You can care all you please about the multi-resistant bugs those people are training, but it's mostly a waste of outrage. The bugs are being trained by corporate agriculture, and the residue from those antibiotics are being served up with every hamburger or pork chop you eat.
And at the same time, you are supporting a pharmaceutical industry that charges US consumers as much as the blockaded free market will bear.
In a corrupt system it's silly to pick sides - when there are no rules. there are no rules.
Unfortunately, you can't believe the translations of Ahmadinejad's remarks. He says one thing and the published translation is very often a complete lie. On a number of occasions, he said that the Zionist government of Israel should be abolished (regime change) and this was immediately translated as "Israel should be destroyed".
By the way, Ahmadinejad' is kind of a nut case, but he is hardly the supreme dictator of Iran. He has very little real power. They keep electing him because his major talent is pissing off the US and Israel.
For a supposedly unstable culture, Iran hasn't declared war on anyone for several hundred years. Iraq, with our encouragement, declared war on them. Israel, on the other hand has been threatening war against Iran continuously and since Israel does have nuclear weapons, they seem to be a lot more of a threat to world peace than Iran.
For all of that, leaving Iran alone might be a "solution", but we have been taking actions like Stuxnet and economic sanctions which amount to a declaration of war by the United States and it's stooges.
They are a different culture and I dislike much of that culture, but I kind of wish my country would stop acting like a third-rate empire and begin living up to our professed ideals.
" Since they invoke the word 'university' (which, like doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc, is not something you can just call yourself in an official capacity"
I think you should send an emergency e-mail to McDonald's warning them that they can't just call their training program Hamburger University.
The free market doesn't work that way. What would happen is that some private equity firm would start a deal to sell new taxicabs to any schmuck who thinks he can make a living driving a cab. Once the contract is signed, the new owner/entrepreneur is locked in. If the market shows less demand for cabs, he can't quit. Well actually he can, but the payments continue. Then they foreclose on his cab, drive him nuts for the next few years with a deficiency judgment, and sell the cab to the next schmuck who didn't hear what happened to the first guy.
The free market is a great system as long as you keep your gonads out of the hands of the kleptcrats.
The original idea was badly stated and your response was clueless. When the police catch a burglar, on of the things they do is to take every open case in their file cabinet and blame it on the guy they caught. It improves their solved case average even if there is no way the guy is to blame for the other stuff.
Actually FDR provoked the Japanese into attacking. This does not mean that the Japanese were the good guys. There were a lot of reasons why FDR wanted a war - some of them valid, but as barbaric as the Rape of Nanking was, these were not things that directly affected the US. Most US citizens were strongly against any kind of war.
Under Roosevelt, we seized Japanese bank accounts and placed a military blockade against oil shipments to Japan. We were shutting down their economy, and there is no way the Japanese were going to put up with this. There is no way that we were surprised - there had to be some kind of response.
Once the Japanese attacked, in view of the damage at Pearl Harbor, there was no way the US was going to admit their responsibility for provoking the attack, so for seventy or so years it's been "Pearl Harbor" sneak attack..
Not really. But I'm curious why you bothered to respond when you had no ideas and no rebuttal to bring to the table. Thirty years ago, the scientists and mathematicians who knew what they were talking about were shouted down by twits with opinions. I didn't really expect that anything wold change over the years.
No one want's to hear it, and it's about 20-30 years too late, but the effects of secondary smoke were "proved" through bogus statistics and flat out lying.
The EPA examined about 12 studies on the effects of second-hand smoke, most of them from Europe (as I remember). Of the dozen or so studies, almost all of them showed no measurable effect on health from secondary smoke. Two of them showed a very slight negative effect, and one of them showed that secondary smoke was good for you.
The EPA then turned to something called a "meta study" which was supposed to be a way of reviewing an experiment which did not give your the results you expected/wanted. The meta study was supposed to identify information that was not gathered or incorrectly measured or classified. The objective of a meta-study was to design a new study that would be more accurate. Then you were supposed to go back and do the research again, using what you had learned.
