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by stordoff 8y ago
IIRC, it's barely a concept in English law, primarily US law. It has however seen some use in the ECHR , notably against Germany (citing various US court cases): > the applicant sought a declaration that [...] all items of evidence[
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by stordoff 8y ago
It doesn't quite break down per street - my house is freehold, but a house we are buying across the street for my grandparents is leasehold. The land was sold by the Church in the 60s to developers - that is leasehold, part was retaine
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by stordoff 8y ago
There are plenty of judges who didn't attend Cambridge - if nothing else, there are plenty who attended Oxford.
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by stordoff 8y ago
I also don't think it quite gives the right impression to say "[t]ypically this land belongs to wealthy families, old institutions, the Church, or the Crown". I zoomed in on my house, and the three largest parcels of unregist
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by stordoff 8y ago
> It is unfair to legitimate companies who do their best to make sure their content really is original or properly licensed. On the other hand, it could be said that it is unfair to new companies and rewards those who _already_ broke the
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by stordoff 8y ago
> I have a software product. People resell it on marketplaces. Can you elaborate on why this is occurring in an illegal fashion? UsedSoft v Oracle [1] and Aleksandrs Ranks and Jurijs Vasiļevičs [2] seem to broadly suggest that reselling
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by stordoff 8y ago
For me, it's not so much that they kill the studio, but that they kill the IPs as well. It's one thing for an IP to just die off, but to see C&C stumble along in various forms, then get turned into a mobile game, is dishearten
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by stordoff 8y ago
Halo 3 was the sweet spot for me. A little bit more complexity and added equipment, but still obvious enough that you knew immediately what it did.
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by stordoff 8y ago
Other than the drop and the number of players, did PUBG really add that much _new_ to the film Battle Royale, which clearly inspired them (both in mechanics and skins)? It seems a little unfair to give them sole claim to the idea.
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by stordoff 8y ago
Exactly - I don't think it's reasonable, but I also don't think it's clear enough to make a business decision based on it. I would also find it difficult to argue that it's _not_ "enabling third parties to inte
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by stordoff 8y ago
IIRC, the uproar was less about the principle, and more about how it is defined: > If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service Source Code availabl
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by stordoff 8y ago
Lupe Fuentes: > In 2009, federal agents arrested a man in Puerto Rico on suspicion of possessing child pornography that included Fuentes. At trial, a pediatrician testified that Lupe was underage based on her appearance. Lawyers for the
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by stordoff 8y ago
That's not quite the same because we recognise the copyright in domestic law. American copyright laws aren't being directly applied in other countries - different countries can have different laws on dealing with copyrighted mater
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by stordoff 8y ago
> The reason to preserve and re-publish something that was once known, is so that no single party gets to use it, or use it's absense, against everyone else. I don't understand this argument. If, say, my credit card information
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by stordoff 8y ago
You can stop ringing it.
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by stordoff 8y ago
I'm not sure how that would work - say you get Do you want to remain? -> no; Do you accept the negotiated deal? -> no. Does that mean we should leave without a deal, OR does it mean we should negotiate for a different deal? Likew
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by stordoff 8y ago
There's no reason, in theory, that it couldn't be a ranked vote (so people could vote, e.g. 1) Leave the EU with this deal, 2) Remain in the EU). While ever there's the prospect of no deal, there's probably a bias toward
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by stordoff 8y ago
The first referendum was on whether we should leave the EU. The second is on whether we should still leave on these terms. There's a subtle, but key, difference IMO.
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by stordoff 8y ago
> I'm not British, but I don't see any evidence that people have re-evaluated it. "In hindsight, do you think Britain was right or wrong to vote to leave the EU?" - Wrong overtook Right around July 2017, and has been
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by stordoff 8y ago
The UK gets a lot of spam calls, but most appear to be humans.
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by stordoff 8y ago
> Well it's always up to you if you consider your genetic parent, your "real father" Exactly the situation I'm in, with both a parent and a grandparent, and it's always boiled down to these people have had a sign
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by stordoff 8y ago
> I've never seen a simpler and more straightforward billing UX as Apple's. I don't like how it doesn't show the purchase method on the TouchID screen - it's fine if you are using it a lot, but if you only use it
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by stordoff 8y ago
> They don't have to be; Microsoft could maintain that as a separate fork/add-in to Blink Note that parent said "Chrome would gain support for JPEG XR", which I believe is what 05 is replying to.
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by stordoff 8y ago
It was certainly the case when I went to school (forced to write in fountain pen; born 1990), at least through primary school, and still appears to be the case at some schools (examples: [1], [2]). (End result: I write in print...) [1] htt
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by stordoff 8y ago
More or less what I thought about the network cable in GP's post - if the network cable is changing how your FLACs sound, it's _broken_.
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by stordoff 8y ago
> it's either going to make it or it isn't This isn't _strictly_ true - I've seen basically the equivalent of noise in a HDMI picture (white dots all over the picture), and eventually tracked it back to a faulty HDMI
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by stordoff 8y ago
Employers in the UK aren't supposed to ask for one if it's less than seven days (I don't know if they aren't allowed to, but I and my immediate family have never worked anywhere they have): > If you're off work s
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by stordoff 8y ago
It's _massively_ bigger - (10^27)/(2^32) = 2*10^17. 17 orders of magnitude is not in the same ballpark (you could give every IPv4 address an entire IPv4 address space, and it'd _still_ be bigger (54 million times bigger)).
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by stordoff 8y ago
Interestingly, that's basically the same decision the English House of Lords (now Supreme Court) came to in 1966. While they tend to respect precedent, they aren't bound to it (though only in that Court): > too rigid adherence
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by stordoff 8y ago
It doesn't apply in the US, but I'd be cautious of a claim under the Occupiers' Liability Act under English Law. It covers all persons, including trespassers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupiers%27_li

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