dysamoria

1. This is a ludicrous lawsuit. Apple isn’t the infringing party.

2. Infringement is based on a patent that should probably not exist (you cannot patent an idea).

3. “non-practicing entity“... so, it’s a patent troll, like usual. That alone should have it dismissed with prejudice.

4. The patent system is utterly broken. When is this going to be addressed? Exactly how many systems do we allow to be broken before we classify our nation as failed? Because some already wealthy elitists make money on the broken system is probably part of what keeps it in place.

5. This is a stupid product.

patchythepirate said:

tmay said:

Xed said:

tmay said:

Here's an upcoming problem, brought to you primarily by vaccine hesitancy, and  anti-vaxxers;

https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/20/states-are-sitting-on-millions-of-surplus-covid-19-vaccine-doses-as-expiration-dates-approach/

States are sitting on millions of surplus Covid-19 vaccine doses as expiration dates approach

The U.S. needs to figure out how to take that surplus, and deliver it to countries in need, and do so before expiration. 

Telling certain people that the US vaccine supply may go to another, less (um) white country will surely encourage some to get it. LOL

I'm thinking, you might be right...

Y’all sound a bit racist.

No, they sound like they know just how racist the USA population is; especially among the people who most reject facts and science. 

tmay said:

dysamoria said:

tmay said:

tylersdad said:

lkrupp said:

Xed said:

sdw2001 said:

It is amazing how we just keep repeating the insanity. We know that mask mandates and lockdowns don’t work. This is unequivocal. That is not to say masks don’t work at all, but the way we’re wearing them clearly will not be effective.  We aren’t talking about wearing an N 95 or better mask when entering a high risk environment like a medical facility or a nursing home. We’re talking about wearing a piece of cloth or paper across your face while you shop for your new AirPods. It’s not going to do anything.  

Sure they do. It's asshole republicans who can't seem to follow simple rules that keep exacerbating this problem.

I now see plenty of businesses saying that if you're vaccinated you don't have to wear a mask, but for unvaccinated people to wear them. Are unvaccinated people going to wear masks? Not the ones that I know.

Yep, the so-called ‘honor system’ is a joke. Someone who refuses to get vaccinated is also not going to pay attention to the honor system by wearing a mask. They see it as an excuse not to wear a mask and don't give a shit if they spread the virus. Time for vaccination passports and severe consequences if caught using a forged one. 

But on the other hand, the government is so incompetent it would be a complete mess. I got a letter from my county health department saying they had no record of me getting my second Pfizer shot. I got both shots at the same county vaccination center and have my county vaccination card with both stickers showing the dates and time of both shots. See what I mean?

And it's the unvaccinated who are contracting severe cases, not the vaccinated. If the unvaccinated want to take their chances, let them. 

I'm a democrat, and at this stage of vaccination in the U.S., I'm all for Darwin to have his day. The only negative is that the U.S. medical system is getting pretty tired of dealing with these hospitalizations of the unvaccinated. Myself, I'm concerned about the continuing pool of mutations that the world has yet to experience.

This is a terrible attitude. It shows complete disregard of people with weakened immune systems (like my girlfriend who has cancer). You acknowledge the threat of mutation breeding; why? Because you feel that might effect you?

Throwing our hands up in the air and saying “let people do stupid shit” is just as irresponsible an attitude as the people who can’t be bothered to contribute to the public good because they don’t like inconvenience.

Fair enough, as if I wasn't specific enough about the cohort of unvaccinated that are an issue.

https://www.al.com/news/2021/07/im-sorry-but-its-too-late-alabama-doctor-on-treating-unvaccinated-dying-covid-patients.html

Dr. Brytney Cobia said Monday that all but one of her COVID patients in Alabama did not receive the vaccine. The vaccinated patient, she said, just needed a little oxygen and is expected to fully recover. Some of the others are dying.

“I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,” wrote Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, in an emotional Facebook post Sunday. “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.”

I empathize with you and your girlfriend.

Thank you.

crowley said:

sdw2001 said:

lkrupp said:

Xed said:

sdw2001 said:

It is amazing how we just keep repeating the insanity. We know that mask mandates and lockdowns don’t work. This is unequivocal. That is not to say masks don’t work at all, but the way we’re wearing them clearly will not be effective.  We aren’t talking about wearing an N 95 or better mask when entering a high risk environment like a medical facility or a nursing home. We’re talking about wearing a piece of cloth or paper across your face while you shop for your new AirPods. It’s not going to do anything.  

Sure they do. It's asshole republicans who can't seem to follow simple rules that keep exacerbating this problem.

I now see plenty of businesses saying that if you're vaccinated you don't have to wear a mask, but for unvaccinated people to wear them. Are unvaccinated people going to wear masks? Not the ones that I know.

