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A law is only a law as long as it can be enforced by courts and agencies.

Taking that into consideration, the response is disproportionate and selectively enforced.

There is something about a shared and enforced set of rules, however inflexible, that binds people together.

Contracts that are mutually beneficial typically don't need to be enforced because they are not often broken.

Theoretically US law has a similar rule about social security numbers but it's not well enforced.

There's a weird effect when you actually put a price on something which is usually just enforced by a social contract.

In the real world, contracts among equals are always fungable and rarely enforced with violence.

Libav has a code of conduct and it is enforced so maybe you'd have much an harder time finding such gems.

Well, they are also out to disrupt the government enforced taxi monopolies using VC money.

The rules would be more strictly enforced if more people tried breaking them or the pay-off from each breaking was bigger.

There are a lot of laws in the books everywhere in the world that are usually not enforced because you can't.

Free speech can be defended on any number of grounds, and many of them apply equally to privately enforced speech restrictions.

MenuMeters for which the reasoning is "due to the Apple-enforced code signature restrictions".

The limit ("60-90 minutes") is not rigidly enforced, but candidates know we're able to see how long they spent, and in practice almost everyone spends more than 60 and less than 90 minutes.

I get the impression that if it was never enforced, there would be some companies who simply say - "yeah, we're using the original source, go away" whether they modify it or not.

Some will say "but the lawlessness!", to that I think two responses are appropriate: Most of the laws that normal people break don't rise to the level necessary (see above) to be enforced with force.