@da_667 @GossiTheDog

@KatyElphinstone
There's a common term in a lot of laws "knew or should reasonably have known" specifically to stop people turning a blind eye to something & claiming innocence by reason of not knowing.

@fishidwardrobe @KatyElphinstone
Exactly, "blame" is an imprecise term used to mean be at fault, or have responsibility, or be a causal factor, or be a scapegoat, or combinations thereof.

@UncleDuke1969
It's the lion down the middle of the road

@cstross @stevendbrewer
Gewurztraminer, or maybe a sweet Hungarian blaufränkisch red.
Don't know if the US has a domestic equivalent- maybe the reason for arrest was ostentatious drinking of a foreign wine?

@ApostateEnglishman @cstross @tbortels @jackwilliambell
Decarte's demon

@ApostateEnglishman @jackwilliambell @cstross @tbortels
There's also the option of external devices which communicate directly with the brain, no hole in the head required.

@cstross @raymaccarthy @FediThing
And more or less written by (the Tory) David Maxwell-Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir. Who also insisted that it should have its own court, to prevent national governments bypassing it. For all that he was an unpleasant (& homophobic) right-winger, he was damn sure after prosecuting cases at Nuremberg that he didn't want the Nazis rising again anywhere.

@FediThing @cstross
Well obviously all the people in the detention camps will be those to blame. And if you asking awkward questions about the camps, you obviously should be sent to them too. England Prevails!

@Uilebheist @cstross @capriciousday So clerical staff will be required to use a separate computer system to the fee earners, since some of them may be 16 or 17?

And yes, it is IngSoc we're talking about.

@Fonant @david_chisnall @cstross
"We don't need to worry, because the govt will not be able to enforce it" is the counterpart to legislators who say "we don't need to put in detailed definitions & restrictions, because we trust police & prosecutors to use the powers responsibly".
History has proven both are always true until they aren't.

@cstross @capriciousday Lawyers likewise. Working at home or in a court building, using confidential & legally privileged data on the office server...

@kristiedegaris
Do you know Niteworks?
https://youtu.be/WXCLMClodJg

@jaystephens @PavelASamsonov @Cadbury_Moose @mwshook
There is no antimemetics division