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Jeff Bezos' Personal Propaganda Blog the Washington Post... Settles With Nick Sandman for Undisclosed Amount

Democracy dies in defamation.


While Sandmann has claimed a second victory, he says he isn't done yet. He filed a total of eight defamation lawsuits against various organizations following the incident, including against Twitter. He gave a stark warning to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday.

Posted by: Ace at 02:52 PM




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1 2 down, 6 to go.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at July 24, 2020 02:52 PM (ExV1e)

2 take money from these bastards and chew bubble gum but be all out of gum

Posted by: The Pudding at July 24, 2020 02:53 PM (UPp47)

3 Fuck that Mr. Clean wannabe.

Posted by: Fringe at July 24, 2020 02:53 PM (k3rz0)

4 Early.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2020 02:53 PM (DMUuz)

5 I can't be the first to notice the headline.

Posted by: Texican ette at July 24, 2020 02:53 PM (gou4q)

6 not first

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 02:53 PM (UWqZJ)

7 Feel the smirk.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 24, 2020 02:53 PM (LxTcq)

8 I wonder how much.NYT shelled out.

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 24, 2020 02:54 PM (TOyHQ)

9 Ace practicing his Vietnamese in the title.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 24, 2020 02:54 PM (dNzKv)

10 Didnt CNN settle with him for $25 million?

Posted by: Earl Turner at July 24, 2020 02:54 PM (Iq27Y)

11 Mike Rowe is a national treasure.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 24, 2020 02:54 PM (dNzKv)

12 So, the settlement had to be small enough that WaPo figured it would be cheaper to pay out than to fight it, but big enough so that Sandmann was happy. I mean, assuming they though they would lose.

So, $10-15 million?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 02:54 PM (UWqZJ)

13 maybe Bezos also gave him some amoung of stonks?

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at July 24, 2020 02:55 PM (j9HX3)

14 That's a lot of change for an 18 year old.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2020 02:55 PM (u82oZ)

15 Didnt CNN settle with him for $25 million?
Posted by: Earl Turner at July 24, 2020 02:54 PM (Iq27Y)


You aren't allowed to discuss the amount, bigot.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 24, 2020 02:55 PM (dNzKv)

16 My dream for Nick Sandmann is not to go to college.
Go spend that money!

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 24, 2020 02:55 PM (TOyHQ)

17 Are the Amoung mountain people like the H'mong?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2020 02:55 PM (DMUuz)

18 wait. i read the damn thing, went to the last thread, came back and waht number am I??

Posted by: Cannibal Blob at July 24, 2020 02:55 PM (Jx5Qs)

19 I really hope he refuses to settle with NBC and Twitter.

He's got the money now. Take them to trial.

Posted by: garrett at July 24, 2020 02:55 PM (4bC4c)

20 I'm so happy for this kid I'm smiling in glee.
Now if only the amounts would be such that the crap-meisters would go out of business.

Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at July 24, 2020 02:55 PM (gtatv)

21 16 My dream for Nick Sandmann is not to go to college.
Go spend that money!
Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 24, 2020 02:55 PM (TOyHQ)

===========

"Oh, baby. Right this way."
-Chardonay, at the local strip club

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM (UWqZJ)

22 I believe Amoung was one of the orc-leaders in The Silmarillion. Amoung, son of Gnarsh.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM (dfRN6)

23

This kid. He fights!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM (s2VJv)

24 Oooooo I would LOVE the Nick Sandmann lawsuit to be what buries the twitters!

Posted by: Cheriebebe at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM (w6A0l)

25 Ace practicing his Vietnamese in the title.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 24, 2020 02:54 PM (dNzKv)

You are all Beaucoup Dinky Dau!

Posted by: Archer at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM (gmo/4)

26 I hope that when Nick's school and the archdiocese, both of which threw him under the bus, come around begging for money, he tells them to go fuck themselves.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM (W2Pud)

27 5 I can't be the first to notice the headline.
Posted by: Texican ette at July 24, 2020 02:53 PM (gou4q)

You were at least amoung the first.

Posted by: Virginian at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM (QCn60)

28 I hope it was a lot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM (hYcqw)

29 It loses most deterrent effect when it's kept secret.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 24, 2020 02:57 PM (oVJmc)

30 The kid can buy the Redskins and rename them the Washington Don't Give a Fucks

Posted by: Josephistan at July 24, 2020 02:57 PM (uO58g)

31 Exxxxit Liiight

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 02:57 PM (xuiDm)

32 I hope he's using some of those winnings to finance even bigger winnings from those left to settle.

I hope more he wins enough to finance a venture enterprise called "Sandman News" or somesuch to counter those who defamed him, too.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 24, 2020 02:57 PM (HhXSr)

33 28 I hope it was a lot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM (hYcqw)

worth at least a dozen NYT layoffs
hopefully more

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (TOyHQ)

34 He should give half to that poor indigenous man he assaulted!

Posted by: CNN at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (dNzKv)

35 28 I hope it was a lot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM (hYcqw)

29 It loses most deterrent effect when it's kept secret.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 24, 2020 02:57 PM (oVJmc)


Hopefully in direct proportion to the announced newsroom layoffs that I expect to be happening soon.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (s2VJv)

36 I hope the terms include a free dick-punch on the reporter of his choice.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (dfRN6)

37 17
Are the Amoung mountain people like the H'mong?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2020 02:55 PM (DMUuz)

Its prownwced AY MOWNG.

Posted by: Dikshuary uv Mispelt wrds at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (Jx5Qs)

38 32 I hope he's using some of those winnings to finance even bigger winnings from those left to settle.

I hope more he wins enough to finance a venture enterprise called "Sandman News" or somesuch to counter those who defamed him, too.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 24, 2020 02:57 PM (HhXSr)

=========

I'm sure the lawyer is getting a third of every dollar. That's the funding mechanism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (UWqZJ)

39 18, and has actual fuck you money for the rest of his life. What would you do with it?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (YxRHs)

40 I can't be the first to notice the headline.

Posted by: Texican ette at July 24, 2020 02:53 PM (gou4q)



You were at least amoung the first.

Posted by: Virginian at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM


I guffawed.

Posted by: Texican ette at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (gou4q)

41
Screw off, troll.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (s2VJv)

42 LOL get fucked

Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (KNsKs)

43 If Dorsey is looking at a subscription plan for Twitter now, just wait until after Sandmann's lawyers are done with the platform.

Posted by: Fringe at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (k3rz0)

44 he should buy the Seattle Kraken and rename it the Seattle PhilMaKraken

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (j9HX3)

45 >>The kid can buy the Redskins and rename them the Washington Don't Give a Fucks
Posted by: Josephistan

Or the Washington Bezos Fuckers

Posted by: Aviator at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (0FTCx)

46 34 He should give half to that poor indigenous man he assaulted!
Posted by: CNN at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (dNzKv)

=========

"I agree! Oooo! I agree! Look at me! I agree with you, CNN!"
-Erick Erickson

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (UWqZJ)

47 Oooooo I would LOVE the Nick Sandmann lawsuit to be what buries the twitters!
Posted by: Cheriebebe at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM (w6A0l)

Wouldn't that be something?

How are you doing? Good week or bad?

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 02:59 PM (xuiDm)

48 You are all Beaucoup Dinky Dau!
Posted by: Archer at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM


Is it wise to cast aspersions, given you can't di di mau wearing Crocs?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2020 02:59 PM (DMUuz)

49 Didnt CNN settle with him for $25 million?
Posted by: Earl Turner at July 24, 2020 02:54 PM (Iq27Y)


You aren't allowed to discuss the amount, bigot.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 24, 2020 02:55 PM (dNzKv)


Pretty sure it's like saying Eric Cimerella's name. Federal crime.

Brandishing, I think. Brandishing a whistle or something.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 02:59 PM (hku12)

50 Dear Jack,
Imma gonna take my left foot and kick in the right side of your face and there ain't a gott danged thing you can do about it. Then imma pick your wallet clean, see.

Posted by: Nick Sandmann at July 24, 2020 02:59 PM (q1Pj5)

51 "26 I hope that when Nick's school and the archdiocese, both of which threw him under the bus, come around begging for money, he tells them to go fuck themselves.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM (W2Pud) "



This !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at July 24, 2020 02:59 PM (OWgiM)

52 Hope it hurt.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, protester at July 24, 2020 02:59 PM (NVYyb)

53 With that kind of money, Nick can hire tenured professors to tutor him privately.

Posted by: JAS at July 24, 2020 02:59 PM (2BZBZ)

54 Cannibal Blob: "wait. i read the damn thing, went to the last thread, came back and waht number am I??"

Not important. What is important is what day it is and can you remember the three things.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 24, 2020 02:59 PM (HhXSr)

55 LOL.
I thought he named celebrities in his defamation suit too. Like the deranged Kathy Griffin. I think that fat cow Meghan McCain deleted her obnoxious tweet

Posted by: Jmel at July 24, 2020 02:59 PM (bVhJi)

56 Several lawsuits still pending, and His lawyer says Twitter is next.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 24, 2020 02:59 PM (dNzKv)

57 Nick Sandmann will be the Harvester of Sorrow.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2020 02:59 PM (JpcyW)

58 Now that he has some victories and some money, it would be interesting if he actually took some of these cases to court.

Imagine the discovery alone?

Too bad the settlement with CNN did not include a required apology every hour on the hour for a week straight by the talking heads that defamed him.

I imagine the fact they keep settling just means the price for the media keeps going up and up.

Posted by: rd at July 24, 2020 03:00 PM (+0uDE)

59 39
18, and has actual fuck you money for the rest of his life. What would you do with it?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020 02:58 PM (YxRHs)

Walk up to DemPols and say "fuck you."

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 24, 2020 03:00 PM (Jx5Qs)

60 All lefties care about is power and money so you know this hurts real good.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 03:00 PM (xuiDm)

61 I hope the terms include a free dick-punch on the reporter of his choice.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
---

This presupposes that he'd find something to punch. They're all dickless wonders.

Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at July 24, 2020 03:00 PM (gtatv)

62 Happy Birthday.


Real question is if this will stop WaPo from doing the same thing in the future.......

Posted by: WitchDoktor, back to no one giving a damn. at July 24, 2020 03:00 PM (PFAAg)

63 26 I hope that when Nick's school and the archdiocese, both of which
threw him under the bus, come around begging for money, he tells them to
go fuck themselves.



Posted by: nurse ratched at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM (W2Pud)
===============
I hope he sued them. Teach them to stand tall next time.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, protester at July 24, 2020 03:00 PM (NVYyb)

64 >>he should buy the Seattle Kraken and rename it the Seattle PhilMaKraken


Just pay for a viral campaign to name the Mascot Phil.

Posted by: garrett at July 24, 2020 03:01 PM (WCWS7)

65 >>18, and has actual fuck you money for the rest of his life. What would you do with it?


2 chicks at the same time, dude.

Posted by: Lawrence at July 24, 2020 03:01 PM (WCWS7)

66 Nick and his lawyers are my new heros.
Pound them in the ass, Nick!



Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 24, 2020 03:01 PM (ufFY8)

67
Kill them ALLLLLLL!!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2020 03:01 PM (mht8P)

68 "It's afraid!"

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (vuisn)

69 remember the three things.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel


Bewbs, bewbs, and, uhhhh. Bewbs.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (VcFUs)

70 60 All lefties care about is power and money so you know this hurts real good.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 03:00 PM (xuiDm)


They have access to almost unlimited wealth, sadly. But if they can have power stripped away, that is the real victory.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (s2VJv)

71 I hope that when Nick's school and the archdiocese, both of which threw him under the bus, come around begging for money, he tells them to go fuck themselves.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 24, 2020 02:56 PM (W2Pud)
+++++++++++
If they're anything like my college, he'll get a ton of mileage out of that. Whenever my not-so-esteemed alma mater calls me to beg for money, I lay out precisely why their behavior when I was a student precludes them from ever being the subject of my charity.

Nevertheless, they persist.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (hYcqw)

72 nurse ratched: "I hope that when Nick's school and the archdiocese, both of which threw him under the bus, come around begging for money, he tells them to go fuck themselves."

