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by u32480932048 3y ago
As a supporter of piracy in the general case, I tend to agree with your observations, including that pirating NYT (FT, NPR, ...) articles is somehow some kind of different class of offense as, say, stealing a movie or mp3. (Books, to me, ar
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by u32480932048 3y ago
I think the ideal situation is that the judge fines both sides for wasting everyones' time. IANAL tho.
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by u32480932048 3y ago
I wonder if their patent is something like "This is a patent for measuring blood oxygen by using measurement tools and methods to determine the amount of oxygen in the blood", not unlike the 1990's "uses computers to sto
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by u32480932048 3y ago
"because reasons" isn't actually a good justification for a system that's broken and corrupted beyond all repair
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by u32480932048 3y ago
What's the -ism for people who believe tHaT nEvEr HaPpEnS until there are at least half a dozen meta-analyses on the subject? Just because nobody's published on the phenomenon doesn't mean it's not repeatedly observed. &
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Changing all my passwords to "I don't recall."
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by u32480932048 3y ago
You should see the ones written by actual lawyers!
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by u32480932048 3y ago
I'm not sure it's directly applicable, but courts have repeatedly ruled that you can't booby-trap your own property; I'm not quite sure this applies to, say, [non-explosively] erasing a USB drive by entering a decoy PIN.
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by u32480932048 3y ago
See also, the 100-mile "constitution free zone" in which around 2/3rds of the country live. https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2018/03/23/two-th...
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by u32480932048 3y ago
This assumes you even have the right to a jury, or that you've even been charged with anything, or that you have the right to know what the charges are if they have been filed. https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-
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by u32480932048 3y ago
"But this will suck up all the air and there will be no more birds!" - An oil industry-backed "environmental" group, soon
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Perhaps GitHub Autopilot and ChatGPT teamed up to write the code upon noticing that the developer tripped and fell, causing a GSM modem to fall off their desk and into the assembly process.
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Teetotalers coming here to apply small-N animal study to humans.
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by u32480932048 3y ago
See also: the recommended 2000 calorie diet
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by u32480932048 3y ago
They're diagnostic criteria intended for use by physicians, not for random internet people to diagnose others without even performing any kind of assessment. If someone drinks one glass of wine a year, but their significant other gets
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by u32480932048 3y ago
It seems you've been downvoted by people who get drunk on two Bud Lights, lol
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by u32480932048 3y ago
"Stuffing half a dozen or so mice with booze and not giving them water for months gets them FUCKED UP, so forward this article to everyone whose husband drinks more than one tbsp of beer a week to prove that their child is gonna have a
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by u32480932048 3y ago
"Something, something, Darwin" ought to be a journal
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by u32480932048 3y ago
This reminds me of a story I read a while back where a protest erupted outside a Human Rights Commission building that was investigating human rights abuses by the national police force. As luck would have it, the protesters went directly t
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by u32480932048 3y ago
HIPPA is the Privacy act ;)
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by u32480932048 3y ago
When it comes to enforcing custody orders, however, the courts are suddenly as impotent as their 90-year old judges. "That's a criminal matter - go to the police", say the courts. "That's a civil matter - go to the
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Most of these people aren't very bright.
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by u32480932048 3y ago
"Because reasons" Signed, The Treasurer of the Sheriffs' Association
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by u32480932048 3y ago
A more direct way to limit the influence of cartels may be to start cutting funding for agencies like the DEA who are supposed to be stopping - not facilitating - the transfer of drugs into the US. These are the same state-sponsored crimina
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by u32480932048 3y ago
The state is accommodating us by dealing with such people, and we keep the state under control (lol) by not letting them get sloppy with even the worst among us. That is, the state does in fact have certain obligations, regardless of any pe
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by u32480932048 3y ago
The Good Side, obviously.
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Wait, I thought pithy statements containing some element of truth counted as theses? They were oversimplifications all along?
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by u32480932048 3y ago
So you heard once that someone lost their entire family and support system because of a single inpatient stay?
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by u32480932048 3y ago
You can provide art and music to the community, either by strumming your guitar aggressively at passers-by or turning up your boom box to max volume so everyone can hear your shitty music. /s
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by u32480932048 3y ago
Too bad the Housing Authority can't help smuggle houses over the border.

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