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Playing dumb only makes you look dumb. Judges/legislators/basically everyone can see right through this kind of pretense and aren't particularly sympathetic to
by dogecoinbase 10y ago
Playing dumb only makes you look dumb. Judges/legislators/basically everyone can see right through this kind of pretense and aren't particularly sympathetic to the "b...but I'm technically correct!" stance.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoTechnically correct is the only kind; no pretense needed. >Playing dumb only makes you look dumb.
- smokeyj 10y ago> and aren't particularly sympathetic to the "b...but I'm technically correct!" stance. That stance is called the rule of law and being technically correct matters. That's the whole point of that court thing. http://time.com/money/4421955/bitcoin-miami-judge-money-laundering/ http://time.com/money/4421955/bitcoin-miami-judge-money-laun...
- JumpCrisscross 10y ago> the rule of law and being technically correct matters As one of many factors. The rule of law does not suspend human reason and common sense. SCOTUS recently ruled in favour of original intent over a strictly structural in an ACA case, where the later would have meant literally interpreting a likely typo [1]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/obamacare-survives-supreme-court-challenge/2015/06/25/af87608e-188a-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/obamacare...