Heh. I can see it now. "Yeah, no. I'm going to go buy a better God. See you in the funny papers."

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (HhXSr)

73 Sandman looks like a dick to me.

Posted by: Don LeMon at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (sWM8x)

74 Ellipses, Having a good week, thanks for asking!!
((Hugs))
How you and the family doing, goodly I hope.

Posted by: Cheriebebe at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (w6A0l)

75 Is this that horrible racist who was clearly smirking while white?

Posted by: Charles Darwin - Stop acting white at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (ShY8Y)

76 The kid can buy the Redskins and rename them the Washington Don't Give a Fucks Smirks

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (ExV1e)

77 You know, one of my little brothers was at the Right for Life last year too.

Why didn't he get yelled at by a random old guy that got play on national media for weeks?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (UWqZJ)

78 You know, the lawyers gave the defendants the opportunity to apologize and retract to avoid the lawsuits.

I wonder if anyone of the remaining defendants has approached Ace about renting the time machine?

Posted by: tbodie at July 24, 2020 03:03 PM (A5B6s)

79 Jack: But you said you were going to be satisfied with just getting paid by two outlets!!!!

Darth Sandmann: I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 03:03 PM (xuiDm)

80 I'd like to see him sue some of the np.checkmark twitterers, actually
who live cancelling others

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 24, 2020 03:03 PM (TOyHQ)

81 remember the three things.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel





Bewbs, bewbs, and, uhhhh. Bewbs.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (VcFUs)

Mars trip?

Posted by: McQuade at July 24, 2020 03:03 PM (q1Pj5)

82 After all the big boys fold he's going after individuals.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at July 24, 2020 03:03 PM (EiNjl)

83 53 With that kind of money, Nick can hire tenured professors to tutor him privately.
Posted by: JAS at July 24, 2020 02:59 PM (2BZBZ)


Judging from the professoriate in US institutions of higher learning, I'd say best to keep the hell away from them.

Learn a trade. Welding, carpentry.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 03:03 PM (s2VJv)

84
I got nothing to lose. Can one of you MSM outlets please defame me?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2020 03:03 PM (mht8P)

85 Nick Sandmann will be the Harvester of Sorrow.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2020 02:59 PM (JpcyW)

Choose the form of the destructor

Posted by: Archer at July 24, 2020 03:04 PM (gmo/4)

86 BifBewalski: "Bewbs, bewbs, and, uhhhh. Bewbs."

Pretty much always the right answer. Good call. Er, recall.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 24, 2020 03:04 PM (HhXSr)

87 Learn a trade. Welding, carpentry.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 03:03 PM (s2VJv)

gun smithing

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 24, 2020 03:04 PM (TOyHQ)

88 Allow me to read this review of Nick Sandman which I recently uploaded to Yelp:

The earth trembles. Lightning cries out for blood, and red clouds comply.

Posted by: Werner Herzog at July 24, 2020 03:04 PM (PbpT7)

89 Ellipses, Having a good week, thanks for asking!!
((Hugs))
How you and the family doing, goodly I hope.
Posted by: Cheriebebe at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (w6A0l)

{{hugs}} back sweetie. Glad to hear. Family is getting through a day at a time!!!

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 03:04 PM (xuiDm)

90 Sandman looks like a dick to me.
Posted by: Don LeMon at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (sWM8x)

Fag.

Posted by: Mr. Garrison at July 24, 2020 03:04 PM (xPJvm)

91 Apple just settled a class action suit for Tens of millions of dollars for making earlier models of their phones obsolete. The average amount going to the damaged parties ( owners of the effected phones) .

$26

The plaintiff attorneys will be paid millions.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 24, 2020 03:04 PM (U9Qbt)

92 2 chicks at the same time, dude.

Posted by: Lawrence at July 24, 2020 03:01

Or 2 guys.

ATM!

Posted by: Buttgig at July 24, 2020 03:04 PM (EiNjl)

93 If Nick hooks up with the grandaughter of the guy who sued Oberlin into submission, we could be talking some real change

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020 03:05 PM (YxRHs)

94
Learn a trade. Welding, carpentry.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 03:03 PM (s2VJv)

gun smithing
Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 24, 2020 03:04 PM (TOyHQ)


Vespa repair and custom shelving.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2020 03:05 PM (mht8P)

95
Darth Sandmann: I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.


This brings to mind the question-- How can James Earl Jones do a voice for a WHITE character? All that will need to be re-dubbed with...oh....Justin Timberlake or someone.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 24, 2020 03:05 PM (oVJmc)

96
Dick Toomey? Related to Regis?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 03:05 PM (s2VJv)

97 Hey, you know, Jesus was a forgiver, and, well, we were caught in the moment, and anyway, the rectory needs a new roof....

Posted by: Covington Diocese at July 24, 2020 03:05 PM (dNzKv)

98 Subhead! The man is on a roll.

Posted by: Gilded Age II at July 24, 2020 03:05 PM (BRkq2)

99 Be prepared for this masks work story:
https://tinyurl.com/y6uqtmxv
Notice the vague statement that two stylists learned they had Wuhan Flu. Did they have symptoms? Were they at work when they were symptomatic?

Posted by: WOPR - Clown World Timeline Thinks This Timeline is Insane at July 24, 2020 03:06 PM (J70i0)

100 If they're anything like my college, he'll get a ton of mileage out of that. Whenever my not-so-esteemed alma mater calls me to beg for money, I lay out precisely why their behavior when I was a student precludes them from ever being the subject of my charity.

Nevertheless, they persist.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (hYcqw)


I get those blegs, they show a picture and name the person, saying this person came from the po side of town, and now wants to get an edgamakashun.

You're a state school. Even grad skrewel ain't that hard to pay your way through, if you're willing to hold a damn job.

Needless to say, the person they feature is always of color.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:06 PM (hku12)

101

All their base are belong to Sandmann

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 24, 2020 03:06 PM (wf/AT)

102 Sue them back into the Stone Age!

Posted by: Steverino at July 24, 2020 03:06 PM (K6qi0)

103 91 Apple just settled a class action suit for Tens of millions of dollars for making earlier models of their phones obsolete. The average amount going to the damaged parties ( owners of the effected phones) .

$26

The plaintiff attorneys will be paid millions.



Class actions are for rubes and scumbags.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 24, 2020 03:06 PM (oVJmc)

104 BifBewalski: "Bewbs, bewbs, and, uhhhh. Bewbs."



Pretty much always the right answer. Good call. Er, recall.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 24, 2020 03:04 PM (HhXSr) y

Totally

Posted by: McQuade at July 24, 2020 03:06 PM (q1Pj5)

105 pestilence
[ˈpestələns]
NOUN
archaic
a fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.
"neither prayers nor demonstrations halted the advance of the pestilence"

Posted by: Catilina at July 24, 2020 03:06 PM (3UDmH)

106 Stay humble kid.

Posted by: Dr. McCoy at July 24, 2020 03:06 PM (WX+x0)

107 He should go to Hillsdale College or Chapman U.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 03:06 PM (s2VJv)

108 Dear Mr. Sandmann-

I am forwarding my CV to you in anticipation of your pending acquisition of one or more colleges or universities.

Posted by: Prof. Dr. Dr. Miklos at July 24, 2020 03:07 PM (QzkSJ)

109 103 91 Apple just settled a class action suit for Tens of millions of dollars for making earlier models of their phones obsolete. The average amount going to the damaged parties ( owners of the effected phones) .

$26

The plaintiff attorneys will be paid millions.


Class actions are for rubes and scumbags.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 24, 2020 03:06 PM (oVJmc)

===========

*adjusts tie and combover*
-Saul Goodman

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 03:07 PM (UWqZJ)

110 Judging from the professoriate in US institutions of higher learning, I'd say best to keep the hell away from them.

Learn a trade. Welding, carpentry.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 03:03 PM (s2VJv)

At this point, he could found a new institute for higher learning.

LOLGF University.

I can see it now. Two AR-15s crossed with a drum rampant.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 24, 2020 03:07 PM (A5zUN)

111 And the lawyers sing...

We're in the money, we're in the money
We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 24, 2020 03:07 PM (e1mEI)

112 They have access to almost unlimited wealth, sadly. But if they can have power stripped away, that is the real victory.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (s2VJv)

Yes but for these kinds it's never enough. And the worst for them is watching regular people win, so really it's a triple whammy.

They keep proving they would sooner die than allow us free expression and a life.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 03:07 PM (xuiDm)

113 What is best in life, Sandmann?

To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their gender-fluid polyamorous life partners.

Posted by: PabloD, cargo specialist for Aero Pinochet at July 24, 2020 03:07 PM (Cjzp9)

114 110
I can see it now. Two AR-15s crossed with a drum rampant.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 24, 2020 03:07 PM (A5zUN)


Giant bird, i.e. middle finger.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 03:07 PM (s2VJv)

115 Nice.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2020 03:07 PM (3H9h1)

116 Good for him. I hope he does well enough to buy someone--anyone--out then burn them to the ground.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 24, 2020 03:08 PM (KATBx)

117 The Philly DA, another Soros creature much like Kim Gardner, charged a second police officer with being over-zealous in spraying pepper spray against Antifa rioters.

I admire the Philly cops for protecting his ass, and doing their jobs so well, but there is such a thing as going too far, guys.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, protester at July 24, 2020 03:08 PM (NVYyb)

118 I think that fat cow Meghan McCain deleted her obnoxious tweet
Posted by: Jmel at July 24, 2020 02:59 PM (bVhJi)


Ben Domenech must have started talking about cashing in the prenup.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 24, 2020 03:08 PM (MDYjc)

119 Snyder should play it cool now. Say, "We're no longer the Washington Redskins 'cause... racist/bigoted. [Turns away, does schlong-yanking motion; turns back to media.] We're now 'The Team Formerly Known As The Washington Redskins'. Now, let's play some football."

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 24, 2020 03:08 PM (HhXSr)

120 103 91 Apple just settled a class action suit for Tens of millions of dollars for making earlier models of their phones obsolete. The average amount going to the damaged parties ( owners of the effected phones) .

$26

The plaintiff attorneys will be paid millions.


Class actions are for rubes and scumbags.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 24, 2020 03:06 PM (oVJmc)


Does Apple continue with its planned obsolesce?

Posted by: Catilina at July 24, 2020 03:09 PM (3UDmH)

121
"I understand, they've been gunning for a kid,
who goes by the name of Nick Sandmann..."

- - Lesser Hit from America

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 03:09 PM (s2VJv)

122 You know if this settlement was going the other way, "Undisclosed Sources" would already have leaked the amount on the pages of the WaPo.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2020 03:09 PM (Kpl3J)

123 77
You know, one of my little brothers was at the Right for Life last year too.



Why didn't he get yelled at by a random old guy that got play on national media for weeks?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (UWqZJ)

Right? some people have all the luck. I'm not a lawyer so I cant make up some shit to sue people for like coffee I spilled myself in my lap from McDonalds, but I wish someone would class action lawsuit form all the businesses that have been destroyed from this fake deadliest of all flues.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 24, 2020 03:09 PM (Jx5Qs)

124 Ah, just found another article where a stylist who didn't follow procedures and was asymptomatic didn't infect anyone.
https://tinyurl.com/yyuq8geh
I bet the two that had it in the the other story had required testing and tested positive while asymptomatic. Masks had nothing to do with it.

Posted by: WOPR - Clown World Timeline Thinks This Timeline is Insane at July 24, 2020 03:09 PM (J70i0)

125 >>Why didn't he get yelled at by a random old guy that got play on national media for weeks?


Kids gotta work on his Smirk.

Posted by: garrett at July 24, 2020 03:10 PM (WCWS7)

126 They should have nailed National Review and Fox News as well. Although Fox walked their idiocy back and would have readily apologized if asked to

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:10 PM (KZzsI)

127 Corporations don't pay for law suits, the customer does. Derp

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020 03:10 PM (YxRHs)

128 Apple just settled a class action suit for Tens of millions of dollars for making earlier models of their phones obsolete. The average amount going to the damaged parties ( owners of the effected phones) .

$26

The plaintiff attorneys will be paid millions.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 24, 2020 03:04 PM (U9Qbt)


Gotta love class action lawsuits. They sue major insurance companies and phone carriers, and if they win you get 10% discount on your next phone/ next month's bill.

