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(1) ' Mineral rights are property rights that confer upon the holder the right to exploit an area for the minerals it harbors. Ownership of mineral rights is the right of the owner to exploit, mine, and/or produce any or all of the minerals lying below the surface of the property. The mineral estate of the land includes all organic and inorganic substances that form a part of the soil.' -- Wikipedia.
(2) Selling a mining company the rights to whatever minerals might lie beneath your land is a "Shylock's bargain" because in selling your mineral rights you agree that the mining company has the legal right to destroy all your property above the ground while the miners dig down to where the minerals supposedly are. If only William Shakespeare's Portia* were a real woman lawyer, she would have gotten the miners' case thrown out of court lickety-split -- as is only right and proper, considering how idiotic and truly insane the notion of "mineral rights" really is. And yet, it unbelievably is the law of this great country of ours, where EVERYONE is said be equal, NOT just the billionaire owners of mining companies. -- Dinkum
* Portia is a character in Shakespeare's play "Merchant of Venice".
PLOT SUMMARY: Shylock makes Antonio a loan which says: if Antonio is unable to repay, Shylock may take a pound of Antonio's flesh. Shylock takes Antonio to court; if Shylock wins, he intends to cut out enough of Antonio's heart as would satisfy the terms of the loan -- and kill Antonio.
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' "Don't matter if you care," the old miner said, "if you don't own what you care about." He pointed out that the mineral rights to the entire county in which they sat were owned by the Rosewater Coal and Iron Company, which acquired these rights soon after the end of the Civil War. "The law says," he went on, "when a man owns something under the ground and he wants to get at it, you got to let him tear up anything between the surface and what he owns."
' The truth was that Rosewater . . . had been among the principal destroyers of the surface and the people of West Virginia. '
-- From Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 novel "Breakfast of Champions" -- Chapter 14 (page 125 - 126).
* Portia's closing argument at trial: In court, Antonio's lawyer is a woman in lawyerly disguise, who just happens to be Portia, friend of Antonio. Portia deftly appropriates Shylock's argument for 'specific performance', and points out that the contract only allows Shylock to remove the flesh, not the "blood", of Antonio. Thus, if Shylock were to shed any drop of Antonio's blood, his "lands and goods" would be forfeited under Venetian laws. Further damning Shylock's case, she tells him that he must cut precisely one pound of flesh, no more, no less; she advises him that "if the scale do turn, But in the estimation of a hair, Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate."
Typically used in Singlish to differentiate between the "right & proper"/official/etc (by right) way of doing something and the "quick & easy"/unofficial/corner-cutting/etc (by left) way of doing something.
Alice: Hey! Rubbish collector supposed to collect recyclables separate from non-recyclables, what?
Bob: By right, that’s the case but by left they oso just dump them in the same bin.
Alice: What by right & by left?! They should do their job properly!
Bob: Liddat, lor; angry so much for what?
When people who don't like you tell you that you are wrong in EVERYTHING you say and/or do just to boost their own pathetic ego. This in turn makes them feel justified in whatever they do and makes you feel like you are less than them somehow, like you're an animal. In reality, those people are the retards who have to hurt others just to make themselves feel right like as if they were smarter than everyone else.
Fake smart person: "Your existence means nothing and you are nothing therefore you are ALWAYS wrong and I am always right so just give up because my shit smells better than yours."
Average person 1: "Who is this retard telling me I am worthless?"
Average Joe 2: "Just some loser who wants to believe they are BTY. Pay no mind to them as they are bitter in life and have no goals other than to be retard right."
Bob himself is indefinable on a spiritual level, meaning bob can never truly fully be comprehended by the human brain
but if you are bob right now the simplest apprehension possible is that you possess amazing qualities and supernatural powers, Bob has no capacity or limit to what he can do because he is bob.
you are bob right now
when someone is getting on you nerves/annoying you.
Person 1: hahahaha
Person 2: Stop, you getting right on my gudgie!
A fourth wall break that people use in response to stories or events that occurred.
Guy 1: so I decided to take a crap standing up today, but it didn't turn out well.
Guy 2 (facing away while pointing back at guy 1): This guy, am I right?
To say right on with such enthusiasm that it could make one erect
John -hey, raymond I got that order finished and ready to go.
Raymond - right on hard on