Just more proof that anyone can sue for anything at any time and the victory will usually go to the richer. The pretexts have even become boring. (Trademark!? Really!?)
Lets just slap each other with fish and shout "I challenge thee to a duuu-ahh-elll."
It would at least provide a visual clue to how much respect people like this deserve. It would be much harder to put on a suit and pretend that you are contributing to society if you had to walk around slugging people with salmon and yelling nonsense.
Nothing tops the Microsoft anti-trust judge who declared in open court one morning that he had separated IE from Windows on his PC, and he didn't understand why all of these Microsoft guys were saying it was so tough. When they took a look at his computer, he showed them how he'd deleted the IE icon from his desktop.
> the firm presumably wasn't thrilled about having its attorneys' home purchases broadcast
This actually makes sense. Call me eccentric, but I wouldn't want my real estate purchases to be put on a high-traffic website with a link to my resume. Sure, the information is there and it is public, but that web startup is really pushing it. At the very least they could've been a bit more flexibile when asked to remove the link, which is a reasonable request given the circumstances.
That's the point of the business. Like Keiser Soze, they're willing to go further than their competition, in this case by reporting stories that other people won't due to ickiness.
The info is out there, they're just publicizing it to an apparently very interested audience.
I think people write things like that just because they like the sound their keyboard makes. Someone should mention to them that real fiction is usually more interesting.
My usual reply to this sort of comment used to be, "kill them all", but one day the Secret Service showed up at my house and told me to stop saying that. (Seriously.)
I guess I should have phrased that as "I hate those in a position of authority that happen to be ignorant idiots on this planet" to exclude the unforeseen interpretation that "I hate all those in a position of authority because they are all ignorant idiots".
Lets just slap each other with fish and shout "I challenge thee to a duuu-ahh-elll."
It would at least provide a visual clue to how much respect people like this deserve. It would be much harder to put on a suit and pretend that you are contributing to society if you had to walk around slugging people with salmon and yelling nonsense.