Great, thanks. Meanwhile, my rates just went up 20%.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:10 PM (hku12)

129 But but but injun joe was drummy drum drumming!!

Posted by: getting the banned back together, sans drums at July 24, 2020 03:10 PM (joHvK)

130 125 >>Why didn't he get yelled at by a random old guy that got play on national media for weeks?


Kids gotta work on his Smirk.
Posted by: garrett at July 24, 2020 03:10 PM (WCWS7)

=========

He's got that down pat.

Ugh...I could have mooched off of him for cash to pay off my debts...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 03:10 PM (UWqZJ)

131 "Democracy dies in defamation"


LOVE IT!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2020 03:10 PM (bDqIh)

132 I was incorrect. The Apple settlement was between 300 and 500 million . What a load of attorney crap.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 24, 2020 03:10 PM (U9Qbt)

133 127 Corporations don't pay for law suits, the customer does. Derp
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020 03:10 PM (YxRHs)

==========

Well, I'm glad that the people who pay for WaPo are paying, then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 03:11 PM (UWqZJ)

134 127 Corporations don't pay for law suits, the customer does. Derp
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020 03:10 PM (YxRHs)


True, but it does set a precedent. Maybe the media will think twice about doing what they did to this kid to someone else.

Then again, probably not.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 03:11 PM (s2VJv)

135 Does he have lots of wavy hair like Liberace?

Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2020 03:11 PM (HEEq1)

136 McQuade: "Totally"

The jokes... they write themselves. I honestly did not mean to do that.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 24, 2020 03:11 PM (HhXSr)

137 really like the cut of this kid's jib.
He still mixes it up on twitter.
As Phil Hartman would say: "Ssssssssssssassy!"

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2020 03:11 PM (bDqIh)

138 107 He should go to Hillsdale College or Chapman U.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 03:06 PM (s2VJv)

I hope he stays away from drugs, crazy women and anything politically controversial until the lawsuits are done. No sense in giving the scumbag media anything to use against him.

There will be plenty of time afterwards for him to dickslap their lying scumbag faces with a wad of money.

Posted by: rd at July 24, 2020 03:12 PM (+0uDE)

139
"S.F. Giants pitcher Sam Coonrod did NOT kneel with the rest of his teammates in a showing of support for the Black Lives Matter movement Thursday... saying his religion and his personal feelings about BLM wouldn't allow him to do it.

"'I'm a Christian,' the 27-year-old relief pitcher said, 'so I just believe that I can't kneel before anything besides God.'"

https://tinyurl.com/y3reyfos

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2020 03:12 PM (mht8P)

140 Gotta love class action lawsuits. They sue major insurance companies and phone carriers, and if they win you get 10% discount on your next phone/ next month's bill.

Great, thanks. Meanwhile, my rates just went up 20%.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:10 PM (hku12)
++++++++++++
I got a very weird call from a lawyer about a class action. My credit union got sued for unfair/deceptive fees, and I got hit by one. I noticed the fee immediately and went and raised hell until they reversed it and refunded me. I was made whole. I declined the payout from the class action, because I wasn't injured (I already got my money back).

The law firm called me and begged me to reconsider.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 24, 2020 03:12 PM (hYcqw)

141 135 Does he have lots of wavy hair like Liberace?
Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2020 03:11 PM (HEEq1)


When I was a kid, I pronounced his name "Libber Ace."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2020 03:12 PM (s2VJv)

142 117 The Philly DA, another Soros creature much like Kim Gardner, charged a second police officer with being over-zealous in spraying pepper spray against Antifa rioters.

I admire the Philly cops for protecting his ass, and doing their jobs so well, but there is such a thing as going too far, guys.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, protester at July 24, 2020 03:08 PM (NVYyb)


Taking him for a ride and dumping his body in the river is going too far.

Posted by: Catilina at July 24, 2020 03:12 PM (3UDmH)

143 Arrange a meeting with the heads of the five networks.

Posted by: Don Vito Sandmann at July 24, 2020 03:12 PM (xuiDm)

144 They keep proving they would sooner die than allow us free expression and a life.
Posted by: ...



I'm good with that.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2020 03:13 PM (ep1HV)

145 Nick to the Washington Post:


Runner! Run!

Sandmann

Posted by: Archer at July 24, 2020 03:13 PM (gmo/4)

146 The law firm called me and begged me to reconsider.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 24, 2020 03:12 PM (hYcqw)

My WAG is that they're getting a cut of every payment that's being sent out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2020 03:13 PM (Kpl3J)

147 The mask story supports the science that asymptomatic people don't spread it. And that false positive test results exist.

Posted by: notsothoreau at July 24, 2020 03:13 PM (JKNZq)

148 Stay humble kid.
Posted by: Dr. McCoy at July 24, 2020 03:06 PM (WX+x0)


I see a whiff of it.

"Stood your ground by supporting me..."

But enough about the principle involved, let's talk about me.

I'll chalk it up to youth.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:13 PM (hku12)

149 Charlamagne Tha God Says Biden Should 'Shut The Eff Up Forever'

-
When he's right, he's right.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 24, 2020 03:14 PM (+y/Ru)

150 Democracy Dies in Wokeness.

Posted by: Charles Darwin - Stop acting white at July 24, 2020 03:14 PM (0KD36)

151 Corporations don't pay for law suits, the customer does.

In this case, the customers being Washington Post subscribers, who all supported the hate and still cling to it

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:14 PM (KZzsI)

152 18, and has actual fuck you money for the rest of his life. What would you do with it?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020


*
*

A house and land in Idaho or someplace as far from blue idiots as I could get. A remote part of New Zealand., maybe.

Oh, you mean what would I have done at 18? Drunk myself to death in a few years, I suppose. Like the old joke, "I have 5 million dollars. Two million I spent on booze and coke, two million on hookers, and the rest I wasted."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 24, 2020 03:14 PM (rpbg1)

153 He could hire the Ghana funeral dancers and have them stand outside Biden's house with a coffin.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade internet villain at July 24, 2020 03:14 PM (bML9A)

154
127 Corporations don't pay for law suits, the customer does. Derp
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020 03:10 PM (YxRHs)

---

I ain't a customer of WaPo, CNN, or Twatter.

Anything that hurts them, helps their competitors too.

Win! Win!

Posted by: rd at July 24, 2020 03:15 PM (+0uDE)

155 Corporations don't pay for law suits, the customer does. Derp
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020 03:10 PM (YxRHs)


Only if the corporation in question can raise it's price to cover the costs. Otherwise the shareholders pay.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 24, 2020 03:15 PM (SgjGX)

156 When I was a kid, I pronounced his name "Libber Ace."

That's like Reverse Flash, its Ace's arch nemesis!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:15 PM (KZzsI)

157 Personally I would have cut an option B for the WAPO and said we will reduce the fine, but we get to write the your Headline Story for Tomorrow to be published in the paper, no editing allowed.

Posted by: Picric at July 24, 2020 03:15 PM (PPyFO)

158 S.F. Giants pitcher Sam Coonrod did NOT kneel

really ? Coonrod ?
not touching that one....

Posted by: McCool at July 24, 2020 03:15 PM (lWCRE)

159 I'm good with that.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2020 03:13 PM (ep1HV)


Yezzer

Posted by: Catilina at July 24, 2020 03:16 PM (3UDmH)

160 My name is Sandmann
I won't back down

If you spread slanders
I'll give you a frown

I'll sue your ass off
I never stop winning
Drive you to bankruptcy
As I keep grinning!

Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2020 03:16 PM (HEEq1)

161 Exit: light

Enter: night

Take my hand

We're off to punitive damages land

Posted by: ENTER SANDMANN at July 24, 2020 03:16 PM (qlFIA)

162 He gave a stark warning to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday.

DOWN goes Twitter, DOWN goes Twitter.

Posted by: m at July 24, 2020 03:16 PM (gvWOP)

163 >> Only if the corporation in question can raise it's price to cover the costs.


Pretty sure WaPo isnt raising subscription prices or ad rates...

Posted by: McCool at July 24, 2020 03:17 PM (lWCRE)

164 >>>Imma gonna take my left foot and kick in the right side of your face and there ain't a gott danged thing you can do about it.

Ooof. And it's going to hurt. Trust me.

Posted by: Bernard Posner at July 24, 2020 03:17 PM (2M/TV)

165 Does Apple continue with its planned obsolesce?

sorta similar - a young mechanic I use was a Honda dealer mechanic. They sent him through a local junior college for two years, got an associates degree and then to their campus somewhere near Dallas for two more years. He knows Hondas.

He said Honda no longer uses Japanese engineering or manufacturing. Says they now engineer in S Korea and manufacture all over the world with Kia and Ford as major suppliers since the 2015 model year. Western hemisphere manufacturing is done in Mexico.

Posted by: DanMan at July 24, 2020 03:17 PM (RusNE)

166 163 >> Only if the corporation in question can raise it's price to cover the costs.


Pretty sure WaPo isnt raising subscription prices or ad rates...
Posted by: McCool at July 24, 2020 03:17 PM (lWCRE)

==========

"Daddy Bezos? Could you please pay for the neighbor's broken window?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 03:17 PM (UWqZJ)

167 He could hire the Ghana funeral dancers and have them stand outside Biden's house with a coffin.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade internet villain




Do you perchance have a newsletter one might subscribe to?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2020 03:18 PM (ep1HV)

168 "'I'm a Christian,' the 27-year-old relief pitcher said, 'so I just believe that I can't kneel before anything besides God.'"

https://tinyurl.com/y3reyfos

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2020 03:12 PM (mht8P)


Yeesh! I asked it wrong earlier, I asked if he can hit a curveball, but gosh, a 27 year old relief pitcher?

That's taking your career in your hands there, dude. Your kind are a dime a dozen. Unless you throw 100... or are lefthanded, with a big sweeping curveball.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:18 PM (hku12)

169 And the Stupid, it continues:
https://tinyurl.com/y24oybzk

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 24, 2020 03:18 PM (r+sAi)

170 Corporations don't pay for law suits, the customer does.

In this case, the customers being Washington Post subscribers, who all supported the hate and still cling to it
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Self imposed idiot tax.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 24, 2020 03:18 PM (+y/Ru)

171 Jack: But you said you'd come after Twitter last!

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 03:18 PM (xuiDm)

172 It would be kind of funny if Twitter went with the subscription model to pay for the lawsuit damages.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 24, 2020 03:18 PM (A5zUN)

173 Billy Jack was an American hero I tell ya

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020 03:18 PM (YxRHs)

174
really ? Coonrod ?
not touching that one....



There once was a man from Cape Cod...

Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2020 03:18 PM (XTyi0)

175 Sandman looks like a dick to me.
Posted by: Don LeMon
______________

Obviously not, or you'd be trying to suck him.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 24, 2020 03:18 PM (k4dH2)

176 Know why Nick is smiling in the old picture? Because he is thinking "Cha-ching!"

Posted by: JAS at July 24, 2020 03:19 PM (2BZBZ)

177 In unrelated news, the Chinese Communist Party sends the Washington Post another pallet filled with 1 trillion yuan in currency...

Posted by: ShainS at July 24, 2020 03:19 PM (LupTM)

178 You aren't allowed to discuss the amount, bigot.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 24, 2020 02:55 PM (dNzKv)



Pretty sure it's like saying Eric Cimerella's name. Federal crime.



Brandishing, I think. Brandishing a whistle or something.

If you reverse the numbers, it renders the amount inoperative - safe enough to even mention in court.

Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at July 24, 2020 03:19 PM (Ggb9q)

179 The kid can buy the Redskins and rename them the Washington Don't Give a Fucks
Posted by: Josephistan


"The Washington Football Team" is the passive-aggressive way to say "Washington Don't Give a Fucks". I hope they keep it.

