So, to be clear, the United States democractically elected government passed a law, that applies only to United States citizens. A bunch of foreign bankers have decided that they don't like that law, and so they are overruling it.
The U.S. is a member of WTO (that bunch of [not just foreign] bankers) - and quite happy to wield it against other nations. Now with the boot on the other foot - not so happy. But it IS good to see that not abiding by the rules they agreed on by being a member of WTO does have consequences for the U.S. too, not just 'lesser' nations...
Marketwatch sees a completely different phenomenon
Since the $1.05 billion verdict Friday — which found that Samsung infringed on six Apple AAPL -1.04% patents — customers of Samsung have been dumping their Android products on at least one major resale site. Gazelle.com reports a 50% increase in Samsung smartphones over the past three days, which has led to a 10% drop in prices for those devices"
And that's extrapolating wildly outside the data that they have, drawing conclusions they have no real base for, as they have no idea what their sellers bought instead. Couldn't it possibly be newer, potentially under risk of being banned, Samsung gear?
If he was probably hanged, then he may have been unfit for society (although that's not conclusive, as whoever did the hanging could easily have been the one unfit for society).
Not necessarily either of them - it could have been ritual sacrifice, of a valued member, by other valued members, of society...
SAP is well-known . . . but I don`t think that many people really know what it actually does.
Sucks the money out of any organization trying to implement it?
If the British courts found nothing to press charges then why is the US wasting money pursuing this, and we all know it's at the behest of the MPAA, RIAA or whomever.
Guess they coyldn't pressure the UK government, and through them the British courts, like the did the Swedes. Not long before some Swedish politicos visited Washington, the DA that later brought the case agains TPB said (in effect) "Nothing we can do about TPB given the current laws" - guess he saw the light.
h puts him in the top 95% around here...
Faint praise if I ever saw it...I suspect that you mean "in the top 5%" or "above 95% of"
There's a reason we use AC for transmission of power over distances more than a few meters.
Unless it's real long haul / bulk transmission, where DC is again a player - in the form of High Voltage DC where they actually can offer lower losses than AC.
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.