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Don't anyone bite my head off here, but if the point of this thread was to get it to appear prominently on the TeaTalk discussion board, or in Google for that matter, it's worked, and ... now it's cluttering up RFDT.

Ian

Saved to a computer drive counts as tangible.

You could have your lawyer check the case law, if you wanted to pay for his time.

dmh

One thing good about a 24 hour Google Usenet rollup the flames are smoldering embers by the time you see them. Considering who started this thread it is the pot calling the kettle black. I don't need too rehash, reguritate, reiterate, ripoff anyone ideas and then hide behind public domain. If I said it first it belongs to me and not some pathetic paraphrasing plagiarizer who claims it's just a matter of time before three monkeys at a typewriter would come up with it anyway and copyrights don't extend to simians which excludes the genus Gorilla so Koko can profit from learning sign language. I hope you get to read your ideas in print someday by some auteur who shares your ideas of intellectual property.

Jim

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Jim,

Being a total moran, I have no intellectual property to share. Nonetheless, I'd like your permission to repeat the phrase, "pathetic paraphrasing plagiarizer," since I think it's one I could put to good use. I'll of course credit you.

Listening to music of a central African pigmy group. It doesn't get better. Drinking a young green Pu'erh of old tree leaf, likewise lovely.

Michael

Anyone who shares my ideas of intellectual property wouldn't take my ideas and call them their own. Neither would they try and claim copyright for an idea that is neither new nor unique.

Jim, Derek -

I have to disagree. Being a holder of about 12 US and international patents I can tell you - its a bitch. There are people who do nothing else in their lives than take a patent, add horns to it and repatent it or themsleves. Shame is not even in their vocabulary. Chinese completely disregard patents (they never got royalties on tea, gun-powder, etc - I sympathize with them) Israelis do that to prove that if they can wrap Viagra pill in a condom they have a useful combination and therefore smarter than both Phyzer and the condom inventor.

Oh, well..

Sasha.

Sasha,

I never said people don't do it. I said that anyone who shares my ideas of intellectual property wouldn't.

You have my permission. The three monkeys haven't got around too it yet so you saw it here first and nowhere else on Usenet or even the WWW wasteland which probably means it was the first time it was ever uttered by man as it pertains to an individual running a website who let's his dog crap in your yard and if you don't like it makes you take him to court so the judge can tell him to fix his fence. You can hide behind obvious oblivious obfuscation but sometimes you do the right thing.

Jim