The Cleveland Indians should change to "The Cleveland American League Ballclub" and the Atlanta Braves to "The Atlanta National League Ballclub" to highlight the absurdity.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 24, 2020 03:19 PM (d/5jB)

180 That's taking your career in your hands there, dude. Your kind are a dime a dozen. Unless you throw 100... or are lefthanded, with a big sweeping curveball.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:18 PM (hku1

That makes it even more inspiring.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 24, 2020 03:19 PM (U9Qbt)

181 Family is getting through a day at a time!!!
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 03:04 PM (xuiDm)

Sending a few extra prayers and positive vibes

Posted by: Cheriebebe at July 24, 2020 03:19 PM (w6A0l)

182 73 Sandman looks like a dick to me.
Posted by: Don LeMon


When all your holes are aching to be filled, everything looks like a dick to you.

Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2020 03:20 PM (HEEq1)

183
That's taking your career in your hands there, dude. Your kind are a dime a dozen. Unless you throw 100... or are lefthanded, with a big sweeping curveball.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:18 PM (hku12)


Maybe his principles mean something to him. It happens, you know.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2020 03:20 PM (mht8P)

184 I will forgive National Review for what they did to Sandman the very moment that an actual apology is issued and not one second before.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at July 24, 2020 03:21 PM (GbPPJ)

185 Baseballer Coonrod should hook up with the soccer gal that didn't kneel. Assuming all parties single.

Posted by: Dr. McCoy at July 24, 2020 03:21 PM (WX+x0)

186 When Nick Sandmann walks into sign his settlements he should get walk-up music, like ballplayers do, and he could be "Enter The Sandman".

Posted by: Huck Follywood, protester at July 24, 2020 03:21 PM (NVYyb)

187 Colorado Alex In Exile: "Only if the corporation in question can raise it's price to cover the costs. Otherwise the shareholders pay."

Which is still fine with me. Make it a penny stock or less. It's a news flyer for Bezos anyway. It's cheaper owning the presses than renting them for his purposes.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 24, 2020 03:21 PM (HhXSr)

188 and has actual fuck you money for the rest of his life. What would you do with it?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020

I'd get me a storage container exactly like the one Bruce Willis had in the movie Red.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 24, 2020 03:22 PM (U9Qbt)

189 176
Know why Nick is smiling in the old picture? Because he is thinking "Cha-ching!"


Posted by: JAS at July 24, 2020 03:19 PM (2BZBZ)

$250 mill a year will buy a lot of beer ...
His future's so bright, he's gotta wear shades!

Posted by: ShainS at July 24, 2020 03:22 PM (LupTM)

190 His future's so bright, he's gotta wear shades!

Posted by: ShainS at July 24, 2020 03:22 PM (LupTM)
++++++++++++
But if he does, he'll see all the subliminal propaganda ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 24, 2020 03:23 PM (hYcqw)

191 142 117 The Philly DA, another Soros creature much like Kim Gardner, charged a second police officer with being over-zealous in spraying pepper spray against Antifa rioters.

I admire the Philly cops for protecting his ass, and doing their jobs so well, but there is such a thing as going too far, guys.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, protester at July 24, 2020 03:08 PM (NVYyb)


Taking him for a ride and dumping his body in the river is going too far.
Posted by: Catilina at July 24, 2020 03:12 PM (3UDmH)

---------
Last weekend Antifa and BLM were marching on Larry Lightfoot's home in Chicago. She stripped half the on duty cops to defend her block from those peaceful protesters. 300 cops were there to defend her cop hating ass.

If I was calling the shots, I would have peacefully de-escalated and disengaging until I was two or three house past Casa Lightfoot. After all, COPA is now busy prosecuting cops for defending themselves at the Christopher Columbus Statue that was in Grant Park.

Let her feel the righteous wrath of the poor oppressed people of Chicago! /sarc

Posted by: rd at July 24, 2020 03:23 PM (+0uDE)

192
I will forgive National Review for what they did to Sandman the very
moment that an actual apology is issued and not one second before.

=================
Somehow, in the recent layoffs at NR, Frankovich kept his job.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, protester at July 24, 2020 03:23 PM (NVYyb)

193 That's like Reverse Flash, its Ace's arch nemesis!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:15 PM


I thought his arch-nemesis was B*l*a*z*e*r?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2020 03:23 PM (DMUuz)

194 That's taking your career in your hands there, dude. Your kind are a dime a dozen. Unless you throw 100... or are lefthanded, with a big sweeping curveball.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:18 PM (hku1

That makes it even more inspiring.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 24, 2020 03:19 PM (U9Qbt)


Yes.

The Cardinal's Jack Flaherty made a statement, lots of weasel words, but he sorta said "kneel or don't, players can decide for themselves."

I kinda think he was the one who made the statement, because there are other guys on the team saying "dude, you're 24 years old, you have a Hall of Fame career in front of you, if you don't blow out your arm."

So it was safe for him to make a safe, non-controversial statement that wasn't totally mouthing the BLM.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:23 PM (hku12)

195 45 >>The kid can buy the Redskins and rename them the Washington Don't Give a Fucks
Posted by: Josephistan

Or the Washington Bezos Fuckers

Am I a bad person if I want to by a Jersey for this team with either of the Mascots on it. I cringing thinking about it, but strangely I find myself wanting to buy one.

Posted by: Picric at July 24, 2020 03:23 PM (PPyFO)

196 Sending a few extra prayers and positive vibes
Posted by: Cheriebebe at July 24, 2020 03:19 PM (w6A0l)

Thanks. Back at ya!!!

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 03:23 PM (xuiDm)

197 I looked outside, and it's (surprise, surprise, surprise!) raining.

Guess I'll check the mail later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 24, 2020 03:23 PM (rpbg1)

198 This kid's got moxie!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 24, 2020 03:23 PM (CjFDo)

199 and has actual fuck you money for the rest of his life. What would you do with it?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020


__________




You're trying to get me a banned, aren't you?

Posted by: ShainS at July 24, 2020 03:24 PM (LupTM)

200 199 and has actual fuck you money for the rest of his life. What would you do with it?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020


__________




You're trying to get me a banned, aren't you?
Posted by: ShainS at July 24, 2020 03:24 PM (LupTM)

=========

If ace can get away with posting busty lesbian porn, I don't see why you shouldn't.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 03:24 PM (UWqZJ)

201 pretty sure this kid shalt never be short of hookers and blow

Posted by: Rick in SK at July 24, 2020 03:25 PM (FZYNt)

202 Di Di Mau was my favorite Ramone.

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 24, 2020 03:25 PM (iWCRg)

203 29 It loses most deterrent effect when it's kept secret.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 24, 2020 02:57 PM (oVJmc)


No, not really. People's imaginations can run wild now. Also, the remaining defendants now have no idea how much they can expect to pay. (Assuming the amount remains a secret.)

But they do know that he's got lots of money now, and so has minimal need to settle, and lots of incentive to really ram it home on the holdouts.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 24, 2020 03:25 PM (78Xqz)

204 The amount of pussy this guy is about to get is in the national debt stratosphere.

Posted by: Asshoes at July 24, 2020 03:26 PM (3Fd9m)

205 202 Di Di Mau was my favorite Ramone.
Posted by: Darth Randall

Chi Chi Rodriguez was the best Spice Girl

Posted by: Rick in SK at July 24, 2020 03:26 PM (FZYNt)

206 Old and busted: "MAGA kid with a punchable face"

New hotness: "Kid who proved how punchable the MSM is - LOLGFY"

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2020 03:26 PM (bDqIh)

207 I'd speak softly and carry a big stick wrt Twitter. Jack'll have the twitter mobs send the real mobs after him.

Posted by: Where are my ping pong balls? at July 24, 2020 03:26 PM (m3XFr)

208 Even if the okay sign meant anything but okay, why is that not allowed and the black power fist is (and celebrated)?

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at July 24, 2020 03:26 PM (nFRLh)

209 He's young so I bet they did a structured settlement. He can always go to J G Wentworth in the future.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (U9Qbt)

210 But they do know that he's got lots of money now, and so has minimal need to settle, and lots of incentive to really ram it home on the holdouts.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 24, 2020 03:25 PM (78Xqz)

Most importantly, so do his lawyers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (A5zUN)

211 and has actual fuck you money for the rest of his life. What would you do with it?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020

Obligatory:

I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man!

Posted by: Lawrence at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (BgMrQ)

212 Yeesh! I asked it wrong earlier, I asked if he can hit a curveball, but gosh, a 27 year old relief pitcher?

27 is kind of the sweet spot in baseball, enough experience to be really great at the game but still in great enough physical shape to do it at the best level. So if he's any good, he'll be fine.

Good relief pitching is extremely premium.

Hs one year so far in the majors he was 5-1 with a 3.58 ERA and 1.23 ratio/whip and 1 save opportunity. He's either middle relief or was converted to relief after being a starter. That's pretty solid numbers so I doubt his career is in any danger.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (KZzsI)

213 more planned protests in downtown seattle this weekend.

but if you have more than five people in your backyard for a cookout, you face a 1000 dolllar fine.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (W2Pud)

214 One word kid; prenuptial.

Posted by: Dr. McCoy at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (WX+x0)

215 May Bezos and WaPo be devoured by Cthulhu.

Related:

https://youtu.be/1Muo-4K5PZA

Trailer for "Lovecraft Country".

Posted by: Sharkman at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (iLB9+)

216 Sidebar Werner Herzog vids are hilarious. Best one though is the real Herzog talking about meeting John Waters: "I have the feeling that this man is gay"

Posted by: Short Shorts at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (O6DoG)

217 Bezos wrote a check for 250 million for WaPo

with no due diligence.

must be nice

Posted by: REDACTED at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (JgrP5)

218 209 He's young so I bet they did a structured settlement. He can always go to J G Wentworth in the future.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation

PayDay loans FTW

Posted by: Rick in SK at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (FZYNt)

219 Chi Chi Rodriguez was the best Spice Girl
Posted by: Rick in SK at July 24, 2020 03:26 PM (FZYNt)

Chi Chi Rod-ri-gwIze?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 24, 2020 03:28 PM (A5zUN)

220 Chi-Town Jerry: "This kid's got moxie!"

Good thing he can now afford to see a doctor about that. I wonder where he got it... a good Christian kid like that?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 24, 2020 03:28 PM (HhXSr)

221 I screwed that up. It was actually Sheriff Stuart Posner, Bernard's father, who was on the receiving end of Billy Jack's roundhouse kick to the head, but whatevs.

Posted by: fly at July 24, 2020 03:28 PM (2M/TV)

222
Let's see here. Settled lawsuit, rape, settled lawsuit.

Wait. You said settled lawsuit twice.

He likes settling lawsuits.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 03:28 PM (xuiDm)

223 In that one picture, Nick looked a lot like Joey Logano. I bet he could slip him a few bills and take the car around the track a few times and cross that off the bucket list

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020 03:28 PM (YxRHs)

224 OT:

So, I was talking to one of my reports earlier today about an email he needed to send to a client. We went through the problem, figured out the client was wrong, so I told him to write to her lolgfy.

He's very much a progressive, but his response was kinda interesting. He asked if he could because the woman was kind of a Karen. It's just interesting that the Karen meme carries more weight than just on the right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 03:28 PM (UWqZJ)

225 and has actual fuck you money for the rest of his life. What would you do with it?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby



Buy a couple of sections of land.
Build a house.
Buy earth moving equipment.
Post "No Trespassing" signs.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2020 03:28 PM (ep1HV)

226 Examples of media bias:1. the use of the word "smirking" instead of the phrase "smiling uncomfortably". 2. referring to Nathan Philips as "Native American elder" instead of as "Native American activist". That's how they do it. How many times did you hear the word "smirking", and how many times did you hear the term "Native American elder"?

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 24, 2020 03:28 PM (+lVUW)

227 145
Nick to the Washington Post:


Runner! Run!

Sandmann



Posted by: Archer at July 24, 2020 03:13 PM (gmo/4)

1976 version of Jenny Agutter.....meow.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 24, 2020 03:29 PM (ufFY8)

228 Even if the okay sign meant anything but okay, why is that not allowed and the black power fist is (and celebrated)?
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at July 24, 2020 03:26 PM (nFRLh)


Because?

The internet sometimes finds its origins, and the origin of the okie dokie sign being rayciss came from somewhere or other, 4chan or whatever.

It was a joke. They made it up.

