Yup, any patent that has a software step should be required to disclose the source code at least as the best mode of the patent, if not part of the claims (depending on how strict you should be. When I'm elected Leader of the world, this will be like the 11th or 12th thing I'll do in office.

See, protesting does work!

Oligopoly setting the prices + little to no government support on building out the infrastructure + we're willing to pay it.

There are mechanical reasons for the 2 party dominant system in the US and other countries as well. If you take a theoretical system that has 3 preference groups, proportioned at say 30%, 30% and 40% of the population. Call them Left, Center and Right. In a system like the US where the first party to get a majority of votes wins, Right will win an election with 40% of the votes. Assuming that their goals aren't diametrically opposed, it only makes sense for Left and Center to team up in the next election, which they would win with 60%. For a real life example, see Ralph Nader & Al Gore in 2000, or Perot & HW Bush in 1992. One side's preferences were split between two candidates and that let the other side win.

Yeah, its like they could get people to write down their life lessons and experiences, and then bind those pages together and loan out the bound pages. We could call them bopages or something catchy and hook the kids.

Because there's a good chance that just paying the 5 bucks was cheaper. Wikipedia says that between 5 and 6 million Apple II's were sold. Assuming 5.5 million were sold and that all of them are affected by this patent, that's 27.5 million over 16 years as opposed to a patent lawsuit up front and missing out on the first few years of sales.

I would guess that whoever was responsible would be crowing about it. Can't hurt recruiting...

Maybe, if it was this time next year, I'd say yes. There's a lot of time between now and the election though.

The agreement can vary depending on features. Still looking at a minimum of $70ish dollars a month though.

Probably not, but you also assume that the editors care.

One could make the argument that your license to the game (made under its publisher's copyright) does not include format shifting from the Wii disks to the emulator's HD. In the US at least, I don't think that particular argument has ever been made in Court. Not that I'd agree with it, but it still could be made.

Sadly, if you ask people why they're not buying Blackberries I highly doubt it has anything to do with their actions in India and a lot to do with better alternatives appearing.

For the most part the hardware is decent (its underpowered, but the keyboards are pretty good). They're cheap; you can get the flagship blackberry for $99. RIM's actually done a decent job of shoehorning in more "consumer" features like media apps and the like (considering what they were beginning with). Also they're cheap. Prior to the iPhone, Blackberry was the image of smartphones for a lot of people too.

Yeah, I believe Valve said that story wise, Half-Life would be in the same place after Episode 3 as it would be if they had just made a Half-Life 3.