I mean, it’s all down to risk management. If the containment fails in the neighborhood, they’ve evacuated everyone to a safe distance. If it spontaneous detonates in transit and the containment fails, the crew and god-knows how many innocent by standarders could be caught in the blast.

I don’t think this is right, or at least, I don’t think you could get the ticket thrown out for lack of a sound meter. The law just says that you’re not allowed to broadcast amplified sound more than 50 feet from your vehicle along a public highway, so the officer identifying a point more than 50 feet away and…

ACLU and other civil liberties groups often take on cases like this. 

It doesn’t matter, because that’s not why he was pulled over. DUI is a crime in California. Loud music is not. So if the original pretext of the stop were suspicion of a crime, this may have turned out differently.

Only if they’re a trespasser. You’d have to convince the court that a reasonable person would believe that a uniformed police officer was a trespasser. Plus, you’d also have to survive a gun fight with an armed and trained officer who was wearing body armor.

Loud music was a lawful reason for him to be pulled over an issued a citation. Alcohol on the breath could be part of a lawful reason to have a reasonable suspicion of impaired driving and conduct a sobriety test.

It’s not a local noise ordinance. It’s part of the California Vehicle Code. You can’t broadcast amplified sound that can be heard more than 50 feet from your vehicle except in emergencies.

This is California though, so if he actually had a reasonable suspicion of drunk driving, it would be a crime and entry into the garage would probably be lawful. But loud music is, at worst, an infraction. It’s not criminal. 

No, I think if you look at the ruling, there are a few things at issue here:

And you feel your behavior is ethical? Like, let’s say you ran a small business somewhere and people in the community didn’t the causes and politicians that you, as a private citizen, donated money to. Let’s say they bombarded your business with negative reviews online, showed up to scream at your employees, and tied…

I’m reminded of a quotation by Jean Sibelius: Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

Other M was a pretty decent game overall. People just don’t like it because of the questionable script, but if you ignore that ( The Metroid series has never been big on scripted dialog anyway), it’s a pretty solid game, although not in the same league as most of the others.

Didn’t it sound like Twilight Princess music?

This story basically tells me nothing other than that someone who was convicted of a felony assault with a deadly weapon is possibly being deported, because, understandably, most countries deport non-citizens who commit serious crimes such as felonies. If she was acting in self-defense, why didn’t she defend herself…

Yes, that is what  I meant. My mistake. 

And the law does balance this. As a private individual, you generally have more of a right to privacy than a public figure, especially a public official.

It’s probably more the basic guarantees of freedom of expression under the state and federal constitutions that you have a problem with, rather than the law itself. The law was written specifically to try to avoid being overturned by the State and Federal courts as unconstitutional. It’s not the California…

California law requires proving, beyond a reasonable doubt:

I mean, this court ruling seems to suggest that he had a right under the Constitution to share them, since they were in the public interest. So she could sue him, but the same reasoning would probably apply. And she would additionally have to prove that they had an agreement or understanding not to share them at the…

California’s Constitution and laws are always going to put a heavy burden of proof on the defendant to prove their case if they’re trying to restrict someone’s right to freedom of expression. This is a good thing. The alternative would be living somewhere like the UK, where people can be sued into oblivion by powerful…