Rampant violation of the Constitution is another matter. I agree that the violations are rampant. I just refuse to let claims that the Constitution doesn't apply go unchallenged. Let it be known when authorities de-legitimize themselves.
Sorry, can't afford to follow the law isn't going to cut it. It doesn't for anyone else. If the fees won't cover actually checking for novelty and non-obviousness then they don't issue the patent.
20K will not be enough to make the troll go home. Possibly 20K each if there are many thousands of marks to hit up. All the 20K will get you is a comment that you can either give up now or get ready to spend a whole lot more. Or you could settle for 90% of a whole lot...
Don't believe it? Look how much the rounded corners patent has cost Samsung.
I'm not aware of a geographical limitation on the Constitution anywhere. Other than a few things like being the President or voting, it isn't confined to Citizens either.
That and the findings that amount to user can do odd thing that screws up his own login (equivalent to clicking logout but much harder) but because that's not very exciting we'll say that with extreme handwaving a hurricane could blow up and allow some minor security violation we haven't even imagined yet, much less actually managed to pull off.
"The Patent Office reviewed HP's application for years without ever considering any real-world products. Indeed, the examiner considered only patents and patent applications." Again, that's standard. They don't have a pile of application software they can run through to identify prior art. They do a search in documentation in databases convenient to the examiner.
So they routinely ignore their duty under the law and just do whatever isn't too much trouble for them?
If HP ever tries to enforce this thing, the respondent will no doubt find invalidating prior art.
It'll cost over a million dollars to get the patent invalidated. HP will sit on it until someone threatens their revenue by competing too effectively or they find themselves hard up for cash. Then they'll make sure to demand just a bit less than the cost to overturn the patent.
The thing is, addiction isn't the real problem. After WWI there were a lot of involuntary heroin addicts that went on to have a more or less normal and productive life even while never kicking the addiction.
Don't forget, unless they switch from ecigs to cigarettes, they aren't smoking. You'll need to figure out how many of them would have started smoking rather than vaping had ecigs not existed.
Of course, for amusement, I sometimes put a white pen in my mouth and laugh at the number of people walking by that seem to develop terrible coughing fits. I haven't smoked in years so it's not a residual smell thing.
Personally, I didn't particularly want to quit when I switched to e-cigs, but they were interesting, a lot cheaper, and bothered a lot less people so I switched.
Within a year, I found that the nicotine cravings were far less urgent than when I was smoking. It turns out the MAOIs in cigarettes really potentiate the addiction. They are also why many people find switching to e-cigs initially difficult. Eventually, I found that the manual habit of vaping was more important than the nicotine, so I just went to zero nic juices with no difficulty at all.
Strange thing though. Believe it or not, without the other alkaloids found in cigarette smoke, nicotine is a lot less addictive.
You might also be surprised to learn that some of those kids are using juices that don't contain nicotine at all (0 nic). You look just as cool while taking no risk of addiction.
It's not really much of an attempt by the market to attract people to an addiction. Most of the advertising until quite recently was word of mouth. Even now, the products you see on late night television or at the convenience store are inferior and overpriced crap. ESPECIALLY the ones made by cigarette manufacturers.
So naturally, you will disable your car radio this instant because of the people with super ears that claim they are bothered by it even when it's at regular volume. Right?
You will also cease using any sort of scented toiletries, surely.
Cellphone on vibrate and never answered in public as well, I assume.
Nonsense. No such thing has been shown. For me, the e-cig was a gateway to not really having any more interest in nicotine at all. Not just being a white knuckle quitter, but actually being able to be around someone smoking and have no interest at all.
They have certainly quit SMOKING. No more carbon monoxide, tar, other carcinogens, and particulates. Also no more of the MAOIs that are also present in cigarettes (and greatly increase the addictive power of cigarettes).
They are left with the nicotine which is probably not totally harmless, but is much less harmful AND much less addictive.
As for those who had quit and then took up vaping, don't forget to count how many would have gone back to smoking otherwise (it's quite common).
And yet, in the past retailers could afford to be closed 52 Sundays a year plus all major and minor holidays and still prosper. Today they're so screwed up they can't even manage to be closed on Thanksgiving without (apparently, according to them) going down in flames.
The rest is just corporations discarding human values and squeezing more out of everyone while paying less.
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Rampant violation of the Constitution is another matter. I agree that the violations are rampant. I just refuse to let claims that the Constitution doesn't apply go unchallenged. Let it be known when authorities de-legitimize themselves.
Sorry, can't afford to follow the law isn't going to cut it. It doesn't for anyone else. If the fees won't cover actually checking for novelty and non-obviousness then they don't issue the patent.
