newbusox

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by newbusox 14y ago
The issue with law is that laws are dissimilar from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, in meaningful enough ways that giving advice based on the laws for one jurisdiction might be entirely useless in another. Moreover, even I were to live in tha
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by newbusox 14y ago
I am a lawyer, and I have, in my own startup, contended with a company attempting to sue me/my startup for allegedly infringing on their trademark. I'm sympathetic to your cause, but playing with intellectual property issues is serious stuf
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by newbusox 14y ago
That sounds like a good idea, although it looks like Joel has representation from a professor at Harvard law (Charles Nesson, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nesson ) who, I would guess, is representing him for free. There are probabl
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by newbusox 14y ago
Not to burst anyone's bubbles, but just because the DoJ has issued a letter stating that they believe this is constitutional does not make it so. There are opinions, I believe, from the First and Seventh Circuits that state explicitly that
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by newbusox 14y ago
This is a fine goal, however, beyond what other have said here, it's important to realize that a lot of "laws" or "rules" that impact individuals on a day to day basis are not created by Congress at all--in fact, they're created via adminis
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by newbusox 15y ago
This article seems to imply that you can never change people's behavior by law (i.e. like posting a sign on a door saying not to throw towels on the floor) because people will always do whatever they want. I don't think I agree with that--I
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by newbusox 15y ago
I understand that this case was decided on grounds consistent with Fricosu, and that the court held that the testimony was not a foregone conclusion and therefore the court could not compel decryption. I am not disputing that that is the ho
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by newbusox 15y ago
My reading is that the court implied, and what likely could be argued/people would like to argue, is that, even if police were aware of the existence of specific documents, you might still be able to use the Fifth Amendment to prevent decry
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by newbusox 15y ago
Realize that this is a fairly narrow opinion, and, in my opinion, not a particularly well-reasoned one. The issue here is child pornography: the would-be defendant was suspected of having child pornography on various hard drives which were
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by newbusox 15y ago
It's important to remember that the federal Constitution and rulings by the Supreme Court interpreting the Constitution represent the floor of permissible action, not the ceiling. So, although there exists a somewhat amorphous "right to pri
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by newbusox 15y ago
I agree. I'm sure there was a time not too long ago when merchants at local shops would know customers by name and learn their habits, and, possibly, be able to learn intimate details about customers by looking at what products they bought.
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by newbusox 15y ago
I worked with/at TakeNote, which is Cornell's commercial note taking service and dealt with this often. Notwithstanding "ethical" reasons, this is very odd to me. I think the California law cited that seems to ban the selling of class notes
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by newbusox 15y ago
This is an interesting point. Like tokenadult, my last graduate education was in law, which I currently practice, although I also know how to code, but don't have a particularly "formal" education in it. Law school (debatably) doesn't prepa
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by newbusox 15y ago
I couldn't agree more. Having worked at a large law firm, and with an offer to work for one in the near future, I am amazed at the amount of "cut and paste" resources these law firms have available at their disposal (including research, mem
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by newbusox 15y ago
If anyone would like a more detailed investigation of this topic, there's a good article on SSRN by another tax professor ( http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1734601 ), or Miller's own more expansive article ( http://www.ca
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by newbusox 15y ago
It looks like Creative Commons tries to protect themselves with their disclaimer, which says that their deed has no legal value. I suppose a summary which similarly had no legal value would at least inform users about what the company does
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by newbusox 15y ago
Coming from a law background this makes me, and I imagine many lawyers, nervous. Terms of Service agreements may be wordy and hard to understand, but they're also substantive--everything in them has meaning. Good lawyers should craft them t
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by newbusox 15y ago
Well, there are lots of reasons as to why capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income. I'm not advocating that any of them are correct (and, obviously, many countries tax capital gains and ordinary income at the same rate,
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by newbusox 15y ago
Haha, yes, I absolutely agree.
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by newbusox 15y ago
I really want this to work, but I'm skeptical. I've lived in India, and I know that corruption is rampant. These "middle men" will try hard to figure out another way to game this system. Hopefully it's the start of something, but I think th
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by newbusox 15y ago
I, at least, enjoyed reading it. I'm in a comparable situation, although I haven't left my job at this point. Good luck!
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by newbusox 15y ago
Yes, but this has been happening for years, and in many other countries. There are instances from 10+ years ago of places like Germany and France trying to and ultimately succeeding in banning the auction of Nazi memorabilia from Yahoo and
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by newbusox 15y ago
The so-called "silent majority" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_majority ) is certainly real. There have always been loud groups that constitute the minority: if Ohanian is suggesting that reddit and etc. will empower those that are s
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by newbusox 15y ago
That's not quite true. From personal experience at two different Ivy Leagues schools, I can say that these schools and probably top schools in general are completely obsessive about fulfilling certain stated or unstated "requirements" for s
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by newbusox 15y ago
Sure--I don't disagree with you. I'm not suggesting that people shouldn't engage in civil disobedience, in fact, I personally think that people should engage in civil disobedience as often as they feel morally compelled to. In my last state
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by newbusox 15y ago
That's a fair point. I suppose it relates to why people follow laws in general: is it because all laws we've adopted are good? Is it because laws, by virtue of being a law, are good? Is it because we are afraid of being punished for violati
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by newbusox 15y ago
That's really cool. I'm guessing you're using the Hacker News API ( http://api.ihackernews.com/ ) to retrieve data? Or something else?
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by newbusox 15y ago
Awesome--good luck, I'll definitely check back often!
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by newbusox 15y ago
Is it possible to pre-populate the data for this from pre-existing sources (like the TV show itself publishing information about where the clothing is from?). The reason I ask is that I stumbled on a Mad Men "fashion show" where the fashion
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by newbusox 15y ago
I would guess that the office to contact would be the US Attorney's Office for Washington, D.C., http://www.justice.gov/usao/dc/about/contact.html . They (and possibly others US Attorney's Offices) almost certainly have jurisdiction. For t

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