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[RIES NIEMI]

I stopped taking valium a long time ago... but I dont think you prescribed
enough- for recreational use a handful would probably be better.

Of course, I have no intention of ceasing to use any technique I please, to
me the underlying points that were more interesting were:
A- that it has gotten to the point where someone would even try to patent
simple iron techniques.
 
B- that a company that makes its living selling to ornamental fabricators,
who mostly copy gates from books anyway, would consider playing along and
selling "patented" components. Fabricators are notorious for copying
anything and everything, although the reason these pickets are in the
catalog in the first place is because most of their customers are incapable
of making them themselves. Probably the producer is thinking more along the
lines of sueing the mexican and canadian companies that are importing the
same stuff. I doubt they would or could sue individual shops, unless they
tried to market the items on a wholesale level.