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singularity said:

i see tallest is showing his usual kindness and humanity.

I would turn them away, with deadly force if necessary. If it was necessary for my nation–my people–to survive, I would gun them down where they stand. Every single last one of them.

That goodness would be illegally invading a country, unleashing a sectarian civil war with no plan to stabilise the country.
Bombing innocent civilians, call them collateral damage and wondering why people might want revenge?

people like you are one of the reasons why this cycle of violence will always continue and yet you will always blame others without recognising your own culpability in the events.

I don't pretend to have the answers but your answer is just to kill, kill and kill again.  Fight fire by adding kerosene, its bound to go out.. honest!
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If in doubt swear, as that's a sure fire way of winning an argument. Adding expletives just shows you have an extremely immature vocab'

Tallest Skill is really losing it here. 
The refugees are common, normal people going through bad times not necessarily of their own making, Remember, a lot of these countries don't even have democracies (some like egypt due to CIA).

But, that being said, letting them enter your country knowing fully well what it is going to unleash is just stupid. A utopian Multi-cultural society is all fine, but not being pragmatic in the current situation is just plain stupid.

gatorguy said:

dysamoria said:

yes, that sometimes is the case... but most of the things being patented lately are interpreted so broadly that they're effectively eliminating actual competition by covering every possible implementation. Instead of patenting implementations, they're patenting concepts. The patent office originally rejected software patents for this and other reasons, until lobbyists accomplished forcing them to allow software patents. The whole system is a disaster. It's wasting vast amounts of resources and killing competition.

http://m.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack

It's not a viable system. There are plenty of economists and business people with this opinion, in case you think I'm pulling this out my ass or am promoting lawlessness (I'm not).

You make a good point. Most of these software patents we read are purposefully as vague as allowable, and purport to cover a huge swath of possible products rather than anything specific. It's common for one big tech to describe their software or design invention as applying to "an electronic device, media player (e.g., music, video and/or game player), media storage device, a personal digital assistant, a communication device (e.g., cellular phone), a novelty item or toy". That's far from a specific implementation in my opinion but that's where the courts have permitted software patent rights to expand to. 

Sorry, but that is not making too much sense. 

So, are you saying that once you have thought up an idea and you realize that same mechanism can be used in many different places that you should protect only one of them and not all of them?

For example, 'presence' is a concept that could be patented (it is that little indicator in chat applications which tells you whether the other person is available/offline/away etc.).  Now, if there is one way to implement presence and that same mechanism can used to do presence on chat, email, video calls, mobiles, PDAs, handsets etc. etc., do I need to put in a patent for each of those devices, even though I can readily visualize all the places it can be applied to? Does it not make sense for me to make it generic and say any 'communication device that needs presence'.?

(I have five patents to my name, and I have come across many 'technical' folks whose understanding of patents is faulty). Patents don't typically protect a concept, they protect one way of implementing a concept. You are always allowed to patent another way of doing the same, and it happens all the time. 

thewhitefalcon said:

After a failed bid to prove that it was selling state-of-the-art or cutting edge technologies

Wait, what? What kind of rathole third-world country is this? 

Ah ... ah. My perfectly decent (by which I mean the language) response to your comment was deleted by appleinsider!! I guess that is SOMETHING!! Your disgusting statement is a new low for this site.

rotateleftbyte said:

thewhitefalcon said:

Wait, what? What kind of rathole third-world country is this? 

It is called 'protectionism'. This is something that the USA is very good at as well.
You know that campaign to 'buy American made goods' even if they are of worse quality than the ones made elsewhere?
Having worked in India (Delhi, mumbai and Chennai) I fully understand the issues that Apple are facing.
Indians will buy local made stuff even if it is of poor quality. That's how they seem to think.
Then there are the hurdles you have to go through when getting a phone. Forget the idea of burner phones. Forget the idea of being able to get a phone in less than 2 hours of paperwork and almost signing away your firstborn to the government (in case you are a terrorist).
Local made Androids are (relatively) easy to get hold of. As Tim Cook says, iPhones are rather too pricey for India. fix that and I'm sure they'll sell a lot more.

Sorry, but a lot of what you have written is nonsense.

"Indians will buy local made stuff even if it is of poor quality. That's how they seem to think."
- Entirely incorrect. Infact Indians tend to buy imported stuff even if it is worse than local made stuff. There is strong perception of local stuff being lower quality. The only thing that beats that is actually the perception that chinese stuff is even lower quality. (They buy the chinese stuff in huge quantities too).

"Then there are the hurdles you have to go through when getting a phone. Forget the idea of being able to get a phone in less than 2 hours of paperwork and almost signing away your firstborn to the government (in case you are a terrorist)."
- Mostly Not true you can go into a shop and buy a phone and start using it. You need an ID & Address proof to get a SIM card (if you don't already have one). How many times do you get a new SIM as compared to getting a new phone?

"Local made Androids are (relatively) easy to get hold of. As Tim Cook says, iPhones are rather too pricey for India. fix that and I'm sure they'll sell a lot more. "
- Somewhat true. The ones who can source their iphones/ipads/macs from the US through family or friends that are arriving. This is because the US-India price difference for apple stuff is significant (which is so for other brands like sony/samsung etc.) Probably supply-chain issues that apple should look at fixing.

Now, imagine if the rest of the world started doing that with chinese goods!!!???

It would probably end up generating a lot of well paying jobs in those places ..... hmmmm....