Tag Archives: law

Legal engineering

By Trond | March 2, 2009

You might have heard about the recent kerfuffle over the Facebook terms of service. If you didn’t, this brief summary from Rocketboom will get you up to speed. Mostly, it was about whether or not you could revoke their license to use and distribute your material by deleting your account. Their argument was that they… Read More »

Shariah

By Trond | June 20, 2008

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A while back, there was a post on Coming Anarchy that referenced this fatwa concerning the question of whether a woman could, under Shariah, lawfully refuse her husband’s request for sex if she is tired from having performed her other Islamic duties (such as nightly prayers). I’m not at all impressed by the conclusion reached… Read More »