Stack Exchange
log in

bdsl

 Discussion on question by bdsl: Do an…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
bdsl
May 6 00:42
@Banjoe I think England also "effectively" functions like that, for people who are willing to break the law - the police won't take action until they go some way over 110% of the speed limit. But it sounds like both of these may rely on police discretion rather than being written into the law.
bdsl
May 6 00:42
@Bob yes I would count that, although more so if the advisory speeds were in place for a large part of the road network rather than just "when there are hazards, such as curves, bends and crests".
bdsl
May 6 00:42
@ohwilleke That sounds like it would be an additional offence. I'm more looking for jurisdictions where driving above the speed limit isn't a crime, unless you're too far above it.
 

 Discussion on question by bdsl: Why a…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
bdsl
Oct 11, 2023 12:04
@RobbieGoodwin yes it matters, I'm not sure why you think I'd conflate them. The judge would still till the jury that they must only convict if they are have no reasonable doubt, i.e. they are sure, that the crime occurred. On the balance of probabilities is a different test where they just thing that something "probably" happened.
bdsl
Oct 11, 2023 12:04
@RobbieGoodwin The "crime as a whole" is proved when the jury is convinced, with no reasonable doubt, that the crime happened
bdsl
Oct 11, 2023 12:04
@FrederikVds I agree your comment would make a good answer. Another consideration is that as the jurors are free to decide for themselves what 'reasonable' means, they are free to use the probabilistic logic I suggest, then work backwards to redefine 'reasonable doubt' based on that result - i.e. if they want to be 99% sure that the entire crime occurred before convicting they can find the cube root of 99%, i.e. 99.67%, and say a reasonable doubt for each element is any doubt of more than 0.33%
bdsl
Oct 11, 2023 12:04
@Trish I don't think I have missed that. In a case where there are alternate paths a juror who thinks in terms of probabilities of certainty would not be multiplying them. They would add up the probabilities of B alone, C alone and B & C together, to get an overall probability that at least one of B and C occurred.
bdsl
Oct 11, 2023 12:04
@Trish I'm riling against the idea that reasonableness of doubt is to be tested for any doubt of each element in turn, rather than testing whether the doubt of the entire offence is reasonable. Doubt in the entire offence should generally be stronger than doubt in each element.
bdsl
Oct 11, 2023 12:04
@Trish I never suggested the numbers should be averaged. If the probabilities are independent then they should be multiplied instead. 100% * 100% * 0% is equal to 0%.
 

 Discussion on answer by Chris H - UK:…

Imported from a comment discussion on travel.stackexchange.com...
bdsl
Jul 31, 2023 10:16
@Willeke Right, if you've eaten and find you can't pay you'd have to leave your contact details so you can pay later - and convince the company that you're not trying to avoid paying dishonestly. Leaving without paying the bill is only a crime if it's done with the intention to dishonestly avoid paying.
 

 Discussion on answer by ohwilleke: To…

Imported from a comment discussion on politics.stackexchange.c...
bdsl
Jul 28, 2023 17:45
... if sales tax had to paid to the state by the buyer and not the seller then the amount that individual pays to the IRS would increase but they would give less money to the seller so they wouldn't be any better or worse off. It doesn't much matter which of the two individuals in a transaction has to pay the tax.
bdsl
Jul 28, 2023 17:44
I think it might also be pretty much impossible to say how much total tax the median person pays - because when a transaction is taxed it's impossible to really say whether one side or the other is paying the tax or both. Is income tax paid by the employer or the employee? Is sales tax paid by the seller or the buyer? Is inheritance tax paid by the desceased's estate or the inheritor? Technically there are answers to these questions the answers are mostly useless.
 

 Discussion on question by Seeking ans…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
bdsl
Jan 16, 2023 15:18
I think it's unlikely to be medical - as the OP mentioned it's both in the daytime and at night, and the London Air Ambulance does not fly at night. When the air ambulance does fly it's based at Royal London Hospital which is 5km away from Angel Islington, further from most of Islington. And when it does fly to other parts of London it doesn't hang around in the air much to annoy people, it lands quickly and then heads back to base quickly when it takes off.
bdsl
Jan 16, 2023 15:18
A Chinook is a large helicopter with twin rotors. The Royal Air Force operates them. I'm not sure what the police would be doing, I'd guess most likely searching for or following someone they might want to arrest.
bdsl
Jan 16, 2023 15:18
Yes - I think I've seen a Chinook in the sky not far from Islington once or twice, and V-22 Ospreys when President Trump visited, but military helicopters are very rare compared to police over London. There's also the air ambulance, but it doesn't fly at night.
bdsl
Jan 16, 2023 15:18
I think these are almost certainly police helicopters, especially at night. I believe it's almost impossible to get permission to fly a helicopter privately over most of London.
 

 Discussion on answer by David Siegel:…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
bdsl
Sep 15, 2022 03:27
@DavidSiegel & kisspuka Thank you
bdsl
Sep 15, 2022 03:27
Would the law have to be sufficiently detailed and specific to satisfy the "prescribed by law" test? If it just said they could take a house without the owner's consent if they felt they needed it could the Supreme Court say that's too vague to count? I think that's how European courts have interpreted the same phrase in Human Rights Articles 10 & 11.
 

