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Comment by jstewartmobile

7 years ago

A) Our megacorps horribly abuse the legal system, and I wrote that from bitter experience, so Thank You Lord Jesus for judge Alsup.

B) Somebody needs to hook homeboy up with DOSBox.

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praptak  7 years ago

> so Thank You Lord Jesus for judge Alsup

Isn't the system fucked if it needs a divine intervention/a hero to function properly?

  • unit91  7 years ago

    Theologians distinguish between God's decretive will and God's permissive will. The decretive will is God's decree that something come about, the permissive will is His allowing something to come about in the created order.

    Thanking God doesn't indicate how something came about (decree or permission), only that God could have brought about something different and chose not to. Thus, any blessing, supernatural or natural, flows from the hand of God.

  • afarrell  7 years ago

    yes, at a certain point in the sophistication of the economy, there should be some system that leads us to have a few judges who have reasonable expertise in one area or industry (aside from bankruptcy and of course the law). I suspect that the hard part here is avoiding the same type of regulatory capture that you see with executive agencies. Both Wheeler and Pai worked in the telecom industry before leading the FCC. I suspect that the fact that judges are appointed for live/good behavior would help a bit with this.

    I think this has happened by coincidence a few times actually. I know that back in the early 1800s, the District of Massachusetts handled a ton of fishing/whaling related cases.