Apple Overturns Motorola's German iPad and iPhone Sales Bans

SpuriousLogic sends this excerpt from a BBC article detailing the suspension of a sales ban on certain Apple products in Germany: "Motorola Mobility had forced Apple to remove several iPad and iPhone models from its online store [yesterday] after enforcing a patent infringement court ruling delivered in December. An appeals court lifted the ban after Apple made a new license payment offer. However, Germany-based users may still face the loss of their push email iCloud service after a separate ruling. 'A suspension like this is available only against a bond, but Apple is almost drowning in cash and obviously won't have had a problem with obtaining and posting a bond.' ... A statement from Apple said: 'All iPad and iPhone models will be back on sale through Apple's online store in Germany shortly.'" Reader DJRumpy points out that Motorola is seeking royalties of 2.25% for Apple's wireless devices in exchange for a license to use Motorola's patents.

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Re:And that's how it is supposed to work.

[Cryacin]

Do as I say, not as I do. It's a standard mantra amongst religious folk, whether following J.C. and the apostles, or S.J. and the apostles.

Re:And that's how it is supposed to work.

[Anonymous Coward]

I love the pic circulating around the net. It shows one of those backscatter x-ray photos - the kind that lets you see the bones like a normal x-ray but you also see the semitransparent flesh. So anyway this pic has two x-ray photos side by side. One is a very morbidly obese person (undoubtedly American), the other is a slim person. You'll never guess what! The bones are the same size.

"I'm big boned!" Yeah sure, cuz we all know bone is jiggly and shaped like rolls of fat. On the plus side (no not plus-sized), that's one more excuse put into the trash where it belongs.

See fatties, this is really for your own good. It's called tough love. The harder it is for you to make stupid excuses that anybody with sense already knew was bogus, the more likely you are to face your terrible lack of discipline, and your inability to make simple connections like the connection between eating more calories than you burn (also known as "eating too much") and gaining weight. That's what all the lame excuses are for, because your gluttonous pride can't stand to admit just how much control you do have over it and just how much you actively chose to be what you are - fat.

Once you finally stop making dumb excuses that would insult the intelligence of a retarded dog, you can start taking constructive action to take control of your own life, lose weight, and generally stop failing at life by blaming your faults on something other than yourself. Maybe you could also realize that before you were 100 pounds overweight, you were 80 pounds overweight and before that you were 50 pounds overweight and before that you were 25 pounds overweight, and that was more than enough to think "say, this is moving in the wrong direction, if I keep doing the same thing I'll keep getting the same result, maybe I should change my lifestyle right now before this really gets out of control!"

Obesity is adult people who made a choice and cannot admit they made a choice. Sort of like dumb women who get knocked up at the age of 19 by a guy who they knew doesn't want to be a dad and won't stick around to help and then complain they're poor and can't make ends meet like their choices had nothing to do with that. That's why obesity is a form of mental retardation. Unlike most, it's reversible