Stephen F Roberts’s Comments

• Sep 9th, 2021 @ 11:19am

  This is trouble waiting to happen

  on New Texas Abortion Law Likely To Unleash A Torrent Of Lawsuits Against Online Education, Advocacy And Other Speech

  You don't even need credible evidence to sue since there is little penalty for filing a claim. The law seems written to encourage abuse.

  Don't like your neighbor? "Well, I saw him in a car with a woman, he might have been talking to her about getting an abortion or taking her to get an abortion, I wasn't sure, so I sued"

  You might not even need to do anything else like show up for court. If you are lucky, the victim doesn't show up and maybe you get a default judgement against them and get a windfall. If nothing else, you make them waste their time showing up for court to avoid that default judgement.

• Apr 29th, 2020 @ 10:01am

  How to profit off this case

  on The Supreme Court Needs To Reverse The Fifth Circuit's Awful Ruling In The DeRay McKesson Case

  Simple recipe for profiting off this precedence:

  1) go to rally by big name person.
  2) have friend toss a rock at you.
  3) sue person holding the rally for big money.
  4) profit.

  Probably would help if you were a cop, but that might not be that big a hurdle.

• Nov 1st, 2019 @ 10:05am

  Got a price hike just today

  on AT&T Loses Another 1.36 Million Pay TV Subscribers Thanks To Relentless Price Hikes

  Got a message that my monthly phone bill is going up by $10 a month. But in return they are offering me an extra 15GB a month... our family has never come anywhere close to our current limit, but there does not seem to be any way out of this "Great Offer!(tm)"... :-/