Instead, the EPA declared that the meta-study "proved" what they wanted - that secondary smoke was bad for your health. A number of scientists and mathematicians objected and were shouted down and ignored. Once this became established scientific doctrine, every researcher suddenly found very strong negative effects from secondary smoke, even though the honest studies prior to the EPA ruling showed no such effect.
A similar meta-study was recently performed at Stanford, regarding the health effects of an all organic diet - so it now appears that if you can't prove something, it's considered scientifically valid to used a meta-study to prove whatever you want.
Prior to the bogus EPA report, a lot of people disliked smoking simply because they found smoke offensive. This had no effect on public policy. Once people were told that secondary smoke was a personal issue, the anti-smoking nazi's suddenly had something to work with.
But what can you expect. Our laws are made by a generation of people whose parents did not believe that LSD causes chromosome damage.
Actually, there is no "look and feel" currently, but years ago, Lotus won a lawsuit against Borland for exactly that. It took a number of years to get the verdict reversed, and in the interim, Borland was pretty much crippled. They couldn't obtain new investors. They couldn't even find anyone to buy the company. Despite this they still developed products like Delphi that were significantly better than anything M$ developed. Eventually the verdict was overturned.
The final result of the financial squeeze was the firing of Philippe Kahn and the takeover of Borland by the bean counters. It was all downhill from there. The Lotus case proved that a crappy lawsuit can actually destroy a company over a period of years.
Back in the US railroad days there was a tycoon named Collis Huntington. He was known to be ruthless and greedy - kind of the same OCD type as Steve Jobs. Huntington is quoted as saying (more or less):
All I want is what's mine. Whatever is not nailed down is mine. If I can pry it loose, it was not nailed down.
In many ways, it hasn't changed tin the last fifty or so years. In the 1960's, about 5% of engineering graduates actually got to do any engineering. The other 95% were engaged in 'highly skilled" activities such as finding the cheapest resistor/capacitor combination to build the gizmo that one of the 5% got to design. And because the defense industries were operating in a system where their bids got extra brownie points for the number of BAs MAs and Phds in the company, the companies were willing to hire a graduate engineer to push a broom. It improved their chances of getting the next contract.
It was similar in programming. About 5% got to work on the unique innovative stuff. The rest were assigned to program maintenance. At one point, Johns Mannville corporation almost self destructed because they hired an entire IT department of brilliant talented software engineers. Corporate politics takes on a whole new dimension when 95 really smart guys are all fighting to position themselves to be in charge of one of the two or three really interesting new projects schedules for the following year. And no, doing a really good job on your current project didn't count - (see Dilbert for guidance.)
There may be a simple solution: Form a corporation whose sole purpose is to own "intellectual property" and purchase all digital music (or whatever else makes sense) in the name of the corporation. Since a corporation never dies, you can pass on ownership to whoever you please.
You could have even more fun if you set up a "MERS" like registry to keep track of who owns the corporation. At a click of a few keys, you could transfer ownership of the corporation a dozen times a day.
The other benefit of a corporation is that it's difficult for Apple or anyone else to attack a corporation - because Corporate America regards it as an infringement of their right to do as they damn well please.
Nice in theory. How many times can you redevelop your app (due to rejection by Apple) before you are broke and out of business. It's not like you can ask Apple in advance whether your bright idea is acceptable to the ghost of Steve.
Personally, I might use an app store of some kind, but if I can't download the app directly from my own site, I don't want to deal with the maker of that platform.
Apple almost lost it 30 years ago. And over 30 years Steve Jobs never learned a thing about treating customers properly.. His successors apparently only learned what he taught them.A year or two from now, Apple will once again be a minority player with at best 20% of the market. And I bet that they still won't learn a damn thing.
