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In today’s life very often we may catch ourselves on a thought that legal matters are usually very expensive, unpredictable and confusing. Legal system doesn't establish or execute Justice – it is subjective and depends on many factors. Some of them are: current geopolitical situation, location, nationality, social position, weather conditions, emotions etc. Therefore legal system is guided by the communal utilitarianism principle. Decisions based on that principle could go very often perpendicular with the perception of justice of individuals or even peoples. There is an opinion that justice and legal system is based on ethic and moral. This is a chicken and egg challenge to prove. All of it is basically rules of communal living and transactions among humans who inhabit certain area, i.e. a suburb, a town, a state, a country. So the law and legislation is an attempt to codify the rules of mutual existence for further enforcement and ease of transactions. Ethic is almost the...

В мультфильме “ Monsters Inc ” («Корпорация монстров») есть такой эпизод – The Abominable Snowman предлагает главным героям мороженное из снега жёлтого цвета. Когда Mike Wazowski подозрительно смотрит, то сноумэн говорит, что это лимон. Хотя ясно, что никаких лимонов в снежных горах, где он живёт, нет. Сегодня заметил, что люди, выросшие в тёплых странах этой шутки не понимают. Вроде мелочь, а попробуй, объясни что-нибудь глобальное человеку, который не в курсе что такое обоссаный снег!

She was a great PM. One of the best politicians I have seen. Admired her speeches and the way she behaved in debates and in expressing her point of view. Also the fact that during her leadership, in my opinion, no wrong decisions has been made. Her "end of the world" announcement was awesome: All the best, Ms Gillard!

Today is exactly 2 months since the Department of Fair Trading inspected the unit for defects and reported to the builder to fix the issues before 18/05/2013. Majority of the work has been finished only 12/06/2013. However the builder replaced only 2/3 of the floor in the living room and said than the remaining part has got a different cause. During the rectification process they said they will replace the entire floor, because it was apparently damaged. They used a couple of tricks as they went through the "rectification" process: 1. They were very slow and said that they were waiting for proper rain to test the waterproofing. The floor in the unit was removed in half for more than a month! When the deadline was about to hit, they called the owner and said that they are ready to replace the floor, but the owner has to use home contents insurance for that. The owner refused that "offer", so the builder started yelling. However they continued with floor...

According to Australian Bureau of Statistics ( http://abs.gov.au ) in 2011 (census data can be found here: http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2011/quickstat/0?opendocument&navpos=220 ), there were around 2.8 million people who lived in a flat, apartment or unit, which can be classified as "strata living". This number can be a bit higher at the moment, but still represents more than 10% of the population. Strata living rules ( http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/Tenants_and_home_owners/Strata_schemes.html ) that supposed to make communal living of people in NSW more streamlined and easier and to help resolve problems if required, in fact leave a lot of space for corruption, various issues, including loss of property value, defects, conflicts and confusion. However it would be short-sighted to just review the strata living rules in isolation from the way people tend to live here, from Australian laws and enforcement and the reality of ...

Have found this flyer at the Telstra store just near the entrance where new Sony Xperia Z is displayed: Awesome selling! You should be able to migrate you content, such as Contacts, Calendar, Notes, Bookmarks, Messages (SMS and MMS), Photos, Videos from camera roll, Music, Voice Memos and Playlists - from iPhones 3, 3GS, 4, 4S and 5. iOS versions 4-6.

Have just finished an awesome free online course  Property and Liability: An Introduction to Law and Economics  by Richard Adelstein from Wesleyan University . The professor is great and his lectures are a pleasure to watch! The course is very well structured from easy to complex matters and has got many interesting examples. I also found myself very interested and involved in the course. Highly recommend to everyone interested in Law and related areas.