> OK: ls, grep, cat, tail

cat /dev/random > /dev/sda

Uh oh…

And of course if it has access to run the code that it's developing, it can also do anything it wants because it can just add code that performs the operations it is trying.

It's like when people say their pronouns, but for nouns.

Gas station on a one way street with respect to which side your gas tank is on.

The answer is probaly embedded within the concept of codification of acts. Legislatures pass acts, which are kind of like diffs for statutory law. But there is no base document, just a series of diffs from the beginning. Somewhere along the way, someone did a lot of work to “codify” the law, and when you go look up 18 USC 1001, and then click “next,” you are taking advantage of the codification process.

But the person who did the codification has some rights thereto, meaning that while NV can post every act that passed the legislature, they can’t publish someone else’s codification of the statutes.

This matters very little because everyone just has Westlaw and no one uses the state legislature’s website to cite statutes.

I would argue it does matter because the public has to know all the law as ignorance of the law is no excuse. If Westlaw is limited or an unreasonable monetary burden on the populace (or possibly, depending on your argument, costs anything at all) then the argument kind of evaporates of how you can prosecute someone, because an essential part of law is that the party under criminal penalty must be put under clear notice of what is illegal.

IMO, this should also extend to opinions -- if there is precedent that guides what the law is, it needs to be publicly published free of charge so that the public is put under notice what the law is. (someone might mention something like PACER is free in small quantities, I would counter it would cost you a gazillion dollars to be fully informed of all the precedent that forms the full common law meaning of the laws.) This is especially important in mala prohibita crimes since there's no way to even guess through moral/ethical deduction.

> argument kind of evaporates of how you can prosecute someone, because an essential part of law is that the party under criminal penalty must be put under clear notice of what is illegal.

I reckon that’s why the sixth amendment exists but if you want to make a free PACER, go for it.

The codification needs to become part of the process of passing acts. The government should be required to publish the updated code themselves along with any act that changed it. The whole concept that a commercial entity can have rights to the fully assembled text is terribly broken.

If anybody is worried about the jobs those businesses created, then tell them to pivot into publishing commented editions of the codes (add cross-references, references to relevant court decisions, etc.).

The codification happened hundreds of years ago, though.

But you could do it too! The Congressional Record is a thing, and it publishes all the acts of Congress, all the way back to the beginning.

The problem is that after you were done, the first thing someone would ask you is to cross-cite everything into the West Annotated code because no one else has your code and no one cares about it, because we all have Westlaw.

(Which publishes commented editions of the codes, with cross references, references to relevant court decisions, etc.)

It's all a little bit antiquated but it works fine. Someday it will change. I too thought it should work the way people are describing upthread when I was a computer guy but it is what it is.

So are Nevada lawmakers using Westlaw as there reference for the base document to build "edits" off of?

I would imagine you either start with the first acts of your legislature and codify it from the beginning, or you start with some version of the code you figure you have rights to and go from there. It seems like it would be insane to do that job halfway, but that's not my area of expertise.

I have no idea whatsoever what is going on in Nevada.

> You pay me at the next level for 3 years, and only then I'll know you're serious and will start working at that level.

Did you just describe an academic scholarship?

> Lack of care is malice

These words have pretty specific meanings and this ain’t it.

> Republishing altered documents is legal, and you should use this to do so.

Uh oh!

Whatever they should be doing, it mustn't make my ears ring when I go to their store. There is only one way to prevent this: Lowe's.

How precisely do you reckon a lawyer would help?

The legal Deparment runs most companies . They are the only way to get something bespoke done (like unlocking an account ). And companies are terrified of discovery.

Any lawyer can file a complaint in small claims . OP has paid for a service and has a contract

TOS is binding to both parties .

Didn't they boot him for a ToS violation?

> Any lawyer can file a complaint in small claims .

No, in many states _no_ lawyer can file a complaint (except his own) in small claims court.

They booted him for TOs violation, that was their action. A judge can decide whether that action was a breach of the contract, or if the contract itself is lawful.

We live in a common law country. It means that the judgement defines the law, not contracts (and not even statute, strictly)