then, did McDonald's do wrong? Did it exhibit "willful, wanton, reckless or malicious conduct" -- the standard in New Mexico for awarding punitive damages?
This has been discussed before regarding SWAT with the kid from Oregon who had he SoCal family "taken down". SWAT is far and away the safest way to be arrested since they practice with their weapons daily. The results from this study go back to 1985. California has 37 incidents listed, New York has 36, Texas 26. That is a little over 1.5 "mistakes" per year per STATE. (for some states with HUGE populations) I think that hardly equates to "often" or even "how often". Further, the study fails to distinguish between SWAT raids and other "no-knock" raids conducted by regular police/deputies. So please at least be familiar with the study before disparing the EXCELLENT men/women who work for SWAT.
Superwiz said: "A good percentage of the people in that database are "criminals" who committed the statutory rape of having sex while in high school (because the other person was under age)."
While it is nice to modded insightful...I'll quote from the person above who questioned recidivism rates...
Cite Please.
tomstdenis wrote: in this case would it have been so hard to pull the kid aside with the parents and ask what's up? Instead of going all omgbbq!!!!111oneCRAZIES over it?
Yes, actually it would. Because if it does turn out this kid is the next mass murderer/psycho/rapist/etc., guess who gets sued into oblivion by the victims' families (and their attorneys who get 1/3+ of any $$$)?...that's right: the teacher, school, and district because they should have seen it coming. This is just the school doing a CYA as a result of our litigious society.
After reading the article and comments, it appears the compatibility is only good for Novell's version of Open Office. It is not available for the "standard" Open Office.
REBECCA WRITES: In addition, anyone who has visited there or been allowed to inspect the facility (such as Amnesty International) have reported that they believe the prisoners are unlawfully detained and being tortured.
So if someone here posts a belief in...say...an intelligent creator of life on earth, they are to be ridiculed and assumed to lack an reasoning ability whatsoever. But if a group with a stated agenda posts a belief, we are to treat them with respect and honor that belief????? I am confused....
The problem with his argument is that while playing cowboys and indians, not only was I using my imagination, I was also developing my muscles, improving my heartrate, and coordinating my thoughts with real movements in real space. Video games while certainly stimulating the imagination, do none of these with the possible exception of developing killer thumbs...