Corporate whores and prostitutes are different. Prostitutes Fuck you for a fee. Corporate whores Fuck you over for a bribe.

You are supposed to help those on the path to enlightenment. Just because you can't lead them to enlightenment, doesn't mean you abandon them to their own devices.

"patents they've never disclosed" is kind of a contradiction in terms. Usually the claim is that they haven't disclosed which patents are being cross-licensed.

"Patents they've never disclosed" is acurate. They go to companies using Android and say - "Linux uses our patents, pay us or else.", but they never disclose which patents Linux infringes on - they just take the money for a no-sue promise.

22%? um 2.25% as an opening bid with the normal ending point of 1.2% or 0% depending on cross licensing agreements. At no point was there a 22% offer on the table.

Actually, 2.25% was the opening request - the same opening request they made to Nokia, Sony, and a bunch of other companies. MS ran to the courts to complain rather than negotiate. Not sure how it's abusive to make an initial offer that's higher than you expect to get. Now, had Motorola/Google refused to negotiate that 2.25%, it might be abusive - but that's not what happened.

Silver nitrate in the film will set off the detectors they use - as will a wide variety of hand lotions and even perfumes.
Other things that will set off the detector/test if you handle your lugage at any time while contaminated with them include:

• potting soil, grass patch, plant food, and of course straight fertilizer.
• Cleaning products - anything with amonia in it.
• attending a show with pyrotechnics
• gun powder residue - black or smokeless.
• nitrate based medicines for heart conditions
• insecticides

The list goes on, but the point is, even transporting your lugage in the same trunk as you carried potting soil in 2 months ago is going to get you flagged as a positive. After that, it's going down hill for you.

The question that really needs answered is "can it break the 1 mile barrier for pumpkin chunkin?"

Hmm, the origins of Weasle Stomping Day?

I recommend starting by working on the bug list. It gives you something to work on constructively and it also makes you look through all the code to track the problem.

Part of the issue is that there is the assumption you know the passwords. There's no reasonable way to prove you don't, so if your asshole of a roommate changed it, the government can hold you indefinitely under the assumption you do. A physical key you either have or don't.

You need only look to Martha Stuart's conviction for lying to prosecutors to see that they don't need to convict you of a crime to convict you of lying about not doing it.

Acordingto the GAO, 75â of them are filed inappropriate. But according to the FBI it's OK because they only use them when they NEED to - like when walking to the FAX machine would be too much effort.

At least we know why the FSM version of history doesn't match science - he stretches forth his noodly appendage & screws with the results just to keep us on our toes.

I disagree, I haven't seen a patent in the last 10 years that isn't a pile of steaming crap wrapped up in leaglease.

Even when the idea is worth the patent, by the time the lawyers get through with it, it's entirely worthless to actually try and duplicate it. General and vague references that paint a broad picture of the problem supposedly solved and hints of how to do it.

You lie, usually they are either stolen from evidence or sold at auction long before the endless speaks are exhausted.