In NY, a Renter's "property rights" begins at their door. Hallways are considered Communal Property.
If you need a key or code to enter the building itself, law enforcement needs permission from the owner or serve a Warrant on the building owner, property manager, or building supervisor to gain entry.
The "end of driveway" rule doesn't apply (unless the driveway entry is gated and needs a key/card/code) because it's considered semi-public access.
While the entire point of your post was snark, unless you're in an urban area, mortgage payments are much lower than rent payments.
Full agreement there. They all seem to be paywalled or loaded with popups and other annoyingware.
My ad and tracking blockers won't go to half the US news sites because of everything they try to force-load.
"The power words have is actually the power of communities (and individuals). Words can trigger, direct and focus this power usually by the communication of ideas."
Almost. The power words have is how communities are formed - a person has an idea and expresses it through language to others. Those like-minded (or gullible enough) flock together forming a community.
Words work not only to communicate ideas, but to discredit other ideas.
Which is why missionaries don't ask "have you felt the power of god" but instead ask "Have you heard the WORD of god". Implies their god has better ideas than your god...
Circumstantial evidence is permissible in criminal cases.
Because it's circumstantial, it's usually suppressed.
I, personally, would describe "hate" as an active emotion, and disrespect more of a passive one.
But, as I said in the post you're replying to, who gets to define it for others?
Or guns. I'll think very loud at my gun cabinet...
Nope. They're not getting out and starting a new religion while sewing a flag.
Who draws the line between "hate" and "disrespect"?
They all start with an idea. Which spreads through... words.
"Ironically enough, by rushing to 'protect' their flag and/or religion they instead do more damage to the image of both than anyone else could, by portraying one or both of them as beyond weak, able to be harmed by something as mild as words."
Every religion and country on the planet was started with nothing more than words.
Every religion and country on the planet that no longer exists was defeated by words.
Flags are iconography. Just like crucifixes, the Star of David, etc.
For a post on a blog dedicated to free speech, I find it surprising that you don't seem to have a concept of the power of words.
Even "mild" ones.
"The examiner said he matched lines in the shirt patterns at eight points along the seams."
Eight points isn't enough on a *fingerprint* match - 12 is the minimum to be considered Evidence.
As to Experts in the courtroom... they can be anyone who can sound like they know what they're talking about to the judge - who may have no clue what they're on about.
There's no "standard" to be met for "Expert".
You are correct about Embassies and Consulates.
It turns into a real mess because he wasn't a US Citizen, but had been granted US Residency.
What is puzzling is how this threat was "discovered".
If a US intel agency knew, but didn't tell him, who did they tell that leaked to the press that they knew?
Woo? I think we just see it differently. Not woo, but not deliberately annoy.
Staying at his hotel isn't going to sway him. But to stay at a competing hotel would be a slap in the face - generally not something you want to do prior to negotiations.
And where do you draw the line? Which gas stations they can use? Which airlines?
From this story, it doesn't appear that there's special treatment over these rooms in either direction. If they were overpaying, deliberately booking an entire floor (or more), if they were getting the rooms gratis, etc.
As to SomeCo renting out entire buildings in return for political favors, that's another kettle of fish entirely - and what the emoluments clause protects against.
Billionaire. He'll never even notice the income from the room rentals. But it's a courtesy.
Really? Like I said, it's a courtesy. Generally speaking, you don't even mildly annoy someone you have to negotiate with if you can avoid it.
They rented rooms at his hotel. Which probably never would have been noticed except for the "coverage". BUT... if they'd stayed at the Hilton, you can be sure he'd have noticed.
In the hotel industry, Preferred, Hyatt, Hilton, Premier, Marriot, Radisson, IHG....
Nah. If I had to fly to another state to negotiate with someone who owned a car rental business, I'd rent my cars from his business.
As a simple courtesy - if I rented them from his competitors, it'd be an insult.
Unfortunately, that seems to be the attitude of late.
Clinton and Obama did little I agreed with. Little, not everything.
Wrong? Why would advocating be "wrong"? Because you don't agree with it?
I'm sure people who advocated for and against every change to the Constitution over the last couple of centuries didn't agree with their opposition either.
But that's the process.
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Hallways are considered Communal Property
Are they really? Or is it "communal property of the residents of the building?"
The latter - that's what Communal means.
You seem to be confusing the term with Public and Semi-Public.
IF entrance to the building itself doesn't require a key or passcode, they're considered Semi-Public areas. People with a valid reason for being there - mail, packages, missionaries, girl scouts selling cookies, etc - can't be (easily) arrested for Trespass.
If the building entrance requires a key or code, permission/warrant served to whoever is responsible for the building is required for law enforcement to enter, and the mail, girl scouts, etc can't enter the building legally.
What about this is confusing you?
As to mortgages, I specified non-urban. I'm not going to charge less for rent than I have to pay in taxes, mortgage, etc.
Yeah, you can't get a mortgage without a down payment. You get the down payment money via this invention called "work".