Yes you can, you simply change the law. Patents are not inherent to the organization of the universe, and a compulsory license requirement would be in no way unconstitutional.

Really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_impossibility

Nothing could be farther from his point than your misinterpretation of it. The reasons why I leave as an exercise for the reader of the article. In other words, someone other than you. One hint, you know the author's point is not going to be summed up in an easily tweetable soundbite when midway through one of the paragraphs leads with "BUT the analogy isn’t perfect."

I have never used any Apple server, don't know anybody using them or having used them and I never even heard about them.

Ah yes, the opinion of an Anonymous idiot on the Internet. I should definitely trust that you are the end all and be all of experience on this matter, as I don't know anyone who knows you or knew you and I have never heard of you.

the tone of your comment suggests that you need to get out more and meet more people.

This is Slashdot. That goes without saying.

Jimmy Carter all but left us to the Soviets mercy and pretty much every one elses.

Bullshit. Some of us lived through the period. We were never "at the Soviets mercy." You are entitled to your own opinion about the man, but buddy you are not entitled to your own facts, particularly ones that can only be found on films from your last colonoscopy / ear exam. Must be nice to see one specialist for both, however.

Am I the only one here who can't read those words without setting them to music? Damn you Schoolhouse Rock!

The first three manned boosters in the American space program were not designed as man-rated initially: they were all IRBMs (Redstone) or ICBMs (Atlas, Titan) rebuilt to NASA's specifications. Hell, in the original Grumman concept for the SRB assisted Shuttle, the SRBs were not custom made: they were off the shelf Minuteman IIIs to save money. The Soviets similarly used military hardware for most of their early program.

Hawaii is one of the fifty states and was one in 1942.

And you have the audacity to call others idiots when you don't have a clue about US History? Hawaii was the last state admitted to the Union, in 1959.

Judging by the racist morons you keep sending to represent you up here in Washington, you haven't come nearly as far as you'd have us believe.

I hear it's scheduled for the next service pack. At least I heard the word "poop" used in reference to it.

No one is suggesting that they (the people) have to take a pay cut

Bull. To keep their jobs they have to deliver the same margins, or the investors will punish them. That means that if they offer something that costs more for a lower price, jobs have to go and/or salaries have to go down. They aren't going to make it up in volume.

Landline internet providers struggle with this, and their cost of expansion to accommodate unlimited service is trivial compared to what a wireless carrier has to build out. Information may want to be free, but copper and silicon most assuredly don't. Basic economics, I'm afraid. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.