That Anonymous Coward (profile), 19 Jan 2022 @ 3:57pm
Online advertising... sketchy?!?!?! shocked avatar goes here
Given much of what we've seen filed in courts as of late, its really hard to trust claims made in them.
The performative lawsuit isn't something new and I find myself at a loss who to root for in this.
"If this is true" / "If the information holds up"
Access to the underlying documents is going to be critical, simply to find the grain of truth at the center & see if the choclatey coating on the outside is chocolate or crap.
I mean we've NEVER EVER seen State Attorney Generals filing pointless lawsuits just to cash in on public perception & prepare for the next hop up the political ladder.
I mean if Google did this, its really bad & its time to punish them, but at the same time the simple fact one can have serious questions about the veracity of what a SAG files is really rather frightening.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Jan 2022 @ 5:33pm
Re:
I got curious, as sometimes happens, and read some more travel centric sites and I discovered something I was unaware of before.
Apparently if you skiplag a flight, there is extra costs for the airline. Apparently for ever person who gets off a flight, they have to pay the terminal a fee... you have people jumping planes early and that is a fee they have to pay not built into the original ticket.
(Maybe, I did not find much detail and the entire fscking industry thrives on hidden fees & stupidity).
So rather than fight with the terminal companies to get better terms to satisfy consumer demand, legal warfare is the better option in their minds.
Given that I can recall at various points battles at different terminals for better gates, positioning, etc etc... this is not insignificant cash in play.
Of course they have always done it this way so there is no reason to consider perhaps its not the best way and that change might be needed.
Now knowing that there is a per person fee based on someone leaving a flight unexpectedly I can understand a bit better.
One does wonder how much the fee actually is (I mean this is an industry that thought a full can of soda cost to much).
There is some sort of insanity at play here, I mean if someone skiplags do they still have to pay for that body at the final terminal that never arrives?
People want cheaper flights, the fact that just stepping off a plane on a layover can save them money on flying should be seen as a broken system.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Jan 2022 @ 3:46pm
"Kiwi.com’s unauthorized sales of Southwest flights poses a significant disruption to its customer operations"
Because allowing customers to purchase the flights that meet their needs is a HORRIBLE thing and we should crush it.
So what if the data is put out into the public, we have this amazing click wrap terms that make it a crime & now every company is going to start putting stupid terms into their TOS and flood courts with bullshit cases that shouldn't exist except for 1 old cranky judge who demanded kiwi.com get of Southwests lawn & not inform people of information that they could get themselves, admittedly not in a useful way because making it harder makes southwest money.
So if I read a couple lines out of a newspaper over someones shoulder, does this mean I owe the publisher money & the poor bastard who bought & was reading the paper needs to invest in a shield to protect others from seeing the information they've published to the public?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Jan 2022 @ 10:28am
The greatest app ever, will be the one that forwards all of your spam calls/texts to your representatives.
I mean perhaps they are unaware of how the rest of us are suffering. They all get their own personal connections in the home offices of so many companies even a special number where comcast says they will be right out and they mean it, day or night, rain or shine, no waiting between 8 and 4.
One knows that our leaders live in protected little bubbles so far removed from what we experience so maybe we need to remind them that the little people are fed up & here is a mile in our shoes... start walking.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 Jan 2022 @ 10:25am
Huh...
Used to be when someone else was horning in on your schtick, you didn't really care.
You made a better product & advertised that fact.
Adding the line like 'taste it as it was originally created' oooh how about this oldie but a goodie... 'Contented Cows make better milk'.
Rather than compete, stomp your feet well after the horse got out of the barn, the barn was razed, a walmart was built on top of it, a tornado flattened the walmart, they opened a mobile home park on it and demand the government stop people from using a word that described the flavor and texture of a cheese.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 Jan 2022 @ 5:09am
Its so nice to see the entire system throwing out all of the rules as long as they get the 'bad guy'.
People cheer because the bad men got put away, completely oblivious to the idea that they eventually will be someones bad guy & magically those rights they thought they had went out the window because some officers have been crossbred with bloodhounds & superman for the xray vision to see the pot in the double sealed containers inside moving cars in the middle of traffic.
Pity the courts no longer seem to care that the cops are taking short cuts rather than doing the difficult job we pay them to do.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 14 Jan 2022 @ 12:33pm
"for his part could have been content with having his First Amendment rights vindicated by that victory—but instead, he's filed another lawsuit in response, despite facing no current peril."
So he was just supposed to eat the costs of them violating his rights?
Given their response to his letters, having to be hit with the rolled up newspaper of paying him should keep them from doing something this stupid again.