Does that matter? Of course not.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:29 PM (hku12)

229 Chi Chi Rodriguez was the best Spice Girl

"and we all know how that's pronounced!"
--Less Nessman

I thought his arch-nemesis was B*l*a*z*e*r?

Well, he's in the rogues gallery with Average Joe, Stormfront Troll, Lace Wigs, and The Shelf

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:29 PM (KZzsI)

230 >>The amount of pussy this guy is about to get is in the national debt stratosphere.


IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE WILL PROBABLY GET VERY LITTLE PUSSY, SINCE ALL THE HOS ARE PRO-ABORTION. 2020 IS THE WEIRDEST!

Posted by: BEN ROSTHLISBERGER at July 24, 2020 03:29 PM (bDqIh)

231 First you take their money
Then you take their power
Then you take their wimmen

Posted by: Regular joe at July 24, 2020 03:29 PM (L9P9s)

232 Pound them in the ass, Nick!
====

Don't forget about me!

Posted by: Shep! at July 24, 2020 03:29 PM (iydjf)

233 I was hoping he would bankrupt them but I guess you can't have everything. Go Trump, drain the swamp, MAGA!

Posted by: Kenny The G from AZ at July 24, 2020 03:29 PM (rb3Ko)

234 Does Apple continue with its planned obsolesce?

The crazy thing about this particular action by Apple is that it was literally the opposite of planned obsolescence. Old phones with old batteries tended to crash when stressed with heavy CPU usage because the fading battery couldn't provide enough power.

Apple could have said, good, buy a new phone. Instead they spent the resources necessary to detect when an older phone was failing and reduce the stress on the battery only when it was overloaded by too much processor usage.

So now because of the lawsuits and bad reporting on the issue, there is a checkbox in settings that is basically, do you want your phone to crash when you need it most?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 24, 2020 03:29 PM (2lndx)

235 he can sue Shapiro in small claims court

Posted by: x at July 24, 2020 03:30 PM (nFwvY)

236 and has actual fuck you money for the rest of his life. What would you do with it?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020

Obligatory:

I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man!
Posted by: Lawrence at July 24, 2020


*
*

Set up a regular delivery schedule with the local madam. Every other night. "Monday, a brunette, Wednesday a blonde, Friday a redhead, and Saturday afternoon? Well, surprise me!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 24, 2020 03:30 PM (rpbg1)

237 He did not get $250m. Settled suits are not settled for the full amount. My guess is $50ish.

Posted by: Asshoes at July 24, 2020 03:30 PM (3Fd9m)

238 Hey, whatever happened to the creepy kid down in Florida that was all anti-gun and dumber than a window licking earthworm?

Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2020 03:30 PM (Ku+nR)

239 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE WILL PROBABLY GET VERY LITTLE PUSSY, SINCE ALL THE HOS ARE PRO-ABORTION. 2020 IS THE WEIRDEST!
Posted by: BEN ROSTHLISBERGER

MAGA gurls are hawt and put out

Posted by: Rick in SK at July 24, 2020 03:30 PM (FZYNt)

240 more planned protests in downtown seattle this weekend.

but if you have more than five people in your backyard for a cookout, you face a 1000 dolllar fine.
Posted by: nurse ratched



People will still argue that this isn't an op.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2020 03:30 PM (ep1HV)

241 238 Hey, whatever happened to the creepy kid down in Florida that was all anti-gun and dumber than a window licking earthworm?
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2020 03:30 PM (Ku+nR)

=========

He went to Harvard and took up Twitter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 03:30 PM (UWqZJ)

242 One word kid; prenuptial.
Posted by: Dr. McCoy at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (WX+x0)


Don't just leave it there! Tell him. TELL HIM!

Traps are gay.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:31 PM (hku12)

243 >>>But they do know that he's got lots of money now, and so has minimal need to settle, and lots of incentive to really ram it home on the holdouts.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 24, 2020 03:25 PM (78Xqz)


And with every win less the need to settle.

Posted by: Catilina at July 24, 2020 03:31 PM (3UDmH)

244 Crush them and take their stuff

Posted by: Wisdom of Jack Straw at July 24, 2020 03:31 PM (nFRLh)

245 We figured, if we won the lottery, we'd set up a big fund for mean as junkyard dog lawyers to defend people against the state DNR.

Posted by: notsothoreau at July 24, 2020 03:31 PM (JKNZq)

246 He's going after Twitter as a publisher, isn't he?

Posted by: Jack Napier at July 24, 2020 03:31 PM (sb+Cg)

247 So.... Not Binary Ben has issued an apology, right?

Posted by: Covington Diocese at July 24, 2020 03:31 PM (dNzKv)

248 He did not get $250m. Settled suits are not settled for the full amount. My guess is $50ish.
Posted by: Asshoes at July 24, 2020 03:30 PM (3Fd9m)

I think he meant Bezos paid 250 million for the Washington Post.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 24, 2020 03:31 PM (U9Qbt)

249 Joker sock off

Posted by: grognard at July 24, 2020 03:32 PM (sb+Cg)

250 238 Hey, whatever happened to the creepy kid down in Florida that was all anti-gun and dumber than a window licking earthworm?
Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2020 03:30 PM (Ku+nR)

ace mentioned something about him in a post yesterday. He related that he was 'fat' and 'greasy.'

Kid needs to take care of himself better.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 24, 2020 03:32 PM (A5zUN)

251 Apple could have said, good, buy a new phone. Instead they spent the resources necessary to detect when an older phone was failing and reduce the stress on the battery only when it was overloaded by too much processor usage.

Some would call that "building a crappy product and applying a band-aid that weakens user experience"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:32 PM (KZzsI)

252 The internet sometimes finds its origins, and the origin of the okie dokie sign being rayciss came from somewhere or other, 4chan or whatever.

It was a joke. They made it up.

Does that matter? Of course not.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:29 PM (hku12)


Rather than admit they were completely punked by a pack of giggling basement-dwellers, the entire MFM fabricated an elaborate counter-hoax about how yes, it had started as a hoax, but we dug even deeper and it turns out that it's a double-retro-meta hoax, which means it's real. CHECKMATE.

Posted by: hogmartin at July 24, 2020 03:32 PM (t+qrx)

253 Off SOck

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 24, 2020 03:32 PM (dNzKv)

254

More than a dozen inmates have died at California's San Quentin State Prison -- including eight on death row -- since June from COVID-19, the state's corrections department said this week.

Convicted murderer John Beames, 67, was the latest inmate to die from complications due to the coronavirus, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a release Wednesday.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 24, 2020 03:32 PM (an7Mv)

255 55 LOL.
I thought he named celebrities in his defamation suit too. Like the deranged Kathy Griffin.
Posted by: Jmel


Does she still have a career, and money? It seems like the only time you hear from her is when she's online blubbering about how Trump destroyed her career.
Hey, anothergreat thing Trump did for this country.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 24, 2020 03:32 PM (+lVUW)

256 Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2020 03:30 PM (Ku+nR)


I believe that he got admitted to Harvard, while Nick Sandmann was turned down to the school he applied to, I think.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2020 03:32 PM (oDRcK)

257 Ram it home

Down Dorsey's throat

Choke on Sandman's balls

Burma Shave

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2020 03:32 PM (q1Pj5)

258 Court-appointed Class Counsel, which have been prosecuting this litigation since its inception in 2017, have not received any payment of attorneys' fees for their representation of the Settlement Class and have advanced all expenses necessarily incurred in order to prosecute the Action. Class Counsel will ask the Court for attorneys' fees in the amount not to exceed 30% of the $310,00,000 Floor. Class Counsel will also apply for reimbursement of expenses paid on behalf of the Class in an amount not to exceed $2 million and Service Awards to Named Plaintiffs of up to $3,500 each (for those Named Plaintiffs who were deposed) and $1,500 (for all other Named Plaintiffs). A copy of Class Counsel's Motion for Attorneys' Fees and Expenses and for Named Plaintiff Service Awards will be available at www.SmartphonePerformanceSettlement.com on or around August 26, 2020.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, back to no one giving a damn. at July 24, 2020 03:32 PM (PFAAg)

259 236:Set up a regular delivery schedule with the local madam. Every other night. "Monday, a brunette, Wednesday a blonde, Friday a redhead, and Saturday afternoon? Well, surprise me!"


Saturday afternoon is all three.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 24, 2020 03:33 PM (MVR7y)

260 That's from the Apple class action settlement.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, back to no one giving a damn. at July 24, 2020 03:33 PM (PFAAg)

261 Karen started as a meme on the left, an anti white woman thing.

Posted by: Asshoes at July 24, 2020 03:33 PM (3Fd9m)

262 I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man!
Posted by: Lawrence at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (BgMrQ)
+++++++++++
So here's what's funny. Do a Google image search with safesearch on for "two chicks at the same time."

You get pictures of that character.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 24, 2020 03:33 PM (hYcqw)

263 Convicted murderer John Beames, 67, was the latest
inmate to die from complications due to the coronavirus, the California
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a release
Wednesday.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 24, 2020 03:32 PM (an7Mv)

Just doing the jobs Justice won't do.

Posted by: COVID-19 at July 24, 2020 03:33 PM (ufFY8)

264 He did not get $250m. Settled suits are not settled for the full amount. My guess is $50ish.

-
Geez. I spill more than that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 24, 2020 03:33 PM (+y/Ru)

265 More than a dozen inmates have died at California's San Quentin State Prison -- including eight on death row -- since June from COVID-19, the state's corrections department said this week.

Convicted murderer John Beames, 67, was the latest inmate to die from complications due to the coronavirus, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a release Wednesday.
Posted by: andycanuck




Oh shucky darn.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2020 03:34 PM (ep1HV)

266 more planned protests in downtown seattle this weekend.

but if you have more than five people in your backyard for a cookout, you face a 1000 dolllar fine.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (W2Pud)
---------------------
Yup. Fvcking Inslee also decreed yesterday that you can eat indoors in restaurants if your party of no more than 5 consisted ONLY of household members.

So, you've been stuck indoors for almost 5 months with just your family, and if you want to dine out, it can only be with your family. Inslee is asshoe.

Posted by: fly gal at July 24, 2020 03:34 PM (8TdcF)

267 Some would call that "building a crappy product and applying a band-aid that weakens user experience".

Things get old. They wear out. How many companies fix that in software so that people do not have to buy a replacement?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 24, 2020 03:34 PM (2lndx)

268 Good relief pitching is extremely premium.

Hs one year so far in the majors he was 5-1 with a 3.58 ERA and 1.23 ratio/whip and 1 save opportunity. He's either middle relief or was converted to relief after being a starter. That's pretty solid numbers so I doubt his career is in any danger.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (KZzsI)


Good relief pitching IS a premium, precisely because guys like this are usually only good for a short time. Most of them have inconsistent careers, and will be out of baseball by their early 30s. If they last that long.

The exception is the guy who makes a long career of it. And at 27, with ONLY one year at the MLB level? He's not likely to be the exception.

Still, as noted, he made a statement about his own beliefs, and I hope that doesn't cost him a decent career. It might.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:34 PM (hku12)

269 261 Karen started as a meme on the left, an anti white woman thing.
Posted by: Asshoes at July 24, 2020 03:33 PM (3Fd9m)

Was that the one with the woman who would not put her dog on a leash or something?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 24, 2020 03:34 PM (A5zUN)

270 >>Apple could have said, good, buy a new phone. Instead they spent the resources necessary to detect when an older phone was failing and reduce the stress on the battery only when it was overloaded by too much processor usage.

Some would call that "building a crappy product and applying a band-aid that weakens user experience"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Batteries don't last forever.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 24, 2020 03:34 PM (0FTCx)

271 Worthy Read:

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 24, 2020 03:35 PM (dNzKv)

272 Or maybe Nick Sandman got admitted to some school bu the guy from Marjorie Stoneman School (Kyle Kashuz?) who was a conservative got turned down to whichever school he was originally accepted to and planned to attend..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2020 03:35 PM (oDRcK)

273 Cool! But wished you'd have sued that disgusting, virtue-signaling, race-baiting, fake vet Indian, what's-his-name Nathan Philips, and sent him to jail, too.

