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[alway]

Online viewing data deemed private & protected.

According to the class action suit against Hulu, the video content company violated the VPPA by sharing user viewing histories with third parties. Hulu argued that viewers didn’t count as “consumers” because they didn’t pay for content, and further, the company disclosed information as part of its “ordinary course of . . . business.”

The court disagreed.

“Congress [intended to protect] the confidentiality of private information about viewing preferences regardless of the business model or media format involved,” the court wrote in its finding.

[Sirus]

So...is this good? It sounds good, from a privacy standpoint. Of course, the comments section disagrees.

[alway]

Courts flooded with poorer Americans representing themselves

[Heron TSG]

Huh. Isn't that what the public defender system is supposed to help out with? Or are those only for criminal cases? (I do not have much knowledge of the system.)

Not a good situation. Apparently people who represent themselves lose more often. Lots of poor people are representing themselves. The poor people start losing cases more. They might not be paying lawyer fees, but they will have to pay other court fees, plus damages and whatnot if they lose a civil case, etc. And thus they remain poor and unable to hire a lawyer.

Spoiler: I hope you like dark humor? (click to show/hide)

They can pay lawyers and whatnot.

[palsch]

Whose face can I scream at about this one?

    It would not be long before I would learn firsthand that in the vast majority of states -- 31 -- men who father through rape are able to assert the same custody and visitation rights to their children that other fathers enjoy.

[kaijyuu]

Hrm, makes me wonder if they have to pay child support and such too.


Another hypothetical interesting scenario: Woman doesn't want to raise child but still wants to conceive it. Man (rapist) wants to raise child out of guilt/whatever. He's deemed competent to raise it. Should he be able to?

[Kilroy the Grand]

Muslims demand breakaway Islamic nation in Norway or another 9/11 threatened

    "If norwegian soldiers can take planes to Afghanistan, then Osama and Mohammed can also take planes to Norway, inshaAllah.

    Now, the government must wake up and assume responsibility, before this war spreads to Norway. Before the counterpart reacts. Before moslems take the step necessary.

    Do not confuse the moslems’ silence with weakness. Do not profit from the moslems’ patience. Do not force us to do something that can be avoided. This is not a threat, only the words of truth. The words of justice.

    A warning that the consequences can be fatal. A warning about a 9/11 on norwegian ground, or larger attacks than the one carried out on 22 july. This is for your own good and in your own best interest.’

    We do not want to be a part of norwegian society. And we do not consider it necessary either to move away from Norway, because we were born and grew up here. And Allah’s earth belongs to everybody.

    But let Grønland become ours. Bar this city quarter and let us control it the way we wish to do it. This is the best for both parts.

    We do not wish to live together with dirty beasts like you."

[scriver]

Not a progressive RAEG issue.

And I find it very hard to take seriously anyway.

[FearfulJesuit]

They could have Spitsbergen, I suppose. As an independent state it's not going to survive very long.

[EveryZig]

Crazy extremist group is crazy extremist group. It is unfortunate, but it is more a matter for law enforcement than for politics unless the person saying that represents (or is generally accepted by) a demographic rather than a terrorist group.

[Capntastic]

Ah yes, Examiner.com, a site that lets almost anyone write for them (and asks you to do so at the end of every article!), and pays them per hit. 

You should really not just blind-link articles from them, especially when the site's own administration points out you'd have to be an idiot to take any of it seriously.

When questioned [about factual inaccuracies and plagiarism], Jim Pimental, executive editor of Examiner said,

    "They're blogs. They don't get edited. We don't give any direction to people on what to write in their blogs. And that's standard operating procedure."

[Darvi]

Spoiler: I hope you like dark humor? (click to show/hide)

They can pay lawyers and whatnot.

Pay a thousand *currency*, get out instantly.

[Mech#4]

Get out of what? Jail, or the game?

[Darvi]

Yes.

[kaijyuu]

Some of them would like to pretend they can get out of the game completely.