[dragonwriter]

> This sounds a lot like she was spying on him for trade secrets. Also, the BDSM gear is completely irrelevant to anything.

Without access to the actual complaint, there's little basis for the first sentence and none for the second.

[cantrip]

The complaint, "Wong v. Levandowski" is available online.

[dragonwriter]

Well, it's available in the sense that all federal court filings are available at a fee through PACER; it's not linked in the article, nor available anywhere I can readily find other than PACER or pay sites that charge more than PACER for documents plus a monthly fee.

If you’d like to provide a link, that would actually contribute a lot to the discussion. Suggesting that it's out there somewhere does not.

[cantrip]

You're saying there's no basis for these claims. The basis is the legal complaint, which is publicly accessible. The whole reason the news media is reporting on this is because they now have access to a public legal filing.

Without being a news reporter myself, I must rely on what is reported to me. While I know that the news media will give it their own biased slant, certain things, like her saying that she has the license plate numbers of those visiting his house, or that he has BDSM gear, I believe I can take as objectively factual.

Would you also say that without access to a rocket ship or the personal ability to do advanced astrological calculations that there is no basis to the statement that the earth is round?

[dragonwriter]

> You're saying there's no basis for these claims

I'm saying that there is no basis that has been cited for the specific characterizations made in the comment I first responded to upthread, correct.

> The basis is the legal complaint, which is publicly accessible.

Your post in which you made the characterization quoted text from the news article, not the complaint. If you actually have read the complaint and were characterizing the material in it after reading it in context, that was a very poor presentation.

> While I know that the news media will give it their own biased slant, certain things, like her saying that she has the license plate numbers of those visiting his house, or that he has BDSM gear, I believe I can take as objectively factual.

Perhaps, but the characterization of their relevance to the legal causes of action at the center of the case would require knowing, for instance, the details of the alleged manner of intentional infliction of emotional distress and whether or not the arsenal of BDSM equipment was integral to that. Which you could not get from the news article at the head of the thread; you could, presumably, from the complaint, but I see no evidence that you have seen it.

[cantrip]

Please respond to the point about the earth being round.

[dragonwriter]

The earth being round and its size is demonstrable without a rocket ship (and was demonstrated a couple millennia before anyone fired a rocket into space.[0])

But, in any case, even ignoring that, the analogy was inapt.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes