Friday Feedback
The Casinator project is moving forward. Unfortunately, every step forward requires me to learn something new.
In the best of all worlds, I want to be able to send out the prints for this out to a shop to see what they quote me for parts.
Back in October, the exercise bike started acting out. It would work ok, and then decided that the resistance needed to be higher. It got to the point where I didn't want to get on the bike.
My lady did a wonderful thing and found a free exercise bike. We got that replacement in Early December. This one has a different set of patterns. Which has taken me a bit of time to get used to. The biggest improvement, besides actually working, is that I can set the time for a session. I'm now back to doing my rides 5 days a week. Sometimes 16 minutes, when I have meetings, sometimes 40 or even 48. It is difficult to push to 40, much less to 48.
With the ability to set the levels a little lower and the time a little higher, I've found that I'm moving better, overall.
We are starting to see cases leave the interlocutory stage. This is great news. It means that the appeals court has to actually do work that the Supreme Court will be willing to slap down.
Unfortunately, my visibility into the filings in the 9th Circuit are limited by dollar bills. They are changing their ECF system, and CourtListener does not currently have a way to capture documents retrieved from the new system. It actually looks to me as if the new system is designed to stop CourtListener.
Speaking of which, the California has admitted in filings that ammunition are arms, as are magazines. Good news for us.
They have filed their appeal in the ammunition background check case. They claim that they must have an emergency stay because if they don't, bad guys might order ammunition online. Gee, in 2020 100s of prohibited people ordered magazines. Never mind that they currently have an error rate greater than 20%. I.e. they falsely deny people more than 20% of the time.
The state claims that the Supreme Court has already said that these sorts of ammunition background checks are constitutional. Then they do the standard of flipping things upside down. Under US law, you are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Under California statutes, you are presumed prohibited until proven otherwise.
Have yourself a wonderful Friday. We look forward to reading your comments