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Private Manning keeps mum at Wikileaks plea hearing

Re: Re:@ Matt

Matt, if you read anything here besides your own comments (Fail. Fail. Fail. I know it's you when I see that icon.), you would know that I was light years ahead of everybody on the Proview Apple trade mark story. I intuited that China did not have Wall Street's enlightened view on dummy corporations. Otoh, you love the word dummy. Birds of a feather etc..

If you would stop looking in the mirror for a second, I was the one who first posted the link to the article that Apple bought the fatal trademark from Proview Taiwan, who did not own it. And, in the teeth of a force of fanbois, I predicted a 9 figure settlement. The High Court, from whom there is no appeal, has made it clear they expect the two sides to settle, as the Court adjourned sine die.

If you were as smart as you think you are, you'd climb on board my group, read what I say and then repeat it instead of citing Palin and Bachman and spouting your ad hominem circumstantial retorts.

But you're not completely bereft of talent. You seem to be good at whistling in the graveyard. And like Scheherazade you seem to be able to keep your worthless stories going, maybe not for 1001 nights, but longer than they deserve.

Re: In war

"we either don't have to worry about AGW, or PO actually hasn't happened?"

How about this, Matt? Perhaps - as you are fond of pointing out - AGW is not that real. That it is a surreptitious construct by the government to accomplish an objective. The government's objectives are two. First, it takes its citizen's mind off of running out of oil; as AGW becomes a more eminent threat than peak oil. Second, beating the drum about AGW, delivers a small dividend to keeping PO secret. By constantly reminding everyone of AGW, true believers will conserve gasoline, heating oil, etc. and that will slightly reduce demand and consumption of crude oil and delay the evil day.

Remember PO occurs when daily crude oil demand out strips daily crude oil production.

I want to give you an opportunity to disabuse me of my belief in PO. Stay tuned. :-)

Re: Re: Re: Re: @ Matt

Matt

I meant to ask you this before: Do you consider yourself a jingoist or just a chauvinist? Knowing that can help me reply to your posts in the future. :-)

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: In war

How can I  chill, Matt, when you say "happy untruths to make children's World seem a little brighter?" Of course, M&D tell their children about Santa Claus, to make them happier.

But aren't you like a child when it comes to PO?  Don't you believe the statistics of our government spokesmen, oil industry executives and foreign producers of oil, who tell us the 'happy untruths' about the 'alternate version of reality concerning Peak Oil, i.e., there's more oil in the ground, under the oceans, and loitering in sand and shale than we know what to do with?

You're like a little six year old who wrote a letter to Santa asking him for a dozen more Ghawar oil fields. Then you read articles and news stories that say Peak Oil hasn't happened yet and probably never will. You don't see that Peak Oil is breaking over us like a violent thunderstorm. As far as PO is concerned, you are just a six year old who expects Santa Claus to leave 500 billion barrels of oil underneath your tree. :-)

Re: Re: Why does The Inkwell Censor Legit Comments?

Why is anal rape like a Justin Bieber concert?

Because it isn't easy to get in.

Does anybody know anyone who saved a condom used for anal sex to prove in court that one was used? Those guys get flushed faster than radioactive toilet paper.

Re: Re: Re: In war

Had I intended my statement to to ask whether Mum and Dad were exempt from not being trusted or believed, I would have used a question mark.

Apparently I should have used big bold letters for 'not even', to let readers know that Mums and Dads get no special consideration here if they dare to criticize the American Way. :-)

Re: In war

Not even Mum and Dad.

699,999 documents.

Has any one here read more than 500? 400? 300? 200?

Just askin'.

Asteroid could SMASH INTO EARTH in 2040

Re: Have you ever seen a copy of this?

Actually, AC, it's a pastoral.

Full of shepherds hitting on nymphs and tootling their pipes all in an Arcadian setting. :-)

Have you ever seen a copy of this?

"How to Create a Universe for Dummies."

Not to worry.

About 2 hours before impact, throw the wife, kids, dog and silverware into your Lear jet and land on your private island after the dust settles.

Voilà!

Weeing Frenchman sues Google over Street View photo

To wee or not to wee?

No, don't wee. Hold it till you get to a proper loo.

Now Apple opens fire on EPAD trademark in China

Getting their iDucks in a row.

