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- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -1/+23There are so many laws, regulations and horse manure that the average person has to deal with that it's almost impossible to do everything exactly by the book. Hell, it's pretty much impossible for one person to know every law and regulation that affects their daily life.
Personally, I think for every new law that is passed three old ones should be repealed. - joshuaer, on 11/27/2007, -2/+20Great article but your name confused me DV= Digital Video not double viking.
- jacobed, on 11/27/2007, -1/+13It's rare that I look to DoubleViking for insightful social commentary, but this was one damn good article. Kudos.
- whataboutdave, on 11/27/2007, -3/+12I remember seeing a documentary on anarchism in America. One of the interviewees said that the mark of an American was the refusal to obey a stop sign at an intersection when there were no cars in sight. When people follow laws for the sake of following laws it will be a sad day indeed.
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -1/+9I agree. Sanity has left the building. Especially when a murder can just walk out the door. The judge should have gotten the lawyers together in his office and discussed the charges, then legally recharge the defendant. It's a shame the murder victim couldn't have a say.
- zachshmack, on 11/27/2007, -1/+6Welcome to Digg, Master of the Hyperbole.
- bungoman, on 11/27/2007, -1/+5I think the point wasn't so much that they're loopholes, but they're an easy way out of doing the proper thing. It's more of an attitude problem than anything else. Doing the right thing is harder or not legal so let's just find an expedient way to get right to where we want to be no matter what the ultimate cost is. He could have chosen better examples and explained it better, but I don't think it was too off.
- bungoman, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2Normally I agree, but this wasn't that bad. It actually made a decent point. Maybe one that could use a little more evidence, but it's worth thinking about.
- Paktu, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2Damn...this article is absolutely dead on. Dugg!
- spudnic, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2The double jeopardy rule has pretty much been got rid of over here in the UK. you can be retried for serious crimes if "fresh and viable" new evidence is found.
It makes for some half decent film storylines (Fracture was excellent) but it really was an absurd loophole. - wetmetalthong, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1Amen. ***** amen. The people are waking up to what liberty simply is. A. *****. Men.
- xNIBx, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1And how can you see that there are no cars in sight without stopping? Or do you go full speed and then if you see another car, you slam on the breaks and hope you can stop your car in time?
- dinostabOMG, on 11/27/2007, -5/+6So the mark of a true American is a blood stain on the front fender and a tricycle wheel being dragged from the muffler. A lot of accidents are caused by idiots who think they're hot ***** and know better than everyone else.
- x083, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1so true, so true.
- ChaosMotor, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1I read a court case a few years ago where they ruled that ignorance of the law IS a defense - because no person on Earth is humanly capable of understanding or remembering every law we are subject to in our daily life.
I think that every single person breaks at least one law every single day, and that's the best indication that we are living in a police state - we are all law-breakers, and we depend on the 'kindness' of the 'authorities' not to arrest us and detain us indefinitely. We are 'free' at the whims of others. - dinostabOMG, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1Haha, alright I deserved that. Still, the point stands, I think.
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -1/+1i'm from queens and i've never head of that law
- MortalCoiled, on 11/27/2007, -4/+4I didn't expect much from a site that felt it needed to explain the word "loophole", but the article was actually pretty informative. However, since I didn't actually have to read it to post this comment, I really don't know.
- gkiltz, on 11/27/2007, -0/+0That's because you can't actually find a completely legal way to actually DO anything. If you want to stay inside the law, you have to find a loophole!
Are you feeling a little soviet today, comrad? - ryan83189, on 11/27/2007, -0/+0I only follow laws i agree with. I don't follow more to keep it legal.
- Shamanusa, on 11/27/2007, -0/+0Path of least resistance, that's nature's way. But it's no good for people who actually want things, whatever those things might be. There are many people whose aspirations are unexceptional and these people will achieve very little in their lives. There's probably no reason to point this out.
- ZMerlin, on 11/27/2007, -3/+2Do the pictures make the article any better? Because I copied and pasted the text into notepad and read it from there... It wasn't a particularly good article I'm afraid.
It basically attributes anything that is wrong, shady or unfair as the "exploitation of a loophole". Plenty of the things that they mentioned are not necessarily a loophole (ie. Simple dance tracks doing well in the club). At the start of the article, it says that a loophole is a legal thing. Dance tracks produced to target clubbers have nothing to do with the law or a legal loophole.
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