Stack Exchange
log in

gnasher729

 Discussion on question by Mike: Is it…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Jun 24 17:41
@Mike Depends on how much you trust the precise wording on Wikipedia. It’s about copying. It is not unreasonable to assume that I might make a copy and give it to you (distribution). But if I sell you my phone I usually don’t make any copies of any software. So you would have distribution but no copying, and I wouldn’t bet that GPL applies.
 

 Discussion on answer by Buffy: I worr…

Imported from a comment discussion on academia.stackexchange.c...
gnasher729
May 1 16:25
People my age will first and foremost think of a female vampire slayer.
 

 Discussion on answer by o.m.: Can you…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Mar 29 18:18
Goldberg was at the time not sure if anything was classified. Not publishing things at that point was just wise. Now the government insists nothing was classified, and he published everything.
gnasher729
Mar 29 18:18
Since there was nothing classified according to the government, the Atlantic has now published all the non-classified material.
 

 Discussion on answer by nvoigt: What …

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Mar 15 19:44
It's also well known, both in Germany and everywhere in the world, that Musk owned companies try their very very hardest to avoid paying money that they legitimately owe, because it is so much more important to hand a few more billions to the company owner than to the employees.
4
gnasher729
Mar 15 19:44
Every company in Germany knows: If you are in financial trouble, the number one payment that you absolutely make is sending the employees' taxes to the tax office. If you don't, you are at the absolute top of their **** list; they will come to your office and collect whatever stuff they think they need to get the money, plus it is straight forward criminal theft from the employees. That's not the employee suing you, that is police turning up.
 

 Discussion on answer by Philomath: In…

Imported from a comment discussion on philosophy.stackexchange...
gnasher729
Feb 8 17:05
@Aadmaa That argument looks absolutely nonsensical to me.
 

 Discussion on question by iamacompute…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Oct 2, 2024 10:46
There’s a taxi driver who charges you to drive you to the free park.
gnasher729
Oct 2, 2024 10:46
Just because I can't have a copyright doesn't mean you get it for free. It was the human creator's choice to put the song on a store, and your choice for you to pay for it. I go into a store and take a non-copyrightable banana, and I pay for it. It is a well-known fact that plenty of people don't care about copyright but pay for the convenience of easy downloads from a reputable source that doesn't distribute malware.
 

 Discussion on answer by Michael Hall:…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Sep 2, 2024 21:43
It seems that if you carry what would be an illegal weapon for legal reasons then it’s up to you to prove it. Now if you claim you need to carry a carpet knife because you are a carpet layer, then the police can decide that it is most efficient to talk to who you claim is your employer, but they don’t have to.
 

 Discussion on answer by ohwilleke: Ho…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Aug 8, 2024 20:16
ChatGPT talks a lot of nonsense.
 

 Discussion on question by G O: As a B…

Imported from a comment discussion on travel.stackexchange.com...
gnasher729
Jul 24, 2024 20:38
Not racial discrimination, but ethnical discrimination, which is just as bad.
 

 Discussion on answer by JonathanReez:…

Imported from a comment discussion on politics.stackexchange.c...
gnasher729
Jul 23, 2024 17:39
Immunity from prosecution doesn't make murder or any other unprosecuted action legal. And it doesn't protect someone from self defense. Police have the duty to prevent crimes, and that includes crimes that would fall under immunity. People have the right to defend themselves and others against crimes, and that sometimes includes lethal force.
 

 Discussion on answer by NotThatGuy: I…

Imported from a comment discussion on philosophy.stackexchange...
gnasher729
Jul 10, 2024 04:53
The magician David Copperfield made a ship disappear in front of 100 witnesses. They couldn’t have all been lying? Yes, they were.
 

 Discussion on answer by Fattie: Is it…

Imported from a comment discussion on philosophy.stackexchange...
gnasher729
Jun 10, 2024 18:29
@NeilMeyer OP had his reasons for his "question". Fatties answer is not one bit harsher than deserved.
 

 Discussion on answer by Jen: If Trump…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Jun 4, 2024 22:57
A person might be in jail but reasonably widely believed to be innocent. The president cannot change that conviction to "not guilty" but at least can get them out of jail. It would be perverted to claim that is evidence they are guilty. The function of the pardon would be "remove them from jail" which is much more reasonable for innocent than for guilty people.
 

 Discussion on answer by nvoigt: In a …

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
May 24, 2024 13:16
@Tak Not all contracts can be effectively amended. Meaning you can obviously change the text, nobody can stop you, but some changes will just be void.
 

 Discussion on answer by Saransh Sharm…

Imported from a comment discussion on travel.stackexchange.com...
gnasher729
May 15, 2024 16:40
You were not denied entry. If you had insisted that you absolutely want to enter and refused to leave, then you would have been denied entry and would have been removed. But you left voluntarily before that happened. So nothing bad at all.
 

