I agree until the end of your statement. Agree that money wise it is just a transfer of money from the company to lawyers. And also that the reparations to the class members are almost always useless.
However they DO serve to change company behavior and act as a deterrent for them and others just as much as fear of any other losses/lawsuits.
But a study from George Washington University found that many car buyers, especially those who were low-income, overwhelmingly preferred to receive the credit as an immediate rebate.
Now, dealers can apply the credit at the time of purchase — effectively making it a discount — or provide the rebate to the buyer as cash.
This is great: wave a cash rebate at low-income car buyers to encourage them to take on a $30K+ car loan at like 9% and both of those numbers are on the conservative side since the price might be 2x that. "Look, you get a car and we write YOU a check for $5k today! You'd be an idiot not to take it!" (assuming they keep $2.5k for a down payment )
The summary misreports TFA:
Mr Morrison said: "Eventually I came up to a roundabout which slowed the car down to about 15mph and the police van was waiting for me on the other side.
"I went into the back of the van while it was moving, before they put on the brakes to stop me.
''After that, a police officer jumped into my car and did something which seemed to keep the car still."
"Went into the back of..." means made contact w/ the back of the van here. Then the van put on the brakes to stop the car and then , once stopped, the police entered his car.
"digital nomads" are totally different. From the point of view of the "various countries" they are moderately wealthy tourists who come in and spend money that otherwise wouldn't enter the local economy and they don't participate in the local labor market.
From my POV this is on the site developers to write their sites in such a way that they don't share any sensitive stuff. My contract, such as it is, is with Intuit (or whoever owns TT now). (that said i also still use the downloaded product rather than the web version and hope it continues to be available)
Data scraping is something society generally accepts at some level, though i hope that level becomes "less". But what's being described in the suit mostly sounds like just the state of the market and thus this seems like an abusive lawsuit.
When it comes to financial sites specifically, anyone who pays attention (even at just the level of running something like Ghostery and noticing the number of trackers on a site) has know about this risk for many years. (i for one was Karen enough (before that term existed, even) to write an email to customer service to either TurboTax or one of my banks to say: dudes, why are there so many ad trackers on my account pages ? is this safe?)
And if you ever look at the number and variety of trackers on airline booking sites, including their address and payment pages (like American , United, etc ) your hair might stand on end.
This one was very telling since it's from an insider who played the game for quite a while until he got out. He also presents a nuanced view about how you can manipulate the narrative without actually lying, but just by being selective.
When I was younger I didn't appreciate the power of such things...
My point is that 2 deg C or or even 3 deg C avg warming over 1850 temps is still not going to turn Portugal into "an unbearable furnace", as one of these plaintiffs claim in TFA. If he believes that, and he well may, that's not because he understands or is listening to "the science", it's because he's suffering some sort of anxiety disorder because of exposure due to climate change alarmism of the past couple of decades
sigh. that link is to "Moral_panic" (i should prob learn how to do links)
You're right, this sure is established fact:
"Without urgent action to cut emissions, (the place) where I live will soon become an unbearable furnace," another applicant, 20-year-old Martim Agostinho, said in a statement.
Portugal is on the verge of becoming an "unbearable furnace". Even stipulating the IPCC anthropogenic global warming scenario, this court case and this language (if sincere) is about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... not about science.
The zeal and religiosity seems comparable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Bah. the Canada one is
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ant...
The gold standard of anti-theft protection that was mandated by Canada’s federal government is now effectively obsolete, defeated by thieves dozens of times a day without a clear replacement in the works — often leaving drivers to come up with their own anti-theft solutions.
And the immobilizer’s demise appears to have caught many car manufacturers by surprise, as even brand new vehicles can fall prey to tactics that allow thieves to drive off with a top-of-the-line car or truck in minutes.
The "blame" i think accrues mostly to the thieves and their families, but more importantly i just don't think the class action suit is fair / has merit.
i'm with the NHSTA when they said:
“At this time, NHTSA has not determined that this issue constitutes either a safety defect or noncompliance requiring a recall,” wrote Cem Hatipoglu, NHTSA's acting associate director for enforcement, referring to the Hyundai and Kia vehicles susceptible to theft because they lack engine immobilizers.
(https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/hyundai-kia-thefts-recall-engine-immobilizer-does-my-car-have-it-rcna91243) (idk if they've changed their minds since, but i don't think so)
Compare w/ an article from Canadia that says "immobilizers are now obsolete" (because they can be attacked w/ duplicators and w/ range extenders )
https://www.nbcnews.com/busine...
Should the manufacturers be sued ? i don't think so.
(and lets not even get into how easy it is to break into a house through a window or door)
I'm used to "high rate of speed" from US police giving interviews or writing reports, but "same rate of
Paywall ? Generally i try not to complain about this since , yeah, newspapers should make money took, but what the heck, this is just a vanilla announcement type article. does it really merit a bloomberg.com only link ?
How about any of the other 100 sources that aren't paywalled? like TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2023/09...
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09...
(actually i'm not sure if TC is paywalled. I can currently read them but don't know if it's meant that way or because of current browser settings plugins)
Don't forget the pedestal!
You're right that $2k is more likely a price for a set, but BestBuy has some consumer grade LG's that are $2k for just the washer just for the washing machine without even a pedestal. And several between $1500 and $2k.
list sorted by price DESC:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/w...
And this is BestBuy, a middle market retailer with generally reasonable prices, not some specialty place.
If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some. -- Ben Franklin
