Actually, to the contrary, the origin of my unease with this is precisely one of us understands the legal definition of libel...and since that person ain’t you, allow to help you:

Libel: “a published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation”. Period. End of story.

There is literally no way ABC could…

If I were to refer to you as that “rude, flatulent, insensate hominid” (all true characterizations of you at some point) and people who encountered you called you that and when discussing you with other people identified you as such and not your given name to the point they don’t even know your name...you think that…

Are you suggesting that poor ABC/Disney didn’t have the cash capacity to hire the same lawyers some South Dakota based meat processor did?

Do you even apply logic to your thought process? Could you try to?

And you seem to have no understanding of it either. The quoted portion of the plaintiff’s case was that ABC called an already named product “pink slime” and the plaintiff’s were entirely correct in asserting that ABC News’ DECISION to call their product that and not what the plaintiff called the ACTUALLY MARKETED AND…

You weren’t really expecting this sophomoric amateur author to display any actual knowledge here, did you? This is Gizmodo after all: the home of snark and smug political bias masquerading as informed thought.

I scrolled down to see who was going to mention the 600 pound gorilla in the room. TBH, I’m entirely surprised that the obvious parallel between the two failed to ensure that this article wasn’t shitcanned with prejudice.

Couple of things: it’s not economic theory but an accurate recount of the way it worked once. That it diverges from a competing model that you prefer doesn’t make it theory so you can conversationally dismiss it. Recognizing history and reality isn’t insane.

The world I’m talking about isn’t what you described. The…

Reading the context of the article...it seems the answer to that is “Winter is here”.

Kind of obvious, actually...

And your opinion is based on what you know and personally experience. It would likely surprise you to know that it wasn’t always like this. That government wasn’t the biggest employer and that the taxes they confiscate weren’t nearly as much as they are today. People used to be able to make a living and send their…

While you identify those types of cases please also bend a thought to men who are abused and assaulted by women who do not press charges out of shame and embarrassment. It nearly takes an act of God to see a woman charged with domestic violence. I was in a terrible marriage that, near the end, saw my ex getting up…

There isn’t a wage gap as it’s being argued. Women who do the same job as men get paid the same...because that’s the law. Where the “gap” shows up is when you take the average of what a woman makes and compare it to the average of what a man makes. Women ON AVERAGE make less than men...but that average doesn’t take…

The headline: “Disarm All Domestic Abusers Now” followed by “[t]he charges were dismissed...so there was no conviction and no possibility that Hodgkinson would lose his guns or be prevented from buying or owning something like an M4-style assault rifle.

Exactly. Why the hell would they fly a drone to take pictures of something that everyone else is looking at on the internet? If they want pictures of it so bad, crack open that firewall for a few moments, downlapalooza and yer done.

It’s interesting how the only dissent happened to be probably the most left judge on the bench. It reminds me of Kelo where it was all the left judges who ruled that a jurisdiction could seize personal property and resell it in order to jack up property tax revenues. I’m glad to hear that Kagan and Sotomayor didn’t…

You think the Chinese, North Koreans, Iranians, Indians and so on seek licenses to launch crap into orbit from American agencies?

Likewise with private launch concerns. I don’t think your launch licenses will do much good to mitigate an unregulated booster firm.

There’s two iPhones and two Samsungs in my house. The only people that ever bitch about how their phones are working are the one holding iPhones.

Then again, there’s no way a teenage girl is gonna give up her iPhone for something else...it just seems built for that demographic.

I’m not concerned about terrestrial litter. My bigger concern is that this little rocket is designed with launch little cubesats into orbit. 50 times per year is their goal.

I’m left to wonder how much additional space junk that’s going to create.

Don’t kid yourself. “Society” isn’t what would make that decision...government would. And government is merely the will of the majority of those who voted. And government already interferes in personal relationships with regulations, laws and so on (see: marriage, abortion, taxation schemes to encourage certain…

For the price of a $10 cable, who cares? Why make a fuss over it when Apple has been the standard bearer for proprietary BS like this since forever?

It’s not solely an issue of their cable subscription...it’s also their viewership numbers. ESPN doesn’t generate revenue solely from their cable subscriptions. There is such a thing as ad dollars and those are what’s at stake here.

For a group who likes to pride themselves on assuming they’re so much smarter than…