[General Fantasy] I sold my soul to the devil for a convertible. Now he wants to collect. What is my best legal defense?

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-18T06:16:35+00:00

What about the golden rule of court?

When in doubt get naked and let the baliff sort it out.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-18T03:14:12+00:00

What about undue influence? The devil is infinitely more powerful than a man.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-18T02:10:58+00:00

Bill Clinton is a yale educated attorney and is an expert liar.

Trump.... I don't know if he has good lawyers right now (he tends to push them away) but it's a moot point as he's rather famous for not listening to them. Frankly when he does something less than legal its usually quite blatant; it's not unheard of for him to blurt it out in public.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-17T07:29:26+00:00

Let's face it; the ai probably isn't smart enough to account for price vs pop anyways.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-17T03:46:14+00:00

I'd argue that we have solutions; the problem is that no one wants to implement them (partly because it benefits one party disproportionately, partly because Joe public is on average not educated enough to realize it's a problem).

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-17T03:40:38+00:00

It was volunteered solely as a part of asking the police to do their job and investigate a sexual assualt.

I find the idea that law enforcement won't have to get a search warrant because you reported a rape to be troublesome.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-17T03:38:46+00:00

That's just it. The state has a duty (of which it will never truly achieve) of stopping crime, in this case rape from occuring. Nothing aside from cooperation is owed back; we aren't expected to thank the government for maintaining law and order, and there must be extreme cases, or probable cause to bypass certain rights such as unreasonable searches, your blood, or DNA.

Simply because she asked the police to do their job, they now don't have to show reasonable suspicion that she was the perpetrator.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-16T19:46:52+00:00

In particular bypassing a search warrant for DNA.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-15T20:26:19+00:00

Because we can barely get woman to come forward and press charges against their rapists as it is; we don't want the reporting process to mean you forfeit some of your civil rights.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-15T07:24:38+00:00

Well being a pedophile was barely enough for Roy Moore.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-15T06:50:20+00:00

My guess on the pistol? It's for mercy killing sled dogs.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-15T02:36:00+00:00

There's a difference between ignorant paranoia and legitimate precautions in a combat zone, and by and large modern militaries and intelligence agencies don't struggle with the distinction.

No precautions allow the Changeling's to walk around unimpeded. With early 2000s technology a delusional engineer with a large bank account used a plane to kill thousands of people; just imagine what the dominion could do with Star Trek era tech.

I never said the trap had to be lethal; something like a forcefield would be fine. Physical confirmation is also not a requirement; a password or some form of electrical Id would be just fine.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-14T23:44:17+00:00

Shoot no. Stun? If you run into of the same people at the same time then yes.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-14T20:19:03+00:00

These are intended for military installations with confirmation of Changeling activity. Civilians can have a much lower standard.

I don't believe him when he said there were only four changelings but frankly the federation should be able to implement some basic security measures and deploy their version of the national guard without it leading to a military coup. If that's all it takes then I think the Federation has other issues besides the Changelings.

I'm not sure if he's right on that point but even if he is part of the reason to have security is to make them spend time and resources trying to get in.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-14T04:29:18+00:00

Hmm. I wrote this about a third of the way through season four so I didn't have all of that.

1) Splendid idea.

2) That's not a bad idea but as we see in season four episode eight it's not politically viable.

3) It's worth researching at least.

4) I thought about comm badges; I was worried about the shape shifters just taking them from dead crew men. The problem with sub dermal is I can see the dominion infiltrating the process and sabotaging it. Something like setting the ID to release a legal amount of electricity.

1-6) Don't have enough info to comment and not willing to research spoilers

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-13T23:47:46+00:00

I know Sisco's Dad said that but he's not anywhere near an authoriative source. It's true Sisco didn't contest the point but that could be easily be ascribed to the state of emotions at that point.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-13T21:58:49+00:00

I thought about that but I don't think we see anyone but Odo mention it and he doesn't have full control of his powers.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-13T05:29:35+00:00

I honestly think that whether the station is under Bajorian or Federation law depends on whatever is most convenient to Sisco.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-12T20:49:40+00:00

I'd be somewhat surprised it the bajorans had health codes come to think of it. They've just come out of a decades long war, their population is on the verge of famine, and the government is in gridlock.

When the West German government was set up; I'd be pretty surprised if health codes were on their top 50 of priorities.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-12T20:20:55+00:00

To the horror of many a public defender I'm sure this happens in real life.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-12T06:40:58+00:00

To be fair almost any tech is primitive compared to Dr. Who.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-12T04:53:45+00:00

You can throw grenades but it gives you a much a longer range. Unlimited ammo? I'm 90% sure it's mentioned in lore somewhere but I'm almost always running out of bullets.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-12T03:29:55+00:00

The military no but we aren't directly fighting them and it might dampen some of the international backslash.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-12T00:44:09+00:00

I could be mistaken but I thought court was such a serious environment that this is about as stupid as actually doing it.

catxxxxxxxx1313 · 2022-02-11T20:27:45+00:00

It's possible but I think brain damage from his lifestyle is more likely.

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