They can't write them so the layman can read them because other lawyers, when fighting against the text, will use something as simple as an ill placed comma to change the entire meaning of the written text.
Consider this from, say an insurance company.
Most of time, travelers are responsible for covering repairs in the vehicles they rent with the exception being neglect on behalf of the rental company.
Now, remove that 1 tiny comma:
Most of time travelers are responsible for covering repairs in the vehicles they rent with the exception being neglect on behalf of the rental company.
Example one: TRAVELERS are responsible for damages most of the time.
Example two: a majority TIME TRAVELERS are are responsible for damages.
One might argue that though they are responsible for damaging the vehicle they are not responsible for those damages because they are not a TIME TRAVELER at all and the clause specifically points out that MOST TIME TRAVELERS without any provision for anyone else.
Re: We may not love lawyers, but sometimes we need them
All grown-ups are pirates. Excuse me? We kill pirates. I'm not a pirate. It so happens I am a lawyer. Kill the lawyer! I'm not that kind of lawyer --Hook
The settlement is only part of it. How much did it cost the taxpayers to actually do the arrest, the judges, officers, clerks, the prosecutor...so on an so forth... and they paid that whether they won or lost.
Another lesson kiddos. No matter how small and trivial it is, we'll just hand it over to the gov'ment cuz they'll take care of everything... A case of no common sense being handed over to negative common sense.
You mean the police will actually have to start responding to incidents rather than create them?
I'm waiting for google to announce a whole city... all automated cars, no human drivers allowed. I'll move there. The efficiency at which cars can control their own speed, distance and integration with others would result in a utopia of traffic. No stop signs, lights or even yields... Sign me up.
I was an early adopter of cable cutting. Pulled their plug 13 years ago. I tried satellite for a short time 10 years ago. Nothing was different. I've never looked back with regret on that decision and the channels I never used were sports and children's programming channels. Never felt a loss from dropping it... and in fact with the average price of cable to get what I do want being in the neighborhood of 80 dollars per month even then... I've saved $10,000 over that time period.
It's not redacted! It's encrypted! Funny how FOIA requests about encryption related subjects come back redacted. I mean, what? There's something they don't was us to see there?
Seriously? What property did you just describe does not apply to every device that can be made? Let's call this pressure cooker a cardboard box... or let's call it flower vase... or a jack in the box. The bottom line is that a visual inspection of an ordinary item does not indicate nefarious activity. A pressure cooker in a car in plain sight deserves no action, let alone an overreaction. By this type of logic let's hope that terrorists don't start using cars in general to blow things up... oh wait.. yeah, that already happens.. I suppose they should just blow up every unattended vehicle in the mall parking lot.. after all that trunk might be totally loaded with you know a pressurized spare tire that could explode any moment.
No one takes a video of paint drying if it dries as they expect it to... but if it bursts into fire while drying then someones going to post that on youtube. It's not a cop thing, it's a behavior thing. The "people of walmart" isn't a video about normal people buying asprin and shoes... why are we surprised that cops bad behavior is more prevalent online that their "good" behavior? After all, the baseline is the good stuff.
Still misses the point..but just barely this time.
When encryption requires a back door, criminals will use tools that don't comply with the law. Period. Encryption isn't encryption when someone else can easily get into it without your key. PERIOD. So force google to create a backdoor, force them to remove secured apps... but what happens when the bad guys write their own and side-load it? Who controls that?!? No one. And guess what: Data is strongly encrypted and the law can do nothing about it except give them yet another item in a long list of charges to bring against a target.
Back door encryption programs will not be used by smart people who wish to hide data. This will form an underground and/or overseas market for encryption applications that can be downloaded to/from anywhere and that's what they "bad guys" will use. The government will have keys to every front door of every person who is either not trying to hide from the government or too stupid to use the underground tools.
So while they can open your phone at anytime, the national security threat will still force them to jump through the same hoops as now.
When I rented my home the landlord gave me a set of keys. He kept one. Shortly after moving in I went out and bought new locks and replaced them myself... which I will gladly give him the keys to when I move out. He has no key to my doors. Period.
So, when the government requires front door keys why won't the guys they are REALLY worried about just use a different lock? The US laws won't apply EXCEPT for import restrictions... and why is the bad guy going to care that he downloaded a torrent file that has an import restriction when whatever he's hiding behind the encryption is far more nefarious that some stupid government law about which software he's "allowed" to use in the US?
