1. Require the plaintiff in a patent suit to actually manufacture and sell a product using the patent in question. No patent holding companies putting their tax on innovation.
2. Require patents to be available under a statutory rate which must to the lowest license fee charged to any of the current licensees.
Laws say what they mean, If they meant State Constitutions they would have said state constitutions. Instead they said "the Constitution." What you said had merit only if they said "their Constitutions".
Translation: "we want to allow the outsourcing of 300,000 American Jobs as an insidious tool to force down wages for skilled labor in America." It's the race to the bottom. There's no shortage of trained IT people in America, there is a lack of desire by these companies to pay the wages and benefits required to hire them.
Actually google provides a much better definition...
notwithstanding/nätwiTHstandiNG/ Preposition In spite of.
So if we read the applicable term from the constitution,
"and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding"
This is what it would say written in modern English...
"The Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and our International Treaty Obligations are the supreme law of the land. Judges are required to honor our treaty obligations; in spite of anything the Constitution or laws of any state may say to the contrary."
No it gives the President with the approval of 2/3rds of the U.S. Senate the power to override our Constitution and the laws of the individual states. Article II section 2 of the US constitution defines the powers of the president and says "He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur."
Actually it does as the agreement which created the WTO is a treaty and the U.S. is required to treat their treaty obligations as equal to the U.S. Constitution.
Under Article II section 2
2. The agreements and associated legal instruments included in Annexes 1, 2 and 3 (hereinafter referred to as "Multilateral Trade Agreements") are integral parts of this Agreement, binding on all Members.
The WTO Agreement is a treaty. This is what our constitution says about our treaty obligations. "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
So a treaty obligation such adhering to WTO decisions has the equal weight to the Constitution of the United States.
1. Require all commercial calls to display accurate caller id information. 2. Require telephone company providers to disable the ability for caller id blocking and caller id spoofing on their networks 3. Require the use of the do not call list. 4. A doubling first time fine for violations for both the company providing the calling service and for the company providing the product or service they are hawking. Each subsequent fine will double. $1,000,000... $2,000,000... $4,000,000... $8,000,000 etc....
They also claim they are going to make the Internet Family Friendly, ban internet gambling, require ISP's to monitor their users for sexual deviancy, and require laws against pornography and obscenity to be vigorously enforced. You can't have it both ways but that is what this article is claiming.
In the Samsung case the jury walked into the jury room with a very complex 700 question jury questionnaire and answered all 700 in 21 hours which is 1.8 minutes per question. Does anyone thing they really deliberated the merits of the case? It would take that long just to read the questionnaire and write down an answer.
I can see by this submission the Apple's law firm reads Slashdot. The submissions text is so far out in left field It's not even funny! Reading the actual court filings you don't come up with the fact that Apple tore anything to shreds, much less the government's case. Apple does try to defend itself and its actions but that is to try to defend the indefensible. The government has damning words by Apple's own Steve Jobs and in spite attempts by Apple to minimize the effect of those words. The real world results prove the governments case. In my opinion.
Apple deliberately misleads the court in its filings claiming that Amazon Kindle owners can only buy books from Amazon. This is the same as suggesting that iPad owners can only buy books from Apple. Apple ignores and myriad of smaller e-book competitors, I guess they just beneath Apple's notice. I have purchased e-books from many sources as sometimes the book I'm looking for is not simply not available from Amazon, so I have to use the excellent Calibre program to convert and manage my non-Amazon e-book purchases, as well as to load the books onto my device. It serves this function quite well.
Even when Amazon was the primary large e-book vendor on the Internet, there was nothing preventing publishers from maintaining their own storefronts for people to buy their e-books directly from them at close to the wholesale price that they charge Amazon, indeed, this would've made a lot of sense.
I've written on Slashdot in the past that the price of electronic goods are much less than those of physical goods. With electronic goods. You don't have the rights of printing, binding, shipping, and handling returns. While yes, the publishers who have cost in editing a manuscript, creating artwork, these costs, they would've paid anyway for the print version of the book. Once a single e-book is created by the publisher. You can distribute it an unlimited number of times. So the publishers make nearly a 100% profit on electronic sales. Consumers instinctively know this, and expect to pay much less. this desire for higher prices rivaling those of print or electronic version has significantly impeded the vibrant and competitive e-book marketplace consumers should have been able to expect.
The real crime that the publishers feel that Amazon has committed and needed punishment for was by providing a mechanism for small independent authors to get their works to market. I have read many of these $1-$2 e-books, and despite a few disappointments have been relatively happy with the experience.