Byt when Steve Jobs wanted the Next to appear as an exact cube, it wasn't shit because he was the boss. Similarly, his Mac developer rules were not shit because he was the boss. And it wasn't shit when many developers and some of his more brilliant employees quietly walked away without crying,
When Apple wound up with a 10% market share and almost went out of business, it wasn't shit, it was just Jobs.
Jobs sunk Apple back in the early 1980s due to his anal-retentive approach to marketing. Large numbers of potential developers took one look at the developers agreement of the time and decide to become IBM PC developers.
If it weren't for Apples superior graphics, the probably would have lost everyone. Similarly, the end-user market rejected Apple because you couldn't install a third-party hard drive. If Apple didn't offer it, you couldn't get it.
There is nothing irrational about refusing to do business with this kind of company. Jobs saved their butt with a truly creative product design - and then proved that in thirty years, he hadn't learned a damn thing. In two years, Android has taken over half the market. In five years, Apple will be back to being a marginal player with about 10% market share. .
Supporting this kind of company demonstrates a kind of mental deficiency. The intelligent rational people will avoid Apple products until we see that Apple has finally learned something and changed it's evil ways.
"Say what you want but a lot of people were put in danger and some actually died due to Manning's treason"
Maybe you could comment on how many of Valerie Plame's contacts were put in danger by Cheney's deliberate treason in identifying her as a CIA agent handler. Actually, Cheney placed any foreign citizen who had ever shaken hands with her in extreme danger.
The Bush administration set the standard and since none of the people who were involved were ever charged with anything, the same standard should be applied to Manning. And by the way, none of the criminals like the helicopter gunmen who blew away the Reuters reporters were ever charged with anything.
When there is no rule of law, there is no rule of law.
Your argument is true, but you left out one thing: Steve Jobs was so anal-retentive that Apple drove off a lot of developers who might have written Mac applications. At the time, I looked at their rules for developers and immediately decided to forget about Apple. A few developers stuck with the Mac because of it's superior graphics. I believe that if it weren't for this, Apple would have lost more market share much more quickly..
I remember the description of the ideal factory security system. It consisted of a computer console, a dog and one human being.
The reason for computer console was to run the factory. The reason for the human being was to feed the dog. The reason for the dog was to keep the human being away from the computer console.
Russia is our friend. They are not so sure that we are their friend. After the collapse of the Soviet Union we moved in and established "relations" with any number of gangsters and rogue politicians in Russia. And we contributed financially to a number of useful people. We bought strategic resources and we bought politicians.
When one of their rogue oligarchs was in the process of trying to sell the Russian oil industry to some outfit in Dallas, the old hardliners decided we were definitely not their friend. - > the return of Putin and friends.
We also promised that we were not going to make Russia's neighboring countries part of NATO. Then we made all of those neighboring countries part of NATO.
Richard S Wheeler is author of "Second Lives", a collection of stories about people who's lives change drastically after some major loss.
Lorenzo Carthage was a mining developer who made and lost fortunes. In his story, he has just lost everything and has had to take a degrading job processing ore just to feed himself. His clothes have been stolen and he cannot even visit his former business associates because he looks like a bum.
But he gets a chance because HAW Tabor agrees to back his latest gold mining idea. He's back on top, the money is flowing and his employees are digging their little hearts out.
And the closer it gets to the opening of the mine, the more Lorenzo takes advantage of his employees. He cuts their wages drastically and more or less announces that once the gold mine is open, there will be even deeper cuts.
And just before the mine is due to open, the miners remember where they stored the excess dynamite. They blow the hell out of the mine and there is no way it can ever be dug out again.
Lorenzo goes insane and becomes incapable of acknowledging that his money is gone. He writes bad checks, and many merchants and restaurants accept them, even knowing they were worthless.
(In California, there was a real person known as "the Emperor Norton" who actually did this, and people accepted those checks because he was charming and in a perverse way entertaining.)
