Comment Re:While I think Law Might Benefit... (Score 1) 365
Most of the laws in the US are verbose, ambiguous, redundant, and read worse than spaghetti BASIC. A good refactor would make the law more readable, remove dumb laws, and help to avoid loopholes.
In some ways lawyers/ judges/ lawmakers are very similar to users/ computers/ programmers.
A lawmaker writes a text in an obscure language that gets interpreted by judges. (While lawyers also read law, just like users of opensource software can read the source its the judges that finally decree the result. Just as the machine that is finally executing a program creates the output.) And lawyers uses these legal facilities by filing suits, just like a user would start a program to make something happening.
The sad part is that effectively no lawyer is doing this in the sense of hacker like the hackers that create open sources, but as "hackers" aka crackers. They always only look at a case from the point of their client and try to find any loophole (bug / crack / vulnerability) to get their desired result. But none seem to say "and this is the way to fix the law to close this loophole" after the case is done.
Thats my take on why my "respect" for lawyers is in the same region as my "respect" for malware writers.
In some ways lawyers/ judges/ lawmakers are very similar to users/ computers/ programmers.
A lawmaker writes a text in an obscure language that gets interpreted by judges. (While lawyers also read law, just like users of opensource software can read the source its the judges that finally decree the result. Just as the machine that is finally executing a program creates the output.) And lawyers uses these legal facilities by filing suits, just like a user would start a program to make something happening.
The sad part is that effectively no lawyer is doing this in the sense of hacker like the hackers that create open sources, but as "hackers" aka crackers. They always only look at a case from the point of their client and try to find any loophole (bug / crack / vulnerability) to get their desired result. But none seem to say "and this is the way to fix the law to close this loophole" after the case is done.
Thats my take on why my "respect" for lawyers is in the same region as my "respect" for malware writers.
