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HighlandLawyer

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Law, IT, & other stuff.
North Scotland

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dgar, to random
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Lance is a fairly uncommon name nowadays, but in medieval times people were named Lance a lot.

HighlandLawyer,
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@dgar The most discrete of the knights was Sir Cumspect; the most hardy was Sir Vivor.

dgar, to random
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I wish my fingers knew how much I counted on them.

HighlandLawyer,
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@dgar On one hand 31, on the other 1023- unless you're non-binary

glynmoody, to random
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R.I.P. The Scottish Enlightenment 1697-2024 - https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/20/r-i-p-the-scottish-enlightenment-1697-2024/ "on April 1st the Hate Crime and Public Order Act (Scotland) 2021 comes into force, an Act which will criminalise speech and opinion deemed ‘’ even if spoken in the privacy of your own home."

HighlandLawyer,
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@glynmoody Do we know which planet this article was written on, standing that it appears to have absolutely nothing to do with the version of the Hate Crime & Public Order (Sc) Act 2021 on this one?
For example s16 abolishes the crime of blasphemy. The rest deals with offences or aggravation of offences when they aim to stir up hatred or discrimination against particular classes of people.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/14/contents

KatyElphinstone, to Autism
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#Autism #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic

Twenty-one Awesome Symptoms of Autism 🎉

Many things in life can be super-hard if you're autistic... but, maybe surprisingly to many people, there can actually be good things about it too!

A thread.

🧵

HighlandLawyer,
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@KatyElphinstone On which topic I'll just pass on this image without further comment

dgar, (edited ) to random
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Long night so far.

A call from my sister just after midnight that she’d taken mum to the hospital.

Been holding bedside vigil while sister goes home and gets some sleep. Doctors running tests and whatnot. Morphine for the pain. Machines that go “bing”.

It’s about 4:30am and mum’s snoring with a plethora of tubes and wires.

Eyes are heavy. Chair is uncomfortable. The nurses showed me where I could make a cup of coffee for myself.

HighlandLawyer,
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@dgar Condolences. I know it is hard, even when expected.

flexghost, to random
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When you were partying, I studied the blade. When you were having premarital sex, I mastered the blockchain. While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity, I cultivated inner strength. And now that the world is on fire and the barbarians are at the gate you have the audacity to come to me for help.

It's a thread!

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Video of FIRE BLADE! A blade spewing fire at your enemy and also all over the drapes the carpet the cat and everyone near

HighlandLawyer,
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@flexghost Her YouTube channel is https://youtube.com/@michelle-c-smith

kristiedegaris, to random
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Some recent drystone work. A complete strip out and rebuild of this garden retaining wall which failed after only 30 years due to traced stone. All stone reused and we brought in some local fieldstone too.

Super sustainable, beautiful, lasts for generations. What's not to like?

#DrystoneWaller #Sustainable #DeepAdaptation

A drystone wall with lots of differently shaped and sized stones that all fit together like a jigsaw.
A run down drystone wall in front of a house, there are stones lying on the ground around it and a red bucket full of stone too.
A close up shot of a ruined drystone wall. Some stones are missing and others and falling out of the wall.

HighlandLawyer,
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@Helengraham @kristiedegaris @sbourne @Healthcarer
You know about the Caithness Broch Project, to build one using original techniques?
https://www.thebrochproject.co.uk/

dgar, to random
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is probably supposed to be somewhere... doing something...

HighlandLawyer,
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@dgar
To be is to do - Socrates
To do is to be - Aurelius
Scoobee-doobee-dooo - Eponymous

RustyBertrand, to random
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"If you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about!"

HighlandLawyer,
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@RustyBertrand
"Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'." ~ Snuff, Terry Pratchett

cstross, to random
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Shocked and baffled to see Jacob Rees-Mogg writing an op-ed in The Spectator that I actually AGREE with:

"Shamima Begum shouldn’t have lost her British citizenship"

I mean, WTF?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/shamima-begum-shouldnt-have-lost-her-british-citizenship/

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HighlandLawyer,
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@cstross Stopped clock & all. However it's also in line with more a traditional view eg Lord Haw-haw, was effectively told he'd claimed to be British so that was good enough to treat him as such & hang him.

HighlandLawyer, to random
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It's interesting how "Willy's Chocolate Experience" went out of it's way to avoid using the word "Wonka", but it's now being reported worldwide as a "Willy Wonka" event. Presumably because of the "AI" pictures, which seem to draw heavily on the imagery of the Willy Wonka movies.

Could that incentivise the big money media industry to start going against the "AI" industry on IP grounds?

HighlandLawyer,
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@teknomagic @cstross On one hand they want to profit from it (replace scriptwriters, actors, etc with computer generated material that they 100% own); on the other, they don't want anyone else to make money from their IP (unless they get a cut).
Fan art they tolerate until it becomes too popular & they feel they're missing out on a potential market (eg Paramount v Anaxar). They 100% will want to capture "AI" product generation exclusively for themselves; question is how.

