This is bullshit that assumes that people that take loans that they cant afford simply don't know what they are doing.
I think the scheme was something like this: (1) lie about having a job on your load application, since nobody seems to care to actually check; (2) buy a $400k house; (3) your house goes up in value 20% per year = $80k (increasing); (4) get a 2nd mortgage on the increased equity and use the $80k as income; (5) repeat.
Occupation: professional homeowner, and it pays enough to live off of and pay your mortgage. This scheme works well until your house stops increasing in value enough each year, in which case it all goes kerblooey. The only real naivety in this scheme is thinking a house will appreciate 20% in value every year forever; that's just not sustainable. But still, if you're a deadbeat, you get a few years of living large until going back to deadbeathood.
I just don't get it. Why targetting only fringe minorities with these phones?... while leaving Apple to scoop up the other 80% (or more) of customers. How idiotic
Android smartphones are out-selling iPhones by 2:1. Perhaps they know something about the market that you don't.
How have the constitutionally invalid provisions of the US DMCA not been ripped to shreds in the US courts? Specifically, the violation of free speech (can't talk about digital-lock circumvention), the violation of due process (conviction and punishment without the courts), and the elimination of fair use as a reason to break locks.
Everyone victimized by these ridiculous patents should get into a class-action lawsuit the guilty party in all of this -- the patent office. Adding punitive damages for the results of its fraudulence and incompetence, the lawsuit should run into the hundreds of quadrillions of dollars. Perhaps this would bring some needed sensibility to the process, like peer review or simply throwing it all out the airlock.
That's because they haven't been taken into custody
Neither has Muammar Gadhafi, but he has war crimes, etc. charges and arrest warrants against him. It's a matter of politics, and the ICC simply has a hate-on for Israel, so anything Hamas does is A-OK with the ICC.
All the Android makers need to launch hundreds of patent lawsuits each against Apple. That's the recommended punishment for a company that actually makes something acting like a patent troll.
Rather than just compensation for legal fees, abusive prosecutions like this needs to result in assessments of punitive damages on the scale of 3-10x times the compensatory damages. That would end this kind of abuse very quickly.
A rational reason to inquire about patents you don't think you actually violate is to avoid being shaken down by a patent troll about them. As the tangled web of patent lawsuits in the industry indicates, the likelihood of an illegitimate shakedown is worth a great deal of vigilance. How many companies pay out hundreds of millions a year in licensing of illegitimate patents because they figure it's cheaper than litigating and losing a lawsuit lottery?
I don't carry around change. Since rolls of loonies and toonies are worth $25 and $50, I take them to the bank. It's almost like the coins are *real money*! Now if we can just get rid of the pennies and nickels, we'd be all set.
Anybody who have ever gotten into bed with Microsoft has gotten fucked. Why would you be any different? If you've made big investments in.NET, you have no one to blame but yourself.
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It's a capital "S" in "iPhone 4S", since "Steve" is a proper name.
Hence, the second mortgage.
I think the scheme was something like this: (1) lie about having a job on your load application, since nobody seems to care to actually check; (2) buy a $400k house; (3) your house goes up in value 20% per year = $80k (increasing); (4) get a 2nd mortgage on the increased equity and use the $80k as income; (5) repeat.
Occupation: professional homeowner, and it pays enough to live off of and pay your mortgage. This scheme works well until your house stops increasing in value enough each year, in which case it all goes kerblooey. The only real naivety in this scheme is thinking a house will appreciate 20% in value every year forever; that's just not sustainable. But still, if you're a deadbeat, you get a few years of living large until going back to deadbeathood.
The real here deal is that Apple's design patents are completely bogus.
Come on, most laypeople will think "LibreOffice" is some zodiac thing.
It's on the CBC News front page right now.
It seems to me that this article is mostly observing that lower-income people buy less-expensive phones.
Android smartphones are out-selling iPhones by 2:1. Perhaps they know something about the market that you don't.
This is awesome news! (I should mention that I have Put options on RIM.)
How have the constitutionally invalid provisions of the US DMCA not been ripped to shreds in the US courts? Specifically, the violation of free speech (can't talk about digital-lock circumvention), the violation of due process (conviction and punishment without the courts), and the elimination of fair use as a reason to break locks.
Memetic virulence.
Everyone victimized by these ridiculous patents should get into a class-action lawsuit the guilty party in all of this -- the patent office. Adding punitive damages for the results of its fraudulence and incompetence, the lawsuit should run into the hundreds of quadrillions of dollars. Perhaps this would bring some needed sensibility to the process, like peer review or simply throwing it all out the airlock.
Neither has Muammar Gadhafi, but he has war crimes, etc. charges and arrest warrants against him. It's a matter of politics, and the ICC simply has a hate-on for Israel, so anything Hamas does is A-OK with the ICC.
All the Android makers need to launch hundreds of patent lawsuits each against Apple. That's the recommended punishment for a company that actually makes something acting like a patent troll.
Rather than just compensation for legal fees, abusive prosecutions like this needs to result in assessments of punitive damages on the scale of 3-10x times the compensatory damages. That would end this kind of abuse very quickly.
So, today they cured cancer and yesterday they cured viruses. I guess bacteria is on deck for Friday.
Apple: "The Xoom is also better than the iPad 2."
A rational reason to inquire about patents you don't think you actually violate is to avoid being shaken down by a patent troll about them. As the tangled web of patent lawsuits in the industry indicates, the likelihood of an illegitimate shakedown is worth a great deal of vigilance. How many companies pay out hundreds of millions a year in licensing of illegitimate patents because they figure it's cheaper than litigating and losing a lawsuit lottery?
When will I be able to run Android on my desktop?
I don't carry around change. Since rolls of loonies and toonies are worth $25 and $50, I take them to the bank. It's almost like the coins are *real money*! Now if we can just get rid of the pennies and nickels, we'd be all set.
Eat shit and don't die!
People write video codecs in C/C++ instead of Java because Java is slower. Deal with it.
Anybody who have ever gotten into bed with Microsoft has gotten fucked. Why would you be any different? If you've made big investments in .NET, you have no one to blame but yourself.
You gonna carry that around in your pocket?