Norm_bone’s Comments

• Feb 23rd, 2018 @ 8:32am

  Apply Rubio's guideline to infringement

  on Trump Blames School Shootings On Violent Video Games, Movies; Suggests We Need Some Sort Of Rating System For Them

  Let's treat other Amendments the way Rubio insists we treat the 2nd.

  “If we are going to infringe on the [Amendment_Number] Ammendment, it has to be a policy that will work,” Rubio said in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press

  http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/feb/22/florida-students-not-backing-off-push-for-gun-reg u/

  I'm not excited to encourage any infringement of any Amendments, but I'd like to see this same bar applied when:

  • FISA courts infringe on the 4th Amendment, or
  • Media censorship would infringe on the 1st, or
  • Compelled device unlocking infringes on the 5th, or even
  • Government trespasses on private property to install a camera infringes on the 3rd.

  https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/rancher-finds-creepy-and-un-american-spy-cam-tied-to-h is-tree-sues-feds/

  [I know that last one's a stretch, but I'm amused to see a situation where someone could arguably plead the 3rd.]

• Jan 5th, 2018 @ 6:12am

  Smith wouldn't know a principal if it bit him on the butt

  on Indiana Legislator Wants To Force NFL Team To Hand Out Refunds To Fans 'Offended' By Kneeling Players
  I was incensed when my son told me about this story. Not only because I disagreed with Smith's position, but the fact that he's proposing this measure only for when _Colts players_ protest, not when the visiting team does.
  
  For argument's sake, pretend that there is some justifiable need and authority for this law. Taking a knee during the anthem is so harmful that it warrants penalizing the team in order to protect the citizens of Indiana.
  
  Taking all that as true, what possible justification is there for only mandating a refund when the home team kneels? Isn't it just as disrespectful, just as harmful, when the visiting team does?
  
  It needs no deep analysis to see why this is BS, but the ridiculousness of this posture is astounding.
• May 9th, 2016 @ 10:10am

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  on The Fight Over Copyrighting Klingon Heats Up, And Gets More Ridiculous
  "...if the facts and the law are against you, pound on the table" indeed.
  
  

  Footnote 1: "Here the court has not set any such briefing schedule."

  
  
  IOW, there wasn't a formal briefing schedule, but this brief is late.
  
  

  "Further, although there are no District Court rules" [on the length of a brief]

  
  
  IOW, there wasn't a length limit, but this brief is too long.
  
  Maybe Paramount has the better of the argument, and is correctly applying the standards of the appellate court to say that the amicus brief is unsuitable. But it sure sounds like table-pounding to me.