What Apple has done with their anti-competitive in spite of their claims to the contrary, most-favored-nation status is to ensure that publishers must control the prices that they charge other vendors for the books, in order to account for Apple's most-favored-nation status and agency fee. This has the intended effect of raising the costs for e-books for consumers by preventing publishers from being able to choose to discount the retail price on new release books and in doing so causing harm to consumers. Which is the heart of the government's case. Walmart was found guilty a price-fixing, along with music publishers; and Apple will be too. I can't wait!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_3D released 1996 and while doom is referenced, duke is not. I also think the detailed list of commands would not bode well for them since each program would have it's own language and functions. Most don't even use plain english such as world's "invention"
We need to pass legislation which bans Lawyers and Law Firms from venue shopping. For example the East Texas courts have been extremely favorable to patent claims and so firms try to bring patent cases there.
With the Comhttp://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/04/05/2131233/the-story-behind-australias-csiro-wi-fi-claims#monwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization being based out of Australia they should be required to file the case in whatever districts the corporations in question have their headquarters.
They should also not be able to bind the case together unless there was a clear link between the companies in question (common owner, direct collusion, etc). I doubt they can tie Acer, Atheros, AT&T, Broadcom, Gateway, Lenovo, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sony together in that manner.
In every neighborhood watch program the first rule is watchers do not follow or confront the suspects, they notify the police and let them handle it. The second rule is you are not allowed to not carry or use weapons.
From the Sanford Florida's Neighborhood watch guide...
Remember always that your responsibility is to report crime. Do not take any risks to prevent a crime or try to make an arrest. The responsibility for apprehending criminals belongs to the police department.
"In no program that I have ever heard of does someone patrol with a gun in their pocket," Carmen Caldwell, the Executive Director of Citizens' Crime Watch of Miami-Dade, told theGrio. "Every city and municipality has their own policies. Here in Miami-Dade we train people only to be the eyes and ears of their communities. Not to follow and most definitely not to carry a weapon."
Then you have the fact that the 911 operator specifically told him not to follow the subject. Yet you can hear him continue to follow on the audio.
Are you following him?”
“Yeah.”
“OK, we don’t need you to do that,”
He also mutters a racial epitaph "Fucking coons" and shortly there after people report that you can hear the gun being cocked.
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1. Require the plaintiff in a patent suit to actually manufacture and sell a product using the patent in question. No patent holding companies putting their tax on innovation.
2. Require patents to be available under a statutory rate which must to the lowest license fee charged to any of the current licensees.
Laws say what they mean, If they meant State Constitutions they would have said state constitutions. Instead they said "the Constitution." What you said had merit only if they said "their Constitutions".
Translation: "we want to allow the outsourcing of 300,000 American Jobs as an insidious tool to force down wages for skilled labor in America." It's the race to the bottom. There's no shortage of trained IT people in America, there is a lack of desire by these companies to pay the wages and benefits required to hire them.
Actually google provides a much better definition...
So if we read the applicable term from the constitution,
"and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding"
This is what it would say written in modern English...
"The Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and our International Treaty Obligations are the supreme law of the land. Judges are required to honor our treaty obligations; in spite of anything the Constitution or laws of any state may say to the contrary."
No it gives the President with the approval of 2/3rds of the U.S. Senate the power to override our Constitution and the laws of the individual states. Article II section 2 of the US constitution defines the powers of the president and says "He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur."
I was about to post the same thing. Thanks for covering it.
Actually it does as the agreement which created the WTO is a treaty and the U.S. is required to treat their treaty obligations as equal to the U.S. Constitution.
Under Article II section 2
We are in violation.
Not once the WTO issued their decision that the site was legal. We are bound here by our treaty obligations.
The WTO Agreement is a treaty. This is what our constitution says about our treaty obligations. "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
So a treaty obligation such adhering to WTO decisions has the equal weight to the Constitution of the United States.
Once he embedded metal into a firework that makes it into a bomb which is highly illegal in the United States.
This is worth a few mod points.
I have never found a site I couldn't adblock...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyqzPu5pX6U&t=3m10s
Can we have it back please...
Easy
1. Require all commercial calls to display accurate caller id information.
2. Require telephone company providers to disable the ability for caller id blocking and caller id spoofing on their networks
3. Require the use of the do not call list.
4. A doubling first time fine for violations for both the company providing the calling service and for the company providing the product or service they are hawking. Each subsequent fine will double. $1,000,000... $2,000,000... $4,000,000... $8,000,000 etc....
They say that like it's a bad thing?
Game the system, pay the price...
They also claim they are going to make the Internet Family Friendly, ban internet gambling, require ISP's to monitor their users for sexual deviancy, and require laws against pornography and obscenity to be vigorously enforced. You can't have it both ways but that is what this article is claiming.