I always expected Steve Jobs to wind up as a kind of Emperor Norton. He was a "control freak" who created Apple and almost sunk it back in the 1980s. Having gotten a new chance, it was obvious that in 30 years he had never learned a thing. I expected Apple to once again wind up with a 10% market share because of his policies.
It's not a matter of hating Apple. People have an innate awareness of what is fair. Beyond a certain point people not only refuse to do business with an unfair company, they become willing to do whatever it takes to insure that cheaters never prosper.
Now that Jobs is gone, it is possible that Apple will learn something as a company - but I wouldn't count on it.
This isn't a solution, but it is something to think about. (It's not totally accurate, but it's a reasonably close description - and there were actually several enclosure acts, not just one.) It could be argued that the enclosure acts were the beginning of our modern concept of "property".
In the 18th century, our then Lords and Masters took over by passing the Enclosure Acts which ran the peasants off of the commons - producing three generations of property-less rabble. They also passed rules regarding privately held land. If you wanted to establish title to the ground that your family had "owned" for several hundred years, you had to enclose your property with a fence or a hedge. The catch was that the cost of the enclosure was ten times the value of the land.
The smart peasants sold their land for a few bucks, got on a boat and came to the "new world". Their goal was to get a chunk of land, draw a circle around it and not have any one screw with them again. The Native Americans never had a chance.
Just as the European nobility "invented" property, our current nobility has invented "intellectual property" and is in the process of producing new generations of property-less rabble.
The states have gotten together and set up an interstate commission to deal with this kind of stuff. It was passed by the legislatures and signed off by the governors, and the final result is you are screwed. You either plead guilty by mail and pay the fine, or they find you guilty in absentia and screw up your license and registration by remote control. And it's all perfectly legal. In general, a judge is not necessarily part of the process.
You can complain all you want - they don't give a damn. What they want is the money and in the case of AZ and NM, in particular, they don't care whether the result is fair or not.
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You can care all you please about the multi-resistant bugs those people are training, but it's mostly a waste of outrage. The bugs are being trained by corporate agriculture, and the residue from those antibiotics are being served up with every hamburger or pork chop you eat.
And at the same time, you are supporting a pharmaceutical industry that charges US consumers as much as the blockaded free market will bear.
In a corrupt system it's silly to pick sides - when there are no rules. there are no rules.
Unfortunately, you can't believe the translations of Ahmadinejad's remarks. He says one thing and the published translation is very often a complete lie. On a number of occasions, he said that the Zionist government of Israel should be abolished (regime change) and this was immediately translated as "Israel should be destroyed".
By the way, Ahmadinejad' is kind of a nut case, but he is hardly the supreme dictator of Iran. He has very little real power. They keep electing him because his major talent is pissing off the US and Israel.
For a supposedly unstable culture, Iran hasn't declared war on anyone for several hundred years. Iraq, with our encouragement, declared war on them. Israel, on the other hand has been threatening war against Iran continuously and since Israel does have nuclear weapons, they seem to be a lot more of a threat to world peace than Iran.
For all of that, leaving Iran alone might be a "solution", but we have been taking actions like Stuxnet and economic sanctions which amount to a declaration of war by the United States and it's stooges.
They are a different culture and I dislike much of that culture, but I kind of wish my country would stop acting like a third-rate empire and begin living up to our professed ideals.
" Since they invoke the word 'university' (which, like doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc, is not something you can just call yourself in an official capacity"
I think you should send an emergency e-mail to McDonald's warning them that they can't just call their training program Hamburger University.
The free market doesn't work that way. What would happen is that some private equity firm would start a deal to sell new taxicabs to any schmuck who thinks he can make a living driving a cab. Once the contract is signed, the new owner/entrepreneur is locked in. If the market shows less demand for cabs, he can't quit. Well actually he can, but the payments continue. Then they foreclose on his cab, drive him nuts for the next few years with a deficiency judgment, and sell the cab to the next schmuck who didn't hear what happened to the first guy.