This means Apple are ready to settle with Proview and are getting all their Chinese patent, copyright and trademark infringement cases ready to roll when Tim Cook signs the 9 figure check to Proview.

Court wonk tweets Apple's IPAD appeal showdown with Proview

The Proview view.

Apple fraud? You be the judge.

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/02/this-is-how-apple-swindled-the-ipad-trademark/

For 2 months I've been saying there will be a settlement"

I had no idea the Higher People's Court was going to force one on the parties.

"Lawyers for both companies presented arguments for almost six hours at the Higher People's Court of Guangdong in Guangzhou yesterday before being asked by the three-judge panel if they wished to settle. Attorneys for Apple and Proview said they would consult their clients and the hearing was adjourned without a new court date or a timeframe for a ruling."

"March 1 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. urged a court in southern China to deliver a "fair and just" ruling in its dispute with the local unit of Proview International Holdings Ltd. over ownership of the iPad trademark in the country.

Apple appealed a November ruling by a lower court that its 2009 contract to buy rights to the iPad name in China was invalid because Proview's Shenzhen unit that owned them wasn't a party to the agreement. A loss in court would subject Apple to lawsuits seeking damages and enable a nationwide ban on iPad sales in the company's biggest market outside the U.S. That would be "unfair" given Apple's pioneering role in the tablet market that now gives the mark its worth, Apple's attorney said.

iPad 3 launch news pushes Apple shares to $500bn high

Re: Re: Re: Hang on a minute!

What's the point of being sarcastic if you have to make an announcement every time you are?

Sarcasm delights the sarcastor, not the sarcastee.

Re: Are these people idiots?

It's called buy on Wednesday, sell on Thursday. Make tuition for your kid at Harvard without really trying.

Re: Re: Oh come on, please.....

If that package included the Brooklynski Bridge over the Vistula, I hope you grabbed it.

21st Century Sex: the shape of things to come

Re: Is it just me

Never judge a sex toy by what it looks like. It's the happy grin on your face that we all are looking for.

@ Franklin

Do we credit Victorian men, as they delved into the sensual mechanization of genitalia with their stream driven tools, with the words, 'hot' and 'hottie'?

Just askin'.

Secret high-security Chinese shipments point to iPad 3 exports

The rumor in California is

that 28 Apple stores will be convered to P F Chang's and iPads will be for sale at the cash register next to the toothpicks and free mints.

iPad owners 'considerably richer than yow'

Adjusted for inflation since 1975...

and with different demographics (US population in 1975), the iPad sales to the same income and age groups are identical to the sales of The Pet Rock.

I had two Pet Rocks then and soon I'm going to get an iPad3.

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Hey Commentard! - or is that Commenter?

Don't forget the fascistards

There are a few around here. You know who I mean.

Re: Groundlings

Later in that speech Hamlet says:

"Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve..."

"Come tardy off." (Hamlet pops in between the election of commenter and commentard.) "O, I die, El Reg. But I do prophesy th' election lights on Commentard; it has my dying voice." [Dies]

Apple vs Bank of China in iPad Shanghai showdown

Re: I call BS!

Sir AC

I served the writs with a smile so bland,

And I copied all the characters in a big round hand--

Chorus

He copied all the characters in a big round hand

Sir AC

I copied all the characters in a hand so free,

That now I am the Ruler of the iPad Three.

Chorus

He copied all the characters in a hand so free

That now he is the Ruler of the iPad Three. Etc, etc :-)

Re: "Shanghai court rejects Proview injunction, okays the sale of Apple iPads"

In other words, a district court refused to enjoin Apple from selling iPads. BFD. The court didn't want to get involved. This had nothing to do with the trademark matter at hand to be heard by a court of appeals next week. It's like a prosecutor asking for a large bail and the judge not requiring any.

District court == nothing to do with trademark == nothing to get excited about. :-)

RIP: Peak Oil - we won't be running out any time soon

Re: Re: US military is the single largest user of oil in the world.

I'm sure their interest in synthetic petrol is astronomical(?).

I'm curious about how close they are to achieving it. And whether it will ever be available in the amount they'd require it.

US military is the single largest user of oil in the world.

