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Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

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Post by angry_octet »

computator wrote: post #118
wapz wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup they are so much more comfortable. If you are running low and only wear them around 12 hours, you can even clean them and wear them another day (definitely not recommended by the manufacturer or eye doctor).

> not recommended by the manufacturer or eye doctor I never found a technical explanation of why you shouldn't reuse dailies after overnight cleaning. I looked at papers, manufacturers' websites, and spoke to two ophthalmologists. Though not a safety issue, my own experience is that dailies are more fragile than long-term lenses. (Could this be deliberate?) They fit less comfortably after a week of reuse. Also, they…

Recovering several pieces of torn contact from your eye is a great experience. The torn bits slide around to the side of the eyeball. Uugh.

Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

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Post by barking »

The law is there to protect us but this is an example of how the high cost of going to law facilitates oppression.

The same goes when it comes to dealing with the government. A government official has no personal liability with respect to any decision they make and has essentially bottomless pockets if it goes to court.

It means for example that a revenue officers decision is final when it comes to the interpretation of tax law in your case, unless you're very rich.

Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

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Post by lysp »

paulajohnson wrote: post #109
gthtjtkt wrote: post #9

> Companies with deep pockets lock down the market by making it too expensive for competitors to operate and to offer lower-priced yet quality products. It is a legitimate tactic; even those who succumb to it don’t really begrudge the approach. Who the hell wrote this article, the CEO of Acushnet? "Don't get the wrong idea, small businesses love being sued over frivolous patents they never infringed upon!"

I was under the impression that filing baseless lawsuits was a tort. Furthermore attorneys are required to make a good-faith investigation of their client's case and refuse to take part in frivolous lawsuits. This may be a pretty low bar, but it sounds like Acushnet's attorneys may be failing to clear it.

Similar to the scatter-gun automated DMCA requests sent out by copyright organisations over a single word or two match from a google search.

Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

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Post by qqg3 »

yourapostasy wrote: post #121
snissn wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

dude just go to dailies

Can't yet, much as I'd like. :-( I require torics, and for some reason the many dailies we tried wouldn't stay in their "up" orientation. My optometrist said that in a year or two, he thinks some of the newer dailies in the development pipeline might address my experience, and we'll try dailies again at that time. Has something to do with the weighting of the lenses, I gathered from overhearing his conversation with…

Cooper Vision do some great dailies that are torics, I've been using them for years.

Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

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Post by NetMonkey »

sluggg wrote: post #90
BEEdwards wrote: post #59

> It is a legitimate tactic; even those who succumb to it don’t really begrudge the approach. Maybe I just haven't given up yet, but what the f*ck? This is not a legitimate tactic, this is LITERALLY everything wrong with our present system.

the tactic is legitimate, sure. But do ALL those people who succumb to the tactic really not begrudge the approach? I highly doubt it. QZ found one guy who was not upset and uses that to justify the prior claim... booo qz booo

I have been the victim of this tactic, and yes it is terrible. But it's also completely understandable. It's an extremely easy way for a company with deep pockets to bury a smaller company.

When you understand why someone does something - you can hate that they're doing it, but you also accept it in a weird way, because they're simply using the rules of the game.

And while you hope you would do better if you ever got to be in that situation the truth is probably, that most of the people getting suid in these situations would do the exact same things if the roles were reversed.

Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

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Post by GrinningFool »

angry_octet wrote: post #131
computator wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> not recommended by the manufacturer or eye doctor I never found a technical explanation of why you shouldn't reuse dailies after overnight cleaning. I looked at papers, manufacturers' websites, and spoke to two ophthalmologists. Though not a safety issue, my own experience is that dailies are more fragile than long-term lenses. (Could this be deliberate?) They fit less comfortably after a week of reuse. Also, they…

Recovering several pieces of torn contact from your eye is a great experience. The torn bits slide around to the side of the eyeball. Uugh.

Bad enough when the whole thing slips around to the side... in pieces, that'd really suck.

Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

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Post by jsymolon »

eps wrote: post #96
electrum wrote: post #94

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Get LASIK. Having perfect eyesight and not having to deal with contacts or glasses is worth every penny.

A risk of ending up with halos is not worth it.

I went from glasses and astigmatism to LASIK and halos.

I would still do it again and recommend it.

The quality of life improvement is tremendous and the amount of money saved on not getting the glasses re-done every year offsets the cost of the LASIK.

Halos, really only at night, is corrected by wearing a yellow tint "sunglass" aka shooters glasses while driving.

Plus my SO really doesn't like my driving, so i chill out in the passenger seat anyway. They feel more in control and i can get some sleep.

Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

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Post by bognition »

electrum wrote: post #94
yourapostasy wrote: post #31

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WRT prices of contact lenses, I use an ultrasonic contact lens cleaner with plain saline (Ringer's will also work if that is cheaper in your area), then storing the contact lenses in my lens solution to disinfect. Far better comfort profile, for far longer, than I ever obtained following the manufacturer instructions of 20 seconds rubbing on each side, and 5 seconds rinsing on each side. The saline is half as much as…

Get LASIK. Having perfect eyesight and not having to deal with contacts or glasses is worth every penny.

I did and within a decade my eyes reverted to their original prescription

Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

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Post by adav »

yourapostasy wrote: post #121
snissn wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

dude just go to dailies

Can't yet, much as I'd like. :-( I require torics, and for some reason the many dailies we tried wouldn't stay in their "up" orientation. My optometrist said that in a year or two, he thinks some of the newer dailies in the development pipeline might address my experience, and we'll try dailies again at that time. Has something to do with the weighting of the lenses, I gathered from overhearing his conversation with…

I use toric dailies and it's the blinking that aligns the orientation. Once the angle is correct after blinking, the lenses then don't seem to rotate further. (I use '1-day Acuvue Moist for Astigmatism')
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