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This is fantastic news for Android!!!!
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 06:22 AM EDT
They might also object to the us demanding that Motorola Europe not block ms sales in the eu. (How can the us even do that?)
Let me help you:
  • The World Series [baseball] (how many non-US teams/countries play?)
  • The World Football champions (Superbowl winners - how many non-US teams/countries play in the NFL? And what exactly does the N stand for in that TLA?)
  • The Guinness book of World records (Ok, so it does do records from all around the globe, but it was the US edition that first included that word and has now changed the UK title to include that word)
  • In "Children of Men" set in England (admittedly set in the future, which goes to some way to explain) there is this entity called "Homeland Security" which does NOT exist in the UK, only USA
  • If the USA has so many World Title holder Wrestlers, how come their medal tally in Olympic Wrestling is not exactly every Gold + Silver + Bronze? (In 2008 it managed 1 Gold & 2 Bronze whereas Russia only managed 6 Gold, 3 Silver + 2 Bronze) [Ok, I know that Olympic wrestling is a sport whereas these "World title holders" are theatre]
To put it bluntly, the USA [lawyers] seem[s] to think that USA == The World (and in their eyes, the only world is the USA) and USA law has to be obeyed there. They forget that The World != USA.

The USA seems to be very forgetful when it comes to history, especially its own of a little over 2 1/3 centuries: the USA [mainly] came about because the colonies felt aggrieved that they had to pay taxation without representation [caveat lector] and yet that is exactly what the USA is trying to do now to others: the EU has no representation in the US Senate, Judiciary, [etc] and yet a US court feels it has Jurisdiction over the EU and can tell it what to do; at least in the 1750s & 1760s the colonies were supposedly part of England.

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This is fantastic news for Android!!!!
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 12:34 PM EDT
A honey trap perhaps. The MS patent would seem likely to be invalidated in the
US.

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