The free market is a great system as long as you keep your gonads out of the hands of the kleptcrats.
The original idea was badly stated and your response was clueless. When the police catch a burglar, on of the things they do is to take every open case in their file cabinet and blame it on the guy they caught. It improves their solved case average even if there is no way the guy is to blame for the other stuff.
Actually FDR provoked the Japanese into attacking. This does not mean that the Japanese were the good guys. There were a lot of reasons why FDR wanted a war - some of them valid, but as barbaric as the Rape of Nanking was, these were not things that directly affected the US. Most US citizens were strongly against any kind of war.
Under Roosevelt, we seized Japanese bank accounts and placed a military blockade against oil shipments to Japan. We were shutting down their economy, and there is no way the Japanese were going to put up with this. There is no way that we were surprised - there had to be some kind of response.
Once the Japanese attacked, in view of the damage at Pearl Harbor, there was no way the US was going to admit their responsibility for provoking the attack, so for seventy or so years it's been "Pearl Harbor" sneak attack..
That used to be true. Today I get the government someone else pays for.
Not really. But I'm curious why you bothered to respond when you had no ideas and no rebuttal to bring to the table. Thirty years ago, the scientists and mathematicians who knew what they were talking about were shouted down by twits with opinions. I didn't really expect that anything wold change over the years.
No one want's to hear it, and it's about 20-30 years too late, but the effects of secondary smoke were "proved" through bogus statistics and flat out lying.
The EPA examined about 12 studies on the effects of second-hand smoke, most of them from Europe (as I remember). Of the dozen or so studies, almost all of them showed no measurable effect on health from secondary smoke. Two of them showed a very slight negative effect, and one of them showed that secondary smoke was good for you.
The EPA then turned to something called a "meta study" which was supposed to be a way of reviewing an experiment which did not give your the results you expected/wanted. The meta study was supposed to identify information that was not gathered or incorrectly measured or classified. The objective of a meta-study was to design a new study that would be more accurate. Then you were supposed to go back and do the research again, using what you had learned.
Instead, the EPA declared that the meta-study "proved" what they wanted - that secondary smoke was bad for your health. A number of scientists and mathematicians objected and were shouted down and ignored. Once this became established scientific doctrine, every researcher suddenly found very strong negative effects from secondary smoke, even though the honest studies prior to the EPA ruling showed no such effect.
A similar meta-study was recently performed at Stanford, regarding the health effects of an all organic diet - so it now appears that if you can't prove something, it's considered scientifically valid to used a meta-study to prove whatever you want.
Prior to the bogus EPA report, a lot of people disliked smoking simply because they found smoke offensive. This had no effect on public policy. Once people were told that secondary smoke was a personal issue, the anti-smoking nazi's suddenly had something to work with.
But what can you expect. Our laws are made by a generation of people whose parents did not believe that LSD causes chromosome damage.
Actually, there is no "look and feel" currently, but years ago, Lotus won a lawsuit against Borland for exactly that. It took a number of years to get the verdict reversed, and in the interim, Borland was pretty much crippled. They couldn't obtain new investors. They couldn't even find anyone to buy the company. Despite this they still developed products like Delphi that were significantly better than anything M$ developed. Eventually the verdict was overturned.
The final result of the financial squeeze was the firing of Philippe Kahn and the takeover of Borland by the bean counters. It was all downhill from there. The Lotus case proved that a crappy lawsuit can actually destroy a company over a period of years.
Back in the US railroad days there was a tycoon named Collis Huntington. He was known to be ruthless and greedy - kind of the same OCD type as Steve Jobs. Huntington is quoted as saying (more or less):
All I want is what's mine. Whatever is not nailed down is mine. If I can pry it loose, it was not nailed down.
