Dept. of Homeland Security Enforces Expired Patent

Fouquet writes "Apparently the Department of Homeland Security does not have enough to do in keeping the US safe, and now is enforcing copyright law as well. The AP reports that a toy store owner in Oregon was requested by Homeland Security officials to remove a potentially copyright-infringing Rubik's cube-like toy from her shelves. The patent for Rubik's cube was issued in 1980, and so it is expired."

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puzzling evidence

[Doc Ruby]

How come no Republicans in this thread are screaming some BS like "this is why Fuherer Bush opposed the DHS in the first place", or somesuch? Because they actually like the idea that corporations can send in the SS to protect our economy from cube clones? Or just because the news is too new in the cycle for the busy Bush campaign to have talking points ready to parrot?

Re:puzzling evidence

[Doc Ruby]

Anonymous brownshirt Coward, what preparations are those, exactly? Tearing up Democrat voter registrations? Calling black people to trick them into not voting, or scare them away from the polls? Roadtripping to swing states, ready for preppie riots to stop recounts after your rigged ballots get miscounted? Y'all must be really desperate to spend the hundreds of millions of corporate bribes on destroying democracy in in an attempt to defeat the Democrats. It worked last time, because we still respected you as fellow citizens. But your naked fascism is so heinous that we'll be at the polls to take out country back from you in force NEXT WEEK - even though I'm not a Democrat, we stand united against your zombie hordes. After that, I'm sure that you will return to the swamp of envy that spawned such empty insults as "shrill" back in the 1990s, when the USA was the envy of the world, and Republicans were still just a crowd of creepy yuppies watching in awe.

Mod Parent Up

[querencia]

Everyone LOOK AT WHAT THIS GUY WROTE. He says, "I said some rather inflammatory things about George W. Bush in a public post in my LJ, done in a satirical style."

First of all, this isn't even close to satire. Second, it is supremely stupid.

I'm very proud of our Secret Service. They behaved in a very diligent and professional manner. No matter who becomes President, I'm glad that they will be protecting him.

I'm also incredibly impressed that they were able to show the restraint necessary to keep from smacking this jackass upside his head.

Re:Fear of powers

[Minna Kirai]

Members of the public are admitted strictly by invitation of the rightful occupier -- and can be excluded for any reason they like.

No, they can't be.

Since you admitted you don't know anything about USA laws, why did you go and invent a lie about them?

Re:rUSsiA

[crashfrog]

Would it be so hard to look up the ISO country codes before going off on your anti-German rant?

Did you reply to my post accidently? I never made an "anti-German rant", any more than the parent was an "anti-American rant."

But you're right, I mixed up "DE" and "DK". A harmless mistake.

Where he's from, of course, doesn't change anything about how wrong he was about what it's like in America. And nothing in your post does, either. For one who's chiding me about lacking education, you apparently slept through the day where they taught you how to respond to arguments.