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Damages shouldn't be subjective but based on the acts committed.
I love “computer people incorrectly try to transfer their ‘expertise’ to law”. Gotta be one of my favourite parts of HN.
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So if you show your fist to a child or to Mike Tyson it's the same threat?
> So if you show your fist to a child or to Mike Tyson it's the same threat? Based on the meaning of the word threat, yes.
> The acts of intimidation included sending live insects, a foetal pig and a funeral wreath to the Steiners' home in Natick, Massachusetts. If someone I knew claimed that eBay execs were sending them things like this I wouldn’t believe them. It’s like something from a TV show.
eBay is now worth $22b market cap, as high as $52b in recent times.
AMZN is now $1.5t, about double since the period of time in question, or about 14 - 34 eBays
(editted out a large portion of what I originally wrote about how many eBays of market cap AMZN has been gaining because I was off by a year in my window of time).
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(IANAL) The amount you win in a lawsuit has to be based on actual damages so if you want to sue for emotional distress it has to fit the legal definition which depends on the jurisdiction. Since emotional distress isn't bound to any hospital bills or other quantifiable harm, it generally pays quite a bit more.
Damages shouldn't be subjective but based on the acts committed.
If someone found a small, legal "act committed = no fine" way to victimize someone to the point of suicide, do you think it should be left unpunished ?
Justice MUST be subjective.
Apologies for titling from deeper in article, but to do otherwise would be burying the lede. Also, life mirrors fiction: https://xkcd.com/325/
Do people have to pay for premium shipping to make sure the spiders arrive live?
https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_007.htm
Spiders and poisonous insects aren't allowed though, except scorpions under certain conditions.
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Do people have to pay for premium shipping to make sure the spiders arrive live?
I don't know how they shipped them, but apparently you can ship some animals through the US Postal Service. https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_007.htm Spiders and poisonous insects aren't allowed though, except scorpions under certain conditions.
> The acts of intimidation included sending live insects, a foetal pig and a funeral wreath to the Steiners' home in Natick, Massachusetts. If someone I knew claimed that eBay execs were sending them things like this I wouldn’t believe them. It’s like something from a TV show.
This is some weird 1950's mob loan shark tactics.
The filings said the couple had been left "emotionally, psychologically, and physically" terrorised. I always find it interesting that, when people sue other people/companies for some kind of harassment, they have to claim something like this. Shouldn’t it be obvious? Like, they got weird stuff by mail and got stalked. That should be enough? What if they didn’t actually got scared, what if they laughed at it? They we…
(IANAL) The amount you win in a lawsuit has to be based on actual damages so if you want to sue for emotional distress it has to fit the legal definition which depends on the jurisdiction. Since emotional distress isn't bound to any hospital bills or other quantifiable harm, it generally pays quite a bit more.