Interesting Links for 04-09-2014

[andrewducker]

• How the Celebrity Photo Theft was carried out
  (tags: photos nudity theft celebrity computers )
• The holdout who made a mall build around her.
  (tags: design shopping construction )
• Man arrested over Jim Murphy egg incident
  (tags: Scotland independence assault )
• Government bans all existing and future Academies and Free Schools from teaching

Comments

[amaebi]

Really tangential: back under Common Law, which all of the United States except Louisiana inherited from Great Britain and continues to hold where legislation has not superceded it, is a doctrine called Ancient Lights. The tall walls around Edith Macefield's house obviously cut off light from her house-- but then, Ancient Lights has been superceded pretty well everywhere, on grounds given by the Coase Theorem's conditions.

I need to know which of these things is more annoying

[andrewducker]

Still very-much applies in England/Wales. Not so much in Scotland.

[amaebi]

Interesting! It would certainly be an aid to preservation of village life. Is it cited directly?

[andrewducker]

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

But I was just reading about it on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_light

[amaebi]

Ah, thanks! That's very interesting!

[amaebi]

And what I was thinking of, evidently with no application to Great Britain is that in the United States that repudiation was, to the best of my knowledge, largely based on the public advantages of eceonomic development that would be blocked by Ancient Lights.

[andrewducker]

Aah, yes. I know of a couple of developments that had to change after people used Right to Light to stop them towering directly over them.