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Legal experts weigh in.
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Is Saturn's moon there when nobody's looking?
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"I want to build windows between these spaces. We'd place videoconferencing systems unobtrusively in walls within these spaces - possibly something no more complicated than a flat-screen monitor and a webcam. They'd connect, at random, to one of these mapped spaces around the world, and for some period of time, you'd have a window from your restaurant in Ohio into China... and then a few minutes later, into Pakistan or Poland."
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"Legal experts weigh in"?
Idiots.
They are not the right people to judge how good a court decision is.
No, obviously that is more appropriate for phisosophers or even the general public - lawyers apply the law, not fairness!
We want supreme court decisions to be FAIR, lawful is just a proxy. And given the cumulative political influence some selfish people have had over the law, it's a very bad proxy.
The Gowachin had the only functional legal system: the winning lawyer killed the losing lawyer. "It was a practice which made for rare litigation and memorable court performances", The Dosadi Experiment Frank Herbert.
The recent Supreme Court patentability decision is a disaster.