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aeonic
Title: Sporadic Poster
Joined: Nov 19 2009
Location: Kissimmee, FL
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It went the same way that personal responsibility did. Quickly. This woman is stupid, and it's a shame she's not dead. Then we would've never heard about her.
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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Well, I have to admit some amount of empathy with her situation. I'm horrible at street directions and depend on my GPS a lot, especially when navigating to a place I don't know. Luckily mine is very good, and I'd like to think I pay enough attention not to follow obviously incorrect directions (i.e. "turn down this [one way] street"), but it is awfully hard to ignore the directions that are usually so dead-on.
That said, she's still an idiot, and an even bigger one for having the balls to try and blame google for said stupidity.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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What she didn't notice it was a fucking freeway? Who cares what google maps says, use your goddamn eyes lady! 
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bassguy252
Title: Professional Malcontent
Joined: May 26 2010
Location: Mount Dhoom!!!!!!!
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yeah no shit! who walks into the middle of a freeway?? an idiot thats who
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Let's assume it's a mixture of the two!
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
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The machines are now trying to kill us by tricking us with bad directions. Unfortunately, this strategy only weeds out the stupid who would die quickly in the war anyways.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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| The machines are now trying to kill us by tricking us with bad directions. Unfortunately, this strategy only weeds out the stupid who would die quickly in the war anyways. |
Then the question is should we thank our machine overlords for weeding out undesirables?
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bassguy252
Title: Professional Malcontent
Joined: May 26 2010
Location: Mount Dhoom!!!!!!!
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absolutely not!! they have no love of mankind as we have experienced in The Matrix series and The Terminator series...
we must stop the machine menace before its too late!!
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Let's assume it's a mixture of the two!
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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but I, Robot showed us robots can have a heart
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Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Joined: Sep 28 2008
Location: South of Heaven
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I'm surprised she's only suing for $100,000. Typically these idiots go for the millions, especially when it's a big company like Google.
My prediction.....Google will give her some money to A) Get rid of her, and B) Look like it's a kind, sympathetic company (even toward morons)
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The Opponent
Title: Forum Battle WINNER
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: The Danger Zone
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This reminds me of a story of a German man who trusted his GPS and ended up eating telephone pole. I don't remember him suing anyone.
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I wonder what idiot introduced the prospect of "You can win a lawsuit for your lack of common sense"
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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that chick who got burned by coffee at mcdonalds
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Rycona
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Title: The Maestro
Joined: Nov 01 2005
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I'm surprised she's only suing for $100,000. Typically these idiots go for the millions, especially when it's a big company like Google.
My prediction.....Google will give her some money to A) Get rid of her, and B) Look like it's a kind, sympathetic company (even toward morons) |
With B, that would set a dangerous and potentially expensive precedent. Courts (or rather, the lawyers) pay attention to case history.
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Drew Linky
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And it'll encourage other shit heads to do similar.
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The Opponent
Title: Forum Battle WINNER
Joined: Feb 24 2010
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I'm going to assume that she didn't read the TOS like so many others and bet this will get thrown out in a hurry.
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3. Appropriate Conduct; Compliance with Law and Google Policies. You agree that you are responsible for your own conduct and content while using the Products, and for any consequences thereof.
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6. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY. (b) SUBJECT TO SECTION 14.1 OF THE GOOGLE UNIVERSAL TERMS, GOOGLE AND ITS LICENSORS (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO TELE ATLAS AND ITS SUPPLIERS) DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONTENT AND THE PRODUCTS, AND WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF THE CONTENT OR THE PRODUCTS. |
Section 6 is in all caps as if threatening anyone audacious enough to sue them over this.
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Nekkoru
Title: Polish Pickle Wench
Joined: Jan 25 2008
Location: Warsaw, Poland
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Filing such stupid lawsuits should be punishable by public humiliation.
Or large fines. Whichever works better.
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The Opponent
Title: Forum Battle WINNER
Joined: Feb 24 2010
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Court fees?
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Burt Reynolds
Title: Bentley Bear
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| that chick who got burned by coffee at mcdonalds |
I was going to say that.
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Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Joined: Sep 28 2008
Location: South of Heaven
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I'm surprised she's only suing for $100,000. Typically these idiots go for the millions, especially when it's a big company like Google.
My prediction.....Google will give her some money to A) Get rid of her, and B) Look like it's a kind, sympathetic company (even toward morons) |
With B, that would set a dangerous and potentially expensive precedent. Courts (or rather, the lawyers) pay attention to case history. |
But if they settle outside of court, doesn't that (kind of) get around the precedent thing? Google losing the case in court would definitely set a precedent, but I would think if a resolution is achieved without the court, sequential court cases won't have much luck trying to use the precedent argument.
But I'm not a lawyer, so I dunno.
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Klimbatize
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Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
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| Ice2SeeYou wrote: |
I'm surprised she's only suing for $100,000. Typically these idiots go for the millions, especially when it's a big company like Google.
My prediction.....Google will give her some money to A) Get rid of her, and B) Look like it's a kind, sympathetic company (even toward morons) |
With B, that would set a dangerous and potentially expensive precedent. Courts (or rather, the lawyers) pay attention to case history. |
But if they settle outside of court, doesn't that (kind of) get around the precedent thing? Google losing the case in court would definitely set a precedent, but I would think if a resolution is achieved without the court, sequential court cases won't have much luck trying to use the precedent argument.
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They won't use court rulings as the precedent. They'll use the fact that Google settled out of court to bring a storm of lawsuits about the same thing. Google would have the rep of just paying people off, and lawyers would gladly take a third of whatever they can get.
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
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I'm pretty sure Google Maps tells you that walking directions are in beta and to be cautious on what roads you are taking.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
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Settling out of court doesn't set a precedent, and it doesn't mean they admit liability. It mostly means they're paying her to go away.
I get a feeling this one won't make it past a judge's laugh test, though.
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I wish I could be the judge for cases like this
Just so I can tell the dumbass that did the dumbass shit that they are a dumbass
...and then NOT let them win the case
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
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| Hacker wrote: |
I wish I could be the judge for cases like this
Just so I can tell the dumbass that did the dumbass shit that they are a dumbass
...and then NOT let them win the case |
Judges need to be impartial. Dumbass.
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