I don't think this is an issue of state rights. But an issue of a higher court overruling a lower court that acted outside the bounds of its *constitutional* mandate. The Supreme Court made a lawful decision, while the FL Supreme Court didn't. Though to be fair I am not 100% sure this was a constitutional issue, so I will have to find out more before I can say with certainty.
BTW those Seminole Seminole county ballots that had a number added to them... THEY WERE NOT BALLOTS. Sorry to scream, but I hear this error so often it is painful. The voter registration numbers were added to Absentee Ballot *Applications* meaning the numbers were added long before a vote was cast, and indeed no ballots themselves were handled.
Hey when we broadcast MP3s via Napster my understanding is we are doing something illeagal. It really isn't okay. If you speed and get caught by a traffic cop and you get a big fat ticket, guess what, you are going to have to pay. Metallica just found a bunch of speeders and said guess what you are gonna have to pay. We can't just pick and choose to follow the laws that we want to. And when we knowingly break a law we ought to be prepared to accept the consequences. I wouldn't like it if someone walked into my house and stole my shit, and I think that's how Metallica feels. They are not wrong to do this and are practicing their right.
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I don't think this is an issue of state rights. But an issue of a higher court overruling a lower court that acted outside the bounds of its *constitutional* mandate. The Supreme Court made a lawful decision, while the FL Supreme Court didn't. Though to be fair I am not 100% sure this was a constitutional issue, so I will have to find out more before I can say with certainty. BTW those Seminole Seminole county ballots that had a number added to them... THEY WERE NOT BALLOTS. Sorry to scream, but I hear this error so often it is painful. The voter registration numbers were added to Absentee Ballot *Applications* meaning the numbers were added long before a vote was cast, and indeed no ballots themselves were handled.
Hey when we broadcast MP3s via Napster my understanding is we are doing something illeagal. It really isn't okay. If you speed and get caught by a traffic cop and you get a big fat ticket, guess what, you are going to have to pay. Metallica just found a bunch of speeders and said guess what you are gonna have to pay. We can't just pick and choose to follow the laws that we want to. And when we knowingly break a law we ought to be prepared to accept the consequences. I wouldn't like it if someone walked into my house and stole my shit, and I think that's how Metallica feels. They are not wrong to do this and are practicing their right.