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Some Of The Lost X-Patents Found
Jerry Browne writes "
The New York Times (reg req) is carrying
a story
about the recent discovery of some lost patents. Apparantly a fire at a
temporay storage site in July 1836 destroyed the first 10000 patents issued. From the article..."The
Patent and Trademark Office has issued nearly seven million patents; the
first 10,000 are known as the X-patents. They were issued from July 1790,
when the United States patent system was created under an order signed
by George Washington, to July 1836, when every one of them burned in a
fire...In the 168 years since the fire, only about 2,800 have been recovered....Until
this spring, that is, when two lawyers...a clue to several important patents
from the 1790's - including one from 1826 for the first internal combustion
engine...""
Fuck George Washington and his shitty patents! :P
Oh and first post!
first post!?
Xbox news should be posted to games.slashdot.org
Let's not forget that one can hate his government, but love his country.
Patents burn you.... errr umm..wait...
"Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever" - Napoleon Bonapart.
I love this place.
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The base64 file is a PNG that says "YOU FAIL IT!" Heheheh...
Speaking of burning records...
It's nice to see Toyota and Honda/Nissan and some others using February as their time of year to remind us of how many Black-invented auto parts there are (but, I'm sure none, not even US automakers) will admit how many of those patents were cheaply bought up...)
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Didn't the US stick it's middle finger into Japan in 1852?
Perry and Mahan conducted a "contest" to offset British control over areas of China...
http://members.tripod.com/MickMc/perry.html
Just google:
commodore peery sailed into japan
Now, if only we can correct the high school and grade school books to amend that "In 1492, Colombus sailed the Ocean Blue" to show that China mastered ocean navigation of the Northern Hemisphere to within 2 degrees of any course set.
Moreover, every continent was mapped with great accuracy, and this was BEFORE 1421. Chinese artifacts are around California and other parts of the North 'Merikus, and other parts of the world.
Chinese and Native Americans also intermarried, and I now am begining to wonder if the Manifest Destiny and all its haste was somehow related to making sure China did not get an opportunity to reverse its (records-burning) decision about not occupying North America. I guess some would say China can still come back (with more voice than the nearly extincted Natives) and reclaim North America, but others will taunt "finders, keepers"...
I wonder if the US will try to "nationalize" Linux... WHOAA, stand by for HEAVY ROLLS!
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Interesting what we learn when we leave high school. Anybody heard that school teachers have to swear allegiance to the president? Have to sign the patriot act or something like it... Interesting stuff... Do teachers in other nations have to take what amounts to a police/military oath to "defend and support the constitution and the president of the United States"? I was under that oath in my time in service. I suspect many of us who only served 4 years would not fight unless it was to ward off a real invasion, not go on an expedition...
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"