Except that you're not "buying" the antenna. He's renting you the use of an antenna (different one every time, pretty much), combined with the use of the wire that gets the signal to your house.
If this were a case where you did own the antenna and the connecting wire, and just paid your neighbor to mount it on his roof, then it'd be a very different story.
Yup, exactly.
Regarding 1-to-1 vs. one-to-many, the ruling deals with this issue explicitly. See page 14.
Regarding it not being streaming to download your own data across the Internet, the ruling discusses this issue as well, see page 15.
You certainly do have a choice. If you want the content live, Directv, Dish, your local cable company, or (depending on where you are) your local telco will happily provide it to you. You can also put up an antenna, and watch it for free. If you're OK with slightly delayed, then Hulu+ should get you a lot of what you're looking for. You have lots of choices.
No, they don't.
Actually, it was more based on the amendments the Congress made to the Copyright Act in 1976, to overturn two previous Supreme Court decisions (Fortnightly and Teleprompter). The Court had ruled that CATV (Community Antenna Television, which is exactly what it sounds like, put up one big antenna, and run coax from there to people's houses; it was used to get signal to areas that couldn't get good broadcast quality) was outside the scope of the Copyright Act, and Congress changed the law to clarify that it was.
In Aereo, the Court ruled that Aereo was largely similar to those CATV operators - it took the broadcast signal off the air and distributed it to multiple viewers, essentially simultaneous.y.
The fact that this app exists means that parking spaces are mispriced. If they were priced correctly, there wouldn't be a black market for them.
Typically, about 1/3, so call it $100M.
A fuck-ton, equivalent to sixteen 125-lb prostitutes.
or you live in zip-code 54494 and are travelling to Dallas, TX or Salt Lake City, UT. You must be one of those people who have never realized that not every one lives in a metro area.
In both those cases, flying wins by a mile. The difference is even greater than for the NY-Chicago example I gave. For Dallas, you'd save nearly 8 hours by flying. For Salt Lake City, you'd save 10 hours. You must be one of those people who have never looked at a map.
Zip code 54494 (rural Wisconsin) to Dallas, TX: 7.5 hours door to door flying, 15 hours driving.
Driving: 1,058 miles, 15 hrs 48 minutes per Google Maps. Say 15 hours, assuming you can average 70mph including all breaks.
Flying: Leave at 7:20AM, drive to Madison, WI (1 hr 50 per Google Maps), arrive 2 hours early (again, excessively early). Catch 11:20AM flight to Dallas. Arrive at 1:40PM. You're downtown by 3PM.
Zip code 54494 to Salt Lake City: 8.5 hours door to door flying, vs. 18.5 for driving.
Driving: 1,397 miles, 20 hrs 20 mins per Google Maps. Say 18.5 hours, assuming you can average 75mph, including all breaks.
Flying: Leave at 2:30PM, drive to Madison, WI (1 hr 50 per Google Maps), arrive 2 hours early (again, excessively early). Catch 6:40PM flight to Salt Lake City. Arrive at 8:50PM. You're downtown in 30 minutes at most, but let's call it 10PM to add some padding.
The margins for dealer sold cars are HUGE, thousands and thousands of dollars in commission for the better sales guys per car.
Seriously? I'm certainly no fan of car dealers, but if you think salesmen are getting several thousand dollars per new car in commission, you're kidding yourself. Average commissions are around $500 per vehicle.
My wife and I can drive half-way across the country in the same amount of time we can fly
Hogwash, for all but very specific itineraries (i.e. small place A served only by carrier X to small place B served by only carrier Y).
Let's take a VERY conservative example, tilting all the assumptions in favor of driving.
Take New York to Chicago, for example (which, at about 750 miles, is only about 1/3 of the way across the country).
Leave home at 7:30AM three hours before your flight, ample time to get to the airport two hours before your flight (that's an hour more than you need).
Take a 10:30AM flight from Laguardia, arrives O'Hare at noon.
You'll be in downtown Chicago by 1:30PM, even if you're slow through the airport, and you take public transport downtown.
That's seven hours, door to door, with a LOT of cushion. When I do the trip, it's about five hours, door to door.
If you're driving that same route, it's 794 miles, or 12 hours (without traffic or breaks) - more likely 13 or 14.
So, for this trip, which is a lot less than "halfway across the country," driving takes essentially 2x as long as flying.
Well, if we want to be really technical (and I love a good pedantry battle!), the iPhone was announced with Cingular, but launched with AT&T Mobility. The AT&T (formerly SBC) acquisition of BellSouth (which owned the rest of Cingular) closed in December 2006, the iPhone was announced in early January, but by the time it actually launched in June, the Cingular name had been dropped in favor of the AT&T brand.
AT&T would love nothing more than a rapid reduction in the price of handsets. Means a combination of lower subsidies for AT&T, and lower prices (and hence higher usage/take rate) for consumers.
Yes, because nobody could ever launch a smartphone exclusively with AT&T and have it be a success...
The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of space and time. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
