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Comment Enforcement (Score 3, Insightful) 273

I don't see how you could enforce the priority lane. Suppose someone stubburn pulls into the lane without the proper plate. What do you do? Push their car into a ditch? You either have big argument while one of you lanes is closed, use violence, or have it work on a honor system and hope the cheaters don't cause a pile up.

Comment Re:Non-divisive "reality" competitions can be fun (Score 1) 465

The backstabbing reality show is a different beast than the skill based reality shows. Iron Chef, American Idol, Project Runway, and Star Search don't emphasize that kind of drama. If they do it at all they use the judges instead of the contestants. They balance out a mean judge with a nice one. Instead they focus on the drama created by stressfull live performance.

Comment Re:Not their job (Score 1) 192

It is their job to settle disputes between the federal circuit judges. With this case went before 10 judges their was 7 different opinions. No majority opinion. They could not find 6 judges who could agree what the law was. No one has any clue what Congress meant by process. So they sort of don't have a choice but to interpret the statute.

Comment gets better (Score 1) 192

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Well, but I mean, you know, it in different directions. And I understand him to say that in each of those places, that's where the computer is needed.

MR. PERRY: Mr. Chief Justice, Figure 16 has nothing to do with the invention asserted against my client in this case. There are two inventions in this patent. One invention involving multilateral contract formation is not asserted against my client. And all of these drawings pertain to that. The only drawings that pertain to the asserted claims are 25 and 33 to 37. And that was established below, and it's established in this Court. And Mr. Phillips has never disputed it. So the claim he's pointed the Court the figure he's pointed the Court to has nothing to do with the invention. It's for a different invention that is not at issue in this case.

Comment Re:"Minimum Advertised Pricing" not "Miniumum Pric (Score 1) 88

No Apple did more than that. They told them what prices to sell at and that all their competators would sell at that price.

To dramatize the immediate increase in the price of e-books that the Publishers could achieve under the Apple agency agreement, and to assure each Publisher Defendant that it was being treated no differently than its competitors, Moerer sent a table of proposed book prices to them in identical e-mails on The Draft Agreement capped e-book prices at $12.99 for New Release titles with hardcover list prices of $30 or under, and set a $14.99 price tier cap for New Release titles with hardcover list prices above $30, with incremental price tier increases for every $5 increase in the hardcover list price above $30. For books other than New Releases, the price cap was set at $9.99. The January 4 term sheet had set a price cap at $14.99 for any book with a hardcover list price above $35, and $12.99 for any hardcover book listed below $35. The Draft Agreement, by contrast, set the demarcation between $12.99 and $14.99 at $30, allowing for higher e-book prices in relation to a title’s hardcover list price. the same day Apple sent out the Draft Agreements. The table showed fiction NYT Bestsellers from every member of the Big Six. It listed the book’s title, author, and publisher. It showed each title’s hardcover list price, followed by its retail prices when sold as an Amazon hardcover book; Amazon e-book; Barnes & Noble e-book; and finally, as a proposed iTunes e-book. The proposed prices under the iTunes column were always either $12.99 or $14.99, and were always several dollars higher than the then-existing e-book price at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In some cases, the iTunes e-book price was even higher than the Amazon hardcover price.31 Sensitive to the fact that the table looked like an Apple retail price list, Moerer clarified in a follow-up email to Shanks that the prices in the table’s final column designating the “iTunes eBook Retail Price” are the “top price tier we’ve proposed” and that “[i]n the agency model, Penguin would set retail prices at its sole discretion, at this price or any lower price, with Apple acting as your agent.” While the final column would only display Apple’s e-book prices for titles published by the particular Publisher receiving that version of the table, the layout made it easy for the Publishers to see that they were all being treated identically

Comment Re:Cote did her job (Score 1) 88

At the time she made her statement she had seen all documented evidense. She had all the depositions, paperwork, phone records, and emails. Based on that she warned Apple that there was actual evidense against it. The only extra evidense that occured during the trail was witness testimony and cross examinations. The witnesses stated the same things in their depositions. Your just demonizing a judge for disagreeing with you.

Comment Re:Books vs Apps (Score 1) 88

Apple did not meet with a cartel of App publishers and coordinate prices. The App market does not contain huge players that control access to 90% best selling applications. To be clear I don't think Apple created the ebook cartel. It clearly existed for awhile. I think they got involved with it too closely and got a little dirty.

Comment Coporations are not a goverement entity. (Score 1, Offtopic) 284

Rights are not created by laws. They are given to men by God. Atheist like to use the term human rights. But the idea is the same. The Bill Of Rights limits goverment to protect rights. These bills were designed to protect individuals from the "common will of the people." Majorities often suppress minorities. Majorities don't need the bill or rights.

Coporations don't exist by goverement fiat.(at least not most of them. Post Office could be an exception) They are just companies that the goverment wants to regulate. I have family that owns an LLC (limited liabilty corporation). it is not a fiction. It is a small buisness run by three people. It has a building, assets, and customers. Not imaginary at all. It is not a game.

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