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[quote name="Zseni"]<a href="http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec06/4742">Perhaps it is time to stop handing out patents like they were candy?</a> - maybe you should actually only get a patent when you've invented something substantive, like... <a href="http://paro.jp/english/index.html">Paro,</a> the robot seal that <a href="http://paro.jp/movie/paro-movie05.wmv">Junichiro Koizumi can't stop touching?</a> And that's its primary function!... Unlike all the other baby harp seals, which will soon be fodder for the <a href="http://www.agriculture.com/ag/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/ag/story/data/1167336661798.xml&catref=ag1001">meat-cloning agri-industrial complex.</a> When unique genetics become illegal, only outlaws will be mutants! <a href="http://www.startribune.com/484/story/901244.html">And only mutants will care about space!</a> What does it mean when young people can't even get excited about OUTER SPACE? Maybe this reporter should have dug a little deeper and asked someone in the <i>science or engineering colleges?</i> Or even just one with a Yu Gi Oh! t-shirt on?[/quote]