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What? The Olympus Nine are afraid of some wee little ole' Corona-19 virus?
Coronavirus forces Supreme Court to delay
"The justices, many of whom are among the most at-risk for COVID-19 given their age and underlying health conditions, remain in good health and continue to work on court business from home or their private chambers, Arberg told ABC News."...

Remember the good old days?
When you walked into your garage and saw a solid physical object known as a garage door opener?
Sorry. It's not there anymore. It has been teleported into the abstraction dimension (a neighborhood of the Twilight Zone) by the astute judges of the Federal Circuit....

The dicey illogic of Alice/Mayo continues with IN RE: MARCO GULDENAAR HOLDING B.V. (Fed. Cir 12-28-2018)
Normally it is the Fed. Cir. that accuses inventors of claiming a result without specifying exactly how it is achieved.
This time however, a role reversal is undertaken. It is the Fed. Cir. that dissects a claim so to only see the result without acknowledging exactly how it is achieved in accordance with the claim....

A talking head in a recent pundits round-table was hawking the notion of human ingenuity mixing with market forces to provide inevitable progress by humanity for overcoming all problems by means of technological innovation.
Do the forces of raw capitalism truly lead to inevitable progress and conquest of all problems through "innovation"?...