That plus the fact that SCOTUS has to shed load and take cases on a discretionary basis means that the CAFC can get away with rubber stamping whatever their sweethearts in the private sector want.
In which case you are still busting ass making those wheels, and the money going into the USPTO so they can hire more examiners is not going into the pockets of fatcat CEOs.
Cars running on biodiesel made from algae grown in a pool, however, not so ridiculous.
My point is that gas and oil are protected industries insulated from a lot of competition by the same sort of good ole boys club that is propping up the IP lobby.
I don't care if samsung copied or not. Nailing them for infringing patents that never should have been issued in the first place is still the wrong way to punish them.
This is nothing more than using samsung to get precedential leverage when apple goes after others.
Especially if you're an on duty police officer in a pursuit... or if you're the mayor and you can fire the chief of police for letting one of his own officers ticket you.
Interestingly enough, while lumps of coal may be punishment for affluent first world kids, it may well be as good as gold to an impoverished third world child that is struggling just to survive because it's the dead of winter and they just ran out of firewood.
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Was it Apple's idea to reject it or were they told to by someone in the US government with connections to the military?
So was it ok for the jury to blatantly disregard evidence of prior art "because it was too much to wade through"?
If the patents are bogus, infringement is a moot point.
If you're a plaintiff with a truck full of smoke and mirrors, you WANT a jury trial.
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Subject line P2P, common term for people you are downloading with is peers.
Shall you make your reputation any seedier than it already is?
Maybe those congress critters are in bed with the lawfirms handling all these patent infringement lawsuits.
If that's the case I would *love* to see a crackdown on perjury for lying on federal applications.
That plus the fact that SCOTUS has to shed load and take cases on a discretionary basis means that the CAFC can get away with rubber stamping whatever their sweethearts in the private sector want.
Bad news for us: The USA is not one of those countries.
In which case you are still busting ass making those wheels, and the money going into the USPTO so they can hire more examiners is not going into the pockets of fatcat CEOs.
Sounds like a blatant conflict of interest that he should have been disqualified for.
Having a kid doesn't give you a blank check to be an irresponsible parent, either.
Cars with solar panels are silly.
Cars running on biodiesel made from algae grown in a pool, however, not so ridiculous.
My point is that gas and oil are protected industries insulated from a lot of competition by the same sort of good ole boys club that is propping up the IP lobby.
I don't care if samsung copied or not. Nailing them for infringing patents that never should have been issued in the first place is still the wrong way to punish them.
This is nothing more than using samsung to get precedential leverage when apple goes after others.
It's about as obvious as the patents that were involved.
Which would be perfect.
Throw in some incentives by taxing gas for pollution and you get the best of both worlds.
I see what you did there.
Subsidizing gas and oil to protect it from competition with solar is just as much good as propping up copyright and patent law to protect the MAFIAA.
If you need the government to bend the market in your favor, you don't belong in the market to begin with.
Sometimes it is.
Especially if you're an on duty police officer in a pursuit... or if you're the mayor and you can fire the chief of police for letting one of his own officers ticket you.
The laws of social power and corporate greed trump the laws of logic.
It is blatant disregard, not merely ignorance.
The elite know damn well what they are doing.
If you drive a big truck as a status symbol and you let your superior mass and inertia go to your head, you ARE a bigger danger.
Not unlike how in the wild, the strong prevail and the weak either run away or get eaten.
Being a big bad-ass is good for you, and bad for everyone else.
Which is really just human selfishness and competitiveness at work.
Sometimes the best way to advance your own interests is to skewer someone else's.
Smaller cars carry less payload and mandating them may backfire if you have to take more trips to compensate.
Just implement a pollution tax and let economics sort it out already.
Energy consumed (and thus pollution created) is proportional to mass, which includes the mass of the vehicle combined with the mass of its payload.
Large vehicles are more efficient than small ones if they are loaded to capacity.
Your crying baby would be able to annoy and make life hell for everyone else.
Going strictly by the numbers, all the other passengers can outvote you.
No lack of sympathy for whatever is making your kid cry like hell, but we have sensitive ears as well.
If you have a screaming kid, do both him and us a favor, and find a way to get him to stop crying.
Interestingly enough, while lumps of coal may be punishment for affluent first world kids, it may well be as good as gold to an impoverished third world child that is struggling just to survive because it's the dead of winter and they just ran out of firewood.
And I'd say that stoners are between a rock and a hard place.