Notices by HighlandLawyer (highlandlawyer@mastodon.social)

The Coventry Carol, a haunting song commemorating the infamous evil of a ruler of Israel ordering the massacre of children in Palestine
https://youtu.be/Wit-jGD4wCw

@Infoseepage @cstross
It's a good introduction for those who haven't read the Discworld books too

It's time of year to re-read "The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper; "Hogfather" by Terry Pratchett; and the short story "Overtime" by @cstross which is finally out on dead tree, but for years has been available for free at https://reactormag.com/overtime//

@publicdomainrev Volapük and Esperanto respectively demonstrate the difference between proprietary versus open source. Schleyer insisted he owned the language, and that it would develop how and when he said; Zamenhof created rules on how the language can be developed to ensure backwards compatibility, then handed it over to its users.

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@gbargoud @moira @maria
Including him raising several court actions about it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Furie

@LillyHerself @Geri
"La loi, dans un grand souci d'égalité, interdit aux riches comme aux pauvres de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain."
~Anatole France

@Geri
Law is not morality. Historically there are 2 views on unjust laws: one is "lex injusta non esta lex" (An unjust law is no law at all); the other is the law is whatever the state says is the law, but one has a moral duty to oppose unjust laws. Both theories lead to a similar outcome- one should oppose unjust laws however ones morality permits or requires.
Civil disobedience means deliberately breaking a unjust law while accepting the legal consequences of doing so & is a highly moral act.

@Unixbigot @futzle
Sokath, his eyes uncovered.

@futurebird
"Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." Or "better world" as some people prefer

@feld @sarahjamielewis
And there is demonstrated one of the big complications - from which jurisdiction(s)?

@Infoseepage @jwz @cstross
"some system for generating grammatically correct and punctuated text with no meaning"- to be named "PartyPolitical"

https://youtu.be/GxBtGuu9BVE

@br00t4c
So when this goes to Strasbourg, will the Court hold up a copy of the 2002 Goodwin judgement and say "did we stutter?"

@TimWardCam @bullivant
Yet again, a case where replacing "the economy" with "rich people's yacht money" explains everything.

@cstross @Infoseepage @jef @LRRRonEarth @ainmosni
Defining "primary home" as the smallest residential property one owns; otherwise rule lawyering would result in mega-complexes being built as the "home", & separately massive inflation of property prices.

@jef @cstross @LRRRonEarth @ainmosni
About 3 thousand worldwide isn't it? So assuming 15 mins to walk each one up to the chopping block, do the deed, then clear up for the next that would be 750 hours, or just over a month continually.
Realistically therefore you're going to need multiple devices- 63 or 64 if you want to get through them all in a single day.