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Re: IBM bathroom patent symbolic of US patent ills



On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:04:34 -0700 (PDT), "J.A. Legris"
<jalegris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Mar 28, 4:29 pm, James Arthur <dagmargoodb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mar 27, 4:17 pm, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-
>>
>> Web-Site.com> wrote:
>> > In the past I've done a lot of expert witness consulting.  This year,
>> > though, I've lost a lot of business by telling potential clients that
>> > their patent wasn't worth the powder to blow it to hell.
>>
>> > Unfortunately I sure they found themselves an alternate "expert" who
>> > would swear to anything for a buck :-(
>>
>> That's my experience too.  I call it "Newton's Third Law of Experts:
>> For every expert there's an equal and opposite expert."
>>
>> Cheers,
>> James Arthur
>
>GImme a break. Why do you think they have juries? The problem is that
>a jury of one's peers in America is a going to consist of a crowd
>composed of at least 50% goofy "Christians" (they're badly-schooled in
>that too) who cannot distinguish between evidence and sermons.
>
>But I perceive a thin ray of hope - a vote for Obama is a vote for
>cool-headed rationalism -  in spite of his religion, which "thank God"
>he keeps neatly parceled away from his public life (in spite of
>Hillary's attempts to take him down with the rest of the Dems as she
>looks ahead to 2012). He just *may* be able to stem the tide of
>American stupidity before it's too late. And while you're at it, have
>a look at Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion". Thomas Jefferson would
>have been proud.

Geeeeez!  I thought we were discussing patent law.  How did we get
diverted to goofy-whatever-religion-gives-you-a-boner ?:-)

                                        ...Jim Thompson
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