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Too much suing. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I'm split on this one. I mostly agree with you. But, there is a reasonable expectation that parts of the plane won't fall apart in flight and injure you. For Pete's sake, the thing could have come loose during take-off or landing and smacked someone in the head...
After reading the article however... When the parent says 'The entertainment unit kept falling down, and to entertain a two-year-old you have to try to keep that TV up' then clearly the parents are to blame as well. Falls once? Maybe it wasn't fastened in securely... Put it back up, carry on. Second time it falls? Seriously, don't risk your kid's safety. Switch seats, notify an attendant... Anything except put it back up and act like everything's going to be alright.
The airline is negligent in this case, sure, but $200k for a situation the parents could have easily avoided? That's just ridiculous. Pay for any hospital fees and post-op care and call it even. Parents need to learn their lesson on this one.
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Kyle Moyer wrote: but $200k for a situation the parents could have easily avoided? That's just ridiculous. Pay for any hospital fees and post-op care and call it even. Parents need to learn their lesson on this one.
Very reasonable. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Kyle Moyer wrote: Maybe it wasn't fastened in securely... Put it back up, carry on. Second time it falls?
Definition of stupid - repeat an action and expect a different result.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Yah I was not sure of the wording nor the attribution.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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good point of view.
I fly a lot and I have seen some things where I thought... what a moron / idiot / dumb / whatever adjective you want to add to the list.
In one flight, there was a situation... the end could be seen in advanced, when it eventually happened and the guy started shouting to the stewardess... I (and three other people) could not stay quiet: She is not responsible for your idiocy, so STFU and let her do her job / leave her alone.
The moron still complained a bit more and then closed his mouth. If company was sued or not... I don't know.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Having used Google to endrun around the paywall to the original article my opinion on this 180ed. The Daily Fail's clickbait implied the kid lost at big chunk if not all of his finger. The original article showed an unbandaged picture of the kids finger. From that, despite the families claim, it doesn't appear that he actually lost anything permanently at all. The cut went through his nail and doctors were forced to remove the half of it closest to the finger tip, but the finger tip ahead of where the nail was severed appears the normal size. Having had an ingrown nail removed once I know the kid isn't going to have an enjoyable month or two while it grows back; but there's nothing to indicate that there's any sort of real permanent injury.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If I never forget a swimming tortoise, do I have turtle recall?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We shell sea!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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My Cod, that was bad.
/ravi
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I can't stop imagining a three boobed turtle. Eugh. 
On a second thought: is the turtle male or female?
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
modified 21-Feb-17 11:25am.
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It's vaguely disturbing that you sailed past the notions of single-mammaried and dual-mammaried turtles without regard, and went straight for the triple.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It does mean that I don't want to see any of the movies on his hard drive. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: his hard
How did you know? 
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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It's just that "turtle recall" made me think of that awful movie with Ahnold Schwarzenegger and the absurd scene of the 3 breasted martian woman.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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I know, I was just being facetious (it's one of my superpowers).
Software Zen: delete this;
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That was tortuous tortoise tomfoolery.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Someone needs to pull their head in and hide - and it ain't me.
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As familiar with computers as my parents were (and still are), I would have hacked and then spied on them them. Too bad we did not have any internet back then. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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They were banned in Germany a few days ago[^].
I can't see any other option than to ban them; they will never be safe enough -- the cloud is no place to store such personal data from young children.
It wouldn't be a great hardship to rig a doll with an old smartphone, where you can at least take care of security matters yourself.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I can't see any other option than to ban them; they will never be safe enough -- the cloud is no place to store such personal data from young children.
And yet we've had smartphones for a long time, and facebook. Why does anyone care about privacy when they choose to post their whole lives online and carry around a tracking device?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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