Interesting Links for 09-11-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Nintendo and the Pokémon Company are suing Palworld over patents they only applied for after the game they're suing over was released. How does *that* work?

(tags:patents nintendo EpicWTF )

2. What's going on between Israel and the Netherlands

(tags:Israel Netherlands football riots Palestine )

Comments

[nancylebov]

2. That's rather a framing of blaming the Israelis.

I didn't know about refusal to observe the minute of silence for Valencia, and that's obnoxious, but it doesn't seem to be in play about the attacks. It all seems to be about Gaza.

There was non-violent harassment by Israelis-- cheering a Palestinian flag (banner?) being taken down, and insults.

What I've got is mainstream Israeli, American, and British news sources.

Israel started with offering military planes, but settled on evacuating by using El Al.

10 people were injured. I think they were mostly fans, but one of them might have been a team member. 5 were hospitalized, but I don't think the injures were serious.

There were Jews concerned about whether it was safe to take a taxi, but I'm not sure whether that was reasonable.

Two people were out of contact, but I think they've been found. Part of the attack was stealing cell phones.

Most of the articles I've seen mentioned the numbers for 10/7 and those killed in Gaza. It was a relief to see one that didn't.

There's been a lot of talk of pogroms and Kristellnacht. The Dutch government has been very apologetic.

I don't have details about the police standing back, but I hope to get them.

[andrewducker]

To be clear, I'm not saying that any one side is entirely responsible. But it does sound like it was initially triggered by Israeli supporters. I strongly expect that responses were out of proportion.

But the whole thing feels out of proportion to me - a bunch of football supporters being idiots and triggering a violent response does not a pogrom make.

[nancylebov]

I wasn't sure about your views, I was addressing the link you chose.

I don't know what typical soccer riots look like. I was assuming more vandalism and more-or-less equal fighting, not people being kicked when they're on the ground.

Also, neither of the teams were from an Arab country. I thought typical soccer riots were supporters of the teams getting violent against each other.

I agree that it wasn't a pogrom. On the other hand, if something like that happened where I live, I wouldn't be feeling secure in my neighborhood.

[andrewducker]

Depends very much on the situation. But if a group of violent supporters from one team get someone on the ground then there can definitely be very unpleasant violence.

And there are plenty of people from Palestinian (and nearby countries) background in the Netherlands. If there were people chanting anti Arab slogans and burning flags then they will have gotten involved.

[snippy]

News stories I saw today indicated that the perpetrators were not coming out of the football stadium, but had planned for weeks to attack presumptive Israelis/Jews in the streets after the game.

[bens_dad]

2. One of the Israelis is a soldier in the Israeli army.

Given how many Israelis are on National Service at any one time, I would have been surprised if that wasn't so.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely fair

[bens_dad]

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Update: I've added a line to clarify that while the patents above appear to have been registered this year, they are based on older patents that pre-date Palworld's early access launch.

Until the US came into line with the rest of the world (in my working life) you could file until a year after you published ...

Out of jurisdiction here, but in the EU officially you can't patent software (not that the Patent Offices follow the rules).