In many ways, it hasn't changed tin the last fifty or so years. In the 1960's, about 5% of engineering graduates actually got to do any engineering. The other 95% were engaged in 'highly skilled" activities such as finding the cheapest resistor/capacitor combination to build the gizmo that one of the 5% got to design. And because the defense industries were operating in a system where their bids got extra brownie points for the number of BAs MAs and Phds in the company, the companies were willing to hire a graduate engineer to push a broom. It improved their chances of getting the next contract.
It was similar in programming. About 5% got to work on the unique innovative stuff. The rest were assigned to program maintenance. At one point, Johns Mannville corporation almost self destructed because they hired an entire IT department of brilliant talented software engineers. Corporate politics takes on a whole new dimension when 95 really smart guys are all fighting to position themselves to be in charge of one of the two or three really interesting new projects schedules for the following year. And no, doing a really good job on your current project didn't count - (see Dilbert for guidance.)
There may be a simple solution: Form a corporation whose sole purpose is to own "intellectual property" and purchase all digital music (or whatever else makes sense) in the name of the corporation. Since a corporation never dies, you can pass on ownership to whoever you please.
You could have even more fun if you set up a "MERS" like registry to keep track of who owns the corporation. At a click of a few keys, you could transfer ownership of the corporation a dozen times a day.
The other benefit of a corporation is that it's difficult for Apple or anyone else to attack a corporation - because Corporate America regards it as an infringement of their right to do as they damn well please.
Nice in theory. How many times can you redevelop your app (due to rejection by Apple) before you are broke and out of business. It's not like you can ask Apple in advance whether your bright idea is acceptable to the ghost of Steve.
Personally, I might use an app store of some kind, but if I can't download the app directly from my own site, I don't want to deal with the maker of that platform.
Apple almost lost it 30 years ago. And over 30 years Steve Jobs never learned a thing about treating customers properly.. His successors apparently only learned what he taught them.A year or two from now, Apple will once again be a minority player with at best 20% of the market. And I bet that they still won't learn a damn thing.
Byt when Steve Jobs wanted the Next to appear as an exact cube, it wasn't shit because he was the boss. Similarly, his Mac developer rules were not shit because he was the boss. And it wasn't shit when many developers and some of his more brilliant employees quietly walked away without crying,
When Apple wound up with a 10% market share and almost went out of business, it wasn't shit, it was just Jobs.
Without laws, society is defined by who has the biggest club - kid of like our current legal system.
Jobs sunk Apple back in the early 1980s due to his anal-retentive approach to marketing. Large numbers of potential developers took one look at the developers agreement of the time and decide to become IBM PC developers.
If it weren't for Apples superior graphics, the probably would have lost everyone. Similarly, the end-user market rejected Apple because you couldn't install a third-party hard drive. If Apple didn't offer it, you couldn't get it.
There is nothing irrational about refusing to do business with this kind of company. Jobs saved their butt with a truly creative product design - and then proved that in thirty years, he hadn't learned a damn thing. In two years, Android has taken over half the market. In five years, Apple will be back to being a marginal player with about 10% market share. .
Supporting this kind of company demonstrates a kind of mental deficiency. The intelligent rational people will avoid Apple products until we see that Apple has finally learned something and changed it's evil ways.
"Say what you want but a lot of people were put in danger and some actually died due to Manning's treason"
Maybe you could comment on how many of Valerie Plame's contacts were put in danger by Cheney's deliberate treason in identifying her as a CIA agent handler. Actually, Cheney placed any foreign citizen who had ever shaken hands with her in extreme danger.
The Bush administration set the standard and since none of the people who were involved were ever charged with anything, the same standard should be applied to Manning. And by the way, none of the criminals like the helicopter gunmen who blew away the Reuters reporters were ever charged with anything.
When there is no rule of law, there is no rule of law.
Your argument is true, but you left out one thing: Steve Jobs was so anal-retentive that Apple drove off a lot of developers who might have written Mac applications. At the time, I looked at their rules for developers and immediately decided to forget about Apple. A few developers stuck with the Mac because of it's superior graphics. I believe that if it weren't for this, Apple would have lost more market share much more quickly..