Yep, the so-called ‘honor system’ is a joke. Someone who refuses to get vaccinated is also not going to pay attention to the honor system by wearing a mask. They see it as an excuse not to wear a mask and don't give a shit if they spread the virus. Time for vaccination passports and severe consequences if caught using a forged one. 

But on the other hand, the government is so incompetent it would be a complete mess. I got a letter from my county health department saying they had no record of me getting my second Pfizer shot. I got both shots at the same county vaccination center and have my county vaccination card with both stickers showing the dates and time of both shots. See what I mean?

So you love tyranny.  Got it.  

Get a grip, it's a bit of cotton over your mouth for a tiny part of your day, in the interest of public health, for only as long as an epidemic lasts.  Your watermark for tyranny is basically the same as being required to pick up your trash.

EDIT: Sorry, got confused here and though we were still talking about masks.  I still think the invocation of tyranny is dumb, but maybe a bit less dumb than when I first responded.

It’s not less dumb. Calling efforts to ensure social welfare “tyranny” is ludicrous. Declaring that ANY coercion at all is “ALWAYS BAD” is a failure to comprehend both the human species and civilization. The libertarian ethos is a nice hypothesis, but it’s not how animals work. We are animals. A total lack of coercion cannot work in the reality.

The effort should be in ensuring that the coercion is reasonable, and that its goal and practical outcomes are for societal welfare. Masking, vaccination, and control of the movement of a deadly pathogen aren’t unreasonable efforts. They’re also not “tyranny”.

Driver’s licenses, pilot’s licenses, most safety regulation... is not an effort toward “tyranny”. As a person who DESPISES backup-beepers (a truly shitty regulatory mistake that is a public nuisance without addressing the intended problem), none of this is an effort at tyranny.

Do these “but my freedom” people have anything to say about the TSA’s security theater or the Patriot Act? Everything about these which was argued as “it’s just a temporary thing” has become permanent. I don’t see libertarians and republicans organizing opposition to them or calling them “tyranny”.

How about the extreme power disparity between civilians and police, especially with their “qualified immunity”, and their tendency to escalate conflict, especially if the subject isn’t white?

State-sponsored religion? The suppression of bodily autonomy for those not making up the ruling group? Establishment of cult-like replacement media centers while calling reporters “the enemy of the state”?

I’m descending into whataboutism, so I’ll stop here.

patchythepirate said:

tylersdad said:

lkrupp said:

Xed said:

sdw2001 said:

It is amazing how we just keep repeating the insanity. We know that mask mandates and lockdowns don’t work. This is unequivocal. That is not to say masks don’t work at all, but the way we’re wearing them clearly will not be effective.  We aren’t talking about wearing an N 95 or better mask when entering a high risk environment like a medical facility or a nursing home. We’re talking about wearing a piece of cloth or paper across your face while you shop for your new AirPods. It’s not going to do anything.  

Sure they do. It's asshole republicans who can't seem to follow simple rules that keep exacerbating this problem.

I now see plenty of businesses saying that if you're vaccinated you don't have to wear a mask, but for unvaccinated people to wear them. Are unvaccinated people going to wear masks? Not the ones that I know.

Yep, the so-called ‘honor system’ is a joke. Someone who refuses to get vaccinated is also not going to pay attention to the honor system by wearing a mask. They see it as an excuse not to wear a mask and don't give a shit if they spread the virus. Time for vaccination passports and severe consequences if caught using a forged one. 

But on the other hand, the government is so incompetent it would be a complete mess. I got a letter from my county health department saying they had no record of me getting my second Pfizer shot. I got both shots at the same county vaccination center and have my county vaccination card with both stickers showing the dates and time of both shots. See what I mean?

And it's the unvaccinated who are contracting severe cases, not the vaccinated. If the unvaccinated want to take their chances, let them. 

Actually, in England, vaccinated people make up %40 of covid hospitalizations.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/60percent-of-people-being-admitted-to-hospital-with-covid-have-been-double-jabbed-vallance/ar-AAMkbJS

Which is expected when using a weak mRNA vaccine that only covers one aspect of a virus (spike protein), rather than traditional vaccines that use the entire virus particle to elicit a full immune response; it's very strange that mRNA vaccines are being pushed, while natural immunity is being ignored. Is this because natural immunity is so much worse? (Of course not); is this due to desire to control, to push for vaccine passports, etc? (Seems like it).

Apparently some people getting the virus don’t develop immunity.

Your “just asking questions” end conjecture sounds like conspiracy theory nonsense. The people against vaccination, rejecting covid as legitimate, rejecting masks, etc., are primarily on the end of the political spectrum most associated with authoritarianism, which is also the most opposed to immigration.

“Control” for the sake of control makes no sense when applied to the political spectrum from which people have been advising vaccination (also keeping in mind that the Democratic Party of the USA would only barely register as centrist outside the USA; the USA doesn’t have an extreme left political movement with any power or influence).