the dKos problem:
Major problem over there right now is that the young Kossacks who self-appoint themselves to enforce the FAQ (the jaded among us refer to them as the Kostapo) are not learned in the law and the FAQs are not drafted with legal precision.
If ET goes this route, I suggest that a Code Jerome be drafted by a team of lawyers, where all offenses to the security of the Realm, both felonies and misdemeanors, be very precisely defined, with copies of the Code distributed to each reader.
Trial as well as appelate procedures should precisely spelled out also.
I much prefer the English system, but unfortunately the jurisdiction is apparently France.
Perhaps this conversation could lead to a second thread about what we see as positive going on here.
That would be nice too. "When the abyss stares at me, it wets its pants." Brian Hopkins
That's why I can't spell it out in english, it's very crude.
I got his point, though.
I don't really get why one would invoke it as an insult though, seems to go against everything a heterosexual man in good health and spirit stands and strives for. Oh well. (In french of course it's another matter; though the word is invoked often, the content it carries is so far divorced from the original term that it carries no signifaction for the user; perhaps it did long ago, but its new meaning was reified so far into the past that the etymology is no longer relevant. Not so in english.) "C'est un scandale !"
Well, apparently you "got it" enough to find it worthy of repetition... Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
And if the word is wholly inappropriate in all circumstances, if one were to hypotethically allow for its usage in english, then this might actually be that application given the antics of more than a few over there.
Other than that, have I expressed to you just how much I enjoy pies of all sorts? "C'est un scandale !"