I remember the description of the ideal factory security system. It consisted of a computer console, a dog and one human being.
The reason for computer console was to run the factory.
The reason for the human being was to feed the dog.
The reason for the dog was to keep the human being away from the computer console.
Russia is our friend. They are not so sure that we are their friend. After the collapse of the Soviet Union we moved in and established "relations" with any number of gangsters and rogue politicians in Russia. And we contributed financially to a number of useful people. We bought strategic resources and we bought politicians.
When one of their rogue oligarchs was in the process of trying to sell the Russian oil industry to some outfit in Dallas, the old hardliners decided we were definitely not their friend. - > the return of Putin and friends.
We also promised that we were not going to make Russia's neighboring countries part of NATO. Then we made all of those neighboring countries part of NATO.
Richard S Wheeler is author of "Second Lives", a collection of stories about people who's lives change drastically after some major loss.
Lorenzo Carthage was a mining developer who made and lost fortunes. In his story, he has just lost everything and has had to take a degrading job processing ore just to feed himself. His clothes have been stolen and he cannot even visit his former business associates because he looks like a bum.
But he gets a chance because HAW Tabor agrees to back his latest gold mining idea. He's back on top, the money is flowing and his employees are digging their little hearts out.
And the closer it gets to the opening of the mine, the more Lorenzo takes advantage of his employees. He cuts their wages drastically and more or less announces that once the gold mine is open, there will be even deeper cuts.
And just before the mine is due to open, the miners remember where they stored the excess dynamite. They blow the hell out of the mine and there is no way it can ever be dug out again.
Lorenzo goes insane and becomes incapable of acknowledging that his money is gone. He writes bad checks, and many merchants and restaurants accept them, even knowing they were worthless.
(In California, there was a real person known as "the Emperor Norton" who actually did this, and people accepted those checks because he was charming and in a perverse way entertaining.)
I always expected Steve Jobs to wind up as a kind of Emperor Norton. He was a "control freak" who created Apple and almost sunk it back in the 1980s. Having gotten a new chance, it was obvious that in 30 years he had never learned a thing. I expected Apple to once again wind up with a 10% market share because of his policies.
It's not a matter of hating Apple. People have an innate awareness of what is fair. Beyond a certain point people not only refuse to do business with an unfair company, they become willing to do whatever it takes to insure that cheaters never prosper.
Now that Jobs is gone, it is possible that Apple will learn something as a company - but I wouldn't count on it.
This isn't a solution, but it is something to think about. (It's not totally accurate, but it's a reasonably close description - and there were actually several enclosure acts, not just one.) It could be argued that the enclosure acts were the beginning of our modern concept of "property".
In the 18th century, our then Lords and Masters took over by passing the Enclosure Acts which ran the peasants off of the commons - producing three generations of property-less rabble. They also passed rules regarding privately held land. If you wanted to establish title to the ground that your family had "owned" for several hundred years, you had to enclose your property with a fence or a hedge. The catch was that the cost of the enclosure was ten times the value of the land.
The smart peasants sold their land for a few bucks, got on a boat and came to the "new world". Their goal was to get a chunk of land, draw a circle around it and not have any one screw with them again. The Native Americans never had a chance.
Just as the European nobility "invented" property, our current nobility has invented "intellectual property" and is in the process of producing new generations of property-less rabble.
The states have gotten together and set up an interstate commission to deal with this kind of stuff. It was passed by the legislatures and signed off by the governors, and the final result is you are screwed. You either plead guilty by mail and pay the fine, or they find you guilty in absentia and screw up your license and registration by remote control. And it's all perfectly legal. In general, a judge is not necessarily part of the process.
You can complain all you want - they don't give a damn. What they want is the money and in the case of AZ and NM, in particular, they don't care whether the result is fair or not.