I love how everyone's marking it as inaccurate because the description says 'sandwich' and the article says 'method of preparation.' I'm marking it as inaccurate because the article's from the British equivalent of The Onion.
I remember shivering to myself when I was watching the end credits of "Malcolm X" (yeah in the theater, I'm old) and there was a bit where they said "We gratefully acknowledge Marvel Comics for the use of the letter X." Luckily it came to nothing, but I think they made a stab at it.
"People that continually go to McDonald's and other horrible fast food restaurants are complete idiots. And their only excuse is that they do it because it is cheaper. You can get cheap fruit and cheap vegetables at grocery stores. It is absolutely sad to see the ignorant people that wait in HUGE lines (inside and drive-thru) at McDonalds on Saturday mornings with their sons and daughters to get "breakfast." They act like they can't make pancakes at home. I'll see you at your funeral the day before your 43rd birthday."I occasionally go through the drive through in McDonald's for breakfast, but I think you completely missed the point.The point is convenience. Yes, I could make a ham egg and cheese bagel at home, and I do. However, when I'm in a hurry, I don't have time to - sometimes not even to make a bowl of cerial I really don't like going without breakfast, even if it involves eating a 10x fattier food for it.And yes, people can buy these things and make them at home, but when you come home from an exhausting day of work, you don't WANT to.
>"Intellectual Property" has become the scourge of the 21st century.So you are using an entity that actively enforces their intellectual property to voice your view that intellectual property is wrong?<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Trademark_Fun">http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Trademark_Fun</a>----->It seems that the idea of a 'new, novel, and useful device or process' as a qualifier for a patent has gone out the window in favor of "we got a lot of patent attornies on our staff.This is actually a problem with the US legal system as a whole and is not specific to intellectual property disputes.>Actually it's the scourge of the latter 19th through 20th Century. But up until recently, it's not been widely discussed outside of Business, Governmental and Legal channels.It was actually discussed pretty widely in the nineteenth century:"n this Article, Professor Janis argues that modern enthusiasm forlarge-scale legislative reforms in patent law should be received withcaution in view of the history of patent law reform. That history suggeststhat patent law is more resilient—or perhaps more impervious tochange—than modern reformers recognize. To explore these propositions,Professor Janis analyzes the history of the mid-Victorian era Britishpatent abolitionism movement. He demonstrates that much of the reformdialogue of that era, from the elucidation of major problems in thepatent system, to the formulation of legislative solutions, mirrors quiteclosely the modern U.S. patent reform debate. He asserts that participantsin the modern patent law reform debate should take this history to heart,approaching age-old proposals for large-scale legislative reform withhealthy skepticism."<a class="user" href="http://btlj.boalt.org/data/articles/17-2_spring-2002_janis.pdf">http://btlj.boalt.org/data/articles/17-2_spring-2002_janis.pdf</a>
Watch 'Supersize Me' and you'll get a feel of the REAL McDonald's. And then read Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About to shed in depth light on this. f**k MCDONALD's!
monkeychewtoyNov 26, 2006
I love how everyone's marking it as inaccurate because the description says 'sandwich' and the article says 'method of preparation.' I'm marking it as inaccurate because the article's from the British equivalent of The Onion.
spacejackNov 26, 2006
I remember shivering to myself when I was watching the end credits of "Malcolm X" (yeah in the theater, I'm old) and there was a bit where they said "We gratefully acknowledge Marvel Comics for the use of the letter X." Luckily it came to nothing, but I think they made a stab at it.
liveevilNov 27, 2006
Now when you eat a nice healthy sandwich everyone is gonna get on you case for eating too much McDonalds. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGG
aeiriNov 27, 2006
"People that continually go to McDonald's and other horrible fast food restaurants are complete idiots. And their only excuse is that they do it because it is cheaper. You can get cheap fruit and cheap vegetables at grocery stores. It is absolutely sad to see the ignorant people that wait in HUGE lines (inside and drive-thru) at McDonalds on Saturday mornings with their sons and daughters to get "breakfast." They act like they can't make pancakes at home. I'll see you at your funeral the day before your 43rd birthday."I occasionally go through the drive through in McDonald's for breakfast, but I think you completely missed the point.The point is convenience. Yes, I could make a ham egg and cheese bagel at home, and I do. However, when I'm in a hurry, I don't have time to - sometimes not even to make a bowl of cerial I really don't like going without breakfast, even if it involves eating a 10x fattier food for it.And yes, people can buy these things and make them at home, but when you come home from an exhausting day of work, you don't WANT to.
bulltacoNov 27, 2006
>"Intellectual Property" has become the scourge of the 21st century.So you are using an entity that actively enforces their intellectual property to voice your view that intellectual property is wrong?<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Trademark_Fun">http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Trademark_Fun</a>----->It seems that the idea of a 'new, novel, and useful device or process' as a qualifier for a patent has gone out the window in favor of "we got a lot of patent attornies on our staff.This is actually a problem with the US legal system as a whole and is not specific to intellectual property disputes.>Actually it's the scourge of the latter 19th through 20th Century. But up until recently, it's not been widely discussed outside of Business, Governmental and Legal channels.It was actually discussed pretty widely in the nineteenth century:"n this Article, Professor Janis argues that modern enthusiasm forlarge-scale legislative reforms in patent law should be received withcaution in view of the history of patent law reform. That history suggeststhat patent law is more resilient—or perhaps more impervious tochange—than modern reformers recognize. To explore these propositions,Professor Janis analyzes the history of the mid-Victorian era Britishpatent abolitionism movement. He demonstrates that much of the reformdialogue of that era, from the elucidation of major problems in thepatent system, to the formulation of legislative solutions, mirrors quiteclosely the modern U.S. patent reform debate. He asserts that participantsin the modern patent law reform debate should take this history to heart,approaching age-old proposals for large-scale legislative reform withhealthy skepticism."<a class="user" href="http://btlj.boalt.org/data/articles/17-2_spring-2002_janis.pdf">http://btlj.boalt.org/data/articles/17-2_spring-2002_janis.pdf</a>
surrealDec 1, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/index.html">http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/index.html</a>I challenge you to find it.
surrealDec 1, 2006
Everyone here is retarded. This is buried as inaccurate.
Closed AccountDec 17, 2006
Watch 'Supersize Me' and you'll get a feel of the REAL McDonald's. And then read Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About to shed in depth light on this. f**k MCDONALD's!