From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Aug 06 17:24:38 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IICry-00005T-Ox for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:24:19 -0700 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IICrv-00005M-75 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:24:18 -0700 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so23651uge for ; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:24:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=ENxdjVBgW3BaC33289WbunjTxp2sl6PxJBO/5Vsjydj++A2Ba1msAXMmglEixVsTji05FM8ujrRef6ib3rk5NfT5lQI/gqbhoP4RHqG15qF/mmM2tOxl549ZiWrRItB3yea3huotF8iGIXGjdpvcJReJ9XH3I3vIgRPlo1GH8fI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=jCkMKPHHLUjfZTNGfjO4uRjUbRkLVywg6wlvdK2r+XXEWYckHJLN01i88Ie900/C+AwESfaIeZN4W38VOfFWgwvN0K2l0fxt0NMnHt3Bc4lbLttxAJjmG6SPJXDIfTz6lJ05yckzNI6u+EHeP1MHAH/+ek5zPyT7QUfwDqUmhxU= Received: by 10.78.165.16 with SMTP id n16mr1576071hue.1186446252853; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:24:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.118.16 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:24:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:24:12 -0400 From: "Matt Arnold" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Law is code MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 13805 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/code_looks_like.html is of interest to many Lojbanists for the following conclusion. -Eppcott "Legalese is a massively structured dialect. Symbols appear in very distinct patterns that are more reminiscent of machine code than text. Quite clearly, we can see that US Code is appropriately named since it has more in common with kernel32.dll than the contents of Project Gutenberg. Not only is code law, but law is code: a highly structured set of instructions that allows a state machine to function, ideally without any ambiguity. Lessig was right!" To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.