Congratulations, you found out why the 2nd Amendment exists.

I would love to see you argue for this in a court of law.

The judge will probably laugh harder at you than at a sovereign citizen.

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If only they had some bandwidth... That torrent option looks appealing now.

And anyone who passed their first semester finals of law school knows that no such thing exist. In Tort law, product liability is considered "strict liability" with very, very few exceptions. Your "blanket waiver" means nothing.

Have you seen this? It just shouts "replace me with a computer". My local Mickey D's already has those ordering computers, all the workers do these days is flipping burgers.

At $20/hr, computers will become even more attractive.

My kingdom for mod points. Alas... none today.

Let's do the math. Their revenue over 2020 was 10.27 billion USD (their 2022 was actually lower). That's 28,136,986 per day, or $1,172,374 per hour, so $293,093 every 15 minutes. Also, that's $325 every second.

Now, given that eBay's "take rate", meaning the money they make on transactions, is roughly 11%, that means that they handle over $3,300 in transactions per second.

They can pay a small fine of $3M.

Chase allows my 12 year old to have a credit card, so simply "you have a credit card so you must be over 18" is not a good way to verify anymore.

And you should work on your writing skills.

Yeah, fucking bullshit. You cannot just "leave the internet".

The EUSSR is trying to enforce its own bullshit laws extra-territorial. Look at the stupid cookie-wall law that you now have on every. fucking. website. Just as stupid as those prop-65 warnings.

Not to mention that most of those laws have been enacted by people who are not even elected to their positions. The EUSSR is nothing but a dictatorial regime that tries to enforce its way on those who still have some liberties left.

This.

I have the same experience. Southwest did more than make things right for me. I had a flight scheduled, but also had an option to travel earlier in the day by car. I ended up assuming that the flight would be canceled, and took the 8 hour drive.

Guess what? My flight ended up one of the few that was not canceled. I'm sure someone was happy with me being a no-show as the flight will have been more than full.

Nevertheless, SWA refunded my flight and gave me a boat load of points, all without me even asking for it.

Also, "civil penalties" are just a way for overzealous politicians to circumvent the judicial process. Taking $140 million from a private entity without the possibility of having a judge looking at it, is simply robbery and unconstitutional.

Good luck understanding that, at least in the U.S., your EULA is worth less than toilet paper in court.

The only thing a EULA does in this context is create the presumption of "the user agreed to this so we can do whatever the fuck we want".

In contract law, again, at least in the U.S., courts also look at what is reasonable, especially considering that A. it was working before, B. the difference in bargaining power between the end-user and the corporation, and C. the fact that it is often difficult to actually read the EULA. Remember the stickers on the back of CDs that said "by breaking this seal you agree to the EULA which you can find on htttp://www33421.someshittywebsite.com/eula.asp&somerandomstringofcharactersdesignedtohaveyounotlookatthem?

Fuck EULAs.

Total and utter bullshit.

I guess you've never heard of the L-1 (uncapped dual-intent work visa, valid up to 7 years), TN (uncapped, unlimited work visa for Australians and Canadians), E-1 (Treaty Trader), O (extraordinary individuals) visas?

Not to mention the uncapped spousal and parental visas that U.S. citizens can sponsor for their immediate family?

H1B visas are primarily used by immigrants from a small number of nations, primarily because of the 7% cap on greencards. Fix that unfair abomination, and you fix the non-immigrant visa issue.

To become famous, like Greta, and get free tickets to climate conferences where they'll be lauded as heroes for doing effectively nothing.

I'm getting sick and tired for assholes like this trying to use the court system for what is effectively a political problem.

And, if anything, they should sue China.

No, law enforcement considers it 100 miles wide.

The Supreme Court never ruled on this. Every time this came up, cases were plea bargained or dismissed.

However, in this case, there is no doubt: the researcher crossed the border and fucked up by not wiping (or even locking) his phone.