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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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Fri, 21 Jan 2000 01:36:22 GMT
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:05:22 GMT, Christopher Weeks
<clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote:
> The judegements were too small to make the company take notice, but not
> too small to make individuals take notice. If the CEO had been hit with
> a multi-million dollar fine, they would have made some changes.
You know what _really_ bugs me about US lawsuits? Punitive damages.
The whole _concept_ is just utterly asinine.
Fines, if any are necessary, should be _fines_, and therefore payable
to the government, not J Random Victim.
Jasper
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| (...) Irrelevent to the appropriate punishment. I personally know several people who prefered it when the coffee was (to my judgement) assininely hot. McDonalds was supplying a niche product - ultra hot coffee - and people were buying it. They (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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