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I wonder if running an anti-patent troll marketing campaign in Marshall would help fix this. Educate the population about the problem.
by driverdan 13y ago
I wonder if running an anti-patent troll marketing campaign in Marshall would help fix this. Educate the population about the problem.
- pistle 13y agoThey call that quaint there... These aren't stupid hicks. If you think for a second that these folks don't see this as an awesome way to give a big Texas flying finger to Silicon Valley types with their skinny jeans, silly beards, and smugnaciousness... you've merely increased their will to continue this process.
- simplemath 13y agoEschewing justice in favor of giving "a big Texas flying finger to Silicon Valley types with their skinny jeans, silly beards, and smugnaciousness" pretty much makes them stupid hicks, sorry.
- gknoy 13y agoIf true, it would make them jerks, but it would be foolish to dismiss them as stupid.
- npsimons 13y ago"Shortsighted" and "ignorant of justice" come to mind as synonyms for "stupid".
- Iftheshoefits 13y agoThere's a difference between "clever" and "not stupid." One can be a stupid "clever" person. These people are "clever," because they know what butters their bread. That doesn't mean they aren't also dumb hicks.
- CamperBob2 13y agoI'm from that area. "Stupid hicks" isn't entirely inaccurate. As in other areas ranging from religion to economics, these salt-of-the-Earth folks are culturally conditioned to adopt the views of whoever gets to speak first.
- bentcorner 13y agoIt looks like the population of Marshall is ~23K as of 2010. I wonder if it would be possible to pay a sizable number of people to move to Marshall to alter the average patent sentiment.
- m_myers 13y agoSomeone who was paid to move to a town so they could be on a jury could never get onto a jury.
- clavalle 13y agoI doubt it. They are not stupid. They know what they are doing. They are attracting more patent cases. They are acting rationally in their own best interest. Crunching the numbers, though, there are around 171,000 people in the counties that make up the juries. If national ratios of under 18 and felon populations hold that is a 115,000 member jury pool. If a jury is 8 to 12 people it would only take an influx of 11,000 to 17,000 software patent unfriendly people to average one juror on that side per case. In short: Perhaps it is time to create a techie colony in the Marshall area. Remote working for the win!