All your laws are belong to us!

[Wombat]

<A HREF="http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/sun/news/news_1n13own.html">This</A> is ridiculous.

[Reverend Maynard]

Kinda F'ed up eh? I have known about this for quite awhile as my dad is a building inspector. He is required to know all the current building/fire/electrical codes, and to learn them he has to pay dearly for the books. Luckily the city he works for picks up the tab, else he probably would have found a new job quite some time ago.

[Grego]

Actually it's worse than ridiculous! Im just happy that the law is public domain here in Denmark, else my law study would become more expensive.

[Six Of One]

*SNORT*

America - land of opportunity
they'll sell you anything
'cause nothing here is free

Taken from: Youth Brigade, Happy Hour, All Style No Substance --- BTW, the song IS copyright protected

[Edit: And on a more serious side of things. While not knowing the law does not protect you from punishment, the law giving institute has to secure that everyone has *free* access to the law. Else the concerned part of the public (house builders in this case) can not be required to be informed, which nicely leads to the conclusion that the rule "no law, no crime" (even the acient Romans knew that) has no meaning for the judges mentioned in this article. Now one can argue what laws are for. Protection? Control? Tool of the weak? Of the strong? Apparently they are there to harass, what else can a law do that is not openly and freely available to all, to read, share and copy? Why bother to codify laws at all, if they are not freely available and are forbidden to be spread? This by the way is one of the often used (but partly flawed) criteria for totalitarian states. All i can say is that these judges have maybe a good understanding of property laws, but no common sense and, even worse, absolutely no understanding of democratic and liberal virtues. Shame on them.]

Regards

[This message has been edited by Six Of One (edited 14 May 2001).]