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twoiskewl
2007-08-31 04:26 am UTC (link)

I thought the thing about lawsuits is they have to have claimed to have personal reasons for suing... like, they can't sue someone just because they broke the law (accessibility), they have to have 'suffered' in some way?

also the MacDonald's lawsuit, if you read the details, wasn't really frivolous. The coffee was unsafely hot and the lady had to get like skin grafts and stuff. :(

MY THOUGHTS ON LAWSUITS LET ME TELL YOU THEM.

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	altoidsaddict 2007-08-31 05:02 am UTC (link)
	My suspicion is that the damages are only there to scare Apple into providing accessibility in the course of a settlement. Yeah, people often cite the McDonald's lawsuit as an example of frivolity when all it really proves is that most people only have enough attention span to read the first sentence of a news story and nothing else. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	twoiskewl 2007-08-31 05:07 am UTC (link)
	Oh man that'll teach me to read before I start tl;dr-ing everywhere. In short I agree with you :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	altoidsaddict 2007-08-31 05:10 am UTC (link)
	Heh, after that case I learned that "personal injury lawsuit has merit" is not nearly as attractive to news agencies as "lol look at these idiots." I know, it's hard to believe the media would manipulate us like that. :-) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	photosinensis 2007-08-31 10:18 pm UTC (link)
	This is why, when I took journalism classes, they always told us to put as much relevant info into the headline and first sentence as possible without making it overly long. Of course, some "journalists" just go for the hype and not the story. After all, Mickey D's is an advertiser, and this lady isn't. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2007-08-31 11:44 am UTC (link)
	But on the other hand, there's a large amount of people who now bitch about every major store hot beverage now being a lukewarm beverage. But that might just be in the UK. Not Bulgarian Anonymouse (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	greenling 2007-09-01 01:34 am UTC (link)
	No, that's everywhere. Lots of "why yes, a heated beverage in anything less than a damn good thermos is going to get cold after a two hour commute, pookie" in response to it, too. :P (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2007-09-01 02:09 am UTC (link)
	I must admit it is sadly my Mum's complaint in most cafes, that the tea goes cold in about 2 minutes. I personally believe she scaulded all the heat sensors in her mouth dead many years ago because they feel hot to me. Not Bulgarian Anonymouse (Reply to this)(Parent)

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