Neah. Different States so different laws in effect. Additionally Hogan likely had a better legal team. And I don’t think Hill sent a C&D before publishing time, Gawker got one and ignored it.

Depends. Gawker hurt itself when it got a C&D and ignored it instead of fighting it. Also different states, so different laws and case law in play. Hogan also almost definitely had a better legal team. Additionally Nick Denton and a few of the witnesses that had ties to Gawker really didn’t help there case with how…

Her exhusband was wrong for sending out the pictures.

There are plenty of things that are illegal to leak or steal, but not illegal to publish once you’ve received them.

It’s more building now, than ship. Rusted and immobile.

Just build a permanent concrete caisson, pump out the water, stabilize the ship and then build a “fake harbor” moat/pool (about 6 ft deep) within the concrete wall around the whole thing.  People can lounge and swim. 

I had the opportunity to visit the ship a few years ago when I attended an event partially hosted there. We were treated to a complete tour, including the engine room, and the evening concluded with a nice diner in the formal dining room. It was a really unique experience and one that certainly couldn’t be exactly…

For those who have never taken the tour of the Queen Mary, I’ll clue you in to a ‘feature’....
When the City set it up, they wanted to create a ‘Tour Experience’, and it has been one of the more successful parts of the whole thing. After purchasing the ship, they set it up at the dock, created a caisson around one of…

You’re right. And I fear that ultimately, because the City of Norfolk owns the USS Wisconsin, that fate will impact her in time too.

Unfortunately, this is the eventual fate of all museum ships. Maintenance is inevitably deferred to the point that there is no way to afford to save the vessel. In Philadelphia, PA rests the USS Olympia, probably the second oldest USN ship still afloat, being the better part of 130 years old. Not a dime spent on…

The Queen Mary is the defining feature of the port of long beach at this point. Scrapping it would be a bit like tearing down the Statue of Liberty rather than pay the maintenance. Long Beach absolutely has to resolve this.

I have not been to it in many years... but:

“Worth” is difficult to define. It cannot possibly have enough economic draw to pay to stay afloat. As an historic artifact, it’s interesting, but so is RMS Titanic, which sits on the ocean floor. If they do some planning I can see the physical ship being replaced with a Virtual Reality tour at museums, with some…

The real problem: a city owns the ship.

You have three options with the Queen Mary.

Perhaps sadder is the condition and future for the SS United States. Since it ceased operations in the early 70s. The ship is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the United States and the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction. But since being retired form active use, she has been…

Hmm... LB has an FY21 budget of 2.6 Billion

When they needed to do repairs on one of the ww2 era Battleships (the Massachusetts if I remember correctly), they built a coffer dam around it and drained that to get access to the whole hull so that they didn’t have to tow it to a drydock big enough to accommodate it (I have to imagine this can’t move under its own…

They need to build a permanent drydock for it and just get it sitting out of the water.  They can then build whatever sort of attraction around the ship as needed.  The ship itself is totally worth preserving though, not only for itself but as a time capsule to that era when sea travel by ocean liner was necessary.

With no working bilge system I’m extremely surprised it hasn’t sank already. They must have some sort of temporary pumps set up, no way a ship that size doesn’t take on some amount of water just in a normal day.