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October 2

Personality

There was a test done in the mid 20th century on people where they would administer pain on others. I tested human response to authority figures. I forgot the name of this test. What was it called? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.146.97.233 (talk) 00:42, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Are you perhaps thinking of the Stanford prison experiment? Or would the Milgram experiment be what you want? Nyttend (talk) 00:43, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

I think what the OP had in mind was a study where people were asked to inflict pain on other people and were more willing to do it when the person giving the instruction was an authority figure. This did not happen in a prison environment. 78.146.125.99 (talk) 13:14, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

78.146.125.99 (talk) is one of several London area IP sockpuppets of banned User:Vote (X) for Change. See block log, WP:BMB .

Nor did the Stanford prison experiment take place in a prison environment: it took place at Stanford University in which a prison-like situation was simulated {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 185.74.232.130 (talk) 13:34, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

more respectable interconnections

I was watching a YouTube video. It was from KITV. The video featured a 9/11 memorial ceremony being held for the first time aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63). Everything gave me ideas. I was going to create some artworks to remember the victims of that fateful morning and the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Where can I send the artworks when I finish them?2604:2000:712C:2900:91EC:A95A:18EF:2F46 (talk) 03:58, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Northeastern University maintains a collection of memorials from the marathon bombing. Maybe you could contact them. here is a website about the project. --Jayron32 04:07, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Are the legal codes of the various legal systems in public domain?

If the answer is in the positive, then the laws and penal codes of my current residential region as well as others can be posted in Wikibooks as law books.

OP wants clear and exhaustive reply/ies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahfuzur rahman shourov (talk • contribs) 04:18, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Well, Mahfuzur rahman shourov, I'd look at the front and back matter of legal codes of the place where you live for a notice saying that the material is donated to the public domain. If you find such a notice, it's in the public domain; if you don't, it isn't. -- Hoary (talk) 05:13, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

User:Hoary is this why there are no wikibook on the laws and legal systems of USA, The British penal codes and so on? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahfuzur rahman shourov (talk • contribs) 05:16, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

It depends on the jurisdiction. In Lithuania, for example, laws, draft laws and decisions regarding laws (e.g., court decisions) are explicitly not subject to copyright. It is the same in many other countries - the law is a lot less useful if it can not be freely reproduced for people to see it. That said, it may not be the same in all countries. On the subject of law books, they are not usually limited to just the text of the laws, they organize the information and often provide analysis - that is subject to copyright.No longer a penguin (talk) 07:24, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

@No longer a penguin and Hoary:my question is about the texts of the laws. example:british penal code ###, texan landowning law### and so on. rquesting for more replies by more users.

For the UK, Acts of Parliament, Bills introduced to parliament, or documents made under the direction or control of either House of Parliament are protected by either Crown Copyright or Parliamentary Copyright, so they are not public domain. I'm not going to dig into the Act to work out whether there are any relevant exceptions to infringement, since that would be legal advice (which we don't do here). The short andwer is, it's going to vary by country, and will probably be much more complicated than looking at the copyright laws of just that country - e.g. the governments of other "qualifying countries" are entitled to copyright under the UK Act, even if they aren't under their own law, and whether this applies to the text of the law of that country is going to be a complex question of fact and law. MChesterMC (talk) 08:23, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

As you can see on the ComLaw website, the official online repositry of Australian federal legislation, "© Commonwealth of Australia. Unless identified otherwise, all ComLaw content is copyright of the Commonwealth of Australia (the Australian Government)".--Shirt58 (talk) 08:29, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

US federal and state laws are not subject to copyright, see Copyright_law_of_the_United_States#Federal_and_state_laws_are_not_copyrighted. NawlinWiki (talk) 17:19, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

UK legislation is copyright but available under the Open Government Licence. But it would be difficult to compile the British "legal code" given the very large numbers of statutes that are currently in force or partly in force, to say nothing of common law. rossb (talk) 18:19, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Swedish legislation is explicitly not copyrighted, so you could post it in wikibooks. Not that it's a good idea, since there are several websites that post the updated versions of laws, sometimes even with short analyses and connected precedents. [1][2][3]. Making a wikibook means that you lose the update function. Sjö (talk) 18:35, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Born/died out of the 48.

Apart from Obama and McCain, was there any other major party presidential or vice-presidential nominee who was born or died out of the 48 contiguous states? 176.92.246.100 (talk) 20:46, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Al Gore was born in Washington, D.C. so was born on the Contiguous United States, but not in one of 48 contiguous states per your statement and header. Natural-born-citizen clause#Eligibility challenges also has some people who were nominees who were born in one of the states, before it became a state (Barry Goldwater and Charles Curtis). Nil Einne (talk) 22:30, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

nevermind. Misread the question. RudolfRed (talk) 23:10, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

The early presidents were born before there were US states. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:38, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

There was a rumour that Chester A. Arthur was born outside of the US. It is untrue (per our article), but it does get mentioned sometimes when you research topics along these lines. 99.235.223.170 (talk) 13:02, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Alexander Hamilton, while not a President or VP, was a founding father, and was born and raised in the West Indies. StuRat (talk) 15:36, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Ted Cruz, who is running so theoretically could get nominated, was born in Canada. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:27, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Ted_Cruz#Presidential_campaign touches on his citizenship. StuRat (talk) 16:35, 7 October 2015 (UTC)