Mediocrity

Well, at least I don't have to think about it for a while now.

I guess I'll have to reconsider then; the lawyers definitely got the short end of the stick. (;

More seriously, I would have no qualms of going into the legal profession specifically to defend against this sort of brand of crazy where possible. (And of course more mundane cases as the majority.)

I'd wake up each morning feeling MUCH better than if I became something like say, a firefighter.

This is true.

And because of the implications of what you just said above. I'll leave it at that.

EDIT: In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have ended the post in that way. Instead, I'll acknowledge that this solution to silly patents is certainly viable. But that at the same time calling it "The best possible thing" seems somewhat narrow in the grand scheme of things. After all, it DOES require people to die to be workable.

"People spend months,years even, daydreaming."

Raises his hand

And the damned truth is, I know I'll probably fail because of it.

Not that that helps.

At this point I might just change careers.

Lawyer sounds like a pretty good gig right now.

I do.

EDIT: And now I don't.

@rcfox

I too remember reading this article before somewhere else.

Of course, with the Internet. You never know if a "copy" is the original or the "original" is a copy.

This is likely one of those articles I'm going to print out and show to people/keep in my drawer.

The sheer amount of patent suits lobbied against android distributors is de facto proof (In my opinion) that they are inherently frivolous.

Wait wait wait.

Google is going to lock the world into it's "stewardship" with a couple open source projects and the cell phone market?

I can't help but feel that I've just been trolled. Unless someone can better explain this to me.

Of course, I'm wary of anything that comes from "that" kind of site. (You know what I mean.) However, at the same time if this is true it's definitely something for me to ponder as I look out my window tonight, knowing that one day there may be a time where a comforting dark instills only a faint sense of paranoia.

Pretty much.