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by fatdog789 17y ago
This is quite possibly the stupidest, most non-sensical article about "reforming" the legal system that I've ever read. And I've read some really stupid stuff. The guy spends half the article saying why arbitration doesn't work...and then
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by fatdog789 17y ago
It's not true in the legal field. Clients demand very specific breakdowns of hours worked, down to the specific issue researched/briefed/discussed, and will refuse to pay for fluff work. In the public sector end of the legal field, there'
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Don't trust a CEO. Collusion is always illegal when it's anti-competitive, whatever the size of the participants of the collusion. The key point to take away though, is that the authorities are unlikely to enforce antitrust laws against mi
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by fatdog789 17y ago
You seem to be confusing state law with federal law, and how preemption applies. Banks are governed first and foremost by state law. State banking laws are very easy to adhere to. State/local banks do not have to be FDIC insured. HOWEVER,
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by fatdog789 17y ago
They do have an existing, simple standard to transfer money. It's called ACH, and it's been around for decades. It works quite well. ATM fees should not be run by separate companies -- then you'd have a company that would need to profit of
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by fatdog789 17y ago
"Dr. Albert Schweitzer examined over 10,000 traditionally-living natives in Gabon (West Africa) in 1913 and did not find cancer. Later, it became common in the same population as they began "living more and more after the manner of the whit
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by fatdog789 17y ago
No, they couldn't, without violating their fiduciary duties to the other members of the credit union.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
It's not enough that the mixtapes "imply" free release. You actually have to get permission from the artists (and songwriter), or you're fucked. Statutory damages are in the hundreds -- per song. BTW, grooveshark's model was not to pass l
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by fatdog789 17y ago
No. Phone numbers are unique. Names are decidedly not unique. Every look in a phone book for John Smith? A .tel domain may be great for the first person to get a popular .tel name, but it sucks for everyone else. And for that reason alon
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by fatdog789 17y ago
It's generally applied where a 2/3/supermajority would normally be required for approval of organization-altering decisions -- a drag along allows a simple majority to force approval. The concept is taken from partnership law, where dissolu
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by fatdog789 17y ago
It was tested on rats, so the type of fat probably doesn't matter (in regards to the effect on rats), since rats are more capable of handling and neutralizing the effects of bad fats than humans are. EDIT (quoted from the comments by the au
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by fatdog789 17y ago
You forget that the corporation usually pays for staffing costs of the workers who created this work, plus overhead, plus promotional expenses, and possibly even entered into contracts on the basis of the work. A corporation spends more mon
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by fatdog789 17y ago
IOUs are not currency, and so no government body is compelled to accept them as payment...including the government body which issued them. Private entities are not regulated by the constitution, which is why you can have tokens and gaming c
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by fatdog789 17y ago
No, you can't. The 5th amendment right to avoid self-incrimination only extends to testimony. A search warrant can compel you to furnish the contents of a safe (as property, it is governed by the 4th amendment -- due process is all that is
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by fatdog789 17y ago
IE6 still has more market share than Opera, Safari, Chrome, and Conqueror combined...as measured amongst the population most likely to use alternative browsers. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
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by fatdog789 17y ago
By federal law, they cannot prevent consumers from joining class actions. However, they can in some states. Also, there's a difference between an illegal contract (which is a nullity and for which no remedies are available in case of a bre
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by fatdog789 17y ago
With apple products, it's more about what you can't do with the products that makes them special. Not being able to use flash is a feature....somehow.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Inaccurate title, and most of the underlying article is disproven conjecture. Flagged as FUD.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Case law is very rarely discrete; the point of case law is that the law is not and should not be mechanically applied. Case law arises from the chancery courts of England, where the primary goal of the court was to do what was "fair", rat
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Law cannot be inconsistent. If one law is inconsistent with another, one or both gets struck down.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Most of the problems with the law are in the ambiguous edge/border scenarios that were not foreseen at the time the law went into effect, for example, b/c the law has been extended by practice or case law. Also, most law is applied more lik
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Or you know, you could just change the law to eliminate their positions. No blood, no mess, no silly truther-type calls for revolution.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
The RC has been out for a few months now, and that problem hasn't shown up. The Beta has been out for almost a year now, and that problem has not shown up.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
I believe he met domestic mass violence, i.e., riots. The only major US riots of the past few years are the LA and Detroit race-riots, neither of which was related to overarching policy.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
WorldMate is well-known for its WinMo/Blackberry application. I'm surprised that they ported it to the iPhone, given the almost complete lack of business users on that platform.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
"so that marginal black people could have those positions." In the first half of the 1900s, it was legal for government-funded schools to deny academic positions to qualified students based on race. Until the 1990s, it was legal for pr
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by fatdog789 17y ago
Punitive damages are awarded for intentionally injurious behavior. They are not required to match up to actual harm -- they are intended to punish and to encourage the defendant to avoid future injurious behavior. Punitive damage case law
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by fatdog789 17y ago
The more prepared you are, the less likely you will go to try. I spent a week preparing to depose the opposing party -- 15 minutes before it started, he offered us close to what we sued for.
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by fatdog789 17y ago
You clearly don't understand what statutory damages are. Statutory damages are not punitive damages. Statutory damages are compensatory damages, for when calculation of actual harm is impossible or practically so, though harm clearly exis
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by fatdog789 17y ago
A Business Associate Agreement nothing to address the SOX requirements, which apply to more companies. "Google ate our documents" is not a defense to SOX filing and reporting requirements.

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