In the Samsung case the jury walked into the jury room with a very complex 700 question jury questionnaire and answered all 700 in 21 hours which is 1.8 minutes per question. Does anyone thing they really deliberated the merits of the case? It would take that long just to read the questionnaire and write down an answer.
Sorry for the typos the few spots are used to my voice dictation software to write this, still got a lot to learn about using it.
I can see by this submission the Apple's law firm reads Slashdot. The submissions text is so far out in left field It's not even funny! Reading the actual court filings you don't come up with the fact that Apple tore anything to shreds, much less the government's case. Apple does try to defend itself and its actions but that is to try to defend the indefensible. The government has damning words by Apple's own Steve Jobs and in spite attempts by Apple to minimize the effect of those words. The real world results prove the governments case. In my opinion.
Apple deliberately misleads the court in its filings claiming that Amazon Kindle owners can only buy books from Amazon. This is the same as suggesting that iPad owners can only buy books from Apple. Apple ignores and myriad of smaller e-book competitors, I guess they just beneath Apple's notice. I have purchased e-books from many sources as sometimes the book I'm looking for is not simply not available from Amazon, so I have to use the excellent Calibre program to convert and manage my non-Amazon e-book purchases, as well as to load the books onto my device. It serves this function quite well.
Even when Amazon was the primary large e-book vendor on the Internet, there was nothing preventing publishers from maintaining their own storefronts for people to buy their e-books directly from them at close to the wholesale price that they charge Amazon, indeed, this would've made a lot of sense.
I've written on Slashdot in the past that the price of electronic goods are much less than those of physical goods. With electronic goods. You don't have the rights of printing, binding, shipping, and handling returns. While yes, the publishers who have cost in editing a manuscript, creating artwork, these costs, they would've paid anyway for the print version of the book. Once a single e-book is created by the publisher. You can distribute it an unlimited number of times. So the publishers make nearly a 100% profit on electronic sales. Consumers instinctively know this, and expect to pay much less. this desire for higher prices rivaling those of print or electronic version has significantly impeded the vibrant and competitive e-book marketplace consumers should have been able to expect.
The real crime that the publishers feel that Amazon has committed and needed punishment for was by providing a mechanism for small independent authors to get their works to market. I have read many of these $1-$2 e-books, and despite a few disappointments have been relatively happy with the experience.
What Apple has done with their anti-competitive in spite of their claims to the contrary, most-favored-nation status is to ensure that publishers must control the prices that they charge other vendors for the books, in order to account for Apple's most-favored-nation status and agency fee. This has the intended effect of raising the costs for e-books for consumers by preventing publishers from being able to choose to discount the retail price on new release books and in doing so causing harm to consumers. Which is the heart of the government's case. Walmart was found guilty a price-fixing, along with music publishers; and Apple will be too. I can't wait!
But we already have secret patents they are called trade secrets.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_secret
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_3D released 1996 and while doom is referenced, duke is not. I also think the detailed list of commands would not bode well for them since each program would have it's own language and functions. Most don't even use plain english such as world's "invention"
We need to pass legislation which bans Lawyers and Law Firms from venue shopping. For example the East Texas courts have been extremely favorable to patent claims and so firms try to bring patent cases there.
With the Comhttp://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/04/05/2131233/the-story-behind-australias-csiro-wi-fi-claims#monwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization being based out of Australia they should be required to file the case in whatever districts the corporations in question have their headquarters.
They should also not be able to bind the case together unless there was a clear link between the companies in question (common owner, direct collusion, etc). I doubt they can tie Acer, Atheros, AT&T, Broadcom, Gateway, Lenovo, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sony together in that manner.
Actually it looks legit. see the ruling file at http://ia600803.us.archive.org/25/items/gov.uscourts.ilnd.265453/gov.uscourts.ilnd.265453.23.0.pdf It's dated Friday...
In every neighborhood watch program the first rule is watchers do not follow or confront the suspects, they notify the police and let them handle it. The second rule is you are not allowed to not carry or use weapons.
From the Sanford Florida's Neighborhood watch guide...
Remember always that your responsibility is to report crime. Do not take any risks to prevent a crime or try to make an arrest. The responsibility for
apprehending criminals belongs to the police department.
"In no program that I have ever heard of does someone patrol with a gun in their pocket," Carmen Caldwell, the Executive Director of Citizens' Crime Watch of Miami-Dade, told theGrio. "Every city and municipality has their own policies. Here in Miami-Dade we train people only to be the eyes and ears of their communities. Not to follow and most definitely not to carry a weapon."
Then you have the fact that the 911 operator specifically told him not to follow the subject. Yet you can hear him continue to follow on the audio.
Are you following him?”
“Yeah.”
“OK, we don’t need you to do that,”
He also mutters a racial epitaph "Fucking coons" and shortly there after people report that you can hear the gun being cocked.