Posted by: Marietta at July 24, 2020 03:35 PM (AL+tu)

274 264 He did not get $250m. Settled suits are not settled for the full amount. My guess is $50ish.

-
Geez. I spill more than that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 24, 2020 03:33 PM (+y/Ru)

You shouldn't do that.

Posted by: Sin of Onan at July 24, 2020 03:35 PM (A5zUN)

275
more planned protests in downtown seattle this weekend.

but if you have more than five people in your backyard for a cookout, you face a 1000 dolllar fine.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (W2Pud)


Protest viruses are socially responsible and healthy.

Cookout viruses are selfish and incredibly deadly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2020 03:35 PM (mht8P)

276 From the Morning Rant this a.m.:

You know the old legend about why Hollywood invented lip gloss, don't you?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 24, 2020


*
*

"Okay, Mr. Bones, I'll play your silly little game." Why did Hollywood invent lip gloss?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 24, 2020 03:35 PM (rpbg1)

277 Batteries don't last forever.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 24, 2020 03:34 PM (0FTCx)
++++++++++
All the more reason for them to be replaceable. I'd be fine with an extra half millimeter of thickness to have a replaceable battery. But no. ALL THE THINGS MUST BE SVELTE!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 24, 2020 03:35 PM (hYcqw)

278 Does she still have a career, and money?

Griffin gets pity work from people who hate Trump, so she probably is managing to keep food in the cupboard, so to speak.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:35 PM (KZzsI)

279 Corporations dont pay for lawsuits, customers and shareholders do.

Good. Fuck all three and the charities they give to.

Posted by: Regular joe at July 24, 2020 03:36 PM (L9P9s)

280 208
Even if the okay sign meant anything but okay, why is that not allowed and the black power fist is (and celebrated)?

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at July 24, 2020 03:26 PM (nFRLh)

_________


Because, shut up h8r! Logic, reason, order, and consistency are racist social constructs of the white patriarchy ... #WokeCult

Posted by: ShainS at July 24, 2020 03:36 PM (LupTM)

281 The internet sometimes finds its origins, and the origin of the okie dokie sign being rayciss came from somewhere or other, 4chan or whatever.

It was a joke. They made it up.

Does that matter? Of course not.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:29 PM (hku12)

Rather than admit they were completely punked by a pack of giggling basement-dwellers, the entire MFM fabricated an elaborate counter-hoax about how yes, it had started as a hoax, but we dug even deeper and it turns out that it's a double-retro-meta hoax, which means it's real. CHECKMATE.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 24, 2020 03:32 PM (t+qrx)


And if you can have a guy fired for scratching his own knuckles, I guess they're right.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:36 PM (hku12)

282 Some would call that "building a crappy product and applying a band-aid that weakens user experience".

Things get old. They wear out. How many companies fix that in software so that people do not have to buy a replacement?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 24, 2020 03:34 PM

- -

And if it really bugs you, buy a replacement battery....

Posted by: WitchDoktor, back to no one giving a damn. at July 24, 2020 03:36 PM (PFAAg)

283 Yup. Fvcking Inslee also decreed yesterday that you can eat indoors in restaurants if your party of no more than 5 consisted ONLY of household members.

So, you've been stuck indoors for almost 5 months with just your family, and if you want to dine out, it can only be with your family. Inslee is asshoe.
Posted by: fly gal


Are you supposed to wear the mask at all times except when eating or drinking?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2020 03:36 PM (ep1HV)

284 These lawsuits need to come more frequently. As corrupt as the commies are conservative, decent people should end up owning all their stuff by 2030.

I hope Sandman gets enough to endow a very powerful non-profit dedicated to defending the rights to life, free speech, free exercise of religion, and the right to bear arms. With enough money he could fund a lot more lawsuits against these traitors.

Posted by: Justasheep at July 24, 2020 03:36 PM (L9Eia)

285 Not all California death row inmates can marry a crazy chick before they die of natural causes like Charles Manson did you know

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020 03:36 PM (YxRHs)

286 The kid can buy the Redskins and rename them the Washington Don't Give a Fucks Smirks
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at July 24, 2020 03:02 PM (ExV1e)[]/i]

The Washington Toothless Navajos

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 24, 2020 03:37 PM (78Xqz)

287 Yup. Fvcking Inslee also decreed yesterday that you can eat indoors in restaurants if your party of no more than 5 consisted ONLY of household members.

So, you've been stuck indoors for almost 5 months with just your family, and if you want to dine out, it can only be with your family. Inslee is asshoe.
Posted by: fly gal at July 24, 2020


*
*

How are they going to enforce that? Your waiter inspects everybody's IDs?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 24, 2020 03:37 PM (rpbg1)

288 All the more reason for them to be replaceable. I'd be fine with an extra half millimeter of thickness to have a replaceable battery.

Apple is all about disposability and lack of customer ability to work on their product in any way. You take it their way and only their way.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:37 PM (KZzsI)

289 Convicted murderer John Beames, 67, was the latest
inmate to die from complications due to the coronavirus, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a release Wednesday.

-
In 1994, Beames was convicted of the torture and beating death of the 15-month-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend. An autopsy revealed that the toddler died of a fierce blow to the abdomen that nearly severed her liver. The girl's mother was sentenced to 25-to-life in prison for allowing the abuse to continue.

-
Huge loss to humanity and Trump's fault.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 24, 2020 03:38 PM (+y/Ru)

290 realDonaldTrump
I spoke to highly respected (Chairman) Senator
@JimInhofe
, who has informed me that he WILL NOT be changing the names of our great Military Bases and Forts, places from which we won two World Wars (and more!). Like me, Jim is not a believer in "Cancel Culture".


He's going to cut drug prices in thirty minutes. .gov

Posted by: Catilina at July 24, 2020 03:38 PM (3UDmH)

291 I hope Sandman gets enough to endow a very powerful non-profit dedicated to defending the rights to life, free speech, free exercise of religion, and the right to bear arms. With enough money he could fund a lot more lawsuits against these traitors.
Posted by: Justasheep at July 24, 2020 03:36 PM (L9Eia)


Buy Oberlin, kick out all the current students, faculty, and administration, and use that site.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 24, 2020 03:38 PM (78Xqz)

292 Apple is all about disposability and lack of customer ability to work on their product in any way. You take it their way and only their way.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:37 PM (KZzsI)
+++++++++++
Not just them. Most mobile phones don't have replaceable batteries. Yes, this allows some additional styling elements (primarily thinness) but it is the most cynical form of planned obsolescence I have ever seen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 24, 2020 03:38 PM (hYcqw)

293
Hey, whatever happened to the creepy kid down in Florida that was all anti-gun and dumber than a window licking earthworm?

Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2020 03:30 PM


he's a Harvard "man" now

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 24, 2020 03:38 PM (beNfa)

294 I am so happy for him and for the whole country! Happy birthday, Mr. Sandmann! Happy weekend, America!

Posted by: Gilded Age II at July 24, 2020 03:38 PM (BRkq2)

295 "Okay, Mr. Bones, I'll play your silly little game." Why did Hollywood invent lip gloss?


To make the visual reference between the lips and the labia (which mean the same thing) more explicit.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 24, 2020 03:38 PM (gd9RK)

296 Batteries don't last forever.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 24, 2020 03:34 PM (0FTCx)
++++++++++
All the more reason for them to be replaceable. I'd be fine with an extra half millimeter of thickness to have a replaceable battery. But no. ALL THE THINGS MUST BE SVELTE!
Posted by: Joe Mannix



I'd settle for an extra half inch thickness and have a replaceable double life battery like I have had on all my other phones.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2020 03:39 PM (ep1HV)

297 Things get old. They wear out.

But this wasn't a case of wearing out, they built a product with a crappy battery in it, then put out something to make the user unable to work with their product as well so it wouldn't wear out as quickly.

This is the same company that admitted they had deliberately slowed down older models of the phone so people would be pressured to buy new ones, you remember, right?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:39 PM (KZzsI)

298
My name is Vanderbilt and this is my brother Mbulu.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2020 03:39 PM (mht8P)

299 I was able to replace the battery on an older iPhone myself.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, back to no one giving a damn. at July 24, 2020 03:39 PM (PFAAg)

300 >>> Things get old. They wear out. How many companies fix that in software so that people do not have to buy a replacement?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 24, 2020 03:34 PM (2lndx)

====

I'm on month 35 of my iPhone 7. Original battery (but due for replacement). No complaints.

Posted by: Swinging for the Downs at July 24, 2020 03:39 PM (O84i1)

301
I'm guessing lawyers get 50 percent, but still . . .

Posted by: Sphynx at July 24, 2020 03:39 PM (rXie1)

302 Convicted murderer John Beames, 67, was the latest
inmate to die from complications due to the coronavirus, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a release Wednesday.

-
In 1994, Beames was convicted of the torture and beating death of the 15-month-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend. An autopsy revealed that the toddler died of a fierce blow to the abdomen that nearly severed her liver. The girl's mother was sentenced to 25-to-life in prison for allowing the abuse to continue.


(taps Give-A-Shit meter). Nope. Nuthin'.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 24, 2020 03:39 PM (78Xqz)

303 Now imagine what would happen to the MFM if we "opened up the libel laws".

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 03:40 PM (xuiDm)

304 Not just them. Most mobile phones don't have replaceable batteries.

They used to, until Apple made a mint despite flipping off their own customers and making it impossible to replace them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:40 PM (KZzsI)

305 Are you supposed to wear the mask at all times except when eating or drinking?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2020 03:36 PM (ep1HV)


That's what SHE said.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:40 PM (hku12)

306 The exception is the guy who makes a long career of it. And at 27, with ONLY one year at the MLB level? He's not likely to be the exception.

The Sandman himself Mariano Rivera debuted at 26 and played 18 years.

Posted by: DanMan at July 24, 2020 03:40 PM (RusNE)

307 269

No the Karen thing has been around for a long time. It ismiddle aged white upper middle class women who called the manager because a clerk - usually black - pissed them off.

Posted by: Asshoes at July 24, 2020 03:40 PM (3Fd9m)

308
Protest viruses are socially responsible and healthy.



Cookout viruses are selfish and incredibly deadly.



Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2020 03:35 PM (mht8P)

___________


"Don't worry, comrades -- we are diligently using your tax dollars and working on a cure to the white virus." -- Tony Falsi, Supreme Commander

Posted by: ShainS at July 24, 2020 03:40 PM (LupTM)

309 cSpan 3 is showing the Senate Intelligence committee onfirmation hearings. Trump's nominee's are getting the Dam/fascist treatment. Sen. Wyden is a fuckhead trying to nail the nominees about what's going on 'in his hometown." Portland is a shithole and Wyden is posturing.

Posted by: vivi at July 24, 2020 03:41 PM (11H2y)

310 213 more planned protests in downtown seattle this weekend.

but if you have more than five people in your backyard for a cookout, you face a 1000 dolllar fine.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 24, 2020 03:27 PM (W2Pud)

------

Arrest everyone at the protest, fine them all $1,000. Tell them you are going to do it all over again tomorrow. And the next day too.

Posted by: rd at July 24, 2020 03:41 PM (+0uDE)

311 Now imagine what would happen to the MFM if we "opened up the libel laws".
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 03:40 PM (xuiDm)
++++++++++
I'd be fine with a "three strikes" kind of rule.
First time you're guilty of defamation - litigated or settled - it costs what it costs in punitive damages.
Second time you're guilty of defamation, it costs what it costs in punitive damages.
Third time, it costs your entire enterprise value.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 24, 2020 03:41 PM (hYcqw)

312 Just doing the jobs Justice won't do.
Posted by: COVID-19 at July 24, 2020 03:33 PM (ufFY

Is your middle name "Dexter", oh great Chinese one?!

Posted by: andycanuck at July 24, 2020 03:41 PM (an7Mv)

313 "Okay, Mr. Bones, I'll play your silly little game." Why did Hollywood invent lip gloss?


To make the visual reference between the lips and the labia (which mean the same thing) more explicit.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 24, 2020


*
*

Well, sure, but lipstick does that. Unless you mean to really heighten the visual effect on film?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 24, 2020 03:41 PM (rpbg1)

314 What if Nick sued the Ashkenazi breasts off of Ben Shapiro's sister?

Posted by: Regular joe at July 24, 2020 03:42 PM (L9P9s)

315 I don't know if anyone has mentioned yet, but IIRC, Rolling Stone was one of rags he sued. I'm just wondering how many more lawsuits the Rolling Stone can lose before they're out of business. Maybe this will turn the trick.

