@tnielsenhayden @MrPersimmon Hrm. In "cease & desist", cease means stop, desist means don't start up again. Key technical distinction.
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@chaosprime@MrPersimmon Cease and desist, aid and abet, protect and defend. The rough sense comes through. -
@tnielsenhayden@MrPersimmon Yeah. It sounds weird because the actual sense being used isn't rough at all, it's inhumanly precise.
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@tnielsenhayden@MrPersimmon If you only ordered someone to cease, they could validly comply by momentarily not doing whatever it is. -
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@chaosprime@MrPersimmon It wouldn't plead well in court. -
@tnielsenhayden@MrPersimmon No? I'd tend to think the person who deviated from convention would automatically be considered the asshole. -
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@chaosprime I'd predict the court would say that if you know hairsplitting definitions of "cease", "desist" is also in your vocabulary. -
@tnielsenhayden And I, being a jerk, say that indeed it is, and complainant did not direct me to do that, so I had no obligation to. -
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@chaosprime Someone's bound to invoke the reasonable man. -
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@tnielsenhayden Ia, Ia, ph'nglui mglw'nafh Reasonable Man wgah'nagl fhtagn -
@tnielsenhayden (It's similar to the dread invocation of the Invisible Hand practiced in secret by the dark economists)
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