 Discussion on answer by o.m.: Why is …

Imported from a comment discussion on politics.stackexchange.c...
bdsl
Feb 22, 2022 22:23
It's not the definition of "Invasion" that's disputed, it's the extent of the territory over which the government of Ukraine is the legitimate authority. More like a dispute about facts than a dispute about definitions.
 

 Discussion on answer by ohwilleke: Wh…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
bdsl
Nov 22, 2021 08:13
@DanielHatton Thanks, I didn't realise what middle-of-the-way presumption meant.
bdsl
Nov 22, 2021 08:13
@DanielHatton and another large part of it seems to be highways, (which in law includes even the most minor roads and their attached footways), hard to 'steal' that without coming foul of the law against obstructing the highway.
bdsl
Nov 22, 2021 08:13
@ohwilleke I think it might be fraud in E&W, depending on the exact means, or the court would say you didn't "obtain title" you only pretended to do so, and any offences would depend on exactly what you did in relation to the land while pretending to have that title.
bdsl
Nov 22, 2021 08:13
@user7761803 It's legally impossible to steal land in England, since you obviously can't walk off with it. Occupying land that isn't yours is trespass, not theft.
 

 Discussion on answer by Dale M: Why i…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
bdsl
Apr 7, 2021 21:17
The difference between the car and the money is that when you borrow a car you agree to give the same car back. Disposing of that car in some other way permanently deprives the owner of it. When you borrow cash you generally don't agree to give back the same individual notes or coins. You can make good your debt with any reasonable set of coins or notes that sum to the right amount.
 

 Discussion on answer by Ryan M: In th…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
bdsl
Mar 3, 2021 23:13
@gerrit I suppose it wouldn't matter much unless they legislate to do something (or refrain from doing something) based on those ideas. How the courts might intervene would depend on the content of that legislation.
 

 Discussion on answer by OnBreak.: A c…

Imported from a comment discussion on photo.stackexchange.com/...
bdsl
Jan 15, 2021 02:30
@MichaelC To be fair I think many photographers think of it as selecting the lens that gives the perspective effect they want, but the way the lens works is by prompting them to change the shooting distance. You can of course get the same effect by using a shorter lens and cropping, if the camera quality is high enough and the required output resolution / print size is low enough.
bdsl
Jan 15, 2021 02:30
I think it's a little misleading to say that the differences in the first set of images are down to lens choice. The images have differences in perspective, which is caused not by the change in lens but by the change in distance between subject and camera. Although you could say the change in distance is a consequence of the lens choice and the decision to keep the subject the same size in the frame. When the images are put together you get the Dolly zoom effect, which relies on the dolly as much if not more than the zoom lens.
 

 Discussion on question by YaDav: I'm …

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
bdsl
Jan 3, 2021 19:53
@PyRulez I don't think the OP has said whether they're currently gaining relevant experience. Perhaps their 3 years - 10 days experience was in the past.
 

 Discussion on question by TheHansinat…

Imported from a comment discussion on security.stackexchange.c...
bdsl
Aug 9, 2020 20:33
Unless all members of the family are security experts, they will still all need to trust the person that says the system meets their security needs.
 

 Discussion on answer by Thorsten S.: …

Imported from a comment discussion on travel.stackexchange.com...
bdsl
Jul 2, 2018 17:40
@ThorstenS. you use the word 'jerk' a few times in your answer. It might be worth clarifying whether you mean 'rate of change of acceleration' by that, and including the definition of Jerk if you do. Both acceleration and jerk are important for safety and comfort.
 

 Discussion on question by Steven Vasc…

Imported from a comment discussion on superuser.com/questions/...
bdsl
May 5, 2017 11:59
I see this as a very bold lower case t in Chrome on CentOS 7.2
 

 Discussion on question by raznagul: I…

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
bdsl
Nov 23, 2016 02:11
You might want to consider implementing a delay between user action and the money transfer being initiated. During that delay you could display an 'undo' button in the UI.
 

 Discussion on answer by Justin L.: Wo…

Imported from a comment discussion on physics.stackexchange.co...
bdsl
Oct 13, 2016 23:52
@YogiDMT acceleration can be considered relative. If you don't allow acceleration to be relative then there would be no such thing as centrifugal and Coriolis forces. Since the question is about centrifugal force we have to allow relative acceleration.
bdsl
Oct 13, 2016 23:52
Justin isn't assuming the object would be moving with the tube. It is staying still as viewed from the outside reference point. Therefore it is moving relative to the tube, which as Justin says means it would appear to be orbiting the center of the tube, to an observer using the rotating reference frame.
 

 Discussion on question by Questioner:…

Imported from a comment discussion on skeptics.stackexchange.c...
bdsl
Jun 30, 2015 13:57
Maybe Questioner should clarify what they mean by 'marry'. The answer depends whether they mean arrange specifically for the state to declare a marriage, or a more general sense of the word.