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  • #32
    1hnr79jr65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭1hnr79jr65


    gordongekko wrote: »
    Boards must be due to start a talk to MCD section any day now so :)

    McDonalds offered dodgy tents that burned in happy meals ?


  • #33
    Samaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Wetwipe65 wrote: »
    With Facebook HQ in Ireland, wouldn't they be operating under Irish law

    Depends where the actual servers are.


  • #34
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,388 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    To be fair, the way Irish law is worked, I'm more than a little bit surprised that Boards is still here TBH. The "we think we're Yanks, Free Speech!!!" crowd don't seem to realise how easily free speech can be litigated into silence so easily in this country. Even the threat of litigation, even when there is zero case to answer, needs bloody deep pockets to pay off the legal fees defending the obvious.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #35
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    I'll sue Denis o brien for the craic. Nothing else to be doing


  • #36
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,388 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Samaris wrote: »
    Depends where the actual servers are.
    And how soft or hard a legal target you are to the ambulance chasers. To some gimp with a rented office in Nowheresville, Facebook is a Goliath and they are no David and they know it. Any nuisance suit is going to be hammered to fcuk by Facebook's huge legal team and endless resources. Boards? They look way softer a target.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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  • #37
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,106 ✭✭✭✭josip


    jamesbere wrote: »
    I'll sue Denis o brien for the craic. Nothing else to be doing

    He would counter sue you for defaming his good name by your act of suing him.
    No craic to be had there.
    Unless your name is Michael Lowry and are in receipt of payments of hundreds of thousands of pounds Sterling from Denis at the time of awarding the 2nd mobile license (source Moriarty Tribunal).


  • #38
    FluffyAngel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    I actually thought Mcd obrien was a rapper













































    No i didn't :D


  • #39
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,431 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    It was no picnic anyway.

    To burn a tent, you need oxygen.


  • #40
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    gordongekko wrote: »
    Boards must be due to start a MCD section any day now so :)

    they can put it in BA alongside the Gearbest one


  • #41
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    These days my lawyer just wraps the Interlocutory Heredictament around a brick and slings it through the lobby window at Boards Towers after falling out of Doheny & Nesbitts out of his skull on Courvoisier. That usually only happens when someone mentions that time I (allegedly) started a fight outside the chipper. In the Burj Al Arab. Oops...


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  • #42
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,701 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Wibbs wrote: »
    To be fair, the way Irish law is worked, I'm more than a little bit surprised that Boards is still here TBH. The "we think we're Yanks, Free Speech!!!" crowd don't seem to realise how easily free speech can be litigated into silence so easily in this country. Even the threat of litigation, even when there is zero case to answer, needs bloody deep pockets to pay off the legal fees defending the obvious.
    A trip to the High Court can cost a couple of hundred grand, as in loosing your house if anything goes wrong.


    Case in point.

    This one was dropped because the plaintiff didn't have deep enough pockets to be able to cough up €10 million to pay for both sides legal costs if the case was lost.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/judge-says-english-firm-cannot-fund-denis-o-brien-case-1.2617753


  • #43
    Chijj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭Chijj


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

    Case in point.

    This one was dropped because the plaintiff didn't have deep enough pockets to be able to cough up €10 million to pay for both sides legal costs if the case was lost.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/judge-says-english-firm-cannot-fund-denis-o-brien-case-1.2617753

    That article is a prime example of what is wrong with this country. The case may well have turned out to be frivolous but it should have been allowed proceed.


    Who promotes judges? Oh wait. Never mind.


  • #44
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    What you say on boards?

    Following on from a Feedback thread...


    Dav wrote: »
    Hello all,

    As some of you have seen elsewhere, US Oil & Gas is pursuing several people for comments made on websites including Boards.ie.

    I can confirm that a Section 8 request has come in last night signed off by Justice Murphy and that we will of course be complying with it.

    We were notified of the potentially defamatory content on Friday (23rd) and took the post down from the site as per our standard procedures whilst we investigated it. We found some of the content to be outside of our terms and conditions and the thread will remain deleted.

    US Oil & Gas have made it clear to us that they are intent on pursuing the individuals who made the comments and not Boards.ie Ltd.

    I would ask that whilst this case is being heard that you not mention it until there's been a result as doing so may prejudice proceedings.

    Thank you all very much for your time.

    Official Statement re: US Oil & Gas (USOP)


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