The US military has it's own figures on oil production, reserves and storage. They may not be inclined to wait for the heavy crude that oil shale becomes and which takes longer to produce, longer to transport and is more expensive. When supplies run down, the military does not say: Okay, WalMart Shopper, you take 50% of the available gasoline and we'll take the other 50%.

"The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact."

"The energy crisis outlined in a Joint Operating Environment report from the US Joint Forces Command, comes as the price of petrol in Britain reaches record levels and the cost of crude is predicted to soon top $100 a barrel."

"By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 million barrels per day," says the report, which has a foreword by a senior commander, General James N Mattis"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/11/peak-oil-production-supply

"The beginning of the end of Apocalypse politics."

How about just the beginning of the end. Period.

Is there more oil available today?  Probably yes.

Because of the addition of unconventional oils?  Probably not.

The pressure that has been taken off of our demand for oil is primarily due to the enormous contraction of consumption that began in the last quarter of 2008. It's still with us. It did not pick up in June, 2009, the supposed date of the end of the recession.

The tin foil hat theory is whether our government and it's military were so concerned about Hubbert's prediction for Global Peak Oil (1995 - 2000), that they conceived a plan for a world wide recession which would reduce the global consumption of oil?

Does the most powerful military in the world and the largest consumer of oil on the planet, make plans for its future on a maybe-it'll-be-there, maybe-it-won't supply of oil. Of course not.  Most of our oil comes to the homeland in tankers which are sitting ducks in any conflicts to come. And the military are not concerned with Citigroup's projections. They have there own guys with pretty good data.

How Greenspan engineered the global recession is another tin foil hat theory for a different forum. :-)

Re: 3.3 Trillion Proven Barrels of Oil and Counting

Remind us, please. How much oil does it take to make a barrel of oil from shale or sand?

The Governments Do Not Want Their Citizens To Panic.

Remember all those WMDs the government told us that Saddam had?

Well, the same people are now telling you and me and Citigroup the statistics and good news about oil production and consumption.

Today the price of a barrel of oil is $106. How does it get to $40 - 50 a barrel in 10 years?

The Tooth Fairy takes a second job.

Proview parks IPAD battle tanks on Apple's US lawn

Re: WTF

If a corporation can buy something through a sham buyer to chisel a lower price, then a corporation can sell it to the sham buyer through a sham seller that doesn't have title to it.

Gandersauce tastes just like goosesauce.

Someone's been sayIng this for a month

Oh. that would be me.

(Does anyone know the Chinese law about dummy corps?)

Iran draws veil over secure internet access

Re: Re: Re: Re: Permit me to respond to your charges of sedition and treason

Thank you for your snark-free reply.

I apologize for linking you to, what is probably, an article in the worst English ever. Although it does say this in the recapitulative last paragraph: "In short Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran should make a joint effort to extend their cooperation with each other and other regional countries like China, Russia, Turkey, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

This is the article I wanted to send you by Nicholas Burn

"India's support for Iran threatens its US relationship and global leadership role

India's statement that it will continue to purchase oil from Iran is a major setback for the US attempt to isolate the Iranian government over the nuclear issue. It's also bitterly disappointing news for those of us who have championed a close relationship with India."

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/0214/India-s-support-for-Iran-threatens-its-US-relationship-and-global-leadership-role

Re: Re: Permit me to respond to your charges of sedition and treason

Yes, the assassination of Kennedy was upseting way back in 1963. But probably not as upseting for me as this story from a couple of days ago is for you.

http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2012/02/19/implications-iranian-afghan-leaders-visit-pak

Looks like we have China, Russia, India, Turkey, Syria, Pakistan and Afganistan lined up on Iran's side. With America, Canada, England, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, and Monaco on the other side.

I was right all along: "Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia."

Yes, I know this doesn't have anything to do with Proview v Apple. But then neither did your "cultured and knowledgable" introductiuon of Iron Man into the mix

Still putting down the movies, Matt? That wouldn't be because they won't let you in without your Mum?

"I presume you kinow a thing or two about 'drunk and sober'. Quite a bit, thanks." That's what I hear from the folks at Alcoholics Anonymous. Almost two years sober. For tweenager. Congrats.

El reg is intellegent and funny without you, but I kinda miss the foolishness you lend the conversation. Glad your'e back. :-)

@Matt: This is probably a lot more than you want to know :-)

So about 3 or 4 months after my display at Idlewild Airport, Kennedy was assassinated and they renamed Idlewild, JFK.  The assassination was the work of the anti-communist war party, imho. The military industrial complex, Eisenhower had warned us about.

