On Feb 9, 10:16*am, Michael Press wrote:
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*Devils Advocaat wrote:
On Feb 7, 7:34*pm, "The Undead Edward M. Kennedy" wrote:
"Devils Advocaat" wrote
Downtown Abbey is a pretty good program on BBC America. However,
actual research suggests that British aristocracy treated most of the
domestic class like animals. In fact, I believe some hunting dogs had
it much better than your typical laundry maid. Yes, the Butler and
Housekeeper were treated with respect, but still, seems like this
program is quite inaccurate regarding the Victorian domestic class.
Maybe it's simply liberal Brit revisionist history at work again,
through the auspices of 'high entertainment' by the BBC.
Kate Winslet was good in that Titanic movie.
A bit chubby maybe, but really, quite a fine thespian.
Bullshit - Kate Winslet is a fat cow.
In that case you should enjoy her if she is voted "dish of the day" at
your favourite restaurant. 
As a matter of interest, what has this to do with football?
The game you refer to is called soccer - not football.
Sometimes people forget that American English is the standard
on the usenet.
Not entirely true.
Lessee...we invented not only the chatrooms we are using, but
the computer you use to post here and the networks for computers
to communicate with each other. *Not to mention the transistor
that enabled computers to be small enough.
That is irrelevant to your claim regarding the standard language of
usenet.
As it happens the first transistor patent was registered in Canada by
the Austrian-Hungarian physicist, Julius Lilienfeld in 1925.
Shockley and Pearson built a working version based on that patent, but
failed to mention this in their papers and articles.
A patent is for a working device. The Lilinefeld patent is not
binding on the first people to build a transistor.
Actually patents are not exclusively for working devices.
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/p...aq.html#patent
"A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a
product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing
something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem."
So Lilienfeld's patent stands as valid.
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/p...tml#protection
"Patent protection means that the invention cannot be commercially
made, used, distributed or sold without the patent owner's consent.
These patent rights are usually enforced in a court, which, in most
systems, holds the authority to stop patent infringement. Conversely,
a court can also declare a patent invalid upon a successful challenge
by a third party."
So Shockley and Pearson violated Lilienfeld's patent rights.
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Michael Press