Hi guys! Similar to Todd from Utah joining us, I just flew in, short arms and all!
Can't wait for the draft. If they take Etienne at 23, I might poop something, though this looks more and more to be the case since the Jets can't go into the season with Ty Johnson, Josh Adams, and La'Mical Perine as their only backs. Considering the running back class this year is really thin and by all accounts not good, they might indeed go with Etienne at 23 before Pittsburgh and Buffalo each makes its pick. We also have 34 so if Pittsburgh takes Harris, the only thing that would keep Etienne from us is Buffalo at 31. Then again, maybe they'll sign four UDFAs and let them duke it out and that'll all be moot. But it would be so Jets to take a RB in the first, wouldn't it?
As for the quoted, RAGE, I'd be totally on board with you, but ideas aren't copyrightable. The actual expressive text of your rules is, though. If, say, you have a certain point designation in the event that x occurs, that's fair game to steal and use. But if you write into the rules "Leon and the Maulers get two points for every snerfleflagen that exists," that actual expression is copyrightable, and considering "Leon, Maulers, and snerfleflagen" isn't that common of a word usage together, you'd have a good case if you saw it popping up elsewhere in other games.
How's that for a nitpick? I took four IP classes in law school, including copyright, patent, IP/statutory, and trademark. Wanna resume?
I never finished Trademark. She had an attendance policy and I wouldn't abide it. Wound up showing up one day full of whiskey from a Dillinger Four show and she started hassling me about attendance so I withdrew. She was a horrible professor who couldn't distinguish between "there" and "their." She bungled that numerous times on the white board. She's a law professor. Not a very literate one.
Sighs.