Of course the next question is has anyone checked the past cases this town has filed? This can't be the first time people this thin skinned have sought the law to save them.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 14 Jan 2022 @ 10:44am
Wow... just... rubs between his eyes
The downside of immortality is I remember when a lawyer who did something this stupid would be put in the stocks in the center of town and have rotten veggies thrown at them.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 14 Jan 2022 @ 7:55am
Re: Re: Re: Re:
What we need is adults who are capable of rationale thought even in the face of outraged voters screaming for blood.
Survivorship Bias is a thing.
"Wald noted that the military only considered the aircraft that had survived their missions – ignoring any bombers that had been shot down or otherwise lost, and thus also been rendered unavailable for assessment. The bullet holes in the returning aircraft represented areas where a bomber could take damage and still fly well enough to return safely to base.
Therefore, Wald proposed that the Navy reinforce areas where the returning aircraft were unscathed, inferring that planes hit in those areas were the ones most likely to be lost. His work is considered seminal in the then-nascent discipline of operational research."
They demand decisions based on having 'facts' that no one was even aware of before the incident assuming that all future events like this share the same trigger and if we just remove the trigger we've solved it.
This is magical thinking & ignores any events where a tragedy might have been averted because parents or a teacher might have reached out to a child at the right moment and altered what could have happened. Since it never made the news, its not a 'valid' solution in many peoples minds.
Yes its terrible that children have easy access to weapons, but strip searching each child on their way into school won't stop the next shooting.
They rarely dig into the actual reasons some shooters lash out & often give a pass to "good kids" who were tormenting the shooter until he broke and started shooting.
Try to claim this never happens and I'll roll out the high school football teams who get passes on drinking, drugs, rape or the "team building" hazing where younger players are sexually violated & worse by older players who had it done to them & all the adults look away because 'sportsball' tradition... then a frat kills their baby with the same antics and now its a problem.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 14 Jan 2022 @ 2:07am
Re: Re:
Its a human thing.
Why do we have to take our shoes off to get on planes?
Because 1 asshole tried to set off a shoe bomb on an airplane once.
He didn't succeed, but massive resources have been devoted to checking all shoes all the time now.
I don't recall many stories about 1000 shoe bombers they have caught since then.
Why are we limited to how much liquid we can get on planes?
Because 1 time some dudes tried to create a binary explosive on a flight.
How many binary weapons of mass destruction have they caught?
Dude drove through a Christmas Parade, an event no one could have predicted, its not like it was his 15th DUI. But everyone is outraged that he was granted bail on other charges (and they screwed up finding other charges against him), because if we just lock all the bad people up then nothing bad will ever happen ever again.
Fewer people died on 9-11 than during Covid & yet we aren't forcing people to roll up their sleeves & get a shot before we allow them to travel.
The greatest fear schools have is being found responsible after a tragedy. So to avoid being blamed, they expel first & ask questions later. They never are allowed to think because they can safely hide behind policy. We break out the see through backpacks, put in metal detectors, add more cops but at no time do we look at what the underlying problems are & how to deal with them we just clamp down harder ignoring those problems.
Of course the recent Oxford School tragedy turns this all on its head, reports that the shooter was caught with live ammo on school grounds & he wasn't removed while elsewhere we see poptarts bitten into a gun shape and a 1st grader arrested & removed from the school.
For all of the talk, screaming, moar cops, more discipline...
The best plan they've come up with for dealing with school shootings is to teach little kids rhymes about hiding & being quiet & adding more fear and anxiety to their lives, that make them act out more, that get them in more trouble, that never gets any help (1 counselor for 500 kids... really?), that gets them flagged as problem children which gets them more negative attention and then a kid shoots up a school... but at no point has anyone put any actual solutions like making mental health professionals a priority... just the fame seeking ones who like to claim it was pron or video games that caused this so we just need to ban those from society and this will all be better.
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"and Google additionally for hosting some videos of the game's gameplay and other footage"
We must always add the deepest pockets we can find, no matter how tenuous the connection is... I mean have you see the rest of our "case"?
Imagine how much better their game could be if they put as much imagination into it as their lawyers did in telling them of course you have a case.
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Re: 'Oh you're being honest this time? Suuure you are.'
If you thought QI undermined public trust in the justice system, just wait for our 5th amended complaint...
On the post: States' 3rd Amended Antitrust Complaint Against Google Looks A Lot More Damning
Online advertising... sketchy?!?!?!
shocked avatar goes here
Given much of what we've seen filed in courts as of late, its really hard to trust claims made in them.
The performative lawsuit isn't something new and I find myself at a loss who to root for in this.
"If this is true" / "If the information holds up"
Access to the underlying documents is going to be critical, simply to find the grain of truth at the center & see if the choclatey coating on the outside is chocolate or crap.
I mean we've NEVER EVER seen State Attorney Generals filing pointless lawsuits just to cash in on public perception & prepare for the next hop up the political ladder.