The answer: He doesn't give a crap... and guess what... the gov has no front door, back door or anything else regardless of what law they pass.
See, the gov has this fantasy that that criminals follow laws. If he's hiding something in encryption which is illegal why would he care if his encryption software was legal?
So does this help catch terrorists or pedophiles like they claim it will? No. Those people, or at least those with an IQ over 80 will still be using stuff without giving the landlord a key. Everyone else is either stupid or not hiding something they feel the government wants to see.. Say a man hiding pics from his wife of his new girlfriend...
Totally pointless idea that just needs to die now.
Recently my ISP showed up the competitor in the area... The competitor offered 15MBit in (and like 1MBit out) service for about 60 bucks (pre-tax/fee price) a month. I was paying 90 (pre-tax/fee price and not including my cost for dedicated ip) for 75MBit in (and 10Mbit out). The competitor dropped their pricing and upped their speed. You can now get 25MBit in and 2MBit out for 45 bucks. My provider promptly responded with a notice about my service. Effective immediately my rate would be raised to 110MBit in and 15MBit out... at no additional charge. Now that's how you compete. To compare apples to apples, comparable speeds are offered at 25/4MBit and costs just 30 bucks. I can't imagine anyone's shopping the competitor when they have any choice.
Once again, we have to make people violators of things that haven't happened yet. His drone DIDN'T crash so the what-if scenario is invalid. WHAT IF a car passing in another lane swerved into a police officer? So is it illegal now to drive by an accident?
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Consider this from, say an insurance company.
Most of time, travelers are responsible for covering repairs in the vehicles they rent with the exception being neglect on behalf of the rental company.
Now, remove that 1 tiny comma:
Most of time travelers are responsible for covering repairs in the vehicles they rent with the exception being neglect on behalf of the rental company.
Example one: TRAVELERS are responsible for damages most of the time.
Example two: a majority TIME TRAVELERS are are responsible for damages.
One might argue that though they are responsible for damaging the vehicle they are not responsible for those damages because they are not a TIME TRAVELER at all and the clause specifically points out that MOST TIME TRAVELERS without any provision for anyone else.
It sucks because the system sucks.
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...most certainly a jerk but...
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Re: We may not love lawyers, but sometimes we need them
Excuse me?
We kill pirates.
I'm not a pirate. It so happens I am a lawyer.
Kill the lawyer!
I'm not that kind of lawyer
--Hook
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Cost
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The good ole gov'ment will take care of it.
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Re: Re: Nuts!
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No way.
I'm waiting for google to announce a whole city... all automated cars, no human drivers allowed. I'll move there. The efficiency at which cars can control their own speed, distance and integration with others would result in a utopia of traffic. No stop signs, lights or even yields... Sign me up.
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Never looked back.
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How hypocritical of them
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Re: Not an overreaction...
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Bad press.
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Does he forget?
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Still misses the point..but just barely this time.
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Once again...
Back door encryption programs will not be used by smart people who wish to hide data. This will form an underground and/or overseas market for encryption applications that can be downloaded to/from anywhere and that's what they "bad guys" will use. The government will have keys to every front door of every person who is either not trying to hide from the government or too stupid to use the underground tools.
So while they can open your phone at anytime, the national security threat will still force them to jump through the same hoops as now.
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A mistake
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It's the landlord with key issue
So, when the government requires front door keys why won't the guys they are REALLY worried about just use a different lock? The US laws won't apply EXCEPT for import restrictions... and why is the bad guy going to care that he downloaded a torrent file that has an import restriction when whatever he's hiding behind the encryption is far more nefarious that some stupid government law about which software he's "allowed" to use in the US?
The answer: He doesn't give a crap... and guess what... the gov has no front door, back door or anything else regardless of what law they pass.
See, the gov has this fantasy that that criminals follow laws. If he's hiding something in encryption which is illegal why would he care if his encryption software was legal?
So does this help catch terrorists or pedophiles like they claim it will? No. Those people, or at least those with an IQ over 80 will still be using stuff without giving the landlord a key. Everyone else is either stupid or not hiding something they feel the government wants to see.. Say a man hiding pics from his wife of his new girlfriend...
Totally pointless idea that just needs to die now.
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Poor pricing?
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