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Strict Liability

Jakey — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:04:19 -0800

A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for "doing his duty". Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March 20 this year. There's already some predictable outrage. English legal bogger Jack of Kent has a slightly more nuanced view: If the facts are indeed as reported, the CPS should not have prosecuted Mr Clarke. The CPS should only prosecute when it is the public interest to do so. (And one should always be skeptical of newspaper reports of any court case). But on the narrow point as to whether that possessing a shotgun - and taking that shotgun through the streets (even if to a police station) - should be unlawful, then I think it should be.

Neither technology nor magic was sufficiently advanced.

Skorgu — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:15:16 -0800

Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001, inventor of the telecommunications satellite and the only reason most geeks can find Sri Lanka on a map, has died shortly after celebrating his 90th birthday.

Bonanza of articles and interviews on communication

painquale — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 01:27:06 -0800

Forbes special report on communication. A truckload of excellent articles and interview excerpts! Noam Chomsky on the spontaneous invention of language. Carl Zimmer on talking chimps. Jane Goodall on why words hurt. Arthur C. Clarke on the planetary conversation. Kurt Vonnegut on telling a story. Desmond Morris on symbolic gestures. Sid Meier on communicating with video games. David Copperfield on keeping secrets. Stan Lee on the superpower of comics. Steven Pinker on why we have language. Walter Cronkite on the language of news. Daniel Libeskind on the language of design. And much more!

2001: A Flash Odyssey

ford and the prefects — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:14:02 -0800

Kubrick 2001: The space odyssey explained. Finally: all that monolith nonsense explained in big, bright Flash.

Ten Years After

timsteil — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 14:12:57 -0800

A Picture of the Future, You're not in It An address to the John F. Kennedy School of Government...September 11th, 2011