Politics & Government - 2 November 2006

By all accounts that I've heard, lawyers (and others) routinely create new contracts based largely upon existing contracts they've come across in one way or another. If a novelist did the same (using others' novels) it would be copyright infringement. I've been told that copyright does not apply to legal documents because they are primarily functional, and not aesthetic, and therefore not subject to copyright. Sounds logical enough, but I'd like something a bit firmer than that - a web page or case law or something that spells it out.

2006-11-02 10:21:14 · 5 answers · asked by psteinx 3 in Law & Ethics

I hit a pedestrian going about 10 miles per hour with my left front bumper. This is what happened
The sun was hitting my wind shield and he was wearing black and he was in the shadows. It was also almost 4 so it was really busy. I didn't see him till it was to late. He didn't even fall down and what is really strange is that he was hit by a car last week! His legs were a little bruised but he said they were like that from last week. He had 1 small scratch on his leg and he refused treatment from the ambulance.

Now he claims his leg is broken and that when I hit him I did it so hard that he flew up and hit my hood!!! The police report clearly states he was not knocked over nor was he hurt badly. He walked away!
What I want to know is if this can happen. Can he have a broken leg from a small tap and would he be able to walk away? He might be suing so will it hold up in court if it says in the police report that I hit him with my bumper and he changes his story?

2006-11-02 10:20:42 · 10 answers · asked by Married and loving it!!!! 3 in Law & Ethics

with Novemember 5th on sunday "bonfire night"should the sale of fireworks to the public be banned? ..I mean after all fireworks are explosives, they are no better than a gun. around where I live kids as young as seven years old are letting them of in the streets,throwing them,sticking them into rubbish bags and letting them off..etc

I am not saying a outright total ban,fireworks should be only for organised controlled events where trainned people who know how to used fireworks properly.

I also they are a waste of money, I mean why spend al that money to hear a very loud bag and a spray of coloured light?I could think of far better things to spend my money on.

2006-11-02 10:17:04 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

He's a worthless blowhard who keeps touting the message of the right wing fascist Republicans!!

2006-11-02 10:16:58 · 15 answers · asked by Jon 2 in Elections

Governments, to have a reason for existing, must defend their people from other people's attack.

Therefore, do Governments, far from wishing for peace, carefully excite the anger of other nations against themselves?

And having excited other people's anger against themselves, and stirred up the patriotism of their own people, does each Government then assure its perpetual survival?

http://www.house.gov/hasc/openingstatementsandpressreleases/108thcongress/04-03-11oconnell.html

P2OG Defense Science Board Program: "Develops an entirely new capability to proactively, preemptively evoke responses from adversary/terrorist groups."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2OG#External_links

2006-11-02 10:16:50 · 7 answers · asked by big-brother 3 in Politics

It seems that the whole music industry makes their money by slamming Bush in one way or another (Eminem, Radiohead, Dixie Chicks, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.). It's funny that Neil Young's dead career is only resurrected when a Republican that he can write a song and complain about is elected. If these musicians get their wish and get a Democrat as president, what will they belly ache about then?
Wouldn't it benefit their pocketbook to keep a Republican in office? Makes you wonder who they really vote for behind that curtain.
What do you think?

2006-11-02 10:16:00 · 9 answers · asked by chuck3011 3 in Elections

2006-11-02 10:15:37 · 2 answers · asked by louanne 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

of all the answers only one was against the use of guns but it was deleted,it was not abusive and it did not contain bad language why was it deleted?

2006-11-02 10:15:36 · 10 answers · asked by JOHN jen 4 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-11-02 10:14:05 · 32 answers · asked by JS 3 in Politics

My wife currently drops off my daughter in uniform and has recieved a complaint that my child is to close to her duty gun. Her gun is in a locked holster with a secondary trigger on the safety, my wife is also a police officer in a scholl where she is surrounded by kids all day. What do you think???

2006-11-02 10:11:48 · 23 answers · asked by BILLY R 1 in Law & Ethics

2006-11-02 10:09:42 · 24 answers · asked by Jon 2 in Elections

2006-11-02 10:08:21 · 11 answers · asked by BeeFQuake 2 in Law & Ethics

I doubt it, but are there ANY? Also please tell me some good conservative radio shows. Thanks!