I mean if Google did this, its really bad & its time to punish them, but at the same time the simple fact one can have serious questions about the veracity of what a SAG files is really rather frightening.
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Re:
They voted for Cujo, are surprised he turned on them, and they still are trying to pet him.
On the post: Court Says That Travel Company Can't Tell Others How Much Southwest Flights Cost
Re:
I got curious, as sometimes happens, and read some more travel centric sites and I discovered something I was unaware of before.
Apparently if you skiplag a flight, there is extra costs for the airline. Apparently for ever person who gets off a flight, they have to pay the terminal a fee... you have people jumping planes early and that is a fee they have to pay not built into the original ticket.
(Maybe, I did not find much detail and the entire fscking industry thrives on hidden fees & stupidity).
So rather than fight with the terminal companies to get better terms to satisfy consumer demand, legal warfare is the better option in their minds.
Given that I can recall at various points battles at different terminals for better gates, positioning, etc etc... this is not insignificant cash in play.
Of course they have always done it this way so there is no reason to consider perhaps its not the best way and that change might be needed.
Now knowing that there is a per person fee based on someone leaving a flight unexpectedly I can understand a bit better.
One does wonder how much the fee actually is (I mean this is an industry that thought a full can of soda cost to much).
There is some sort of insanity at play here, I mean if someone skiplags do they still have to pay for that body at the final terminal that never arrives?
People want cheaper flights, the fact that just stepping off a plane on a layover can save them money on flying should be seen as a broken system.
On the post: Court Says That Travel Company Can't Tell Others How Much Southwest Flights Cost
"Kiwi.com’s unauthorized sales of Southwest flights poses a significant disruption to its customer operations"
Because allowing customers to purchase the flights that meet their needs is a HORRIBLE thing and we should crush it.
So what if the data is put out into the public, we have this amazing click wrap terms that make it a crime & now every company is going to start putting stupid terms into their TOS and flood courts with bullshit cases that shouldn't exist except for 1 old cranky judge who demanded kiwi.com get of Southwests lawn & not inform people of information that they could get themselves, admittedly not in a useful way because making it harder makes southwest money.
So if I read a couple lines out of a newspaper over someones shoulder, does this mean I owe the publisher money & the poor bastard who bought & was reading the paper needs to invest in a shield to protect others from seeing the information they've published to the public?
On the post: Court To Cops Who Caught Pokemon Rather Than Robbery Suspects: That's A (Justified) Firin'
Play Pokémon Go... thats a firing...
Run a crew worse than any drug cartel... thats a promotion.
On the post: Why U.S. Robocall Hell Seemingly Never Ends
The greatest app ever, will be the one that forwards all of your spam calls/texts to your representatives.
I mean perhaps they are unaware of how the rest of us are suffering. They all get their own personal connections in the home offices of so many companies even a special number where comcast says they will be right out and they mean it, day or night, rain or shine, no waiting between 8 and 4.
One knows that our leaders live in protected little bubbles so far removed from what we experience so maybe we need to remind them that the little people are fed up & here is a mile in our shoes... start walking.
On the post: US Court To Gruyere Cheese People: No, You Can't Ban People From Calling Their Cheese Gruyere If They Aren't Your Neighbors
Huh...
Used to be when someone else was horning in on your schtick, you didn't really care.
You made a better product & advertised that fact.
Adding the line like 'taste it as it was originally created' oooh how about this oldie but a goodie... 'Contented Cows make better milk'.
Rather than compete, stomp your feet well after the horse got out of the barn, the barn was razed, a walmart was built on top of it, a tornado flattened the walmart, they opened a mobile home park on it and demand the government stop people from using a word that described the flavor and texture of a cheese.
I'm rooting for the tornado.
On the post: Appeals Court Says It's Entirely Possible For Cops To Pinpoint Marijuana Odors In Moving Cars
Its so nice to see the entire system throwing out all of the rules as long as they get the 'bad guy'.
People cheer because the bad men got put away, completely oblivious to the idea that they eventually will be someones bad guy & magically those rights they thought they had went out the window because some officers have been crossbred with bloodhounds & superman for the xray vision to see the pot in the double sealed containers inside moving cars in the middle of traffic.
Pity the courts no longer seem to care that the cops are taking short cuts rather than doing the difficult job we pay them to do.
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Re:
Zoloft...
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Re:
Hell has MUCH better roads.
On the post: Small Nebraska Town Pays $16,000 To Resident It Attempted To Sue Into Silence
"for his part could have been content with having his First Amendment rights vindicated by that victory—but instead, he's filed another lawsuit in response, despite facing no current peril."
So he was just supposed to eat the costs of them violating his rights?
Given their response to his letters, having to be hit with the rolled up newspaper of paying him should keep them from doing something this stupid again.
