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Intel Sued for Patent Infringement
mfh writes "All Computers Inc. has filed suit against Intel for infringing on US Patent (5,506,981). Apparently Intel utilized patent-conflicting circuitry to determine the frequency of the input signal to the microprocessor, including Pentium processors. All Computers is asking for the tidy sum of $500 million USD."
Dedicated to Lanna!
I'm 28 years old. I don't want to go through the next 50 years of my life living in an international air of worry and uncertainty. I don't want to live in a permanent state of fear, generated by a megalomaniacal American government taking advantage of the majority low IQ populous' capacity for being brainwashed.
I don't want to live like Israel, fighting militant Muslims round every corner. The problem of Muslim extremists exists and needs to be dealt with, not encouraged by invading innocent countries and waging war on people who have done nothing to deserve it. I want my children to grow up in a world free from military oppression and I want a government that understands that the wars of the future are guerrilla ones which can never be won, even if they are waged for noble purposes (which theirs never are).
The world is fu*cked up enough as it is. The food chain has been poisoned so badly the average human is full of chemicals normally found in plastics and toxic waste. I'm sick of global warning and environmental damage to the planet and the fact the all this time the greenies were right. I'm sick of America being the biggest wilful contributor to the pollution of the planet.
I'm sick of an American school system that produces children who are brought up to believe that America IS the world and anything that goes on outside is irrelevant. Children so stupid they think America invented the Internet, computer, motor car, light bulb, telephone etc ad infinitum....
The Internet or it's successor is the future of entertainment and I'm sick of stupid low IQ, ignorant Americans infecting every corner of it with their insular, jingoistic mindsets, their whiny voices and manifestations of their low self esteem driven by the fact that despite it being their turn as the world's super power, no one actually takes them seriously or gives them the respect that the British or the Ancient Greeks got because a superpower best known for producing mass produced crap is never going to get the respect that one who gave the world Shakespeare, culture, philosophy or mathematics will get.
I'm sick of hypocrisy and two facedness. I'm sick of Gangsta Rap and hamburgers, Political Correctness and TV programmes that begin with 'When' and end in 'go bad and attack people'. I'm sick of reality TV and I'm sick of news programmes that are more censored than accurate. I'm sick of tokens, token minorities, token universities, token degrees, token attempts at the truth, tokens. I'm sick of fat people, ugly people, stupid people, gay people, coloured people, female people, whiny people all complaining they don't have the opportunities in life they would like and it must be someone else's fault. I'm sick of women that act like men and femininity being a crime, unless you're a man in which case you're a new man which nobody ever wanted because there was nothing wrong with the old one. I'm sick of people falling over and suing the ground and people watching nipples and suing the TV and I'm sick of coffee cups with 'don't pour over yourself, you may get burnt' on the side to try and counter this.
I'm sick of stupid Americans who don't know the difference between patriotism and jingoism and who think flag waving should be an Olympic event. I'm sick of Americans who cry that people hate them or are jealous of them or who are anti them because someone dares to point out that the America they've been programmed to believe in from birth bears no relation to the one that exists in real life.
I'm sick of ignorance, I'm sick of stupidity, I'm sick of people, especially Americans.
Well I'll be a monkey's uncle! Is nothing sacred anymore? How will this impact the stock market, I wonder? Is it time to short Intel?
Something bad is coming when people are suddenly anxious to tell the truth.
Why are you wasting time trying to be first?
Maybe you should end your suffering. While you're at it you can take the lives of more innocent people along with you, because there's no greater statement then ending someone's life, it really get's your point across! So does voicing generalizations which you obviously have no experience in, but only help prove that you, yourself, have been brainwashed by years of ignorance. Good day to you sir!
It spells 'ad nauseam'
I agree completely.
What did you do to stop it, besides troll on Slashdot? When you wake up one morning and realize that the world has turned to shit, don't you have to take some of the blame? To paraphrase Ed Howdershelt, which of the 4 boxes "soap, ballot, jury, ammo" did you every try?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
"Children so stupid they think America invented the Internet, computer, motor car, light bulb, telephone etc ad infinitum...."
I always thought that Americans did these things, so I figured I would look them up real quick:
the Internet: "The core networks forming the Internet started out in 1969 as the ARPANET devised by the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)."
(If you're talking about the WWW, then the 'inventor' would be Tim Berners-Lee, who was indeed European).
Computer: this one's a bit more difficult, as computers have technically been around since the abacus. "Colossus was the name for any of at least two versions of the world's first programmable (to a limited extent) digital electronic computer. It was built by the British Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill, by Thomas Flowers and crew to a design by Max Newman and associates of Bletchley Park." However: "ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first all-electronic computer except for the then secret and non-programmable British Colossus (that is, it used thermionic valves aka vacuum tubes rather than electromagnetic switches). ENIAC was developed and built by the U.S. Army..."
I honestly don't think this sort of concept or invention can be attributed to a single country.
Light bulb: "The invention of the light bulb is sometimes attributed to Thomas Alva Edison, who made contributions to its development and marketing, but today it is well-known that Heinrich Göbel built functional bulbs three decades earlier"
Telephone: "However, an Italian inventor Antonio Meucci is said to have invented the device in 1849, and in September 2001, Meucci was officially credited by the US Congress with the invention of the telephone, instead of Alexander Graham Bell."
Motor car: "It is generally claimed that the first automobiles with gasoline powered internal combustion engines were completed almost simultaneously in 1886 by German inventors working independently, Gottlieb Daimler on 3 July 1886 in Mannheim and later Karl Benz and Wilhelm Maybach in Stuttgart."
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"redickulous"? This has to be the worst mangling of the fairly simple word "RIDICULOUS" I've yet seen. This type of atrocious spelling needs to be reigned (sic) in NOW!
"... because they want to keep the drug dealers off the streets."
... Maybe not, but I think the majority are. I do not even trust my own lawyers that much (and I sure don't trust yours).
I am not a fan of illegal drugs but I am also not a fan of "THE DRUG WAR". A "drug dealer" who sells pot to cancer patients is in a different category than a meth dealer. Lawyers who spend their careers "fighting (illegal) drugs" are hypocrites, in my opinion. Q: Should they "fight" alcohol? A: Yes (in 1926) No (in 2004). Q: Should they "fight" pot? A: No (in 1900) Yes (in 2000). Q: Should they "fight" tabacco? A: No (in 2000) Yes (in 2050 ??)
How much money do we spend on prisons for non-violent "criminals"? How many of them are ENRON executives who stole billions of dollars? How many of them are minor pot dealers?
"Not all lawyers are bad" -
Cheer up, emo kid!
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