From: Chris Russo (extropy@russo.org)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2000 - 20:21:51 MST
>>Confiscating pencils to stop people from keeping notes! How dare they!
>>My memories, my experiences, are my own, and whether my memories are
>>stored in neural synapses or scribblings on paper is irrelevant. It's sad
>>to see the court clinging to a 19th century model of information when so
>>many important 21st century issues, from IP protection to crypto rights,
>>will turn on exactly that issue.
I agree with your sentiment, but I also like to assume that there's a
reason for such a strange-sounding rule.
Maybe there's limited seating for the press, and the press has tried
to get around it by taking up seats kept available for the general
public or interested parties. The no-pencil rule could actually be a
means of ensuring that the general public has equal physical access
to the Supreme Court.
Just a thought,
Chris Russo
--
"If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought
or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet
hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance
which does harm."
-- Marcus Aurelius, MEDITATIONS, VI, 21
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