Re:It is illegal to wear hot pink pants after midd
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Isn't monday after midday Sunday? Doesn't that make it illegal to wear hot pink pants any time, except (maybe) Sunday morning?
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It will never happen, that would require intelligence. The intelligent people in this country get real jobs.:)
At the end of our lifetimes, I'm sure we'll be able to get a good laugh at the current rules we have abnout encryption and computers (and you know they won't get updated when the time comes).
"Sending unsolicited email is illegal? I suppose routers weren't intelligent enough back then to filter it automatically. HA, the primitive world my parents grew up in!"
--Allright, this is getting offtopic but how will your grandchildren handle the following situation (or their grandchildren, if you already have grandchildren)
"HMM, why won't it let me choose QWERTYUIOP as my password. It seems pretty random, and it's longer than 8 characters, so only a computer professional should be able to crack it. I wonder if this has anything to do with when they used to enter data by pushing buttons with letters on them"
I realize that in a lot of cases, especially if the data is not so much collected as submitted that this information may not be known, but in cases where it is known, it would be cool to have a legal reference to the law, the year it was created, the year it was repealed (if applicable), and the context of the law, or in some cases, what was probably intended. I think it would be better, as someone alrady suggested, to categorize it in terms of why the law is there (dumb, puritanical, unconstitutional, out of date, etc.). If a law is local, just mention it in the law itself, no need to make a separate section for it, if there are only one or two dumb laws in a particular town.
Just my $.02.
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>Perhaps even: "It is illegal for a man to ogle a woman, even if she is wearing revealing >or otherwise purposefully attractive clothing. 50$ fine" ----- They have that one in New York, check it out. If convicted, you have to wear horse blinders.
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Isn't monday after midday Sunday? Doesn't that make it illegal to wear hot pink pants any time, except (maybe) Sunday morning?
It will never happen, that would require intelligence. The intelligent people in this country get real jobs. :)
At the end of our lifetimes, I'm sure we'll be able to get a good laugh at the current rules we have abnout encryption and computers (and you know they won't get updated when the time comes).
"Sending unsolicited email is illegal? I suppose routers weren't intelligent enough back then to filter it automatically. HA, the primitive world my parents grew up in!"
--Allright, this is getting offtopic but how will your grandchildren handle the following situation (or their grandchildren, if you already have grandchildren)
"HMM, why won't it let me choose QWERTYUIOP as my password. It seems pretty random, and it's longer than 8 characters, so only a computer professional should be able to crack it. I wonder if this has anything to do with when they used to enter data by pushing buttons with letters on them"
I realize that in a lot of cases, especially if the data is not so much collected as submitted that this information may not be known, but in cases where it is known, it would be cool to have a legal reference to the law, the year it was created, the year it was repealed (if applicable), and the context of the law, or in some cases, what was probably intended. I think it would be better, as someone alrady suggested, to categorize it in terms of why the law is there (dumb, puritanical, unconstitutional, out of date, etc.). If a law is local, just mention it in the law itself, no need to make a separate section for it, if there are only one or two dumb laws in a particular town.
Just my $.02.
>Perhaps even: "It is illegal for a man to ogle a woman, even if she is wearing revealing
>or otherwise purposefully attractive clothing. 50$ fine"
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They have that one in New York, check it out. If convicted, you have to wear horse blinders.