rprasad

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by rprasad 14y ago
The U.S. specifically forbids debtor's prison. You cannot be thrown in jail simply for owing money to someone. European countries copied this right from the U.S. when they got around to modernizing their legal systems.
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by rprasad 14y ago
Generally under international law, a consumer cannot be the "importer" of record because there are all sorts of fun obligations that come with being an "importer". Carrying stuff you bought on an overseas trip through customs is not "import
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by rprasad 14y ago
You are referring to a "choice of forum" clause (which is distinct from a "choice of jurisdiction clause"). Choice of forum determines where any disputes are held. Choice of jurisdiction determines what state's laws apply (if the dispute
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by rprasad 14y ago
Limited liability refers to the liability of the shareholders/investors for the obligations and judgements against the company. Their liability is "limited" to the amount of their investment. Contrast with a partnership, in which the owner
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by rprasad 14y ago
First, A country is legally obliged to follow the laws of all countries in which they do business . For legal purposes, "doing business" means actual physical operations in a country or knowingly and deliberately selling into a country.
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by rprasad 14y ago
Enforcement limited to the U.S. European courts do not honor software patents.
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by rprasad 14y ago
The U.S. has jurisdiction over ICANN and thus over all TLD's that are not country TLDs (i.e., .co, .tv, .ly, etc.). But jurisdiction extends only to the domain itself, not to the company, unless you are doing business in the U.S., in whi
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by rprasad 14y ago
Logged in just to reply. European IP law makes US IP law look like a walk in the park. The RIAA and MPAA notwithstanding, the US has actually been the voice of restraint in the IP rights field. Enforcement and defense is also easier, as y
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by rprasad 14y ago
However, by the standards of English then in effect, it makes perfect sense. Part of the problem is that written English prior to the 1900s included a large element of (conscious or subconscious) verbalization of what was written. Try read
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by rprasad 14y ago
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States (at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution), shall be eligible to the Office of President. Neither shall any person be eligible to that Office [of the Presid
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by rprasad 14y ago
Take any "meta-analysis" with a large grain of salt (or better yet, and industrial size vat of salt). Meta-analysis suggests that men under the age of 26 have a 60% chance of being sex offenders. This same type of meta-analysis is also the
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by rprasad 14y ago
Interestingly enough, multiple anecodates are data if you gather enough of them. Most health-related studies are not true observational studies. Rather, they rely on self-reported (i.e., anecdotal) "data" from study participants.
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by rprasad 14y ago
If only your grandfather had cut the pig bacon from his diet, he could have lived 3 more months to be 100...
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by rprasad 14y ago
It may provide a tax benefit offsetting the sales of Windows 8 this year, but it will definitely cost them a lot of red ink.
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by rprasad 14y ago
There are a number of lawyers in California in both Silicon Valley and Silicon Beach who make decent money repairing LegalZoom documents that startups thought they could use to incorporate their companies. LegalZoom is great if you don't ne
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by rprasad 14y ago
Hiring a lawyer is like buying insurance for your legal needs. If you hire a lawyer, you get to sue the lawyer for malpractice if they mess up (which means your damages incurred as a result of the malpractice, plus legal fees paid, plus
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by rprasad 14y ago
Journalists do not understand the law very well... In this case, the police hit up a bunch of people they suspected of being the dealer's customers and asked them if they wanted to buy more drugs. The callees who were arrested agreed to bu
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by rprasad 14y ago
There's a difference between being questioned and police just asking for help. Being questioned = they are asking about what you did Asking for help = they are asking about what someone else did If you are being questioned, you can and sh
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by rprasad 14y ago
No, they run into the entrapment issue either way. But it's easier to show entrapment with email because the fake emails are recorded. With a phone call, it is not necessarily a given that the call was recorded (as the police may not have
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by rprasad 14y ago
Precedential weight has value only if there is absolutely no in-state jurisprudence on the issue. However, texts are easily analogized to other forms of communication (and indeed, that is what this judge did). Consequently, the state's ju
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by rprasad 14y ago
1) Not quite. A person leaving a message on a suspect's answering machine can be called back without a warrant for them (as the original warrant/search would still be valid on the original suspect). But a separate warrant would be require
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by rprasad 14y ago
This is a court decision by a low level court which applies only to a single county in the state of Washington. Assuming it survives appeal, it would, at most, apply to the state of Washington. The distinction here (at least the one disc
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by rprasad 14y ago
All jurisdictions which follow British law, or which are based on British law to some extent (like the U.S.) have judicial ethical guidelines that generally require a judge to stand down if he makes statements that indicate or suggest he
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by rprasad 14y ago
Bias legally means having sufficient strong views of a legal interpretation or party that these views override the judge's ability to impartially apply the law to the specific facts of a given case. The "pro-copyright" judges are not biase
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by rprasad 14y ago
You do if you do not want to be removed from the bench. Judges who make explicit statements that indicate they cannot be impartial in a case currently before them but who do not remove themselves from such cases usually find themselves di
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by rprasad 14y ago
I imagine it had something to do with the judge saying that the "US is the enemy", thus indicating that he could not impartially judge a case in which the U.S. was the primary opposing litigant.
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by rprasad 14y ago
Meth is relatively easy and inexpensive to make. Crrently the primary difficulty is acquiring sufficient quantities of the OTC ingredients (i.e., cough suppressant) used to make the drug. Banning meth is paramount to combatting meth use.
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by rprasad 14y ago
With all due respect, that is the stupidest, most ridiculous idea I have ever heard. Spend more than a few hours in an area ravaged by meth, like San Bernardino or Riverside Counties (especially the high desert). Meth is available from so
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by rprasad 14y ago
Ah yes, the magical power of technology to solve all of the world's problems. I forgot technology had that power. Well, let's all get to it guys! /s
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by rprasad 14y ago
I should clarify: no doctor that wants to keep his license would prescribe this device. Doctors can (and do, when caught) lose their licenses (temporarily or permanently) if they get caught prescribing drugs for off-label purposes. Docum

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