Of course the next question is has anyone checked the past cases this town has filed? This can't be the first time people this thin skinned have sought the law to save them.
On the post: [UPDATE] Elizabeth Warren Is NOT Cosponsoring A Bill To Repeal 230
Watching CSPAN & listening to them on talk shows is much more tolerable when you add a sit com laugh track.
Some day I hope humans rediscover critical thinking, look at their political leadership & purge them all.
On the post: Criss Angel Sends Ridiculous Legal Threat After Comedian Creates Parody Menu Of His Restaurant
Wow... just... rubs between his eyes
The downside of immortality is I remember when a lawyer who did something this stupid would be put in the stocks in the center of town and have rotten veggies thrown at them.
On the post: Pennsylvania Court Reverses Student's Expulsion Over A Snapchat Post, Reminds School Students Still Have Rights
Re: Re: Re: Re:
What we need is adults who are capable of rationale thought even in the face of outraged voters screaming for blood.
Survivorship Bias is a thing.
"Wald noted that the military only considered the aircraft that had survived their missions – ignoring any bombers that had been shot down or otherwise lost, and thus also been rendered unavailable for assessment. The bullet holes in the returning aircraft represented areas where a bomber could take damage and still fly well enough to return safely to base.
Therefore, Wald proposed that the Navy reinforce areas where the returning aircraft were unscathed, inferring that planes hit in those areas were the ones most likely to be lost. His work is considered seminal in the then-nascent discipline of operational research."
They demand decisions based on having 'facts' that no one was even aware of before the incident assuming that all future events like this share the same trigger and if we just remove the trigger we've solved it.
This is magical thinking & ignores any events where a tragedy might have been averted because parents or a teacher might have reached out to a child at the right moment and altered what could have happened. Since it never made the news, its not a 'valid' solution in many peoples minds.
Yes its terrible that children have easy access to weapons, but strip searching each child on their way into school won't stop the next shooting.
They rarely dig into the actual reasons some shooters lash out & often give a pass to "good kids" who were tormenting the shooter until he broke and started shooting.
Try to claim this never happens and I'll roll out the high school football teams who get passes on drinking, drugs, rape or the "team building" hazing where younger players are sexually violated & worse by older players who had it done to them & all the adults look away because 'sportsball' tradition... then a frat kills their baby with the same antics and now its a problem.
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Something something Oscar is appropriate... they are rude & trash.
On the post: The World Handled A 'Wordle' Ripoff Just Fine Without Any IP Action
Re: Re: "The Original"
yeah well you spell colour with a u so we're used to not getting UK things.
On the post: Pennsylvania Court Reverses Student's Expulsion Over A Snapchat Post, Reminds School Students Still Have Rights
Re: Re:
Its a human thing.
Why do we have to take our shoes off to get on planes?
Because 1 asshole tried to set off a shoe bomb on an airplane once.
He didn't succeed, but massive resources have been devoted to checking all shoes all the time now.
I don't recall many stories about 1000 shoe bombers they have caught since then.
Why are we limited to how much liquid we can get on planes?
Because 1 time some dudes tried to create a binary explosive on a flight.
How many binary weapons of mass destruction have they caught?
Dude drove through a Christmas Parade, an event no one could have predicted, its not like it was his 15th DUI. But everyone is outraged that he was granted bail on other charges (and they screwed up finding other charges against him), because if we just lock all the bad people up then nothing bad will ever happen ever again.
Fewer people died on 9-11 than during Covid & yet we aren't forcing people to roll up their sleeves & get a shot before we allow them to travel.
The greatest fear schools have is being found responsible after a tragedy. So to avoid being blamed, they expel first & ask questions later. They never are allowed to think because they can safely hide behind policy. We break out the see through backpacks, put in metal detectors, add more cops but at no time do we look at what the underlying problems are & how to deal with them we just clamp down harder ignoring those problems.
Of course the recent Oxford School tragedy turns this all on its head, reports that the shooter was caught with live ammo on school grounds & he wasn't removed while elsewhere we see poptarts bitten into a gun shape and a 1st grader arrested & removed from the school.
For all of the talk, screaming, moar cops, more discipline...
The best plan they've come up with for dealing with school shootings is to teach little kids rhymes about hiding & being quiet & adding more fear and anxiety to their lives, that make them act out more, that get them in more trouble, that never gets any help (1 counselor for 500 kids... really?), that gets them flagged as problem children which gets them more negative attention and then a kid shoots up a school... but at no point has anyone put any actual solutions like making mental health professionals a priority... just the fame seeking ones who like to claim it was pron or video games that caused this so we just need to ban those from society and this will all be better.
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Wait until he finds out about the harmful things kids can see watching the nightly news.
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