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		<title>Laws for the Virtual Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Information Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Explorations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Worlds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everquest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metaverse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ondrejka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snow Crash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Sims]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if virtual worlds, no matter their purposes, narratives, unique details, and other variations, could be linked?  What if they had borders between them, keeping the right stuff in its place, but in other ways being permeable?]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Qualifications in a Democracy</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/legal-explorations/leadership-qualifications-in-a-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humanities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Power to the people, right?  That&#8217;s the rallying cry of democracy.
A government of peers, the message of Gov. Sarah Palin, is not a new message.  Stephen Harper rode that message to the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office here not long ago, his road greased by the neoprene wetsuittails of Stockwell Day and the Brylcreem of Preston Manning.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria venue to infringe civil liberties</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/legal-explorations/victoria-venue-to-infringe-civil-liberties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Explorations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cigarette Possession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conversion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Save-On Foods Memorial Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smoking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Save-On Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria wants to take B.C.'s anti-smoking legislation a bit further.  Not only will they enforce the existing No Smoking laws, they will also prohibit the innocuous carrying of cigarettes by patrons on the premises.
Possession of cigarettes is neither illegal nor dangerous per se.  Searching explicitly for cigarettes, without the pretence (which I assume will be assumed) of searching for illegal or dangerous goods, is trespass to the person, bordering on the tort of assault.  Confiscating those cigarettes is conversion; the Save-On Foods Memorial Centre is counting on your complacency and acquiescence as it invades your space and takes what it rightfully yours.  Are they going to compensate you for the cigarettes?  Return them at your whim?  I doubt it.  This erosion of civil liberties has gone on long enough.]]></description>
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		<title>Servamus &#8211; Fearing the Image of the Vancouver Police</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/legal-explorations/servamus-fearing-the-image-of-the-vancouver-police/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Explorations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big brother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police cutouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[servamus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drivers - non-criminal citizens from whom the police derive their power - are having their fear of being ticketed isolated, transformed into a fear of the police, and capitalized upon to drive a policy goal that in and of itself should never pass Section 1 muster.
Could the momentum of enshrining the police vs. citizens paradigm lead to the political annihilation of servamus?  In other words, could the potential transformative effects on society of engendering a public fear of police be out of proportion with traffic safety objectives?]]></description>
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		<title>Where are you, Bobby Kennedy?  The Mindless Menace Continues</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/legal-explorations/where-are-you-bobby-kennedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to CBC Radio 2 tonight on my way home, and they played Senator Robert Kennedy&#8217;s speech, &#8220;On the Mindless Menace of Violence,&#8221; about the plague of violence that was making the United States sick, in his view.  I heard RFK&#8217;s speech, and was moved.  The need to respond rose so acutely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Mortar and Wine: A Passover Lesson in Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humanities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Explorations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kashrut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mosaic Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passover]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Passover, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the Exodus from slavery in Egypt and the emergence of the Jewish People as a free nation under Mosaic Law, is now upon us.  The tradition of the Passover seder, the traditional feast and storytelling during the first two nights of the holiday, has much in common with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What did Fairmont pay for my &#8220;protected&#8221; view?</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/legal-explorations/what-did-fairmont-pay-for-my-protected-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humanities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Explorations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marine building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[price of progress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote in an earlier series of posts that laws exist as a combination of policy and imperative, operating either to curb antisocial behaviour that can damage the fabric of society or that can alter it.
We have some laws, like building codes, that among other things (like safety), serve to shape the face and feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the Shyster:  The Mathematical Postscript</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/legal-explorations/after-the-shyster-the-mathematical-postscript/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Explorations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shysters be gone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Shysters be Gone, part III, I proposed that law is composed of a policy goal combined with the strength of an imperative:
Policy + Imperative = Law
P + I = L
If we have a law, and know the policy that inspired it, we should be able to discern the imperative.  If we have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shysters be Gone, part III</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/legal-explorations/shysters-be-gone-part3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Explorations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lex mercatoria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[positive duty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In part II, I identified two types of antisocial behaviour which we attempt to prevent, restrain, correct, punish, etc., with law:  “those which harm the integrity of society, potentially leading to its collapse; and those which alter the dynamic of society, potentially changing it into a different one perceived as undesirable according to present [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shysters be Gone! part II</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/legal-explorations/shysters-be-gone-part2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Explorations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We ended the first post in this series with the question, &#8220;Whence comes the ethical imperative, &#8216;Don’t be a Shyster!&#8217;?&#8221;
Now we will get into it:
I would like to draw an ephemeral line between moral and ethical laws &#8211; just follow me for a minute (and I will try to be specific in how I draw [...]]]></description>
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