2006-11-02 10:07:56 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Or am I making the fallacy?

Why do some on the pro choice side (abortion), which is the side I actually support, though that doesn't obligate me to agree with every opinion and tactic of theirs, insist that there is some great hypocrisy in an anti abortion and pro death penalty/ given war position? I know many with such positions are Christians, and that supposedly that places them as being inconsistent to Christian tenets, but aren't there different reasons for the support and denouncement of the three issues? I think a comparison of the three issues is specious when used to determine the rationality of each respectively. Am I wrong? I'm rather tired, so if I'm not clear, I'll try to add additions soon to clarify what I'm asking.

Thanks.

2006-11-02 10:07:29 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I love my cat & my cat loves food that moves. With all those security cameras around in England, do I face the danger of proscecution, if I don't close the lid?

2006-11-02 10:07:07 · 13 answers · asked by Hipira 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

Was he trying to get conservatives out demanding respect for our troops in order to rally liberals that disapprove of the troops? Was he testing his words to see if our country was in situation as NAM and thought that speaking out against them could make him a liberal hero?

2006-11-02 10:06:37 · 16 answers · asked by greeiore 3 in Politics

I thought Republicans were supposed to be the party of logic, the people who thought with their heads not with their hearts, whats the deal?
No Scientist I've met has ever disagreed with the concept of global warming , expect one fellow i used to know, but then again he's now in prison for manufacturing Ecstasy.

2006-11-02 10:05:37 · 11 answers · asked by fireburn 1 in Politics

2006-11-02 10:05:05 · 20 answers · asked by Jon 2 in Government

Do you get nervous when you see a American on an airplane? Have your opinions about Americans changed since our marches? Do you have family or friends that get nervous around Americans? Mexico seeks families who have our traditional Mexican family values but are uneasy around Americans.
Mexico will also explore other issues that Mexicans families from varied backgrounds face in their day-to-day life and provide opportunities to them that they might not have access to otherwise.....Viva Mexico

2006-11-02 10:02:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Who supports, has no stand, or is against gay marriage?

Kay Bailey Hutchinson
Barbara Ann Radnofsky
Scott Lanier Jameson

John Morris
Kay Granger
Gardner Osborne

2006-11-02 10:02:09 · 4 answers · asked by Rae 4 in Elections

With the democrats poised to sweep both the house and senate this Tuesday - is there any business more pressing than removing the current executive administration? One more - how would such an act help restore confidence in the global populace over USA's ability to self-govern?

2006-11-02 10:00:47 · 22 answers · asked by jeffzo 2 in Other - Politics & Government

I think you should; at the very least we'll prove it's fixed and make it hard for them to deny the fact and win.

2006-11-02 10:00:24 · 2 answers · asked by kasar777 3 in Elections

Basically, that question sums up what the Bush Administration are all about with their national surveillance programs and laws such as the Patriot Act and Military Conventions Act.
They are doing all they can to be controversial in the way they try to provide us for safety...all except for doing something which would not spark opposition if they tried. And that is increasing border security.
Is it just me, or are the incumbent republicans really off their rocker?

2006-11-02 09:59:51 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

what does this mean?

2006-11-02 09:57:49 · 7 answers · asked by jessica09906 1 in Elections

2006-11-02 09:57:46 · 18 answers · asked by Paula E 1 in Immigration

2006-11-02 09:57:45 · 4 answers · asked by vanessa 1 in Law & Ethics

my lawyer told me that the contract I signed was a nonsense and that the con man who wrote it, could end up in jail for up to four years for fraud, yet the prosecutor said there was no case.

2006-11-02 09:56:39 · 2 answers · asked by the wanderer 1 in Law & Ethics

Just in case it is relevent, the offence in question was ABH/Common Assault.

2006-11-02 09:54:53 · 13 answers · asked by Greg C 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

If a transexual can marry a person of the opposite sex after receiving a certificate of new gender,can a transexual enter into a civil partnership agreement with someone who is the same sex as their new gender?

2006-11-02 09:54:34 · 9 answers · asked by Scoobu 1 in Law & Ethics

A Simple question.Think with your brain.

2006-11-02 09:53:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government