so_throwaway

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by so_throwaway 5y ago
I mean, you don't seem to be a counter-example to the claim that "no one using a VPN is also configuring a 'family-friendly' DNS resolver".
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by so_throwaway 5y ago
If you're not an expert on British law what makes you feel able to make such a confident and surprising claim?
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by so_throwaway 5y ago
They legally own it in the sense that they are the legally registered owners, currently. They do not legally own it in the sense that the original owner will not be able to eventually recover it after the fraud is unravelled. Your instinct
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by so_throwaway 5y ago
It is not different in the UK. This person will get their house back when the Land Registry has ticked all the boxes. They were shocked by the reluctance of the police to enforce their property rights simply on their say-so. They were shock
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by so_throwaway 5y ago
Why do you expect the police to investigate this? If A says that B is trespassing on their property, and A not B is listed as the legal owner of the property according to the single source of truth, isn't it normal that the police shou
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by so_throwaway 5y ago
You are confusing who actually owned it, or who morally owned it, with who legally owned it. The claim is not that, once the legal issues and the fraud get untangled, the buyer will be held to be the rightful owner. The claim is that AT THE
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by so_throwaway 5y ago
This is irrelevant, no one using a VPN is also configuring a 'family-friendly' DNS resolver.
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by so_throwaway 5y ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment? This is a poem by Charles Bukowski, I don't know if it's the original use: https://poets.org/poem/so-you-want-be-writer
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by so_throwaway 5y ago
"So you want to do X" is a standard phrase which is used to introduce advice on how to do something, or why not to do it. See the poem "so you want to be a writer" by Charles Bukowski.