"they use it because it's outside of the US and they can argue that normal laws don't apply."

This was an argument by the Bush administration that was rejected by the Court in Rasul (2004) and Boumediene (2008).

The prison is still in use today because Congress blocked Obama's efforts to close it.

Where all is defined as "every game except nationally televised games and those broadcast in your home market", yeah.

At this point it's beyond ESPN. You also have Fox, NBC, CBS, NFL, NHL, MLB, NBA, and sometimes a local sports channel (e.g. Comcast Sportsnet). Then there's the more fringy sports channels: golf, tennis, Fox soccer, Fox college, Big 10, universal.. surely I've missed some. On top of that you have the "season pass" deals that the major sports offer. These have online components but afaik all of them prohibit watching a game that is on TV in your market.

Ezra is a male name.

A union is an association of workers, and the right of free association is protected by the First Amendment. Why do you hate freedom?

There's a Metallica DVD that uses the angle feature on a couple songs, you can choose which band member to watch instead of the director making the call.

When talking about driving, and particularly about penalties, one can rarely use the phrase "in the US". It is handled at the state level and varies widely.

As far as suspensions, due to the necessity of a car in most places in the US, DMVs or courts will provide an allowance so you can drive to work, school, etc. Makes for a big loophole, doesn't really get anyone off the road, and the end result is really just more fines (these special allowances have an administrative cost, and then typically you also have to take a class, and/or carry extra insurance, etc.)

This happens to drivers of cars frequently as well, but they don't use it as an excuse for noise pollution.

The other day a guy on the phone started to slowly cross the street a couple hundred feet down the road. With normal behavior he would have made it just fine, no one would even have to slow down. But something in his conversation caused him to slow, and then stop right in my lane. I slowed to a crawl and sounded the horn. His immediate reaction was to resume walking... right into the oncoming traffic lane, without looking, where a car was only ~50' away.

He was completely oblivious to the whole thing. Never even looked up.

In NJ tired driving is illegal, defined as no sleep >24 hours. Pretty much impossible to enforce unless the driver admits it.

In Arkansas if you have not slept >24 hours and cause a fatal accident, it is negligent homicide.

Can't mix meat and milk.

I think he's just trying to dampen expectations, to avoid a Segway moment.

G-S had already been repealed in effect by the Fed, it was chipped away at for decades (much of it under Reagan, with Greenspan continuing the work as Fed Chairman) and the final straw was the Travelers-Citi merger being approved. GLB was basically fixing the law after the fact at that point.

IMO the CFMA is much more relevant.

"The search feature is definitely a boon, but I don't feel it's panacea. If you just want to browse the software on somebody's computer, or if you forgot the name of the program you want to run, the search feature is no help."

No shit. That's what "all programs" is for.

I can relate to the fears just fine. But when you get to this: "We're in a time where you become an instant "child molester" or you just disappear or your finances go all permanently wonky" you have dropped your connection with reality.