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Re:Choice on Units of Measurement: Markings and Sales [pdf] by Teever on Saturday June 04, 2022 @02:56AM (#31617737)
You're playing semantics, and worse you're playing semantics with people from a different country, of course they're going to use words differently than you.

With that said, I think there's a hole in your reasoning -- If the people who enacted these laws had found you breaking them they would damn well have called you a criminal for doing so.

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Re:Choice on Units of Measurement: Markings and Sales [pdf] by rayiner on Saturday June 04, 2022 @09:27AM (#31620074)
No, OP is playing semantics. “Committing crimes” has a meaning in ordinary usage, and it doesn’t encompass violating administrative rules. Here in Maryland, a speeding ticket is technically a misdemeanor violation of the criminal code. Nobody would call that “committing crimes”—because that would be confusing to other people.
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