This is what the patent system has morphed into

Nothing for the little guy or gal here ..... move on .....

Goliaths strive against each other while crushing developers, users, etc.

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Solution:   get rid of patent system    more trouble than it is worth

Oracle is seeking major damages in its lawsuit against Google over Android in a move that reflects how the search giant’s intellectual property headaches may just continue to get worse. Should Google lose this IP battle, Android cuts would go to Oracle and Microsoft.
Florian Mueller highlighted a heavily redacted Google response to a damages argument made by Oracle expert witness Iain Cockburn, a Boston University professor. Cockburn argued that Google would owe unspecified damages if Android was found to infringe on Java.
The actual amount wasn’t disclosed, but Google did note that all Android revenue was included in Cockburn’s royalty calculation. Oracle also wants Google’s ad revenue from Android although Cockburn didn’t outline that argument directly. Oracle also argues for a 50 percent royalty rate.

Hell YES !!!!!!!!

More than 9 in 10 Americans believe in God

Poll shows U.S. still extremely religious -- unlike our Canadian, U.K. or European allies

By Natasha Lennard

Wikimedia

God according to Michelangelo

Results of a Gallup poll released over the weekend reveal that more than nine in 10 Americans believe in God. Ninety-two percent of Gallup's 1,018 respondents (hailing from all 50 states) answered "yes" when asked whether they believed in God.
The pollsters noted:

Despite the many changes that have rippled through American society over the last 6 ½ decades, belief in God as measured in this direct way has remained high and relatively stable. Gallup initially used this question wording in November 1944, when 96% said "yes." That percentage dropped to 94% in 1947, but increased to 98% in several Gallup surveys conducted in the 1950s and 1960s.

Silly behaviour on Airplanes nearly everyone is a terrorist

Those individuals charged with the responsibility for keeping air travel safe .... have turned into cowering chicken-poopers.  <== ad-homenim     The idea of what a "reasonable man" would do has been turned on it's head.  No longer do humans forge bravely forward ...... instead they consult ... and turn back.  The snippet below demonstrates how low this has gone.  I suspect many reading the snippet will agree with the pilot.  Not I.... A planeload of passengers versus a slapper..... really .... this is no contest.

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 Turn this plane around

A fight breaks out in-flight over a reclined seat. The crew opts to return to the D.C. airport. Overreaction?

By Patrick Smith

Salon/iStockphoto/slobo

I'm expected to say something about last week's in-flight rumble aboard a United Airlines flight headed from Washington, D.C., to Accra, Ghana.
When a flight broke out on Flight UA 990 shortly after takeoff -- apparently over a reclined seat -- the crew elected to return to Dulles Airport, and did so under escort from a pair of F-16 fighters, dumping thousands of gallons of jet fuel along the way.
For airlines, diversions like this are a logistical nightmare, and the trickle-down costs can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. You've got fuel costs, crew costs, passenger rebooking and misconnect costs, and so forth. Not only was the outbound flight to Accra delayed, but the return flight as well, affecting hundreds of people.
Considering the stakes, the question people are asking is this one: Was the return really necessary? Couldn't they have just kept going rather than inconveniencing everybody else on the plane?