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Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order...

From	Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
Newsgroups	sci.electronics.design
Subject	Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order...
Date	2017-02-07 06:32 +0000
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On 2017-02-07, Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
> On 2/6/2017 5:54 PM, bitrex wrote:
>> On 02/06/2017 07:49 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
>>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 16:37:16 -0800 (PST), "nuny@bid.nes"
>>> <Alien8752@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 3:29:41 PM UTC-8, Jim Thompson wrote:
>>>>> OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order...
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://tinyurl.com/htf4sk6>
>>>>>
>>>>> (I only set off smoke bombs when I was in middle school, 1952-1955;
>>>>> principal confiscated my supply, returned them to me at the end of the
>>>>> day, and told me never to do it again, or else.  Nice guy... named
>>>>> William Boyd... we called him Hopalong ;-)
>>>>
>>>>  My favorite bit is at the end of his opinion:
>>>>
>>>>  "Often enough the law can be “a ass — a idiot,” Charles Dickens, Oliver
>>>> Twist 520 (Dodd, Mead & Co. 1941) (1838) — and there is little we judges can
>>>> do about it, for it is (or should be) emphatically our job to apply, not
>>>> rewrite, the law enacted by the people’s representatives."
>>>>
>>>>  That's probably enough to enrage the extreme Lefties right there.

I haven't seen any complaints.

>> Who's the bigger idiot? The idiotic law or the idiot who follows it?
>
> If you don't like the law, work to have it changed.
>
> But, selectively following laws because you think them "inappropriate"
> lies the way of anarchy.

Ignoring inapropriate laws is one way of working to have them changed.

see "civil disobediance" and "Jury nullification"

> Should I have to come to a complete stop when I approach a 4-way stop
> at 3AM and there are no cars in evidence for a mile or more in ALL
> DIRECTIONS?

So, no cops :) Still, you don't want to hit a cyclist or a pedestrian.


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OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-02-06 16:29 -0700
  Re: OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com - 2017-02-06 15:35 -0800
    Re: OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-02-06 17:00 -0700
    Re: OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... pcdhobbs@gmail.com - 2017-02-06 17:16 -0800
  Re: OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... Martin Riddle <martin_ridd@verizon.net> - 2017-02-06 18:48 -0500
    Re: OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... M Philbrook <jamie_ka1lpa@charter.net> - 2017-02-06 18:57 -0500
    Re: OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-02-06 17:02 -0700
    Re: OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> - 2017-02-07 06:36 -0800
      Re: OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... krw@notreal.com - 2017-02-07 12:36 -0500
        Re: OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> - 2017-02-07 10:36 -0800
  Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-02-06 18:49 -0500
    Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2017-02-06 17:15 -0700
      Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-02-06 19:24 -0500
      Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-02-06 19:35 -0500
      Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-02-06 17:47 -0700
        Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2017-02-06 17:54 -0700
          Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-02-06 20:16 -0500
  Re: OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2017-02-06 16:37 -0800
    Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-02-06 19:44 -0500
    Re: OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-02-06 17:49 -0700
      Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-02-06 19:54 -0500
        Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2017-02-06 17:57 -0700
          Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-02-06 20:02 -0500
          Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-02-06 18:55 -0700
            Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2017-02-07 13:13 +1100
          Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-02-06 21:20 -0500
            Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-02-06 21:31 -0500
            Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2017-02-07 06:45 +0000
              Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-02-07 13:20 -0500
          Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2017-02-07 06:32 +0000
    Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-02-06 19:58 -0500
    Re: OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-02-06 17:01 -0800
      Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-02-06 20:06 -0500
        Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-02-06 20:11 -0500
  Re: OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-02-06 17:42 -0800
  Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... mixed nuts <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> - 2017-02-07 10:03 -0500
    Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-02-07 11:10 -0800
      Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-02-07 12:40 -0800
        Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-02-07 14:51 -0700
          Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... mixed nuts <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> - 2017-02-08 00:25 -0500
            Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2017-02-08 12:19 -0500
              Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... krw@notreal.com - 2017-02-08 12:38 -0500
                Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-02-08 14:47 -0800
              Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... mixed nuts <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> - 2017-02-08 17:43 -0500
          Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-02-08 21:25 +0000
            Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-02-08 14:37 -0700
              Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-02-08 23:24 +0000
                Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... pcdhobbs@gmail.com - 2017-02-08 15:30 -0800
                Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-02-08 16:57 -0700
                Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-02-10 17:06 +0000
                Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2017-02-10 23:49 +0100
        Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-02-07 19:18 -0800
          Re: OT: Wow! Reason returns to law and order... krw@notreal.com - 2017-02-07 22:26 -0500
  Re: OT:  Wow!  Reason returns to law and order... djlocher56@gmail.com - 2017-02-11 07:13 -0800

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