Ok ok I shouldn't have used "steals". My emotions got the better of me. Venezuela kept some oil the U.S. bought. But the charges of Narco-terrorism against Maduro are ridiculous.

I understand. Appealing to the liberal hive mind for upvotes is tempting.

While mild support in the other direction is a quick route to the shadow realm.

The patent system is a oke. They should have something like temporary patents with lifespans from 3 mo.s to 3 years. Or rule saying they can allow a limited number of copycats as long as they try to differentiate at minimum a little.

I am not against google but apple should get the same treatment.

I was looking for an explanation of why apple and google received such a difference in outcomes.

1. Apple had to post a link that said Epic's product could be purchased at elsewhere 2. Google has to do a lot more. Like actual anti-trust punishment things

IMHO, these two should be both punished because the duopoly is pretty self-evident.

From what i could grep (and it's dumb): The problem lies in the structures of both monopolists. Apple has never ever let any one else make smartphones, and it's walled garden is completed, so the court can't compel it to open up and let others (like epic) play. So a link is all they have to do. Android smartphones do allow other app stores, but Google makes it hard to install them, highly discourage them, and google pays developers to not release on other app stores. So google has an "open" market but behaves like a monopoly. So the judge is trying to "level" the market and punish google for acting like a monopolist.

I think apple should get the same treatment, but how?

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In Europe's defense, they didn't expect a mad-man would be running the U.S., but still should have had a protocol for Apocalypse.

How is that a defense not to expect the expected (given human's history worth of precedents)?

Said madman was already elected once before in 2016. Fool me twice etc.

Cute to pin it all on one man and pretend K-Street doesn't exist.

ICC should also issue an arrest warrant for Trump/Biden. Who do you think supplies Israel with all the money and weapons they use against the Palestinians?

And at the same time for the sake of balance, issue a warrant against saddam hussain and bin laden.

Both of those were violently killed by the US. Death tends to be a lot worse than arrest, but I agree that I'd like to see both Trump and Biden dealt with in the same way.

Why only target two presidents? The US has been involved with funding for decades.

Also, why only target US? Europe has helped fund projects that have gone into weapons research.

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ICC should also issue an arrest warrant for Khamenei. Who do you think supplies Palestine/Yemen with all the money and weapons they use against the Israelis?

Well, if Israel was a signatory, they could arrange for this...