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People without a physical or legal presence in Australia likely don't care what the Australian law cares about.

Yeah that's the thing. No matter what you do, it's bound to be illegal somewhere in the world. Be it North Korea or Iran or Australia. You simply can't follow everyone's laws because they are often contradictory.

ISIS cuts off hands for watching porn. They will have to cut through my porn induced callused skin using hydraulics.

This is a bad example since you can just not watch porn. You wouldn't be violating the law anywhere since no country mandates you watch porn.

It did however deliver the hilarious quote "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia", in regards to end-to-end encrypted messaging.[1]

It went down as well as about you would think it would.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/australian-pm-calls-en... (2017)

In 1897, the Indiana general assembly passed a bill declaring the value of pi to be 3.2. The senate was wise enough to postpone it indefinitely.

Now I'm just burning to know how the debate about which way to round it went down

It was a scheme to sell math textbooks involving a purported method for squaring the circle which depended on that incorrect value of pi. Squaring the circle had already been proven impossible, but that didn't stop them from trying.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/02/05/indianas-...

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