Posted by: Old Blue at July 24, 2020 03:42 PM (VNmG1)

316 274 264 He did not get $250m. Settled suits are not settled for the full amount. My guess is $50ish.

___________________________________

Were I to guess, a settlement this early suggests about $250k. The Washington Post will likely have a self-insured retention plan in effect. This allows them to settle for significant amounts without bringing in a Re-insurer giving them a little more independence to handle it the way they want. These entities get so many of these suits, it's not economically feasible to have a regular policy and allow the insurance company to make the call on Professional Liability claims unless it is a HUGE exposure. What generally happens on a case like this is that the WP will set a reserve. The Re-insurer will monitor the case and if they agree with the reserve (and it is significantly under the "deductible" of the self-insured retention plan) they will keep their hands off and let the WP handle it.

I think that's what happened here.

Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2020 03:42 PM (Ku+nR)

317 288 All the more reason for them to be replaceable. I'd be fine with an extra half millimeter of thickness to have a replaceable battery.

Apple is all about disposability and lack of customer ability to work on their product in any way. You take it their way and only their way.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:37 PM (KZzsI)


I have an iPad because it's not Alphabet.
My phone is so old Googlycrap can be disabled, it also has a replaceable battery. Of which a $10.00 spare remains charged for three months.

Posted by: Catilina at July 24, 2020 03:42 PM (3UDmH)

318 Actually, the very first Karen meme I ever saw was probably 2 years ago. It's a dog sitting at a patio table with several beers in front of him. Caption reads, shut up Karen I was it was storming out and I got scared.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 24, 2020 03:42 PM (dUJdY)

319 I'm on month 35 of my iPhone 7. Original battery (but due for replacement). No complaints.
Posted by: Swinging for the Downs


I had the original battery swapped out on my 6S around Christmas of 2018.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2020 03:42 PM (ep1HV)

320 I'm on month 35 of my iPhone 7. Original battery (but due for replacement). No complaints.

yep, 33 months on mine so far

Posted by: DanMan at July 24, 2020 03:42 PM (RusNE)

321 Nick is a good Catholic boy. He won't sue his bishop.

Posted by: JAS at July 24, 2020 03:42 PM (2BZBZ)

322 The exception is the guy who makes a long career of it. And at 27, with ONLY one year at the MLB level? He's not likely to be the exception.
------------------------------
The Sandman himself Mariano Rivera debuted at 26 and played 18 years.
Posted by: DanMan at July 24, 2020 03:40 PM (RusNE)


And was the first and ONLY player unanimously elected to the Hall of Fame.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:43 PM (hku12)

323 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE WILL PROBABLY GET VERY LITTLE PUSSY, SINCE ALL THE HOS ARE PRO-ABORTION. 2020 IS THE WEIRDEST!

Posted by: BEN ROSTHLISBERGER at July 24, 2020 03:29 PM (bDqIh)



I wish I HAD a little pussy. Mine's as big as a handbag!!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 24, 2020 03:43 PM (q1Pj5)

324 I'd be fine with an extra half millimeter of thickness to have a replaceable battery.

Personally, I'd prefer a phone that's sealed better from the elements than one with a back that opens. I would also prefer a phone that doesn't require duct tape to hold the battery on, as every removable-battery device I owned used to after a few years of use.

Fortunately we can both buy the kinds of phones that meet our preferences. Unless, of course, misguided lawsuits or government regulations mandate one person's choice over another's.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 24, 2020 03:43 PM (2lndx)

325 I hope more he wins enough to finance a venture enterprise called "Sandman News" or somesuch to counter those who defamed him, too.

I hope he wins enough to purchase a helicopter and offer free rides to those who defamed him.

Posted by: look out below! at July 24, 2020 03:43 PM (6DuKY)

326 Couldn't we all do with an extra 1/2" of girthiness thickness?

Posted by: andycanuck at July 24, 2020 03:43 PM (an7Mv)

327 314 What if Nick sued the Ashkenazi breasts off of Ben Shapiro's sister?
Posted by: Regular joe at July 24, 2020 03:42 PM (L9P9s)


You can't sue sand.

Posted by: Catilina at July 24, 2020 03:43 PM (3UDmH)

328 250k? After legal fees thats like a Honda Accord. Now way he settled for that.

Posted by: Asshoes at July 24, 2020 03:43 PM (3Fd9m)

329 No the Karen thing has been around for a long time. It ismiddle aged white upper middle class women who called the manager because a clerk - usually black - pissed them off.
Posted by: Asshoes at July 24, 2020


*
*

Then the original Karen must be a neighbor of mine. I'm tempted to demand the manager a LOT. Of course, around here, said "manager" may turn out to be just as bad and just as stupid as the clerk.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 24, 2020 03:44 PM (rpbg1)

330 They used to, until Apple made a mint despite flipping off their own customers and making it impossible to replace them.

- -

Not impossible. For older phones you can replace them yourself, it's not trivial but it's not impossible either.

For newer phones an Apple Store can replace them.

Hard for me to judge Apple for wanting to make money. That's why they are in business. Continued support for phones that are years old is free and is a rarity in tech.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, back to no one giving a damn. at July 24, 2020 03:44 PM (PFAAg)

331 The crazy thing about this particular action by Apple is that it was literally the opposite of planned obsolescence. Old phones with old batteries tended to crash when stressed with heavy CPU usage because the fading battery couldn't provide enough power.

It became a thing because the media lied about it, in a turn of events that shouldn't surprise anyone. Gell-Mann Amnesia is a real thing: everything the media writes about, they're usually wrong.

Some would call that "building a crappy product and applying a band-aid that weakens user experience".

It's an inherent thing in lithium-ion batteries, which all consumer electronics currently use. Everyone is currently throwing billions of dollars at alternative chemistries that don't have the many known issues of Li-Ion but still have the useful parts. Toyota thinks they'll have something in 2025, for instance, but that remains to be seen.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2020 03:44 PM (ZGrMX)

332 Dear young people of America:

Be discerning when selecting an attorney.

Sincerely,

Stormy Daniels

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 24, 2020 03:44 PM (XrCyE)

333 324 I'd be fine with an extra half millimeter of thickness to have a replaceable battery.

Personally, I'd prefer a phone that's sealed better from the elements than one with a back that opens. I would also prefer a phone that doesn't require duct tape to hold the battery on, as every removable-battery device I owned used to after a few years of use.

Fortunately we can both buy the kinds of phones that meet our preferences. Unless, of course, misguided lawsuits or government regulations mandate one person's choice over another's.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 24, 2020 03:43 PM (2lndx)

=========

Motorola put out a series of phones that were supposed to be really tough.

They were small, with shitty screens, and they covered the OS with junk that slowed everything down.

But they were resistant against water. Not water proof, just water resistant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 03:44 PM (UWqZJ)

334
302 Convicted murderer John Beames, 67, was the latest
inmate to die from complications due to the coronavirus, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a release Wednesday.

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In 1994, Beames was convicted of the torture and beating death of the 15-month-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend. An autopsy revealed that the toddler died of a fierce blow to the abdomen that nearly severed her liver. The girl's mother was sentenced to 25-to-life in prison for allowing the abuse to continue.


(taps Give-A-Shit meter). Nope. Nuthin'.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 24, 2020 03:39 PM (78Xqz)

Is it too much to hope Mommy died from 'rona too?

Seriously, anyone with a death sentence or life sentence dies from Chinese Coronavirus? Sorry, not sorry.

Posted by: rd at July 24, 2020 03:44 PM (+0uDE)

335 Hovakimian is holding firm against Wyden's bullshit. I can't believe Wyden is pressing the issue and calling federal troops 'fascist" and refusing to condemn federal troops. And he's announcing he'll oppose the nomination. Big surprise.
same thing with the Dem senator from New Mexico...and ooh "mostly" peaceful protestors.

Posted by: vivi at July 24, 2020 03:45 PM (11H2y)

336 I wish I HAD a little pussy. Mine's as big as a handbag!!
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 24, 2020 03:43 PM (q1Pj5)

Extra points for the Predator reference.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 24, 2020 03:45 PM (A5zUN)

337 Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2020 03:42 PM (Ku+nR)

aw sadz

Posted by: vmom 2020 at July 24, 2020 03:45 PM (TOyHQ)

338
He did not get $250m. Settled suits are not settled for the full amount. My guess is $50ish.



He's going to make it up on volume

Posted by: Rioting Genius at July 24, 2020 03:45 PM (PtOP4)

339 Dear young people of America:

Be discerning when selecting an attorney.

Sincerely,

Stormy Daniels
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 24, 2020 03:44 PM (XrCyE)


Dear America,

Be extra EXTRA careful when selecting a whore.

Posted by: Creepy Porn Lawyer at July 24, 2020 03:46 PM (hku12)

340
293


Hey, whatever happened to the creepy kid down in Florida that was all anti-gun and dumber than a window licking earthworm?



Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2020 03:30 PM



he's a Harvard "man" now



Posted by: AltonJackson at July 24, 2020 03:38 PM (beNfa)

___________


He and Greta Thunberg are trying to conceive, but having little luck, via the anal method exclusively.

Posted by: ShainS the at July 24, 2020 03:46 PM (LupTM)

341 Lawyers got rich off the settlement for sure, but he has parents. He got 50% at least right? 30?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020 03:46 PM (YxRHs)

342 All the more reason for them to be replaceable. I'd be fine with an extra half millimeter of thickness to have a replaceable battery. But no. ALL THE THINGS MUST BE SVELTE!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 24, 2020 03:35 PM (hYcqw)

I think the batteries are no longer replaceable because they don't want you to be able to turn your surveillance device I mean PHONE! all the way off.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 03:46 PM (xuiDm)

343 Motorola put out a series of phones that were supposed to be really tough.

They were small, with shitty screens, and they covered the OS with junk that slowed everything down.

But they were resistant against water. Not water proof, just water resistant.

- -

Many years ago I had a Casio that was the same way.

Great bar trick of mine was putting it in a glass of water and calling it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, back to no one giving a damn. at July 24, 2020 03:46 PM (PFAAg)

344 I'd be fine with an extra half millimeter of thickness to have a replaceable battery.

Same, but I'm responsible with devices. The majority of the market wants a phone that won't die when they drop it in the toilet.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2020 03:46 PM (ZGrMX)

345 The Sandman himself Mariano Rivera debuted at 26 and played 18 years.

Yeah but he's right, that's the extreme exception. There are a handful of long-term relief pitchers, most of whom we know by name but most aren't truly great for very long at all.

And Rivera's pitchers were insanely hittable, he beat batters by playing against their experience and expertise. A low end batter would have eaten him up because he freaking floated pitches right over the zone again and again. For him it was about mind games and messing with the batter's head, not killer stuff or placement.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:46 PM (KZzsI)

346 -
--
The crazy thing about this particular action by Apple is that it was
literally the opposite of planned obsolescence. Old phones with old
batteries tended to crash when stressed with heavy CPU usage because the
fading battery couldn't provide enough power.

--------------

Heh, you bought that tripe? What would you expect those thieves to say when they get caught sandbagging older phones?

Posted by: irright at July 24, 2020 03:47 PM (pMGkg)

347 Lawyers typically get 1/3 of settlement money I believe.

Posted by: Asshoes at July 24, 2020 03:47 PM (3Fd9m)

348 Sammy Davis Jr is on The Rifleman. Him and Chuck goin to shoot it out.

Posted by: f'd at July 24, 2020 03:47 PM (Tnijr)

349 John Beames may you find the horned, thorny cock of Satan in your ass every morning before chow!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2020 03:47 PM (JFO2v)

350 He and Greta Thunberg are trying to conceive, but having little luck, via the anal method exclusively.
Posted by: ShainS the at July 24, 2020 03:46 PM (LupTM)


Let's try you in me this time.

Posted by: Greeta Thumpberg at July 24, 2020 03:47 PM (hku12)

351 336 I wish I HAD a little pussy
--------

Tater Stelter reporting for duty!!!!

