"Fair Use" "Author" "Copy" -- three terms that a simple dictionary will define absolutely incorrectly and ruin a jury trial on copyright issues.

Bringing a dictionary into a jury would be a horrible crime. The dictionary definition and the legal definition of, for example, "fair use" have nothing to do with each other. Ditto "copy" and "author". If the key point of the case is "Did the author make the copy, or did someone else exercise fair use in making it", the definition of all three of those terms will change the answer in a vast majority of cases.

Before the trial, during juror selection, she could be asked "Have you read the wikipedia article on rape trauma?", or, more generally and realistically, "Have you read any popular or social media coverage of rape or rape trauma [recently]?". That's the difference.

Because the ratings aren't votes. The highest one is what shows up on the app search and indexes.

Sadly, no, it means one person got it to work, possibly out of the box, and listed it as Platinum. There is no oversight of quality level ratings on appdb :(

I don't think "he said" she was lying. That's an important point.

More leak sites is a good thing for everyone who isn't evil or profiting from evil. Eventually I see a web of them, getting information from each other, sharing with governments and journalists and the public by some criteria that change as demand changes.

I didn't say that the half with problems was you...

The analogy also failed miserably in that shooting random people in the middle of the street doesn't really provide much benefit to anyone, while what Wikileaks is doing is aimed to improve our society.

http://sowhyiswikileaksagoodthingagain.com/

I think that in most jurisdictions in the USA, if you told a cop you were going to break the law, particularly of the bodily injury sort, and they did nothing to stop you, they would themselves also be breaking the law. By analogy, whoever wrote THAT law thinks cops have a duty to try to stop you, given a chance, and that person's counterpart in the original scenario (whoever wrote the rules by which the state department operates and under which they chose not to "help" Assange censor the documents) should have made similar rules.

Assange is, to a degree, an investigative journalist. We had a lot of those in the 60s-80s, but the breed has almost completely died out. When was the last time you saw a mainstream news outlet *break the news* on corruption in the government or a public official? It doesn't count if they wait for someone else to announce it and then just report on it. SOMEONE has to take that first step. Assange is taking a very extreme first step, but only because no one else dares take one at all.

Apple allows apps that violate their published guidelines, and deny apps that do not, on a regular basis. They often deny apps they have previously allowed, and allow apps they have previously denied, with no change to the offending features. If that doesn't perfectly describe the inaccuracy of the published criteria, I don't know what would.

Then it's unpaid time off. I think providing a limited/scheduled amount of sick leave, when being sick isn't something you can limit or schedule, is silly.

To fix your analogy... He didn't ask for the Police's help. He offered to give them the gun and instead just throw rocks at people instead. It doesn't make you any less of a bad person for shooting the people, but it makes the person who didn't take your gun a bad person TOO.

The difference is monopoly. If I buy my car from Dealer A, and replacement parts from Dealer B, all is well. If Dealer A sells me a car that stops running when I put in parts from another dealer, then they are being illegally (in some jurisdictions) anticompetitive. Dealer A is building a market in which they have a monopoly (see: Microsoft / Windows), then leveraging that monopoly to make more money than they could in a free market.

Your definition of the word "The" seems to be faulty.

[An example of likely] App Store approval guidelines have been on Apple's developer website for a while now[, but are not guaranteed to be, or even often, accurate].
FTFY