"George Lucas has acknowledged the key influence of Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" on Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress
"The medical and research community states that Dr. Allen's science and technology is 'Twenty years ahead of everyone else'" (yes, I cut and pasted it from her website). From her vantage point that far in the future she can see that patent, copyright, and trademark practice, by that time, will end up making no sense whatsoever, so she figured she'd get a jump start on the trend.
Clearly Xpitax missed the boat. What they should have patented was all methods of doing one's own tax preparation and with the threat of litigation force everyone to use offshore tax prep!
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Yeah, we should add slips of paper to the list of banned articles!
Farmville
I guess all those bored silo operators can now play Farmville and game the system by being their own neighbours!
Not only Carpenter but also Kurosawa
"George Lucas has acknowledged the key influence of Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" on Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress
"confused how all three work"
"The medical and research community states that Dr. Allen's science and technology is 'Twenty years ahead of everyone else'" (yes, I cut and pasted it from her website). From her vantage point that far in the future she can see that patent, copyright, and trademark practice, by that time, will end up making no sense whatsoever, so she figured she'd get a jump start on the trend.
Re: I do my own taxes
Clearly Xpitax missed the boat. What they should have patented was all methods of doing one's own tax preparation and with the threat of litigation force everyone to use offshore tax prep!