By inserting the ads without telling the site owner (and obtaining approval) the ISP is creating an copyright-infringing derivative work.

the problem is that you can't magically make a web app look metro-y on windows 8 and ios-y on ios using THE SAME CODE BASE.

by the time you do the relevant coding to polish it up well enough you might as well do a native app.

write-once, run-anywhere is the biggest load of bullshit to ever appear in computing.
it's a sham, it's a joke, it's a lie, it's a hoax, it's a scam, and anyone who pushes for it should be ashamed of themselves for basically *LYING* to whoever's paying them.

Actually I think Apple already applied for that patent.

If you think the technology for chest xrays has been the same for 50-80 years you are so wrong.

But if you cap profit margins as a fixed % how will they increase net profits?

Simple.

Charge more for the same service (or lack thereof).
It's basic math...15% of 20 billion is *DOUBLE* 15% of 10 billion.

They'll have to pass along more to doctors but they'll still get to tell Wall Street their profits went up (yet again).

You're correct, unless you count their own people.
Then those governments have us beaten by an order of magnitude.

You own an IBM Model M keyboard?

No law should be 100% universally enforced. No human mind (or minds) can write a law that covers every physically possible situation.

$275,000? where do you live?

And with government run healthcare the excuse for screwing you changes from "making money" to "keeping the budget deficit down". Either way you're still screwed.

Actually, it's even worse than mere corruption. If Congress nationalized healthcare tomorrow, they'd create some huge new federal agency to run it (in all likelihood). Where would this agency get the "trained" people to function?

That's right...from the now-defunct health insurance companies.
The people currently denying healthcare to average Americans would STILL be doing so.

Actually, I think sales of shotgun and automatic weapons would skyrocket.

Especially if he only says "Grainssssssss" over and over.

Simple. You most likely still pay for misdirected traffic in that case.

if you do the research you'll find that bombs going off inside people don't make that much of a bang.
Us big sacks of water can absorb quite a bit of explosion.

And every software developer who has to deal with the fun of timezones. I've seen a bunch who can't get it right.