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Re:An act to amend Financial and Corporations Codes relating... by dogecoinbase on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @03:57PM (#12257316)
Playing dumb only makes you look dumb. Judges/legislators/basically everyone can see right through this kind of pretense and aren't particularly sympathetic to the "b...but I'm technically correct!" stance.
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Re:An act to amend Financial and Corporations Codes relating... by smokeyj on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @04:45PM (#12257592)
> and aren't particularly sympathetic to the "b...but I'm technically correct!" stance.

That stance is called the rule of law and being technically correct matters. That's the whole point of that court thing.

http://time.com/money/4421955/bitcoin-miami-judge-money-laun...

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Re:An act to amend Financial and Corporations Codes relating... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:47PM (#12257932)
> the rule of law and being technically correct matters

As one of many factors. The rule of law does not suspend human reason and common sense. SCOTUS recently ruled in favour of original intent over a strictly structural in an ACA case, where the later would have meant literally interpreting a likely typo [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/obamacare...

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Re:An act to amend Financial and Corporations Codes relating... by jsprogrammer on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @04:05PM (#12257355)
Technically correct is the only kind; no pretense needed.

>Playing dumb only makes you look dumb.

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