My 5 year old knows that jumping from a high surface will hurt when you land. Some kids are stupid, some people can't understand that. I meet stupid adults all the time, weren't these stupid adults once stupid children?
Look at it this way, psychic hotlines exist even though the first question any caller should ask the phychic to answer is what color shirt and socks you are wearing, but they do exist and so do stupid people. This kid was a stupid person. We should be grateful for two things, 1) he died before producing any offspring and 2) he didn't hurt anybody else while killing himself.
I took a few civil law classes and we discussed this case. I'm not going to be 100% correct on the details but reading others posts helped jog my memory.
There were guidelines on the books somewhere for food consumption and McDonalds was overheating the coffee so they could use cheaper beans and hide the bad taste. They were warned or fined previously to this, if I recall. When the lady spilled her cup of coffee, her legs and genitals recieved 3rd degree burns and the hospital/recovery came to around $110,000. She sued mickey d's and was awarded a settlement of around a million dollars.
The media had a field day and ran headlines across the country. McDonalds saw the settlement as unreasonable and appealed the case. Anyway, in the end, she was awarded the ~$110,000 to pay all her bills and thats it. The media steered clear of the overturned million dollar verdict. Most appeals where the original outlandish settlement is overturned is never talked about in the media.
I understand that this list is most likely biased to the teen to early 50's crowd, as most kids under 12 would fall asleep watching a movie like Contact and most senior citizens would not be interested in a movie like star trek 2. Many of my favorite movies are those that I saw before I was a teenager; Star Wars 4-6, Star Treks 1-3, Alien(s), and even Flash Gordon.
Having said that, I have a little kid and when his little friends come over to play, we sometimes try to get them to settle down and watch a movie when it starts getting late. We have tried so many movies, mostly kids movies, but nothing ever works. They keep running around playing.
When the Star Wars 4-6 dvd set came out, I tried getting them to watch the original Star Wars for the first time. It only held their attention for about 15 minutes. I tried episode I and II at different times but both had the same effect. When the episode III dvd came out, one of the other kids parents told me she and her kid, age 5, hadn't seen it yet. My kid also hadn't seen it yet so I decided to give it a try. Then the unspeakable happened, the kids sat quietly and watched in amazement. I had never seen anything like it. I will admit that I fast forwarded through any parts of the movie where both anikan and padme where on the screen at the same time.
The thing that I realized was that my kid was experiencing the same thing I experienced when I was about his age and I saw Episode IV. Sure most of us in our generation would never place a movie like Episode III in our top ten space movie list but it's quite possible that 20 years from now this movie could be in the top 5. How many of our parents, who are now seniors, have nostalgic memories of shows like the Lone Ranger the same way we have nostalgic memories of sitting in a theater watching Star Trek 2 for the very first time?
With p2p techonology making the distribution of digital content available at almost no cost to the provider, sony sets up a their own p2p network that users can join for a small monthly subscription fee. They release all their dvd, games and hi-def content to all users on the network.
Sony changes the failing business model of pushing more useless hardware and software on people because since napster they can no longer keep fooling people into believing that they need to walk into a store to buy useless plastic discs for digital content that can just as easily be obtained from the comfort of their home.
My wife's friend asked me the other day how to setup up yahoo chat on her computer because (in her words) her friend, who is a real computer geek wants her to join her and her friends online. I asked her why she called her a computer geek. She told me that she has a webcam setup and she's always using the computer to chat.
Im not offended when I am called a geek, but when people with the computer skills of an average 3rd grader are considered computer geeks, hollywood has truly distorted the word.
Back when I first got into computer gaming I bought this terrible cd case to hold my games. Inevatably this crappy case cracked my new Age of Empires cd I had just paid $50 for. Without the cd I could no longer play the game. I tried taking it back to the store but they said my 15-day return window had passed. I thought about buying another one and putting the broken disc in the new box and returning it, but found out you can't return computer software. Their was an email address that came with the cd if you had problems. So I emailed them (microsoft) and told them what happened. I told them I had the reciept and the cracked cd and would gladly send them both if I could get a replacement disc. I sent them multiple emails but they only sent auto-generated replies of no help at all.
I discovered the only way to fix my crack problem was with a crack. I was just a joe public consumer until this happened. If it wasn't for their lack of help to a paying customer I would have never even known about cracks.
Like Princess Leia said, "The more they tighten their grip, the more consumers slip throught their fingers"
The firefox web developer toolbar extension is a necessity for anyone working on websites. SearchStatus, IE View, CustomizeGoogle, and Adblock are also extensions I couldn't live without.
I used to want to tell the world about this great new browser called firefox, but more and more I now want to keep it my little secret. If a program like Adblock were to become part of the standard firefox package (like pop-up blocking currently is) and also turned on by default to block most ads, whats going to happen to websites that depend on ad revenue to exist?
If firefox, or Opera, were to theoretically add ad blocking by default, and in turn advertise their browser as the one that makes all the annoying ads go away, it could really begin to take market share from IE. The bigger fear is that microsoft will then add their own ad blocking feature which would mean that ad blocking would become main stream.
The fact that webmasters seem to be the biggest promoter of this, or any alternative browser, seems ironic. Finding that millions of people now have the opportunity to not view my ads, is not exactly good news.