Geri, to random
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Strictly speaking, only the government is liable for this enormous bill. Shockingly, no discussions with Fujitsu have started.

https://news.sky.com/story/post-office-scandal-bill-to-compensate-victims-will-be-more-than-1bn-as-no-financial-talks-with-fujitsu-under-way-13082044

HighlandLawyer,
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@Geri From a legal point of view, those responsible for the wrongful prosecutions are liable for the harm caused by those wrongful prosecutions. Any claim the Post Office or govt might have against Fujitsu for the defective software which allowed those wrongful prosecutions is a different matter. Chain of causation and novus actus interveniens in legal phrasing.

cstross, (edited ) to random
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LOLWUT—

Police called to Willy Wonka event after refunds demanded

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrlr3dw2x3o

HighlandLawyer,
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@cstross The full advert is even more surreal, with chocolate willy's twilight tunnel... 🤭
All from The House of Illuminati <sound of breaking irony meter/>

craiggrannell, to random
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This idea to mess with school holidays keeps coming up. I don’t see the value in moving two weeks off from summer to typically gloomy and colder autumn and winter months. It’d also put overseas summer breaks well beyond more people because prices would skyrocket. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/feb/26/school-summer-holidays-half-term-england-calendar-nuffield-foundation-report

HighlandLawyer,
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@craiggrannell The value is that by having more holiday in the winter, they don't need to spend as much on lighting & heating. Parents obviously will have to pay more, but they don't care about that.

(Scottish school summer holidays currently whole of July & half of August, then a fortnight in October)

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    HighlandLawyer,
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    @ryanhoulihan Better if they'd simply get in the sea.

    MadeyeTheCarnaptious, to random
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    "You don’t have to have Higher maths... to work out that even if every Westminster seat was won by a nationalist, their influence would be minimal. The Commons arithmetic ensures they can be outvoted on everything and anything."

    "If the ­allegedly independence-supporting troops have been made to look utterly irrelevant – and they surely have – what, precisely, is the point of them?"

    Ruth Wishart

    https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24142206.snp-cant-participate-westminster-leave/?ref=eb&nid=1948&u=e671d70c95fe09d863fcda0ac0a196a5&date=240224

    HighlandLawyer,
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    @Indyposterboy @Henrysbridge @MadeyeTheCarnaptious Depending on what one means by "radical", arguably that's not their purpose. The SNP is only part of the whole independence movement. Perhaps like the C19th Irish Party their job at Westminster now is obstructionism until it is demonstrable that >50% of Scotland supports independence.

    albert, to random
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    If you've ever heard 2 Mandarin Chinese speakers conversing, to the Western ear it can sound as if they are angry with one another.

    This is because Mandarin Chinese is a tonal language, so primary word meaning is derived from pitch, therefore they're unable to use pitch to indicate secondary meaning, like the speaker's emotion, so do that in other ways.

    If you've ever heard two Glaswegians talking to each other, to an outsider they can also sound angry with one another, and they probably are.

    HighlandLawyer,
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    @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @albert From a linguistic point of view, yes, West Germanic

    HighlandLawyer,
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    @peterbrown @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @albert England still had Brythonic dialects (apart from Cornish) as late as the Elizabethan era.

    USelaine, to random
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    I have yet another unpopular opinion.

    It’s either a “private lunar lander” or “the U.S. is back on the moon”, but not both.

    HighlandLawyer,
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    @USelaine With lawyer hat on, under international law the state a vessel is registered to is responsible for it (& its laws apply within the vessel).

    https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties.html

    rcpierce, to Law
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    This trend isn’t going away is it?

    “Two More Cases, Just this Week, of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions”

    https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/not-again-two-more-cases-just-this-week-of-hallucinated-citations-in-court-filings-leading-to-sanctions.html

    @law

    HighlandLawyer,
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    @rcpierce @law Shouldn't be a significant problem at this stage, because anyone doing due diligence will get a copy of the cited case before putting it to court.

    The real problem will arise when one of these systems is capable of producing a plausible looking full case report...

    HighlandLawyer,
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    @rcpierce @law Here (Scotland) it's generally required to lodge copies of ones authorities (except in small claims). That may be from Westlaw, Lexis, Bailli, ScotCourt, etc, or old school copied from printed reports which might be in a more obscure publication- but those might have been scanned into a system so the lawyer is relying on a scan not an actual book/periodical.

    So if a plausible looking report can be generated a lawyer might reasonably lodge that, & only find it is a fake later on.

    HighlandLawyer,
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    @rcpierce @law Seriously we are heading to a stage where we might need to revert to film photography for evidential purposes, just to be able to show, yes here is a physical negative which chemically reacted with light from the scene, rather than being computer generated ab initio, or modified by the digital camera when the image was made at the scene.

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    @markheftler @rcpierce @law Something that was always drummed into us at uni: read the case before you cite it; not a summary, not a textbook explanation, the actual reported case.

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    HighlandLawyer,
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    @bastardsheep @dgar It's fruitcake all the way down

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