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Re:US financial regulator: We could regulate Bitcoin “if we ... by tptacek on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @07:11PM (#5671482)
What does this have to do with anything? "Chattel" is a basic legal term; it's used in every state of the US.

Rayiner, who is a lawyer, presumably typed his comment with his mouth wide open and his forehead bleeding from being pounded on the desk. There isn't a lawyer in the country who doesn't know what the term means. Presumably, your comments are to a legal professional what the guys who invent their own ridiculous substitution ciphers are to professional cryptographers.

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Re:US financial regulator: We could regulate Bitcoin “if we ... by rayiner on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @10:16PM (#5672123)
I wouldn't expect many if not most people to know that 'chattel' is a basic legal term. I would generally expect most people not to commit the logical error of assuming that just because two words are commonly used together, whenever one word is used it must be in the context of the other word.

If I say: "I had to tape my rims back together so I could see" is it relevant that Google's first completion for the word "rims" is "rims and tires?"

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