law

National Economic Security and Reform Act I've been seeing this mobile "street blimp" billboard going by my window....curious, I looked up the website. I thought it was some kind of lobbying group...but it appears to be part of an elaborate scam which traces back to some apparent woo-woo...

These clearly violate the first amendment of the US constitution. Nice thought, but law? Existing state law. :p Existing state law. There goes our whole economic system. OK three out of ten commandments are US law.

So, a post in another thread got me thinking about what the purpose of law is. Or, rather, a purpose. Is law meant to deal with society as it is and make the best of what we've got or is it meant to push society to what it should be? For example, gay marriage: That gay couples exist is not...

I am curious if I am the only person who thinks that it is incorrect for a grown man to call his father's new wife his "stepmom". In casual conversation I used the phrase "my father's wife", which prompted a friend to correct me by saying, "that would make her your stepmom". Now I went round...

The top U.S. administrator in Iraq suggested on Monday that he would block any interim constitution that would make Islam the chief source of law, as some members of the Iraqi Governing Council have sought. Story here on MSNBC Fantastic!

For all you math and physics buffs. The very first time I learned of just one application of this law, I thought to myself that this practically proved the existance of God. To have such a formulation work out such that...well, the inverse square. It's of such exacting order, if you know what I...

For those who are interested, here is the plotline for tonight's Law & Order: I think it will be interesting to see how this is portrayed.

Somebody (A 7th Adventist, perhaps?) mass-mailed a whole bunch of a book called "National Sunday Law", about end-times and bible quotes and beasties & such. I got one. Even has some numerology adding up to '666' in it. The whole works. Due to the kerning of the font they chose, it looks like...

I wasn't sure if this should go under Religion or Politics. I came across this item and thought it was worth some discussion. http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/02/22/fp1s3-csm.shtml The article notes that implementation of sharia law in parts of Nigeria has had some beneficial results...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57625-2003Jul1.html

Apparently, people have different ideas on why we punish people.

http://www.pjstar.com/news/topnews/g152154a.html Amazing how draconian the Republicans are about election laws when they keep Libertarians off (winess the fiasco in NC recently with the Electoral Fairness Act) but turn the tables and all of a sudden they want exceptions to the law! So, why...

Someone in banter claimed precisely this. But surely a pre-existing person entering a fetus wouldn't violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics anymore so than if a new self is created ex nihilo? Thoughts please.

Is there a difference? If so, what is it? Should morality influence the law and vice versa? Questions, questions, so many questions.

This is really a fluff topic. It arose from reading some short stories around the subjects of lightspeed travel and a couple books on the subject by physicists. Now, I'm an armchair physicist at best with merely an undergrad minor in the subject, so bare with me, and please correct me on...