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My 5 year old knows that jumping from a high surface will hurt when you land. Some kids are stupid, some people can't understand that. I meet stupid adults all the time, weren't these stupid adults once stupid children?
Look at it this way, psychic hotlines exist even though the first question any caller should ask the phychic to answer is what color shirt and socks you are wearing, but they do exist and so do stupid people. This kid was a stupid person. We should be grateful for two things, 1) he died before producing any offspring and 2) he didn't hurt anybody else while killing himself.
I took a few civil law classes and we discussed this case. I'm not going to be 100% correct on the details but reading others posts helped jog my memory.
There were guidelines on the books somewhere for food consumption and McDonalds was overheating the coffee so they could use cheaper beans and hide the bad taste. They were warned or fined previously to this, if I recall. When the lady spilled her cup of coffee, her legs and genitals recieved 3rd degree burns and the hospital/recovery came to around $110,000. She sued mickey d's and was awarded a settlement of around a million dollars.
The media had a field day and ran headlines across the country. McDonalds saw the settlement as unreasonable and appealed the case. Anyway, in the end, she was awarded the ~$110,000 to pay all her bills and thats it. The media steered clear of the overturned million dollar verdict. Most appeals where the original outlandish settlement is overturned is never talked about in the media.
I understand that this list is most likely biased to the teen to early 50's crowd, as most kids under 12 would fall asleep watching a movie like Contact and most senior citizens would not be interested in a movie like star trek 2. Many of my favorite movies are those that I saw before I was a teenager; Star Wars 4-6, Star Treks 1-3, Alien(s), and even Flash Gordon.
Having said that, I have a little kid and when his little friends come over to play, we sometimes try to get them to settle down and watch a movie when it starts getting late. We have tried so many movies, mostly kids movies, but nothing ever works. They keep running around playing.
When the Star Wars 4-6 dvd set came out, I tried getting them to watch the original Star Wars for the first time. It only held their attention for about 15 minutes. I tried episode I and II at different times but both had the same effect. When the episode III dvd came out, one of the other kids parents told me she and her kid, age 5, hadn't seen it yet. My kid also hadn't seen it yet so I decided to give it a try. Then the unspeakable happened, the kids sat quietly and watched in amazement. I had never seen anything like it. I will admit that I fast forwarded through any parts of the movie where both anikan and padme where on the screen at the same time.
The thing that I realized was that my kid was experiencing the same thing I experienced when I was about his age and I saw Episode IV. Sure most of us in our generation would never place a movie like Episode III in our top ten space movie list but it's quite possible that 20 years from now this movie could be in the top 5. How many of our parents, who are now seniors, have nostalgic memories of shows like the Lone Ranger the same way we have nostalgic memories of sitting in a theater watching Star Trek 2 for the very first time?
With p2p techonology making the distribution of digital content available at almost no cost to the provider, sony sets up a their own p2p network that users can join for a small monthly subscription fee. They release all their dvd, games and hi-def content to all users on the network.
Sony changes the failing business model of pushing more useless hardware and software on people because since napster they can no longer keep fooling people into believing that they need to walk into a store to buy useless plastic discs for digital content that can just as easily be obtained from the comfort of their home.
My wife's friend asked me the other day how to setup up yahoo chat on her computer because (in her words) her friend, who is a real computer geek wants her to join her and her friends online. I asked her why she called her a computer geek. She told me that she has a webcam setup and she's always using the computer to chat.
Im not offended when I am called a geek, but when people with the computer skills of an average 3rd grader are considered computer geeks, hollywood has truly distorted the word.
Back when I first got into computer gaming I bought this terrible cd case to hold my games. Inevatably this crappy case cracked my new Age of Empires cd I had just paid $50 for. Without the cd I could no longer play the game. I tried taking it back to the store but they said my 15-day return window had passed. I thought about buying another one and putting the broken disc in the new box and returning it, but found out you can't return computer software. Their was an email address that came with the cd if you had problems. So I emailed them (microsoft) and told them what happened. I told them I had the reciept and the cracked cd and would gladly send them both if I could get a replacement disc. I sent them multiple emails but they only sent auto-generated replies of no help at all. I discovered the only way to fix my crack problem was with a crack. I was just a joe public consumer until this happened. If it wasn't for their lack of help to a paying customer I would have never even known about cracks. Like Princess Leia said, "The more they tighten their grip, the more consumers slip throught their fingers"
The firefox web developer toolbar extension is a necessity for anyone working on websites. SearchStatus, IE View, CustomizeGoogle, and Adblock are also extensions I couldn't live without.
I used to want to tell the world about this great new browser called firefox, but more and more I now want to keep it my little secret. If a program like Adblock were to become part of the standard firefox package (like pop-up blocking currently is) and also turned on by default to block most ads, whats going to happen to websites that depend on ad revenue to exist?
If firefox, or Opera, were to theoretically add ad blocking by default, and in turn advertise their browser as the one that makes all the annoying ads go away, it could really begin to take market share from IE. The bigger fear is that microsoft will then add their own ad blocking feature which would mean that ad blocking would become main stream.
The fact that webmasters seem to be the biggest promoter of this, or any alternative browser, seems ironic. Finding that millions of people now have the opportunity to not view my ads, is not exactly good news.