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Comment Re:Yep (Score 1) 667

Maybe, but terrifying sure is. Victims of stalking find that they are incapable of doing day-to-day things. The lady had a legitimate fear, she told her friends, then she later was ridiculed for those fears. This is all the fault of Toyota.

I for one hope that she wins the whole $10 million. Maybe only that way will dumb-ass marketers start *thinking* about what they do!

How is terrifying worth $10 million? Even if she is too scared to work a single day for the rest of her life, she wouldn't have lost that much money. Or even half of it.
If she's around 30 years old (with around 35 years left to work) and earns about $6k a month (sounds reasonable to me, I have no idea how much you make in the US), that equals around $2.5 million. No way in hell is whatever terror she suffered during those two months worth three times the wage she's going to earn for the rest of her life.

I've never understood how the "damages" you can sue for in the US doesn't have to reflect the real damages you suffer in any way.

Comment This is ridiculous (Score 1) 1

How can they possibly justify forcing me to reset all my settings in all applications, for no other reason than excluding their browser from the OS?
It doesn't make any sense that installing Windows without IE is that much different than doing it with IE as part of the package; why does it change all sorts of unrelated settings?
At least I'm glad I don't have to pay for Windows 7 (no I'm not pirating it, I'm getting it legally from MSDNAA).

I don't even use IE for crying out loud...

Comment Re:Not quite as easy as it seems (Score 1) 582

Someone should mod this guy up.

It's very easy for all of us armchair doctors to make a hindsight diagnosis of the illness.
She most likely visited a number of skilled professionals but was very unfortunate with their diagnosis. This stuff happens now and then, people make mistakes.

It's just unfortunate that no one cares about a story on doctors who diagnose their patients correctly.

Comment Not as far as I know (Score 1) 1

Every time an email has been "lost" for me, it has been a user error (or mail filter problem).
Either the address was wrong, the intended recipient wasn't on the mailing list, the spam filter caught the message, other filtering obstructed the email, or the recipient accidentally deleted the mail. And sometimes the sender forgot to send the mail (i.e. it is still in the outbox) or the mail server had a problem of which the sender was informed but he/she ignored it.
I don't believe I have ever experienced an email that simply vanished.

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