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Texas Jury Strikes Down Man's Claim to Own the Interactive Web
ackthpt writes "Sir Tim Berners-Lee traveled to a courtroom in East Texas to give his testimony on how, if upheld, the Eolas Technologies & University of California patent on Web Interactivity could prove to be a major threat to the Internet as it's known today. The Jury deliberated only a few hours before invalidating the patent in question. In a victory Tweet Berners-Lee said, 'Texas jury agreed Eolas 906 patent invalid. Good thing too!' Google, Amazon, Apple, Adobe and a host of other companies, with representatives present, must have given a Texas-size sigh of relief."
You know when someone explains something funny, like a joke or a riddle, and it becomes less funny. That's what you did, just now. You took something that was funny, and you made it not funny. Just by explaining it, it wasn't funny anymore. Because it started out with the potential to be funny, and you made it not funny, you've wasted a great opportunity for a funny first post. Most first posts get modded down, but you had one that could have been modded funny if you hadn't explained it. By explaining it, you made it not funny.
See how that works?
You could have just said:
Title: HA-HA
Message: Signed - Nelson
We would have "got it"