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[Demon Buddha]

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

	Ooooo, I like the way you think. :)
> 
> 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.

	It's always been that way.  The difference here is that there
	are so many patent applications and limited resources for
	researching them, so apparently many bad patents are issued.
> 
> 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.

	Well, this brand of business shennanigan is common enough.  I
	agree that it sucks, but there's nothing much one can do to
	prevent it.  It's a matter of attitude within the context of
	what our culture allows.  We are comparatively free and open,
	and so therefore people and businesses have a relatively broad
	avenue to traverse.  As should be expected, there are those who
	will take the morbid path and try to lay claim to things they
	have no right to.  They will get away with it, perhaps, until
	someone drags their sad little carcasses into court and spanks
	them but good.  Unfortunately, that takes time and money.  That,
	or people will simply ignore them and they will have to choose
	whether it is really worth their time to take one and all into
	litigation.