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Peek Into European Patent Examining Cancelled
We were going to run European Patent Examiner John Savage's answers to 10 Slashdot questions today, but he emailed us this morning and asked us to pull them back because he was was in trouble over the interview. What he had to say was informative, non-controversial, and would not have hurt his employer's reputation at all, but we don't want John to lose his job or face disciplinary action on our account. Anyway, get ready for a slightly unusual Slashdot interview guest next week: Celeb chef and self-described "culinary cartographer" Alton Brown.
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"Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in Heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
THIS IS THE WORD OF THE LORD
for me to poop on!
Karma: Terrible (mostly affected by moderation done to your comments)
That damn lameness filter! I don't think its caught a truely "lame" post yet!
-------rhad
Slashdot needs to interview Natalie Portman.
how is this insightful? i can't even begin to describe.
the person to whom you replied was obviously aware that the parent examiner is European. try reading the comment again.
*tard.
-ac
Some ones took the sex kitten from Oralse.cx and turned it into a kde splash screen! Yove just got to laugh! I hope they make a goatse one too.
I modded you up because I got excited with the talk of killing puppies and cute kittens... But I guess that wasn't really the point of your comment... Ah well.
Is this where we submit questions? Or is an editor going to setup a separate article?
It looks like most of this thread is rants on the cancled responce.
ok, thanks for the information and sorry for the misinformation.
Good idea. I'm sure the moderators will have no trouble telling the difference between this *ahem* anonymous coward and a sufficiently clever troll. :)
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Spit or swallow?
"Are you being weird, or sarcastic?" said Emma. I said I didn't know because I get the two feelings mixed up.
> clever troll
Isn't that an oxymoron?
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