Johnson played it cool about expanding the war. He ran as a peace candidate in 1964, saying, "I won't send American boys to do the fighting for Asian troops." Then he sent a lot.

By 1967 there were over 200,000 civilian casualties in Viet Nam.

On the evening of  December 2, 1967, I took a drug called artificial mescaline, which was part amphetamine and part animal tranquilizer. On the walk home at 5 in the morning, voices appeared in my head and we discussed the war. The voices convinced me that the war was my fault, that I should go up to the roof of my brownstone when I got home, where further instructions would be waiting.

I don't remember anything after going up on the roof. I woke up in the ICU of Columbus Cabrini hospital with my left leg in traction for 7 weeks.  I was discharged on January 25, 1968 and immediately arrested by the NYC police for possession of pot they had found while looking for my family's phone number.

Released in my own recognizance, I later got off as the police had entered without a warrant.

5 days after I left the hospital, the Tet offensive began.

Admit it, Matt, you couldn't make up shit like that.

Proview offers Apple peace talks amid Shanghai iPad ban bid

We all hate lawyers

Until they keep us out of jail or save us a quarter of a million in alimony payments.

"You know what, they're nice guys."

Out of Court settlements

"Xie said that since no final decisions have been reached in various legal disputes over the issue, both sides were "still able to sit together and reach an out-of-court settlement." Apple has shown no indication of willingness to settle."

To reach an acceptable out of court settlement, it's wise to show the other side "no indication of a willingness to settle."

Proview wins new Chinese IPAD ruling as Apple threatens to sue

Re: Time for a review

"China's growth engine declines - Wall Street Journal online.wsj.com/.../SB10001424052970204555904577165593145006650

Jan 17, 2012 – For all of 2011, China grew 9.2%, compared with 10.4% in 2010. For the fourth quarter, the 8.9% GDP growth, compared with a year earlier."

With a GDP of 9% and a population of 1,300,000,000 I don't think too many companies will be exiting China soon. In fact their ranks should get larger as time goes by.

Apple leave China? Do rats leave a ship that's not sinking?

Re: A Chinese court siding with a Chinese Co. vs. a foreign one? SHOCK!

It hasn't happened before because no American manufacturer in China wanted to have a trademark that begins with an "i", to go with all its other trademarks begining with an 'i'.

No lawyers, besides Apple's, would rely on an email from the seller of a trademark to establish the ownership of that asset.

Apple's Chinese assets will not be seized, except to pay royalties for iPads Apple have already sold in China. The court will nullify the contract and make all money paid out be returned.

EXCEPT THE COMPANIES WILL SETTLE BEFORE THE TRIAL.

If you want to do business in China, you do so at your own risk, just as a foreign entity does business in America at its own risk. Make sure you know the rules of the game.

AC, what do you know about the use of dummy, or sham, corporations in China? Think the laws are same as here? Is China required to have the same corporate laws as we have?

@Just change the name of the product in China, not that big of a deal.

You're absolutely spot on.

Still the shame of being beaten by a dumpling maker has got to hurt.

"At least the lawyers are happy."

Judging from the comments on this thread, I'd say a lot more than the lawyers are happy. <dabbing tears of laughter from the corners of my eyes>

Re: Kerfuffle

Harry Potter and the Kerfuffle of Puberty.

Ten... digital adult toys

Scoring isn't as easy as it used to be.

Ergo, digital adult toys.

Re: There IS an app for that - iTingle

It takes two to tingle.

The iTingle that I used was a little white pill that cost $10. My date and I took them at 11.00pm and we tingled till 4. I don't think digital devices were discussed.

Re: 'a wand'

Do you mean the rolling pin the missus is brandishing when you get back from the pub? :-)

'Exploitative' Proview slammed by trademark judge ... in 2010

Re: Appellate Court: "Cut the Baby in half."

"The court will invalidate the original contract and order the $50k to be returned to IPADL, the dormant sham corp sitting in the back of the court room."

My bad. I forgot

After Proview Taiwan returns the $50k to IPADL, IPADL must return £10 to Apple which is what the frutigious company paid for it's priceless trademark.