Anyone who has seen or read 'The Corporation', and probably many others as well, knows that the law passed ment to give all people equal rights was never used as it was intended. The only case that has gone to court over this was Corporations demanded they be given all the rights a single person is given, under this law. According to them, they are a single entity and must be treated as a single person. They got all rights and protections according to this law and this law alone; Yet they have none of the accountability because you can't put a corporation in jail for some reason.
I'm worried that with all of these new laws pertaining to freedoms that are cropping up, we could an equivalent situation all over again.
I'm a programmer, and it would be easy to avoid this kind of error. The kind of easy that not falling off a bike is. It's still easier to fall off. Thats what happened here. The programmers didn't care enough to finalize their checks in the code, if it was in fact a glitch of 11m proportions.
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Unintended uses
Anyone who has seen or read 'The Corporation', and probably many others as well, knows that the law passed ment to give all people equal rights was never used as it was intended. The only case that has gone to court over this was Corporations demanded they be given all the rights a single person is given, under this law. According to them, they are a single entity and must be treated as a single person. They got all rights and protections according to this law and this law alone; Yet they have none of the accountability because you can't put a corporation in jail for some reason.
I'm worried that with all of these new laws pertaining to freedoms that are cropping up, we could an equivalent situation all over again.
programming
I'm a programmer, and it would be easy to avoid this kind of error. The kind of easy that not falling off a bike is. It's still easier to fall off. Thats what happened here. The programmers didn't care enough to finalize their checks in the code, if it was in fact a glitch of 11m proportions.