 Discussion on question by user541686:…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Apr 23, 2024 13:48
There is a company in the UK that sells low cost mobile connections to users with low usage. 1p per MB. And you pay £40 a year, and once that money is gone, it stops working.
 

 Discussion on answer by Sascha: How d…

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
gnasher729
Apr 15, 2024 05:41
Meet someone from Birmingham, and being a native speaker isn't going to help you one bit. The worst case of understanding was a French speaker, who was speaking and it took about five to ten minutes for people to realise he was talking English and not French.
 

 Discussion on question by Ram Rachum:…

Imported from a comment discussion on philosophy.stackexchange...
gnasher729
Mar 28, 2024 07:28
I’d see it the other way around. It’s pointless asking whether we have free will when we don’t know what it did. Like the mice finding the answer “42” only to figure out they dont know what the question is.
 

 Discussion on answer by gnasher729: D…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Mar 15, 2024 21:07
@zelarian, at my wive’s job anybody working in research and development wouldn’t get paid for inventions made outside their normal working time (it was assumed that was their job even outside their workplace), but other employees would. If you were a software developer helping a friend working in the warehouse it could be different. “While working for the employer” - careful. I take this to mean 40 hours a week, not 24/7.
 

 Discussion on answer by JMS: Why isn'…

Imported from a comment discussion on politics.stackexchange.c...
gnasher729
Mar 14, 2024 10:19
Can’t remember where I read that about one in a million people look so similar to you that your mother couldn’t tell you apart. So if you look up someone in a ten million database, it’s most likely that you get ten matches which are mostly are all not who you are looking for.
 

 Discussion on question by NinjaSquirr…

Imported from a comment discussion on math.stackexchange.com/q...
gnasher729
Mar 7, 2024 23:11
If the host has freedom to choose then does he like you or not? Huge difference.
 

 Discussion on question by Citizen and…

Imported from a comment discussion on philosophy.stackexchange...
gnasher729
Mar 7, 2024 10:41
@gerrit This is an Indian person using a very unfortunate word choice. Very bad luck. If a US citizen used the same words, they would know what they are saying and nothing “interpersonal” could help you.
 

 Discussion on answer by Therac: What'…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Feb 4, 2024 07:34
So even 6 billion would be 60 times more than Tim Cook is getting. Now we can discuss if Tim Cook should be getting 100 million no matter how good he is, but there is no way an incompetent like Elon Musk should be getting 60 times more. Or realistically, 560 times more.
 

 Discussion on answer by Nuclear Hoagi…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Feb 4, 2024 07:34
@Kyralessa In one case I believe the board tried to get a good deal for the shareholders and I trust them. In the other case I realise they are a bunch of scumbags that should be fired.
 

 Discussion on question by Someone: Wh…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Jan 6, 2024 21:34
@JoeW The vulnerability is called “SQL injections”. Writing code allowing this is not a mistake, it is not negligent, it is criminally stupid. And whatever that boys name is, a hacker can type in this name instead of their own one.
 

 Discussion on answer by Ethan Bolker:…

Imported from a comment discussion on math.stackexchange.com/q...
gnasher729
Dec 1, 2023 16:32
Somewhere I saw the question "is there an integer n so that 2^n has 18 consecutive zero digits", and the answer is almost certainly "yes". @CommandMaster At least we can show there's an infinite number of values 2^n where the first digit is 9. Because if you multiply any x by 1024 repeatedly then you can't avoid 9 as the leading digit.
 

 Discussion on answer by TheDemonLord:…

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
gnasher729
Nov 23, 2023 21:54
@TheDemonLord I thought we left the stone ages. Mind over matter. We are humans, not primitive animals. When the mind says “woman” the person is a woman. (Well, according to some 40 year old discussion between German health insurance companies who would have to pay for transitioning. And they do. )
gnasher729
Nov 23, 2023 21:54
What does this have to do with woke / anti-woke? That's nonsense. What we have here is a person with a slightly unusual medical condition. A man or a woman born with the wrong body parts. Just accept it, don't be an arse, don't look for lawyers, just be a decent human being who accepts other human beings the way they are.
 

 Discussion on question by Seeking ans…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Oct 21, 2023 21:11
I was told (by a very well educated muslim) that sharia law includes death penalty for sex with another man - however, there need to be four male witnesses present. Actually present. So if a US court would say "guilty beyond reasonable doubt" a sharia court might say "there were only three male and one female witness present". That kind of thing would make a huge practical difference.
 

 Discussion on answer by George White:…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Sep 28, 2023 10:17
But this is about buying from an Oregon company. Question was about having goods delivered to a friend in Oregon, then picking things up from there or the friend mailing things to California.
 

 Discussion on answer by Xander Hender…

Imported from a comment discussion on academia.stackexchange.c...
gnasher729
Sep 17, 2023 16:59
“Poorly typeset” is ok as long as it is readable.
 

