So, Mister County Lawyer, explain to us why statutory minimum damages are unconstitutional, and why every judge in the country seems painfully unaware of the fact?

You missed the whole point of the post you're replying to, didn't you?

Thinking that a whole profession is BS (not sure I disagree about the economists!) is not quite the same thing. I'm not talking about people who think the law is BS (plenty of those) I'm talking about people who believe in the law, but suffer from the illusion that their casual reading puts them on a par with somebody who's spent years studying the subject.

If you can't figure out the judge's logic, maybe you should ask for your law school tuition back. What, you never went to law school? Funny how law is the one profession everybody thinks they know, even without training. Remind me not to ask your for medical advice either. And no, you can't design my house.

The decision seems to say that $2,250 is 3 times the "statutory minimum" of $750. And no, I don't know what statute she refers to — IANAL either.

This is not a "trick". That word describes something that plays upon you gullibility or lack of attention, like a shortchange con. This is a complicated money management technique that you need a forensic accountant to sort out.

Yeah, you can demand a percentage of the gross instead of the net. Not everybody's in a position to do that.

Every time Slashdot has a story about a confidence trick, there's a lot of smug bullshit decrying the people who fell for it. The implication being that the poster is too smart to be conned. Hey, guess what? People who are full of their own brilliance are the softest marks of all.

I thought of that joke first! You'll hear from lawyer.

Such as lame jokes like this one? Thank God for that!

Another believer in the Magic Contract Fairy. Even if the franchise agreement is written in plain English (unlikely) nobody's gong to wave a magic wand and make Comcast live up to it. That takes the time and skill of a legal pro. Probably cheaper to just pay for the converters.

Yeah, planning helps. A lot harder to plan when there's no urban transit. Which, might I remind you, is how we started this thread, with you saying there's no reason people can't walk everywhere.

You know, all these sock puppets with the weird names are really very lame. If you're going to try to snow people with your wisdom, put a little thought into it.