analogies

The fact that the law handles the physical world doesn't mean that real world analogies lead to meaningful conclusions about the digital world.

And typically, when one's brain stops understanding analogies, that's a pretty good sign it isn't working at all.

Following from that, all these analogies about advanced civilizations destroying themselves, their planets, living in cerebra-utopian VR.

Besides, the point of analogies is that they be based on easily falsifiable things that /seem to be/ true.

But of the point of your language has been to lock in bad analogies.

Courts often have to rule based on analogies, especially where new technologies are involved.

But this is another case where analogies to tangible property can easily mislead.

For me, these analogies were, while probably important for the author, utterly distracting, annoying and disgusting.

The problem with all ET intelligence analogies is that we don't have much to work with.

Fine let's drop the analogies > He stayed at his own computer.

Status codes, locks, no locks, these silly analogies aren't really useful.

It's better for people new to the concepts to realize that they don't understand than to incorrectly believe they understand (based on mediocre collection-oriented analogies).

A reason for mentioning this is to point out that, by developing a keen ear for unwarranted analogies, one can detect a lot of medieval thinking today." Nice.

These are all analogies to us, the only "intelligent" creatures we know.

Considering that The Internet as a whole is basically amounts to a whole lot of interconnected, other people's (back yards/restaurants/other poor analogies for physical spaces), saying "but the first doesn't apply" is both willfully obtuse and missing the point.