Do you have specific disagreements that you can share with the class?
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Ouch!
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The city where I live closes several streets to vehicular traffic once a week so that cyclists have it all to themselves, and one of those streets runs right next to a university.
Three of the times I’ve cycled by the university, there’s been a piper outside the university playing.
I think it’s pretty cool.
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Who knew children and people with ADHD and argumentative assholes had been violating my Constitutional rights all my life?
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Well just as an example many big colleges in cities don’t have a campus in the traditional sense. The “campus” is part and parcel of the city itself, much of the non-building space being public land. The streets city streets and so forth. And with privately owned, non-university, property mixed in. A public university even the university property itself, say a quad or park, is public land in a fundamental sense.
Its not only impossible and impractical, but wrong, and likely illegal to totally block the public from this sort of setup. And it would be nearly as bad to try to have them check in for a visitors pass on their way through. I went to a University like that, I can’t even imagine why anyone would try to do those things with the thousands to millions who passed through the city blocks that stood for our campus, none the less how.
It could be the recording. Bagpipes record weird, the drones aren’t often captured loud enough in relation to the chanter. And the sound coming out of a bagpipe is. Well weird in terms of recording. From what I’ve been told (never had to record them myself) they’re throwing out a weird mix of frequencies off each reed. They change pitches extremely, and rapidly. And cover a pretty weird range of pitch over their entire range. So certain things get clipped out, interact with noise gates, don’t necessarily get along with certain microphones etc. Makes everything sound subtly wrong, and not quite like a live bagpipe.
Nah those are real, you can hear it when she misplaces her fingers on the holes, little sort of popped missed note. I don’t think an electronic instrument would do that. Unless its an air pump blowing over physical reeds.
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I think most people who dislike portrait video haven’t tried to hold their phone, open the camera app, start it running, and keep it focused on the subject of their video all with one hand held out in front of them.
Portrait mode allows people to maintain a good grip on the device, access the button, keep their fingers away from the lens, and not block the screen with their hand.
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If I’m reading his arguments right, then yes. And if someone tried to bagpipe over a Black Lives Matter rally, so would that. But possibly only within Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, & Tennessee.
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So this isn’t, as you said, “a perfect example of what is called the heckler’s veto in constitutional jurisprudence…” There was no crowd, just one bagpiper. And as others have pointed out, the speech wasn’t stopped.
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I suppose that I’m really lucky that my fallbackpublic library (LoC) has so many volumes, and I haven’t needed to use the dozen or so public University libraries so often. Maybe private universities in the area are a little more snobbish.
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You’d think that the designers would have solved this problem by now. But NOOO!
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Nokia, before they were sabotaged/bought by Microsoft, had camera buttons right on the side of their phones that would both open the camera app and take a photo. That was an awesome feature.
But really, I phones had larger photo-sensors such that they could take either orientation video no matter which way the phone was held it’d solve so many problems and stop so much complaining.
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We should all chip in and buy her a louder bagpipe.
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I live a couple of blocks from a park, and for the last few years I’ve occasionally heard a bagpipe player out there (my theory is that they need a place to practice without bothering housemates or neighbors–but maybe it’s just to spread joy!). This summer my building is covered in scaffolding and we can’t open the window or the balcony door, so we can’t really hear anything outside (besides train & boat horns) 
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Just so I understand you correctly, because as an outsider I’m not always on top of you guys and your amendment rights, I can go anywhere I like in the US with a megaphone and yell whatever I like through it, and no one can interrupt me without violating my first amendment rights?
Because personally I’d want to shut that guy down even if he was preaching my own opinions read directly from my mind.
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D’oh. Here, have some bagpipes.
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Back at WWU, the dean came out saying it was a freedom of speech issue to prevent non-students from attending and doing this.
They applied this to anti-abortion psychos, anti gay megaphone assholes, etc.
I once saw a video of a live performance of this, complete with Bon Scott playing bagpipes, but heck if I can find it now.
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It’s not stifling free speech, it’s using free speech to respond to free speech.
Also, YOLO? No, WOLO:
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Nor should women (or anyone, for that matter) have to walk by very large, graphic posters of aborted fetuses or dodge people handing out plastic babies (creepily like the ones in King Cakes for Mardi Gras, actually). It’s up to the university administration to place restrictions around what is and is not acceptable on university campuses, and I’ll tell you, it varies wildly. At my previous employer, a large, southern, possibly elephant-related mascot university, they did indeed allow such large posters of aborted fetuses right in front of the student union.
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