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Re:Don’t store cash in Venmo and PayPal, US regulator warns by AnthonyMouse on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:59AM (#36183637)
That is really not much consolation, because you have to know what the law is before you can discern whether it applies to you. You may think there is nothing relevant to you in admiralty law, but then you go and take a cruise, or order some merchandise transported on a container ship, and how do you even know if anything applies when you don't know what it says?

Even if we assume that people not in the oil business don't need to know laws about oil wells and people not in the gaming industry don't need to know laws about casinos, there are still more laws that apply to everyday activity than the average person could feasibly understand. Good luck to anyone in avoiding the tax code.

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Re:Don’t store cash in Venmo and PayPal, US regulator warns by anonymouskimmer on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:16PM (#36187992)
This is why police officers often give a lot of warnings.
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Re:Don’t store cash in Venmo and PayPal, US regulator warns by AnthonyMouse on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:44PM (#36191329)
That would be fine if you were actually entitled to the warning.

Well, sometimes it would be. Spending thousands of dollars in preparation to do something you had no idea was illegal isn't going to get your money back even if it doesn't get you arrested.

But a warning isn't mandatory. Which turns "3 felonies a day" into the erasure of the rule of law, because then if you do something they don't like that isn't illegal, they can still throw you in jail just by sniffing around until they find something you're doing that is.

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