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  1. Patent licensing is a very small portion of designing and delivering a high volume product. When a company wants do something, they will do it regardless of others having patented it or not. They will claim that their method is different. The patent holder sues, they go back and forth and settle. Look up Apple-Qualcomm, Apple-Samsung and many others. These companies know how to design and build stuff, but may not have been the first to do it, hence the legal wrangling to get that fixed. At the end, the patents are invalidated or the patent holder gets couple of percent of the revenue as royalty. Qualcomm didn't have to implement their CDMA tech in Apple's design centers/factories as part of the deal; Apple knew how to do that and just wanted Qualcomm to not bother them. There is the threat of Qualcomm having courts block Apple products, but the court typically nudges the parties to settle for a fair licensing deal. Of course, the above board approach is to talk to the patent holder, get a license beforehand, and it may include technology transfer contract too where the patent holder teaches the licensee how to implement it in their factories including equipment, processes, etc.

    Same thing in big pharma, I suspect. Nothing stops Johnson & Johnson from implementing what Moderna is doing as long as they don't expect Moderna to come teach them. If they can do it and want to, they will and let the lawyers deal with the aftermath. If they can't, then patents are not really the issue.

  2. I could be wrong, but having grown up in India and only reading about these cases since I have lived in nice suburbs with educated parents in the US, I think there is a cultural element that is in some sense American; an inclination to individual expression/rebelling and finding ones own way as opposed to valuing conformance to set values and be part of the rat race found in most other places but particularly Asian countries. India is a very poor country and 90% of the schools neither have the infrastructure nor the teachers that the worst schools in US have. But even a laborer with kids playing in the sewage while he/she works, while illiterate, yearns to send the kids to school without knowing anything about what a school is because he/she wants their kids to learn and knows that learning is an enormously valuable commodity in itself. And those kids if given a chance will apply themselves even though they would be lucky to get in the bottom school of the aforementioned 90%. Tens of millions of college graduates come out with most of them not finding a job, but they in turn will push their kids to learn and the kids know that learning is their job as a kid.

    tl,dr: kids and parents have to see that learning is cool. When you know it is cool there are a million options outside school.

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  3. 2 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    Lacking imagination? There is nothing to imagine when your OL can't hold up for even 2 seconds on any pass play. 

    Their OL is bad, but Mahomes is negating that somewhat with his moving around, but besides on the last drive, he has thrown only to covered guys, mostly Hill. He is looking, but not finding other receivers.

  4. 45 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    I can’t stop thinking about how badly Pelosi wasted the last two years. She spent the whole time refusing anything but the most cursory investigations of Trump and the executive branch out of some insane concern that it might backfire politically with moderate voters. What an enormous fucking failure.

    Yeah, she makes turtle Tom look like swashbuckling Pirate in comparison.

  5. His silence could be because, being a narcissist hypochondriac, he is too busy complaining about not getting the service a sick soul needs to worry about the outside world. Anyone who has dealt with a hypochondriac drama queen knows that, having a "legitimate" reason for demanding attention, the patient will completely shutout everything else because the immediate and the near is of the highest urgency.

     

  6. I agree with ndawg. He is a guy who, having way high regard of himself, would ask for every cure, just to be safe. An example is him going into his bunker because of a few peaceful protesters way out there with more security people carrying military hardware between the protesters and himself.

     

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  7. 9 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Also, ignore that slorch fella. He has a few short circuits in his bionic implants. 

    Yeah, he sounds like someone who gets his information about California from Facebook memes. I am in Silicon Valley and all of our power outage has been due to risk of fire. As someone commented, solar is popular (I have it too) and it helps quite a bit in addressing peak load situations, which are typically 2pm-8pm (reflected in high utility rates) and match with peak solar production. 

    I was surprised to see Tesla offering $1.50/W solar with installation (after rebate). I paid $3/W (after rebate) in 2016 for my 4.25kW installation. Maybe a good time to add more capacity since it is so cheap, but I don't really need it. Don't have EV, have FCV (Honda Clarity).

  8. 1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

    He’s Donald Trump. Quite possibly the biggest asshole our country has ever seen besides Barry Switzer and Bob Stoops. 

    Much worse. Barry Switzer is the Barry Switzer of human race. Donald Trump is the Barry Switzer of Barry Switzers.

     

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  9. Yes, despite our well-deserved whines about GDGD, Mack usually stumbled upon good DCs then, and that combined with good recruiting and his in game management, the games were a blast. The special team blocks and last second FGs were almost expected, just as frustratingly his "withstanding the surge" against OU, which only made the surge worse.

     

  10. I don't think secession will happen, but if it were to happen, it will be more along the lines of Scotland's attempt and Brexit; a long drawn out political process that will rival the conference realignment in fantasized combinations and permutations. In other words, there will be OR/WA joining California (safe bet), Phoenix area trying to dump the rest of the state to be with LA area (similarly TT latching onto UT), the red portions of CA/OR/WA whining like Nebraska/aggy but knowing that they are net takers and hence better make a deal they don't deserve to be part of the blue coastal coalition, the immediate red neighbors (AZ/NV/UT/ID) seeing the future on the west and literally nothing to their east will try to form an independent coalition while trying to have a most favored nation deal with the west, the midwest desperately trying to hang-on to the northeast, and the south happy to be what they are and proud of it (better 155 years late than never for them). This leaves Texas to form its own coalition out of NM/CO/KS/OK.

    Again, it won't happen, but if it were to happen, it will long and messy, and will be a political dissolution rather than an abrupt civil war, IMO.

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