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Title: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: Kosh on October 09, 2007, 12:19:40 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7029892.stm




:wtf: this is totally unreal. I know we made jokes about this, but I didn't think they would actually do it.
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: Hippo on October 09, 2007, 12:19:59 am
wtf
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: Herra Tohtori on October 09, 2007, 12:26:24 am
You must purchase your own sound waves if you want it to be legal for your ears to hear them!

And don't you dare go and listen to someone else's sound waves.


...honestly, this seems to be getting further towards absolute epitome of absurd month by month. I don't know when the absolute bottom of the abyss will be reached - perhaps someone will sue customers for having a song playing in their heads... or memorizing songs.
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: Hippo on October 09, 2007, 12:31:07 am
Quote from: Herra Tohtori on October 09, 2007, 12:26:24 am
sue customers for having a song playing in their heads... or memorizing songs.


dont give them ideas :nervous:
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: jr2 on October 09, 2007, 01:56:07 am
:ick:
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: Nuke on October 09, 2007, 03:48:30 am
copywrites are not kvlt
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: BloodEagle on October 09, 2007, 12:03:00 pm
Quote from: Herra Tohtori on October 09, 2007, 12:26:24 am
I don't know when the absolute bottom of the abyss will be reached

It will keep getting worse until the year 2012.
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: Charismatic on October 09, 2007, 12:54:21 pm
Way to devolve humanity (yeah yeah, evolution joke..)
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: colecampbell666 on October 09, 2007, 01:25:47 pm
Quote from: BloodEagle on October 09, 2007, 12:03:00 pm


It will keep getting worse until the year 2012.
Is it the 11th of December or the 12th?
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: WeatherOp on October 09, 2007, 01:26:13 pm
Wow that is worse than those guys being sued for millions for not getting the judge's pants back to him on time. :eek2:
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: redsniper on October 09, 2007, 04:00:05 pm
Quote from: colecampbell666 on October 09, 2007, 01:25:47 pm
Is it the 11th of December or the 12th?
21st
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: Herra Tohtori on October 09, 2007, 04:05:47 pm
Will that be when Jack Thompson commits a coup d'état of the known world, becoming a malevolent dictator supported by paramilitary factions of MPAA and RIAA? :shaking:

...or are you simply referring to the end of the first thirteenth (EDIT: number fixed) B'ak'tun since the forming of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar?
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: BloodEagle on October 09, 2007, 04:32:05 pm
That, or it could be a random year that popped into my head.  :nod:
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: redsniper on October 09, 2007, 05:08:58 pm
It's a date that several different doomsday prophecies all predict is the end of the world.
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: colecampbell666 on October 09, 2007, 05:12:37 pm
Is Scientology one of them?
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: phreak on October 09, 2007, 05:22:24 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012#December
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: Mustang19 on October 09, 2007, 05:36:07 pm
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December 21 — The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the Maya civilization among others of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle since the calendar's mythical starting point

....

December 31 — Expiration of the Kyoto Protocol.

 :nervous:
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: BloodEagle on October 09, 2007, 06:38:34 pm
Fine, you caught me, I was watching the History Channel the other night. Apparently, during the year 2012, Earth will be in perfect alignment with Sol and the center of our galaxy. Whatever that means.  :drevil:
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: Herra Tohtori on October 09, 2007, 06:43:00 pm
Argh, I hate n00b apocalypse prophets... don't they know that every observer at constant motion is in the center of the universe? :sigh:

I mean, it's basic cosmology, dangit. :lol:
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: BloodEagle on October 09, 2007, 06:44:25 pm
Quote from: Herra Tohtori on October 09, 2007, 06:43:00 pm
Argh, I hate n00b apocalypse prophets... don't they know that every observer at constant motion is in the center of the universe? :sigh:

I mean, it's basic cosmology, dangit. :lol:

Whoops!

Fixed.
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: Polpolion on October 09, 2007, 07:34:26 pm
*head's explodes due to illogic.
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: colecampbell666 on October 09, 2007, 08:08:17 pm
This is stupid. A few years ago in my area an ice cream man got sued and lost his business. The reason? He gave out 3X more than he stated on his menu (3oz instead of 1) and some fat asshole blamed him for his being fat! :hopping:
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: redsniper on October 09, 2007, 11:07:11 pm
Quote from: BloodEagle on October 09, 2007, 06:38:34 pm
Fine, you caught me, I was watching the History Channel the other night. Apparently, during the year 2012, Earth will be in perfect alignment with Sol and the center of our galaxy. Whatever that means.  :drevil:
Yeah, I saw the same documentary. I had known about the Mayans and the 12-21-12 date before though. I just didn't know it was corroborated by other doomsday predictions. :nervous:
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: Kosh on October 10, 2007, 12:05:35 am
Quote from: colecampbell666 on October 09, 2007, 08:08:17 pm
This is stupid. A few years ago in my area an ice cream man got sued and lost his business. The reason? He gave out 3X more than he stated on his menu (3oz instead of 1) and some fat asshole blamed him for his being fat! :hopping:

The problem is that juries and judges who give out these kinds of awards. I would have simply banned the fat man from ever going near an ice cream man.
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: jr2 on October 10, 2007, 01:34:10 am
Quote from: Kosh on October 10, 2007, 12:05:35 am
Quote from: colecampbell666 on October 09, 2007, 08:08:17 pm
This is stupid. A few years ago in my area an ice cream man got sued and lost his business. The reason? He gave out 3X more than he stated on his menu (3oz instead of 1) and some fat asshole blamed him for his being fat! :hopping:

The problem is that juries and judges who give out these kinds of awards. I would have simply banned the fat man from ever going near an ice cream man.

Then he would sue you for his emotional distress and eventual mental breakdown.  :lol:  Really, these irresponsible people who think they are entitled to the world on a silver platter are quite the PITA... do you realize how much of your money goes to funding them indirectly?  The companies need lawyers to defend themselves.  Those tremendously huge amounts of money they win don't come from the pour soul they sue (unless it's a large company, in which case you pay for it with the resulting higher product price, or the lack of competition if they go out of business)..... :hopping:

[/end rant]
Title: Re: Comapny sued for more than one person listening to the radio at once.
Post by: karajorma on October 13, 2007, 03:06:40 am
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December 23 — The alternative date for the completion of the thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle in the Maya calendar, using a version of the GMT-correlation based on a JDN of 584285 (a.k.a. the "Lounsbury correlation"), which is supported by a smaller number of Mayanist researchers

I'm doing my Christmas shopping on the 24th that year. :D