Correct. I used the term "pattern." SCOTUS has a number of mechanisms for temporary rulings, often made by a single justice, or by the full court. That is not officially a "panel," but it has the same outcome, and so fits the pattern. Stays, injunctions pending appeal, emergency/summary court orders, etc. SCOTUS has done this many times and whether any given matter ever subsequently appears before the full court is not a given.

So while not termed a "panel," this is a distinction without a difference.

I think that's likely wrong given a serious financial collapse: much of the hardware in play here is booked sales a year or more out. If the bottom falls out, those orders will get cancelled. Further on (speculation upon speculation...,) recovery would be more circumspect, and the demand for hardware less absurd.

Bubble pops don't happen all at once. They progress, first from the weak sisters to the big, name brand to-big-to-fail "omg my pension!" deals. Media exaggeration about historical finance collapses create the misperception that it happens very rapidly, with no warning. That's never the case; there are always precursors.

I don't know if this "Situational Awareness" is such a case, and you don't either. But this is exactly how the start of a larger collapse looks: a nasty little headline about some sketchy outfit no one has heard of, goes unnoticed outside finance or other narrow media sources. Then more, a couple months later. Then something happens that rocks the world.

Also, look up Trent Reznor's "Slam Bamboo" band before Nine Inch Nails.

You're either repeating what I said or getting into esoterica that isn't relevant: this isn't even on SCOTUS radar yet, and it if ever gets there, SCOTUS won't be entertaining any of the possibilities you mention: no political force in the US is going to intervene with SCOTUS on behalf of "Xinuos" et al. in our lifetimes. That's fantasy that exists exclusively in only the more demented minds of IP rent seekers.

Some rulings are made by partial ("panel") courts, for expedience, and when that happens the option exists to request the same court reconsider the ruling, but with a full bench ("en banc" court). That's what's going on here. This pattern of panel/en banc rulings exists at both appeals courts and SCOTUS.

When en banc SCOTUS makes a ruling or declines an appeal, that's the end of the road: there is no higher authority for appeals. It is possible to get SCOTUS to reconsider a ruling, but such requests are truly extraordinary, like POTUS or the Senate asking SCOTUS for reconsideration, with new evidence or some emergency situation at hand. None of that is even on the same planet as this Xinuos stuff.

They're probably not going to get their en banc hearing. And it won't take long to not get it, either: this isn't adjacent to any Great Issues of our time, and it's not an opportunity to thwart Trump on anything he cares about, so it's probably not going any further. If, by some tragic chance, they get an en banc hearing, they still have to win the appeal. Who knows though; appeals courts in the US are rife with irrational and/or highly partisan people. Anything could happen. If that came about, the victory will likely die in SCOTUS, like so many the other miscarriages of justice that come from federal appeals courts.

It's not really that complex. 94-ish district courts under 12-ish regional circuit appeals courts, then SCOTUS. Three layers. The "-ish" in there is because there are some special cases and special regions (DC), but those don't apply in this particular case.

Your racism showed itself, KlanBitchDot. String yourself up with a rope you Nazi KlanBitchLyingWhoreshit.

Re: Anthony, I think the constitutional right to a fair trial should have been respected. That the numerous clear violations of process require a ruling of mistrial, removal of the prior judge, and a retrial.

That's not a "left" thing, that's a CONSTITUTIONAL thing. Don't you claim you love the Constitution? OH RIGHT... YOU RETARDICAN KLANWHOREFUCKS burn crosses because you're Constitution-hating Shit-eating Trailer Trash Klan Inbreds.

Re: Clancy, insane people may be supporting her and making wild claims but again, that's not "the left." In fact, most of her donations are coming from Right-Wing Antivaccination DumbShit Retardican groups.

What your rant has told us is that YOU are an insane KlanBitchWhore-bred DumbFuck Retardican with delusions of humanity.

You Klanfuckwit Inbredshitbitch Retardican GOP Trash need to stop lying. YOU are the Crossburning Fuckwit Inbred Shit Trash Criminals.

Legal challenges, run them out of money, BAN their tactics from the USA as unconstitutional. EVERYTHING needs to happen to make Flock cease to exist.

Exclusive contracts in media have been SOP since forever. If some YouTube sellout signs a specific exclusivity contract with YouTube, then they, you and Netflix have nothing to say about it. It's possible some of this could be found anti-competitive, when no specific contract is in play, but that's a road to a protracted legal battle taking years: feel free to hold your breath waiting for whatever utopian outcome you think you're owed on that one. What I find interesting is YouTube management clearly being un-self-aware and unconcerned, despite being a subsidiary of a company that has just been convicted as a monopolist. I can only take that to mean that they're confident that they've purchased sufficient political influence.

Right. Because the last Google anti-trust conviction was such a huge success and made everything so much better.

Being an unskilled but charismatic person has been a desire since the start of human trade. Ask the first person doing the worlds oldest profession if they'd rather have charm or technique to earn their keep. Humans have always wanted the cheap, fast fix for the ego.

One small piece of the interweb social media cesspool isn't conforming to establishment safe space norms. Study it harder!

The success of Linux has owed a great deal to for-profit businesses for a long time now, way before Valve and Framework came along. Oracle, in 1998, porting their bread-and-butter database to Linux as a fully supported tier 1 platform, was a monumental moment. Then IBM got on board with major investments to bring Linux to their mainframes. Then Google, adopting Linux for their Android platform, in 2007-2008. Before all of those, there were countless ISPs standing up Linux on their low cost hardware to sell, I repeat sell , hosting. That evolved into Linux becoming the de facto standard platform of Big Tech search, social media and media streaming. The force of these commercial decisions is at least as important a contributor to Linux success and anything else you might credit.

Because these are ebil for-profit operations, we’re free to impugn their motivations with as much petty hate as we can muster. But if you’re thankful for Linux and have the least bit of intellectual honesty, you know you owe these businesses, whether you like it or not.