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2020 03:47 PM (xuiDm)

352 Part of the reason for the super slim phone is the way they're used. Because they are designed to be nearly impossible to use as a real phone (hold to your head and talk) people have to hold them out in their fingertips and that sucks if the phone is at all heavy.

Plus the way people store those things, thinner is better (in a purse, a pocket, etc).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:48 PM (KZzsI)

353 Great bar trick of mine was putting it in a glass of water and calling it.

If it crawled out of the glass and came to you, that would have been something.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 24, 2020 03:48 PM (XrCyE)

354 Dear young people of America:

Be discerning when selecting an attorney.

Sincerely,

Stormy Daniels
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 24, 2020 03:44 PM (XrCyE)

Dear America,

Be extra EXTRA careful when selecting a whore.
Posted by: Creepy Porn Lawyer at July 24, 2020 03:46 PM (hku12)


Dear America,

If you could please forget about how we were completely sold on Creepy Porn Lawyer and his sidekick Porn Star taking down the President of the United States, we'd appreciate it.

Posted by: CNN at July 24, 2020 03:48 PM (t+qrx)

355 is this one of the kids from that Lincoln Memorial incident?

Posted by: DB- just DB. The 'what fresh hell this day' guy. at July 24, 2020 03:48 PM (iTXRQ)

356 350

I literally LOLed.

Posted by: Asshoes at July 24, 2020 03:48 PM (3Fd9m)

357 >>>For newer phones an Apple Store can replace them.

Hard for me to judge Apple for wanting to make money. That's why they are in business. Continued support for phones that are years old is free and is a rarity in tech.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, back to no one giving a damn. at July 24, 2020 03:44 PM (PFAAg)


Yes, yes, yes. I call Apple service with the stupidest questions and always receive relatively quick and polite help.

Posted by: Catilina at July 24, 2020 03:48 PM (3UDmH)

358 Same, but I'm responsible with devices. The majority of the market wants a phone that won't die when they drop it in the toilet.
Posted by: Ian S.



iPhone 3 shit the bed when that happened.
Reason I went on a Sprint/Android kick for five years.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2020 03:49 PM (ep1HV)

359 This is the same company that admitted they had deliberately slowed down older models of the phone so people would be pressured to buy new ones, you remember, right?

Nope. You're falling prey to Gell-Mann amnesia. Apple deliberately slowed down older models only if the older model had a fading battery and only when CPU usage was straining the battery. So that people would not be pressured to buy a new phone.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 24, 2020 03:49 PM (2lndx)

360 Great bar trick of mine was putting it in a glass of water and calling it.


Why would you have water at a bar?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 24, 2020 03:49 PM (gd9RK)

361 Battery problem was with the 5S, if I remember right. My cousin got a free battery replacement in his. I didn't have any problems with mine.

Posted by: notsothoreau at July 24, 2020 03:49 PM (JKNZq)

362 He and Greta Thunberg are trying to conceive, but having little luck, via the anal method exclusively.
Posted by: ShainS the at July 24, 2020 03:46 PM (LupTM)

Especially since Greta is using the strapon, and he's the catcher.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2020 03:49 PM (Kpl3J)

363 Remember all the idiots on the left *and* right who claimed Sandman didn't have a case? That this was all a waste of time to sue? That a court would NEVER let a case like this proceed because of NYT v. Sullivan (as if a minor who is a private citizen is a "public figure").

LOL

These people who feel entitled to rule us are not very smart.

Posted by: Venus at July 24, 2020 03:50 PM (iYXhj)

364 Noooooooooooooood! WSJ

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at July 24, 2020 03:50 PM (ExV1e)

365 356 350

I literally LOLed.
Posted by: Asshoes at July 24, 2020 03:48 PM (3Fd9m)


I'm sorry. I really should try to get some work done today.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 24, 2020 03:51 PM (hku12)

366 Nick Sandmann literally has a million dollar smile.

Likely closer to a $200 million dollar smile by the time everyone settles.

Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at July 24, 2020 03:51 PM (icI8A)

367 Reason I went on a Sprint/Android kick for five years.

These days people do it because its a better phone. Oh, but it doesn't have THREE CAMERAS!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2020 03:51 PM (KZzsI)

368 For him it was about mind games and messing with the batter's head, not killer stuff or placement.


That's stupid. Keeping major league hitters from hitting the ball when everything is on the line is not mind games, it's throwing shit they can't hit.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 24, 2020 03:51 PM (gd9RK)

369 Great bar trick of mine was putting it in a glass of water and calling it.


Why would you have water at a bar?
Posted by: Bandersnatch



Because you didn't want to waste a glass of single malt by sticking a phone in it?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2020 03:51 PM (ep1HV)

370
324 I'd be fine with an extra half millimeter of thickness to have a replaceable battery.

Personally, I'd prefer a phone that's sealed better from the elements than one with a back that opens. I would also prefer a phone that doesn't require duct tape to hold the battery on, as every removable-battery device I owned used to after a few years of use.

Fortunately we can both buy the kinds of phones that meet our preferences. Unless, of course, misguided lawsuits or government regulations mandate one person's choice over another's.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 24, 2020 03:43 PM (2lndx)

----

It wouldn't be hard. Make every exterior connection wire go through a plastic bulkhead. Make the circuit resistant to shorts wire to wire and wire to ground. While you are at it, add an external hard switch that disables and disconnects the microphone and cameras. You could do something similar with a replaceable battery pack.

It might cost an additional $5-$10 per unit? You would probably need a slightly thicker phone to make up for the lost internal volume too.

Posted by: rd at July 24, 2020 03:52 PM (+0uDE)

371 Whatever you do, don't search for "Sandman settlement" on twatter if you value your blood pressure. There's a lot of seriously disturbed creatures out there. They'd happily set you and your family on fire for wearing a MAGA hat.

Posted by: clutch cargo at July 24, 2020 03:52 PM (8B6Ng)

372 For newer phones an Apple Store can replace them.



Hard for me to judge Apple for wanting to make money. That's why
they are in business. Continued support for phones that are years old is
free and is a rarity in tech.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, back to no one giving a damn. at July 24, 2020 03:44 PM (PFAAg)

screwem. I never owned any of their damn phones. I have some LG or something and only have that because i lost my flip phone.

I went to an Apple store once with an appointment for them to fix my Ipod. they told me after sitting around forever that they could never fix such an early generation device. yeah, thanks for wasting my time jerks.

i do own the stock though.

Posted by: Quint at July 24, 2020 03:52 PM (o1Bgo)

373 For him it was about mind games and messing with the batter's head, not killer stuff or placement.

Trump mentioned he recorded more broken bats than anybody. Weird if that stat is really kept. I thought he was a guy that got two strikes on you and threw a high heater or low and outside curve. Like a low powered Garret Cole.

Posted by: DanMan at July 24, 2020 03:52 PM (RusNE)

374 341 Lawyers got rich off the settlement for sure, but he has parents. He got 50% at least right? 30?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 24, 2020 03:46 PM (YxRHs)


_________________________________

Standard is 1/3 contingency basis...so yeah, the attorney gets 33%....but like someone mentioned above, there are 8 defendants....and Sandman will have a nice little nest egg when he's finished. Settling two up front puts pressure on the other parties to shit or get off the pot. Each is handled under the merits of their exposure...but not really. They aren't going to roll the dice with a jury. Because if you get the wrong jury, you're going to get screwed.

Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2020 03:52 PM (Ku+nR)

375
Motorola put out a series of phones that were supposed to be really tough.



They were small, with shitty screens, and they covered the OS with junk that slowed everything down.



But they were resistant against water. Not water proof, just water resistant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at July 24, 2020 03:44 PM (UWqZJ)

___________


How is able to get in ruggedized (do some military spec IIRC) Kyocera phone from T-Mobile (but now no longer offered) -- and it's been fantastic. Waterproof, and I'll bet I've dropped it 200 times over the past couple of years.

Posted by: ShainS the at July 24, 2020 03:52 PM (LupTM)

376 Dear young people of America:

Be discerning when selecting an attorney.

Sincerely,

Stormy Daniels
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 24, 2020 03:44 PM (XrCyE)


******************************

Dear Stormy:

It's better when you are telling the truth instead of trying to turn a successful blackmail not to lie and claim you had an affair on the eve of an election into a scandal after the election that the non-existent affair actually happened.

You should have kept your $130k blackmail money and shut up.

Sincerely,
America

Posted by: Venus at July 24, 2020 03:52 PM (iYXhj)

377 Heh, you bought that tripe? What would you expect those thieves to say when they get caught sandbagging older phones?

They weren't. That literally was not what was happening. I develop software for phones, I know WTF I'm talking about.

Apple got a lot of complaints that older phones shut off at random, and people then had no phone for 30-40 seconds while it rebooted. The cause is that Li-Ion batteries lose peak amperage capacity as they age, so if you run some shitty free-to-play game that wasn't optimized the phone needs to draw a lot of power. The battery can't supply that much and so everything crashes and the phone shuts off and restarts.

Apple put in this mitigation at the same time that they'd spent a year having the entire OS re-optimized for older chips at the expense of new phones. If they were trying to sandbag people there are far, far easier ways to do it.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2020 03:53 PM (ZGrMX)

378 Sorry, my comments via voice translation on my phone are nearly unreadable. Giving myself a timeout ...

Posted by: ShainS the at July 24, 2020 03:54 PM (LupTM)

379 Seriously, anyone with a death sentence or life sentence dies from Chinese Coronavirus? Sorry, not sorry.



Posted by: rd at July 24, 2020 03:44 PM (+0uDE)


The only thing that makes me sorry is it will be another excuse for Newsom to further empty the prisons. We can't have prisoners on death row dying now, can we?

Posted by: clutch cargo at July 24, 2020 03:54 PM (8B6Ng)

380 That's stupid. Keeping major league hitters from hitting the ball when everything is on the line is not mind games, it's throwing shit they can't hit.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 24, 2020 03:51 PM (gd9RK)

90% of baseball is half mental

Posted by: Yogi Berra at July 24, 2020 03:58 PM (xuiDm)

381 I know why they do it and there's good reason for it but I hate that you never find out how well someone's justified lawsuit did. Like how much shit did the miscreants have to eat to get off the hook.

I'd really like to know if those morons have given Nick a free ticket to any college he can get into AND the seed money for a start up of his own after he graduates.

Plus some pocket money for mom and dad and of course the lawyers.

Posted by: jakee308 at July 24, 2020 03:58 PM (LH/PE)

382 I'd really like to know if those morons have given Nick a free ticket to any college he can get into AND the seed money for a start up of his own after he graduates.

If he goes to any college that isn't Hillsdale, the teachers are going to be gunning for him on day 1. Mainstream liberal thought is still that he was deliberately taunting a Native American elder and they won't listen to any proof that they're wrong.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2020 03:59 PM (ZGrMX)

383 Meh.
1. I don't like Apple and want to continue to believe the worst about them.
2. The truth is now passe.

Posted by: irright at July 24, 2020 04:00 PM (pMGkg)

384 That's a lot of chedda for a 18 year old. Hope he can maintain sensibility throughout the rest of his life.

Posted by: Ms. Apple at July 24, 2020 04:18 PM (+fjIe)

385 384 That's a lot of chedda for a 18 year old. Hope he can maintain sensibility throughout the rest of his life.
Posted by: Ms. Apple at July 24, 2020 04:18 PM (+fjIe)[/a]

Me too. He certainly maintained his composure on the day he was targeted.

Posted by: Gilded Age II at July 24, 2020 04:26 PM (BRkq2)

386 Re Apple iPhone battery and class action lawsuit--the real problem was that Apple, unlike every other cell phone maker, did not have user-replaceable batteries. Their stupid software workaround is a bad joke...

Posted by: FriscoJim at July 24, 2020 05:28 PM (+56GQ)

387 If i was some leftest university shmuck, my worst nightmare would be O'Keefe teaming up with Sandman.

Posted by: hurricane567 at July 25, 2020 02:39 AM (dT/Hg)

388 The California link is dead. It takes you to the CBS site, but there's no content on the destination page.

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