Posts in Law Category
August 14th, 2008
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The phenomenon of companies threatening bloggers in India is back. This time Google India has been sued by Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects to reveal details of a blogger who wrote against the company’s mines in [...]
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India, Law, Weblogs |
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July 2nd, 2008
Ash and I are self-professed Law & Order fans although the show is not aimed at our demographic group. Given the umpteen re-runs of the show, there is always a L&O playing during primetime on at least one cable channel (usually USA, TNT, or Bravo). Although originally made for NBC, the show now has original [...]
Patrix |
Law, Television, United States |
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May 28th, 2008
I didn’t know that prostitution is legal in New Zealand. And it hasn’t resulted in increase in number of sex workers or degradation of moral values, as most opponents claim. In fact, it has led to better awareness of their legal rights, empowerment to refuse services for safety reasons, and some improvement in employment conditions.
Patrix |
Asides, Law |
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April 29th, 2008
The fourth edition of the best-selling video game that gives serious palpilations to Hillary and her ilk on Capitol hill released yesterday. I find the caption on these photos [scroll down to the bottom] funny and almost reflective of the attitude of the people who passionately hate the game. Nope, I’ve never played it so [...]
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Asides, Images and Photography, Law |
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February 12th, 2008
India is all set to pass an anti-torture law. So no more ‘tire mein daal ke dhone ka‘? Now, how the heck will Indian police ’solve’ crimes?
Patrix |
Asides, India, Law |
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November 30th, 2007
One of the laws that has been strangling Mumbai for ages, the Urban Land Ceiling Act has finally been scrapped by the Maharashtra government. I’m sure this will do more than any slum redevelopment scheme has done for Mumbai’s residents.
Patrix |
Asides, Law, Media, Urban Planning |
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November 9th, 2007
Road signs in Texas, a state that apparently loves its leave-me-alone attitude can be baffling at times. Of course, the clearly copywriter-written anti-litter slogan ‘Don’t Mess with Texas’ reflects that attitude but some others clearly show signs of pleading.
One such sign is ‘Observe Warning Signs - State Law’. Firstly, why would someone observe this sign [...]
Patrix |
Law, Observations, United States |
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October 26th, 2007
The United States Government terrorist watch list now stands at 755,000. The list has grown at a rate of 200,000 names a year since 2004 when it was first established to counter terrorism and keep the homeland safe. Of course, racial profiling is rampant but there have been plenty of names toddlers, grandmas, and Senators [...]
Patrix |
Governance, Law, United States |
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October 18th, 2007
If you have visited Times Square, I’m sure you must have stopped to gawk at all those bright neon lights. Don’t do it next time, you just might get arrested. Dang! I was expecting some kinda terror angle too.
Patrix |
Asides, Fun Weird, Law |
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October 11th, 2007
Durga Puja pandal depicting Hogwarts Castle and the Harry Potter characters sued by J.K.Rowling’s lawyers for breach of copyright. Come on, let the Bongs have their fun. I’m sure they mean no harm [via].
Patrix |
Asides, India, Law |
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July 2nd, 2007
Watching Lou Dobbs is the second-worst thing on television; first being of course Bill O’Reilly. The disparaging tone in which they address immigrants and accuse them of bring in dreaded diseases like leprosy (totally false) is indeed despicable. So much for the liberal media, eh?
However, just before switching to Nightly News I caught two items [...]
Patrix |
Current Affairs, Law, Politicking, United States |
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June 17th, 2007
A reader, S V Raju wrote in recently to Mint that he tried to rejuvenate the Party so that voters in India would have an alternative to the socialist policies that are peddled by current parties. Bloggers have made the case for such a party in India at least for the sake of choice spurred [...]
Patrix |
Governance, India, Law, Politicking |
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June 9th, 2007
I don’t understand the hype over Amitabh and Aamir declaring themselves to be farmers. Incidentally, you have to be a ‘farmer’ if you wish to own agricultural land in India. My dad has made oodles of money by doing the the paperwork for converting lands to non-agricultural post-sale (mind numbing bureaucracy also makes a market, [...]
Patrix |
Governance, India, Law |
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May 31st, 2007
The movie isn’t even a week old and daily news media is already adopting the title. Take a look at a news story that informs you about a court case involving a 26-year-old woman getting married to a 74-year-old British national under the Special Marriage Act. I read the following extract with great amusement:
Justice B [...]
Patrix |
India, Law, Society Culture |
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May 24th, 2007
One of the worst things that can happen to anyone these days in America is not landing up on the TSA’s No-Fly Terrorist watch list but rather on the sex offenders list. Chris Hansen even assumes the role of our children’s protector though his popular TV show ‘To Catch a Predator‘. Parties that have such [...]
Patrix |
Law, Recommended, Society Culture, United States |
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May 1st, 2007
Recently, the United States Supreme Court upheld the ban on partial-birth abortion giving pro-lifers a much needed victory in their quest to overturn Roe v. Wade. Justice Kennedy in his majority decision insisted that this decision was rational and in conjunction with Roe v. Wade since it sought to only prevent a certain kind of [...]
Patrix |
Current Affairs, Governance, Law, Politicking, United States |
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April 15th, 2007
Making money online through blogs for H1-B and F1 visa holders might be a problem due to restrictions on their visa. Comments welcome.
Patrix |
Business, Law, United States, Weblogs |
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February 4th, 2007
The Super Bowl XLI is only hours away although the tailgate parties are in full swing. Most of the focus is as always on the Superbowl commercials which carry at least $2.6 million tag. I hear that the grocery store, H.E.B Foods will have its first Superbowl commercial this year. Even a stupid dude tried [...]
Patrix |
Business, Law, Sports |
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January 13th, 2007
Think India has more than its share of moral policing? Heck, even the pro-business free-speech-loving U.S. has its share of loonies.
Patrix |
Ads, Asides, Governance, Law, Television, United States |
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January 13th, 2007
If I was blogging from South Korea, Patrix would be illegal.
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Asides, Law, Society Culture, Weblogs, World Wide Web |
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