<story><title>You cannot have a digital copy of the DC Code</title><url>http://macwright.org/2013/02/20/you-cannot-have-the-code.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rthomas6</author><text>&amp;#62;Any person who goes about their day in a normal fashion breaks multiple laws every day.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve heard this assertion so many times, and after thinking about it, I don&apos;t think it&apos;s actually true. I agree with the sentiment of your comment, but I don&apos;t think I&apos;m actually breaking multiple laws every day. Feel free to prove me wrong.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Could anyone at least provide me with an example of some laws that many people, and perhaps I, break every day unknowingly? That would be a start.</text></item><item><author>throwaway420</author><text>This is certainly a problem, but I see a larger, more troubling problem here associated with access to the legal code.&lt;p&gt;Yes, what laws exist should be made available in as many formats as possible, including some easily accessible electronic format. I doubt that anybody here would disagree with that.&lt;p&gt;But the real issue here is that there are so many laws and regulations that it becomes impossible for any one human being to know all of them. Any person who goes about their day in a normal fashion breaks multiple laws every day.&lt;p&gt;When the state starts policing moral and ethical behavior rather than merely defending people against aggression, you come up with page after page of laws and it becomes impossible to know what is correct. This culture of &quot;every problem needs a law to solve it&quot; is in my opinion the priority here, not merely making thousands of pages of useless laws somehow more accessible. You&apos;re never going to read them anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>potatolicious</author><text>Jaywalking, I do this every day. Even stepping off the curb before the walk light turns.&lt;p&gt;Not stopping completely at a stop sign.&lt;p&gt;Sharing a cat photo you found online. Doubly so if you rehosted it (imgur, Instagram, etc). Sharing stuff on the internet, even without shades of piracy, is fraught with copyright problems.&lt;p&gt;Speeding. I&apos;d be very surprised if you drove at or below the speed limit all the time, every day.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Not&lt;/i&gt; speeding - there are minimum speed statutes in some jurisdictions.&lt;p&gt;Not in the US, but in other jurisdictions like Japan and France, taking a random picture on the street where someone is identifiable.&lt;p&gt;The list goes on, and on, and on...</text></comment>
<story><title>You cannot have a digital copy of the DC Code</title><url>http://macwright.org/2013/02/20/you-cannot-have-the-code.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rthomas6</author><text>&amp;#62;Any person who goes about their day in a normal fashion breaks multiple laws every day.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve heard this assertion so many times, and after thinking about it, I don&apos;t think it&apos;s actually true. I agree with the sentiment of your comment, but I don&apos;t think I&apos;m actually breaking multiple laws every day. Feel free to prove me wrong.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Could anyone at least provide me with an example of some laws that many people, and perhaps I, break every day unknowingly? That would be a start.</text></item><item><author>throwaway420</author><text>This is certainly a problem, but I see a larger, more troubling problem here associated with access to the legal code.&lt;p&gt;Yes, what laws exist should be made available in as many formats as possible, including some easily accessible electronic format. I doubt that anybody here would disagree with that.&lt;p&gt;But the real issue here is that there are so many laws and regulations that it becomes impossible for any one human being to know all of them. Any person who goes about their day in a normal fashion breaks multiple laws every day.&lt;p&gt;When the state starts policing moral and ethical behavior rather than merely defending people against aggression, you come up with page after page of laws and it becomes impossible to know what is correct. This culture of &quot;every problem needs a law to solve it&quot; is in my opinion the priority here, not merely making thousands of pages of useless laws somehow more accessible. You&apos;re never going to read them anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarecrowbob</author><text>Well, I dunno where you live.  I&apos;m in TX and I see this happen a lot:&lt;p&gt;According to Texas Criminal and Traffic Law section 101.31, possession of more than one quart of liquor or more than 24 12-ounce beers in a dry area is evidence of intent to sell alcohol.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve lived in two dry cities in TX, BTW.</text></comment>