The Power of SCOTUS V: The Final Frontier

[unofan]

Sorry, but if Kepler does have a troll alter ego (frankly, I figure a certain moderator would've outed that by now), I'm not believing for one second that it's FF.

Meh, I could see him playing the other side to see what kind of reaction he'd get and to play with people's heads. The long winded ramblings certainly would fit.

[joecct]

Reports of my reincarnation have been greatly exaggerated.

You're still celebrating your alma mater knocking off (AGAIN!!!!) my alma mater in the ECAC playoffs.

BTW, how many speed cameras are up in your neck of the woods??

[St. Clown]

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Assuming the teacher unions aren't going anywhere, incentive pay will be moderated by the union in order to help protect its weaker members. The most likely scenario would be that the teachers keep within their pay lanes, but that meeting certain criteria could make them eligible for annual bonuses. While schools would certainly try to poach teachers from other districts, the unions will have a way to keep that in check, too, somehow. Despite what you may or may not think of union bosses, they're not generally stupid people. If districts find a loophole, the unions will be quick to close that loophole.

[Kepler]

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BTW, how many speed cameras are up in your neck of the woods??

As far as I know, zero. (Full disclosure: I am a very slow driver.)

[joecct]

As far as I know, zero. (Full disclosure: I am a very slow driver.)

Watch Rt 28 just over the MoCo line. MoCo loves the revenue.

[joecct]

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Broadcasters 6 Aereo 3
http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/th...o/?tid=HP_lede

[FreshFish]

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Broadcasters 6 Aereo 3
http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/th...o/?tid=HP_lede

Either those 6 Justices are technologically illiterate, or they subconsciously favor entrenched interests over technically legal yet practically disruptive technology. Scalia of course gets right to the point: if Aereo is illegal, then also is illegal to use a copy machine to copy pages of a book you own yourself for personal use.

[St. Clown]

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Broadcasters 6 Aereo 3
http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/th...o/?tid=HP_lede

I think where Aereo got it wrong was that they should've set up a per-client payment to the networks, like cable systems do. Because really, the only difference between Aereo and cable is that cable provides local over-the-air broadcasts and subscription channels while Aereo provides only the local OTA stations.

[Kepler]

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Is sanity returning?

I welcome somebody with more expertise chiming in, but this seems like a very big deal and an indication that just a smidgen of our liberty might be returning after the Dark Ages of the last 13 years.

This decision was 9-0, which suggests to me that the overreach was insane, but it wouldn't be the first time the Court deferred to that.

[LynahFan]

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Either those 6 Justices are technologically illiterate, or they subconsciously favor entrenched interests over technically legal yet practically disruptive technology. Scalia of course gets right to the point: if Aereo is illegal, then also is illegal to use a copy machine to copy pages of a book you own yourself for personal use.

Disagree. The more correct analogy is that someone has set up a for-profit business to go into public libraries and copy entire books for their paying customers. The company is profiting from the taxpayer-provided content (library books/OTA TV), not from content that the customer already owns.

[FreshFish]

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WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday police must almost always obtain a warrant before searching mobile devices seized when arresting someone, extending constitutional privacy protections to the increasingly vast amounts of data Americans keep on smartphones, cellphones and other hand-held digital technology.

The court, in a unanimous ruling by Chief Justice John Roberts, said both the quantity and quality of information contained in modern hand-held devices is constitutionally protected from police intrusion without a warrant.

As many of us had expected, and hoped...

[FreshFish]

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Disagree. [To me,] The more correct analogy is that someone has set up a for-profit business to go into public libraries and copy entire books for their paying customers. The company is profiting from the taxpayer-provided content (library books/OTA TV), not from content that the customer already owns.

The customer already owns the right to view broadcast TV over their own antenna. That's exactly what Aereo delivers. Your own language should direct you to the same conclusion, no?

[LynahFan]

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The customer already owns the right to view broadcast TV over their own antenna. That's exactly what Aereo delivers. Your own language should direct you to the same conclusion, no?

The customer already owns the right to use a public library, too, but they don't own the library itself - they can't make copies of every book there, nor can they pay someone to go mine copies for them.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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As many of us had expected, and hoped...

Yep, they're pocket PCs at this point.

[Kepler]

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Not SCOTUS, but the warm-up act.

I would have said 2025, but it's starting to look like 2015. Maybe the arc of the moral universe actually does* bend towards justice.

(* spoiler: it doesn't. There is no arc of the moral universe. But there are good people fighting evil, hard, every day, for years and year and years.)