{"id":38,"date":"2005-11-04T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-16T20:18:16","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T18:18:16","slug":"jigsaw-pieces-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Jigsaw Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/genista\/59283942\/\" title=\"memorial\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/33\/59283942_a700ddc81f_o.gif\" width=400 alt=\"memorial\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1 <br \/>Netflix, the company that revolutionized DVD renting, just settled a class action lawsuit brought by one of their customers. The lawyers the cutomer hired argued that Netflix&#8217; advertising was misleading. Netflix denied, but agreed to pay $2000 to the claimant, give every member of the class, i.e. every customer, a free month of upgraded service. Not noteworthy? Wait for the punchline. The lawyers get $2.5 MILLION for their efforts. And, to add insult to injury, the &#8220;free&#8221; upgrade will continue as paid service unless cancelled. The only way to get out of this abomination of a lawsuit is by sending a mailed letter to a San Francisco court. More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflixsettlementsucks.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>A young woman in Tucson, Arizona, tried to find emergency contraception. It took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azstarnet.com\/dailystar\/dailystar\/99156.php\">three days<\/a> to find a store that carried it at all, and they then wouldn&#8217;t give it to her, citing religious and moral objections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Netflix, the company that revolutionized DVD renting, just settled a class action lawsuit brought by one of their customers. The lawyers the cutomer hired argued that Netflix&#8217; advertising was misleading. Netflix denied, but agreed to pay $2000 to the claimant, give every member of the class, i.e. every customer, a free month of upgraded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,46,1,30,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-englisch","category-jigsaw-pieces","category-misc","category-politics","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}