[blml] ...have we really come to this??? [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Jerry Fusselman]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:19 +0100 (BST), Tim West-Meads <twm at cix.co.uk> wrote:
> Nigel wrote:
> > A handful of masochists
> > lost matches by slavishly complying with the old regulation.
>
> It never happened.  Some idiots erroneously assumed that the previous EBU
> regulation was incompatible with the laws and precluded the use of
> judgement.  Those same idiots never bothered to take a test case to the
> EBU L&E.  If they lost matches as a result the may bemoan the lack of
> clarity in the way the regs were presented but *they* must take
> responsibility for interpreting those regs in the way that they did.
>

Tim's position is amazing:  Blame the victims.  They should have
broken what they were told the regulations were and then taken the
"test case" to the EBU L&E.   A good word to describe someone
attempting to obey regulations is---idiot?

-Jerry Fusselman