I don’t care if my kids can’t find Iraq on a map. It’s a far more tragic day when 60 percent of Americans can’t find a major shoe store on a mall map.
Category: Sad
Stupid Lawsuit For The Day
So a lawyer goes to Atlantic City, and loses $1 million. She decides to dip into her client’s funds so she can keep gambling, and loses it all. So what does she do? She sues the casinos for $20 million, claiming they had a duty to notice her compulsive gambling problem and cut her off.
HD DVD Is Dead But Retailers Aren’t Giving Up
If you haven’t heard, HD DVD is dead, but retailers, stuck with an overstock of HD DVD players, are now remarketing them as DVD upscalers.
HD-DVD’s Days Are Numbered
With Netflix going to move exclusively to Blu-ray, Best Buy pushing the format to the front and Warner going exclusively Blu-ray, I can’t see HD-DVD surviving too much longer. While I’m all about this format war being over, I’m sad to see that a Sony-backed product win out. HD-DVDs were cheaper to manufacture (as I think they could be made using basically the same equipment as DVDs while Blu-ray needed new equipment), easier to rip for fair-use purposes (BD+ still hasn’t been cracked yet), and Sony’s been subsidizing Blu-ray folks (sources). What happens when that money goes away? Rental and purchase fees will go up. I’m sure equipment costs will probably drop, but the media cost won’t.
Needless to say, the HD-DVD folks call this an unfortunate decision.
“The System Doesn’t Work” News For The Day
Few stories of varying ages:
- A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy’s parents over damage to his luxury car, the government says. Full story.
- Guess who’s facing 21 years in prison: the drunk , rich, white kid or the sober, poor, black guy? I’ll let you guess.
- A Wisconsin man was wrongfully put in jail for eight months, lost his job, his credit, most of his money, and the state is only going to give him $5000 for his trouble. Needless to say, he wants more.
“Is there any kind of like…video rental store but for books?”
I really hope this is a joke (mirrored below) as it’d be really sad if this person had never heard of a library.
What A Horrible Name
The guy’s name is “Pheuk Kue” and, in case that wasn’t bad enough, he’s a convicted sex offender. Link via Fark
Injustice For The Day
Remember those moron police officers who told everybody that there was really strong evidence against the Duke Lacrosse players? They just got promoted.