A statute that isnāt openly published and available to all without cost should not be considered legitimate or enforceable in any court of law.
A democratic society that lives by rule of law, would not tolerate these crimes of the rich.The one percenter oligarchy are mmuch more content when they control access to the laws that they can obey or not, according to their own whim. By their way of thinking, as long as the rich are only accountable to other rich people, thatās the way to have a stable society. Its getting the rest of the population involved that messes everything up.
They only get away with it when we let them.
Should not is the operative term there.
When lawyers and bureaucrats are so morally bankrupt that they can earnestly advocate with a straight face paying to know the laws of the land, itās time to vote for Giant Meteor.
How do you think the legal system works? You canāt understand how a statute is interpreted without buying (extremely expensive) textbooks. This locks in lawyers as part of the legal system. Paid-for access to law is not perceived as a negative; it is a feature built into the system.
And if you break the law ignorance is no excuse.
āThatās some catch, that Catch-22,ā he observed.
āItās the best there is,ā Doc Daneeka agreed.ā
Given that the USA now incarcerates its people at about the same rate that Stalinās Soviet Russia did, itās pretty clear that locking up black and poor people is no accident.
āsome people are still clamoring forā¦ free sex ā¦ā
To people who bill for everything by the hour, and pay for sex the same way, that probably sounds like a telling argument.
Come now - Stalin was at least an equal opportunity offender. Iām reminded of the cartoon of the Russian saying to his kid āDonāt spill the salt - do you realise it takes scientists, composers and poets to mine that stuff?ā
Some are still clamoring for free beer and free sex too. I want free Smartphones!
Man, fuck this guy. (But make sure he pays for it first!)
This is an enviable market position for a nonprofit, and they have profited handsomely from that position.
If theyāre profiting handsomely, it seems that they are not ānonprofitā and should be taxed and regulated accordingly.
So, can we infer that Mr. Bart always pays for sex? Oh, wait, is that libelous?
Hard to say, I canāt afford to look up what laws that would be under.
Thatās explicitly the case in France. All laws and regulations (along with other legal stuff) must be published in the Journal Officiel de la RĆ©publique FranƧaise. During his tenure as president, Nicolas Sarkozy asked high-ranking lawyers for a workaround, they scoffed at the idea (and publicized the incident).
kind of. Iām sure French law uses phrases like āstate of the artā, especially for stuff like building codes. The state is defined in standards, and ENs are not in the public domain.
Iām not sure a fellow with such aā¦ruthlessly transactiveā¦model of human behavior would understand this distinction; but there is actually a giant area between āfreeā and āall interactions handled contractually as market relationsā; and it happens to be the one where real humans live; and where non-disastrous governance happens.
I donāt expect to get my laws āfor freeā: I pay taxes to support the various functions of government, participate in various ārepresentative democracyā and ācivil societyā things; and expect that one of the results of that will be a society non-dysfunctional enough that I have access to the laws Iām supposed to be following.
I donāt expect to get sex āfor freeā either: not because itās nothing but hookers over here; but because people tend not to have sex with you unless you appeal to their interest, or engage in a relationship that they also see as rewarding, or the like.
I donāt even expect to get beer āfor freeā; though because Iām not Homo Economicus, sometimes a friend or host of an event ends up providing me with a drink without expectation of immediate compensation; sometimes I do the same for them; and we just accept that it comes out roughly square in the end and isnāt worth worrying about.
This is worth keeping in mind because a common rhetorical trick of the assorted copyright maximalists and āvalue is maximized when everything has an owner and is pay-per-use because tragedy of the commons!!!ā types is to pretend that the dispute is between dirty anarchist hippie parasites who just expect everyone to give them everything; and the sober, reasonable, serious, people who are realistic and understand that things require resources.
Itās a good rhetorical trick, in the sense of being an effective strawman; but itās pernicious bullshit.
Well said.
And Iām stealing that phrase.
No, he doesnāt pay for it. It goes on expenses.
I had a thought, though, that if we all paid for sex now and then we could:
- Normalize and destigmatize selling sex as legitimate work
- All get laid (:high_five:)
Perhaps heās onto something.
ANSI is representing a model of standards publishing thatās closer to copyright ā from before the Statute of Anne.
Up until recently, standards from bodies like IEEE and ANSI were produced by academics and industry experts donating their time and then published by firms like Global Engineering, which managed to get exclusive contracts which priced copies of five-page documents at hundreds of dollars, almost all of which went to the publisher. Sweet deal if you could get it, but totally inimical to the organizationsā official charters to promote science and industry by collaboration and standardization.
The proof that this is not the only way to accomplish standards creation and publication is that some bodies, such as JEDEC, produce and publish their work free to users. Having participated in both IEEE and JEDEC standards bodies [1], I can state from experience that the JEDEC process ā despite being driven entirely by profit-driven corporations ā is actually at least as open to participants and as dictated by technical merit as others.
And you can get their standards ā up to and including the latest DRAM specifications ā totally for free as digital documents, with no strings attached. Go ahead and try at the link I provided.
[1] IEEE 1394 for four years, JEDEC JC-16, JC-42, and JC-45 for ten. Eight as chair of JC-16.
