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Judge Decides X-Men Aren't Human

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the getting-all-the-government-you-pay-for dept.

An anonymous reader points to this Wall Street Journal article, writing "According to the U.S. Court of International Trade, the X-Men (along with other figures from the Marvel universe) aren't human. The presiding judge subjected the figures to "comprehensive examinations" which included "the need to remove the clothes of the figure." Ironically, the X-Men, whose struggle for human acceptance has been a key theme in the series, were more easily classified as non-human than Kraven and Mole Man.

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  1. What a day to post this story by ageOfWWIV · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is Martin Luther King Day and the best /. can come up with that remotely pays respect to it is to post an article about the subhuman consideration of fictional characters. How about we take care of issues dealing with real people in the real world first and then move onto trivial and completely fabricated realities.

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  2. Re:Article Text by Idarubicin · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Wow. That's the most blatant karma whoring I've seen in quite a while.

    People, it's fine to mirror the article content to the comments if the original site is getting hammered. But come on--the Wall Street Journal? As important as we of /. think we are, the WSJ can handle our brutal onslaught. Really. It can.

    Mirroring the WSJ content (or that of any other major news outlet or high-traffic site) is pointless. For the NYT, post a link to the Google (no registration required) version. Quite frankly, these sites can handle more load than /. can--so it makes sense to have them supply the articles.

    The sole advantage of mirroring content from these large sites on /. is that maybe--maybe--a few more posters will read the original article before posting. Tagging posts that are at best 0, Redundant as +5, Informative is playing to the whores.

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