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Theft by proxy using wild Crows?
Feeding birds gets them to behave different, we all know that. Allegedly, someone feeding crows turned the neighborhood crows to turn them into an active deterrent for thieves - and an alert that an old man fell, but that's not what we want to look…
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Is it illegal to take pictures of the police in public in Germany?
I visited Cologne last year. I was taking a selfie with my phone's inner camera in front of a monument. I was unaware that my phone's outer camera was facing police officers conducting checks. One of them noticed it and approached me. He saw the…
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Is it legal for a train company to create an art gallery using photographs of the graffiti on their locomotives and train cars?
I have been wondering that since a train company owns its locomotives and train cars, then I am assuming that this means that they own any graffiti that has been painted on their locomotives and train cars.
I have recently read that it is illegal…
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Can someone's legal name be all lowercase?
Can a person's legal name be all lowercase or all capital letters or some strange mix, or are there restrictions about it? Or maybe capitalization is not even part of the name, it is just a part of grammar for proper nouns, with…
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Is it legal for Blizzard to completely shut down Overwatch 1 in order to replace it with Overwatch 2?
Overwatch (1) was a multiplayer first-person shooter video game created by Blizzard. It was released in 2016 and cost around 40€.
Earlier this year, Overwatch 1 was shut down:
The servers are down.
The game is not playable from the official…
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Why does it matter that a group of January 6 rioters went to Olive Garden for dinner after the riot?
CNN has an article pointing out that the rioters went to Olive Garden for dinner and spent $400 after the riot. The article implies that where they went for dinner, and how much they spent, is relevant to their trial.
Why does it matter where they…
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Why are common people selected for jury duty?
Why are common people selected to be the jury in the USA? Shouldn't people that know the law to decide criminal's fate? Why pick just some twelve random people to be the jury and decide the outcome of a trial instead of people who have extensive…
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Is the banning of large events in the USA constitutional?
Recently several US cities banned large gatherings of events such as listed here. Given that the 1st amendment of the US constitution states
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise…
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Is it legal to crack MD5 hashes?
I saw a website that involves programming problems. One problem asks to write a program that finds a string whose MD5 hash is given.
Is it criminal to crack the MD5 hash by finding those strings?
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Legality of creating a SE replica using SE's content
Due to the recent controversy(s) regarding StackExchange, a couple other users and I were discussing the legality of creating a copy of SE and scraping the content.
If we did not copy SE's actual code, just the content that users put on the site,…
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Can I booby-trap my property against police?
Inspired by this question: Suppose I'm paranoid (perhaps justifiably) that law enforcement personnel might conduct a warranted raid of my property. So I setup booby-traps that are designed to either:
A. Destroy any evidence I think they might look…
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Why would someone get a fine when using a disabled parking space when the disabled person is not in the car?
An article in LA Times about someone parking on a disabled parking space without the disabled person being in the car:
(...) I saw a woman pull into a disabled parking space and begin to
exit her car.
Two men in plain clothes flashed badges as…
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Does being engaged (to be married) carry any legal significance?
Being married carries specific legal consequences, e.g. spouses typically are treated differently under tax law, divorce property law, inheritance law, have rights regarding medical visitation and medical decisions. Sometimes insurance carriers…
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Sticker on caption phone says that using the captions can be illegal. Why?
I was testing donated electronics at a local non-profit, to decide what to put on the shelves and what to recycle, when I found this:
Federal law prohibits anyone but registered users with hearing loss
from using this device with Captions On.
I…
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Would it be legal to supply an item that deliberately stops working after the guarantee expires?
I have TV that failed about a week after the 3 year guarantee expired.
Obviously this is annoying, and I'm back to using a 15 year old TV that I dug out from the attic.
Realistically, this failure so close to expiry of the guarantee is probably just…
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