20K will not be enough to make the troll go home. Possibly 20K each if there are many thousands of marks to hit up. All the 20K will get you is a comment that you can either give up now or get ready to spend a whole lot more. Or you could settle for 90% of a whole lot...
Don't believe it? Look how much the rounded corners patent has cost Samsung.
I'm not aware of a geographical limitation on the Constitution anywhere. Other than a few things like being the President or voting, it isn't confined to Citizens either.
That and the findings that amount to user can do odd thing that screws up his own login (equivalent to clicking logout but much harder) but because that's not very exciting we'll say that with extreme handwaving a hurricane could blow up and allow some minor security violation we haven't even imagined yet, much less actually managed to pull off.
"The Patent Office reviewed HP's application for years without ever considering any real-world products. Indeed, the examiner considered only patents and patent applications." Again, that's standard. They don't have a pile of application software they can run through to identify prior art. They do a search in documentation in databases convenient to the examiner.
So they routinely ignore their duty under the law and just do whatever isn't too much trouble for them?
If HP ever tries to enforce this thing, the respondent will no doubt find invalidating prior art.
It'll cost over a million dollars to get the patent invalidated. HP will sit on it until someone threatens their revenue by competing too effectively or they find themselves hard up for cash. Then they'll make sure to demand just a bit less than the cost to overturn the patent.
If so, then nothing ever runs C++ or C for that matter.
C++ having the fail doesn't invalidate the point at all, it just shows something else just as bad.,
The thing is, addiction isn't the real problem. After WWI there were a lot of involuntary heroin addicts that went on to have a more or less normal and productive life even while never kicking the addiction.
Then you didn't watch the news. What do you think Occupy Wall Street was? The result involved a great many arrests, water cannons, and tear gas.
At one time, the Libertarians opposed corporate charters, but they seem to have forgotten.
We have been weakening and shrinking the parts that regulate business. The growth is the parts that regulate individuals.
They've probably figured that out.
Many people use colognes and scented after shave and antiperspirant.
How about the cellphone thing?
Don't forget, unless they switch from ecigs to cigarettes, they aren't smoking. You'll need to figure out how many of them would have started smoking rather than vaping had ecigs not existed.
Of course, for amusement, I sometimes put a white pen in my mouth and laugh at the number of people walking by that seem to develop terrible coughing fits. I haven't smoked in years so it's not a residual smell thing.
Personally, I didn't particularly want to quit when I switched to e-cigs, but they were interesting, a lot cheaper, and bothered a lot less people so I switched.
Within a year, I found that the nicotine cravings were far less urgent than when I was smoking. It turns out the MAOIs in cigarettes really potentiate the addiction. They are also why many people find switching to e-cigs initially difficult. Eventually, I found that the manual habit of vaping was more important than the nicotine, so I just went to zero nic juices with no difficulty at all.
Strange thing though. Believe it or not, without the other alkaloids found in cigarette smoke, nicotine is a lot less addictive.
You might also be surprised to learn that some of those kids are using juices that don't contain nicotine at all (0 nic). You look just as cool while taking no risk of addiction.
It's not really much of an attempt by the market to attract people to an addiction. Most of the advertising until quite recently was word of mouth. Even now, the products you see on late night television or at the convenience store are inferior and overpriced crap. ESPECIALLY the ones made by cigarette manufacturers.
So you never use any sort of cologne or aftershave and only unscented dry application deodorants, right?
That applies to your laundry detergent and fabric softeners too, of course.
Another important question is how many potential new smokers decide to vape instead and so never get the worst of the effects of smoking.
So naturally, you will disable your car radio this instant because of the people with super ears that claim they are bothered by it even when it's at regular volume. Right?
You will also cease using any sort of scented toiletries, surely.
Cellphone on vibrate and never answered in public as well, I assume.
Nonsense. No such thing has been shown. For me, the e-cig was a gateway to not really having any more interest in nicotine at all. Not just being a white knuckle quitter, but actually being able to be around someone smoking and have no interest at all.
They have certainly quit SMOKING. No more carbon monoxide, tar, other carcinogens, and particulates. Also no more of the MAOIs that are also present in cigarettes (and greatly increase the addictive power of cigarettes).
They are left with the nicotine which is probably not totally harmless, but is much less harmful AND much less addictive.
As for those who had quit and then took up vaping, don't forget to count how many would have gone back to smoking otherwise (it's quite common).
And yet, in the past retailers could afford to be closed 52 Sundays a year plus all major and minor holidays and still prosper. Today they're so screwed up they can't even manage to be closed on Thanksgiving without (apparently, according to them) going down in flames.
The rest is just corporations discarding human values and squeezing more out of everyone while paying less.
Because they believe they're fine and want to defend their beloved sport.
Further weaken and shrink the government and the megacorps will shove it aside and become the government.