Care to share which 5 are corrupt and which 4 aren't, and with what evidence you reached that conclusion?

Let's be clear, what worries the broadcaster is the threat to their business model. If Aereo wins this opens the door to legal challenges against the retransmission fees cable & satellite companies pay for channels that are already broadcast locally free of charge.

Paraphrasing an observation I once heard, the US has a funny way of looking at wealth. If I'm wealthy I made my money fair and square through hard-work, determination, and maybe a pinch of luck, and I deserve to keep my hard-won earnings.. If you're wealthy you're a lying, thieving bastard who exploited someone else and don't really deserve your earnings.

I, for one, am in favor of an 8-day week; a 5-day work week, followed by a 3-day weekend. I doubt it will ever catch on (too much downtime between work-weeks, the business gods will not stand for it!), but hey, a guy can dream.

This coupled with a weird anti-intellectual mind-set that masquerades as "anti-establishment" or "anti-authority".

That's all well and good if the school allows it, but there's a great deal of emphasis on everyone following the same program, particularly in the lower grades. I was never part of the gifted programs at my school (I'm only marginally more intelligent than the norm), but I finished my classwork a lot quicker than my classmates in elementary school. I wasn't allowed to do anything aside from read ahead in the textbook or read whatever library book I had to fill the extra time between lessons. The first approach simply exacerbates the amount of time you have between assignments so I ended up doing an enormous amount of reading. I love reading but I sometimes wonder if that time could have been better spent doing some kind of hands-on projects or studying topics not covered by the standard curriculum.

Which is unfortunate because I've long thought the Civilian Conservation Corps is an excellent model for unemployment benefits for the able-bodied. Interestingly there are a handful of similar state-run programs in California and Washington but these are generally limited to the 18-25 age-group. I think with a certain amount of "leave days" for job fairs and the like it would be an excellent program for Congress to resurrect. However I can see someone screaming about exploitation of minorities as they have a disproportionately high unemployment rate nationwide (12.6% unemployment as opposed to the 5.7% national average).

Ah, okay, that makes more sense. I read the article but not the patent filing. Thanks for making me less ignorant.

I've seen laser projection keyboards for many years. Can someone with some technical know-how tell me why this isn't prior art?

I'll second that. At my last job the boss brought a Keurig for everyone to use. I found the coffee a bit weak for my liking but it heated water a lot faster than my drip machine so I used it for making a lot of hot chocolate during the winter months.

Honestly, if I had the space available, I would.

....why would you want to brew decaf? Heretic!

Just a heads up to let you know I'm shameless stealing that comment for my own use in the future.

This is an instance where it has to be because of the full faith and credit clause of the US Constitution: "Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof (Article IV, Section 1)." If it's allowed in one state another state must recognize it by constitutional law (note that this doesn't apply to state-specific certifications for things like teaching, civil engineering and so forth). One of the more puzzling aspects of the Defense of Marriage Act was, to me, why the Supreme Court ruled in the act unconstitutional based on Section Three, not Section Two which blatantly contradicts the full faith and credit clause.

In some (not all mind you) cases it's because a person struggles to make ends meet working 80 hours a week and sees other people who work 40 hours a week taking home three times his/her pay and wonders why he or she isn't getting the same breaks.
Now, we can unpack that last sentence until Hell freezes over but at the end of the day most of us in the US are tied to this idea that life ought to be fair (or at least unfair in our favor, to quote Bill Waterson).
Personally I don't object to bankers making a great deal of money. Unless of course they were those bankers who managed to crash the national economy and put a decent-sized dent in the global economy and not serve any jail time because the Justice Department decided these pricks were too valuable to prosecute.