 Discussion on answer by ohwilleke: Do…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Aug 24, 2023 22:12
So if you want to kill lots of people in the succession for the role of president, kill them in reverse order. Otherwise you might be killing five presidents. (Don't know how long it takes until the vice president becomes president).
 

 Discussion on answer by Leon Black: C…

Imported from a comment discussion on academia.stackexchange.c...
gnasher729
Aug 3, 2023 21:54
@FrankHopkins: it is not only plagiarism. If you plagiarise a good paper then you get a good paper that is worth nothing because it is plagiarised. If you use chatgpt, you don’t know how much of it is totally made up nonsense. You can’t trust a single word in it.
 

 Discussion on answer by Chris H - UK:…

Imported from a comment discussion on travel.stackexchange.com...
gnasher729
Jul 31, 2023 10:16
You need a one pound coin to unlock a shopping trolley if you go to a supermarket in many places. If you live in the UK, you always make sure not to spend your last pound coin.
 

 Discussion on question by thinkingman…

Imported from a comment discussion on philosophy.stackexchange...
gnasher729
Jul 10, 2023 21:14
If aliens can create a signal that has a probability of 2^-100 to occur naturally, then they can create a signal that has a probability of 2^-10,000.
 

 Discussion on question by stipulatepl…

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
gnasher729
Apr 18, 2023 09:00
You should be able to find out lots of things by the company name alone. In the UK for example, you visit companieshouse.gov.uk, first entry on their website is "Find company information", you type in the first word of my company name, and you find my company including address and my name, when it was founded, etc. In the UK, any letter sent to the address found at companies house.gov.uk counts as legally delivered (if the company moves and doesn't update this address).
 

 Discussion on answer by J D: What kin…

Imported from a comment discussion on philosophy.stackexchange...
gnasher729
Apr 13, 2023 07:58
About the guns: So someone says "Law-abiding people won't have guns. Only criminals will have guns". Obviously wrong, because criminals, police and army will have guns.
gnasher729
Apr 13, 2023 07:58
German traffic police have a different approach: They know that people will go faster than the speed limit, but usually not much. So police estimates what's a safe speed at some point, and then they put up a sign say 10km/h below the safe speed. And that keeps most cars within the safe speed. No enforcement needed at all, just putting up a sign.
gnasher729
Apr 13, 2023 07:58
In Essex (UK) they have lots of speeding cameras, but only a quarter of them are actually working. Which quarter is working changes. So they only catch 25% of speeding cars. However, the goal is to reduce speed where the cameras are, and that works whether a camera is working or not as long as people can't predict which ones are not working. And checking only 25% of the cameras saves a lot of work for traffic police.
 

 Discussion on question by SpoiltAroma…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
gnasher729
Apr 12, 2023 00:45
@SpoiltAroma14: Does it change the outcome of the court case from the correct outcome to an incorrect outcome?
gnasher729
Apr 12, 2023 00:45
I can’t quite imagine why you would need a reference in a court case, but if you needed one, and the employer didn’t give it to you, the judge would ask them for it. Politely but forcefully. So you getting the reference by deception wouldn’t change the outcome of the court case. No “perverting the course of justice”.
gnasher729
Apr 12, 2023 00:45
“Course of justice” would be a court case. “Perverting the course of justice” is something illegal that results in the outcome of a court case being different from the correct outcome. For example lying that you saw a suspect near a crime scene, or lying that you saw them away from a crime scene.
 

 Discussion on question by Tfish: Can …

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
gnasher729
Apr 5, 2023 14:40
Bradford factor is the most idiotic nonsense ever. If you have migraines during two weeks on Monday, Thursday, Tuesday and Friday, and I’m off for three weeks including these four days, Bradford factor says you are worse.
 

 Discussion on answer by Buffy: Accuse…

Imported from a comment discussion on academia.stackexchange.c...
gnasher729
Mar 23, 2023 13:30
In law (instead of academics) “intentional” usually means you had the intent to do what you did, not the intent to commit an offense. So intent to copy and intent not to give credit would be enough.
 

 Discussion on question by DZH: Probab…

Imported from a comment discussion on math.stackexchange.com/q...
gnasher729
Mar 22, 2023 13:09
Next: Can you explain: “So be bet 4-spins 2Q”.
gnasher729
Mar 22, 2023 13:09
Let’s start at the beginning. What is a corner hit?
 

 Discussion on answer by Jack Aidley: …

Imported from a comment discussion on academia.stackexchange.c...
gnasher729
Mar 13, 2023 14:49
@Buffy There seems to be a huge misunderstanding on your part. The language spoken in the UK is British English (unless someone speaks Welsh). The word "fortnight" is part of British language. The language commonly spoken in the USA is American English. It is a different language. if you study in the UK, and you cannot understand British English, that's your problem, whether you are American, Australian, German, Italian, or Japanese.